Game night continued on in typical fashion after dinner was over.
"You mean your dinners," Nia pretended to pout, still quite bitter about her steak.
"Oh, come on, Brainy gave you some of his food, quit your whining!" Kara teased her "mini me". She was only met with another pout.
"She really is just like you, Kara!" Alex teased, sticking her tongue out at her younger sister.
"What?!" Kara pouted and crossed her arms indignantly.
"There! Right there!" Alex began to bellow with laughter as Kara's forehead crinkled adorably.
"She's not wrong, sweetheart, you do get quite defensive over your food," Lena muttered to her.
"Lena! You're supposed to be on my side with this!" Kara cried, throwing a withering look at the Luthor. The Luthor only shrugged in response, still looking quite pleased with herself.
"Alright then, who's up first?" J'onn asked at last as he readied their game. They were playing cards tonight and had chosen to start off with Uno. Suddenly, every head in the circle leaned in a little bit closer as a hushed excitement fell over the large crowd. Not too far behind them, Farley and Oisin had finally come out to watch.
"It's so weird, how they play!" Oisin mused softly. Although he had seen the Superfriends play all sorts of games, he was still never quite able to understand any of them, or how they could ever possibly be fun! In Oisin's mind, playing fetch was fun. Having races was fun. Hunting and swimming were fun. But counting little pieces of paper and occasionally swapping them out?
"I don't understand it either," Farley tipped her head in amusement as she watched Kara's smile widen in excitement.
"Gah! CURSE YOU!" Alex pretended to wail as Kara hit her with a Draw 4 card.
"That's revenge for earlier!" the younger Danvers teased.
"I don't get it," Oisin crept over to Kara and leaned over her shoulder.
"Awww, look! I think the baby wants to play!" Nia cooed.
"Or maybe Lena's recruited him to spy on other people's cards!" James joked, earning a laugh from everyone else.
"Is this true, Ush?" Lena asked affectionately, referring to her precious dog by his nickname. "Are you going to help spy for mommy?"
"What a Luthor!" Kara stuck her tongue out at the whippet. The whippet gave her a goofy smile in return.
"Deal him in, J'onn," Kelly encouraged with a laugh, pretending to hand Oisin one of her cards.
"Wait! Wait!" Oisin panicked. "I only wanted to watch!" and behind him, Farley snickered a little.
"Poor puppy!" she teased and he whined at her return while the Superfriends resumed their game.
In the end, Brainy was the winner. He was the first one to use up all of his cards.
"He terminado!" he shouted as he set his last card down.
"What?" the others chorused with a mix of confusion and amusement.
"What?" Brainy asked back, confused by their confusion. "Are we not playing Uno? Are we not supposed to speak in Spanish every time we win?" and the others began to laugh as they realized that Brainy had said "I'm done!".
"No, Brainy!" Nia laughed. "The only "Spanish" part about the game is the Uno part. Everything else is done in English!"
"Oh," Brainy's eyebrows furrowed while everyone else continued to laugh. J'onn and Kara gave him sympathetic smiles while Lena playfully patted his shoulder consolingly. But Brainy was not at all upset and was very quick to shrug off his little blunder. Instead, after spending a few more minutes watching the others finish the round, he got up to grab some dessert from the kitchen.
"Dessert?!" like clockwork, the two dogs were swift to trot after Brainy, tails wagging hopefully. This earned laughter from everyone else.
"Classic Oisin!" Lena rolled her eyes fondly as the dogs swiftly left the Uno table.
"Don't let Farley have anything! She doesn't deserve it!" Nia shouted after Brainy.
"They're just like you, Kara," J'onn and James both joked as the dogs beelined after Brainy.
"Excuse you!" Kara pretended to get offended, but no one missed the way her eyes trailed after Brainy too. "Bring me back some cupcakes!" she finally called out after him, and this earned even more laughter from everyone else.
