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Homplot Wake Up Post

Normally, Cassie wasn't one to spend a lot of time in bed. But lately, or really the last two days, it had taken everything she had to get out of bed in the morning. Someone people might have been excited to find out the king of the Greek gods was their father but for Cassie, it just made her miserable. The powers she'd felt she'd earned for her bravery now felt cheapened. It just...it just wasn't fair.

And because she'd spent more time in bed, she knew instantly when she woke up that she wasn't on the island. After the events in the Fire Nation the month before, Cassie woke up quickly and sat up at the ready, wanting to be prepared for wherever she'd found herself. It was with a small sigh of relief when she realized that she was asleep on the couch of Young Justice headquarters. She took a deep breath and made herself float for the first time in years. Even through her depression, she couldn't help a small smile.

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Kon snorted. "Don't worry. I'll keep him in line. No one gets to mess with my girls without going through me first."

"Dude, all I know is that you upset her and it had something to do with her dad. And if you're biding your time, you're gonna have a loooong wait. I've been here for almost two and a half years now." Sure, there were plenty of people who left much earlier than that, but there were also a lot of people who had been here years longer than he had. "So it's going to be a lonely time if you're not looking to make friends."

Now he's hitting my main problem. It's a bit irritating that the guy's really right about my situation. But even though I can be friendly and all that when I want to be, I don't want friends. It's probably because most of the time I don't want to be my own friend.

"Yeah, I've noticed it's gonna be a long wait. Have fun with your friends. I'm going to go camp out by the video games for most of the day, alright?"

I stop leaning on the wall and pick up my sword with my free hand to take it with me. But the guy's standing right in front of me.

"I, uh, left most of these here because I'd already memorized them," Bart said, ducking his head a little. "So it's kinda like cheating to play 'em, especially against someone else. Even when I'm not stretching time, my reactions are better than a normal-speedster."

Looks like Bart went a bit overboard on the games!

"Okay... guess we won't then."

I lean back into the chair.

"I probably wouldn't be much of an opponent, anyway. I never had much chance to play video games except on the island when they showed up for me."

"Awesome," Kon said easily. "It's been a while since I got a chance to play any of these games."

Did he just say...?

As I walk by him and head back to the video games, I see he's following me. Gods. When I enter the game room, I sit back in the chair I had woken up in, set Backbiter next to me, and start loading up more games.

"When I said go have fun with your friends, I wasn't referring to me, you know. I don't even know your name."

Please tell me this guy is just security-minded and isn't the male version of Gabrielle. I'm just...NOT wanting to deal with sunshine right now. I take another sip of Coke as I scroll through my game options.

"So this is all our dream, like a shared thing? Or are we in someone's dream? And I have no idea why I think you would know more than me."

Sam frowned in thought at his own questions. He wasn't sure if it really mattered whose dream it was. He could probably rule out his own, especially since he had no idea who Luke was prior to this.

"And if some people got to war, I think we're pretty lucky to have gotten video games and a well stocked fridge."

Sam seemed to catch on to my own thoughts when he realized there's no way either of us have many answers.

"Sorry to break it to you, but if this is a headquarters for superheroes, this place is a major target. I'm probably out of here if there's any major trouble."

"Good, I was, uh, hoping you'd be here," Sam said. He thought about adding some sort of qualified, like because he wanted to see a familiar face, or because she was a good friend. Sam decided to just go ahead and not add that qualifier. Maybe it was just... maybe he should just not qualify that for once. No need to, right?

"You okay though? You look like... like this is not a super happy fun time dream for you. Shouldn't you have muscled guys waving palm fronds and feeding you grapes or something?"

"Kon. Kon-El if you're going to go for my full name. And I wasn't talking about going out into the sunshine. I was talking about a video game. Come on. No one here is going to play with me." And tomorrow, hoping there was a tomorrow, he would go fly out home and figure out whether Clark was there or Ma and Pa Kent or what was going on. Today? Today he'd babysit for a little while. He owed Cassie that, if nothing else.

