Ch18
…Metropolis
The alarm goes off in a bank as 2 bad guys with machine guns shoot the place and make a quick exit holding bags of money. They throw the bags in the backseat of the car and they get on taking off almost running over a couple of pedestrian in the way. Kon-El was in the middle of the road wearing jeans, a black t-shirt that said People say I have a bad attitude I say Fuck'Em. In bold red letters.
The guy puts more gas going almost 80 mph Kon-El stands still when it comes in range he punches the engine, the 2 bad guys go flying out of the window and into a bus, knocking one of them out while the other tries to get up. His head bleeding.
Kon-El turns to them. "I try to take a day off, try to have some sort of normal life but you had to pick today to rob a bank." Kon-El says angry as he starts walking towards them. He guy gets his gun from his ankle and starts shooting at Conner, the bullets bounce off. He runs out of bullets then is about to throw the gun at him. "Yeah that'll work." He says sarcastically, he picks up the guy by his t-shirt.
"Wait! I've learned my lesson. I promise." The guy says desperately.
"No you haven't." Kon-El says to him picks him up over his head and tosses him into the getaway car, the man screams in pain as a couple of bones brake. Kon-El jumps up and on top of the car, he grabs him again. "You're kind never learns and it is really starting to piss me off." he says to him angry about to punch him.
"Kon." Superman says as he flies behind him.
"In a minute." Kon says to him still about to hit the man.
"Kon-El!" Superman yells at him.
"What?!" Kon yells back looking at him annoyed and angry. He realizes that a mob had formed and was taking pictures and video of him with their phones. Kon sighs.
"You've done enough damage, let's go." Superman says to him.
Kon pulls the guy up close. "Sleep with one eye open." He says to him.
They guy was scared and in pain. "I'm sorry! Superman help!"
"Oh yeah, that's work, wuss." Kon says to him as he flies up to meet Superman.
"You are so grounded."
"Good maybe it'll lighten my mood."
"No TV, no internet, Cell Phone, Friends and no fighting crime."
"So what I'm I going to do?"
"Come on Superman, he was just trying to help." A man in the crowd says.
"Thank you." Kon says to him. "See, I was just trying to help." He says as he flies down touching the ground.
"You broke his ribs!"
"I don't know my own strength, I'm just a kid." he says innocently.
"Keep it up, two weeks."
"This is so unfair, I was just trying to have a nice normal Saturday and they bust in and I'm getting grounded, because they're a bunch of homicidal maniacs? Besides you can't ground me."
"Yes I can."
"No you can't."
"Yes I can."
"No you can't."
"Yes I can."
"No you can't."
"Yes I can."
"No you can't."
"Yes I can."
"That's enough!" Wonder woman yells out they hadn't even seen her fly in. "They are cameras everywhere."
"Right, we'll talk about this later." Superman says.
Kon rolls his eyes. "Can't wait."
"Let's go." Wonder woman says and they fly away together.
…Mount Justice
The team was gathered in the briefing room watching a video of Superman and Superboy yelling at each other. They start laughing when they get in a Yes I can, No you can't yelling match.
Conner walks in. "Hey what are you guys-Aw man." He says realizing what they were watching.
"You've gone viral." Dick says to him.
"Are you guys going to start sing anytime soon?" Roy chuckles.
"Shut up." Conner says to him.
"Check it out! I found one that they start to sing." Wally says and plays it, so instead of them yelling at each other it was as if they were singing it. They start laughing again.
"Ha, Ha, Ha. Really funny." Conner says rolling his eyes.
Batman walks in through the zeta tubes. "Superboy, good you're here."
"Bet you never thought you'd hear that." Roy mumbles.
Superman walks in.
"Not for long, I gotta go." Conner says.
Batman looks over at Superman. "Stay." Superman says to him.
"Kal, we've talked about this. I'm not your dog and you can't make me fetch either."
"You're right, I'm sorry." Superman says to him.
Conner looks at him. "What's the catch?" he asks him.
"No, catch." Clark says to him. "But I was wondering if you wanted to meet my parents. Get to know them a little."
"No."
"Good we can-wait what?"
"I said no."
"Why not?"
"I have to go meet the Team." They look at him confused, they were all right there. "Not you, the swim team, we all joined the clean the beach club, cause the coach made the senior and the senior made the junior and so on so forth, so we're all meeting at the beach then we're going get food and hang out afterwards."
"Ok, what about Saturday?"
"Saturday!? The day of rest." Conner asks him shocked.
"I thought that was Sunday." Wally says to him.
"Shut up."
"It is Sunday." Superman says looking at him.
"No, Saturday is the day of pre-rest."
"Pre-rest?" Superman asks crossing his arms.
"Yeah, so that way when you actually get to Sunday you're rested enough to enjoy your rest."
"That makes absolutely no sense."
"It does in my head."
"Thank god, we don't live in there." Roy mumbles.
"Right, so if it makes sense your head-"
"Superman." Batman says to him stopping him.
Superman takes a breath. "You don't want to meet them?" he asks politely.
"See, I really have been getting bad at lying." Conner says to Megan and Zatanna, they nod.
"Conner, they taught me everything I know." Clark says a little upset but trying not to be.
"Yeah."
"What does that mean?"
"Well if I can't get along with you want makes you think I will with them?"
"Conner!"
"Don't get me wrong, I love you but I can't stand you."
"Conner!"
"Hey, I tried to lie to you but you wouldn't have it."
Superman takes a breath trying to remain clam. "Saturday, is my mother's birthday, please be there."
"Fine, but if Kim asks me out on a date, I'm not going."
"Alright, Saturday and don't worry about a present I got us covered."
"Ok, dad." Conner says to him.
"Not funny." Superman says to him.
They look at each other. "Was that it?" Conner asks him.
"Yes." Superman says to him.
"Thank god." He mumbles.
"Yeah, we just came for that and now we gotta go." Superman says to him, Batman walks back to the zeta beams. "Bye." He says and leaves.
"Who's Kim?" Megan asks him curious and a little jealous.
"She's in the swim team she does butterfly stroke, she's impulsive, funny, and she likes science."
They look at him.
"I love the fact when you describe somebody you never say how they look." Zatanna says to him.
"She has red hair, green eyes and white skin with little freckles." Conner says to them.
"So she's a girl version of Wally?" Artemis asks him.
"No she-" Conner stops and thinks then looks at Wally, who smirks at him. "Crap." He mumbles. "Great you've ruined her for me."
"Oh Kim, I know her, you're going to ask her out." Zatanna asks him.
"I don't know, you think I should?" Conner asks her.
"Yeah what are you going to do wait until she asks you?"
"Yes."
"Wait a minute, have you never asked a girl out?" Dick asks him.
"Or a boy?" Roy adds.
"No and no." Conner says to him.
"Seriously?" Kaldur asks a little stunned.
"Yes."
"What about Wendy?" Kaldur asks him, not convinced.
"She asked me."
"Artemis?" Dick asks pointing to her.
"Same thing."
"No I didn't." Artemis says to him.
"Hey Conner you wanna watch a movie? And then during we made out."
"Oh yeah, I forgot."
"And Mike?" Roy asks him.
"He made the first move."
"Man! You've never asked a girl out!" Wally yells out shocked.
"No. Have you?"
"Thousands of times!" Wally yells out, they looked at him, he turns to Artemis. "That doesn't make me sound to good does it?" he asks her, she shakes her head a little and grabs his hand to comfort him a little.
"OK, then how do I do it?"
"Well I'm blunt." Wally asks him. "I usually give her a really good complement or just call them beautiful."
"Dude he's not into looks." Roy says to him.
"Yeah, he's not shallow like you." Zatanna says to him. "I can teach you." She says to him.
"Ok."
"Come on, it'll be fun." She says smiling.
