Welcome to the Justice League
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Chapter 13: Is It Just a Dream?
J`onn stood motionless as his eyes glowed while he was standing in the monitor room.
Flash tried waving his hand in the Martian s face trying to gain his attention, "Hey Miko," he called to Kagome while she was chatting with Superman, "Any idea what your boyfriend is doing?"
Kagome shrugged, "I don't know and stop messing with him."
Karin chuckled while sitting on a nearby table, as Flash continued to mess with J`onn. Hawkgirl came in the room and offered the six year old a snack. Karin happily accepted the treat, "Whatever he's doing it must be important. So leave him be," Hawkgirl warned Flash.
"Oh come on," Flash whined, "You're not even the least bit curious."
"Never mind that," Batman interrupted as he brought up something on the monitor.
Kagome gave Karin a motion to go to her room and the little girl nodded, jumped off the table, and ran off.
Batman pulled up some photos of super villains on the monitors, "There's been a prison break: Solomon Grundy, Copperhead, Luminous, Volcana and Firefly."
"Yikes," said Kagome hearing all those names.
"Say no more," said Flash. Everyone began to walk out the door when Flash noticed something, "Wait, what about J`onn?"
J`onn's eyes stopped glowing, "I am ready" he told them.
"What were you working on?" Hawkgirl asked.
"Nothing. I was taking a nap," he said honestly stumping the two heroes. They went on their way to the Javelin but Kagome hung back to walk with J`onn.
"J`onn, I thought you said Martians don't dream," she asked him in his mind.
"We don't," he responded.
She tilted her head in confusion, "Then when you're asleep, what do you do?"
Before he can answer, they were interrupted.
"Hey guys hurry up," hollered Flash.
The couple nodded and ran into the aircraft.
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Warehouse
While Green Lantern and Batman went off to round up Firefly and Volcana, the rest of the team was able to surround the remaining escapees at an abandoned warehouse.
Hawkgirl tried to take Luminous on her own but the manipulator of light formed a steel box around the Thanagarian and caused it to shrink around her. She began to hyperventilate when she couldn't break free of the lessening walls.
Luckily Superman and Miko arrived in time to get her out.
"Are you alright?" asked Superman as he threw a piece of the steel box away before it vanished back into light particles.
It took Hawkgirl a few moments to answer, "Yea…fine."
Kagome and Superman looked at each other in concern, "Is she scared of enclosed places?" Kagome asked.
Superman shrugged, Hawkgirl didn't talk much about herself to him.
A crashing noise brought their attention back to the situation at hand. Kagome ran towards the commotion and Superman ran off to find Luminous.
The young miko arrived to see Solomon Grundy screaming in anger and the SWAT teams trying to subdue the undead man.
Grundy smashed one of the police cars with just one fist. Kagome grabbed one of her trusted arrows, drew back the bow and shot it at the unsuspected arrow pierced right threw the undead giants shoulder causing him to scream. Kagome backed up from the outburst.
"You dare hurt Grundy," yelled the undedad man. "Grundy crush," he yelled, as he picked up a cop car and threw it at Kagome, who put up a barrier to protect herself from the car.
Grundy used this chance to escape back inside the warehouse.
He didn't get far, since J`onn phased through the floor blocking his path. J`onn glared at the undead man in anger for trying to hurt Kagome.
Grundy tryed to punch the Martian Manhunter, but was unsuccessful. J`onn morphed his body into a white fog form and dodged the attack by crawling around Grundy's large body. The giant undead man was so confused about where J`onn had went he scratched his head.
The Martian emerged from Grundy's back and appeared in front of the undead man's feet and punched him in the jaw with his super strength. Grundy fell back and hit a wall that was covered in steam pipes. The steam quickly filled the hallway and J`onn thought the battle was over, until Grundy charged angrily at him through the steam.
Kagome emerged at the scene and saw J`onn in a fist fight with Grundy. She drew her katana and sliced the giant undead man's back, causing him to whimper in pain. He glared at the young woman, getting ready to strike her.
With that distraction, J`onn punched Grundy hard enough to break him through three walls of concrete.
"GRUNDY IS GETTING ANGREY!" he yelled as he picked up another police car from where he landed outside. Right when the undead man was about to throw the car, he looked up and saw Superman flying down to attack above him and threw the car at the Man of Steel instead.
