Kaldur's Pride for the Team
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Even though Robin was the logical choice to lead the Team, Aqualad enjoyed his position. Not because their successes brought him praise, but because he could always say that it was his teammates were the ones who were able to help others.
His team. They may have their faults and weaknesses, but when it came down to the moment of truth, there were no other people he would rather have guarding his back.
Robin, even though he was quick to leave you for the cover of dark to tend to something that wasn't what the moment called for, was always there to think ahead and find a way out of a bad situation.
Superboy, aggressive and sullen as he may be, was as constant as the dawning sun when it came to protecting what really mattered in the end.
Miss Martain was as sweet as they came, with an instinct that more than made up for her naive nature.
Kid Flash, with his cocky and brazen attitude was hard to deal with at times, but the speedster had yet to ever run when he was really needed.
Artemis was cold and secretive when it came to her past and family. But behind that cold exterior was a warrior who would defend her teammates and her cause until the end.
Yes, there was yet a time to be found when Aqualad was not proud to call the Team his own. They were a force to be reckoned with. They had stealth, strength, mind power, speed, and tactical knowledge to call their own. Anyone who had gone up against them, even when the foe had been victorious, could not say that the Team was something to be trifled with. Yes, Aqualad was proud of the Team.
But even more than that, Kaldur was proud of his friends.
Robin was never one to judge, preferring to make opinions of people based on what they had proved themselves to be. He was always in the know, which Kaldur supposed came from being the Dark Knight's protégé, but the youngest member never used the knowledge wrongly or immorally, which Kaldur found to be most admirable.
Conner could often be found sulking. Many would assume that this behavior came due to the fact that he didn't care, but the opposite was true. Because of the way the clone had been raised, he didn't know how to express himself. Conner, if you really talked with him, which did not happen often, you would see that he cared more than anyone would think possible about what was happening around him. He was angry often, but then, he had reason to be.
M'gann was as sweet as the cookies she often made. Through all her uncertainty about being on a foreign planet, her positive and sunny disposition made her a joy to be around. But one of the things that made M'gann different from the TV shows she watched was her great compassion for others. It didn't matter if it was a lonely boy who was unsure of his first day of school, or child who needed a blood transfusion. M'gann's first loyalty was to others.
Wally was always one to crack a joke and try to make a situation light hearted. And while the Team often rolled their eyes at his humor, they had begun to rely on it. Without Wally's quips, the atmosphere would get to a point that no one wanted to think about. What they did was hard and dangerous. Sometimes Kaldur thought that Wally understood that better than anyone. Kaldur had been friends with Wally a long time, and he knew that Wally cared more than almost anyone about what they did. His proof? Wally was the one person on the Team who could have run away at any point in time without anyone knowing where he went. Wally had never run away. He was someone who could cross a continent in a matter of hours, but when faced with a challenge, he kept his feet firmly on the ground and stuck by his friends.
Artemis had been the latecomer to the Team. She had had trouble finding her niche with the other members. She had been argumentative, straight forward, and aggressive. But as she slowly began to let her teammates in, they began to see parts of who she was. They didn't know all of her story, but they knew after a while that she came from a place where being defensive and calculating was how one survived. They saw how she had problems trusting, which meant all the more to them when they realized that they trusted her as much as she trusted them. The Team began to see how she had grown comfortable with them. They were small things. The look in her eyes when arguing with Wally. The relaxed posture when she was standing among them all in a small room. Her willingness to do things with them all, just for the sake of doing them. They weren't much, but the big things usually aren't.
Aqualad was proud of the Team. But Kaldur was proud of his friends. They covered the board when it came to backgrounds, powers, pasts, race, and training. They were different. They had different ways of going about how they lived their lives. They had different morals. But in the end, none of that really mattered.
What mattered was that any one of those teenagers would risk their life for one another. Through all their differences, they made one team. Through all of the arguments and training exercises gone wrong, they pulled through it. To the League, they were indispensable. To one another, they were irreplaceable. They were a family, and in the end, that was the only thing that mattered to them.
Alright! I'm super excited for this, and hope you all like it. I've had so many ideas for Young Justice for the longest time, I just decided to compile them together. But this means that I'll need help. So that means that I'll be taking prompts!
I want this to be a collection of oneshots about the Team. (Preferably from the first season, but I have no problem with the second season.) I'm not above doing romance or anything like that, so drop me a line about most anything. Please keep in mind that this will be rated low T, so nothing too graphic please!
Thanks so much for reading! I'm excited to get some ideas from you wonderful readers!
-Alex
