I know, I know cheesy story title but it's the best I could come up with at 10:40pm. :D
Quick disclaimer: Do not own Young Justice. Only Reanna and her immediate family.
Also sorry if you see any 'mum's in the text. I'm Aussie and that's how we spell it. I'll try to make sure Reanna says 'mom' from now on.
Anyway tell me what you think of this fanfic.
Read away! :D
Chapter 1
STAR CITY –JULY 5- 0:59 EDT
"Carly!" Dinah yelled, barging into the darkened house and flicking on the lights. "Mark!"
"Come on Aunt Dinah," Dinah's thirteen year old niece whined, shutting the front door to her home behind her.
Her golden brown hair shone in the pale yellow glow of the lights, her blue eyes, flashing under her shining strands of hair which had fallen around her face.
"Nothing happened."
"Nothing- nothing happened?" Dinah swirled around in fury to glare at her sister's daughter.
"What's going on?" a tired and worried feminine voice said. An older version of Dinah, wearing a light pink nightgown, trudged quickly down the stairs, quickly followed by her chocolate haired, green eyed husband, who was dressed in a dark grey t-shirt and loose red shorts.
"Dinah what happened?" Dinah's older sister asked, coming to her sister's side.
"Reanna snuck off that's what happened," Dinah explained angrily, turning back to glare at her niece and protégé.
"Reanna, we've talked about this," Reanna's father, Mark said, dragging an exhausted hand down his face.
"What's all the shouting for?" yawned a twelve year old girl, who appeared beside her father. Her golden blonde hair was tied up in a bun and her bright green eyes blinked tiredly.
"Nothing Keira," Carly, Reanna's mother and Dinah's sister told her youngest daughter.
"Sure doesn't sound like nothing," Keira replied, ignoring her sister. "Hi Aunt Dinah."
Dinah nodded at her youngest niece and then turned her attention back to her protégé who was tapping her foot impatiently.
"Mark why don't you put Keira back to bed," Carly stated, rather than asked. "She has to meet her friend Trina in the morning."
Mark nodded and guided Keira up the stairs back to her room.
"Night Aunt Dinah," she called before her door was shut.
Carly sighed and looked at her daughter sternly.
"Are you gonna talk to me or are both going to do the thing where you both stare at me and say absolutely nothing for half an hour?" Reanna asked.
"Reanna," Carly exhaled. "What did you do?"
Reanna shrugged and unzipped her jacket, revealing her black, grey, white and red superhero suit.
"I technically didn't do anything. Sonic Finch did it all."
Dinah shook her head. "Reanna- Finch- whoever you want to say- snuck out and decided to do some 'superheroing' with Robin, Aqualad and Kid Flash at Project Cadmus- which they reduced to rubble!"
"Technically Superboy, Aqualad and the monster Blockbuster caved Cadmus in- Robin, Kid and I mainly stood back and watched," Reanna said casually, tossing her jacket on the couch.
"You destroyed a building?" Carly said horrified.
"Yes- actually it was the whole Cadmus facility," Dinah continued, crossing her arms.
"Hey but it was a bad building and facility," Reanna finished, pouring herself a glass of water from the pitcher in the fridge. "So we really did a favour for the League."
"A favour? You call that a favour?" Carly yelled. "You could have gotten killed!"
"Well yeah, but I didn't so," Reanna took a gulp of her water and set the quarter full glass down on the counter.
"Anyway how did you get there?" Carly asked. "Weren't Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad at the Hall of Justice?"
"Yeah," Dinah said slowly, turning to her niece. "How did you know that they were at Cadmus?"
Reanna froze. She couldn't tell them how she knew. She couldn't tell them that she bugged the annoying excuse for a sidekick, Robin, the last time she saw him. Then they'd never let her join the Team then. If there even was a Team.
"I didn't know they were there. I'd heard of Cadmus before," Reanna said carefully, opening the dishwasher and placing her glass inside. "I think you were mentioning it to Batman last time and Robin helped us out. Bats mentioned that he wasn't completely sure about Cadmus."
"That doesn't completely explain how you ended there though," Dinah said after a pause, both her and Carly putting their hands on their hips.
