(I've been considering another direction in which Johnny/Blackfire could and should go. From purely physical... to something slightly more. :) )
Blackfire looked out the window, and stared at the slowly setting sun. She wiped a tear a way and mumbled to herself, "I wish I could go home."
That day, she had been shown, for the first time, how cruel humans can be to those who are different.
Flashback!
Blackfire grinned as she walked the streets of Jump City. Life was good, nothing to do but explore the city.
Then she bumped into the one person she loathed.
Starfire.
Blackfire narrowed her eyes. "Hello, sister dear." Starfire didn't seem interested in conversation and said, "Please, Komand'r. Not now... I need to be alone." This only angered Blackfire worse. She was about to ask why when a rock went sailing through the air and narrowly missed the girls.
It was three different young men. "Hey, alien freak! Us normal people were talking to you. Just fly back to whatever planet you came from." Starfire shut her eyes and seemed to be trying to ignore them. Blackfire scowled. "What's so wrong with being from another planet?" She asked snidely.
One of them, probably the brains of the group, looked at Blackfire and it quickly clicked she wasn't human. "Hey, your one of them too, aren't you? There is nothing wrong with being from a different planet, as long as you stay there." He grabbed another rock and chucked it at her head. "Go, fly, little alien!" He crowed.
Starfire quickly ran off. Blackfire didn't know what to do. She stood there for another five minutes, taking more and more verbal abuse.
Finally she lost her temper and threw a star bolt. It barely missed the leader and he said, "See? What kinda normal person does that?"
Blackfire flew off in a huff.
End Flashback!
Those words stung. Badly.
Blackfire had grown up a princess, anyone who was dumb enough to insult them would usually get thrown in jail.
There wasn't enough consequences on Earth for being a racist bastard. Or rather, there were and they somehow didn't apply to aliens.
Blackfire had just flown to one of the non-trashed hotel rooms above the base and hoped no one saw her.
"Komand'r?" Damn it.
Blackfire turned away from Johnny. "Shoo. I need to be alone." She hissed.
Johnny hopped onto the window sill next to her. "What's wrong, Komand'r? I haven't seen you all day." Blackfire wiped a tear away from her eyes. "Nothing... just that one thing I forgot about this planet was the... divisions between about who is different."
Normally, things take a while to click in Johnny's brain. For once, it didn't. "What happen, some guy make a crack about your orange skin?" He said bluntly. Blackfire let a small smile quirk onto her face. "Yes, and a bit more. But... Johnny, can I ask you something?"
Johnny nodded. "Shoot." "If someone is not from a certain place... can they not belong with people from that place?" Blackfire asked. Johnny thought. "Course they can." He said.
He smirked and then began explaining. "Think about it. HIVE boarding is pretty diverse." He looked at one of the walls and said, "Thank cripes that Punk thinks maps are decoration." He pointed at the map for each person. "As far as I know, See-More is from New York, Mammoth and Shimmer are from Australia, Gizmo is from Steel City, Kyd Wykkyd... well, all I know it was a monastery at first, but that counts for something. Billy Numerous is from the South, I think Vine City, (I made that up, shut up.) Angel is from Jump City, I can't pronounce where XL Terrestrial is from (this earned a giggle from Blackfire), Cheshire is from Vietnam, Punk Rocket is from Britain, I was born in Star City, but I've lived everywhere, Kitten is also from Jump City, Private Hive is from some city in Michigan, and Red X... I honestly don't have a damn clue, but, hey, I tried." He grinned. "How can we all stay together if we don't belong?"
Blackfire's sad features melted away. "How... how did you find out all of this?" She asked. Johnny shrugged. "Mostly with talking. A lot of it I learned from the queen of blackmail Cheshire." Blackfire smiled. "You aren't as mean as most people think." "Say that again, and I will leave right now."
Blackfire shook her head at Johnny and walked back towards the window. "The moon is almost up..." She murmured. Johnny walked up behind her and said nothing, just placed his arm around her waist and together, they watched the moon come up.
Was it just her imagination, or did her heart rate speed up when he did that?
(slightly different path then when I originally started, but it still worked.
… okay, screw me, I have a thing for sappy endings.
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