AN: This Drabble takes place in the episode of the 2006 Fantastic Four cartoon, "Doomed". I just really wanted to write a short ficlet based on the scene where Reed (in Doom's body) puts his hands on Sue's shoulders. This is a FanFic...I don't own Fantastic Four..Marvel does.
His Hands
By Chibi HIme
Sue Storm shuddered as two hands came down on her shoulders. She felt
those heavy hands on her shoulders. They were so hard and cold. She felt the
weight of the armor press down lightly, a few of his clawed fingertips pressed into
her shoulders. Those hands were trying to hold her, but they were being so
careful in how they held her. She gasped at the touch...the bizarre mixture of heavy
metallic armor and the knowing of the flesh beneath it. She jerked around and
faced the offending owner of those hands.
By all accounts, it was Doom himself before her. But his eyes...they had none
of the pent up rage and hate that had boiled there every other time she had seen
him. Instead, they were wide and anxious, even afraid. He appeared frightened of
her rejection. She could see it in his eyes..it had to be Reed, just like he said. She
kept looking into those eyes as she spoke to him. For the first time, she was able to
see how beautiful those eyes were when they were devoid of their blind hate and
jealousy.
She tried to imagine being trapped in that prison, to actually carry around all
that extra weight. To hide beneath that artificial face. It seemed horrible..to be
trapped forever in that body, to live every waking moment beneath that cold,
unfeeling exterior.
She knew Reed would think of a way to reverse this..to find a way back to his
own body. But what of Doom? This was his body. This cold unfeeling shell was
his ever waking reality. Sue's stomach twisted in a knot at the thought of living in
such a thing. It seemed like a horrible nightmare and for the first time in her life,
Sue Storm pitied Doom.