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Priorities

A Magic Number

Clark looked around the room as he sat down. Diana smiled at the small gesture. The way he did it made it seem as though he were expecting J'onn to be hidden in some corner of the dining room he hadn't seen before.

"Where's J'onn?"

She sighed. "He was getting quite concerned about Flash- Wally," she corrected, shaking her head.

He smiled. "Takes time to get used to, huh?"

"Too long."

Strangely enough, she had had no problem calling Batman Bruce. It just seemed to flow.

But then again, it wasn't that strange at all.

"What about Bruce?" Clark asked.

"He said he had some business to take care of. He said it shouldn't take too long."

Clark nodded, and silence descended upon them.

"I should have gone after Flash after he left the meeting."

"There's no way you could have known. We all thought the same thing you did; that he just needed time."

"J'onn knew better. And without reading his mind."

She shrugged lightly. "He's always been very good at reading people, even without his powers."

"Still. I should have noticed it."

"You're not omnipotent. You're only human."

That got him to smile. "Thanks."

She returned the gesture.

"Sorry about the wait."

If she had been of a weaker disposition, she would have jumped. Bruce's ability to suddenly appear and disappear had always disturbed her from the first time she had met him; there was something about his being able to sneak up on her undetected that had made her skin crawl. But, as she had learnt more about him, the feeling had passed. Now, she felt a sort of comfort from it; if Bruce could sneak up on her, then he would be able to sneak up on their enemies as well.

"No problem," Clark said, gesturing for him to take a seat.

He slid into place. Diana looked over at the three vacant seats around the table. There wasn't room at the table for a seventh, and for that she was grateful. The less reminders of her there were, the better.

"Maybe we should wait until the others can join us."

Bruce just looked at her, his expression incomprehensible between the cowl and the thin line his lips had created.

"We've been waiting for the Lantern for two weeks. And there's no telling how long it could take J'onn to track down Flash."

"Still. It doesn't feel right to discuss all this without them here."

"We'll fill them in later."

"Maybe they would appreciate being part of the decision making process. They did save the world as well, Bruce. It wasn't just you."

Clark hid his smile.

Bruce either didn't notice or ignored him.

"The League has a lot of enemies, Diana. If we sit around waiting for everyone to come together we'll-"

"-be caught with our pants down," Clark finished, not knowing where the urge to say that came from.

Bruce gave him a look of mild surprise.

"…yes."

Diana gave Clark a wry smile, which was quickly replaced with a weary look of resignation.

"All right," she sighed. "I can see your point. Let's get on with it."

Clark looked over at Bruce. "You wanted to talk about additions to the team, didn't you?"

Bruce nodded. "I've been looking into the activities of other crime fighters and how they acted during the invasion."

"And?"

"And… I think we're looking at more than adding just two or three members."

Diana cocked a curious eyebrow. "How many?"

The Dark Knight paused. "Rough estimate? Sixty."

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