Superman caught the car but wasn't prepared for Grundy to jump on top of it and stomp on the Man of Steel. During the stomping, J`onn rammed Grundy on his injured back causing him to get off Superman.
Kagome saw the injured police men nearby and went to attend to their injuries.
Together Superman and J`onn continued to fight the raged filled Grundy.
"He's as strong as us," Superman told J`onn, "But there is still one thing he can't do." J`onn nodded in understanding in what Superman was referring to.
Grundy charged at the two heroes. and both heroes lunged their hands forward aiming for Grundy's legs and threw him into the air, causing him to fly half way through Metropolis and into the ocean.
Superman flew off to retrieve the undead man.
J`onn stayed behind and saw Kagome healing the last of the injured police men. He can tell by her heavy breathing that the amount of power she was using exhausted her.
"Kagome," he asked concerned telepathically.
"I'm fine. Help the others," she reassured him.
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"Okay who's left?" asked a tired Flash. It took at least twenty minutes to apprehend the super villains.
"There were only five, remember," informed J`onn.
"Oh yea," recalled Flash.
"Let's call it a night," said Superman. The others nodded in agreement.
"J`onn," said Batman through the com-link. "I need you to come to Metropolis Hospital. It's urgent."
"I'm on my way," the Martian replied to the Dark Knight.
"That sounded serious," said Kagome in J`onn's mind.
J`onn nodded, "Hopefully that won't be the case."
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Watchtower
Kagome yawned as she got off the Javelin 7 and found Karin waiting for her. She was in her purple pajamas with the 'Hello Kitty' faces all over it and she was silently whimpering, "What's wrong, Kar-chan?"
Karin eyes were filled with terror, "I had a scary dream," she said as she hugged her mother, Kagome hugged her back, even though her body was screaming for her to take it easy, she couldn't leave Karin this afraid.
"It was only a nightmare, Kar-chan," she reassured Karin, "Come on, let's get you back to bed." She said lifting the girl up in her arms and looked over at Flash and Hawkgirl, who came back in the Javelin 7 with her. "I'll be back when she falls asleep." They nodded at her understaning.
Kagome walked back to Karin's room to find Jaken, once again, out cold from chasing Karin around most of the day. 'Okay, maybe she needs to get a new sitter.' She laid down the still frightened Karin, tucking her in and handed her Kitsune-sama. "Now, what was your dream about?" Kagome asked.
Karin wiped her eyes, "There was a man with a scary face, he told me…he was gonna hurt you and J`onn-san and Flash-san and and Superman-san and."
Kagome shushed her and rubbed the girls head affectionately, "Oh Kar-chan, no one is going to hurt us. It was only a dream." She crawled into Karin's bed to lye down next to her, "How about I stay right here, until you fall asleep."
Karin nodded and curled up to her mother. Kagome kissed her fore head, "Good night, Kar-chan."
It only took a few minutes for Karin to calm down enough to fall back to sleep. But Kagome got far too comfortable in her position and her eyes began to get heavy. 'Well, a few minutes won't hurt,' she thought as she let sleep consumed her.
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Metropolis Hospital
"I got here as soon as I could," J`onn said to Batman when he phased through the hospital to find him.
Batman nodded and looked down at the woman who had been sedated moments ago, "This is the ex-wife of an escapee named John Dee. She hasn't woken up or stopped screaming for the past five hours."
"And you want me to find the reason why," J`onn concluded. Batman nodded again.
That being said, J`onn used his powers to search the woman's mind. Inside he found the face of John Dee. Only the skin off his faced melted off to show only a skeleton face with burning yellow and red eyes. In this form he preferred to be called Dr. Destiny. His only goal was to take out the people that no one else could, by invading their dreams just like his ex-wife: The Justice League.
J`onn pulled back, "He calls himself Dr. Destiny, he did this to her."
"Why won't she awaken?" asked Batman.
"He put her in an illusion state," J`onn said concerned. In all his life he had never encountered anything like this before. "I'll see if I can get her out of it…he's after us too."
"Why?" asked Batman.
If only J`onn knew the answer.
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One by one every Justice League member, minus Batman and J`onn, fell asleep. None of them heared the maniacal laugh from the lunatic that awaited them in their dreams.
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J`onn tried to get the poor woman out of the illusion in her mind, but it had been no use. She was too far gone.
Meanwhile, Batman tried to contact the other League members to warn them to not fall asleep, but when no one answered he knew it was too late.
