Grace Singh

[graceofgothamcity]

You owe me coffee || Liam

[graceofgothamcity]

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Liam paused as she wrapped her arms around his waist because while he wanted to, he wasn’t sure he should - this was Grace Singh, his mentor and godfather’s daughter. He wasn’t supposed to see her that way. Resting one hand on her waist, the other stroked her hair comfortingly. “You’re family Grace and protecting you is risking enough for him, I don’t want to burden him with any more.”

He attention followed hers to the tv and he frowned. They were making an example of her, showing not even the powerful were free of persecution. Nowhere was safe for metas. He clenched his jaw, looking down to her and nodding in agreement. “We should find your father - he might be able to help.”

She squeezed her eyes closed, a little sister, that’s all Liam would ever see her as and it hurt like hell. She gathered her strength before pulling back, “Like you said, we’re family. That means he’d do it for you. It’s not asking too much. You protected me. You could let him protect you,” Grace insisted. She wanted him safe, if that meant giving him up, she would.

“She’s not a meta, Liam,” Grace whispered. “They’re going to fake it. Oh god, they’re condemning a human for standing against them.” Grace said her voice filled with horror. Jax had been right. Argus had crossed the invisible line like so many evil regimes before them. She nodded, moving away towards her room to start packing a bag.

[graceofgothamcity]

You owe me coffee || Liam

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Setting the pot into the coffee maker, Liam turned to fully face her. “Grace…” he started as she went on about why he should go home. He sighed because he knew this hand been bothering her for quite some time now. “Grace, you are my life - “ he paused to clear his throat as he realized how his words sounded. “I mean, I have always been your bodyguard. Whether its here or there, my job is to protect you. Besides…” his eyes glowed briefly as he spoke. “I don’t think they would welcome a meta back into their mix with welcome arms.”

He leaned against the counter, crossing his arms. “You really want me to go?”

Grace couldn’t help but wrap her arms around his waist. He had given up everything for her, and all she wanted to do was make him happy. She wanted him safe. She wanted him to no have to run or keep looking over his should. Grace loved him. She had always loved him. She knew that now. No one compared to him. But she was a curse on the men she loved. Liam would be no exception. “Daddy would protect you if I asked him,” she whispered softly into his chest. 

She sighed, “No. I don’t wanna be alone,” she said selfishly. But then her attention was drawn to the t.v. and she frowned. There was a picture of her cousin, not Jax, whose safety she had always feared for, but Lux. “Liam,” she whispered as she watched Lux being revealed as the vigilante Red Robin. Dread and horror-filled her as Lux admitted to everything. “They have something on her,” Grace whispered scared. Then a gasp fell from her mouth as Argus sentenced her cousin to death by firing squad. “Liam, we have to go back. We can’t leave her there,” Grace said in a panic. 

[graceofgothamcity]

Hi, Daddy || Christian

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Grace buried herself in her father’s arms. He still loved her. Always wanted her. “I’m so sorry, Daddy. I only wanted to protect you,” she whispered into his chest. “Please don’t be angry with him. He stopped me. He wouldn’t let me turn myself in. He’s done nothing but protect me and kept me safe,” she promised and begged her father. She didn’t want Christian angry at Liam for saving her life. For not letting her give up. For making her face what she had done in the past. 

Christian felt like all the air his hungry lungs once craved was being crammed into every crevice of his soul. Grace was safe. His number one objective. His daughter hadn’t been swept up in the chaos of the crumbling world around them. He ran his fingers through her hair to cement the tangible evidence on his doubtful mind. This wasn’t a trick. This was real. She was real. “You don’t have to protect me, Gracie. It’s my job to protect you. If anything happened to you, I would be destroyed.” He pulled back to look at her. To see if she had changed some in the last six months. Christian had watched her grow every second from the moment she had been born. Six months felt like a lifetime. A chunk of time he’d never get back. 

“I don’t want to talk about him right now, Grace. I want to know what the hell you’ve been doing for the last six months. Where have you been staying? I…please don’t ever do that to me again.” 

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She knew she was thinner. She was rarely hungry. She probably looked tired to. But she let him look his full. She loves her father. He was the constant in her life.

“Daddy,” she said firmly set on protecting Liam. “I went to Liam. I went with the intent of him arresting me. I knew he wouldn’t use me against you. He wouldn’t hurt me. I - I had planned to try to escape before they realized the extend if what I could do. I understand, Daddy. I know why you and Mama hid me. I’m dangerous. I’m a weapon. I understand now. There’s so much information in my head now. I - I had planned to escape. I thought I would either die in the escape or if I was able to, I’d find mama. She didn’t leave us, did she,” Grace asked looking so young and thirsty for her mother’s love.

