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Diana looked over the table at the three Justice League founders sitting before them, eyes drifting for a second to the two chairs opposite one another where she and Shayera used to sit, where she had made some of the toughest decisions of her life, and where she had had some of the happiest moments of her many many years. It was in that very seat she had realized her love for Shayera such a short time ago. Her currently gray eyes turning to take in the three figures, Clark's curious expression, J'onn's very slightly confused, no doubt trying and failing to read the two Amazon's minds, Bruce just looking stoic and emotionless as per usual.
"Please ladies, take a seat" Superman told the two of them, indicating to the so called 'Guest chair' before giving a slightly bashful look, "I'm sure I could go get another spare chair for you…" he offered, seeing that both women were looking between the single chair and him in amusement.
"It's no trouble 'Clark'" Shayera replied with an amused tone, her grin widening at the three men's reactions to her knowledge of Superman's identity, slowly sitting down in the chair, Diana realizing what Shayera was getting at and sliding down into her taller lover's lap, snuggling back against her angel, ignoring the surprised looks from both Clark and J'onn and the small eyebrow twitch from Bruce who was beginning to unconsciously connect the dots. "We can share". At the obvious display of affection between the two women Superman, slightly awkwardly, cleared his throat.
"Um, yes I see." He murmered, receiving a deathglare from the ever stoic Bruce who turned towards both women.
"Who are you? Where did you come from? And how did you defeat Grundy?" he growled simply, getting straight to the point as per usual, the two women rolling their eyes beneath their masks, thinking exactly the same thing, 'will he ever lighten up?' Diana smiling softly as she saw her lover was relaxing, no longer half as nervous about showing the men who she was and instead seemed to be enjoying being in the company of some of her oldest friends.
"I think we can answer those three questions at once" Diana replied with a grin, hand moving to her lover's and poking at the rings, the younger Amazon nodding, hand taking hold of her own ring. Light filled the room, shining blindingly from both the women's skin as they tugged the identical gold rings from their fingers, so bright the three male leaguers were forced to look away in shock as the two superheroines transformed back to their true forms, Amazonian dresses replacing their armour, helmets and capes, masks disappearing instantly, Shayera's wings growing from her shoulder blades as Diana grew a few inches taller, their hair and eyes morphing back to usual, scars slowly forming across their features, the light slowly fading, leaving the two Amazons sitting together in front of the five men, hands finding one another once again and entwining their fingers together, Diana's slightly smaller form snuggled against Shayera's.
"Damn it's cold up here" Shayera complained, her thin Amazonian dress clinging to her body, barely providing her any warmth, wings wrapping around them both and holding Diana to her for body heat, having certainly become accustomed to Themyscira's tropical climate, suddenly being in the cold vacuum of space "Is it too much to ask for central heating Brucie?"
To say that the male leaguers were shocked was a severe understatement, Clark's jaw seemed to have hit the jaw, J'onn's eyes had nearly doubled in size and even Bruce had shifted back, eyes widening just enough under his cowl to be noticeable to the superior Amazon senses, Shayera struggling to avoid laughing at the expressions aimed at the pair of them.
"Diana? Shayera?" Clark gasped in shock, he'd been there to see them off, flying to Themyscira, and he had been certain that they were never coming back just from their expressions. Standing he stepped over to them, looking over them in shock before plucking them both from the seat, ignoring the two yelps and pulling them into a hug, ignoring Shayera's slightly wheezing comment
"Once a boyscout, always a boyscout" as she felt the life being squeezed out of her by the overenthusiastic Kryptonian, "Clark… need…. breath" she wheezed out, though grinning widely, glancing over to see an identical grin on Diana's features, Clark's arms flying away in embarrassment.
"I'm sorry, it's just so great to see you both again" he enthused, grinning ear to ear as he looked them over, a slightly confused look crossing his face as he looked at Shayera, "No offence Shay, but you look different, and why are you taller?" he asked innocently, Shayera chuckling slightly.
