Disclaimer: I don't own Justice League. I make absolutely no money from writing with these characters.
And I finally get enough inspiration to write for this suggested pair. Huzzah!
GigantaXTala-:-The Great Brain Robbery-:-Emotional Cripple!
She was so unequivocally fucked.
Holding the little white stick in her hand like it was the detonator to a bomb that would wipe out an entire civilization, Tala remained in her sitting down position inside of her closet. Not the one at the super villain headquarters in that swamp Grodd had picked out, but her own closet in her very own apartment in Central City where no other villains who mattered would bother her.
She had been sitting in the confined space, legs sprawled out before the open door and her own dresses hanging above her head. She had moved the clothes so they weren't actually touching her face or hair, leaving a sort of clear landing area for her body, but she could still inhale all the perfume that still clung to the fabric, all reminding her of fruit salads and expensive coffee that kept her up hours later than she should have been awake. This in turn reminded her of why she was in the closet in the first place and made her even more distraught than she already was.
Allowing herself a tiny surprised jolt as she heard knocking on the door, she continued to stare at the stick, ignoring the voice that finally echoed into her department as someone opened her door.
"Tala, are you in here? Lex sent me to find you, you blood sucking witch, so you'd better be…"
Tala finally looked up from the stick as a shadow, caused by the light invading from her ungodly wide bedroom windows, traced the lining of her bed and then graced her toes. Her eyes blinked a few times and she noticed that the human being before her was the redhead bimbo Grodd had used before the sorceress had come along. As if her day couldn't get any better.
"What exactly are you doing?" Giganta asked, not a little freaked out by the witch not only wearing white but also having the appearance of certain drug users. All dazed and red face and blank like a dear before it gets run over by a Mercedes.
"I'm sitting in my closet. On my day off. In my own apartment."
"Okay…Why haven't you been answering your phone, or your beeper or that weird little crystal ball you left Luthor to contact you?"
Not hesitant and not all that in sound of mind, Tala held up the white stick. It glinted in the sun that crept into her room, along with the sheen of her nails and little blue beaded bracelet and caused Giganta's eyes to widen to the size of jumbo sized eggs once she realized just what the thing was.
The expression caused a reaction in Tala that was unexpected and seemed to freak the redhead out even more: the purple haired witch started laughing, her unoccupied hand cupping her mouth to contain the noise.
Giganta was not a fan of Tala, not really, but she could probably be sympathetic just this once. She didn't know why she felt obligated to do so, but she couldn't help it.
Quietly, Giganta moved forward and gently sat herself inside of the closet, beside the shorter woman, one arm carefully situating itself on the other's shoulders and her other hand gently taking the white stick away. It was stiff, the action and the maneuver, but Tala still seemed to respond, some small tears falling from her eyes and tracking down her cheeks. Tiny rivers pale peach flesh.
The stick had a blue plus sign on it. Giganta hadn't meant to actually look at it, but she couldn't help it as she set it down on the floor and away from the other woman.
"I'm…pregnant," Tala wept, pitiful and hysterical, "And I'm not sure who the father is."
Rubbing little circles along the woman's back, Giganta just said whatever came to mind, just to keep the witch talking so she wouldn't break down completely, "Not sure? How many…partners have you been with?"
"Grodd and Lex. I don't even know how this could have happened! I used protection with both of them! I should not be having a baby when I used protection!"
"Well, what kind of protection?"
"The pill with them both, but I also used condoms with Lex."
"Then how could you…"
"Be this unlucky?" Tala finished for her, giving a sort of chuckle and leaning her head on the broad (funny how a woman could even be that large and yet so feminine at once) shoulder, "I don't know. Maybe the pills I was taking were faulty, or Lex popped the condoms, or—and this is my favorite idea today—one of them did this on purpose. I don't know, but one way or another, I'm pregnant and I have no idea what to do."
At the end of this statement Tala devolved into sobbing even more, her body creating tremors along all of her muscles and bones and skin. She actually seemed to shrink into herself and Giganta did the very first thing that came into her mind. It wasn't perhaps the smartest thing, but it was better than letting her fellow villainess cry.
Gathering Tala into her arms, bridal style, Giganta turned out of the closet and made it so her back touched the shaking woman's bed. Then, with polish and ease, Giganta grew in size so she was about twice the size of a bear and just sort of cradled Tala in the crook of her arm.
"It'll be okay."
"How do you know?"
"I don't know. I'm just trying to be supportive." Giganta smiled reassuringly, pecking the witch on the lips to silence her.
It worked. Tala stopped crying enough to return the action and then settle her head into the dent just below Giganta's neck, lungs refilling with air and her legs curling under her so she was in a fetal position. It was so warm and comforting to be comforted by someone when she couldn't even remember the last time anyone had even been nice to her on a lark.
Giganta's fingers ran along Tala's back and her nails weaved through purple hair and neither of them thought about what would happen when Tala came to her senses and decided what she was going to do with the baby. For the time being, they were both happy enough to be touching another person who cared about them enough to worry when they were in an awkward position.