"Ok!" he says with a fake smile.
"That's a good boy." Zatanna says petting his head.
…
"Hey guys." Clark says as he walks in the kitchen/living room with Zatanna, Megan and Kaldur. He was wearing jeans, a white button up shirt untucked, messy hair and glasses.
"Hey Super-" Zatanna starts and looks at him. "Clark." She corrects herself.
"Something wrong?" Kaldur asks him.
"No, I just wanted to talk to Conner, is he around?" Clark asks him.
"Yeah, but he has swim practice." Megan says to him.
"Hello people!" Conner says as he walks in.
"Hey, I wanted to-" Clark starts then looks at him. "What is that?"
"What?" Conner asks him.
"That." Clark says pointing to his shirt.
"That is a shirt." Conner says as he tugs on his 'Step aside coffee this is a job for alcohol.'
"Change."
"What?" he asks confused.
"Go to your room and change your shirt."
"I like this shirt."
"How can you like that shirt?"
"It brings out my eyes." Conner says as he blinks showing his eyes.
"I'm not letting you go to school with a shirt that promotes both coffee and alcohol, you will wear proper school attire, and that is not proper school attire. Now go to your room and change into something that won't get you kicked out of school."
Conner sighs. "Whatever you say." He says and walks off. "Dad." He adds.
Megan, Zatanna and Kaldur giggle quietly.
Happy harbor High School…pool
"I can't believe you're walking me to school." Conner says to him as he walks to the gym in a 'I may be crazy but at least I have each other.' T-shirt black with yellow letters.
"Conner I'm just trying to get you open up."
"What are you talking about? I'm as open as a book." Conner says as he opens the door and walks in the gym, it was kinda empty. Conner walks over to a blue door at the side that said Boys and opens it Clark walks in with him Conner stops him. "What are you doing?"
"What?"
"This is the locker room."
"Yes."
"You are not coming in there with me. I'm not that pathetic. Go do something come back in 2 hours." He says as he closes the door.
…
"Hey Conner." A girl with red hair tied in a braid and green eyes with a yellow and black swim suit comes up to him as he sits by the pool with Sam talking taking a 5 minute break.
"Hey Kim." Conner says looking down at her in the pool.
"Wanna swim." She asks him. "I'll race ya." She says smiling.
"Sure." Conner says to her she pulls herself up and they both walk over to the stands.
"Good luck!"
"I don't need it." Kim says to him.
"I meant Conner."
Conner scoffs and walks over to the stands. They both jump up to them, the hear Sam yell out ready set, go! They both dive in doing the butterfly stroke. Conner wins by a couple of seconds.
"You totally cheated on that kick!" Kim yells at him as she gets out of the pool.
"Ha! Come on don't be a sore loser." Conner says as he gets out of the pool following her.
"Hey, I'm not the one who cheated."
"I did not cheat." He says to her.
"I know how you can make it up to me." Kim says to him.
"What's that?" Conner asks her.
Coach Kipling blows the whistle. "Everybody out! Time to go home!" he yells out.
Kim turns to him. "I'll tell you later." She says to him and runs out to the girl's locker room. Conner watches her go in with the rest of the 5 girls in the team, and the other 3 boys including Mike.
Sam walks over to him and puts his arm around him. "Dude, it wouldn't kill you to let her win." He says to him.
"Are you kidding? She'd kick my ass for pretending." Conner says to him.
Sam chuckles. "I know, you can invite her over for the beach clean-up."
"I don't know."
"Hey what are you guys talking about?" Riki asks walks over to them dripping wet as he just came out of the pool.
"Conner asking Kim out." Sam says to him.
"Really?" Riki asks shocked.
"What? She's not good enough for our secret weapon?" Sam asks him.
Conner turns to him. "Weapon?"
"Yeah, you know, you being really good at swimming."
"Right." Conner says to him, he had hear that word in a while, forgotten how pathetic it made him feel.
"Conner?" Clark waves over for him.
"I'll be right there." Conner says to him.
"That your dad?" Sam asks him.
"No." Conner snaps at him.
"Sorry." Sam says to him.
"I gotta go." Conner says quickly and leaves.
"You know what's weird." Riki says to Sam.
"That Conner and that guy look alike and that we've never actually meet Conner's parents." Sam says to him.
"No, well yeah but their brothers so it's not that weird, but I thought he and Mike had a thing."
"What kind of thing?" Sam asks him confused.
"Never mind."
…Mount Justice
"What are you wearing to my mom's birthday?" Clark asks him as they walk in the cave.
Conner looks at him. "I was going to wear this invention called clothes."
"Come on." Clark says to him and they walk over to Conner's room.
They both go in Conner's room and Clark goes over to the closet looking at Conner's clothes, his jeans, different types of boots-winter boots, combat boots some looked worn out others looked brand new and converse shoes but most of his clothes where black with letters.
"Conner do you have something that doesn't have letters in it?" Clark asks him as he pulls out a shirt that said Yes I'm Evil…but it's the fun kind of evil in bold red yellow letters.
"You have a problem with my wardrobe, shocking." Conner says sarcastically as he sits down on his bed.
"Do me a favor, you know how you normally behave with me?" Clark asks him as he goes through Conner's clothes.
"Distant and miserable?" Conner asks him.
"Yeah. Do the opposite." Clark says as he pulls out a gray button up shirt. "Here wear this." He says to him. "And you can wear jeans if you want."
"Really? That's so great Kal. Thank you so much." Conner says to him.
"You are such a smartass."
"Only when threaten."
"Go take a proper shower and we can go."
"Fine." Conner says and takes off his shirt, shoes, socks, pants, goes over to a drawer and pulls out boxers.
Clark sees something on Conner's shoulder blade and walks over to Conner. "What is that?" he says as he touches his skin on his back the words Wild & Free.
"It's a tattoo." Conner says to him, he was just guessing that that was what he was referring too.
"How did you get a tattoo?" Clark asks him as his scratches at it wondering if it was real.
"Magic shop, it hurt. You should get one."
"Not in a million years." he says as he scratches him with his nail.
"Don't worry, it'll wear off in a month."
"You could have just said that from the start."
"What's the fun in that?" Conner shrugs. "Oh by the way if I'm wearing that shirt, I'm wearing my leather jacket."
"Do I have a say in the matter?"
"No."
…Smallville
"Whoa, small, I know why it's call Smallville." Conner says as he looks around the farm, cow eating, horses running around after each other playing chickens walking lose in the dirt.
"Don't be a snob." Clark says to him holding a present wrapped with colorful colors in his hands.
"Hey, I live in a cave, remember." Conner says to him as he goes over to the back of the truck gets bags of things out and walk up to the house.
"My bad." Clark says to him as they walk up to the door and walk in. "Dad!? Mom!?"
"They must be-"
"Shh." Clark says to him.
"Well that's not very nice." Conner crosses his arms pouting.
"Start decorating." Clark says to him as he grabs a bag from Conner.
"Can I use superspeed?"
"Yes." Clark says as he goes through the bag. "Just make sure that-"
Conner superspeeds. "Done." He says as he sits down on the couch. "No Tv?" he asks looking around for the tv.
Clark looks around the kitchen with birthday banner, balloons-red, green, blue, white, colorful streamers hanging from the ceiling. He turns to look at Conner. "It's right there." He says pointing to an old TV set.
"So what now?"
"Mom and dad should be here soon."
"Ok, so we wait?" he says as he pulls out his phone from his leather jacket.
"Yup."
"I guess you wouldn't be ok with me leaving huh?"
"No, I would not." Clark says to him as he sits next to him. Conner plays on his phone, Clark looks over his shoulder. "What are you playing?" he asks him.
"Candy crush, it's addictive." He says to him.
