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The Conversation

Diana of Themyscira, Wonder Woman, and Princess of the Amazons was heading back home. She barely comes back to Paradise Island due to the Justice League and her ambassador duties. She loved and cherished her time growing up in Themyscira and will always love her island home. But now she is very nervous of going back to Themyscira. Particularly the conversation she is about to have with her mother.

Diana landed the Invisible Jet in front of the royal palace. Her mother, Queen Hippolyta, was standing in front of the steps with her royal guards at her side. When the jet's cockpit opened, Diana jumped out and landed in front of her mother.

"Welcome back to Themyscira, Princess Diana." Hippolyta said with a small smile. Diana bowed and replied, "Thank you Mother, I am happy to be finally home."

Turning to her guards, Hippolyta raises her voice so all the Amazons who were there would be able to hear, "Amazons! Tonight, we feast for our princess's return!" After the announcement and the cheering from the crowd, Diana lean into her mother's ear and whisper, "Mother, I wish to speak to you in private." Hippolyta then motion to her guards to leave them some privacy and within seconds, the queen and the princess was alone and heading into the royal palace.

"What is in your mind Diana?" Hippolyta asked.

"I…um… I got some news I have to tell you Mother." Diana nervously said. She was not meeting her mother's eyes and this did not go unnoticed with Hippolyta.

"What bothers you my little Sun and Stars?" After a few silencing moments, Hippolyta was growing more concern for her daughter. She gave her daughter "the look" that always works on her when she wants Diana to tell her something she is hiding. Then, something caught the queen's eyes. In Diana's ring finger was a big diamond ring with little sapphire gems surrounding the diamond. The ring was a dead giveaway to the news Hippolyta was about to receive.

"I… am…going to be married Mother." Diana was feeling like a child who got caught and was about to be punished by her parents. For a while, there was no response from her mother, which was making Diana more nervous by the second.

"Well I hope she makes you happy." Hippolyta was trying to keep up hope, until she saw the horrified face of her daughter.

"I am marrying a MAN! Not a WOMAN Mother!" Diana was feeling rather embarrassed by her mother's thinking that her own daughter being interested in another female in an intimate way.

"Is the man at least worthy of your affection Diana?" Hippolyta sighed. At least she still has some hope for her daughter. If Diana didn't do the ritual yet, she could still send undercover Amazons to find Diana's fiancé and make him 'disappear' for awhile until her daughter think she has been stood up.

"Yes Mother. In fact, he is the sole protector of the city he loves and I have fought with him side by side through many battles. He is the most intelligent man I have ever met and is a great warrior and champion. In fact, you have met him before when Hades was released by Felix Faust." By the way Diana talks about her fiancé, Hippolyta already know who she has chosen to be her mate. And finally knowing who would be her future son-in-law, she knows that kidnapping him would be next to impossible with all the resources at his disposal. She dreaded this day, ever since she banish her own daughter. That was a stupid move; she should have made her daughter stay in Themyscira as punishment instead. But Hippolyta still have fates in her goddesses, well to Artemis and Athena mostly because she was pretty sure Hera and Aphrodite approved, that Diana still didn't do the ritual.

"So when are you going to be married to Batman?" Hippolyta asked.

"Mother, how did you-?" Diana was about to ask until Hippolyta raises her hand to interrupt her daughter for her to explain herself.

"Please my little Sun and Stars, I am your mother. I had raised you from birth and from the clues you gave me, I was able to discern which of your comrade you have chosen. Also, knowing your love for mystery, I could tell it was the one who is dressed in black that seems to command respect from his peers and fear from his enemies." Hippolyta said matter-of-factly, but looking at her daughter's eyes, she saw nothing but pride and love for her fiancé. And when she saw Diana's bright wide smile, she thought it might have blinded her when they passed a sunny window. Hippolyta was getting more nervous as she sees how happy her daughter is with her man, that she finally has to ask her daughter the one question that she been waiting to ask. She prayed to the virgin goddesses Artemis and Athena that she gets the answer she so desperately hope will come out of her daughter's mouth.

