Title: Honoured
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Rating: T (Mentioned character death.)
Bart wasn't very happy with how the League had honoured the dead. They were heroes, they deserved more.
He thought that every hero deserved more than a grave or a hologram. They deserved statues, giant towering statues in the Hall of Justice. But of course, the League couldn't show to the world that even superheroes die.
It was stupid, cowardly even. They wouldn't even show weakness. But now that The Justice League's secrets were being revealed, and their reputation going down rapidly, it wouldn't hurt to honour those dead.
But of course, Bart wasn't allowed to make towering statues in the Hall of Justice. He wasn't even allowed to make statues that were one inch tall. If those were even called statues.
It just wasn't fair that Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman got giant statues. They weren't even dead. But of course, the dead people just didn't get enough respect.
When people told him that they couldn't risk their secret identities, Bart just asked them why it mattered so much.
He always got the same answer.
In the future, they wouldn't need secret identities. Not when the world would be invaded. They could at least honour the dead before it wasn't possible to honour anyone.
Bart hated it when they told him they couldn't. He hated it. He hated it when Wally refused to talk about Artemis, or when Nightwing wouldn't talk about Robin. He hated it.
The least they could do was to not be bitter about it. They couldn't even do the tiniest thing.
They wouldn't do anything.
The dead wouldn't like it if no one cared.
If Bart was dead he wouldn't like it if no one cared.
But he couldn't do anything about it. Not now, not ever.
End