[graceofgothamcity]

You owe me coffee || Liam

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“It’s not about if you mind or not Grace,” Liam quelled her protests as he began to fill the pot with water from the sink. He knew she felt like a burden but he never saw her like that - he wasn’t just her bodyguard anymore, he was her friend and he cared about her well-being. “You’re plenty good.” he assured, glancing up to her with a smile before dropping his gaze before he began to stare. “The more you can use your powers the more likely they will be able to track us down. I can get us by with no trouble - think of it as an ‘in case of emergency’ only option.”

Grace sighed, she knew Liam acting with caution. She licked her lip and gathered her courage. This was not the first time they had approached this subject, and he had always turned her down, but she kept offering. “Maybe its time for you to go home, Liam. You’re putting your life in danger for me, and I would not have survived without you these last six months. But it’s not fair to you. YOU didn’t do anything. YOU didn’t almost kill a member of Argus. I did. I can say I tricked you and took you, prisoner. Now I’m releasing you. You could go home, I’ - I’ve kept you from your life for so long,” she muttered. She didn’t want him to leave. But, she loved him, and he deserved better than this life on the run.

[graceofgothamcity]

Hi, Daddy || Christian

[graceofgothamcity]

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Christian felt the decaying burn of grief caking up into his joints. In all of his efforts to protect his daughter, he drove her to hate herself so much to seek out death. He fought back the heaving desire to empty his stomach. Nothing could soothe the anchoring pressure of failure. He reached out daringly to grasp onto the tops of her arm dragging her into his arms. Christian would find his tongue eventually but right now he just wanted to hold onto his little girl. “Liam? Was it Liam?” 

Grace buried herself in her father’s arms. He still loved her. Always wanted her. “I’m so sorry, Daddy. I only wanted to protect you,” she whispered into his chest. “Please don’t be angry with him. He stopped me. He wouldn’t let me turn myself in. He’s done nothing but protect me and kept me safe,” she promised and begged her father. She didn’t want Christian angry at Liam for saving her life. For not letting her give up. For making her face what she had done in the past. 

[graceofgothamcity]

You owe me coffee || Liam

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Liam picked himself up, brushing off his hands as he did so. “Yes, but no powers.” Liam pointed out as he walked over to the kitchen. “We cannot afford to bring more attention on us.” He began to pull coffee beans and sugar out from the cabinet. He knew she would protest so he had prepared just in case.

Grace pouted, she didn’t want Liam to struggle. To worry about things like money or keeping a roof over their heads. She’d take any risk if it made Liam’s life easier. “I don’t mind, Liam,” she promised as she took a seat at the kitchen table. “I know I’m not good for much, but I can keep money in our pockets and a roof over our heads. She promised.”

[graceofgothamcity]

You owe me coffee || Liam

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Liam propped himself up from where he lay on the floor, laughing at her request. “You’re getting better so I think I could reward the improvement,” he admitted. Ever since they had disappeared on the run for Grace’s safety, Liam had wanted to make sure she knew how to defend herself should anything happen and he wasn’t around.

Grace grinned at Liam. When she had walked into his apartment, Grace had been developing a plan. Grace would turn herself in. She’d try to escape and die trying. Liam gave her another way out. He had offered to run with her. Protect her. Train her, she hoped one day she’d be able to let him go back to his life. Liam wasn’t a danger like she was. He deserved to be free and happy.

“Yay! Caffeine,” Grace cheered. The one thing good about Grace’s powers was money was not an issue for them. ATMs were her friends. Banks held no secrets from her. Cars, homes, anything they wanted. She was the ultimate, untraceable hacker. It drove home how dangerous she was for Grace.

[graceofgothamcity]

Hi, Daddy || Christian

[graceofgothamcity]

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“Where the hell have you been, Grace?”

“Daddy, I’m so sorry. I was so scared and I was such a danger to you. I - I tried to give myself up. I went to be arrested by someone we trusted. Someone - someone who I thought would help me get myself killed. I just - I didn’t want to be a weapon. I didn’t want to put you in danger. I’m so sorry,” Grace whispered tears falling down her face. She loved her father so much, but she would understand if he turned her away. She was a meta. She was dangerous to him. She had almost killed him when she lost control.”

