Bang…Bang…Bang…

My head bashed against the wall repeatedly. I couldn't stand this anymore. I've been cooped up in this basement for days now, and I still haven't gotten anything accomplished. I haven't even come up with a good design. I. Am. So. Screwed.

"Are you okay?" Miss Potts asked as she came down stairs for the first time since I arrived here.

I stopped banging my head and turned to her. My eyes had dark bags under them, my hair dry and flat, and my skin grey. "Do I look okay to you?"

She shook her head hesitantly. "Not really."

"Then there you go."

She looked around awkwardly. "You're looking a little, grey-ish."

"I haven't left this basement in almost a week. My Vitamin D meter is bone dry."

She came a few steps closer to me. "Is there anything I can help with?"

I sat back in my chair and thought for a second. "Is Tony in the house?"

Pepper shook her head. "No, I don't think so."

"Good." I let a breath and teleported upstairs. I pulled out my cell phone and hit speed dial number one. "Hey, it's Andi. Look, I need some help here… …yeah I have some…alright." I hung up, waved my hand, and a tall man appeared from a random gust of wind.

"You know, I don't remember ever agreeing to be at your beck and call." Lucius Fox calmly walked towards me.

I smiled at him. "You said that if I ever needed you…" I trailed off.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever."

"Could you not do that while I'm here, please?" Pepper asked as she walked up the stairs. "I hate it when Tony leaves me stranded like that, so could you refrain?"

"I'll try. Miss Potts, you remember Mr. Fox."

They shook hands. "It's nice to see you again."

"Likewise."

And then she turned to me. "Why is he here?"

"Because I need a break, and he's the only one, that I know of, that can help me unconsciously." And then my mind flashed to J'onn. "Yeah, he's it." I am not going down that rabbit hole again.

"So," He gracefully moved over to the table that I led him to when Pepper's phone started ringing and she left to answer it. "What's the matter?"

I left him at the table and went over to the cupboard above the sink. "I'm at a loss, Mr. Fox."

"You're going to have to be more specific."

"My brain has decided to stop working, and I can't think of how to extract the stupid 'unobtanium' stuff without hurting myself. And yes I know I'll eventually get better, but I would like to wrap this up quickly so that I can have some sort of a summer vacation before I have absolutely no life. I know, I never had a life to begin with, but it would be nice to spend a little time with the 'fam' before college." I took a deep breath. Was that one sentence?

"Again, I am so sorry."

"Oh shut it, I never blamed you." I placed a package of double stuffed Oreos on the table and sat across from him.

He raised his eyebrow. "I didn't think you liked cookies."

I shrugged. "I've been having this weird craving for Oreos lately." I opened the package and took a couple from it. "I don't know why. Maybe it's this place."

Mr. Fox smirked as if he knew better. "Yeah, maybe it's this place."

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"This isn't exactly honest, J'onn." Flash said to the tall Martian Manhunter earlier that day. He had told Andi that Linda had called him for a small vacation while she was in France. Linda was in Chicago.

"I understand this, Flash." J'onn moved about the control room, keeping track of the whereabouts of all of the members of the Justice League. Most of them were in the Watch Tower, except for Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, and a few of the younger generation. "But I made a promise to Bruce."

"She's not a fish, J'onn. You can't just watch her all of the time."

He turned abruptly towards Flash, towering over him. "I have to. If I hadn't have been watching she would've killed that man and you know it."

J'onn turned away, and Flash mumbled. "I would've let her."

"How dare you say that?" J'onn was once again in Flash's face.

Even though J'onn was very intimidating, Flash held his own. "Aside from Bruce, Andi doesn't love anyone more than the Hawkins family. For that…fuck-tard…to even suggest that she'd run away from them–"

But J'onn came right back at him. "She ran from Bruce, didn't she? From Alfred Pennyworth? From Johnny? From us?" Wally felt like he got slapped in the face. "She's not the little girl that you saved from the train station, or the ignorant teenager that you saved from the fire. She's grown to understand that running away is always the best option when things become difficult. The first fight she has with Robert and she'll flee like a jail bird."

Flash was quiet for a moment, waiting to see if J'onn continued. When he didn't, he whispered with raw anger. "How can you say that about her? You love Andi more than anyone."

"Even so. Her and I fought, and she'll probably never talk to me again."

"But you don't care. You just want her safe. Just like Bruce, and Robert, and the rest of us. We don't care that she runs," He paused for dramatic effect. "Because she always comes back."

Flash turned and started to walk away when he rotated on his heel back towards J'onn. "Oh, and would you stop thinking about Oreos. She has had an entire package of Double Stuffed Oreos every day since I've been there. You of all people should know that she doesn't even like cookies."

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"Hey, Wally." I said later that night as I lounged on the downstairs couch while he sped down the stairs. "How was France?"

He nodded and took a seat next to me. "Pretty. He was your day without me, dear?"

I smiled. "Boring. Oreo?" I held out the package for him to take some.

Wally stared at it for a second before he shook his head. "No, thanks. Did you get anything done today?"

I shook my head. "Nope. Not a damn thing."

"That sucks."

"Yep." I popped another Oreo into my mouth. "How's Linda?"

"Don't talk with your mouth full. And she's good. She says, 'hi'."

I swallowed the chewed up cookie. "Tell her I say, 'hi' back."

"I shall, the next time I see her."

I perked up slightly in surprise. "You're staying?"

Wally nodded. "Yuperdoodles."

I immediately leaned over and hugged him. "Thanks, Wally."

"Anytime." He embraced me in return. She'd never run from me, Wally thought, that I'm certain of.