Girl Genius Meme - Agatha/Jenka – 74
Agatha/Jenka – 74, Are You Challenging Me? (for Evapilot)
Jenka knows she's not the Lady's go-to Jägermonster for anything. She even understands it; their first meeting involved a considerable bit more of violence and threatening, and Jenka knows, guiltily, that despite that their Heterodyne invariably loves them all, the first one to threaten her had probably been Jenka herself.
So Lady Agatha has rights not to default to Jenka when she needs things. She defaults to the boys-- to Dimo, and Oggie, and Maxim-- and Jenka forces herself to accept it, to understand. They were the ones she took a risk for, cutting them down in a town full of hapless townsfolk. They are the ones Jenka herself told to remain with the Heterodyne heiress, and they had. They are the ones she trusts most, deep in her heart.
Jenka is not jealous. She is, as a matter of fact, even less jealous when Lady Agatha insists on going to visit the hot springs in the mountains, perhaps she's not the only Jäger to be asked-- she is not, all the female Jägermonster are invited to go, it is literally a girl's night out in the mountains-- but she is the only one who manages to attend, and the Lady-- well, she does not hug her. Füst is effectively in the way. And Jenka probably imagined the motion anyway.
All that matters is that she's the only Jägermonster present when they run into a random Spark and his army of Constructs, all of which look like very bad attempts to figure out how the Heterodyne created the Jägermonsters, and all of which set off every instinct Jenka has to decimate the lot of them.
Agatha does not, technically, need protection. Even in her bathing suit, she manages to stow away dozens of tools and at least one death ray. Between that, Violetta, and Zeetha, Jenka is pretty sure no one can get close enough to Agatha to cause any serious harm, but she still ends up leaving Füst next to her.
She still ends up walking up to her enemies, with a swing in her stride that she hasn't lost in her life-- she was a woman before she was a monster, and she is still a woman, her center of gravity isn't like that of any man. And she still ends up giving them a toothy smile behind her balaclava, because she is a monster after all.
The dazzling smile Lady Agatha gives her, after, the approving expression-- it makes it all so worth it.