I'm back! lol, sorry for the four day wait. (It could've been longer though) I've been having writters block on this story, and I've been getting idea's for a couple of my other stories (I've got four stories going at the moment. The other three were almost scrubbed.)
Anyway, Yesterday was my awesome cousin's birthday, so I had some fun. (I think the Cake and Ice Cream is what helped me finish write this chapter lol)
Anyway, thanks for the reviews guys, they really inspire me to keep this story going.
And Now, The story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Chick-Fil-A (As much as I wish I did :'( I do not.), I do not own Young Justice, DC Comics, or anything other than Gabrielle and Natalia.
Chapter Five: Welcome to Star City
Star City
September 24, 09:00 PDT (This time frame starts after the line)
The flight from HappyHarbor to StarCity was a little more than five hours long, and sitting in a seat on a plane for five hours, wasn't on the top of Gabrielle's to-do list.
In fact it wasn't on her to-do list at all, being stuck in a chair between Roy and her sister was un-nerving for her, not because of who she was sitting between, but because she was never a fan of flying, or sitting in one place for more than ten minutes.
But she still managed to fall asleep after two and half hours, and since she was sitting next to Roy, while sleeping she laid her head on his shoulder, as Natalia was laying her head against Gabrielle's back, fast asleep herself.
Roy just stared at the two of them, before asking one of the flight attendants for a pillow, which he carefully placed under Gabrielle's head, the flight attendant took the liberty of placing a pillow under Natalia's head as well.
Once they had landed Roy gathered the carry-on luggage while the girls attempted to wake themselves up.
They finally got to Roy's apartment roughly around nine, even with the time change, which was enough time for Gabrielle to get Natalia set up in the small guest bedroom, and get herself set up to sleep on the couch, against the protests of both Natalia and Roy.
But the sleeping arrangements were made, Gabrielle being as stubborn as she was, and the three went to bed.
Roy moaned and rolled over in his bed, smelled smoke, then rolled back over to the other side of his bed.
A minute later he shot up into a sitting position, and sniffed to make sure he had really smelt smoke. When the smell entered his nostrils again, he threw his sheets off, and ran for the living area.
When he walked through the doorway, he raised his eyebrow as he saw Natalia sitting in a chair with her arms crossed smiling, as Gabrielle was attempting to put out a fire that was in a frying pan on the stove.
Gabrielle stared at Natalia and threw her hands in the air. "Are you going to do anything?!" She yelled.
"Nope, I told you that I should have cooked." Natalia said.
"You're three. I am not getting shown up by my three year old sister, especially at cooking!" Gabrielle exclaimed. "Now will you help me?"
"Nope, you can solve it." Natalia said.
"You're a stubborn three years old." Gabrielle said, before looking for the fire extinguisher.
Roy grabbed the fire extinguisher and used it to put out the fire.
Gabrielle stared at the pan with Roy standing next to her, extinguisher still in hand, as they stared at the black gunk that lay in the pan.
Roy stared at Gabrielle, who stared at him with a weak smile. "Oops." She said.
"What were you trying to cook?" Roy asked. "And why didn't the smoke detector go off?"
Gabrielle grabbed a chair and pulled it until it was directly under the smoke detector. She stood on the chair before taking the smoke detector off the ceiling and working on the back of it. "To answer the first question, I was trying to cook eggs, believe it or not." She said. "To answer the second question…"-She placed the smoke detector back in place on the ceiling before getting down off the chair-"The smart allelic sitting in the chair over there, turned the smoke detector off by taking the battery out."
"Why would she do that? How does she even know to do that?" Roy asked, still staring at Gabrielle.
"She is right here." Natalia said munching on a cookie. "I turned them off because I knew Elle would start a fire if she tried to cook."
"Okay… That still doesn't answer how you knew to turn it off." Roy said.
"Our Mother did it all the time. Some of Dad's business friends were smokers, so the first few times they came over the smoke alarms went off and soaked everything by activating the sprinklers." Gabrielle said. "So after that experience, Mom started taking the battery out of the smoke detector and leaving it out until they left."
