5 Things! (Finally)
So, a while ago, I asked for 5 things prompts. I have finally finished them! Better late then never?
For alphabet26, Heroes:
Five times Peter looked up to Nathan:
1.) When Peter wanted to learn how to ride a two-wheeler, no one had time to teach him, so he tried to teach himself-it didn't go well. Nathan found him when he came home from school, cleaned him up and spent the afternoon teaching Peter how to ride his bike. Peter's hero-worship grew exponentially.
2.) Growing up, Peter heard himself compared to Nathan continually-by his parents, the servants, his teachers-but he never took the comparisons as the veiled insults they might have been. It just meant he had to work harder. It wasn't any of them he wanted to impress-it was Nathan.
3.) When Nathan went off to college, Peter thought it was the coolest thing ever and he couldn't wait for his turn. Years later, the reality turned out to be less exciting than it had appeared.
4.) Every time Peter sees one of Nathan's election campaigns or billboards, he feels a thrill of pride-even when he's pissed at his brother.
5.) Nathan came to save him.
(The rest are all DCU.)
For xenokattz:
Five times Clark almost reached out to Kon:
(Note: I have not read the Superboy series, so my Kon-canon comes from Young Justice and Teen Titans, woe!)
1.) After the age-reversal, when Clark found out Kon knew his identity and had never said anything, he considered inviting him over for dinner after everything was done and over with, but then Kon lost his girlfriend and his powers and inviting him to dinner didn't seem like enough.
2.) When Young Justice disbanded, Clark watched Kon mope and wondered if there was anything he could do. He was a bit distracted by Donna Troy's death and his own role in it, however-in retrospect, he should have spent more time thinking about Kon than himself.
3.) He knew Kon was having a hard time adjusting to life in Smallville-to living with parents who imposed a curfew and chores, and especially to High School. Clark briefly considered talking to Lois about having Kon stay with them for a while, but then he remembered that he had no idea how to parent a teenager.
4.) Clark didn't know what to say when he found out that Kon had attacked the Titans. He spent some time at the farm with him when he was hiding out after, and he thought he handled the news about Luthor fairly well, all things considered-Kon seemed to be relieved, at least. He thought again about taking Kon to Metropolis, but he seemed happy to stay on the farm. That should have been Clark's biggest clue that things were definitely not okay.
5.) In the days before the Crisis, Clark received dozens of voice mails from Ma about Kon, asking Clark to just come home and see him. He kept intending to, but there was always an emergency somewhere that needed his help-and then it was too late.
Five times Kon wanted to talk/hang/be mentored by Clark:
1.) When he first went to live on the farm, Kon was completely clueless about High School-he'd never been before. Were all High Schools like that? Were all the kids that stupid and petty and mean to each other? And why the hell should he give a damn what the teenagers in Smallville thought about Conner Kent, anyway? (The last question being the main reason he kept his mouth shut.)
2.) After the Titans came back from the future, what he'd seen made Kon want to never become Superman. Kon wanted to tell Clark what they'd seen and more than that, he wanted Clark to tell him that it would never happen.
3.) When Tim quit being Robin, Kon almost called Clark to bitch and moan about it and to see if maybe he could make Batman fix it, but-that was way too childish.
4.) Kon wanted to be able to tell Clark about the problem with his DNA and to have Clark tell him all the things Tim did, but he was too terrified.
5.) All the time. He was just too cool to admit it.
For second_batgirl:
Five times Tim had to cover for Bart and Kon:
1.) There was that time when they snuck into Gotham and "helped" him take on Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn... Tim's just glad Bruce was out of town.
2.) Kon and Bart thought it would be funny to steal the girls' chocolate stash-then made the mistake of eating it all. Tim was tempted to let Cassie-on-PMS have at them.
3.) There are only so many excuses Tim can think of to explain why the girls in the Tower keep losing their clothes when they use the showers.
