Title: To Be A Hero
Pairings: Wonderbeetle
Summary: And yes, maybe he didn't choose this. But not many people do.
….
"Jaime!" the excited girl wrapped her arms around the boy in front of her. "Oh my god! I missed you so much!"
Detecting hostile intent-
"She's just hugging me." Jaime hissed lowly before responding to the girl, "I've only been gone a week!"
"I know." The girl, Cassie, told him, "But a bunch of people were gone! Well, only you, Mal, Karen, and Batgirl, but it seemed like a lot! I mean, you know that Bart and Gar are friends, so they spent the entire week together, and L'gann and Megan were out doing who knows what together, which of course made Connor brood all week, so I was stuck hanging out with Tim all week, except for when he was with Nightwing. And I thought it would be boring, but Tim is actually a lot of fun once you crack his shell!"
Jaime got a weird feeling in his stomach at the thought of Cassie spending time with Tim.
Detecting shift in intent – female's excitement may turn to agitation –
"She's just, well, excited!" Jaime burst, forgetting to whisper.
For a moment Cassie looked confused before smiling in understandment. "Talking to the scarab again?" she asked, rapping the spot where the bug was with her knuckles.
DANGER, INGAGING ARM CANNON – The scarab yelled as the said arm cannon began to form on Jaime's arm.
"No!" he yelled, retracting the cannon, before turning to Cassie. "You've really got to stop doing that! You're going to get yourself hurt!"
Cassie's eyes widened at the sight of the normally calm (at least to everyone but the Scarab) boy's outbreak. "S-sorry." She said, taking a step back.
"Dios Mios, Cassie, I'm sorry. It's just…" Jaime sighed, trying to calm himself down and reassure the girl in front of him, "sometimes it's hard to control the Scarab, and…I don't want you to get hurt."
Cassie smiled at him. "It's okay, Jaime. It's my fault, really. I need to stop egging it on."
"It's not that hard to egg it on." Jaime muttered, just loud enough for Cassie to hear.
"It must be hard." She said shamefully. "We - I – always make powers out to be something great, but you're sharing your body with the scarab."
"I – yeah, it's hard. But, it's worth it. I'm – I'm a hero. And it's kind of great." Jaime smiled. "I'm helping people, doing things I never could before. And maybe I didn't choose this, but not many people do. And – even if it meant getting rid of this exasperante bug – I don't think I'd take it back.
"Besides," he said, smiling shyly, "I wouldn't have met you – any of you – if I hadn't become a hero."
Cassie laughed, and wrapped her arms around him one more time.
And then she grabbed his hand and drug him down the hall, talking about the week she'd had, much to the scarabs displeasure.
….
(Which of course we know means he was trying to blast her).
Anyway this is the one I was talking about yesterday that I wrote when I was trying to write Bubbly. It's short and awful but I'm kind of proud of it and I'm not quite sure it fits today's prompt but I'm using it anyway!
Written for Wonderbeetle Takover on Tumblr.
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