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Chapter 36 No one wants to be alone
Mount Justice: October 23
When Alex returned to the cave to her surprise Batman nor Black Canary weren't coming at her demanding where she went and threating to send her away. She looked back at Wolf and Sphere who were right behind her.
"Any ideas?" she asked them.
Wolf and Sphere both seemed to have given each other a look before walking away leaving her alone stand.
She huffed "Oh thanks, you two are so much help."
Alex turned back and walked towards the kitchen. The cave was as gloomy as she left it. The lights were off with the exception of the hallway lights. There wasn't the usual life around the cave. The loud yelling of Wally and Artemis constant fighting. The smell and smoke of M'gann's cookies burning before she fly off to try and save them. Seeing Kaldur practice or go for a swim in the pool. Robin's new words he creates by "butchering the dictionary" as Artemis called it and always knowing he was around by his one of a kind laugh echo in the cave. Alex never realized how much she yeaned these things until they were absent from the cave.
When she reached her destination she saw M'gann sitting on the couch. Alex could tell that she had been crying because her eyes were all red. M'gann was just sitting there starting at her feet miserable. Alex walked into the kitchen area opened the fridge and grabbed the half gallon of milk then reached for two glasses and dumped all the Oreo's in a bowl. She picked up all the supplies and strolled over to M'gann and placed all the stuff on the table in front. Then she handed the glass of milk and sat down next to her with the bowl and her own glass before grabbing the remote and turning on the TV. M'gann didn't say anything but Alex didn't need her too. They sat like that for an hour just enjoying each other's present watching what ever came on.
"What are you doing?"
Alex looked up from the TV to see Artemis standing there at the front entrance giving her an odd and annoyed look. She looked just as horrible as M'gann minus the tears. Alex wondered if she looked the same.
"Watching TV." she stated simply.
Artemis strolled into the room causally but the expression on her face was than thing but.
"You stormed out of here during your session with Black Canary and have been gone with the whole day without even giving a call to any of us and when you do come back the first thing you do is watch soap operates?" questioned Artemis.
"Were eating cookies too." replied Artemis.
M'gann stayed quiet during this, not paying attention to either Alex or Aretmis.
Aretmis gave a dumbfounded look. "Do Batman or Black Canary even know you're here?"
Alex shrugged. "I don't know."
Aretmis was quiet, looking at the TV then M'gann before looking her. "What kind of cookies are those?"
"Oreo" said M'gann.
Alex patting down on the empty spot next to her. "You and I can share a glass."
Artemis crawled onto the couch next to her grabbing a pillow and holding it to her chest. Alex was quiet while an IPhone Samsung commercial came on as M'gann passed Artemis the bowl of Oreo's over her.
The three of them stayed like that until Wally and Kaldur joined them. Wally sat at Aretmis feet while Kaldur at on the other side of M'gann, she already had her head rested against his shoulder. After more glasses of milk were poured and the Oreo bowl almost half empty did Robin walk into the room.
Instantly Robin and Alex eyes met. They seemed to have held that gaze for a long time before Robin walked over to them and sat down next to Wally. Subconsciously without even looking Kaldur passed the bowl to Wally who gave the bowl to Robin. While M'gann levitated Robin a new glass of milk.
As Robin accepted the glass and took an Oreo he reached his one hand behind him towards Alex. Without looking she took the hand that she knew was there. That's how they all spent the rest of the evening. All huddled together on a couch while watching TV movies sharing a bowl of Oreo's and drinking milk. M'gann leaning against Kaldur with Alex feet tangled with M'gann's while she and Aretmis leaned against each other with Wally leaning against Artemis feet next to Robin who was holding Alex hand and his feet over Wally's lap.
No one looked at each other and no one said anything. But no one needed to, because they were together and that's all that mattered.
Mount Justice: October 24th
The next morning after Alex dropped Sphere off with Batman, Red Tornado and Martian Manhunter, knowing that she be fine with them even if they wanted to run some test on her, and explained everything that had happened yesterday which ended on getting a lecture about not thinking about her own safety and getting off on a warning did she leave on a tip Captain Marvel had given her.
"She waiting for you."
Captain Marvel didn't have to explain anymore of it to her. She knew what he meant. When she reached the place she stood outside of the door for a moment. Finally after taking a deep breath she opened the door and true to Marvels words was Black Canary. She was sitting on the couch writing stuff down on a clipboard when she heard Alex enter and looked up.
"Alex"
She almost seemed surprised to see Alex but she didn't pay that any mind.
Alex took a breath. "I don't want to be alone anymore."
Black Canary seemed more surprised before giving her a smile. "Then I'm here."
With that Alex closed the door behind her thinking of the words Dreamer said to her.
"No one ever really wants to be alone"
Alex couldn't find that more true.
TBC