"I can't get a hold of them," Batman warned J`onn.
J`onn tried to contact Kagome, praying that she wasn't asleep. "Kagome," he called her with his mind. "Kagome, answer me." Only silence filled his mind. He scanned for the others only to sense them asleep as well. There was only one other thing to try.
"Jaken," J`onn called to his mind. The imp yōkai moaned a little awakening from his slumber. At least it was something, "Jaken wake up."
The imp yōkai realized that it was the Martian speaking to him in his mind, "How dare you awaken me you," Jaken began to complain.
"Enough," J`onn commanded with a harsh voice. The only thing that had scared Jaken more than anything was his Lord Sesshomaru, but after hearing this Martian 's angry voice, he had to admit, he was terrified. "You must try to awaken both Kagome and Karin. They are in danger."
With that, Jaken arose from the ground and tried to wake the miko from her slumber. "Hey," the imp pocked Kagome at her side, "Wake up onna," commanded Jaken. He repeated the assault a few more times, when she didn't awaken, he got irritated. He crawled onto of her body and proceeded to slap the young miko on both her cheeks, "I said wake up you stupid human."
While he was slapping her, Karin had awoken from her sleep by the noise and yelling. "Jaken-sama," she said tiredly while rubbing her eyes. "What are you doing?"
Jaken stared at the young inu yōkai girl and was embarrassed that she saw him do something so silly. "N-nothing, look can you awaken this accursed onna," ordered Jaken.
Karin looked down to her mother was groaning in her sleep. "Kaa-san," Karin shook her mother's shoulder. "Kaa-san it's just a bad dream, remember." Kagome's head began to bob side to side,"Kaa-san!"
"Oh this isn't good," Jaken said aloud. If something bad happens to the miko both his Lord Sesshomaru and the Martian would kill him.
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Kagome's Dream
Kagome was floating in a dark place. There was no ground. No walls. No ceiling. She began to shiver, not because it was cold, but the place literally gave her chills. She only felt this once in her life before.
"Oh no," she whimpered, "I'm in the Shikon No Tama."
"Yes," said a male voice that Kagome didn't recognize. A tall man with a dark blue cape and a skull face with yellow and red eyes appeared before her.
"Who are you?" Kagome demanded.
The skull faced man chuckled, "You can call me Dr. Destiny," he answered. "You know, this place is so dreary. But don't worry," he said with mock reassurance," You won't be alone here this time." With a snap of his fingers a figure emerged from the darkness.
Kagome's eyes widened in fear at the sight of the person in front of her, "Naraku."
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One Hour Later
J`onn and Batman buckled an unconscious Green Lantern into the Javelin. Superman was beside him. Both men had to be sedated so they could be easier to handle.
"I'll take them to the medical bay in the Watchtower," said J`onn.
Batman nodded, "Good, I'll try to find this Dr. Destiny."
J`onn looked up at him, "How?"
"When he uses his powers, his body might be vulnerable. So he'll go where he thinks his body will be safe and familiar"
This made sense J`onn, "But how do you plan on stopping him?"
"I'll improvise," said Batman as he made his way to the Batmobile.
"Be careful," warned J`onn. "If you dose off, even for a moment you'll be."
"I know," said Batman interrupted as he entered his car, "But I'm used to working late hours."
With that both heroes took off knowing what must be done.
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Watchtower
J`onn landed on the hanger bay, carrying both unconscious men under each arm.
"J`onn-san," called Karin as she ran to meet him, "I can't wake Kaa-san up." She then saw both Superman and Green Lantern in J`onn's arms and her body began to shake in fear, "The scary man told me this was gonna happen."
J`onn was afraid of this, Dr. Destiny had entered Karin's mind too. He was grateful that he didn't trap the poor girl like the others. "Don't worry dear one," he tried to sooth her fears, "We'll find a way to help them."
J'onn took the rest of the team in medical beds hooking them into I.V's so that they wouldn't thrash in their sleep. He stood by Hawkgirl, who was in the worst state of them all, and began to run diagnostics on her. Karin was by his side griping his cape, he rubbed the top of her head in comfort as he worked.
"This is Snapper Carr reporting," the said the reporter on radio in the medical bay. "All the super powered villains who escaped today were brought back to their prisons cells by the Justice League. The only one who remains at large is a man named John Dee," the reporter paused for a moment. "This just in, the ex-wife of the escapee John D, Penny, who was sent to the hospital earlier this evening, just passed away from heart failure seven minutes ago."
