A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed the first chapter. I really appreciate it. Big kudos to Brock's Geodude for pointing out my errors. And if you don't know the Nyan Cat, well, YouTube would be able to solve it. Just be prepared, you may either love or hate it.
Title: Whatevering
Rating: T
Warnings: Whatevering. Kinda descriptive whatevering in here …
Setting and Other Notes: One year after Invasion (2017). El Paso. Again, whatevering. This was written purely for me to practice writing whatevering. Warning you now, I had no idea what I created o_O. Oh, and also very, very minor spoilers for Amazing Spiderman.
Word Count: Around 2,000 Words
Summary: Confused about her feelings for Jaime, she could not handle his nonsense anymore. Just what on earth did he mean by whatevering?
Cassie drummed her fingers as she waited by the bus stop. It was five minutes past five, meaning the bus should be here any minute now. She checked her bag and made sure all her things were in there. Okay, Biology book, check. Gummi bears, check. The Amazing Spiderman on DVD, check. Two sets of clothes, check. Great, she was ready to spend the night in the Reyes' household.
Except, she wasn't. Not mentally at least. Her mind kept flying back to last Saturday night in Mount Justice. It was not fair, she had no idea Zatanna placed the truth spell on her. She felt her phone vibrating in her jacket pocket and answered it, "Oh, hi Jaime. I'm by the bus stop you told me about. I'm just waiting for a bus."
"Oh, that's good to hear. There's a bus heading your way, I'll see you in a few." And the line went flat. Cassie looked at the road and, in fact, did see a bus heading her way. She boarded it and dug through her pockets to find spare change. Wait, hold on. How on earth did Jaime know a bus was heading her way? A person then dropped money into the fare box.
"J-Jaime!" She stuttered. He gave her a warm smile and seemed pleased with her reaction. They sat down together and she noticed the way he was looking at her, "J-jeez. What are you staring at?"
He shrugged, his smile still in place, "Nothing. Just wondering why exactly you became red when you saw me."
Oh gods, he was doing it. She turned away to the window, looking at the passing buildings, "Are you going to do this again?" She hissed at him.
"I don't know what you are talking about." He said coolly. "All I just remember is what you said that night and-"
"Please." Her cheeks were burning, "Stop. We can talk about this later." She tried to keep her voice calm, but her voice kept getting higher and higher.
Jaime sighed sadly but nodded. He gave her a brown paper bag filled with something warm, "Its empenadas. My mom made them for you. Unfortunately you won't see them until later at night. This is my mom's way of apologizing. So you're mom has this big convention thing until Sunday?"
She nodded. Yeah, it was the annual archeologist convention, so Cas was going to spend her weekend in the Cave. But no one was going to be there for a variety of reasons ranging from college to missions, so Jaime offered her to stay in his house. She was grateful for it. She met the Reyes family before, and she was really excited for this. Then last week happened. She tried to shake the memory away and opened the paper bag. The smell just knocked her out. "Man, this smells good!"
She finished the empenadas as soon as they reached Jaime's house. Yes, she was that freaked out about that night. She wasn't thinking straight. All she wanted to do was forget. Forget it all happened. But just looking at his face brought it all back.
Cassie played with her hair as he opened the door. Okay, he was opening the door, which meant that they were going to be alone in the house. Alone? "Hey Jaime, didn't you tell me you have a sister?"
He nodded as he pushed the door open, "Yeah, but it's her friend's birthday, so it's us for now."
Us. She noticed the way his lips were curled on the sides. He was doing this on purpose. This was his way of getting revenge, wasn't it?
She set her bag on the coffee table and sat on the sofa. He sat beside her and they were like that for a while. Not talking, not even looking at each other. They just sat beside each other, and his presence was enough to drive her to insanity. Finally, she gave an awkward cough, "So, what do you think we should do first? Homework or movie?"
"Well, if you get homework done, then we don't have to worry about it later." He offered. She nodded and pulled up her book.
