A question brought this up. A single question that made me laugh and fall off my stool…Though I think that's also because the stool always was rather unbalanced…

Anyways, the question: 'Although…how would Shining Knight react if he ever read slash?' Originally it was gonna only be dialogue but that'd ruin half the fun. I will give a bonus chapter presenting the version that's almost completely dialogue.

Inspired by Lady Jaye1's pre story babble in "Parallels", written by MeraNova, all characters belong to their respective companies/creators/etc.

And now for random fact of the day: The creators of Superman sold the rights to the character in 1938 to their publisher for $130. I wish I could buy TV characters for $130; I had more than that in shopping money for Christmas!

Shining Knight reads a book

It had started with a simple question. One of the new teens inhabiting the watchtower as part of the supposed 'Junior League' had been reading a book in the corner of the library when one of the senior leaguers had noticed the teen's self induced seclusion. So he, as a man who always treated women with respect, had gone over to ask if anything was wrong. But instead he found himself asking a different question completely.

"What are you reading?" He asked the girl, she looked up and, realizing who it was, shifted in her chair to hide her book ever so slightly.

"Just a book." She replied. "It's something you wouldn't understand." She said, that part confused him. What wouldn't he understand about a book? It had words, you read the words, you understood the book. With some looking up words if needed, but simple none the less.

"What wouldn't I understand?" He asked her politely. She looked at him with emotionless green eyes.

"It's got a lot of something highly debated in today's society. This couple has to sneak away to another land to get married because in most places in the US it's illegal for them to wed. And it has been made so they can't just go to Canada where it's perfectly legal and they don't speak Spanish so Mexico's out of the question." She paused for a while and then sighed. "Lemme just finish this last chapter and I'll lend it to you." She said calmly.

"Very well." Replied the Shining Knight. He left her to her reading and went back to the desk he sat behind most of the day. He had Library Duty for the Junior League every other day so he did his desk work in silence until he heard the sound of a book being set on the desk.

"Here you go Mr. Knight." Said the girl to him before heading back to her seat to gather her things before the bell designating the changing of classes sounded. Just as it rang she got to the desk again. "I need that back though. Doesn't matter when Mr. Knight." He looked up just in time to see her leave the room and the door shut. He looked up at the clock. 'Good,' he thought; 'just an hour and a half until classes are over.'

It was later that night when he finally got around to starting the book. He sat in a chair by a window overlooking the planet below. Now, for someone from a time where it was follow the Catholic/Christian belief or be killed (pretty much) and since people believe the topic in the book is against all religion, the hero known as Shining Knight lasted much longer reading the book than most would think.

He got a good three chapters in the book until his mind fully grasped the topic. Not that he was a slow minded man mind you, it's just the writing didn't really hint at it all that much until the third chapter. As soon as his eyes went over the page describing the intimate sex of the two men in the book his eyes went wide and he slammed the book shut muttering under his breath. "Blasphemy."