"I heard that it had caught fire," Reanna explained. "I went to check it out. I got in a bit deeper than I expected. Then I met Robin, Kid and Aqualad and we stumbled across Superboy and well… you know the rest." She made and explosion gesture with her hands and sank down into the couch.
Dinah exchanged a look with Carly. Dinah shrugged at the end of their silent, sisterly conversation.
"We don't believe you," Carly told her daughter.
Reanna felt her stomach drop.
"But-"
"But we don't have any evidence that suggests otherwise," Dinah interrupted.
Reanna relaxed slightly.
"Anyway, I did good work tonight!" Reanna continued enthusiastically, trying to get onto the topic of possibly joining the Team. "I used my training! And I performed really well! Better than I have in a while!"
Dinah sighed and put a hand to her forehead.
"Why is she saying this Dinah?" Carly turned to her sister.
Dinah sighed again. "She, Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad and a new superhero- Superboy- want to fight crime. As a team."
"No," Carly said immediately. "Absolutely not."
"But why not mom?" Reanna whined. "Being with other superheros my age has really boosted my confidence in myself as a superhero as well as my powers!"
"I don't care Reanna," Carly said coming to stand in front of her daughter. "You know how I was when you came to me asking to train with your aunt as her protégé."
"This is different though!" Reanna protested.
"Carly," Dinah finally spoke up.
She had been contemplating the idea of her protégé joining this team- if Batman sanctioned it- and wasn't completely opposed to it. Maybe it would be could for her niece's confidence. And maybe it would even help her develop her powers.
"Maybe," Dinah bit her lip. "Maybe Reanna joining a kind of 'team' isn't such a bad idea."
"You're kidding me," Carly stuttered, furious. "You were yelling at her just a few minutes ago!"
"I know, I know," Dinah said walking up to them, "but maybe something like this could really help her develop her powers. You know that's what mom would've wanted."
Carly fumed and looked away.
Reanna bit her lip and looked at her aunt and then her mother. "Please mom. I really, really want this."
Carly glanced at her daughter, knowing she was desperate. She sighed.
"I- I'm still not convinced," Carly admitted.
"That's fine," Dinah said, "Batman still need three days to sanction the team, and so there may not even be a team."
"Don't say that," Reanna said, disappointed. "Please just say yes."
"I'll have to talk to your father," Carly told Reanna.
"He'll say yes," Reanna quickly responded. Carly and Dinah gave her a look.
"What?" Reanna said innocently. "It's true."
"Alright, alright, I'll see," Carly caved in. "But you're still grounded missy."
"What?" Reanna groaned.
"You heard me young lady, you are not leaving this house for the next three days, not even for your 'superheroing'."
Reanna groaned again and sank further into the couch.
"There's no point in us fighting," Dinah said, sitting next to her niece. "For once I'm in agreement with Reanna. Yes she did wrong but she's been grounded and that's that. She didn't die- just a few scratches and bruises- but other than that she's fine. She technically did her job- she stopped the bad guys."
Reanna raised an eyebrow at her aunt.
"I will never understand your mood swings," she told Dinah. Dinah shook her head smiling and after a moment stood up to leave.
"I should probably go home," Dinah said, giving her sister a quick hug.
"So I'm still your protégé?" Reanna asked, still on the couch.
Dinah smiled. "Unfortunately."
"Oh 'haha' very funny," Reanna huffed. Dinah smiled and turned to leave as soon as Keira's bedroom door closed.
"What's happening now?" Mark asked, coming to stand next to his wife, after quickly jogging down the stairs.
"Don't worry Mark," Dinah said. "We handled it." And with that, she disappeared out the door and into the night.
Mark looked around confused. "I missed something." Carly laughed and kissed her husband's cheek.
"Reanna and I will explain everything to you later in the morning," she said. "Including why she's grounded."
"Yes mom," Reanna mumbled.
"You're grounded?" Mark whispered to his daughter. "What did you do now?"
"Like mom said, I'll explain later this morning."
Mark stood in the lounge room, as his wife and eldest daughter disappeared up the stairs.
"I will never understand this family," he muttered, as he turned off the lights, the house once again returned to darkness.
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