She went to the folded page and showed it to Jaime, "So I'm not getting the punnett square. Well, I mean, I do, but it's the dihybrid cross. I need some help here."
"Oh, it's simple." He then began drawing the square and began to explain the concept of how there is a nine-to-sixteen possibility that all dominant traits would be passed, a six-to-sixteen chance it would be mixed, and a one-to-sixteen chance that the offspring would receive all recessive genes.
When she asked whether or not she understood, she shook her head. Jaime nodded and was about to explain again until he froze, "Dios mio. That must be the worst thing you have ever said." Then he looked at Cassie, looking slightly embarrassed, "Erm, you wouldn't want to know…."
Then he did an example for her. Slightly grasping the concept, Cassie decided to do the problems her teacher assigned to her. Jaime watched with a patient eye and told her to check a problem again if she was wrong. Along the way he said, "So Cassie. About last week," She gulped. Of course it was coming. Her cheeks became a deep red and she concentrated on her work. He continued, "So which is true? Truth or dare?"
No. No, no, no. So there was the Team, playing a game of truth or dare. When they play, Zee always places a truth spell. She joined in kind of late, but she heard when Jaime said he did like her. In truth, when she was still not under Zatanna's spell, she was asked whether or not she liked Jaime, to which she said no rather quickly. Then later in dare, she and Zatanna were in a private room. Zatanna dared her to tell her what she thought about him. Cassie thought it would be an easy dare since she thought she wasn't under the spell. Keyword was thought, so she spilled the entire truth. Or what she thought was the truth. She remembered the words so clearly:
I do like him. He's Jaime, what's there not to like? He's honest and brave. He's also a very good friend. One of my closests if not the closest. In fact, this may sound weird, but I like-like him. I dunno. He's just so sweet and cute and adorkable. I wish I could tell him, but he's gonna laugh. It would be nice if he didn't though.
Ugh, she was stupid. She sounded drunk. Maybe that was what it was. Zatanna would make everyone so high to the point they would just tell the truth. So that would explain the heavy headaches the next morning. At this point, she couldn't even decipher her feelings about him anymore.
Then the worst part happened, the magician recorded it all. Apparently it was Batgirl's 'grand scheme' or something. To make things worse, the Team didn't know whether she was telling the truth, since Zee pulled her away before telling her the dare. They could assume that she was just forced to say it all. All Cassie knew it was causing her misery.
She shut her book shut and grabbed the DVD, "There done. Look, can we just watch this?"
"Uh, sure." But she noticed the disappointed look on his face. He placed the DVD in the player and turned on the TV. He then shut off the curtains, not that there was much light. He grabbed the remote and sat a little closer than Cassie's comfort zone. She pulled out her gummi bears and shared it with him as he pressed play.
The movie went on as usual. They laughed as Peter couldn't control his powers, breaking everything in sight. Then came the tiny knife comment. Cassie howled in laughter, she forgot that part. It's a good thing she wasn't in the Cave, or else the Team would think she was a big nerd. Being in a team full of superhero teenagers, they discovered something to add in their rather short list of commonalities: they both liked superhero movies. Apparently everyone else thought that Marvel movies had nothing compared to what the real world has, but the two appreciated it anyways. That's how this little date of theirs was even thought off-
Wait. Date? Great. Even her own mind was betraying her.
As soon as they reached the part where Gwen and Peter began to make-out, Jaime chuckled. Cassie gave him a confused look, "Scarab telling you something?" she asked. Then her voice went low, "Or are you thinking about last-"
He shook his head as he paused the movie, "Nah. Just remembered how Conner began to use whatevering when L'gann and Megan were in front of him, doing...whatever."
"Wait. What's whatevering?"
A smirk appeared on his face, "You wouldn't want to know."
She pouted, "Oh come on Jaime, no need to be so secretive."