"Oh it's like with patters? It's a game?"
"Yeah it has candy, you have lives and limited moves."
"Get that one." He says to him.
"Which one?"
"That one." Clark says as he runs his finger sliding it.
"Nice." Conner says. "Do you play?"
"No."
"Do you have a facebook account?"
"Yeah, I have too because of work, it gets me noticed."
"Well come on, whip it out, let's play."
…
"Get that one." Conner says to Clark leaning over him.
"I can't I have two move left." Clark says to him.
"Get the green one."
"I'll get the yellow one and it'll come down on the green ones."
"Get the blue one." Conner says not listening to him.
"Clark?" Martha says as she walks in.
"Hey mom." Clark says as he continues to play forgetting for a second that it was supposed to be a surprise. "MOM!" he yells out.
"Surprise!" Conner yells out standing up holding a party popper popping it, then blowing a whistle.
"Happy birthday." Clark says to her with a smile.
Jonathan chuckles. "Happy birthday sweetie." He says to her kissing her cheek.
"Thank you." Martha says to them. "And you must be Conner."
Conner blows the whistle again.
…
"I got you a present too." Conner says as he pulls out an envelope from his jacket pocket that he hadn't taken off.
"Conner I told you I had us covered." Clark says a little alarmed.
"It's her birthday Kal." Conner says as he gives her the envelope.
"Well thank you Conner." Martha says politely then opens it and sees the multi-color butterflies on it with shiny glitter. "Oh it's beautiful." She says as she shows it to Jonathan and Clark they smile at it then she opens it and reads out loud. "It is scientifically proven that people who have more birthdays live longer." She smiles. "We also have a credit Card." she says pulls it out, it said happy birthday.
"It has thousand dollars, you can spend it however you want." Conner says to her, Martha looks at him stunned.
"How did you get thousand dollars?" Clark asks him.
"I gamble." He says sarcastically.
"Conner."
"Relax ok, it's my allowance."
"You have a thousand dollar allowance." Jonathan asks him and looks at Clark.
"No, I have a 100 dollar allowance, I saved up."
"100 dollar allowance?" Jonathan asks him stunned.
"I have a lot of chores." Conner says to him.
"You do?" Clark asks him.
"I do, I clean, do the dishes and maintain all the motorcycles and I sometimes cook." Conner says to him. "So we did food, cake and presents. Can we go now?"
"Conner." Clark says to him.
"Kim texted me, she wants to meet me." Conner says to him.
"Who's Kim?" Martha asks him interested.
"She's a girl in the swim team." Conner says to her. "We've been flirting for the past couple of days." He turns to Clark. "Please."
"Go Conner." Martha says to him.
"Thank you, you're the best." Conner says to her. "I'll give you the same speech Clark gives me. Don't spend it all in one place." He says to Martha.
"Funny that's the same speech Jonathan used to give Clark when he picked up a quarter he found." Martha says to him as she grabs Conner's phone which was in the coffee table and walks over to him.
Conner chuckles as she gives him the phone. "That's funny, you sure you raised him?" he asks her pointing to Clark.
"Yes." Martha says as she fixes Conner's collar on his jacket.
"Guess it didn't take huh?" Conner says to her.
"You'd be surprised." Martha says to him and hugs Conner, which made Conner feel uncomfortable so he pulled away from her without hugging her back.
"Ok well, happy birthday." He says as he walks backwards. "You guys know that I'm super, right?"
"Yes, we do." Martha says to him.
"Bye." Conner says to them and teleports out.
"Well that's different." Jonathan says a little stunned by how he left.
"Sorry, he wasn't supposed to do that." Clark says to them.
"He's fine, Clark." Martha says to him as she goes to sit next to him.
"A bit of a smartass, if you ask me." Jonathan says honestly.
"But he's a good boy I'm sure." Martha says.
"You two must hate each other."
"Why do you say that?" Clark asks him, they were both on their best behavior.
"Because you two are exactly alike."
"No we're not." Clark says to him. "We fight about everything."
"He worships you Clark." Martha says to him.
"That's what people keep telling me. I don't see it." Clark says to them, they look at him. "You think it's possible for two people who don't get along, can actually have something in common?" he asks them.
"In my experience, when a father and son don't get along, it usually means they've got everything in common." Martha says to him with a smile.
"Let's clean up." Jonathan says.
"I'll help."
"No, you are the birthday girl. You stay." He says to her and gives her a kiss.
Martha smiles at him as he goes over to the kitchen starting to clean up, she looks at Clark, Clark looks back at her. "So what's new with you?" she says, he smiles at her.
…Mount Justice
"Good morning!" Conner says as he walks in the living room where Roy, Megan, and Zatanna where eating. "How did everyone sleep last night?"
"Well look whose chipper." Roy says as he looks at Conner going over to the counter grabbing a glass of orange juice.
"Why not? It's a beautiful Sunday morning, we got pancakes, eggs, bacon. Who doesn't like bacon?"
"Vegetarians?" Zatanna says to him.
"Ha! That's funny and true!" Conner yells out smiling.
"Wow Conner I don't think I've ever seen you this happy." Megan says smiling.
"You got laid last night didn't you?" Roy asks him.
Conner drinks his orange juice. "Yes."
Roy sighs. "I miss sex."
"That's disgusting! We're eating and you're talking about sex, what is wrong with you!?" Megan yells at them.
"You're upset?" Conner asks her shocked.
"Yes Conner, I am." Megan says angry and walks off.
"What? Why? Megan?" Conner calls out her and looks at Roy and Zatanna who were eating their bacon and eggs.
"She's jealous." Zatanna says to him.
"Of what?"
"She likes you moron." Roy says to him.
"What? No she doesn't."
"Didn't you guys go out on a date?" Zatanna asks him.
"No, not really. It was just a movie. And if it was it was just a flirtation. And if it was a date it was just one. Yeah we kissed but it was only for like 6 seconds…" Conner says and pauses. "I don't know, I don't even know what dating is anymore."
Roy looks at him. "Well, that's 20 seconds of my life I'm never going to get back." He says finishing his food, stands up walking away.
"You're a big help!" Conner yells out, he turns to Zatanna. "Well."
"I have a date with Dick and I'm going not going to tell him we kissed."
"Well, that's kinda what we were just talking about." Conner says a little confused. "When did we kiss?"
"You don't remember?"
Conner looks at her trying to remember. "Oh yeah…" he says as he thinks back. "I thought it was a hallucination." He shrugs.
"It was real and I'm trying to apologize for being such a b-i-t-c-h, so don't tell him ok."
"Ok." Conner says to her, Zatanna finishes her food and walks off. "Wait what about me?"
"Apologize, now let's go we have school." She says to him as she leaves.
"goodbye good mood." He mumbles to himself.
Happy Harbor school…Lunch
"So you had another nightmare huh?" Zatanna asks Conner as they walk over to the table in the cafeteria.
"Yeah."
"Oh sweetie, I'm sure they'll go away soon."
"I've been going up in space, and just standing right next to the sun, maybe if I recharge I won't need to sleep anymore."
"Maybe you should talk to Dinah, she gives really good advice."
"Yeah I-"
"Guys over here!" Karen waves over to them, Mal, Kim, Mike, Riki and Megan.
"What you guys reading?" Zatanna asks siting down.
"It's the school's newspaper."
"We have a newspaper?" Conner asks genuinely shocked as he sits down next to Zatanna.
"Silly boy." Wendy says to him.
"Conner what's your sign?" Karen asks him flipping through the paper.
"I have no idea what that is."
"When's your birthday?"
"March 21."
"Ok, that lands you on…" Karen says as she looks for the date. "You are an Aries."
"What does that mean?"
"It means you are, Independent, Generous, Optimistic, Enthusiastic, and Courageous."
