As an apology for the last chapter, sorry! Here is the next early.
Now as I am silly and slightly absent minded, I haven't come up with names for the twins yet. As gender is revealed later boys and girls names are welcome. If nothing comes through I'll turn to a name generator.
And we are off again
I don't own Young Justice
Mount Justice
November 11, 13:00
"Zatanna, I'm pregnant not disabled, let me help!" Faye glared at the young teen. "M'gaan, tell her!"
"You should have told me how risky human pregnancies are Faye, shame on you for putting yourself at risk like that. Just sit down and let us take care of you." The Martian attempted to draw Faye away from the busy kitchen.
"There are pregnant women who work through till their third trimester, Police women who work that long. I am fine, let me help!" Faye resisted and pushed her way into the kitchen to look in the cupboard. "If I can't leave the cave I have to do something for him! Let me bake!"
"Faye, calm down." Conner added into the fight.
"I will be calm once you get them off my back!" Faye grabbed out the cocoa powder and brown sugar.
"Faye…" Conner reached forward and plucked the ingredients from her hands. "You can cook if you let us help."
"Fine, you can carry and do the mixing." Faye turned back to the cupboard. "I need flour, salt, vanilla, butter, eggs, chocolate chips, walnuts, what else…" Faye turned to the bench and pulled out measuring cups. "Can you get me a bowl?" M'gaan floated a mixing bowl over to the older girl.
"You won't put yourself at risk?" Zatanna questioned.
"I promise, not that you deserve it, you turned the aliens against me!" Faye mock frowned at the girl. "Traitor, using my poor, miss-informed friends." Zatanna laughed.
"I think you're the only one who can do that." Artemis leaned against the kitchen bench.
"Do what?" Faye started to crack the eggs, adding the sugar and vanilla into the mix she passed it to Conner. "Mix with human speed okay?" Conner nods.
"Make Zatanna laugh, Robin's jealous." Zatanna blushed slightly.
"He'll get over it, think I should spike the brownies?" Artemis folded over and cackled.
"No! Don't get the speedster high!"
"I wasn't going to use drugs, just chilli." Faye raised an eyebrow. "Where would I get pot?"
"God yes!"
"What's pot?" M'gaan tilted her head to one side.
"A recreational drug." Artemis attempted to explain.
"How could a drug be recreational?" The Martian frowned at the three human girls.
"A recreational drug is something like Tabaco, an addictive substance used for non-medicinal purposes, pot is like most recreational drugs illegal in most places. Though unlike most recreational drugs it can have medicinal purposes."
"What other drugs fall into the category?"
"Don't you go to high school? They should have covered this in health class or something."
"Batman gave us notes to get out of health class, said it wasn't important for us." M'gaan explained.
"Well then, recreational drugs have side effects, that's supposedly why their illegal but we can get to that later. Drugs fall into three categories, depressants, stimulants and psychotics." Faye took the bowl back from Conner and added more ingredients before handing it back. "Mix slower this time. Depressants are drugs like alcohol that slow down select bodily systems, they can make you feel relaxed or happy, some anti-depressants fall into this category, so does Tabaco and pot. Stimulants do the opposite, they activate or enhance the body's natural systems, steroids fit in here, along with a lot of other recreational drugs that activate select parts of the brain, causing feelings of euphoria, stimulation and so on. Psychotics act on the brain almost exclusively, things like hallucinogens they can change the way you perceive the world around you or manipulate emotions and so on. All three types can have severe long and short term side effects, including permanent brain damage. Drugs are not in themselves bad but they can make people do bad things." Faye took the bowl from Conner again and added the chocolate chips and walnuts. "Villain's like Bane, the Joker, Poison Ivy use drugs to kill, poison, or hurt people. Either on themselves or on either people. Can you get me a tray?" M'gaan once again floated the item to Faye. "And some chilli?" Faye placed the mix into the tray and dug around the centre. "What you guys do when you shut down drug operations helps keep some of the more dangerous drugs off the streets and out of the hands of people who would give the stuff to kids." The chilli went in the hole.
"So it would be bad if you were spiking the brownies with pot?"
"Kind of, pot is actually less destructive then Tabaco, but it can have really bad side effects on a mental level, so unless I knew that it wouldn't do any harm I wouldn't spike someone's food. And you should never give someone drugs without telling them what it is you're giving them. I see nothing wrong with taking drugs. I don't enjoy it but that doesn't mean others don't."
"You don't enjoy it? Doesn't that mean you tried?" Faye nods.
"With friends in a safe environment where I trusted the people around me to get help if something went wrong yes." Faye grinned. "It's why I won't blindly say 'don't take drugs.' I am not a hypocrite. If you want to try, come tell me and we can work something out. There is nothing wrong with experimentation if you know and accept the risks." Faye handed the tray of spiked brownies to Conner. "Can you put that in the oven? Then I need to discuss other things taught in health class with you, Zatanna, Artemis? You might want to stay, high schools have very poor standards for this kind of thing."
"I am out of here." Artemis headed towards the door.
"Conner? Could you please fetch Artemis back? We need to have a talk."
(This I won't rant on for now, if you want a lesson in sex education look up Sex+ on YouTube.)
The team and several Leaguers stood in the caves main room waiting for the birthday boy to arrive.
"Kid Flash B03 Zeta-tubes now offline."
"Happy Birthday!"
"Guy's you shouldn't have!"
"It wasn't like you weren't hinting or anything." Robin chuckled, in civvies for once.
"Hey, get over here!" Faye called from the couches. "The sooner you sit down the sooner there will be cake." Wally became a blur before appearing next to the pregnant teen.
"Well let's get this party started!" He rubbed his hands together. M'gaan arrived carrying all of the food, including Faye's spiked brownies.
"I made two cakes, and Faye made brownies." M'gaan brought the mentioned food to a rest infront of Wally.
"What are you guys going to eat?"
"There are cupcakes." Faye pointed to the small yellow and red sweets.
"Cool." Wally smiled up at M'gaan. "So what am I getting for my birthday from you sweetheart?"
M'gaan leaned down and kissed the speedster on his forehead. Wally deflated slightly. "Blow out the candles before you have cakes iced in wax." Faye shoved the boy slightly.
"Aren't you going to sing?" Wally pouted.
"Well if you insist." The Flash came forward and faced the rest of the team. "Happy birthday to you…"
"I refuse to participate in this." Faye whispered to Wally. Who smiled brightly.
"Don't I get a birthday kiss from you too?"
"Don't push your luck kid." The other stoped singing and Wally blew out the candles. "Happy birthday."
"Thanks everyone."
"Have a brownie." Faye passed the top brownie over, the one she had cut from the centre of the batch.
"Thanks…Whaa!" Wally jumped up and sped to the kitchen while Artemis and Faye howled with laughter.
"Happy birthday Wally!" Faye called out to the boy, clutching her stomach as it ached slightly.
"I hate you Faye!" Faye cracked up again.
Artemis wondered over to sit next to Wally some time later, whispering in his ear. Faye smiled softly at the two when Wally's face fell, looking over at M'gaan and Conner. Faye decided to call the boy later and talk about it. "Team, report to the mission room. Polar stealth." Batman's voice carried over the speakers. Faye sat up.
"Go on, I'll clean up." Faye waved to the others. The team who were in costume all touched various points on their costumes, those few in civvies headed for their rooms at a trot. Faye stood up and started grabbing plates, she had a lot of work set out for her.
Thanks for reading
Min