"Oh really?" He lifted an eyebrow, "If I remember correctly, you're the one who's being secretive with me. All I want to know is whether you said was true or not. Especially the adorkable part. Never heard that before."
Then she thought of a compromise, "Show me whatevering is, then I might tell you."
A devious grin appeared on his face, "Deal, but close your eyes."
She was cautious, but when she saw that there were no bad intentions in his eyes, she decided to obey. There was nothing at first. She didn't feel or hear anything at all.
"No, whatevering does not mean destroying." She heard him argue with himself. "Yes, Conner may had 'intentions on hurting the fish creature', but that is not whatevering!"
"Jaime? Should this wait or-"
"No, sorry." There was silence again. She was about to open one eye when suddenly she felt something soft on her lips. Then she realized it was his lips. She nearly had a meltdown then and there. She moaned in shock, she was supposed to push him away so hard he could possibly break a couple of bones, but instead she fell into his clutches.
His lips were warm. It felt completely foreign to her. It scared and excited her at the same time. She couldn't believe how much joy she was getting out of this. Then it became clear to her. She really does like him. Slowly, she began to return the kiss. She was trembling. The euphoria she was feeling was incredible. It gnawed her stomach, begging for more. Her arms snaked around his neck, deepening their kiss. Her blood felt like it was burning, and she enjoyed every bit of it.
She felt his hands cup her face. They felt very cold, or maybe it was her cheeks feeling warm. It didn't matter. She enjoyed his touch. He then began to lean into her. She hated being dominated, but her mind was too broken to fight back. Soon, he was on top of her. He was pressing all his weight on her, not that she minded. She liked the pressure and decided to return some of it. Her hands then clutched tightly on his hair. He gave a hot groan and fought against her. It was intense as the two fought for dominance. Her body felt extremely hot at this point. She didn't want to lose...yet she wouldn't mind if she did.
It was only when they thought they heard a beeping sound that they stopped. They quickly looked around, making sure no one was there. They were both breathing heavily. Finally, their gazes returned to each other. They didn't have to say a word. There was a complete understanding between them. They remained like that for a while, in awe of just each other.
"Well, that's whatevering for you." He said with a shy smile. She giggled and touched his cheek.
"And, well, that is how I feel about you." She gave him a light peck on his lips. She saw the longing his eyes and felt the desire to fill it. She wrapped her arms around his neck and was about to kiss him again until they heard something drop.
Jaime's head whipped towards the door, "Milagro!" He growled. Cassie quickly pushed him aside and felt numb. His little sister was redder than anything she has seen before.
"You didn't open the door, so I entered and found you...whatevering." The girl tried to shrug it off and ran up the stairs, but not without warning, "Jaime, if I have a niece, we all know where it began!"
And so, the next two hours was spent convincing the Scarab how they were not going that far (yet) because it was spouting threats of destroying Cassie then and there. Strangely, this just made her like him even more.
End Notes: I REGRET NOTHING!
(Oh, and Amazing Spiderman was amazing in my opinion. Saw the make-out scene and thought "That could be my WonderBeetle." *gets shot*)
Alright, first story with Wonderbeetle makeout! (What's wrong with me?) I could have made something so much better, but all my feels…have you seen that new Invasion trailer? It was beautiful ;_;. And WonderBeetle has now hit the iceberg with it…
(I mean, I feel that if Cas would get a boyfriend, there is an 85% chance that it would be Conner. 15% Tim. And now people are thinking about shipping Cas and Virgil…)
UNLESS BLUE WILL SAVE CAS AND VIRGIL FROM BLACK BEETLE. THAT IS MY NEW HEADCANON. IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE IF JAIME WOULD GO WITH CAS TO SAVE THE RUNAWAYS. TYE IS THERE AND SO WOULD BLACK BEETLE. HE HAS TO BE THERE! IF THIS DOES HAPPEN, I COULD DIE IN HAPINESS
(goes crying in a corner, I know I am going to be in a lot of pain once Cas and Conner kiss ;_;)
