The Past and the Present
Sheer POV:
I was hanging out with Robin and Wally in Robin's room since everyone else was busy doing homework and we had all finished early.
"Hey." Wally said.
"Yeah?" I asked.
"Do you guys remember when we first met?" He asked us.
"How could I forget?" I asked.
"Do you really want us to answer that?" Robin asked.
"Good point." I said.
"So anyway what about when we first met?" Robin asked turning to Wally.
"I was just thinking about it and I thought I'd bring it up." He said leaning back against his headboard.
I looked at the two of them from my place on the floor and thought about when we had first met.
-Flashback-
I was six. Charmcaster had only recently found me. I looked around the corner at her. She was talking to Martian Manhunter, Batman and Flash on a screen. "-an't go! I've got a kid crashing with me."
"It's true we all recently had little friends begin to stay with us." Flash said.
"You are needed in Africa." Manhunter said.
"Send the two children over to Gothem. I'll have my butler watch them." Batman said.
"Alright fine." Charmcaster said logging off. "SHEER!" She turned and saw me standing there with the puppy I had found a week earlier.
"You're going to a friends house."
"But I haven't made any friends…"
"We'll your about to." She said. Charmcaster took me to her room and gave me a long sleeve shirt, a pair of jeans and baseball cap and told me to change.
I took it into my room and got dressed. Charmcaster opened up a portal. "Now listen where your going you can not tell the people about your powers, you can not tell the people about the wikkas, you can not use your powers, you can not show them your marks and you can not have Jejear morph. GOT IT?" She asked.
"Yes ma'am." I said.
"I want you on your best behavior. And control the dog." She said.
"Okay." I said.
She opened a portal and we stepped through. We were outside of a city. Next to us was a big mansion. "Whoa!" I said. I picked up Jejear. "You have to be on your best behavior." I told him. "We're in a fancy place now."
We walked to the gate and they opened. As we stepped through I took in everything. It was massive. Once we got to the mansion the door was opened by an elderly man. "Ah mistress Lisbeth and the young Sheer I presume?"
"Yes. I assume you're the one who is going to be watching the kids?"
"That would be correct. Master Bruce and Master Barry are in the other room." We followed him down the hall. The man stopped and opened the door. "Right through here."
Charmcaster turned to me. "Wait here" She said. "Come in when I call."
"Okay." I said. I listened to them talk.
Sheer? Jejear asked me.
"Jejear we can't use our powers. Charmcaster said so." I told him.
Oh… Jejear so- Jejear smell bacon…
"No Jejear don't even try it." I warned.
"Jejear want bacon…" He went from the beagle we had him posing as and turned into a big shaggy golden retriever. "No Jejear." I said panicking. He got up and Jumped at the door I grabbed onto his neck and tried to stop him but he jumped through the door anyway.
"Oh my!" The butler said as I landed on the floor and Jejear easily stole the bacon off of two boys breakfast plates.
"JEJEAR NO!" I cried. This wasn't the impression I had wanted to make.
"Sheer!" I flinched at Chermcaster's voice and turned to her.
"Yes…?"
"I told you to control the dog." She said.
"But I didn't-"
"NO EXCUSES! Now apologize to the boys for Jejear taking their breakfasts."
I turned to the two boys. One was little with black hair that was combed back out of his face. The other looked older than me and had red hair and bangs and a lot of freckles. "I'm sorry… It's hard to control him sometimes." I said.
"It's okay." The black haired one said.
The red haired one looked like he was about to say something but Jejear jumped on him. He laughed at the multiple lickiings.
"No! bad dog!" I said pulling him off.
"It's okay." He said. "I like dogs." He said sitting up. "I'm Wally."
"And I'm Dick Greyson." The black haired one said sliding off his chair."
"Well I'm sheer and this is Jejear." I said.
"You three go on now the grown ups have to talk." A man in a suit said.
"Come on we can go to my room." The Dick said. We followed him.
"So you live here?" Wally asked him.
"Yep. Bruce adopted me." He said.
"I live in Central city." Wally said.
"What about you?" Dick asked me.
"Um… I'm not really sure. I just moved there so…" I trailed off.
"Okay." Wally said.
Dick opened the door to his room and we looked around. IT was big with a huge bed that could fit four people (at our age) and a desk, some shelves and a dresser. There were some posters around the room. "This is a nice room." I said. Jejear jumped onto the bed. "JEJEAR!" I cried. "Come back here!"
"It's okay." Dick said. "I always wanted a pet but never could."
"He's my first pet." I said.
"He seems nice." Wally said.
For the next hour or so we just chatted about nothing in particular. The other two were more open than I was.
"hey I have an Idea!" Dick said. "Come on." We followed him out of the room and into to the kitchen. He grabbed a chair. "You two watch the doors and make sure nobody comes in." Jejear and I took one door and Wally took the other. "Alright." Dick said. "Come on!" He ran back to his room and we followed. When we got there he revealed a tub of chocolate ice cream.
"What's that?" I asked.
"Ice cream." Dick said.
"You've never had it?" wally asked.
"No…"
"Here try some." Dick said handing me a spoon and digging in himself.
I stuck the spoon into the soft serve and took a bite. "It's good!" I said. We finished off most of it and left the rest for Jejear who happily accepted.