"Why not just ask them not to smoke in the house?" Roy asked.
Gabrielle and Natalia stared at each other, before Gabrielle stared back at Roy. "They didn't think of that." Gabrielle said, before smiling to herself. "Wish I could tell them that idea."
Roy just stared at her with his eyebrow raised, as she walked over and scraped the 'eggs' into the trash and washed the pan.
"How exactly do you burn eggs?" Roy asked.
"That's simple." Gabrielle said. "I have to be the person cooking them."
"No one's that bad at cooking." Roy said.
"Clearly you haven't seen me cook." Gabrielle said. "You've seen the end result though."
Gabrielle finished washing the pan and turned and stared at Roy. "How good are you at cooking?"
"Fairly good… but you do realize fast food restaurant's now have breakfast menus to save from situations like these, don't you?" Roy asked.
Gabrielle shrugged. "Our family's always had home-cooked breakfasts."
"There's a Chick-Fil-A up the street…"
Gabrielle and Natalia stared at him wide eyed. "Chick-Fil-A?!" Both exclaimed.
Roy nodded, before getting shoved back into his room by Gabrielle. "Then go get dressed!"
"Wait! What?" Roy exclaimed.
"Get dressed and we'll go." Gabrielle said, getting him fully into his room. "Now hurry up!"
She shut the door and Roy just stared at the shut door trying to figure out what just happened.
He finally shrugged before pulling his tee-shirt off and tossing it onto the floor. He walked over to his closet and grabbed an outfit to wear.
Star City
September 28, 08:00 PDT
"Okay, I think I finally got it." Gabrielle said, as she buttered some pancakes for Natalia. "And I didn't burn them!"
"You cooked them in the microwave." Natalia pointed out.
Gabrielle cut and poured syrup on the pancakes and handed Natalia the plate. "Let me have my moment kid, please." She said.
Natalia giggled and put some of the pancake squares in her mouth.
Gabrielle messed with her sister's hair before walking over to Roy's bedroom door and knocking. "Roy come on, breakfast's ready."
"I'll be right out." Roy called from the other side of the door.
"You said that five minutes ago!" Gabrielle exclaimed.
"I'll be out when I get out." Roy said. "Now leave me alone."
Gabrielle crossed her arms, before turning the handle and walking into the room. "Alright, come on. You're-"
Gabrielle froze in the doorway, as she stared at Roy attempting to bandage wounds.
Roy stared at Gabrielle, as Gabrielle stared at him before staring at his wounds.
"Is everything okay?" Natalia asked.
"Yeah, just keep eating." Gabrielle said.
Gabrielle walked over to Roy, and when she reached to touch one of the wounds he stepped back. "Don't…" He said.
"How did you…" Gabrielle said, studying the wounds.
"I ran into some people who don't like me, last night." Roy said. "It's nothing, they'll heal."
Gabrielle bit her lip before staring at the doorway. She turned and stared back at Roy before attempting to touch one of the wounds again.
Roy, again, took a step back. "What're you doing?" He asked.
"Just… trust me." Gabrielle said.
Roy stared at her blankly for a minute, before letting her touch the wound on his bicep.
"This… might sting a little bit." Gabrielle said, putting her palm over the wound.
Gabrielle stared at the wound as Roy bit his lip when it started to sting. But when Gabrielle removed her hand, and the stinging stopped, he looked at where the wound was to find that it was gone, not even a scar left where the wound should be.
Gabrielle then did the same with the wound on his chest and his cheek, once she was done with those Roy stared at her intently. "How…" He started.
Gabrielle stared at the floor. "It's… one of my abilities." She said. "I can heal other people's wounds, but… not my own; in fact, this ability causes any wounds that I have to take longer to heal than it normally would."
"That's why the burn on your arm hasn't made any process of getting better." Roy said.
Gabrielle nodded, before turning and walking toward the door. "Your breakfast's on the table."
With that said, she walked out of the room, leaving Roy to marvel at his now healed wounds.