"None taken, but I think Diana would do better to explain, I'm still unsure of all the details" she replied, Diana smiling and picking up her cue.
"Me and Shayera performed an ancient Amazonian ritual, it is how women from outside Themyscira are given the gifts of the Amazons. Shayera is as strong as I am, she can fly without her wings, wears the same bracelets as all our sisters and has had a few physical changes" she explained to the three shocked men. Slowly she looked over at Bruce, looking dead into the lenses of his cowl, able to see the smile sparkling in the Dark Knight's eyes, slowly standing and stepping over to him, standing in front of Batman for a few seconds before sliding forwards and hugging the shocked dark knight, placing a kiss on his cheek and whispering to him
"Thank you for caring Bruce", Shayera smiling softly and sliding to her feet before stepping forwards and placing a kiss on Bruce's other cheek, the two women stepping away from the slightly stunned man together, ignoring the slightly incredulous look from Superman and the small smile across J'onn's lips.
Slowly Shayera and Diana returned to their seat, the princess sitting on the Thanagarian-Amazon's lap again before looking at the other three seriously.
"This isn't just a social visit" Diana told them with a serious tone, "The goddesses came to us, they gave us our new costume personas, all because of a single being. The gods are unsure who or what he is, all they know is he's intensely powerful, and he's heading for earth". Clark and J'onn looked at one another, contemplating Diana's ominous words while Bruce slowly stood, looking the two women up and down.
"Let me guess, you want to keep your true identities secret, and are going to use new secret identities while in your other forms?" he monotoned, Diana's eyebrows raising as Shayera simply thought 'How does he do that? How does he know everything before we mention it?'
"That's correct Bruce, so for reference if anyone else is around Diana's name is now Mala, and mine is Venelia. Names of two of our sisters"
Doctor Manhattan stared down at the earth as his body slowly formed around his consciousness, what seemed like a human body, very similar to the body of a human, yet different in many ways. Not that it mattered to Doctor Manhattan anymore, he did not care at all what body he inhabited, only that he had one now with which he could bring order to earth, with which his wisdom and power could finally end the destruction upon earth. He could see once more with the eyes he had created for himself, see more than any human could possibly see. He saw right down to the very atoms whizzing around his body, even in the void of space. He could see so many colors, so many beyond the human spectrum. He could see the tiniest and quickest bonding's of the atoms around him, like a million minute ballets taking place upon the tiniest part of his finger, they were beautiful, slowly looking at the numberless other ballets which swirled across planet earth, across his body, and across the bodies of all the other sentient beings, reminding him of a quote from an old human author
"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. Until now, now I have grown in all dimensions, I am even and full." he whispered out, slowly drifting through space, heading past earth and continuing to speed up, shooting towards the sun, past the two planets between earth and the sun before slowing and stopping, floating before the sun itself, so close anyone but him would have vaporized long before, very slowly letting himself drop closer and closer to the sun until he felt his feet touch the surface, able to feel the heat around him yet it didn't hurt him, it was merely another sensation, a strange cleansing sensation, as if he were washing in the flames of the star.
"Without condoning... or condemning. I now understand what so many wished to do. Those such as Ra's Al Ghul who are willing to tear apart the evils of the world so as to save it. Many must die, but humanity shall survive beneath my guidance. This world has so many problems without so called superheroes and supervillains, once they are destroyed this world can rebuild itself", slowly lifting a hand to his newly constructed forehead, tracing a circle and poking a dot into the center, everywhere his finger touched turning black, poking the top of the circle once before moving a hand away, the symbol of a hydrogen atom embedded into his body and forehead forever.
