Flash, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Sheyera Hul and J'onn J'ozz stood in solemn silence around the hole. They heard the stone hit the earth below, then Superman and GL shoveled the dirt back in. A small marker was laid on top of the fresh ground, a date and a line of words chisled into the smooth surface of the granite.
They all stepped back and looked down on their handiwork.
"Would anyone like to say a few words?" Flash asked.
GL laughed. "Jeez, this isn't a funeral , Flash."
"Well it kinda feels like it. We're burying the last of the Dark Heart-plant-thing material and all," Flash zoomed around the graveyard a couple times between blinks. "Now at least Bats'll get off our case about it."
"Ah, yes, Batman," Diana swept aside a lock of her black hair. "How is he, Clark?"
"I've been waiting to talk to him until I'm sure I'm not going to strangle him for being an idiot," Superman shook his head. "Would it have killed him to wait for someone who could do that without getting potentially killed?"
"I saw him," Sheyera said. "He was fighting a medic."
"Oh, what now?" Superman groaned. They started walking back to the Javelin.
"She was trying to make him use a sling. Apparently he hurt his arm in the explosion."
"Of course," Clark sighed.
You idiot, The voice very rudely interrupted Batman as he finished filling out the last of yesterday's mission forms.
He glanced up. "Excuse me if I'm not crushed, but I've been called a lot worse things than idiot by a lot worse people than you."
He was sitting in one of the Watchtower's computer rooms, on monitor duty.
You could have just called a meta. Angel was perched on a counter on one side of the room.
"I thought you agreed not to read my mind."
Actually, I heard that from Superman. But seriously, don't you think that was really stupid? And you tore the muscles in your shoulder. You should have it in a sling.
"Why the sudden concern for my wellbeing? I've been doing this much longer than you, and haven't died once yet. Superman can't say the same."
She reached over, very quickly, and kissed him.
He pushed her away. "What the hell was THAT?"
Angel just looked at him for a minute, and then to somewhere over his shoulder. He turned around to see where she was looking, and when he turned back, she was gone.
Damn, I shouldn't fall for my own tricks, he thought, silently debating whether to go after her.
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