Hi guys! So uh, what really disappoints me is that whenever I get super cute or rad ideas for Stone Hard, I never get around to adding them into the story. Plus, they were extremely scrapped, they didn't fit the current timeline so they were written completely willy-nilly. And on another somewhat similar note, I have had them in my Fanfictions folder on my Hard Drive since February. Mostly rough drafts with minor Out-of-character errors and stuff. I really would like to share the few I do have while you wait for more pressing chapters on the actual storyline of said Fanfiction. So why not check out some blooper scenes the Past Me made?
Here's chapter one. Summary: There's a noise in the cave that Superboy, M'gann, Artemis and Aqualad have been hearing for the past ten minutes. They go to check it out.
While Robin and Kid Flash had plenty of business to do out of the Cave, the rest of the Team was lazing around with utter lethargy painted upon their features. One arm draped over the armrest, Aqualad seemed to hold a stoic-yet-indifferent expression. Beside him was Artemis... Sort of. She laid down on the dark couch, head resting on the opposite end of the seat, she minded her feet around the Atlantean and had her knees drawn up to her chest.
Superboy was leaning against the wall, like he had been for the past while. M'gann still manned (Womaned? Martianed?) her post in the kitchen, in hopes of finding some suitable ingredients for any kind of cooking possible. Veronica, as everyone had hypothesized, was possibly still in her room sleeping.
It was certainly a lazy Saturday.
"Perhaps we should practice- some more?" Aqualad suggested tentatively while Artemis groaned, he hung his head ashamedly.
"No offense, but I'm too tired to do something, and it's a Saturday. Didn't you guys have that back in Atlantis? You know, days off from work?" The blonde archer said while sitting up, bringing her legs over the side of the couch and making eye contact with the thin-lipped boy.
"Yes," he replied, breaking the gaze she had on him. "I just never spent them so-," he trailed off.
"Like this?" Superboy added from across the room. "Yes," Kaldur repeated and sighed.
There was a small silence as M'gann retreated from the kitchen with her arms crossed and hair visibly frazzled. Artemis smirked, "Told ya. League doesn't do grocery shopping."
M'gann perched on the side of the couch, sighing loudly, "There's nothing to do!"
"Well, maybe we can-," Artemis started to suggest before Superboy cut her off, his hand raised just above his shoulder.
"You hear that?"
Everyone in the room paused and looked at one another as the clone suddenly walked off. The Martian and human looked to the Atlantean in confusion. "I don't have super-hearing if that is what you are wondering," he stated simply and sassily before standing and following after the Kryptonian clone.
As the four walked the halls, they began to hear what Superboy had been hearing, however, not as loudly as his powers allowed him to hear in volume. Artemis had her money on what the noise was coming from and smirked as they reached a door and halted their march.
"Wait, isn't this Veronica's room?" M'gann surprise whisper-shouted to Superboy, who slowly nodded. "Yeah," he said with slightly wide eyes.
"We aren't going to invade her privacy are we?" Aqualad inquired with a scholarly whisper, judging their facial reactions carefully.
"Well- no, obviously not," Artemis said, audibly disappointed. She crossed her arms and began to walk away before the music enacting from the once-thought to be noise-proof wall began to get quiet and suddenly got higher in tempo. She quickly rushed back and pressed her ear against the door, hoping the mechanism would not open at her abrupt force on it.
Aqualad bit his lip as Superboy and M'gann inched closer to get better sound action. He sighed and begrudgingly eavesdropped along with them.
Though it wasn't the best seat in the house (as Wally would possibly say if he were here) it was satiating their boredom and curiosity in the present moment. However, they knew this was treading on thin wire if they were caught, and as well as guilt would gnaw at them for months to come if this turned out to be a real private matter of their teammate.
All these things rushed through their minds at this moment, but alas, did not stop them from listening in to the musical gift of their mostly silent friend.
"-These are hard times, these are hard times for dreamers... And love lost believers." The tempo sped up, slightly startling M'gann.
"Dig up her bones, but leave the soul alone... Let her find a way... To a better place... Broken dreams and silent screams, empty churches with soulless curses. We found a way to escape the day..." The singing stopped along with the strumming of an assumed guitar that the brunette on the other side of the door owned.
"I- I think that's enough for now," Artemis whispered extremely quietly, backing away. The others nodded and followed her back to the living area, more curious than they had been before. How long had Veronica been doing this?
Song is Bones by MsMr. I have no claims on it. I merely enjoy that song and I think it fits Veronica pretty well V-V