DISCLAIMER: The obvious first: Saban & DC. The song Insensitive is by Jann Arden, and if you haven't heard this, pick up her album 'Living Under June', and you'll find it there. It really is a beautiful song. Now, on with the story...
by: Carl Turner
Billy Cranston & Trini Kwan went up to the Watchtower for 3 reasons: 1: They wanted to tell their fellow JLAers about Tommy & Kimberly's engagement, which threw everybody for a loop. 2: Black Canary seemed upset a while ago when they called her, and that had them worried, and... 3:They only had a week left in their 'down time'that Superman told them to take, and they were bored out of their minds. They found Canary in the monitor room, checking the equiptment, half heartedly. "Canary?" Billy asked.
"Last time I woke up this morning. What's up?" she asked the 2 Rangers.
"Are you ok? You seem to be upset about something?" Trini asked.
Black Canary started to deny it at first, but then changed her mind, and told the 2 Rangers exactly what was bothering her. "You've both heard of Green Arrow, haven't you? I've been thinking about my past relationship with him, and wondering why we ever got together in the first place."
"Um, you and...him. What happened." Billy asked.
"Truthfully? You got me. Our last 6 years together, we just fought over everything. He didn't seem to give a damn about my needs or feelings, or, at the time that's how I saw it. I stuck with it because I thought it would get better, but it just got even worse, and it turned into a lust-filled joke."
"Talk about insensitive." Trini growled.
"To say the least. Anyway, I realized that I wasn't all that flexible myself, and yesterday, I thought that the 2 of us should just go somewhere, and talk the whole thing out and see if it could be saved. We never got the chance."
"Why didn't you?" Trini asked.
Voice breaking, Black Canary told her "I just found out he died in an exploding plane outside of Metropolis barely 3 hours ago. God, there were so many things left unsaid, so many...God, I never got to...to..." Black Canary stopped right there, and completely broke down and cried.
Trini quickly embraced her. "Oh, God, Canary, I'm so sorry."
Billy added his sympathy, asking "Anything we can do for you?"
"No, nothing anyone can do for me at this point. The way we treated each other doomed it from that point. But I do have some good advice for the 2 of you that I have learned from this that you both can use. You see, I've seen the way the 2 of you look at each other sometimes, and the way you react whenever you're not together. Basically, the 2 of you are a team, even without the other Rangers, or the JLA. So, please, listen to me when I tell you, don't hide your feelings. Tell each other how you feel. Tommy & Kimberly are acting on their feelings, please, don't ignore yours towards each other. I can easily tell you how quickly that can change." she pleaded with the 2 young Rangers.
"She's right Billy. I am completely crazy about you, and I hope you feel the same way about me. Do you?" Trini whispered.
"Absolutely. I was afraid that you wouldn't feel the same way as I did. Man, have we been blind to the obvious." Billy observed.
"No more of that. From here on out, we tell each other how we feel. Thanks, BC. It also looks like you could use some company. Mind if we stick around?" Trini asked hopefully.
"I really do need to talk to someone right now, thanks. Oliver might still be alive if I had tried to talk to him, but it's still a 2-way street."
"I think Kyle left some microwave pizza up here in the mini kitchen, I'll put that on to heat up." Billy told them.
"Thanks. I'm glad that the both of you came up here." Black Canary told them.
And for the next five hours, they talked.
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INSENSITIVE
JANN
ARDEN
How
do you cool your lips
After
a summer's kiss
How
do you rid the sweat
After
the body bliss?
 How do you turn your eyes
From
the romantic glare?
 How do you block the sound of the voice you'd
know anywhere?
 Oh, I really should have known
By
the time you drove me home
 By the vagueness in your eyes
Your
casual goodbyes
 By the chill in your embrace
The
expression on your face that told me
 Maybe you might have
Some
advice to give
on
how to be
Insensitive
 Insensitive
 Insensitive
 How do you numb your skin
After
the warmest touch
 How do you slow your blood
After
the body rush
 How do you free your soul
After
you found a friend?
 How do you teach your heart it's a crime to
fall in love again
 Oh, you probably don't remember me
It's
probably ancient history
 I'm one of the chosen few
Who
went ahead and fell for you
 I'm out of vogue, I'm out of touch
I
fell too fast, I feel too much
 I thought that you might have
Some
advice to give
On
how to be
Insensitive
Oh,
I really should have known
By
the time you drove me home
 By the vagueness in your eyes
Your
casual goodbyes
 By the chill in your embrace
The
expression on your face that told me
 Maybe you might have
Some
advice to give
On
how to be insensitive (how to be)
Insensitive(how
to be)
 Insensitive(how to be).