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You never knew what home is
You never knew that home is people that you care about
Fuck a place that you grew up in
Woah? This isn't what I thought it would be
Woah! Why can't we just want the same things?
-August is Home-
Forever Came Calling
When Kenna had told Dinah that she wanted to live at the cave, she hadn't really thought it through. She had no clue that things would be this awkward. And after living in this place for a week, Kenna wanted to go back and smack herself for thinking any different. Of course it would be awkward at first, three people who had just met living in a cave together. It didn't help that Kenna's personality was a perfect love child between Superboy's stoic persona and M'gann's energetic persona. Over the past week Kenna had come to observe certain things about each of her team mates.
M'gann was a very open and sweet person who just wanted to fit in. The teenager loved to try new things; baking being one of them. Sweet's were found in short supply after being made. Kenna would eat more than she probably should while the rest of the cookies seemed to disappear; probably because of Superboy. It took Kenna a few days to get used to the martian's very optimistic view on everything, considering that Kenna was normally a pessimistic and cynical person. She would never voice her opinion when the martian was in range, fearing that she would hurt the girl's feelings.
Her observations of Superboy were quite different. He liked when things were quiet, which worked out well for Kenna, seeing as she would spend most of her time reading. She knew that Superboy was having a hard time adjusting to the new atmosphere and new people. In some sense, he needed a gentle approach. Kenna would walk into the room and sit on the couch while he watched T.V. The clone would grow uneasy, a slight tense to his shoulders. She would never stay long, leaving after a certain amount of time. Superboy would raise an eyebrow and watch her leave the room. As she continued, Superboy began to realize that she was trying to help him get comfortable with her presence. It became almost a routine, Superboy would sit on the couch, flipping through channels and Kenna would be curled up in a chair reading.
The blonde's approach to the martian was completely different. Kenna felt that the green skinned girl just wanted a friend. That's how she found herself in this somewhat awkward situation. Kenna had been sitting at kitchen bar, bag of chips at her disposal and book in hand. Every couple of seconds, her hand would reach up and take a chip and place it between her lips. The only sound being the crunching of the chip as she ate, whipping her greasy fingers on the fabric of her shorts. Then they would move to turn the page of her book. Out of the corner of her eye, Kenna could see a person walk into the kitchen. Peering over her book, she caught the eye of the red head. M'gann was looking through a book, using her telepathy to fly out ingredients from the different cabinets. Deciding to break the silence between the two, Kenna moved the book to where her eyes could not glance at the words.
"So… whatcha doin?" She asked quietly, as not to startle the poor girl. M'gann gave a slight jump and shifted her eyes to the lavender eyed girl.
"Oh, I was just planning on making some cookies for everyone." She replied, giving the younger girl a shy smile. Kenna nodded and looked back down at her book, turning the page. M'gann continued to look at her, wanting to speak but not wanting to disturb the girl.
"Do you…. want to help?" She asked quietly. At her words, Kenna's eye shot up to meet her own eyes. It took a couple of seconds to contemplate but Kenna agreed.
"Sure." She said, taking her book mark and placing it between her pages. A full blown smile pulled at the martian lips as she watched the girl place her book down and circle the bar to enter the kitchen. Kenna placed her hands in her back pockets as she stood in front of the martian.
"Alright M'gann, teach me the ways of the cookie." She spoke, giving the girl a goofy grin. M'gann nodded and smiled in return, not fully understanding the blondes words. M'gann gave the blonde a series of direction to follow; which didn't end very well for the blonde. In the span of five minutes, Kenna had flour in her hair and all over her face. Luckily M'gann was able to save the dough but she could help but laugh at the struggling blonde.
"You have flour in your hair." M'gann pointed out with a giggle. Kenna was in the midst patting down her clothes, puffs of flour springing into the air.
"God, I have flour coming out of every crevice." The blonde whined, looking up at the green skinned girl. M'gann continued to giggle, placing the spoon she had used to mix the dough on the counter. She then took a step towards the blonde, moving her hand to help the blonde dispose of the flour in her hair. While they were in the midst of the flour debacle, Superboy had emerged into the room. He stopped momentarily to stare at the peculiar girls. Both girls ceased their movements to look at the clone. Both had the famous deer in the headlight look on their faces. Superboy just rose his eyebrow before continuing to the couch. Kenna shifted her eyes to look at the martian. As their eyes met, they couldn't hold it in any longer. Both girls broke out into laughter, clutching their sides. Their laughs soon died down into uncontrollable giggles.
