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Chapter 3: Wally
Location: Watchtower-Lunch Hall
"What happened to normal food," Oliver(Green Arrow) asked mournfully, pointing at the food in front of him with his fork.
"It's Vixen birthday, so she had her favorite foods put out," Dinah(Black Canary) said, before taking a bite of her arugula and apricot salad.
"Still could have burgers or something," Oliver grumbled, "Or steak...people like steak.".
"There was chicken," Dinah pointed out.
"It was green," Oliver exclaimed, looking at her as if she'd lost her mind. 'Green is not a meat color,' he thought.
"The sauce was green," Dinah corrected.
"Whatever," Oliver grumbled.
"Why'd you even get the goose," Dinah asked, with a small smile.
"Cause you wouldn't let me go straight to the dessert bar," Oliver grumbled, glaring at his food and then stabbing it with his fork.
"What did that goose even do to you," Virgil asked, sitting down next to Dinah with Wally(Flask) following after him.
"Geese are evil," Oliver said, "Plus I've never eaten a devil bird before."
"Devil bird," Wally mouthed to Dinah.
"Just try it. It might be good...You can think of it as aversion therapy." Dinah said teasingly to Oliver, and turns to Wally and Virgil, "He's afraid of geese."
"No," Oliver said, pointing his fork at Dinah, "I fear no bird...I dislike them. And they dislike me. There's a mutual disliking-thing happening. They see me; they chase me. Law of Nature. All around the world, when geese hatch from their satanic little capsules of evilness, they're all shown a picture of me, so if they ever see me, they'll chase me."
It could have been the words or the fact that Oliver said it all with a completely straight face, but whatever it was that caused everyone at the table, except Oliver, to bust out laughing.
"Oh my God, you did not just say that," Wally said, trying to quiet his laughing.
"Man, I needed this," Virgil said, slowly catching his breath.
"Why," Dinah asked, taking deep breathes to calm down.
"Shayera needs some stress therapy after what happened," Virgil said, looking down at his food, "It was scary…"
"What happened? Is she okay," Wally asked, all the humor leaving him.
"Vixen decided she would see if her luck was good," Oliver said, trying to avoid Wally getting more upset.
"Don't downplay it," Dinah said, "Vixen was being a bitch and slapped Shayera."
"What," Wally yelled, slamming a hand on the table. His reaction startling a group of leaguers and staff at a nearby table, but he didn't care.
"And then Shayera walked away," Dinah said, "And while that was mature or whatever you want to call it, I think she should have decked her."
"I need to leave," Wally said, getting up. Oliver turned to Dinah.
"You couldn't say that in a way that wouldn't cause him storm away," Oliver asked, giving his girlfriend a look.
"Someone needs to take that princess down a peg," Dinah justified.
"Amen," Virgil agreed, digging into his Jamaican jerked chicken.
~JUSTICE LEAGUE~
Location: Watchtower-Conference Room #1
"And she just turned away," Diana said.
"That's what Black Canary said," Wally said, looking around.
J'onn(Martian Manhunter) was sitting at the head of the table, looking straight ahead. He was thinking about what he had heard from the other members about the incident. Most leaguers thought that it was justified.
Diana(Wonder Woman) was leaning against the wall, thinking it was a inevitable that a scene like that would come about. If this had been dealt with on Themyscira, then things would have been much worst…and to her, justifiable so.
John(Green Lantern) was sitting down and couldn't stop staring at the security video. He couldn't decide how he felt about all of this. He was furious with Vixen for acting that way; but he knew telling Vixen that was no good. She was a stubborn woman, who wouldn't see her in the wrong here. How do you tell your girlfriend she has to be nice to your ex?
Clark Superman) stared out into space. He couldn't go anything. He could order the leaguers to respect her, but then he wondered if that would be the start of the Justice Lords. The thin line between hero and tyrant, that he never knew existence until recently.
Bruce (Batman) had his scowl on. But it seemed to be darker than usual. He had seen Shayera after her following training session.
"Well, are we going to do something," Wally said, angry at the lack of action/emotion by some of the group.
"Wally, Shayera can handle herself," J'onn said.
"Yes..But, she shouldn't have to defend herself from them," Wally said.
"We can't just order them to be nice to her, Wally. They can make their own choice," Superman said, standing from his seat and walking to the door.
"We defend you after the thing with Darkseid," Wally said, as Superman reached the door.
"Kid, it's their decision how they feel about her," John said.
"Is that how you're going to justify your banshee of a girlfriend," Wally said, fists clenched.
"Watch it, kid," John said, standing up.
"Enough," Superman said, coming between the two.
"Just because you all are still mad at her, doesn't mean you should let them treat her like this," Wally said, before flashing out of the room.
"He's right, you know," Batman said, from his corner in the room, "The only reason they act that way with her is because you all allow it."
Author's Note:
I'm back from my trip. Now the only thing is that classes start up in two weeks, so I will strive to update regularly, but please don't get too mad if I fall off schedule.
The goose scene was inspired by dutchessofdisaster (TNHYOS).
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