4.) Kon was whining about missing Hawaii and Bart said he'd never been to Hawaii for more than ten minutes and the next thing Tim knew, Cyborg and Starfire were demanding to know why Superboy and Kid Flash were on television in a surfing competition.
5.) There was that party in the Fortress. Bart and Kon would say that Tim helped, but really, it's just easier to do damage control before the damage happens.
Five times Cissie almost regretted giving up being Arrowette:
1.) When she found out that Match had been pretending to be Kon since she quit, Cissie wished that she had stayed-she couldn't help but think that maybe she would have noticed, even while she spent a lot of time reassuring the others that they couldn't blame themselves for not knowing.
2.) When Empress showed up and-as she saw it-took her place. Cissie had to fight the urge to suit up and kick the new girl's ass. (Later, when she became friends with Anita, this reaction embarrassed her and she was very glad she resisted it.)
3.) When Anita's father died and Young Justice called in the cavalry (so to speak), Cissie seriously considered going with them. She is glad she didn't-she can't say she wouldn't have done what her mother did in her place.
4.) When Speedy joined the Titans. It felt like Empress all over again.
5.) When everything was going to Hell in a hand basket in the days leading up to the Crisis and all she could do was watch her friends on the television, Cissie almost itched to pick up her equipment and go help. Then Kon died and everything else happened and she wished she'd never been Arrowette at all.
For zoe_chan:
Five times Cissie wished she had never been in Young Justice:
1.) Immediately after she quit, she watched the press conference and all the problems her actions had caused her friends, and wished she had never been a hero at all.
2.) When Cissie found out that Young Justice had been disbanded, she thought that if she had never been a member, it would hurt less.
3.) Cissie wasn't jealous when the Titans first started up-she thought it was good for Tim, Kon, Bart and Cassie to spend that time together. But then-even with Cassie living with her, she began feeling disconnected to them. She spoke with Tim, and lived with Cassie, but only occasionally got visits from the others. And then Speedy joined… Cissie got jealous.
4.) Kon died, Bart grew up and retreated from everyone, Cassie went a little insane and angry, and Tim left. It is not a summer she likes remembering.
5.) No one called her when Bart died. She found out from the girls in her dorm, who were watching the news when she came back from practice. For a while, Cissie thought that if she'd never been in Young Justice, she wouldn't keep losing her friends-and then she just got angry that no one remembered that she had been in it.
Five times Cissie almost told Tim she loved him (before she actually did):
1.) After the Crisis, when Tim said goodbye before leaving with Bruce and Dick, Cissie considered telling him how she felt. She didn't, partly because she wasn't entirely sure of her feelings yet, and partly because the timing was atrocious.
2.) While Tim was away on his trip around the world, Cissie wrote three letters. She might not have sent them even if she had an address to send them to, but she was glad of the excuse to hide them away in the shoebox under the bed where she kept the postcards he sent her.
3.) When Tim called her and told her he was back in Gotham, she suggested they meet-said that she had missed him, and couldn't wait to see him; she very nearly said that there was something she wanted to tell him. It was just obvious that Tim was preoccupied and stressed over what was happening with Batgirl and-the timing, as usual, wasn't right.
4.) Cissie had kind of told herself that even though she was in love with Tim, she wasn't going to say anything-because Tim wasn't ready. Even after a year, he didn't seem ready to date again… And then he mentioned his tutor. Cissie didn't think much of it-until Tim told her about his date with Zoanne. What she said was "have fun." What she wanted to say was "don't date her-date me."
5.) The first time Cissie talked with Tim after Bart died (before the funeral), she said "I love you." Tim took it the same way he always did, but that wasn't what Cissie meant.
Five times Cissie wished that Tim would quit being Robin/Kestrel:
1.) Every time Tim is seriously injured on the job, she wishes it-but there are some times that are worse than others. The first time Tim was seriously injured after they started dating, Dick brought her to Gotham and while she sat with Tim, she seriously entertained the idea for the first time.