"I like being Aries."
Wendy takes the paper away from Karen. "It also means you are Moody, Short tempered, Self-involved, Impulsive, and Impatient."
"Yup that's you." Zatanna says.
"Ok, I changed my mind."
"Let me see that." Zatanna says, Wendy gives her that paper. "Check this out Conner." She clears her throat a bit. "The Aries Sex zodiac sign is straightforward, aggressive and adventurous and this is reflected in their approach to sex. Expect it to be physical, and rough, they like to dominate and have the upper position."
"I agree." Wendy says.
"Me too." Kim says with a smile, Wendy turns to look at Kim surprised.
"Why I'm I getting picked on?" Conner asks innocently.
"Not one to mess with. The Aries are funny, excellent kisser. Extremely adorable, loves relationships, and family is very important to an Aries. Aries are known for being generous and giving. Addictive. Loud. Always has the need to be 'Right'. Aries will argue to prove their point for hours and hours." Zatanna takes a breath. "Aries are some of the most wonderful people in the world."
"Oh I like the last part."
"It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday, everybody is looking forward to the weekend." Megan sings mumbling to herself.
"Seriously?" Karen asks her eyebrow raised sitting beside her listening to her.
"Partyin', partyin', yeah! Partyin', partyin' Yeah!" Conner says as he pumps his fists.
"My god, your weird." Wendy says to him.
"You had sex with him." Zatanna points out.
"Thank you." Wendy says sarcastically.
"We should do something."
"Partyin?" Karen says with a smile.
"Bonfire." Conner says.
"You have the greatest ideas." Mike says to him.
"Are you being sarcastic, cause sometimes I can't tell."
"I'll bring the tequila."
"I'll make jello shots at home." Karen says.
"Should it just be us or everyone?" Megan asks.
"Everyone who?" Karen asks.
"Everyone in school."
"Party planning is not my thing, I'm done eating." Kim says standing up. "Conner wanna go make out."
"Yes please." Conner says standing up. "Burger for you." Says as he gives his burger to Mike.
"Thanks." Mike says.
"Fries for you." He says to Zatanna.
"I feel so loved."
"Chocolate milk for you."
"Thank you Conner." Megan says.
Conner walks over to Kim, Kim grabs his hand, he picks it up and kisses it. "Such a gentlemen."
"Always." Conner says to her then turns to the table of his friends then stands on top of the chair and whistles loudly, they all turn to look at him. "Attention everyone! Saturday bonfire, bring food, bring alcohol, and HEY someone bring some music but if it's Justin Bieber you will be severe mocked! At 8, Party on!" he jumps off the table.
"You're crazy." Kim says to him.
"Well yeah, it makes life interesting." Conner says to her, she grabs his hand, they walk off hand in hand. "We are going to have sex right?" he whispers to her.
"Yes we are."
"Cool." Conner says with a smile and gives her a kiss on the cheek.
"That guy is crazy." Mal says to them.
"Why are we friends with him again?" Sam asks Riki and Mike, Riki shakes his head and shrugs.
"He's the best swimmer in the Team." Mike tells him.
"Right, right."
"Is there any way we can stop being friends with him?" Mal asks.
"Nope." Karen says to him.
"He's my best friend." Zatanna shrugs.
"I enjoy his company to much." Megan says.
"Me too." Wendy says.
…Mount Justice
"Hey Dick how was your date?" Conner asks as Dick walks in and Conner looks over at the oven waiting for the timer to go off.
"It was good."
"Just good?"
"We're thinking of getting back together." Dick says to him as he walks over to the counter and sits down.
"Good." Conner says looking back at the timer.
"What are you doing?"
"Cookies for Megan, macadamia, they're her favorite." He says not taking his eyes off the timer.
"You did something wrong?"
"Yeah, but don't worry I won't bore you with the details, I did something wrong and now I'm apologizing."
"So I need to talk to you."
Conner turns to him and goes over to the counter leaning over. "Sound serious, what's up?"
"I need you to tell me the truth. The cold hard truth." Dick says to him and waits for confirmation.
"Ok."
"Swear?"
"I swear on my S shield."
"Ok." Dick says and takes a breath. "Did you and Zatanna have sex?"
"No." Conner says to him.
"Did you guys do other stuff?"
"We kissed but we were both kinda ya know…high, I guess would be the word."
"Just a kiss?"
"Yeah."
"Nothing else?"
"No." Conner says to him, Dick looks at him trying to see if he was lying. "Do I need to make cookies for you too?"
Dick grins. "Nah, I'm good." He says to him.
"Ok." Conner says to him. "My turn." He says to him Dick looks at him a little confused. "So I went to Clark's mother's birthday yesterday."
"Oh yeah, how was that?"
"It was great."
"Except?"
"Except…ok you have a mom and dad right?"
"Had, they died remember."
"Right, right, had sorry." Conner says to him. "So you're mom she hugged you right?"
"Yeah, all the time, it's kinda what moms do."
"And how did it make you feel?"
"Is this a therapy session?"
"Just answer the question."
"I don't know…safe, secure…loved."
"Really?"
"Yeah, why?"
"No reason." Conner says to him, Dick was about to say something when the oven beeps. Conner goes over to the oven opens it and takes out the tray.
"Wait, you'll-" Dick starts and looks at him as he holds the tray. "Never mind." He says to him, he forgot that fire didn't hurt him.
"Did you want one?"
"Nah." He says to him then looks at the cookies. "Ok just one wouldn't hurt." He says.
Metropolis…Daily Planet
"How many 'p's' in 'therapist?" Lois Lane asks out of her desk, she was wearing, a fancy red shirt with a short black skirt and high heels.
"One Lois." Clark says to her as he sits on chair in front of her desk.
"Thanks Smallville." She says to him as she types. "Hey look at that, if you put a space in therapist, you get the rapist that's kind of clever." She says to him. "Kina of." She mumbles, he sighs annoyed. "Clark, give me just a few more seconds and we can grab some dinner."
"I knew putting a florist in the lobby of this building was a good idea." A man's voice says as he puts a bouquet of yellow flower in front of her.
"Who-?"
"How's my favorite gal reporter?" Bruce says as he looks at her.
"Bruce!" Lois yells out stand up running up and hugging him.
"Lois, I'm not sure that P.D.A is the most appropriate form of behavior with the owner of the Daily Planet." Clark says as he looks at them.
"P.D.A?" Bruce asks as she puts her head on his chest.
"Public display of affection." She says to him pulling away from him. "You can take the boy out of Kansas Bruce but can't take the Kansas out of the boy." She says letting him go.
"Lucius warned me you might be dropping in." Perry White says as he walks over to them. "Buy you a drink?"
"That depends have you run my newspaper into the ground yet?" Bruce asks him teasing as he gives the flowers to Lois.
"Not for a lack of trying." Perry jokes.
"Everybody in the ground now!" a man says and starts shooting up the place, everyone ducks.
"Toy's are my favorite thing in the world." A chubby man in green jacket, long brown hair in a ponytail, glass, red vest with a box tie, brown pants with yellow strips says to himself. He puts down a small toy soldier on the ground all the lights, phones, computer, watches, and AC go off. "Good toy soldier." He says as he picks it up then looks around everyone was down in the ground. "Now can Bruce Wayne please stand up." He says. Nobody makes a sound. Clark and Bruce both look at each other. Bruce shakes his head, Toyman had just fired an EMP field, his com wasn't working. "Oh Bruce Wayne I know you're in here, if you don't come out I'll start killing. Is that what you want?" Toyman asks him.
Bruce stands up. "Looking for me?" he asks.
"Atta boy." Toyman says with a smile. "Grab him." he says to his lackies. "You're going to give us some money."
