A/N: I got another review. I got another review. Wow. I'm really pathetic if I'm excited for getting one review. Oh well, there is nothing I can do about it. But you can!! I bet you guys are enjoying watching me tear my hair out trying to get my new character to work. Sickos.
Disclaimer: I don't think I can feed Cyborg and Beast boy any more. What? I don't own you? Get out you bunch of moochers!
Cyborg was able to get himself and Kale down to the ground, with minimal strain on his mechanical muscles. As soon as they cleared the firemen's 'safety zone', Cyborg rounded on Kale.
"Why did you do that? If you had gotten hurt I would have had to save you," Cyborg exclaimed.
Ssssccrreecch!
With an awful metal scream, the Ferris Wheel's axle exploded in one last burst of sparks and. The entire wheel collapsed in on itself. All surrounding watched in morbid fascination as the wheel's own weight reduced it to nothing more than a smoldering pile of rubbish. Cyborg allowed his tense muscles to relax as the fire fighters took over, spraying water every which way. For the moment, there was nothing to worry about. Except this absurdly brave girl.
Kale took her eyes away from the scene before them and smiled daringly at Cyborg, "There. At the speed you were going, you wouldn't have gotten to the last two carts. Now everyone is safe."
Cyborg didn't like the way her purple eyes were glaring at him, but could not ignore the fact that she was right, so he grunted, "Just don't do it again."
Kale's voice became hard, "And why shouldn't I? The fire fighters do it. Cops do it. You do it," she said angrily.
"Yeah but you're just a…"
Kale's eyes widened slightly in irritation as she kept her voice at a normal tone, containing the anger that Cyborg knew was boiling inside her. "Just a what, Cyborg? Just a girl? Just a citizen? Just someone who needs protecting? I'll have you know that I'm not nearly as weak as you seem to think…"
She stopped what was sure to be a very lengthy tirade as a grubby hand grabbed her pant leg. "Miss Kale? I gotta go potty and Adelaide won't stop crying in my ear." Tommy said in a tattletale voice as he pointed at the small girl.
Kale's features softened and she scooped Adelaide up and soothingly rubbed her back, crooning softly, "It's okay. There, there. It's okay." She took Tommy by the hand while cradling Adelaide with the other. "Let's go find you a potty."
With that, she melted back in with the crowd without another word to Cyborg.
Cyborg watched her leave with his mouth gaping wide, unbelieving that she had reacted the way she did. What's her problem? All I'm trying to do is keep her safe!
Before his thoughts could go any farther, Robin's voice yelled over the communicator. "Cyborg hurry! We're all being attacked!"
Cyborg looked at the communicator to the way Kale went and back again. He felt like he was making a descion that he would regret sometime in the near future as he said, "I'm on it."
And ran towards his friends.
Kale waited outside the bathroom stall, her mind wandering. For safety's sake, she had brought Adelaide inside the bathroom with her.
Every time a fair-goer came in, Kale would glare at them before they had a chance to touch the zipper of their pants. The carnival people were a bit less cautious than this, giving her toothless smiles as they patted a certain place on their person suggestively. Kale would then have Adelaide's attention averted elsewhere for all of ten seconds to show the man exactly why it was that Kale was able to walk the East Side's worst blocks without fear. No one came in after a few men were sent out.
Still, the little girl tried not to look around her, even though there was no one in the bathroom. It was for the best, anyway. Hardly any of the toilets were flushed, there was excrement from both human and beast on the floor, and the urinals were broken. The last thing she needed was Adelaide's curious seven-year-old hands touching things.
Of course, as Kale's mind wandered, it soon came back to what had put her into such a temper to actually physically hurt someone (although, admittedly, he had deserved it). Cyborg.
What's his problem? Those people wouldn't have gotten out in time and he knows it! She clenched her teeth. She did not know why she even cared, anyway. Cyborg was just some guy that she had met and heard nothing but degrading things about; granted, those degrading things were often from people who were jealous, angry, drunk or any combination of the three. And those thoughts had been directed more towards the Teen Titans in general.
Still, she could not help the random angry thoughts that ran as fast as lightening through her head and if she had listened to them, had she been a normal girl, tears would have been running down her cheeks. She, not being normal and had not cried since she came to Jump City, was not going to start now over some guy she just met.
"Miss Kale, I want to go home!" Adelaide cried out suddenly.
Kale put on a face of mock surprise, "What!? You want to go home already?" She spread her arms wide as if gesturing to the entire world around her, "Come on, the night is still young! We can go and get a pizza, my treat."
"I want to go get pizza!" Tommy shouted, coming out of the stall, zipping up his jeans.
"Let's go. Who wants extra cheese?" Kale took both the children by the hands and they headed off to the pizza place, where both children complained loudly as they were forced to wash their hands under Kale's strict supervision.
A/N: Sorry about the short chapter, but I wanted to end on a note that shows you Kale's inner strength because all we've seen is her goody-goody side.