A/N: A little short one on Hairspray, that while Hairspray ended it on a happy note, not everyone was going to be complacent with this sudden mixed relationship. I know Penny may be a little OOC but I always imagined her to have a fiery little spirit under there.

When Seaweed had come home black and blue, Tracy had never seen Penny so angry; the blonde looked murderous as Seaweed repeated the threats hurled at him by the white supremacy gang.

Making their love known at the very cusp of the race equality battle had made both Penny and Seaweed mascots as such. To some they were heroic; they were fighting for a true love, a love that nothing could hurt. To others, her mother included, they were the lowest of the low, and they were dirty and sinful.

They had been threatened, attacked, beaten and practically exiled. Tracy and Link were shocked at how furious Penny could be, the seemingly whimsical blonde was actually a lot darker than anyone had reckoned. With her mother's vicious repression of her now gone, it turned out that a Penny under Pressure had a fiery temper.

When Amber had half-heartedly sneered at Penny, Link had struggled to drag her from the fray, the sweet blonde had developed a wild-cat kind of attitude, and Link had been forced to whisk her off to Seaweed who could just about calm her down. Tracy rapidly realised that her best friend was something more than pigtails and lollipops and it didn't stop her, and Link backing their friends 100% of the way. Sure, it put them both in the firing line, but as if they weren't already there, with targets on their heads; each couple had their own battles to fight.

Which was a battle they were fighting now, as they tended to Seaweed's injuries, the room let out a defeated kind of sigh as he recounted the day.

"They told me to keep my dirty black hands off of their white women, especially one that's so pretty." Seaweed mumbled through a split lip while Penny and his mother patched him up. Inez standing at the door, a frown marring her face alongside her own split lip from two girls at school.

Seaweed muttered something else and Penny, who didn't catch the exact words, caught the drift of his attackers' intentions, jeers and jokes when they thought they'd killed Seaweed.

"Think I'd make a pretty little airhead wife do they?!" She threw the cotton gauze back into the medikit and fumed.

'"Penny my love, they mean nothing." He tried to soothe her and it was then he realised she was crying.

"What if they killed you, like all the letters have been saying." she gestured to a fresh stack of hate mail as Aeaweed brushed the tears spilling down her cheeks.

"Nothing can kill us baby." He looked to Maybelle and she nodded. "Not here anyway. I'm taking us to Paris, it's not a taboo there, me and you, we're going... If you want?" he stuttered at her shocked face, his lips twisted in nervousness until a smile graced her features and she flung her arms around his neck, forgetting about the bruised ribs and kissing him soundly.

"The city of love how perfect!"