How about Helena Bertinelli jealous of the reader with other people because she didn’t have the same experience of seeing cartoons and movies (say the search for revenge is not full of cinema tickets. Something fluff in the end please 🥺💖
I made this into a bullet fic!! I hope that's alright. That quote is stellar, though!!!
This woman is the most sheltered assassin I think I've ever known
She may be a mafia boss but, like, she's very much like the sheltered kid
At the end of the day, she's afraid of everything. She worries about food poisoning and mass shooters
She's afraid ALL THE TIME for your safety and everyone else's
Well, when someone asked her why she "just can't have a fun time" she got angry and flustered
it was margarita night at the taco place Harley loved so much, and these nights became tradition
Harley had finally found real friends and she was ready to get to know them all
Everyone was talking about their favorite movies and all of a sudden everyone around Helena seems to be quoting something that she didn't know
Everyone knew it word for word and Helena didn't
you all laughed and Helena didn't, so naturally you were concerned
"Didn't you ever see Toy Story?" you asked
"Uh, no"
"Oh. We should watch it tonight."
"Uh, okay."
"Oh! Let's watch Studio Jibbly," Harley said as she sipped her drink
Cass just drank a virgin lemonade but she nodded
"It's 'Gib-Lee'" Dinah corrected. Harley didn't care
"What is Studio Jiggly?" Helena asked
"Again, it's pronounced 'Gib-Lee.'"
Shut up Dinah
"It's sorta like a series of anime movies," Renee said. Even Renee knew and that made Helena feel lame
"Animated movies? That's cool," Helena said rather meekly
"No, anime movies," you corrected. "Oh, we should watch The Secret World of Ariette! Remember I said I loved that for a baby name?" you told Helena as you nudged her. Yes she remembered but it didn't matter right now
"That's really great, really, really, but I've never seen it."
"That's why I suggested we watch it," you said carefully
"You didn't see it? I mean, it came out in 2010, that was like a decade ago," Harley said as she stirred her drink
"Ten years ago I was hunting down everyone that massacred my family before my very eyes." Helena sipped her margarita as her friends looked around, feeling a little not comfortable
"Oh, Hel..." you muttered, rubbing your girlfriend's shoulder sympathetically
"I saw that with Rick in the movie theatres," Harley continued on.
"Well I'm sorry, Harleen, but-"
"Oh shit," Cass said. Helena only calls Harley Harleen when she's mad. When she's mad at Cass, it's Cassandra.
"-But I didn't have much money for cinema tickets during my quest for revenge."
".......Cinema?" Harley asked.
"Quest?" Cassandra said.
"Not enough money?" Dinah said, sounding high pitched and shocked. "You lived in a villa."
"She's Italian," you told Harley. "She says cinema."
"Ah, those romantic languages," Harley said as she tapped her temple. "So, you know, romantic."
"Shut up," Helena snapped.
Dinah balanced her chin in her hand. "So why don't you have an accent?"
Helena just left the table
You glared at everyone. "Thanks. Now she's upset"
"Ah, boo hoo. So she didn't experience cartoons and movies? Just show her the cartoons and movies. No biggie. Now witnessing the so called 'massacre' of her entire family is a bigger issue to tackle."
You glared harder at Harley.
Harley leaned forward and asked, "She doesn't even have, like, an auntie?"
You left the table while Renee cackled in the background. She never actually contributes to conversations
You found Helena lighting a cigar outside, looking distressed and sad
"I don't really see why you're upset," you said, trying to make light of the situation. Helena wasn't happy
You hugged her waist from behind, inhaling the smell of her tobacco and leather perfume
"It doesn't matter that you didn't see movies. Or cartoons. We can just binge it all together. That doesn't sound fun to you?"
Helena tapped some ash on the sidewalk. "I'm pretty sick of being the oddball."
"Hel, you're not the oddball. Renee is basically a high functioning alcoholic with a gun collection. Cassandra is basically homeless and a pick pocket who now works for Batman. Dinah has a magic scream, and Harley is Harley. So you fit right in."
Convincing Helena it would be okay goes perfectly. Everyone goes home and starts out with the classic movies; some original disney. pixar, The Titanic.
By far she loves The Godfather, Forest Gump, Snow White, and Heathers
She watches lots of cartoons in her free time just to study up on lingo and classic media references
She keeps a notebook
She wonders why "What's up, doc?" is so popular because it's not funny
She rants all the time about why Looney Toons isn't funny.
She doesn't like Bugs. Don't ask me why but she'd probably kill him on sight.