"My hero!" Cissie batted her eyelashes playfully at him and pretended to swoon a little. She knew he meant it and she was grateful for that, but it didn't mean she couldn't tease him a little.

As I realize he's not going to leave me be, I let out a sigh as I decide to just go with it.

"Alright, fine."

I make the cursor scroll through a few more options, then I just pick something.

"Kon-El sounds a lot like a Krypton name. Wasn't Superman's name Cal-El or something?"

I am not a comic book expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I know a few things.

"Dork," he said fondly, swatting her a little when he came near.

Kon snorted. "You really don't know how to talk to people, do you? It's a good thing Clark's not a secret or anything. Yeah, that's a Krypton name. I was named by Kal. You might not want to go spouting off something like that if and when we get back. There are plenty of people from books or television shows or something who don't know about it. They wouldn't take too nicely about being from one."

She almost elbowed him back but remembered that was a bad idea. She'd hurt herself if she tried to do that here and he wouldn't even feel it.

"So," she said, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. "Do you think this real or just a dream?"

I know how to talk to people, but I just don't get why all of these superkids are so touchy. At this point, I'm really frustrated with this whole situation. I do have half a mind to stop playing nice and just get out of here whether they like it or not. I know they can't keep me prisoner here. But maybe I'll just give myself a chance to cool off.

I'm done with any talk of them and their powers, though. I give Kon and glance and go back to playing the game.

Bart didn't look at him, not really sure what to say about his past.

"Sorry. I just...well, grew up playing those kinds of games. Even when I don't, they assume I cheat," he finally said. "But I could give you the nickel tour. Looks like you already found the kitchen."

"Sure," I say with a half-shrug as I get back up.

"Lead on, Bart."

And, of course, I take Backbiter with me. I'm mostly at ease, but my sword hasn't been further from me than six inches since I woke up.

"It's also where people who know who I am are," Sam said, although thinking that this place might come under attack at any moment worried him. Did they have guns or something he could use? Probably not, everyone all had powers or shot a bow.

"If this isn't a dream, I don't exist here in this world. That's kind of inconvenient. I don't want to be shipped down to Mexico or wherever because they think I'm an illegal."

I'm used to being ready for an attack at any moment. The strange thing is that I don't think I'm a monster magnet in this world. I guess I'll find out, but if there's no Mist...

"If the others here know who you are, and you get along with them, they'll watch out for you. They don't exactly like me, but I can take care of myself."

"I'm glad you're here too Sam." Cassie said to help, biting her lip against the bright smile that wanted to erupt.

Then she sighed and the smile faded. "No, it hasn't been fun, but it was something I needed. I found out something on the island and I needed to talk to someone about it here. This gave me that opportunity so while it wasn't something I liked, it did give me closure in a sense." At least she wouldn't be hiding in her hut anymore, like she had been before they'd woken up here.

"They'd take care of you anyways," Sam said after a moment's silence to concentrate on the game. Cissie, Kon, Bart, and Cassie were good people, the type of people that would look out for someone they didn't really like.

"So where did you learn to use a sword? Or is that something you got on the island?"

"So is that why I haven't seen you around for the past few days?"

He had almost been ready to chalk it up to overreacting, he had gotten pretty good at "randomly" bumping into her around the island often enough that they sort of had a pseudo arrangement where they saw each other nearly every day.

"Another day and I was getting going to trek all the way out to your hut to check on you."

I let out a bit of a bitter huff when Sam says they'd take care of me anyways. I guess it all depends on what you mean by 'take care of me.' What they'd like to do is lock me up when I haven't done anything, so this is the next best thing. 'Watching me.' If we're here for good, that'll end quick.

"Started self-teaching myself when I was nine years old. I had an instructor later on. My sword's named Backbiter. I didn't have it with me when I came to the island, but it just showed up one day."

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