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Clark casually walks towards the cafeteria, but can not help being worried about his much needed chat with Diana. He notices quite a lot of general chatter coming from the break room but thinks nothing of it and blocks it out of his mind, just like he normally does.
When he enters the whole room goes quite and everyone tries not to make eye contact with him. He can hear their heart's beat faster. There is a moment of silence so he frowns, shrugs and sits down next to Victor, Mera, Barry and Zatanna.
Barry also shrugs and decides to move on, as the current gossip doesn't concern him in the slightest. So he tries to change the subject to Clark's up coming wedding, however he is cut off mind question by a very agitated Zatanna, who stands up and rather aggressively interrogates The Man of Steel - "Why did Hal punch you? What did you do? Did you try something with Diana? They're basically an item you know, I saw Diana leave Hal's room this morning with her heals in her hand...Clark answer me! How did you upset Diana and why was her man so angry with you?!"
This makes every single person in the room unable to pull their mouths up from the floor when they all stare on in horror and wait for a reply, despite the fact that Clark is also just looking on in wonder. There is silence as Clark ponder's the decision to respond or not until the silence is awkwardly broken by the opening of the cafeteria doors. Now everyone turns to face Hal Jordan, who looks extremely happy with himself.
"Holy shit Hal, did you?" exclaims Barry shocked to see that familiar smile on his pals face after spending the night with a certain Amazon Princess.
"did I what?" asks a extremely confused Green Lantern who's cheeks go slightly red after noticing that everyone is staring at him.
"Hal Jordan, Diana was on a date with another man, how the hell did she end up in your room last night?" demands Clark in full Superman mode.
Hal laughs as he realizes what they are trying to imply and slyly reports "Whatever Di and I do in our spare time is nothing to do with you Supes." followed by a cheeky grin and devious wink in Clark's direction.
In return Clark stands up and raises his voice and warns Hal "Stop trying to turn her into one of your dumb booty calls."
Barry stands up as if to calm the situation and a everyone apart from Barry, Clark, Hal, Victor and Mera leave the room swiftly before the fire starts.
Hal steps forward "Why do you keep saying shit like that Blue? Diana could never be just another girl, she's Wonder Woman for god's sake."
Clark stand's down slightly and lowers his voice. "You've changed her." Which makes Barry and Victor look at each other in wonder and disgust, whilst Mera looks on with caution, ready to intervene if needed.
Hal taunts "I'd shut up if I were you Supes, I've got my ring on this time." whilst lightly flexing his arms.
"So you didn't...ya know?" adds a sheepish Victor, not knowing how to stop this escalating mess.
"NO!" screams an enraged Hal. "Me and Diana aren't a thing! We never could be. We're never going to be!" Just as a panicked Diana barges through the sliding doors, catching the end of Hal's outburst. She looks as if she has been shot for a moment followed by a sudden explanation of herself to a horrified Hal and co. "Zatanna said that you two were arguing again, I came to stop any damage but I can see they were wrong... so I'll be on my way."
"Diana!..." call's all five of the by standers.
Hal runs after her, followed by Superman who is intercepted by Barry. "We need to talk Big Blue."
Barry and Clark
The pair sit back down as Victor and Mera leave them to it.
"Look Clark, Hal hasn't got some underlying plan to get into Diana's pants or anything like that, I spend more time with Diana than you do these days but you don't hold that against me do you? No, because we both know I don't look at her the way he does. Diana is a big girl and whatever happens, happens. Is it so bad to see him make her smile, to make her happy?. She can't be Wonder Woman the Amazon Warrior 24/7."
Barry's words seem to weaken the man's fight as he pleas "No... i know but I'm lucky if she even makes eye contact with me now. I have always looked after her and then he turned her against me."
"No he didn't, you turned her against yourself by always going on about your 'problems' with playing happy families then leave her to do your work for you, that's not how a friendship should work. I know you probably don't realize your hurting her but you are pushing her away. Hal turned against you because he was the only one who could see that you were making her feel worthless and alone. She doesn't need you for that, she's already good at putting herself down and even that doesn't mean she needs mollycoddled. She's a grown up Clark."
Clark tries it fight the truth and starts "I can't just stand by and wa... he's a good guy isn't he?"
Making Barry surely nod and and explain "I'm not saying they are gonna get together, especially after Diana hearing what she heard but just go easy on them, okay? They enjoy each others company."
Clark smiles and agrees "okay." but leads him to question "What about this Derek guy?"
"He's a nice guy. Look, I'm afraid we and even Hal are just gonna have to wait and see how Diana deals with all this stuff..."
Hal and Diana
Panting due to the guilt and thought of hurting her feelings he tries to call after her "Diana stop... please let me explain."
He continues to try and get her to stop but fails as Diana tries to hide her true emotions by rushing away.
After a few deep breaths Diana stops storming along the Watchtower corridors and waits for Hal to take a few more paces forward before coolly stating "There's nothing to explain Harold, I'm just glad you didn't break your hand again."
"Look babe, the whole thing with Supes it's just friendly rivalry."
"I'm not stupid Hal! Everyone was talking about me! Steve stopped liking me because I was frigid. Bruce found someone who was less boring. Kal stopped liking me because he found a woman who he could have a normal life with. And in the cafeteria, you seemed disgusted at the idea of anyone thinking that anything could ever happen between us. Why?"
In this moment, all he wanted to do was pull her in close and never let go so that no other man could ever make her feel this way again. He wants to say that he lied so that this was for them and not for the league's gossiping but all his over thinking, over protecting brain would let him say was - "Diana, Steve was a dick. Bruce is obsessed with a psychotic cat. Supes fell in love with the wrong woman and I... well I don't deserve you."
Hal could now see that Diana was struggling to hold back a tear so he pulled her into the close by training suite.
Diana breathes in trying not to let herself cry, "Why don't you deserve me? Why does no one deserve me? I'm just a woman like the rest of them. What's wrong with me?"
Angered by everything that comes out of his mouth, not being enough to make her feel better, her he begin's to shout "There's nothing wrong with you Di! It's me, that's why I said what I said because they were all worried I'm going to hurt you and I never want to hurt you."
Which makes Diana take a deep breath and sharply say "I am not a fragile little girl Hal." before shaking off the hand he placed on her arm and leaving him in the small gym area. Where he proceeds to start punching everything in sight and curse himself for being unable to take back a lie he said in anger.
