A skin tight suit might have been her best
choice for the work she had ahead of her, but it wasn’t the kind of clothing
she would use in her daily life. God knows that Clementine Avery would never
wear such a scandalous piece of clothing and that’s not even considering the
fabric! It was a kind of leather that molded itself to her body, which made her
very self conscious but, again, it came in handy for situations that involved a
lot of physical activity and the like. It was just what she needed, even if it
wasn’t really her.
Walking around in alleys and rooftops,
Clementine eventually grew accustomed to her new skin and also to her newfound
sexuality. She would hide her body before, but the suit had granted her an
unexpected weapon and that was her own body and what she could do with it. Men
would look at her ass and boobs for a bit too long, and she would take that
time to tackle them, put them on a headlock and submit them, to ask a few
questions or maybe to make them see who was in charge at that moment.
However, and mostly during the day, she would
still be Clemmy for her grandma and grandpa, the people who had helped raised
her. Her parents had died in a plane crash years ago, and Clementine had been
the only survivor. She was still called a “miracle baby” by some and she hated
it. From a very early age, she understood that it was best to go unnoticed, and
that’s why her sexuality was not something she explored until she was an adult
and realized that she needed to do something to help people.
When she first donned her uniform, Clementine
was investigating the lawyer firm that wanted to take her grandparents house
from them. True, they weren’t as liquid with money as they were in the past,
but her grandfather had always paid the mortgage. She knew about this because
she helped pay every single month, with the various jobs she head during her
teenage years and then when she went to college. Her parents had saved for her
education and wellbeing but her grandparents refused to use that money to pay anything
for them.
There were always long discussions about that
subject with them and would always end up in hugs and kisses and possibly some
ice cream, without them really acknowledging how much they actually needed that
help. So Clementine worked hard, in part for them but also to have some money
for herself and start saving for the unforeseeable future. She had no idea what
to do in the future but she was aware that her parent’s money would not last
forever. And problems always arose for people like her, so it was a good idea
to work. And after that, it was a good idea to do more.
Of course, the whole suit thing didn’t happen
overnight. It was an idea she ultimately had after watching one of those
vigilantes save some people from a fire on the news. Some people were not
really into them but their grandparents were absolutely thrilled that some
people had taken it upon themselves to help others, even if it was when wearing
a mask and some other ridiculous attire. All of that gave her the idea that she
could sneak in places and talk to people in order to really know what was
happening with her grandparent’s house.
At first, she only used clothes that hid her
identity, but after a while it felt a little bit too silly to wear a hoodie and
sunglasses. Eventually, people would find out who she was, if they had a brain.
So she decided to wear a mask she had personalized herself and then came the
first uniform and eventually she got to put on the skintight suit, which wasn’t
her idea. Actually, it wasn’t her idea either when one her best friends
discovered what she was doing.
Adele worked with her and they had always been
closed, or as close as you can be when you’re working and doing things at all
times. Nevertheless, it wasn’t too hard for her to decipher Clementine’s secret
identity. Clem was scared of her reaction but her friend just wanted in an all
of the “nighttime fun”. She explained that it wasn’t something funny or
enjoyable, but her friend was too over the moon to listen to anything she said.
So Clementine told her everything about her first, and so far, only mission.
It was Adele’s idea to change the outfit, to
make Clementine more agile when encountering foes and also much more effective
when avoiding people. The costume was completely designed by her friend, who
had realized what Clem was doing precisely because she saw the same clothes her
friend wore one day on the news the following night. She could be a little bit
distracted and dense, but Adele understood the position her friend was in and swore
to help her in whatever way she could. She felt very excited.
Clementine had gotten a lot of paperwork that
revealed something was wrong but she didn’t understand all of the terminology.
Adele tried to help, but neither of them was a lawyer or anything close to it.
It was Adele’s father, a retired public official, that checked the papers
without them knowing and just asked his daughter about them. He explained that
those papers basically gave properties away to that law firm by bypassing
several laws with a special close that had not been revealed to the mortgage
payers in the first place, as the law firm had bought the contracts illegally.
It was surprising for the girls to hear it all in such a simple way.
Eventually, Clementine got more evidence and
she was able to put the law firm in very big legal troubles. They were forced
by a court to give up all the contracts they had acquired illegally and an
investigation was started to clarify how it all had happened. Her grandparents
were beside themselves with happiness, and so were so many others of their
neighbors. Of course, none of them ever knew what had really happened behind
the scenes or how the evidence had really appeared in the judge’s private
office.
Some people did associate the vigilante they
had seen in the news a couple of times with the case of the law firm, but that
was it. Clementine felt really stupid for that because her other persona was
not supposed to be known at all, but she had felt, at times, the need to help
others and that’s why she had gotten to the news. It was kind of fun for her
when, at the start, only drawings from the witnesses could be done and she
looked like a very sexualized superhero. She thought it was fun and also good
they were way off.
In time, someone actually came up with a
recording of her saving some people from getting mugged and there were even
some pictures from security cameras of her entering the law firm’s building,
and that’s how everything got tied up. After her grandparents’ problem ended,
she decided not to wear the mantle ever again, which Adele thought was a
mistake. She didn’t understand that it was something dangerous and potentially
deadly. Clementine could get killed or someone could get killed because of her.
For Adele, it was all just fun and
interesting. She explained to her friend that she was now someone important in
the community, someone that looked after the ones that no one cares about and
that’s way she was such a key part of what was going on in the city. But
Clementine decided not to pay attention because she knew that not much was
required for her to become addicted to what she had done before. She had felt
the rush going through her body and just knew that it could be something too
attractive.
Trying to get away form all of it, she went
back to her studies and her work but something always bothered her. It was as
if she had a fly or a bee inside her skull and it wouldn’t stop annoying her
unless she thought about how exhilarating it all felt when she uncovered the
truth and she fought injustice.
When you’re hooked, you just are. So when a
young woman was about to get raped near Clementine’s house, she put on her
costume and kicked that man’s ass like there was no tomorrow. She saved the
girl, who asked who or what she was. Clem then realized she had never decided
on a name for her other self.