…Mount Justice
"The place is surrounded by Toyman's men and there are explosives all over the doors. We can't even get a camera in there, they have an EMP field." Black Canary says to the team.
"What about under?" Aqualad asks.
"Under?" she asks him.
"The sewers, we can go in from there." Aqualad explains. "Then we can split up take out the men and the explosives."
"Yes, that could work." Black Canary says to the team as they stand in the briefing room. They nod understanding. "Good, now all we need is a distraction."
They all turn to Superboy, Superboy looks back at them then smiles.
…Metropolis
Police surround the Daily Planet as hostages are being taken in, the Toyman men inside with guns, the doors had explosives anyone came near it, it would probably blow up killed them. Toyman was outside in the roof setting up a toygun on that way when Superman showed up he could simply blast him away until Bruce Wayne gave him the money.
"Rain, rain go away little Johnny wants to play." Toyman says as clicks buttons in his machine make a purple blast straight for the police line. Toyman laughs when he hears an explosions then it slowly fades when he realizes it made no contact with the police. "Hey what's the big idea!" he yells out.
"That wasn't very nice." Superboy says his arms crossed floating in mid-air.
"HEY! It's Superman!" a police officer yells out.
"Isn't he kinda small?" another officer asks looking up.
"Who cares!?"
"Go kick ass!"
"Well they don't like you very much do they?" Superboy asks him.
Toyman zooms in with his machine making a bulleye. "Not Superman?" he says confused. "Get out of the way brat!" he yells out.
"Make me!" Superboy yells out.
"Make me?" Toyman says even more confused, Superman didn't talk like that. "Make me?" he says again. "Oh I'll make you!" he yells out and moves over to his toy gun. "Superman's brat causing trouble." He mumbles to himself as he fires another blast.
Superboy flies taking it head first crashing. "Is that it?" he asks him.
"Little snot nose brat!" Toyman yells out. "Take this!" he yells out and sends out a barrage of blast all around the building. "You can't deflect them all kid!" he yells out as he continues to blast everywhere, Superboy super speeds catching all of them, his shirt and jeans getting torn. Toyman press a button for a mega-blast and release it into a building. Toyman laughs out loud then looks mid-air where he had fired his last blast and sees Superboy standing, he frowns.
"Hey that was a clever idea Toyman! Attacking everything all at once!" Superboy yells out, Toyman growls in frustration. "No really and then that last blast, Whoa yeah, I could have been killed." He says smiling patronizing him. "Maybe I am exaggerating a little bit, but I could have at least gotten bruise or a little cut." He says as he looks at himself, his combat jeans torn, his shirt ripped but not a scratch on him.
"That it! Release the spiders!" Toyman yells out, 10 mechanical spiders come out of the Daily Planet's windows they crawling out of the building to the ground attacking the police they start firing at them.
Superboy glares and flies down punching-breaking, kicking-destroying them. A spider then gets on top of him and uses his metal leg tries to stab him, Superboy grabs it first before making contact with his face. Superboy disassembles it and stands up dusting off some of the metal fragments he then takes off his ripped off shirt.
"You done?!" Superboy yells out with a smile.
"How did you do that?!" Toyman yells out angry. Superboy teleports in front of him and touches him, teleports back to the police. Toyman screams. "What the hell!?"
Superboy smirks. "It's over." He says to him.
Toyman takes out a piece of green kryptonite from his jacket pocket. "NO it's not!" Everyone gasps, the kid had the S meaning he was vulnerable to kryptonite. Superboy looks at him and raises an eyebrow with a small smile. "What? Why isn't it working?" he asks.
"Check the expiration date?" Superboy asks him walking over to him using his heat vision to vaporize the small shard.
Toyman crawls away on his back, Superboy grabs him from his jacket. "I'm not finished yet!" He yells out and takes out a pen. "Stay back!" Superboy takes a step back. "You see, I actually have the upper hand. Move one inch and we all die!"
"Really?" Superboy asks him. "Go ahead, press that little red button. I'd like to see what happens."
"I'm not kidding, I'll blow this whole street off the map."
"I'm 100 percent sure, I won't die, so go ahead. Do it." Superboy says to him then smirks. "I dare ya."
Toyman press it, everyone tenses up waiting to die, nothing happens. Toyman press it again, nothing happen. He clicks and clicks it and clicks it. "Oh no." he says as he rolls his eyes. "Oh well, off to prison I go." He says as he stands up raising his hands up surrendering.
Superboy grabs him by this shirt. "We need to have a little chat first." He says to him and flies directly up.
"Is he allowed to do that?" a police officer asks.
"You want to stop him? Be my guest."
They hear a scream as Toyman free-falls down they get out of the way and he stops 5 inches off the ground, Toyman still screaming not knowing he had already stopped. Superboy touches down and let's Toyman fall the extra 5 he grunts and opens his eyes he was crying and he had actually peed himself, he was shaking and he looks at Superboy.
"Now what did we learn today?" Superboy asks him.
"Don't try to…kidnap Bruce…Wayne." Toyman stammers.
"And?"
"No…more bombs."
"And?"
"Don't…attacked…Daily Planet."
"Good boy." Superboy says to him.
"Kon-El?" Superman says as he flies down next to him.
"Hey, just in time." Superboy says to him. "Look I caught Toyman." He says as he points to Toyman who was in the fetal positions sucking his thumb. "Not much of a man is he?"
"What did you say to him?" Superman asks him.
"Long story." Superboy shrugs.
"Hey kid." a woman in a long brown coat, slacks, boy cut blonde hair calls out as she walks over to them.
"Captain Sawyer nice to see you're ok." Superman says politely.
"I am." Captain Sawyer says to him.
"Sorry I wasn't here on time, I had other responsibilities." Superman says to her. "I hope my brother was a nice stand in."
"Brother?" Captain Sawyer asks.
"Right, you haven't met yet." Superman says. "Captain Sawyer this is Kon-El, Superboy , Kon this is Captain Sawyer." He says introducing them.
"Huh." Superboy says.
"That's 'Hello, nice to meet you' in slacker." Superman says.
"You don't need me down here, do you?" Superboy says bored and walks off.
"I'm sorry Captain. He's just-"
"Oh please, forget it." Captain Sawyer says to him. "It's nice to know we have another hero in this town. A little rough around the edges but I'm sure he'll fit in nicely."
…Gotham Academy
Zatanna is standing outside the castle looking school, wearing black and purple long socks up her knees, black books, black skirt, purple with tiny skulls on it, Conner standing beside her Even if the voices are not real…they have some good ideas. red shirt and white letters, he was looking up at the building.
"I remember it being smaller." Conner says arms crossed.
"Yeah. And less…" Zatanna starts and pauses.
"Off with their heads." He finishes her sentence.
"Yeah!" She tilts her head and peers up at the building.
He turns to look at her and tilts his head as well. "What are you looking at?" he asks her.
"I'm just trying to see if there's a hunchback up in that bell tower."
Conner chuckles, Zatanna smiles. "Boyfriend!" she yells out as she sees Dick.
Dick walks over to her. "What are you doing here?" he asks her.
"I don't have a girlfriend but I'm confident enough to say, you shouldn't have said that." Conner says to Dick.
"Go stand over there." Zatanna says to Conner pointing at the wall, he walks off.
"Sorry, I'm just surprised you're here that's all." Dick says to her, he leans forward and gives her a kiss on her cheek.
"Ok."
"Ok, so, what are you guys doing here?" Dick asks her.
"Shopping."
"Shopping?"
"Well, we ditched school, went to the park, went to the movies, the mall, we went to the library, then we came here."
"You ditched school?"
"And we went to the mall." Conner says behind him with a smile. "And I had a giant pretzel for the first time."
"He really liked it." Zatanna says Dick.
"So what now?"
"Now, we go save people."
"No way."
