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blacktarget: Yes that's true about Dick, but he hasn't been bothered to check up on these things until now (because it had to do with Finch and he's not really interested in her if you get what I mean). Things start getting complicated from here onwards when Robin does start to get interested.
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Chapter 4- Sonic Finch's POV: Dinner Dates and Pranks
STAR CITY –JULY 8- 19:58 EDT
Dick and I arrived panting at the Ben & Jerry's, Keira grinning from ear to ear.
"I win," she said happily, smoothing down her dress and hair.
I rolled my eyes. Seriously? If she was so worried about her dress and her hair, why on earth did she instigate the race in the first place? Honestly! Sisters are so annoying!
"Guess you did," Dick agreed.
"Don't encourage her!" I exclaimed horrified. It was also at that exact moment I realised that Dick and I were still holding hands.
I glanced down at our intertwined hands as Keira turned away to look at the different ice-creams. Dick followed my gaze and quickly, yet politely, let go of my hand, probably noticing how embarrassed I was becoming.
"I'm getting the Berry Berry Extraordinary," Keira announced, turning around just after Dick and I let go of each other's hands.
"Nice," Dick commented, walking up to see the flavours. "I'm going for Chocolate Therapy."
"Good choice," I said, "that's one of the best. But I think today I'm going to get Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough."
"Okay then go on and order," my mom's voice abruptly sounded behind us.
"Mom!" Keira gasped. "You scared me!"
I rolled my eyes. Seriously?
Then again I probably would have gotten scared too if I wasn't a superhero… But Dick didn't get scared. Maybe he's used to people sneaking up on him? I dunno.
"How'd you get here so fast?" I asked.
"Your father wanted ice-cream as well and thought he might as well order when you order. So here we are," mom finished, as she moved out of the way to reveal my dad and Bruce looking through the flavours board.
"I know what I'm getting," my dad said, still looking through the flavours.
"Alright then, we're all done so let's order," Bruce said placing the board back on the table.
It was really strange seeing Bruce act this way. I mean, he's the head guy for practically the biggest company on the planet (probably). I've always thought he'd be more… formal? Well, I guess he's allowed days off as well. But it's still kinda strange. Whatever. I'm just paranoid.
We all ordered, Keira getting her Berry Berry Extraordinary, Dick getting Chocolate Therapy, my mom getting Mango Mango Sorbet, dad getting New York Super Fudge Chunk, Bruce getting a simple Vanilla and of course me getting Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Yummo.
"I'll pay," Bruce said getting out his wallet. But my mom was faster.
"No, no Bruce. You've already paid for dinner. This is the least we can do. Mark," mom said turning to dad, "go pay."
"Yes sir!" my dad saluted, much to the annoyance of my mom. We laughed.
A few minutes later, we were all sitting down on a few benches, chatting over our ice-cream.
"So," Dick said, scooping another mound of ice-cream, "tell me about yourselves."
Keira and I glanced at each other.
"Well," I began, "there's not much to tell. I'm 13 turning 14 on the 5th of January next year, my friends at school are awesome and insanely crazy, I love Harry Potter, I love music, I also play the piano and also netball and basketball And I hate maths. It's evil."
"It's not that bad is it?" Dick asked.
"I hate it. Seriously. I suck at it. So does Keira."
"Maybe I could give you a hand sometime then?" Dick asked suggestively.
I blushed slightly. "Um… okay. Thanks.
"Anyway, getting on with it, I'm a bit of a tomboy, as you already know, and I love 100 million other things but then we'll be here forever. So yeah. Um… guess that's it?" I finished.
"Okay then," Dick laughed at my uncertainness. "What about you Keira?"
"Well I'm pretty much as you see me. Mature for my age, girly and I enjoy a good ice-cream and I'm fairly pretty," she said.
"Don't forget modest," I said sarcastically. "Oh that's another thing! I'm very sarcastic."
"Never would have guessed," Dick grinned.