"You're pathetic, Kara," Alex rolled her eyes in mock despair. Kara responded by sticking her tongue out. "Oh, real mature!" Alex pretended to glare disapprovingly at her younger sister. J'onn watched them with an amused and affectionate smile. They never did grow up, did they?
A few seconds later, then, Brainy returned with the plate full of cupcakes that had been sitting on the kitchen counter (towards the back so Oisin wouldn't try to stand up and stick his long nose out to steal any).
"Yes!" Nia and Kara both hopped up immediately to grab some of the treats.
"I told you she was Kara and Lena's pup!" Farley tipped her head in amusement again as she watched Nia join Kara in looting the cupcake tray. Nia looked more like Lena than Kara, but all one needed to do was talk to Nia for five minutes and her "Kara genes" would become all too clear.
"Well, then let's follow our "littermate" and grab us some of them cupcakes too!" Oisin insisted, shoving past Farley to sidle right up to Brainy.
"Oh, no," Brainy was quick to tug the tray away from the eager-eyed whippet. "I was instructed that high amounts of processed sugars, such as the ones found in cupcakes, are not at all healthy for a dog's digestive tract so I, therefore, cannot allow you to consume any of these!" he told Oisin.
"Pressed sugars aren't healthy for the dog's what what?" Oisin tilted his head. Brainy talked funny when compared to the other Superfriends.
"He means that when it comes to those cupcakes, no dogs allowed!" Farley whined.
"Like we're going to take that as an answer!" Oisin shook his head, then both dogs continued to advance on the poor alien.
"Run, Brainy, run!" Kara and J'onn both teased.
"I do not think fleeing will be necessary," came the too-literal answer. "However, I shall seat myself in a taller chair so that it will be harder for them to reach me!" he decided, pulling a stool over and perching on top of it. He kept the plate secure in his lap, but Oisin and Farley were undeterred. Instead, they both plopped right down in front of him, staring up at him with wide and hungry eyes.
"No," he repeated. "Go and engage with some of your other compatriots. I shall not give either of you any of these little cakes!" but no matter what he said, the two dogs remained firmly planted in front of him, ears alert in hopes of some sort of treat.
"Good luck with that, Brainy," Kara snickered. "Farley doesn't listen to anyone. You won't get rid of her that easily. She is the boss around here!"
"And same with Oisin," Lena agreed, amused. "He may be a good boy, but he can be quite stubborn. Don't expect either of them to leave you alone anytime soon!" and the other Superfriends continued to steal glances at Brainy and his two new friends, whose eyes were ever fixed on his plate.
But Brainy was unbothered, instead fascinated by the two canines seated before him. As a half-machine from the 31st century, the concept of keeping small furry animals for companionship was still rather intriguing to him. Of course he knew what a pet was and understood what it did, but it still seemed so silly, strange and impractical that to finally meet two of these "pets" was fascinating to him. And they really were very cute.
"But I'm sorry, I still cannot give you any of this human-food, no matter how much you beg!" he tried to insist, but Farley and Oisin were still undeterred and continued to stare intently up at him and the cupcakes.
"We'll wait him out!" Farley decided proudly.
"He's bound to make a mistake at some point, then we can steal the food from him!" Oisin agreed.
"Or he'll spend the rest of the night there," Farley gave a small grin of amusement as Brainy continued to stare warily down at them. Even though he was a little weird and even though he talked funny, she really did like him. He was nice, and he and Nia seemed to be very close. There were days when Nia would visit Kara and talk about Brainy just as much as Kara used to talk about Lena. Farley wouldn't have been surprised if she learned that Nia and Brainy were mates! Or planning on becoming mates, at least. But for once, Nia was refusing to come to Brainy's aid, finding watching him being trapped in a stool by dogs far more entertaining.
"Sorry, future littermate-in-law!" Farley thought to herself as she continued to look at Brainy. "But it looks like Nia is on our side tonight!"
Eventually, however, it was time for everyone to leave.
