Ah...Hi guys...

I know what your thinking: I vote we kill her.

But wait! If you kill me, I'll never be able to finish my wonderful little creation. Please bear in mind this is my first fanfic (on this site-I've written them, or thought them up since I first watched Lady and the Tramp, but that's not the point) and also my first story to get this far without me getting bored and ignoring it. All for you, readers. Thanks for the reviews; I do try to answer them, but my mum's convinced I'll end up like one of those people you see on the news, who went to meet someone they met on the net and got raped and murdered. The fact that I can't drive and live in the middle of nowhere doesn't stop the woman. Hell, I haven't even got facebook. I can't even walk up a few fields with my dog on my own. It's ridiculous. But anyhow. Enough ranting about my mum. On with the story.

Wondergirl, if she existed, which Jaime (despite the scarab's assurances) wasn't convinced of, was in the basement.

Just typical. A dark, dingy basement, complete with spider webs and rats and cockroaches. Mmm, nice. Even Jaime's alley had been more welcoming than this, and that had been chock full of trash. Not quite so depressing; this place made Jaime want to leave, immediately, Wondergirl or no.

"Here!" Whisper-shouter Marie. And then to the barred cell in front of them. "Hey, Wondergirl!"

"Marie! Why are you-" A girl appeared at the cell door. "Who in the name of GOD is that?"

Jaime blinked. The girl who'd appeared was-well, she was… Jaime would never, never, not in a million years EVER admit it but she was really pretty (who tells someone they hardly know they're pretty? It just seems stalker-ish and weird). The girl, Wondergirl, had long, golden blonde hair, big blue eyes and fair skin. She wore a tight red t-shirt and tight black trousers. Even the contemptuous look on her face failed to ruin her good looks.

What is wrong with you? Hissed the scarab in wonder. Have you got what you humans call 'a crush'?!

"No!" Hissed Jaime. He'd never had a crush since he'd run away. The only crush he'd ever had was on a girl called Chrystal in his school. But that's another story for another day.

"No what?" Wondergirl asked.

"No shit, that's what," Jaime said, saying the first thing that came to mind. It didn't make a lot of sense, but hey ho…

"You're weird, you know that?"

"Do you want to get out or not?"

In the end, after much irritable bickering, Jaime did let Wondergirl out, and had the sense to jump back out of the way as she flew at him.

"Nice," snickered Jaime. "Very smooth."

Wondergirl had forgotten that she was wearing a collar that took away her powers, so when she flew she sorta burst out of the door, leapt into the air, still handcuffed, and fell flat on her face. In other words, an epic fail. And very amusing.

For Jaime, anyhow. Marie and Wondergirl seemed to find it less than funny. If she hadn't had the handcuffs and collar, Jaime was 100% certain she'd kick his ass. Or try.

"If you're quite done," growled Wondergirl icily, "can you perhaps show us the way out?"

"Sure, Graceful."

"What did you call me?"

Even with the collar and handcuffs and bruised face Wondergirl looked, at that moment, very pissed and very scary. Jaime held up his hands.

"Nothing, nothing, sorry, jeez..."

Wimp.

Callate. Not now, ok?

Submitting to a female. She cannot use her powers and her hands are tied. Males of your species should-

Jaime tuned him out and began walking.

"You two coming, or what?"

Yeah, very short, but I just wanted to get a feel for how Wondergirl and Blue Beetle get along right now. Or don't get along, whatever. I could have made them all romantic at first sight, but that's too easy and too boring (Gaara quote there), s this was born. I've also got terrible writers block with this at the moment. I know where it ends and that, but I don't exactly know how to get from this point to that end in an interesting and sensible way.

Oh, and I don't own YJ.

Captain OUT!