J`onn paused at his work.
Karin looked up at him noticing his body tense, "J`onn-san?" she asked with worry.
J`onn wrapped his arm around the girl rubbing her arm to calm her. "Batman," he said threw the com-link, "His wife didn't make it." He dare not say how worse the others were getting in front of Karin.
Batman got the message anyway, "I haven't located Dr. Destiny yet."
J`onn took a moment to respond, "I'm going to have to go into the others minds."
"That's too dangerous," warned Batman, "You could end up in the same state as them."
"I don't have much choice," he said tuning off the com-link. J`onn looked down at Karin's questioning face. He knelled down to her, "Dear one, I'm going to have to go inside your Kaa-san and the others minds to help them wake up," he explained.
Karin nodded, she wasn't fully sure what he meant but it must have been dangerous by the way him and Batman were talking, "Be careful."
J`onn leaned down and kissed the girls forehead, "I will."
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Kagome's Dream
Kagome screamed as another of Naraku's tentacles sliced her arm and leg. He had been doing this repeatedly for what felt like years. Her cloths were slashed and blood dripped down from all the open wounds she had recieved.
She tried to awaken her powers to purify him but nothing came. All she could do was take the attacks that the evil hanyou kept giving to her.
"Help me," Kagome cried to the nothingness around her as she tried to block the tentacles with her arms. "Please," she begged.
Naraku laughed, "No one will come for you, onna," he taunted as he looked down on her and stocked her face almost tenderly. "It's just you and me."
Kagome's body shook in terror.
Suddenly, a startling noise came from behind them causing Naraku's figure to fade.
Kagome was still shaking not bothering to look up to who was approaching her.
"Kagome," the figure said tenderly, "Kagome, it's me."
She looked up and saw J`onn in front of her. Kagome's eyes widened in fear, "No-no you can't be here," she tried to push him away from her, "He'll kill you."
A taunting laugh surrounded them.
Kagome's shacking got more intense. J`onn wrapped his arms around her wounded body, as if to shield her from the voice.
"Kagome, Kagome bird in the cage," sang Naraku's voice. Kagome covered her ears trying to tune out the song she hated all her life.
"When, oh when, will you come out?" sang the voice of Dr. Destiny.
"In the night of dawn," sang Naraku.
"The crane and turtle slipped," sang Dr. Destiny.
"Who stands behind you?" both villains sang together.
J`onn had heard enough, "Kagome," he grabbed her face with both hands forcing her to look at him, "You can beat them."
Kagome shook her head in disbelief, "I can't…not on my own," she cried in fear.
"You're not alone," J`onn reassured her, "I'm right here. I will always be here."
"He's lying," said Naraku.
"Just like your last boyfriend," chuckled Dr. Destiny.
J`onn turned to the two men behind him and lunged at them. Dr. Destiny faded before he could reach him but Naraku stayed accepting the attack. The evil hanyou fell back still floating in midair, with J`onn on top punching him in the face repeatedly. Naraku smirked evilly, while receiving the un-affecting blows.
Kagome's body slowly began to stop shacking, as she looked up and sawJ`onn fighting Naraku.
Finally the evil hanyou kicked J`onn forcing him to fly backwards. Naraku straightened himself up and made his way to the Martian. His arm transformed into a sharp tentacle as he walked in midair, "This will teach you to." He stopped talking when a sword was lunged inside him from behind.
Naraku turned to see Kagome griping her katana that was inside him now. All her wounds were gone and her cloths were back to normal, "Go to Hell," she said pulling the sword out.
With that, the evil hanyou screamed as he faded away from her mind.
Kagome glided over J`onn and saw the bruise on his face, "Oh J`onn," she said with regret, "I'm so sorry."
J`onn rubbed his sore cheek and smiled at her, "I knew you could do it."
She smiled back at him.
J`onn then remembered, "The others are in danger," he told her in a serious voice.
"Let's go," she said ready to face her teammate's greatest fears.
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The first mind they entered was Supermans.
The Man of Steel's greatest fear is having too much power for him to control and hurting those closest to him.
"It's not real," J`onn said to Superman as they entered his dream, Kagome emerged right behind him. Superman's body had grown three times its normal size and was now more bulky. And his eyes were nothing but a red color that resembled his laser vision.