For the rest of the day we played and had fun. When It got dark I started to wonder when Charmcaster would be getting back.
"Young masters." The butler said coming in. "It appears you will be spending the night. Both of your guardians left a change of clothed for you."
I took my clothes and left the room to change. I found a long sleeved soft blue top and sleeping pants along with a weird little hat to cover up the marks on my forehead and some slippers. When I walked back in I saw the boys dressed in similar attire.
We stayed up till midnight when the butler told us we'd better get to sleep before Bruce came home. So the three of us crawled into Dick's bed. Jejear jumped up after and I cuddled him. "Thank's for letting me stay." I said.
"It was fun." Dick said.
"Yeah we should play again." Wally decided.
We all agreed we'd play together soon and slowly drifted into sleep.
~End Flashback~
Robin's communicator beeped and he picked it up. "Hello?" He said sticking the small piece of plastic in his ear. "Oh yeah be there in a sec." He hopped off the bed. "Sorry guys I gotta go big night for the Dynamic Duo."
"It's the fourth of July!" Wally said.
"Yeah some robbers like to strike by firework light."
"Alright see you later." I said sitting up.
"Yeah." He said.
"Alright I'm going to get a snack." Wally whizzed out.
"Jejear. Let's go." He propped himself up and followed me out the door. "Later."
"Later."
Jejear followed me out of the room. We walked down the hall back towards my room. Nor's door was propped open. Nor forget door again? Jejear asked.
"Yeah looks like it." I reached for the door and started to pull it closed when I saw Nor at his desk. He had headphones on and was staring at the page he was running a pencil over. I closed the door and walked up behind him.
What I was on the page shocked me. "I didn't know you draw." He didn't hear me thanks to the music coming through the headphones so I decided to watch him a little longer. He was drawing a picture of Ness and himself in their Dark and light forms. They were flying. After a while he set down the pencil only to turn and see me.
"Gah! Wait how long have you been standing there!"
"A few minuets." I said. "So what's with this."
He looked at the picture and turned slightly red. "Hu? That? Oh that's nothing! Really! I mean I'm not some weirdo who randomly draws his friends when they aren't looking!"
"Dude. It's cool I won't tell anyone if you don't want me to." I said. He calmed down but the faint blush remained. That's weird. "You're really good." I said picking up the sketchbook.
"HEY! D- Don't look at that!" He said taking the book from me.
"Why not?" I asked him.
"Cuz I said so." He said stuffing the book in a drawer.
The second he closed the drawer I jumped forward grabbed it and pulled out the sketchpad.
"Hey!" He reached over to grab it from me.
"Dude what's the issue let me see!"
"I don't want you to!" He said.
"Why not!" I tried to grab the book over his shoulder but he held it out of my grip.
Jejear jumped on him and sent all of us to the floor. Nor was on top of me but I could reach the book now. I grabbed it from him and started flicking through it.
Wally and Robin having a scrimmage.
Ness and I laughing.
Jejear taking a nap.
Superboy and Kaldur talking.
Demon and Reaper reading in the library together.
Megan teaching Phoenix how to cook with Blade watching closely.
"Sh- Sheer give that back!" He reached for it again but I turned the page first. He stopped when he saw what page I was on. It was a picture of him kissing me. I flashed back to a few days ago.
~Flashback~
It was a bit different from that time back in the infirmary. There was something different behind it. Some new emotion I hadn't ever come to terms with before. Something that half scared me. But at the same time I half liked. I whimpered a bit and tried to pull back but he put his hand behind my head and prevented me from moving. He tilted his head some and kissed me with more passion. I whimpered again trying to tell him a wanted him to stop.
He pulled back after a long time.
~End Flashback~
The picture wasn't of that scene. In the picture I was kissing him back by the looks of it. "Uh… Nor?"
He looked down at me. "I told you not to look…" He was blushing. "I knew you would be mad at me."
"Mad at you?"
"Yeah… cause I drew that… you… like that. Y'know without permission."
"I'm not mad." I said.
"You aren't?"
"No… it's just… Why?"
"Good lord…" He looked defeated. "Why is it so hard for you to get this into your head?" he looked me in the eyes. "I'm falling for you. I want to be with you. I want to be your boyfriend and you to be my girlfriend. Hell! I might just be in love with you!"
Nor POV
Sheer went wide eyed. "You… You weren't just goofing around before?"
"WHY THE HELL WOULD I DO THAT!"
"Well I don't know but you always messed around like that when we were kids so I thought maybe you were just doing that again."
"You're an idiot you know that?" I asked her.
"Wha- HEY!" She glared then opened her mouth to argue with me. I put my hand over her mouth.
"But you are the cutest, most amusing idiot I know."
Sheer POV
Nor leaned over after telling me that. He was still on top of me so I couldn't move. "Nor… Uh…"
"Yeah?" He stopped leaning in.
"Uh… I dun' know I think you fried my brain."
He grinned. "That means you like me back."
"Huh? N- no it d- doesn't! I- It could mean uh…." He leaned in further.
"You were saying?" He asked. He looked into my eyes and smirked.
Then he kissed me… again.
And this time I kissed him back.
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