Title: Future
Pairing: Wondereetle (can be interpreted as friendship)
Summary: "To the future?" He nodded. "To the future."
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Cassie Sandmark sat alone in the Living room area of Mount Justice. All of the other members of the team were in the Mission Room area of the cave, celebrating the ending of the invasion and debriefing their parts of the mission that they each participated in the end said invasion.
She was just getting up to go and join the rest of the team when Jaime Reyes sat down in front of her, seemingly out of nowhere.
"Whoa. When did you get there?" She asked, cracking a smile, hiding her confusion.
"I guess you weren't paying attention." He said, smiling back at her. She laughed a bit, and then they settled into a comfortable silence.
"Do you want something to drink?" he asked her, and she nodded silently. He got off his chair and went into the nearby kitchen. He came back a few minutes later with two glasses of water. "I don't know what you like." He told her, handing her the drink. "This is fine." She told him, taking a sip of the water.
Jaime laughed, sharing some inside joke with the Scarab on his back.
They had been sitting there few minutes, drinking their water, when Jaime finally broke the silence. "Are you okay?"
"Of course I am!" Her reassurance sounded like a protest, even to her. "I mean, the invasion is over, Artemis is alive, and the world is safe. What's not to be okay with?"
Her answer hung heavy in the air. Even though all seemed good, there were still this that were bad, things not to be okay with. The invasion had taken its toll on Earth, and thanks to G. Gordon Godfrey, many of the inhabitants of the planet were suspicious of Superhero's, even after their saving the world.
Jaime interoperated her silence correctly, and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "What's wrong?" He asked, his voice laced with concern.
"Nothing!" she protested, before sighing in defeat and telling him the truth. "I'm just – I'm just wondering what's going to happen now. What the futures going to be like? I mean, with a bunch of people hating us and stuff? It'll – It'll be weird." She looked at him sheepishly, ashamed of her worries.
"Well, I guess we go on being heroes. Who cares what the people think?" Jaime smiled at her. "You're the one who taught me to be a hero, Cas. I didn't want to be a hero before you showed me the Brightside. And the brightside wasn't having people worship us. It was helping those people, whether they liked us or not, and changing their lives."
She smiled. "So our future seems bright?"
"Of course." He told her.
She lifted up her glass. "To the future?" He nodded and clinked his glass against her in a toast.
"To the future."
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NOOOO Wonderbeetle week is over. Oh my god. It's over.
Anyway, I didn't make anything certain here. The only things I did make certain was that some of the inhabitants of Earth didn't trust the heroes anymore. I was going to make one of the characters die, most likely Kaldur of Bart, because while I didn't want anyone to die canonically, it would add more drama. But I went the chickec way and didn't.
And again, it's short and last minute. BUT - I actually kind of like it!
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