"Well Keira's a lot more than what she's letting on to," I continued. "She's smart, funny, has an amazing singing voice, an amazing dancer, pianist and gymnast-wait. Why am I saying this?" I said suddenly coming to my senses.
Keira shrugged. "Dunno. But thanks," she smiled shyly.
I smiled. Okay, I know. Major mood swings. But that's what sisterly love is.
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news," mom started, "but we need to get home. Both the girls have somewhere to be tomorrow and I'm sure that you, Bruce and Dick, do as well."
"Yes I'm afraid so," Bruce said.
"We can drive you wherever you need to if you would like," my dad turned to Bruce.
"Thank you for the offer Mark, but I'm going to have to decline. I can call my butler Alfred. He'll be here soon," Bruce said, glancing at my mom, knowing she would most likely refuse.
"Honestly," Bruce continued, "thank you all for a lovely time. It was a good way to get away from the office."
"Not a problem," my dad said shaking Bruce's hand. "Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to have dinner with us."
The adult continued saying their long goodbyes while Dick, Keira and I sorta just stood there.
"So um, bye I guess," I said looking at Dick.
He smiled at me. "Nice meeting you two."
"It was nice meeting you too," Keira jumped in quickly grinning.
"Okay girls, time to go," my mom announced looking at us saying with her eyes, if we don't go now your father will never leave. So get here right now.
Keira gave Dick a little kind of tinkly wave and strolled off to mom.
"Bye Dick," I said once more smiling. "It was nice meeting you."
"Hey before you go," Dick said quickly, pulling a piece of paper out of his pocket and stuffing it in my hand. When I raised an eyebrow in question he replied, "For the maths help."
I looked down to see numbers scrawled neatly on the paper. I laughed softly, "And you just happen to have your number written down. Do you give your number to every girl you meet?"
"Only the prettiest," Dick grinned. "And nicest." I blushed and tried to think of a comeback. But that smile of his may or may not have fried and/or short-circuited my brain. So I stood there for a second or two blushing before my mom called me again.
"Bye Reanna," Dick said finally, giving me another brain melting smile. "Don't forget to call."
"I make no promises," I said smiling and shrugging as I walked away. "I have an awful memory."
And despite that comment I knew I definitely wasn't going to forget. As I walked back to the car, all the way, mom, dad and Keira were happily chatting away, while I was silent, grinning from ear to ear, my palm warm against the piece of paper I still clutched in my hand.
Suddenly my mom turned to me and said, "So the Team is official then."
I jolted out of my daydream. "What? Oh um yeah," I finished softly, with a rush, remembering what had happened earlier that day.
Did I forget to mention that?
THE TEAM IS OFFICIAL! FINALLY! I'M BEYOND OVER THE MOON!
She gave me a half-hearted smile. "Be careful," she said, gently wrapping an arm around me as dad was attempting to tickle Keira, to no avail.
"Mom," I said grinning, "this is me we're talking about."
"That's what I'm worried about," she sighed.
MOUNT JUSTICE –JULY 9- 11:47 EDT
"Hello?" I called out, the zeta tube whirring as it closed. I was dressed in my usual grey, red, white and black Sonic Finch suit. I'll go into detail about the design later. I can't be bothered right now. That and Kid interrupted my train of thought.
"Hey, hey, hey Finchy!" KF yelled as he zoomed in front of me.
My eyes widened behind my Ray-Bans. "Hey KF," I smiled, "sup?"
"The top of the Cave," a sarcastic and bored voice said in response.
"Oh if it isn't the Boy Wonder," I said, unenthusiastically, as he rounded the corner, looking unamused as always. "Must you always ruin the vibe?"
"Hi Sonic Finch!" a happy voice interjected, as Miss Martian flew from around the corner and threw her arms around me in a hug.
"Hey Miss Martian," I laughed. "Why's everyone so happy?"