"I'm going to go get the rest of this stuff off of me. Are you good finishing the cookies?" Kenna asked when she got a hold of her laugh. The martian gave one last giggle and nodded her head.
"Yeah, i'll just put them in the oven. Thank you for helping me" Kenna gave smile and leaned over the counter to grab her book before leaving the kitchen area.
Her slender fingers turned the page once again, then went back to her resting across her stomach. Kenna shifted her body a little to get more comfortable in the positions she was in; back against the arm of the chair,legs thrown over the other arm. She was lost in her own world, letting the mysteries take her over her mind. she was so caught up in her book that she hadn't noticed the computer announce the arrival of her other team mates. Her eye's scrunched into a glare when a mass of red blocked the words she had been reading. With a face of annoyance, Kenna raise her eyebrow as she looked up at the culprit. Kid Flash and Robin stood in front of her, smirks on their faces.
"Can I help you?" Her tone full with sarcasm. Her words only made the two boys grin widen.
"Red Tornado's on a approach. Were gonna go see if he has a mission for us. You comin' sweetheart?" Wally asked, indicating with head. Kenna repeatedly blinked then looked back down to her book.
"Pass."
"Why not?"
"That means getting up and that wasn't apart of the deal." Kids face fell into a pout. Robin glanced over at his friend, rolling his eyes behind his glasses. He then shifted his gaze back to the blonde.
"Come on blondie."
His words caused her to peer backup to stare at him. He moved to sit on the arm next to her legs.
"Team bonding." He coyly spoke. He watched her roll her lavender eyes before speaking.
"Five bucks say he doesn't have a mission."
"You're on." He stuck out his hand to shake hers. Her smaller hand met his in a strong shake. He then shifted the grip to help pull her up. With help from the boy wonder, Kenna was able to stand up. She straightened her shirt and followed after the hyper boys. The three of them met up with the others as they exited the cave just as Red Tornado landed. Kenna gave a sigh when the gust of wind almost made her lose the page she was on. She continued reading the words, paying somewhat attention between her team mates and their den mother.
"Greetings. Is there a reason you intercept me outside the cave?" The robot asked turning his head to all of the teenagers.
"We hoped you would have a mission for us." Aqualad tried to reason.
"Missions are the Batman's responsibility."
"But it's been over a week.." Robin spoke up, agitation in his voice. Red Tornado brought up his hand to silence the teen.
"You will be tested soon enough. For the time being,simply enjoy each other's company." Red Tornado spoke. Aqualad shifted his gaze, looking at all the team members.
"This team is not a social club."
"No, but I am told that social interaction is an important team building you can keep busy by familiarizing ourselves with the cave." He spoke before walking past them to enter the cave. Kid Flash turned to speak to Robin, his eyes narrowing in annoyance.
"Keep busy."
"Does he think we're falling for this?" Robin restored, making his voice a little louder. M'gann took the opportunity to help.
"Ooh, I'll find out." She spoke before turning to gaze at the back of the robots head. She squinted her eyes for a moment before shaking her head.
"I'm sorry, I forgot he was a machine. Inorganic, I can't read his mind." She said turning to the rest of her teammates. Kid Flash walked up to stand next to the green skinned girl.
"Nice try though. So um, do you know what I'm think of." He asked with hopeful eyes. Kenna, who had been listening to the conversation but was concentrating on her book gave a very loud and unladylike snort.
"We all know what you're thinking now." Robin said, elbowing Kid in the back. Aqualad looked down at the ground before looking up at the rest of the team.
"And now we tour the clubhouse." He spoke with disdain. M'gann shifted her eyes from the ground to look up at the atlantian.
"Well, Superboy, Kenna and I live here. We could play tour guides." She hesitantly spoke, looking at her house mates. Superboy put his hands up in surrender.
"Don't look at me." Every one then shifted their gazes to the blonde with her nose buried in her book. Feeling multiple eyes on her, Kenna glanced up.
"Me. A tour guide? Ha!" She gave a laugh and shook her head, looking back down to her book. Kid Flash turned back to red haired girl.
