A little dark but sometimes the words run away from me. Fair enough? By the way, who else loves that Wally finally knows about Supermartian? Bring on the Spitfire!
"Will you marry me, Dinah?"
"The team is down! I repeat, we need medical attention now!"
"YES! I do! I do! I do! I do!"
"Why won't they wake up?"
"…I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you…"
All was quiet on the Watchtower. Dinah is hunched over a table in the cafeteria, swirling a cup of coffee and wishing that she had some Bailey's on her. Outside the window the cosmos were moving in its slow turns and all Dinah wanted was a bottle of Bailey's. Pathetic, really.
The silence was comforting and damning and Dinah didn't know which was worse.
It became a lot better when a warm body wrapped himself around her.
"Mom," Conner said quietly.
"I can't look at them honey. I can't," she muttered, wiping the stray tears. Dinah is a strong woman. But that fucking mission had taken a lot from her.
Roy, her other son, was in a medically induced coma. Just as he got clean, someone had to go and break all of his bones. Wally, Kaldur, and Robin had third degree burns and they didn't think that Kaldur was going to make it through the night. On top of the burns, Wally was also suffering from lack of nutrition and had passed out. Artemis's face was bashed in while M'Gann was in a trance, rebuilding all of her mental defenses. J'onn had to painfully rip the mind connection between the team apart in fear that if one died, all the others would be pulled in. Zatanna was recovering from a flail chest.
Conner himself had just been released from the medical bay, having spent the last 24 hours under a UV lamp and Batman's scapel to remove the shards of kryptonite that came from the explosion.
Hell had broke out that night and the injuries that the team endured were nothing compared to the shattered hearts that the rest of the world and the League had. Candlelight vigils were being held across the globe for the team that had saved them all.
All anyone could do was wait.
"He finally proposed."
Dinah came out of her reverie to see Conner's still bandaged face peering at the diamond ring. It was simple for once and it reminded her that Ollie was sobbing over Roy's body.
"Yeah," she muttered. All of her joy: dissipated. There were better things to worry over.
"He's good for you Mom," he stated. Dinah kissed him on the cheek and placed an arm around his waist.
They watched the heavens swirl and waited as the family pulled itself together.