[graceofgothamcity]

You owe me coffee || Liam

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[graceofgothamcity]

Hi, Daddy || Christian

@detectivechristiansingh

[graceofgothamcity]

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[spoiledreddrakes]

Get in Brat || Grace

[graceofgothamcity]

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“You support an organization that takes innocent people off the streets and locks them away without due process. And mysteriously when people are vocal in their opposition of them, they disappear or are declared criminal. You work for the Nazi regime, Grace, you’re just too blind to see it,” Jax criticized. He didn’t blame Grace. She had grown up brainwashed. Her dad basically leads the secret police. There was a reason Jax and Lux avoided Christian like he had the plague. “Really, Grace, if I went missing would you even bother to look for me. No, because you know your little regime would have killed me or thrown me in prison, like mom and dad. Like they want to do to your mom.”

“I support a government that wants to protect our people. Metas are dangerous,” Grace argued, but for Jax had always had a talent for out talking her. She didn’t know what it was. It was like her brain didn’t work fast enough to keep up with his. It was incredibly frustrating. It only happened a handful of times and Jax was involved in most of them. She thought it was because they were family, but she and Lux never had this problem. 

“I don’t understand this obsession with your parents’ deaths. They died in a plane accident, Jax. I’m so sorry you lost them, but there’s no conspiracy,” she said earnestly.

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“We’ll just have to make sure no one does. I’m sure your father will know how to fix this…” He knew ARGUS was not the answer. While he had a longstanding resentment of metas due to his father’s death, he couldn’t bring himself to agree with their methods and treatment of those labeled different. “They must have kept it from you to protect you and I don’t think they’re desire to protect you will stop now. Maybe your mom could help?”

He blinked a couple of times as she took his face in her hands, unafraid. “I’m like the thing that killed my father. I’ve built up so much resentment for these beings and I am one of them…” he averted his gaze from her as he finally admitted this out loud. “This is why I will not turn you in Grace - I’m just as guilty as you.”

“I’m scared, Liam,” she admitted her body shaking in the fear of what could happen if she was found out. No only to herself, but to her father, to metas everywhere. The potential for what she could do to metas, to people, it terrified her. “I don’t want to hurt anyone,” she confessed softly, “All my life I’ve been the Princess of ARGUS, I’ve spat their propaganda, I’ve protected my dad because of my mom and what she did. But they’re bad people, Liam. They hurt people to stay in power. It may have been about protecting the world from metas when they first began, but now, now it’s all about staying in control. And they’ll hurt anyone the can to stay in power.”

“Oh no, Liam. You’re - you’re Liam. You’re my protector. You would never hurt anyone who wasn’t truly a danger to people. You’re not like the people that killed your father. You’re nothing like me. I’m a selfish brat. My mom gave up everything to protect me, and I’ll I’ve done is hate her for so long. How can she ever forgive me? How can you stand to be around me? The things I’ve said for ARGUS, I was saying to them about you as much as I was saying it about the meta who kills a 100 people. I’m a terrible person. I have so much to make up for. 

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“Well then we will figure out how to control it. Or we can find another necklace if that’s what you want, but this is not the answer. Yes you could hurt people but I don’t think you will.” He met her gaze unwavering as he wanted to make sure she heard him. “You’re all he has too and losing you would crush him.”

He waved off all the different plans she was suggesting because he was not even going to consider them. There was another way. “Because you’re not the only one who’s not what they thought..” he closed his eyes for a moment, concentrating. When he re-opened them, they were glowing a faint orange. “Strange things have been happening to me recently too.”

“What if someone finds out, Liam. I - I never want to hurt anyone. Not like this. All I’ve done for the last five years, I’ve said horrible things about metas. Now I’m one and I shouldn’t get special treatment. But if mom and dad are right, if I can do all of that. We both know ARGUS would use me as a weapon, and I’d never have a choice in it,” she said desperately. She had never been blind to what ARGUS did, but she had believed it was for the safety of everyone. She had always told herself that it would get better when everyone was safe. But she couldn’t lie to herself. It wouldn’t get better. If anything it would be worse.

“If I left her could go be with mom, I think he’s been meeting with her all this time,” she admitted, “He’s always been really defensive of her. Saying that I didn’t understand and I didn’t know the whole story.”

She studied his eyes shocked by the glow but then reached up cupping his face, ‘They’re so beautiful,” she whispered in awe of them.