"We won't. A private tour sounds much more fun." He said suggestively. The poor girl leaned slightly away from advancing teen. Robin's glared at his friend.
"She never said private." Someone was jealous. Aqualad gave a sigh before talking.
"Team building. We will all go." After the statement was made everyone turned to go down the grass ramp to go into the cave. The entire team stopped moving when Kenna cleared her throat. She took a few steps towards Robin. Eyes never leaving the pages, Kenna raised her hand and placed it next to Robin. Her hand gave a gesturing movement, causing the teens to raise their eyebrows. They watched Robin give an annoyed sigh, moving his hand to grab the wallet in his pocket. His hand pulled it out, unfolding it to reach in and pull out the contents. Kenna felt Robin slap the five dollar bill into her hand. Robin took her silence as a way to say "I told you so". Everyone watched with amused looks as Kenna placed the money in her back pocket and walk towards the opening.
"This is our front door." M'gann started off.
Somehow they had ended up in the main hall of the cave. M'gann had pointed out random descriptions and facts about the cave. The other member would add in every once in a while. Kenna was still reading, already knowing what they were talking about Dinah had given her a run down of the new place she was going to live before she had moved in. She glanced up from her book when they started explaining about the cave being compromised. The could have sworn that the poor martian had a mini heart attack.
"If villains know of the cave, we must be on constant alert." She tried to reason. Kenna raised an eyebrow when Robin grabbed her hand and began talking.
"The bad guy's know we know that they know about the place so they would never think to look here." Kenna blinked repeatedly trying to comprehend the teens words. That was a lot of knows. Kid Flash tried to help the martian.
"He means we're hiding in plain sight."
"Oh. That's much clearer." Kenna glanced out of the corner of her eye to see Superboy crinkle his eyebrows.
"I smell smoke." At the simple words, the martian began to panic.
"The cookies!" She frantically spoke, using her powers to fly to the kitchen. The rest of the team ran after the girl. They came into the kitchen to see the red head use her powers to pull the burnt cookies from the oven. The girls face held a look of heart break. As M'gann placed the cookie sheet on the counter, Kenna moved to sit at the bar stool she had occupied earlier in the day.
"We were trying out a new recipe and…" She paused looking at her teammates with a blush.
"Nevermind."
"We?" Aqualad questioned. The girl nodded, looking in Kenna's direction.
"McKenna helped me earlier today." Said girl had put away her book and was now gorging herself on the bag a potato chips.
"I'm surprised you got our little bookworm away from that book." Robin teased looking at the blonde. Kenna looked back at him and stuck her tongue out. He then turned to look at the green skinned girl.
"I bet they would have tasted great. He doesn't seem to mind." Robin smoothly spoke, gesturing with his head towards. Everyone's gaze focused on the speedster who was inhaling the burnt cookies. He stopped mid bite and swallowed, looking at his teammates.
"Fast metabolism?" He said trying to explain. M'gann raised an eyebrow in confusion.
"I'll make more?" She asked unsurely.
"It was sweet of you make any." Aqualad spoke politely before glancing over at the blonde.
"Both of you." Kenna stopped mid-chip and gave the atlantean a smile; trying hard not to show the mesh of food behind her teeth.
"Thanks Aqualad." The martian girl spoke shyly.
"We are off duty, call me Kaldur'ahm. No my friends call me Kaldur." The atlantean said with a smile. The second after Kaldur spoke, Kid Flash spoke up.
"I'm Wally." He comment caused Kenna to nearly choke on a chip. She tried everything in her power not to let her laugh escape the cavity of her lips. She couldn't believe that his name was Wally. Her name was peculiar in it's own way but the fact that the constant flirt's name was so nerdy. Robin looked over at Kenna and smirked. He knew Kenna was trying so hard not to make any noise. He then shifted his eyes back to Kid Flash; Wally as he leaned on the counter.
"See I already trust you with my secret identity. Unlike mister dark glasses over here. Batman's forbidden boy wonder from telling anyone his real name." Robin glared at his friend in annoyance.
"Oh my names no secret. It's M'gann M'orzz, but you can call me Megan. That's my earth name, because i'm on earth now." The red haired girl giddily spoke. She then looked over at Kenna, everyone following her gaze. Kenna stopped eating the chips when everyone looked at her. She took a second to swallow the chewed chip.
