A/N:Hey there everybody, this is the first in a series of crossover drabbles reposted from the Watchmen kinkmeme. I read and loved the manga years ago and when the challenge came up I couldn't resist. The drabbles are all unrelated, but I'm posting them together for the sake of organization. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Watchmen comic book or the Petshop of Horrors manga, all characters are the properties of their respective copyright holders. I'm merely playing in the sandbox and am making no profit from this work of fiction.
Warnings: None, except maybe Rorschach being Rorschach.
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"Dawn"
The New Frontiersman is three hours late.
The grubby newsstand is closer to the foreign neighborhoods than Rorschach would like, and he suspects that the fat man behind its counter is of unsavory immigrant heritage, but unlike some of the more pretentious uptown stands, it consistently carries his preferred paper. So he waits, his sign resting against his shoulder, ignoring the morning's chill that has the vendor blowing on his fingers.
Boots click against the pavement and a man steps up to the counter, crisp in a black military uniform. Rorschach's fingers tighten on his sign.
The man is wearing a German uniform and his carriage is that of a man used to combat, outwardly relaxed but alert and the vendor doesn't seem to notice what could be a member of the ex-S.S. is standing at his newsstand, and under Walter's mask Rorschach is considering his options, his mind flicking through and discarding one plan after another and perhaps he might-
"You did the right thing," the man says. Rorschach's mind grinds to a halt.
"What?"
The man continues as if he did not hear, "Pups are sacred, and to harm one a great sin," he turns to Rorschach and some remnant of Walter flinches at the sight of keen brown eyes, "We would not have let them live either,"
Before Rorschach can say a word, the vendor leans over the counter, a paper outstretched, and the man takes it. Without a backward glance, he turns and heads off in the direction of Chinatown.