"Gee Kon, did he say no."
"I believe he did Zee."
"What's even more shocking is that-"
"He thinks he has a choice?" Conner asks her finishing her sentence.
"Yup."
"I'm not going." Dick says and walks off back into the building.
"I think he does have a choice."
Zatanna walks after. "Dick, come on please, it'll be fun."
"No, I can't I have the thing."
"What thing?"
"The thing that I can't talk about with other people."
"He's not even paying attention."
"I recognize this building." Conner says looking around looking at the lockers.
"See, he's like a dog when he sees something shiny."
"Seriously, it's like I've been here before." Conner says looking around. "Did you just call me a dog?"
"Yes."
"Can I be a Germen Shepard? No, no, no Dalmatian oh wait Rottweiler, yeah Rottweiler."
"What is wrong with you?" Dick asks him.
"What do you mean? You think I should be a Germen Shepard?" Conner asks him.
Zatanna looks at Conner out of the corner of her eye then looks at Dick. "Anyway…we can wait for you, so an hour?"
"An hour."
Zatanna takes a step forward giving him a kiss on the lips. "I'll be waiting."
"Dick, we're going to be late for the mathlete club." Babs says as she walks up to him.
"Hi." Zatanna says.
"Hi."
"Hi, Conner."
"Hi, Babs, how are you?"
"Good, healthy."
"The best kind." Conner says with a smile.
"I'm Zatanna, Dick's girlfriend, how do you two know each other?"
"I was at Dick's birthday party first time I ever played seven minutes in heaven."
"You and Babs."
"No Babs and-"
"Nevermind!" Dick yells out.
"I don't remember him." Conner says confused.
"We gotta go." Dick says as he grabs Babs hand and fast runs off.
"Pick you up in an hour!" Zatanna yells out for Dick as they turn a corner of lockers. "That was weird." She says confused to Conner. "They kissed right?" she asks.
"Yes." Conner says as he looks around. "The Amazo fight!" he yells out. "The robot, he threw me right here and punched me right through the science class and into the gym."
"Seriously?"
"Come on, I'll show you."
"Wait a minute, we're not allowed back here." Zatanna says not moving an inch.
"I know. I know, it's a high security post." Conner says grabbing her hand pulling her.
…1 hour
Conner and Zatanna look at the door, where they could hear a teacher talking, Conner opens the door.
"Sorry, Dick? You ready to go?" Conner asks him.
"Not yet."
"How much longer?" Zatanna asks shy as she stands behind Conner.
"A week?" Dick says to him.
"Dick-" Conner whines.
"You guys can sit." Dick suggests.
"Half an hour?"
"Fine, then I'm yelling Attica." Conner says as he sits down slouching.
"Hi, I'm Zatanna, the boy with the attitude is Conner, I'm going to go sit next to him."
"A professor at M.I.T. presented this problem. It took his students six weeks to crack it. Sort of a mathematical Mount Everest if you will." They're teacher-Mr. Hooper says as he writes down the problem with red marker on the white board.
Babs, Dick and 4 other students write down the problem in their notebooks and try to decipher it.
"This is the worst ditch day ever." Conner mumbles to her, he takes out his cell phone playing don't tap the white as soon as the classical music comes on, they all turn to look at him.
"Conner the music." Zatanna says embarrassed.
He puts it on mute.
…30 minutes
Zatanna and Conner were at the back of the classroom as a teacher-Mr. Hooper, Dick, Babs and 4 other students talked about a problem on the board still trying to solve it and failing each time. Dick had giving Zatanna and Conner a couple of papers and they had been doodling on them.
"I feel like I'm being held hostage." Conner says panicking.
"Conner-" Zatanna says as she
"Half an hour, 30 minutes. If this was a hostage situation we've been hold up for ransom."
"Don't be so dramatic."
"You wanna see dramatic?"
"No." she says quickly.
Conner stands up from the desk and walks straight to the white board grabbing the eraser and erasing all of the numbers that Dick, Babs and the other 4 students had made all of their hard work.
"What the hell!?"
"What are you doing?"
"Conner!" Dick yells at him.
"Dick stop him!" Babs says angry.
Conner ignored them and grabbed a black marker writing down the numbers answering the problem. Mr. Hooper gets up from his desk looking at him as he answers the college level problem. Conner finishes and circles the answer at the end.
"I did not ditch school today to end my night in school." Conner says to Dick. "Zatanna let's go, Dick we will wait for you outside."
"I'd apologize for his behavior but he's right." Zatanna says to them and walks out of the classroom. "It was nice meeting you guys." She waves good bye.
"He must have search it on the internet…no student here could possibly solve this on his own." Mr. Hooper says as he looks at the problem, all of the students start to pack up. "Richard, does he go to our school?" he asks as him as he looks at the solved problem still shocked.
"No, sir he doesn't." Dick says to Mr. Hooper. "I should-"
"Let's go meet your friend."
"You don't want to meet Conner sir, he's crazy."
"Let's go Mr. Grayson."
Conner was outside with Zatanna waiting for Dick to come out with Mr. Hooper. "Dude! If you move any slower, you'll be extinct." Conner yells out at him.
"Sorry, this is Mr. Hooper, he wanted to talk to you for some reason."
"Where do you go to school?"
"Happy Harbor, Rhode Island."
"We're here visiting Dick." Zatanna says trying to make it seem possible for a reason two teenagers visiting Gotham in the middle of the week.
"Okay, how did you do it? The Fourier series? You used Bessel functions. Kronecker delta."
"I just looked at it and I knew." Conner shrugs.
"So, you just solved a grad school-level math problem and you can't tell me how?"
"I'm weird like that." Conner says with a smile. "We should get going."
"Are you in the math club?"
"No, I'm the swimming club, team…club."
"It's Team sweetie." Zatanna says to him.
"Swim Team."
"Like I said he's crazy." Dick says to him.
"Let's go!" Zatanna yells.
"Hold on, Conner you have an amazing gift, you should talk to your parents about putting you in high math class. Where do you think we'd be today if Mr. Newton took the easy way out."
"My parents are very famous and have a fear of me lowering the family name." Conner says to him sarcastically. "Plus Mr. Newton didn't have the internet or movies he had no choice but to work endlessly on math problems. And let's face it are we really better off knowing that two plus two equals four. I mean when you're really think about it aren't numbers a bit superficial and us as human beings shouldn't we pull away from that sort of thing wouldn't we be better off without them?"
Mr. Hooper looks at him. "No." he says hesitantly.
"Nice come back." Zatanna says to him. "Let's get going." She says as she grabs Conner hand then Dick's.
Dick looks back at Mr. Hooper as Zatanna drags them both away. "Like I said, he's crazy."
…Beach
It was dawn already some random people at the beach, other students in there bathing suits, some people playing in the water.
"Alright, we got food, we are drunk, we need a game." Karen says with smile as the fire was burning they were sitting down besides each other. "I propose a truth or dare game."
"I'm all for it!" Zatanna yells.
"What's that?" Conner asks, they look at him. "You guys know I'm weird now come on, explain the game for me."
"You can have a choice between answering a question truthfully, or performing a dare."
"Dares include nudity." Riki says.
"What?!" Wendy yells.
"No way!" Karen yells out.
"I'm cool with that." Mal says with a smile, Karen hits him.
"Me too." Conner says.
"Conner!" Zatanna and Kim yell at him.
"Nothing to be ashamed off ladies, you have great bodies."
Kim turns to Zatanna. "It's really hard to be mad at him isn't it?"
"It's like being mad at a golden retriever, it just doesn't happen."
Megan stands up. "Well all of this is great, but I have to go home."
"Home?" Zatanna asks.
"The party just started." Conner says.
"You're not drunk are you?" Karen asks. "Oh designative driver." She signs to Conner.