"Speak for yourself," a grumpy voice sounded. Superboy rounded the corner and joined us soon after.
"Hey Supey," I smiled. "Where's Aqualad?"
"Swimming," Robin said.
"And no one told me?" I said, trying to sound upset but failing. I was just too happy!
"You wanna go for a swim?" Robin said sounding apprehensive.
"Scared I'll drown you precious birdy?" I asked sarcastically, while walking away.
He scoffed.
"You drown me?"
I just laughed and ran off towards the change rooms to grab my one piece bathers and reflective goggles (so no one would see my eyes as usual).
This was going to be fun.
MOUNT JUSTICE –JULY 9- 13:38 EDT
After a whole lot of fun (me attempting to drown Robin- sadly I failed) I was making my way of the change rooms, after my shower, my towel round me, when I was trying to find my suit. Which had disappeared.
I began panicking. Seriously. WHERE DID MY SUIT GO? THAT'S MY ONLY SUIT!
But then I noticed something more important was missing. My mask.
ANYTHING BUT MY MASK!
It was then I finally stumbled across a hiding KF and Robin who were laughing their heads off when they saw me, a towel around me and covering the "important parts" and my goggles still covering my eyes. And, of course, they were holding my suit and my mask.
I saw red.
"IM GOING TO RIP YOU BOTH LIMB FROM LIMB!"
Okay, so you may be thinking why go nuts over suit. It's just a suit after all. I can just replace it right?
Wrong. It wasn't my suit that was the problem. It was my mask. It didn't only protect my identity. It had once protected my grandmother's, the original Black Canary.
I didn't really get to know my grandmother. I was only seven when she died in action ('ll talk more about her later). So that mask was only thing I had left that I could really use to connect to her.
So naturally I went bonkers.
"Ah dude," KF said sounding worried as I stormed over.
"Hey it was your idea!" Robin called as he ran off.
KF turned to me with a worried expression on his face before he laughed nervously and held out my mask and suit to me.
I stomped over, snarled at him and snatched my suit and mask from his hand, before stalking back off to the changing rooms, where I bumped into Miss Martian en route.
"What's wrong?" she asked me worriedly.
I sighed in frustration. "Long story. I-"
I stared at the pink bottle in her hands. "What's that for?"
"Oh this?" Miss Martian asked, while holding the tiny bottle up to the light. "Pink food colouring. Super strength- it's chemically altered. I think. I wanna try out a new recipe," she finished excitedly.
Although at this point I wasn't really listening. An idea had just popped into my head. I was going to get Rob and Kid back. Real good.
"Could you wait right here for a few minutes?" I asked happily. I ran off, without waiting for an answer.
I changed into my suit and mask in record time, tripping over and gaining a few bruises as I went.
About four minutes later I ran out to a patiently waiting Miss Martian.
"Are you okay Finch?" she asked me nervously.
"Perfect!" I grinned. "I was just wondering," I trailed off, fingering the edge of my mask. "Do you think I could borrow that pink food colouring?"
SO THAT'S THE CHAPTER! What's Finch going to do with the food colouring? Mwhahaha! Although you may or may not guess it… I dunno.
I'll try to get the next chapter up real quick- I'm gonna have a lot of fun writing it.
Also leave any comments or reviews, they're really appreciated.
Also I was just letting those of you who read my other fanfic (Friend Zoned) that I'm really taking a while with that one because I sorta lost interest 'cos… well… I dunno. I'm trying to get into it again though so.. yeah.
Also I may start the other fanfic idea I had for an Aqualad/OC like a few of you suggested. Honestly I think it's a brilliant idea and I'm probably going to upload the first chapter in the next few weeks or so (or I'll try to- if homework allows it -.-).
Again I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry for the wait and thank you to all of you who have waited patiently (and not so patiently) for it! :D
Also, if you think I spelt 'colouring' wrong, again I'm Australian so we have different ways of spelling words.
Thank you for reading and love you all!
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