"Um, no one really calls me McKenna. I've always been called Kenna." She spoke with a shrug once she was sure that there was no more food was in her mouth.
"I'll probably just call you Blondie." Robin teased.
"And you're gonna be Bird Boy." She flawlessly restored back. In the midst of the banter, Superboy had moved from the kitchen. In a matter of seconds Kenna let out a squeak as she fell out of her chair. A sudden voice that didn't belong to her spoke in her mind, causing the girl to jump and fall on her butt. She lay there rather disoriented. A hand came into her line of vision and Kenna could see the atlantian. She didn't hesitate to grasp it. Kaldur helped pull the blonde to her feet. She had vaguely picked up on the conversation. Apparently, M'gann had spoke telepathically to everyone, scaring the crap out of the blonde. She felt bad for the martian when everyone began to reprimand her. It was an honest mistake, and the poor girl was already having a hard time fitting in. In condolences, M'gann tried to make it up. Kenna followed the rest of team, not really knowing what was going on.
Kenna didn't know how to feel up the chair she was sitting in. The seatbelts grew over her body. The feeling had made Kenna's skin crawl. To get her mind off the chair, Kenna turned her attention to her team mates. Apparently, M'gann felt that the clone did not like her.
"Hey, how about showing us some martian shape shifting." Robin suggested. The girl looked at him before standing up. Everyone turned around to see M'gann morph into a perfect replica of Robin; breast and all. Kenna let out a strangled laugh as M'gann spun around shifting into a female version of Wally.
"Oh my god that's perfect!" Kenna called out with another laugh, a grin plastered on her face. The situation got funnier as Wally admired the girl version of himself.
"Is it wrong that I think i'm hot?" He questioned, a dreamy look on his face. Kenna was trying so hard not cackle that she didn't hear Wally suggest turning into her.
"Why not try Kenna?"
Kenna stopped laughing, eye widening as she watched M'gann morph into a perfect replica of her. Everything was the same, from the lavender eye's to the black and white baseball tee to the shorts and shoes. She then looked at her team mates, watching as all of them shifted between the martian and her. Kenna looked back at M'gann.
"Wow."
"Impressive."
"They're exactly the same."
" Am I really that white?" The stream of compliments was interrupted as Kenna spoke. Everyone turned to look at the actual blonde, with amused faces. Kenna raised an eyebrow as she looked at her team mates.
"Don't give me that look. How do I not blind you guys when we go in the sun?" She asked, her voice being slightly high pitched. At the girls words, everyone let out a laugh. Kenna crossed her arms and pouted, turning her chair away from the group. She felt a hand on her arm causing her look to the side. Robin let out one last chuckle, looking the girl directly in the eyes.
"McKenna you look fine." He said with a sincere grin on his face. Kenna searched his face for any signs of lying, but it was hard considering she couldn't see his eyes. Deciding to trust him, Kenna gave him a small smile. Both of their attentions were directed back to the M'gann when Red Tornado contacted them.
"Red Tornado to Miss Martian. A alert was triggered at the Happy Harbor Power Plant. I suggest that you investigate. Covertly. I'm sending you the coordinate now." The robot spoke through the coms.
"Tornado's keeping us busy." Robin spoke with sarcasm.
"Well a simple fire led you to Kenna and Superboy. We should find out what caused the alert." M'gann replied, landing the ship. Kenna grew tense as they all stood up, looking out the window at the plant. There was something about this situation that Kenna didn't like. Something was wrong and they were going to find it out.
Author's Note: Hey guy's! Sorry it's been a while since I updated. Hope you guys aren't mad at me. Any way I wanted to address somethings that a review brought into light. Robin and Kenna are not going to be in the perfect relationship from the beginning. I get that Robin is 13 year old and is not looking for a long term relationship. The first season will mainly be about developing a strong friendship between the two. There might be somethings at the end of season 1 but all together it will be about Kenna bonding with her friends. I'm not going to lie, there will be some fluffs here and there but they are not going to be in the perfect relationship. I personally believe that would ruin the story. As for the other question about Robin and Kenna in season 2, I already have a plan for those two;). Okay enough of my rambling, I hope I answered your guys questions. Don't forget favorite and review. Love you guys!