Very cool, slick piece of story here. Reminded me a bit of Lex Luthor’s driver Mercy, at least her rendition in the cartoons. Aside from that association it felt more like a Bond variation with a strong woman, which is a nice change of pace for that genre.

Definitely patterned on Mercy, with some Pepper Potts for good measure. And a little of the old Girl Friday, too! But I didn’t intend this to be about super heroes, more like you said, in the Bond vein.

I feel like there aren’t enough strong women characters, and the ones you do see end up as window dressing more than anything. Trying to do my part, one Ficly at a time.

Anyway, enough rambling. Thanks for reading!

strong emontionally balanced women are definately not the norm in Hollywood movies. great story.

strong emontionally balanced women are definately not the norm in Hollywood movies. great story.

The character development you weaved in here – from little more than dutiful housewife through to well-informed confidante and then on to bad-ass thug-murderer – stylishly done!

Really well done with this – Nola is a very interesting character indeed – MH :)

This is brilliant, I must say. One of the few entries that don’t entail superheroic acts.

Thanks, guys. It seemed like most people were going with superhero stuff, which I also love and do a lot, so I figured I’d try something else. But as noted, this is still loosely based on characters in super situations, because there is much awesomeness there to steal from—I mean, to homage.