"I'm not drunk." Megan says. "I just have to go home, my uncle is waiting. It was fun, bye guys."
"Is she still mad at me?" Conner asks Zatanna.
"No, sweetie, she loves you."
"A little too much if you ask me." Kim says as she drinks her cup of mixed alcohol.
"What do you mean?" Karen asks curiously.
"She keeps giving me a look, like I stole her favorite jacket or something."
"Or something." Zatanna mumbles.
"What do you mean?" Kim asks.
"Megan has a massive crush on Conner."
"She does not." Conner says rolling his eyes.
"Oh my god! That explains everything!" Kim yells out. "How did I not see that?" she asks herself, feeling like an idiot.
"She does not, she's my friend that's all."
"Are you kidding me?" Karen asks him.
"Not even I'm that dense dude." Mal tells him.
"I told him when we were dating, she kept giving me the stink eye, and when we broke up we went months without talking." Wendy tells everyone.
"She totally loves you." Kim says looking at him.
"Can we get back on the whole truth and dare thing?" Conner asks.
"Ok, I'll go first then we can go clockwise." Karen says, everyone agrees. "Wendy, truth or dare."
"I'm gonna go with truth, I'm not nearly as drunk as I'd like to be for naked things." Wendy tells her.
"How many people have you made out with and who was your favorite and why?" Karen asks her.
"I've made out with…" Wendy pauses thinking.
"Wendy?"
"I'm counting."
"Nice." Mal says.
"Mal!"
"What? I've only ever made out with Susana Thompson in the 7 th grade and Hilary James in the 8 th and of course you."
"Ok, 7 no wait 8 and my favorite was Conner, because he used to do this thing with his tongue."
"Oh he still does it." Kim tells her.
"Which tongue thing?" Conner asks them, they turn to look at him. "For future reference I mean, is it the licking the bottom lip thing or is it massaging the tongue thing?"
Kim and Wendy look at each other, then turn to Conner. "Both."
"Ok."
"My turn, Riki truth or dare." Zatanna says to him.
"Well, I am drunk enough to do something naked so-"
"I dare you to skinny dip in the ocean right now."
"Are you nuts!? There are sharks out there, I'm not going to expose little Riki to sharks."
"Little Riki?" Sam asks.
"That's disturbing." Mike says.
"Do you name all your body parts?" Kim asks.
"Have you seen Piranha 3D? The guy totally gets his cock bitten off." Mal says.
"AH! I'm not going out there!" Riki yells.
"Conner will go with you."
"Why?"
"Because…you are the only one that has been seen naked by most of us here." Zatanna explains.
"Is that true?" Conner asks.
"Well we see you naked almost every day after swim practice." Sam says to him. "Plus, Wendy and Kim."
"And Zatanna." Conner points out.
"Just that two times." Zatanna also points. "So get naked skinny dip for…" she looks around. "A minute?" she asks.
"Yeah a minute." Karen agrees.
They two boys get naked and run to the ocean, Riki yelled out at how cold the water was, everyone laughed at them then after a minute they run back and Riki put his clothes back on almost frozen, and sat next to the fire. Conner simply puts his boxers on and sat down next to Kim wet.
"I am freeze!" Riki yells. "How are you not cold?!" he asks Conner.
"Conner's never cold."
"When I have sex with him, I actually sweat, I've lost like 10 pounds."
"And you look fabulous." Karen tells her.
"You have a glow about you."
"It's called sweat." Mike says annoyed.
"What's up your butt?" Sam asks.
"Nothing, can we get on with the game, Conner it's your turn."
"Ok, umm, Karen. Truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"Tell us about your secret fantasy."
"DUDE!" Mal yells at him.
"What? I'm trying to help you out here man, gotta spice things up a bit sometimes. Doing the missionary gets a little boring."
"From Here To Eternity."
"I don't know that one."
"She means, sex on the beach Conner." Zatanna says to him.
"Geez." Sam says.
"Dirty." Wendy says.
"Ambitious." Miki says.
"Wow." Riki says.
"Shouldn't you try doing it in a classroom first." Conner responds.
"I don't know babe, I'm sitting here and I have sand in my pants, can you imagine where else the sand can get?" Mal asks her.
"Guess you're right."
"My turn." Kim says, she turns to Zatanna. "Truth or dare."
"Truth."
"What's your favorite sex position?"
"I'm a virgin."
They look at her, and they laugh.
"Yeah right."
"Yeah, I'm a virgin too." Karen says.
"Oh yeah, totally, never been touched." Kim says.
"I am pure as snow." Wendy says.
They laugh harder.
"HEY!" Conner yells at them angry, they stop laughing and look at him confused. "She's not kidding, now apologize."
"It's ok Conner." Zatanna says a little embarrassed.
"No it's not." Karen says quickly. "I am so sorry." She tells her.
"Me too, I though you where kidding." Wendy tells her.
"Same here, I am so, so very sorry." Kim says.
"Yeah, it's just not many girls our age are virgins." Riki says, Wendy, Kim and Karen turn to look at him. "Not that that's sluty or anyth-"
"Stop talking Riki." Sam tells him.
"Ok."
"Moving on!"
"Hold on, not even like a taste."
"I'm not sure what that means."
"I do and you've obviously never meet her boyfriend."
"What does that mean?" Zatanna asks him.
"Nothing, just that he seems a bit…submissive."
"Submissive?"
"Submissive."
"Submissive!?" Zatanna yells at him angry.
"For you, you're a strong, independent woman and he's-"
"Submissive?"
Conner pauses. "You're mad at me."
"Yes I am." Zatanna says crossing her arms. "You will start making it up to me tomorrow."
"Ok."
"My turn." Riki says. "Mike truth or dare."
"Dare."
"I dare you to kiss anyone here, lips, tongue, a full minute." Kim tells him. "But not me."
"Or me, I'm taken." Kim tells him.
"Or her, cause she's also taken." Mal says referring to Karen.
"I have a submissive boyfriend, but he could still kick your butt." Zatanna tells him.
"That only leaves-"
"You're not kissing me." Mal says.
"I love you, but I'm saving experimentation for college." Sam tells him.
"Conner?" Mike says, Conner looks at him. "You know you were my first choice."
"Sure after the girls, Mal, Sam and Riki."
"Seriously. Is this going to be a thing? Because-"
Conner chuckles. "Nah it's fine, I don't have that big of an ego."
"Really? What's that like?" Mal asks him.
"I'll start my phone." Karen says as she pulls out her phone, and pressing the watch app.
"This is so exciting." Kim says, Conner looks at her. "I've never seen two boys kiss."
"Me neither." Karen says.
"Yeah, me neither." Zatanna says.
"I blame society." Sam says.
Mike opens his mouth to say something, Conner takes the chance to kiss him, Karen starts the timer.
"Wow."
"Yeah."
Kim tilts her head a little and bits her lower lip, while Conner puts his hand the back of Mike's neck. Mal turns his head looking at the timer, it was a minute 30.
"Hey guys times up." Mal says to them.
They pull away from each other.
"That was hot." Karen says.
"Intense."
"So Conner, how do you feel about threesomes?"
"With Mike?"
"I'd really rather not." Mike says to her.
"Did he do the tongue thing?" Wendy asks him.
"Yeah he did."
"It was good right."
"Definitely top 5."
Sam finishes his cup swallowing hard. "Alright, I am drunk! So give me a naked dare." He yells out.
"Sing my life will go on without you-naked!" Karen yells at him.
Sam starts taking off his shirt, Conner puts one hand over Zatanna's eyes and the other on Kim.
"Conner!"
"Oh come on, just a little peek." Zatanna says as she tries to remove his hand.
"I'm telling your boyfriend."