2.) Every time Cissie wakes up in the morning to an empty bed, or the phone rings in the middle of the night, she wishes Tim would stop. She knows he won't, and she'll never ask him to, but she could do without all the worrying. (She will never tell Tim this, however, because he's so ridiculously stubborn about not wanting her to worry about him.)
3.) After Tim didn't die, she had a very difficult time letting him go back out. Even though he wasn't injured and nothing had happened, she didn't sleep until he was home again for the entire first two weeks. It was a good thing Bart came to distract her the first night Tim hit the streets again, as she was a basket case.
4.) When Sadie said she wanted to be Robin and she and Tim began their cold war, Cissie wished that neither of them would do it.
5.) Cissie was pregnant with Aiden, Sadie had the flu and Tim was injured. Bruce called her in the middle of the night to tell her he was keeping Tim at the Manor to monitor his concussion, and when she hung up the phone, Cissie sat awake the rest of the night. It was the first time she realized that every time Tim went out, she was a phone call away from becoming a single mother.
I will still take requests! These are too much fun.
(Also, in the battle of Me vs. The Leaves--the leaves kicked my ass and took my name. Ow.)
For alphabet26, Heroes:
Five times Peter looked up to Nathan:
1.) When Peter wanted to learn how to ride a two-wheeler, no one had time to teach him, so he tried to teach himself-it didn't go well. Nathan found him when he came home from school, cleaned him up and spent the afternoon teaching Peter how to ride his bike. Peter's hero-worship grew exponentially.
2.) Growing up, Peter heard himself compared to Nathan continually-by his parents, the servants, his teachers-but he never took the comparisons as the veiled insults they might have been. It just meant he had to work harder. It wasn't any of them he wanted to impress-it was Nathan.
3.) When Nathan went off to college, Peter thought it was the coolest thing ever and he couldn't wait for his turn. Years later, the reality turned out to be less exciting than it had appeared.
4.) Every time Peter sees one of Nathan's election campaigns or billboards, he feels a thrill of pride-even when he's pissed at his brother.
5.) Nathan came to save him.
(The rest are all DCU.)
For xenokattz:
Five times Clark almost reached out to Kon:
(Note: I have not read the Superboy series, so my Kon-canon comes from Young Justice and Teen Titans, woe!)
1.) After the age-reversal, when Clark found out Kon knew his identity and had never said anything, he considered inviting him over for dinner after everything was done and over with, but then Kon lost his girlfriend and his powers and inviting him to dinner didn't seem like enough.
2.) When Young Justice disbanded, Clark watched Kon mope and wondered if there was anything he could do. He was a bit distracted by Donna Troy's death and his own role in it, however-in retrospect, he should have spent more time thinking about Kon than himself.
3.) He knew Kon was having a hard time adjusting to life in Smallville-to living with parents who imposed a curfew and chores, and especially to High School. Clark briefly considered talking to Lois about having Kon stay with them for a while, but then he remembered that he had no idea how to parent a teenager.
4.) Clark didn't know what to say when he found out that Kon had attacked the Titans. He spent some time at the farm with him when he was hiding out after, and he thought he handled the news about Luthor fairly well, all things considered-Kon seemed to be relieved, at least. He thought again about taking Kon to Metropolis, but he seemed happy to stay on the farm. That should have been Clark's biggest clue that things were definitely not okay.
5.) In the days before the Crisis, Clark received dozens of voice mails from Ma about Kon, asking Clark to just come home and see him. He kept intending to, but there was always an emergency somewhere that needed his help-and then it was too late.
Five times Kon wanted to talk/hang/be mentored by Clark:
1.) When he first went to live on the farm, Kon was completely clueless about High School-he'd never been before. Were all High Schools like that? Were all the kids that stupid and petty and mean to each other? And why the hell should he give a damn what the teenagers in Smallville thought about Conner Kent, anyway? (The last question being the main reason he kept his mouth shut.)