"What if it never stops?" Superman questioned referring to his powers.
"You'll handle it," reassured Kagome, "You've done a great job so far."
Superman shook his head, "Just words," he said as he flew away from them.
"Wait," called Kagome. J`onn wrapped his arm around her and flew after the Man of Steel. They made their way to Superman's home town Smallville, they kept going till they reached Superman's family home.
They found the poor Kryptonian man in the fetal position in a crate inside the barn, where it held the space shuttle that Superman's birth parents had put him in to save his life.
Superman may have been the strongest being on the planet, but to Kagome, right now, he looked like a scared child. She kneeled down and stroked his head in comfort, like she did for Karin so many times when she was scared, "It'll be alright," she promised him.
"I can help you fight this," J`onn told him.
Superman shook his head, "I'll hurt you both."
"No. I'm stronger here," said J`onn.
"And I'm not leaving," said Kagome.
Superman tried to push them both away but J`onn grabbed his ginormous hand to keep him from doing so. "I can help you, but you have to trust me," J`onn said sternly, as he tried to do just that. J`onn placed both his hands on Superman's face and concentrated on suppressing some of Superman's potential powers.
Slowly, Superman began to shrink to his normal size.
"You can't help him," taunted Dr. Destiny who appeared behind them. Kagome turned and shot an arrow at the figure only to have him disappear a moment before it could strike him.
Suddenly, the power radiating off both aliens exploded causing everyone to fly backwards.
J`onn and Kagome both sat up to see Superman back to normal.
"That's one," said Kagome, "Three to go."
Superman nodded, "Let's finish this."
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They entered Green Lantern's mind next.
John's fear was doubt that he was even considered human anymore. That his almighty ring was just using him as a puppet to do it's bidding.
J`onn entered the dream first and stopped John from entering the Lantern that was the source of his rings power. "You are not the extension of the ring," said J`onn, "You are its Master. You were chosen because the Guardians had faith in you."
Dr. Destiny lunged from behind John and attacked the Martian for interfering.
Kagome and Superman entered shortly after and began to fight this nightmare making being.
Since they were in the world of dreams, Dr. Destiny had an advantage of manipulating anything he chose. In this case, he chose his own cape to attack the trio of heroes, entrapping them.
John looked at his friends helplessly and knew that there was only one way to help them. He ran inside the Lantern.
Kagome saw this and yelled for him, "Don't," she said thinking the worse.
Dr. Destiny began to laugh in victory but it was short lived when John emerged as the fully charged Green Lantern.
Green Lantern attacked Dr. Destiny with his ring, making him release the trapped heroes.
He then disappeared into his next victim.
"Can I wake up now?" asked Green Lantern wanting to get out of this stupid dream.
"Nope," answered Kagome, "We still have to get Flash and your girlfriend."
John made an annoyed face, "Shayera is not my girlfriend."
Kagome smirked behind her mask, "Did I say it was her?"
Green Lantern glared at her.
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Flash was next and his dream was by far, the most challenging.
The speedster's greatest fear was that he would one day go so fast that he would never be able to slow down and everyone else would look as if they were frozen in time.
When the heroes entered the speedsters dream, Flash looked so happy to see them, until they began to slow down and eventually freeze like the other people around them.
"You must look...insi-de," J`onn managed to say before he froze.
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Karin sat, with surprising patience for a six year old, as she watched her mom still sleeping. The machine that was connected to her wasn't beeping as fast as it was before. Neither were Superman's and Green Lanterns.
Unfortunately, Hawkgirl's machine began to get only louder.
"Jaken-sama, what's wrong with her?" asked Karin worried.
The imp was looked at the child irritated, "How the hell should I know," he said as he watched as the winged onna began to shake more violently then before.
Karin got up and grabbed J`onn's hand, "J`onn-san, you have to hurry," said Karin, hoping that he could hear her.
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It took awhile but Flash was able to make time start again normally in his dream.
"Hey, I did it," said Flash impressed with himself.
"See what happens when you use your head," said Green Lantern.
Flash began to nod in agreement before he caught the insult, "Hey, I use my head plenty."
Kagome chuckled, "We know Flash-kun."
Suddenly, the ground beneath the heroes began to shack and a giant, angry Dr. Destiny emerged from underneath the street.
"I got the eyes," said Green Lantern, calling where he was going to attack at.