"Diana, have you done the ritual yet?" Hippolyta nervously asks. The only answer she received was a raised eyebrow from her daughter. So to clarify what she meant, she did a little charade with her face.

"Mother, why do you look like you're constipated?" Diana ask, clearly confused with what her mother was trying to ask her. With an angry scoff, Hippolyta tried again. She was really bad at charades. So when she was sliding her staff in her hands, all she got was a more confused Diana.

With a heavy sigh, Hippolyta just went out with it, "Did you made love with him in his bedroom?" Diana instantly blushed and looked sheepishly away from her mother.

"Oh, that ritual...actually, we made love in my bedroom… since I lured him there." Diana replied. Hippolyta was shocked and angry. Angry because now she was too late, and shocked because her daughter had to resort to trapping her now-fiancé. When Diana saw her mother's reaction, she tried to reason, "Mother, it's not what you think. He is a very stubborn man and… he had many suitors so I had to claim my prize."

"Spoken like a true Amazon my little Sun and Stars." With a heavy heart, Hippolyta look at her daughter and tried to memorize the image of her daughter from this day on. She remember when she carved her from the beach on a stormy day in Themyscira, cut her finger and put the blood in her sculpted forehead, and raise the sculpted baby to the sky for her goddesses to grant life into. Hearing her first baby cries, picking her up when she tried to walk but fall back on all fours, embracing her and wiping the tears off her face when she had no one to play with as a child, and seeing her so determined to become the best Amazon in the island. Now, her little Sun and Stars is a full grown woman who finally found what she has been looking for her whole life and a soul mate to see it with. Reluctantly, Hippolyta has to tell her daughter what lies ahead, now that she has chosen someone to spend her life with. "Come Diana, I have to tell you something of great importance." They walk to her royal bed chambers and she sat in her bed and motioned her daughter to do the same. When a few moments passed, Hippolyta began, "Diana, have you ever question, why we don't allow any of our Amazons back into Man's World, even if thousands of years have passed?" Diana only nodded her head. To Hippolyta, she looks just like when she was little and she would read to her all the glory battles the Amazons have fought in before she goes to sleep. "Well, I made that law, not only because of protection from Man's World, but also right after the gods have gave us our immortality. They told me that any Amazon that goes back to Man's World and binds herself to a man she loves, will give up that immortality and live the same life span as any other woman in Man's World." She looked at her daughter who was subconsciously biting her bottom lip as she was thinking.

"Do I still get to keep my powers?"

"Yes, those are gifts from the gods when you were born." With a tear flowing down her cheek, she placed a hand on her daughter, "But I am saddened to know I can't keep you in this world forever."

Diana beamed at how her mother was showing affection and hugged her as tears start to flow down her own cheeks.

"Mother, I will always be your little Sun and Stars, even when I moved on to Elysian Fields." Diana chuckled at herself. Hippolyta back up a little so she can her daughter's face.

"You are content with this Diana?"

"Yes Mother. I am. I love him with all my heart. And I can't live in a world without him" With a heavy breath of air, Hippolyta straighten herself and resume her regal posture.

"Well, I wish you nothing but happiness my daughter. And I wish to meet Batman in person. Without the mask so I can see my future son-in-law in the eye and tell him what will happen if he breaks your heart."

"Mother, you don't really have to do that." Diana said trying to keep Bruce out of danger from a potential Amazon army that will head hunt for him if he breaks her heart after what she had to sacrifice.

"Yes I do, Diana. So he knows his place. He should have realized what the consequences were prior to manipulating your feelings to feel mutual love for him. He should know better than to mess with an Amazon's emotions."

"Mother, he did not manipulate my feelings into…"Diana started to protest, but was quiet down when Hippolyta raise her hand to finish what she was saying.

"Nevertheless, in any circumstances, it would be wise for him to keep you happy for the rest of your life. And I am expecting my future grandchildren to visit me frequently." Hippolyta started to stand up and was about to head out of her royal chamber when Diana stopped her.

"About that…"