"How am I supposed to get down?" Brainy asked. There were still a few cupcakes left and neither Oisin nor Farley had stopped staring at him even once. Brainy was, essentially, trapped.
"Aren't you a level 12 intellect?" Nia teased him. He looked up at her with a frown.
"I have looked at thousands of ways to remove these dogs and over half of them involve some dramatic distraction while the other half involve me either fleeing, or one of you physically restraining the dogs and hoping they don't manage to escape your control," he replied, completely serious.
"I don't think that will be a problem," Kara replied with a smirk, but instead of heading over to Brainy, Kara moved back to the kitchen.
"Wait. What?" Brainy watched her go with a pleading look on his face, but Kara did something in the kitchen that caught Oisin and Farley's noses.
"Wait a minute, is that... peanut butter?!"
"Farley! Oisin!" Kara singsonged, waving an open jar of Jiff.
"It is!" the two dogs shot away from Brainy at once, forgetting him and the cupcakes immediately.
"Peanut butter!" both of them lunged at Kara and she laughed as she pushed then away.
"You guys need to sit first, ok? Now sit. Sit!" Kara instructed. The two dogs plopped down.
"Peanut butter! Peanut butter! Peanut butter!" their tails were both like fans and they were licking their lips hungrily. It looked like they were going to get dessert after all (even if it wasn't what they had considered before)! So while Brainy finally hopped down from his perch, quick to put the cupcakes safely away, Kara slathered some dog bones in peanut butter before finally handing them over to her hungry and impatient doggos.
"Here you guys go," she smiled.
"Oh! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" came the gleeful whines as the two dogs readily took their treats back to their corner in the apartment, devouring them noisily, the sounds of lip-smacking filling that entire area. The others all watched in amusement while Brainy looked relieved.
"Well, that was easier than expected!" he declared.
"Loser," Nia smiled up at him affectionately, play-punching his shoulder and grinning. He suddenly looked away from her with a nervous smile on his face. What was happening to him? He had never felt this way before. Was he sick? Why did Nia make his circuitry feel jittery? Was it some sort of special power she had as Dreamer?
One by one, all of the other Superfriends began to file out of the apartment until only Lena and Kara remained. Another successful game night had come to a close. As Brainy had walked past the two dogs on his way to reach the door, he still continued to look puzzled with himself, and with the effects Nia seemed to have on him. But while Brainy continued to look mildly confused, the two dogs in the corner laughed silently at him. He might not have known what was happening to him, but the two dogs certainly did. They were far wiser to the human world than Brainy and they knew that what he was feeling towards Nia was a little something called puppy love.
"Poor fella!" Oisin laughed as he continued to lick peanut butter off his lips.
"He's almost as oblivious as Kara!" Farley agreed, licking at her paws. "I think we're about to see another epic love story in the making!"
"And are we going to be their "wingmen" again?" Oisin asked, though he already knew the answer.
"Of course!" Farley laughed. "As Nia's honorary littermates, we are duty-bound to help her find her mate, just as we helped our owners find each other. So what do you say? Are you in, Usher, old buddy?"
"Of course! We've got some more love stories to write and more puppy love to inspire!" Oisin declared, but then he noticed a few stray crumbs on the edge of their dog begs. "But peanut butter first," he said, long tongue shooting out to pick the crumbs up off the floor and bed.
"Yes," Farley agreed with a laugh. "Peanut butter always first!" and then her little tongue shot out as well, helping Oisin lick up every last delicious piece of their dessert. First chicken and steak for dinner, then peanut butter dog bones for dessert! It really had been a wonderful evening!
AN: Just an immediate "sequel" to the previous chapter with more Superfriend interaction with the two doggos, inspired off of David Harewood's insta pic of Jesse Rath talking to Farley and Oisin. Here's the link: p/BwrtOVOn3EQ/?igshid=tayxu4t9au9i
(This was also the pic that inspired the entire fanfic).