"Gutt," called Superman.
"Big toe," said Flash.
"Fingers," called Kagome as she aimed and shot at the giant Dr. Destiny. He tried to grab the arrow thinking the pitiful arrow would be easy to catch. But this was Kagome's sacred arrow that shot right through his hand and removed two of his fingers.
Dr. Destiny screamed in pain of the attack.
"Nice shot," said Flash impressed. The other's attacks weren't as effective.
Dr. Destiny actually grabbed both Superman and Green Lantern with both hands and began to squeeze them.
Suddenly, J`onn grew to the same size as Dr. Destiny and punched him in the face, releasing the heroes from his grasp. They landed on the ground with a loud thud.
As Dr. Destiny and J`onn continued to fight, Flash used power line cables to tie the villains feet together causing him to trip and giving J`onn the advantage as he gave one good punch to the villain's jaw.
Dr. Destiny fell to the ground and melted into the pavement, "This isn't over," he warned before disappearing.
"Help me," the heroes heard Hawkgirl's voice.
"Oh no," said Kagome hearing her sisters distress.
J`onn flew up to enter her mind but something forced him back.
"LANTERN," Hawkgirl cried. "Miko, J`onn, ANYBODY!"
"I can't get to her," J`onn told them,"She's blocking me with a barrier in her mind."
"MOVE," yelled Green Lantern as he tried to take the barrier down with his ring. It made a little difference.
"Now what?" said Flash in a panic.
"We pray Batman will find Dr. Destiny," said Kagome as she continued to wince at her sisters cries.
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A short time later their prayers were answered and Batman was able to beat Dr. Destiny, which freed Hawkgirl from his grasp.
The team awoke form their coma like slumbers.
"Kaa-san," said Karin as she hugged her mother, Kagome hugged her back.
J`onn got the others out of their healing beds and then looked at Hawkgirl's condition.
"Well," said Green Lantern.
"She'll be fine," J`onn said with relief, "She just needs help recovering." Kagome went to her sister's side and began to heal her.
It was about thirty minutes later when Hawkgirl finally opened her eyes.
Green Lantern smiled, "Morning Sunshine."
Hawkgirl smiled back at him before sitting up suddenly, "This isn't a dream is it?"
"I could pinch you," suggest Flash.
"It's real," Shayera said now in full belief.
"Why would he pinch her Kaa-san?" Karin asked confused.
Kagome glared at Flash, who backed away from her heated gaze. He was then saved by the snores in the corner of the had fallen asleep in one of his chairs.
"Poor guy," said Kagome feeling sorry for the Dark Knight. He was up longer than the rest of them the past four days and deserved the much needed rest.
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A half hour later, Flash was cooking breakfast in the kitchen with Karin, who was helping him, giving J`onn and Kagome some time alone.
"You know you never answered my question?" Kagome said in J`onn's mind, as they walked around the Green House.
"What question?" asked J`onn, obviously trying to act like he didn't know what she was talking about.
She raised her eyebrow at him, "You know what I'm talking about. If you don't dream when you're sleeping, then what do you do?"
He looked out the window at the stars around them, "I think."
Kagome got more curious, "What about?"
J`onn walked to the window continuing to gaze at the stars. He didn't want her to see his face when he answered her, "Foolish things."
This caused more of her curiosity to spike. She put her hand on his arm before speaking again, "Please, tell me."
It took J`onn a few moments to answer, "I sometimes wonder if…if we had a child what it would look like." He braced himself for any type of disgust she might have said or do to him. Yes, Kagome was in love with him, but carrying a Martian child is a different matter entirely.
She surprised him with her response, "Like his father."
He looked down at her stunned, "You…wait 'his'?" he questioned catching that little bit of what she said.
Kagome blushed and looked away staring at the stars too and started playing with her hair in embarrassment, "Y-yea, I umm, think about it sometimes too. And I umm just always picture a boy."
J`onn gently grabbed Kagome's chin to make her look at him, "You would…want to have a child with me?" he asked in amazement.
Kagome's blush began to fade and began to form smile, "Yes Koibito," she said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, "Only if you want me to."
J`onn response was a deep passionate kiss.
'I'll take that as a yes,' thought Kagome amused.
And there you have it folks. So what do you all think? Next time: The Justice League meets The Justice Lords. (Dun dun dun) And like Kagome said, Karin needs a new babysitter.
Till Then My Readers