Fic: Local Interference

For whatever reason, this story hit me about a week ago, and it wouldn't leave me entirely alone until I wrote it. It's an orange!verse ficlet, backdated to roughly four years before Jij Bent Zo, that fills in details of an event referenced in that story. This is how Kendra got her black eye.

Warnings for gender-based slurs, self-directed and otherwise, violence against a minority character, and hints at unofficially institutionalized racism in certain professions in this universe.

( Local Interference )

Footnotes are here:

*The title refers to interference near a receiver's source, such as from electrical wiring or power supplies. This can be very loud, buzzy, ringy, and downright annoying, and it can make hearing fainter signals almost impossible.

*Translation of the Spanish: God help me, please. Please don't touch me, don't hurt me. I don't know who you are.

*Honor thy father and mother is one of the Ten Commandments in the Bible.