…Mount Justice
"You study so much, you'd think you'd realize that guys don't care if you're too smart." Conner says to Zatanna as he sees her reading, she throws him the book. Conner catches it. "Oh violent." he says as he walks over to her and gives her the book back sitting down next to her. "What's up?"
"Are you seeing anyone right now?" Zatanna asks him.
"Kim, but we're not official. Why?"
"Wanna go on a double date?"
"With you?"
"With Barbara Gordon."
"Don't know her, is she a freshmen?"
"No she's a sophomore, you meet her, Babs."
"I don't know." Conner says hesitantly.
"Please, she's really smart and good at everything." Zatanna says to him.
"Yeah, I've meet her."
"So is that a yes?" she asks him.
"Will that make you happy?"
"Yes."
"Then ok."
"Cool."
...
Zatanna was in her room when Dick walks in.
"Hello beautiful." Dick says he sits down on the bed with her and gives her a kiss.
"What do you think about Conner? Do you think he's cute?"
"Well, I should make something clear right off the bat, I don't do threesomes." Dick says sarcastically.
"For Barbara?"
"Conner likes Babs?" he says with a hint of jealousy.
"No. Not yet, but he could. I'm trying to find the right person for our double date. He's kind of fun right?"
"Whoa, whoa, wait. Back up. Double date?"
"Tomorrow night."
"What are you doing Zee?" Dick asks knowing she was up to something.
"Nothing. Helping. If your friends with her, I have to be friends with her. Besides double dates are great. Mixes it up a bit."
"We don't need to mix it up and you don't need to be friends with Babs."
"Do you not want me to be friends with Barbara?"
"No, it's not that I don't want you to be friends with Babs, it's just I don't see it. You guys have nothing in common." Dick says to her, Zatanna gives a curious look. "Besides neither do her and Conner for that matter. He's all wrong for her. Besides, I think he's dating Kim."
"No it's just a physical thing."
"Well, even still I think he's wrong for her."
"Okay, Mr. Insightful, all of a sudden. Who do you think is the right guy for her?"
"I don't know. I mean, it's tough. She's smart, but she's kind of special."
"Special how?"
"You wouldn't understand." Dick says to her, Zatanna gives a 'Are you kidding me?' look. "You've never been through the kind of stuff that she's went through, y'know what I mean." Zatanna gives a sigh and gets upset. "Not that you haven't been through stuff. Obviously you've been through stuff, but it's different, you know. She's different and she's…special."
"Oh, that's right, because I'm not different or special?"
"That's not what I meant and you know it."
"Whatever. You know what, watch tv. I have another chapter to read. And we are going on the double date, I already set it up."
Dick just sits there for a minute and looks at Zatanna while she reads then gets up to go get the control turning on the Tv, while Zatanna sulked and read.
Gotham…The Pizza Hut
Barbara was wearing a jeans, purple shirt with black butterflies all around it. Conner was wearing black shirt with yellow letters Every Great Idea I have Gets Me In Trouble. Dick is wearing jeans, plain green t-shirt. Zatanna is wearing black short skirt with white strips, a black shirt with little skulls little purple bows. They were sitting across from each other, Zatanna and Barbara on one side, Dick and Conner on the other.
"Then he said you guys are a bunch of Philistines." Babs says to them telling them a story. "You know what that means right?" she asks them specifically Conner.
"Yeah. A Philistine is a smug, ignorant person who is antagonistic toward higher thought and intelligence." Conner says to her.
Babs does a bit of a double take a little impress. "Right." She says looking at him, Conner smiles. "And then he says Look, I'm not Philistine. I'm Catholic." They all giggle. "Do you play foosball?" Babs asks.
"Yeah, let's go." Dick says.
"Um, I was talking to Conner." She says to him.
"Oh."
"No, but I'm sure you can teach me." Conner says honestly.
"Gladly." Babs says to him with a smile.
They both stand up and walk over to the game section of The Pizza Hut.
"This is fun." Zatanna says to Dick.
"Well…yeah it's a little bit fun. Like when she started talking about Fitzgerald and Conner said he preferred Hemingway."
"Yeah, I know. I was there." Zatanna says to him.
"That was pretty funny." Dick chuckles.
"She likes him. She's just trying to impress him that's all."
"Well, he doesn't like her."
"Well, I don't know why. Maybe you could explain to him how special she is and how sweet she is and all of that."
"Now don't blame this on me. It wasn't my idea to set up Babs and Conner."
"So Conner isn't good enough. Okay. Okay. Umm, maybe I should've invited Zac Efron to come out with us tonight or Maroon 5, maybe one of those guys would have been acceptable."
"Zatanna?"
"Or maybe if Conner saw Babs the way you see her, they would fall in love and make babies and live happily ever after." She rambles.
"Oh my God." Dick whispers with a small smile.
Zatanna looks like she can't believe she just said all of that. Dick begins to laugh. "Shut up, don't say it." she says to him.
"You thought that I liked Babs?"
"No."
"Yes you did."
"No I didn't."
"Yes, you did."
"No, I thought that maybe she liked you and that you two can become best friend and-never mind."
Dick takes Zatanna's hand. "Zatanna, you are crazy, you know that?"
"Yes, occasionally." Zatanna says to him, he moves over to her side and kisses her cheek.
"Hey, first of all, even if Babs did have a crush on me which I don't think that she does. She's way too smart for me."
"Oh please, you're awesome." Zatanna says to him.
"So are you."
…Wayne Mansion
Zatanna and Dick where watching the discovery channel something about Pandas, laying down using the throw pillows as pillows on the arm chair. Dick was holding Zatanna as she played with his fingers just looking at them, they were kinda rough and already had calluses on his palms from being an awesome acrobat. Dick suddenly giggles out of nowhere.
Zatanna rolls her eyes. "I think you should be flattered. I don't know who said jealousy was a bad thing." She says to him.
"There's a movie where she boiled a bunny. It was very scary." Dick says to her.
"I think it's a compliment not to mention one of the most basic instincts we have as human beings. It's like eating or breathing."
"What is?" he asks her a little confused.
"Being territorial." She answers. "Claiming something or someone as your own and then like marking it and saying this property's mine and no one else can have it."
"For the record, if I ever refer to you as property I'd be beaten by now."
She giggles. "I just think it's fascinating how people treat each other. It's like if you like someone you're not supposed to show it and if you hate someone you're supposed to pretend that you like them so they don't know that you hate them, but if you love someone-" she stops realizing she just basically said I love you.
"Yeah." Dick says to her.
"It should be easier. You should finally be able to relax once you're past all the crazy, I mean."
"Yeah, makes sense."
Zatanna looks at him. "I love you, Dick."
He pauses and looks at her then smiles. "I love you too."
"Yeah?" she asks him.
"Yeah." He tells her.
"Cool."
They cuddle on the couch.
…Mount Justice
Superboy comes in the briefing room wearing a Halloween costume version of Superman's uniform, everybody does a double take, Superman continues to look at the map, but Batman had stop talking and turns to see Superboy.
"What do you think you're doing?" Superman asks him.
"Standing." Superboy says to him.
"So you think this is funny, huh?"
"I'm sorry. I thought this was the uniform."
"Ok, you know what, that's fine. Have your little joke, you know. It doesn't bother me at all. You just stand there like nothing's different, ok? I'm ignoring you. You do not exist."
"Okay." Superboy shrugs.
Superman crosses his arms, Superboy does the same and stands like Superman does. "That's it, go to your room and change." Superman snaps.
"Whatever you say." Superboy says walking back to the hall. "Dad." He adds.
Superman turns glaring. "It's Kal or Clark. Superman. In fact, don't address me at all!" he yells at him angry.
"You can't pay for entertainment like this." Roy says with a smile, everyone else laughs Batman trying to suppress a smile.
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