'It's too dark in here', she thought, looking around her cell. She was shivering from the cold and attempting to distract herself from the constant beeping coming from around her neck. Pacing around had lost its allure, all that really did was get her lost in her thoughts; and after that she preferred not to think at all. In fact, just thinking about it was starting to make her mind spiral. As she attempted to halt her train of thought, the scrape of metal across ground caught her attention. "Wordgirl?...Are you awake?"
Oh, it's Kid Math, she almost forgot he was imprisoned too. "Yeah. I'm awake." She hoped her emotions hadn't affected her tone. "Oh! Great! I can't really sleep, It's too cold….and…I'm a little scared."
She wanted to feign bravery for him but in her state of fear and exhaustion could barely keep her voice from trembling, lying would only work until he caught on and that could make his worries worsen so inhaling a sharp breath she decided to tell the truth.
"I'm scared too…" she wasn't sure what to say next. 'I promise I'll get us out of here?' Unlikely, the cell was lined with lexionite, 'they'll probably let us out soon' she could dream but that dream died when Rex was thrown in beside her. Cheesy maybe but she thought of something. "But we have each other right? I think-I think that makes it a little less scary right?"
There was an unsureness to her voice but she heard Rex agree so at the very least it had worked, how long that fact would provide comfort who knew. The two sat in silence for a moment before Rex asked "when do you think they'll let us out?"
The one question she didn't want to hear, the only thing she hoped he wouldn't ask.
"I" she paused, she didn't want to give him false hope but maybe it was better than nothing in this situation, and yet she stumbled out "I don't know."
No! That's not what she wanted to say, why did she say that? Why did she say that!?
"Oh-ok" she heard him say through the vent. No, no, no! Why was everything going wrong! First she was arrested, then Rex, and now she accidentally revealed how hopeless this situation probably was!
Becky sniffled, catching Rex off guard.
"Wordgirl? I-are you ok?" he wasn't sure what to say nor how to react, ever since he first met the fellow hero she never seemed like the kind of person to break down, he doesn't even think he's ever heard of a mention of her crying.
"No" she replied, not in the slightest, she wanted to hold it together but everything came flooding out at once. "Kid Math I feel awful, I'm freezing, I'm tired, it takes so much just to talk right!" her rant was cut short by a hiccup.
"This stupid thing around my neck keeps beeping and it feels like my head is about to exploded!" her sobs grew louder "I feel like I'm dying Rex!" her voice was shaking and filled with fear and sorrow.
She was in a room full of lexionite so it made sense but something about the way she said that made it sound so much worse than just the rock that weakened her so.
"Do…do you think we'll get out? This is probably all just some big misunderstanding." suggested Rex, he didn't sound too confident in what he said but there was a level of belief to his statement. Becky wanted to agree so badly but…
"We don't even know why we're here" she said, slightly more clear than before. "I don't know what I did, all I wanted to do was protect people, protect those I care about…so I don't understand why I'm here! What did I do?" The sobs and hiccups worsened again.
"I just want to know what I did wrong" had Rex not been listening extra carefully he might have missed that part, it was almost drowned out by her crying and had been practically whispered.
"...was it because of the Miss Power incident?"
Rex went silent as Becky continued to cry. It was terrifying to hear, Wordgirl was his role model, he looked up to her as a more experienced hero, she gave him simple tips and pointers and helped him figure out what he was doing when he first arrived on earth, and from that introduction she had seemed invincible. Sure this time around lexionite was involved, but like everything else, he knew it wasn't the culprit. Wordgirl was just a kid like him, of course she'd be just as scared.
"I just want to see my parents," she said through sobs. The two were just kids, neither should have to be the brave one, neither should have to be the one that stayed strong for the either, neither should have been there in the first place.
The two sat there, Becky eventually crying herself to sleep, and Rex passing out soon afterwards. Maybe a miracle would save them soon.
《Ending note: this is the first fic for my au and my first fic in general and I had to get help from NyxCharlieChaos, check him out on Ao3! Thanks for reading! :D》