Diana shivered softly, though not from the unnatural coldness in the void of space, nor from the knowledge that soon they would be threatened by the 'Blue Man' and could possibly all be killed, no she was shivering in utter terror at the idea of Shayera returning to earth. The scars across her lover's beautiful face reminded her each day of the bigotry and hatred which man's world harbored, and while she planned to hide her identity, she wouldn't be able to hide her relationship with Shayera, and she didn't want to hide it. This meant she knew her lover would once again be hated by the bigots and homophobes of man's world, and if Shayera was hurt again over this then order from the gods or not she'd never ever return to man's world and would urge Shayera to do the same. Slowly she looked out at the world through her and Shayera's window as she lay in her lover's arms, whispering softly.
"Please show me I'm wrong world, show me I'm wrong to doubt the goodness of all men on the actions of a few"
'The Following Day'
Slowly Diana and Shayera walked together through the Watchtower cafeteria, several heads turning to look up at them. They were still an enigma to most of the Justice League, no one besides the five founders knew who they were, not even super genius Mr Terrific or Doctor Fate had managed to figure out their identities, their eyes scanning over the tables, looking for a place to sit, Shayera rolling her eyes repeatedly every time she looked at the numerous Iced Mochas that Diana had virtually piled onto her tray, scanning the tables, still wanting to avoid men for the most part, it wasn't that she was being sexist, more that groups off too many men tended to intimidate her and caused her to lash out, Booster Gold still being in the infirmary for putting an arm around her when she wasn't expecting it. The only other tables available were one with Black Canary sitting alone, and another with Vixen, Stargirl and Supergirl sitting in place, aka the two worst gossips and one of the women most likely to figure out who Shayera truly was. All in all it was an easy choice.
"You don't mind if we sit here Dinah?" she asked softly, the blonde woman starting before looking up at the two Amazons in surprise.
"No of course not" she replied a little quickly, Shayera raising an eyebrow as she sat, Diana slowly sitting and reaching over to place a hand on the obviously distracted Dinah's shoulder.
"Dinah, what's got you distracted?" she asked softly, the blonde bombshell looking over them both and sighing softly.
"You promise you won't tell anyone?" she asked softly, both women quickly nodding, Dinah giving another soft sigh, "I take it you know what happened to Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl when they were outed as lesbians" she started, seeing their nods and wincing softly, "I, think I'm falling for one of the female leaguers, but I'm scared not only that she'll reject me, but I'll be isolated from everyone like they were" she told them softly, Diana nodding grimly before speaking out
"Dinah, I know what happened to Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman was horrible, but you shouldn't let that get between you and the girl you obviously care for" she told her gently before pulling Shayera against herself, "We don't care what people think of us, we're not going to end our relationship for anything" she whispered before turning and stealing her lover's lips in a deep and loving kiss, Dinah giving a shocked look between the beautiful blonde and red-headed Amazons, just liked everyone else she had known very little about them, including the fact they were a lesbian couple. After a good few minutes of passionate kissing they finally broke apart, ignoring the stares from around the romm before Diana turned her head to smile at Dinah, "You don't need to be ashamed about what you are Dinah" she told her with a grin, Dinah slowly noodding and smiling, leaning over the table to hug both surprised yet grinning Amazons before hurrying off.
'The following day'
Shayera's eyes lit up and lips curled up in a grin, quickly nudging Diana, who turned to look, an identical grin crossing her features, the two women giving a pair of supportive grins towards Dinah as the blonde lady mouthed 'Thank you Mala, Veneleia', her arm wrapped around Helena's midsection, leaning round to peck Huntress on the cheek
A/N: Ok next chapter will have the first 'Skirmish' between the Justice League and the good Doctor. It'll also involve a life changing event for one of the more prominent JLU members (at least in the series), feel free to speculate who it is and what happens lol. Also as a note for the next chapter, the Question and Huntress broke up on good terms (realized they weren't right for one another) between the end of the JLU series and this fic as did Green Arrow and Black Canary for much the same reasons. Another thing which happened was Supergirl returned from the future. As per usual I'm open to ideas and I'd love reviews