Comfort Conflicting Personalities Chapter Three

"Alex are you okay?"

"I'm fine Megan. Thank you though."

"Do you want to help me bake some cookies?"

"Sure."

Megan and I walk out of the rec room and into the secluded kitchen. She starts to pull out the materials we will need as I wash my hands.

"So which one of you is older?"

"What?"

"Is Amon older or are you older?"

"Amon's older by ten minutes but Apollo is the oldest by six months."

"You and Amon look nothing alike that it's hard to believe you guys are twins."

"Yeah it was . . . different for mom. But once you get to know us you can tell we're twins by how we act. Supposedly whenever Mom left us in a crib together I would always try to hit him."

"That's so cute."

"Yeah then he turned into a little devil when we were five. Our mom was a single parent and we never really knew our dad until we turned five and he just showed up. He always liked Amon more. My full name is just Alex but he didn't like it so he always called me Alexandra. Amon just loves using that against me since he was Dad's favorite."

"I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"For what you've had to go through."

"It's nothing really. I've just sort of gotten used to it. Then five years ago Mom came home late and she was carrying Apollo. It wasn't very good. I can't tell you much because that's his decision."

"I understand."

~Ding~ The timer on the oven goes off as Megan opens the door. I can't believe we talked the entire time.

"They're perfect. We might want to hide them before Wally comes."

Dani's POV

I've just spent most of the time here hanging with Dakota. I really don't care for other people but Megan seems really sweet. I feel sorry for Alex, if I get my hands on Amon he better be ready. I look into the kitchen to see Alex and Megan working on cookies as Alex lets out some steam. You know she would be a great friend for Kaldur. I guess it's okay here, I mean we compliment one or more of the team members almost perfectly. Apollo and Artemis the Greek God and Goddess, Dakota and Superboy, Amon and Wally and Robin, Alex and Kaldur leaving Megan and me.

"Hey you alright?"

"I'm fine Dakota just go hang out with Conner."

"How did you know?"

"It's obvious."

"Thanks."

She walks away with Conner. I guess they're going to train together for a little then watch static. They both aren't very talkative. They will be great friends and they have the same eye color. Although the black to blonde hair is a little different along with the fact that she's a girl.

"Dani, do you want a cookie?"

"Sure."

I walk in and give Alex a hug then grab a cookie off the tray.

"These are great, chocolate chip right?"

"Yep!"

"Alex do you want me to see what Amon's up to?"

"Sure. See if the Idiot has done anything else stupid."

"I think I saw Black Canary heading towards the med bay. They might still be there."

"Oh no,"

"What's wrong Alex?"

"Well since Apollo is the oldest he's always been the one to fix up any of our knicks and bangs that we get. But you see he doesn't like help and he's almost possessive over us and if I'm right Canary is like the nurse and mom for you guys right?"

"Yeah! . . . Oh I see, well maybe we should all go then?"

"Yeah that might be a good idea."

We walk out of the kitchen and let Megan take the lead as we run and she floats through the halls. At the door we see Apollo walking out with Amon by his side and Canary in the back.

"Hey Apollo how is he?"

"Hey Dani, he'll live. For now."

"I'm really sorry Alex."

"So can you fill me in here? What happened?" Black Canary demands.

I look at Alex along with Megan as Alex looks at Amon who looks toward Apollo.

"Why am I always the one to explain?"

"Because you're the oldest."

"I wasn't even there for it and therefore the next oldest is you Amon."

"Fine."

-FLASHBACK-

"Hey Alex it looks like you have a thing for Kaldur huh?"

"No I don't."

"Good, you don't deserve him."

"Amon stop now." Dani said

"Why? Poor Alexandra can take care of herself."

"Don't call me that."

"Alexandra Dad liked me better you know that. Why do you care whether your name is Alex or Alexandra?"

"Alex is my name, Alexandra is not my name."

"Then why did Dad call you Alexandra all the time. Don't you think maybe Mom was hiding something from you? From us? Like the fact that we don't even look alike so how can we be twins?"

"Shut up Amon if you know what's best for you."

"What I can't speak my mind, Alexandra?"

"I'm telling you, you better stop now."

"So if I say Alexandra a couple more times you'll hit me?"

"My name is Alex, stop calling me that."

"Alexandra you've gotta Lear-"

Alex jumped off the couch and in midair pulled out her katana. Amon jumped out of the chair and rolled away as she came down on him. Before he could even get in a position to dodge Alex punched him in the gut and swept his feet out from underneath him. She landed on top of him and grabbed his throat. She started to close off his air supply but he pushed her off of himself as she rolled to her feet. He got in a semi fighting stance as she came at him with her katana again. Instead of lunging right at him like he thought she was going to do she jumped over him and grabbed his hands at the wrists with one hand putting the katana at his throat with the other.

-END-FLASHBACK-

Alex's POV

"Then Apollo came in. I said some things and she punched me in the nose breaking it, again might I add."

"And again I say you deserved it." Apollo said

"Okay let me get this straight. You two are both fifteen and Apollo you just turned sixteen. A fifteen year old girl beat up her fifteen year old brother?"

"Yes." Apollo supplies

"And how long has this happened?"

"Since we were about ten but we never really fought until Apollo came because then he helped us fix up any injuries we might have sustained during our fight. Otherwise before I would just leave and lock myself in my room until I calmed down. An occasional few punches were traded but nothing serious."

And Apollo you came into their lives-"

"When I was 11 and they were 10 and a half."

"So for about five years now this has been going on? I think I might need to have a few therapy sessions with the three of you."

"NO!" Apollo uncharacteristically yelled

"Why?"

"I-I eh, uh, just No."

"Come on Apollo we are a family and she's basically our mom now, she deserves to know." Amon inserts

"No . . . that's it."

Apollo storms off to somewhere in the cave to calm down.

"What's his problem? Wally asks

"Apollo just isn't very open." I say

"I'm gonna go check on him." Artemis says as she chases after Apollo.

"So would you two like to talk with me?"

"I will."

"Amon, No. You'll spill everything and if Apollo finds out you'll literally be spilling everything."

"Okay he's not actually our brother you know."

"Yes but he's older than us and stronger and the most experienced. I wouldn't get on his bad side if I were you."

"Humph no kidding you should have seen how he reacted when she came in." As he gestured towards Black Canary

"Can I just ask one thing? Do either of you know anything about his life before you met him?"

A/N: I'm thinking what I'm going to do is once I have a chapter from one story up I'll type for the next so there is time for me to think through some of the plot. There are a few grammatical errors in the dialogue because the OC's are not big on perfect speech. I might go into more depth with Amon and Alex's mom later but for now all you need to know is that she is almost a doctor. Not a working doctor but her parents taught her so she knows how to take care of a kid who's almost dying. Leo out

-Leo