I wanted to try one of those prompt contest things. So I did. Er, I had to write about a Secret Santa. The characters involved where Green Lantern (whichever one I choose and I chose Hal Jordan, cause he's my favorite) and Hawk Girl. I know next to nothing about both of them, so I had to do some digging. The little that I know about Hal is more than I know about John, so that makes him my favorite, in case you were wondering. The gift had to be a goldfish… This is my take on things! Read and review, pleeeeaaaaaseeee!

Disclaimer: I have never, and probably will never, owned Young Justice.

Hal Jordan slowly withdrew his hand from the hat held out to him by Superman. The slip of paper sat folded neatly in his palm. He opened it to read the name printed there: Hawk Girl.

"Seriously? Secret Santa?" he whined to Superman. In all honesty, he had nothing against Hawk Girl. She was nice enough and a great person to have on your side in a fight, but to be honest, he didn't really know her. What was he supposed to get her? Plus, she had some kind of thing going on with John, the other Green Lantern.

Superman just stared down at him. "Look, its not my idea either. It was Robin's, and he begged Batman to make us do it." The Man of Steel moved on to the next hero.

Great. Just great. What was he supposed to do now?

Later on that night, he sat in his apartment dejectedly trying to go over gift ideas.

There are so many other things I wish I were doing right now… he thought to himself. The only thing was, if he didn't get the gift soon, he'd never get it and it had to be wrapped and ready at the Watchtower by Friday.

So he stood up, opened the door, and headed to where any good man goes when he has no idea what to buy for someone. Walmart.

As he walked through the sliding doors of the huge supercenter, he looked around. He figured, if he just kept walking, eventually he'd find something.

He started in the food section.

Apples… Pineapples… whatever else is here. Nothing interesting. Who gets food for a present anyways?

He moved on to the baby and furniture section, but quickly left after seeing the aisle of baby strollers. She definitely wouldn't be needing that.

There wasn't anything in the electronics section either except a very nice edition of the Green Lantern movie. Hal thoroughly enjoyed staring at the costumed Ryan Reynolds who was portraying him. He made a note to himself to buy it later.

Next section was camping and hunting gear. Seeing as how Hawk Girl was a superhero, she wouldn't be needing any of that unless the Justice League decided to take a camping trip for 'team building' reasons.

Toys were a no go. They were all centered on little kids, but Hal managed to find himself as an action figure. Now that he was going to buy.

He didn't bother with the gardening section. Hawk Girl didn't seem the type to plant posies.

Clothing was just way too awkward to even think about buying for, so Hal skipped on that department altogether.

It had already been about an hour, much longer than Hal was planning on spending that night, and it was around 9 o'clock when he reached the final section of the store. Pets.

He'd just about given up. He didn't think Hawk Girl had any pets at home. A store employee was loitering in one of the aisles, so he approached her.

"Excuse me, miss?" he asked cautiously.

"How may I help you, sir?" she responded chipperly.

"I'm a secret santa for someone this year, and I have no idea what they'd like. In fact, I hardly know the person!"

The blonde girl's grin was stretched so widely across her face, Hal was sure it was going to split in half.

"I have just the thing! Is the recipient female or male?"

"Female."

"The perfect gift is… a goldfish! We just got a shipment in and they're absolutely adorable!"

Hal was taken aback. A goldfish? There was a bit of irony in that statement. First of all, don't hawk's eat fish? And second of all, how was he supposed to keep it alive till Friday?

But he was out of choices, so he followed the girl to the fish tanks. She was rattling off information about how to take care of them and whatnot, but as he stared into the aquarium, one of the little fishies seemed to be staring back at him.

"I'll take that one!" he surprised himself by saying. At least, if Hawk Girl didn't like the gift, she could always eat it. He thought grimly to himself.

Friday came. Hal was a little surprised he'd managed to keep the fish so long. He'd done his best and was EXTRA careful with feeding and cleaning the little bowl he kept it in. Now it was time for the moment of truth. He stuck a little red bow on the bowl, picked it up, and flew (he flies, right? I know next to nothing about Green Lantern…) off to the Watchtower.

When he arrived, the Christmas 'party' was in full swing. This was to say, there were lots of serious conversations, a punch bowl, and some festive streamers everywhere that Hal assumed Robin had put up.

Superman called the attention of the Leaguers. "Okay everyone. Now its time for Secret Santa. I guess I'll go first. Um, Diana, here's your gift…" He handed Wonder Woman a wrapped box. She opened it to find a bracelet and smiled graciously. "It's very nice. Batman, here's your present."

The night went on and on until finally, Superman stood up again. "Has anyone not gone yet?" Hal raised his hand, and to his surprise, Hawk Girl's had too. "Okay you too, I'm assuming you both have your gifts, come on up here." They walked up to where Superman stood. "Uh, since you both have each other as Secret Santas, present your gifts at the same time! One… Two… three." Hal held out his fishbowl to Hawk Girl.

"Oh, wow, Hal." She was laughing now, trying to to slosh the water in her matching fish bowl.

It turned out that they'd both bought each other the same thing.

"You got the smiling Walmart employee's help, didn't you?" she asked, grinning.

Hal nodded. "You too?"

They spent the rest of the night laughing so hard they were crying while recanting both of their trips to the big store that sold it all… Including the perfect gift.

I hope you like it! Please give me suggestions on improvement! And review, review, review! I will even take anons, so THERE IS NO EXCUSE.

xoxo,

Val