2.) After the Titans came back from the future, what he'd seen made Kon want to never become Superman. Kon wanted to tell Clark what they'd seen and more than that, he wanted Clark to tell him that it would never happen.
3.) When Tim quit being Robin, Kon almost called Clark to bitch and moan about it and to see if maybe he could make Batman fix it, but-that was way too childish.
4.) Kon wanted to be able to tell Clark about the problem with his DNA and to have Clark tell him all the things Tim did, but he was too terrified.
5.) All the time. He was just too cool to admit it.
For second_batgirl:
Five times Tim had to cover for Bart and Kon:
1.) There was that time when they snuck into Gotham and "helped" him take on Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn... Tim's just glad Bruce was out of town.
2.) Kon and Bart thought it would be funny to steal the girls' chocolate stash-then made the mistake of eating it all. Tim was tempted to let Cassie-on-PMS have at them.
3.) There are only so many excuses Tim can think of to explain why the girls in the Tower keep losing their clothes when they use the showers.
4.) Kon was whining about missing Hawaii and Bart said he'd never been to Hawaii for more than ten minutes and the next thing Tim knew, Cyborg and Starfire were demanding to know why Superboy and Kid Flash were on television in a surfing competition.
5.) There was that party in the Fortress. Bart and Kon would say that Tim helped, but really, it's just easier to do damage control before the damage happens.
Five times Cissie almost regretted giving up being Arrowette:
1.) When she found out that Match had been pretending to be Kon since she quit, Cissie wished that she had stayed-she couldn't help but think that maybe she would have noticed, even while she spent a lot of time reassuring the others that they couldn't blame themselves for not knowing.
2.) When Empress showed up and-as she saw it-took her place. Cissie had to fight the urge to suit up and kick the new girl's ass. (Later, when she became friends with Anita, this reaction embarrassed her and she was very glad she resisted it.)
3.) When Anita's father died and Young Justice called in the cavalry (so to speak), Cissie seriously considered going with them. She is glad she didn't-she can't say she wouldn't have done what her mother did in her place.
4.) When Speedy joined the Titans. It felt like Empress all over again.
5.) When everything was going to Hell in a hand basket in the days leading up to the Crisis and all she could do was watch her friends on the television, Cissie almost itched to pick up her equipment and go help. Then Kon died and everything else happened and she wished she'd never been Arrowette at all.
For zoe_chan:
Five times Cissie wished she had never been in Young Justice:
1.) Immediately after she quit, she watched the press conference and all the problems her actions had caused her friends, and wished she had never been a hero at all.
2.) When Cissie found out that Young Justice had been disbanded, she thought that if she had never been a member, it would hurt less.
3.) Cissie wasn't jealous when the Titans first started up-she thought it was good for Tim, Kon, Bart and Cassie to spend that time together. But then-even with Cassie living with her, she began feeling disconnected to them. She spoke with Tim, and lived with Cassie, but only occasionally got visits from the others. And then Speedy joined… Cissie got jealous.
4.) Kon died, Bart grew up and retreated from everyone, Cassie went a little insane and angry, and Tim left. It is not a summer she likes remembering.
5.) No one called her when Bart died. She found out from the girls in her dorm, who were watching the news when she came back from practice. For a while, Cissie thought that if she'd never been in Young Justice, she wouldn't keep losing her friends-and then she just got angry that no one remembered that she had been in it.
Five times Cissie almost told Tim she loved him (before she actually did):
1.) After the Crisis, when Tim said goodbye before leaving with Bruce and Dick, Cissie considered telling him how she felt. She didn't, partly because she wasn't entirely sure of her feelings yet, and partly because the timing was atrocious.
2.) While Tim was away on his trip around the world, Cissie wrote three letters. She might not have sent them even if she had an address to send them to, but she was glad of the excuse to hide them away in the shoebox under the bed where she kept the postcards he sent her.
3.) When Tim called her and told her he was back in Gotham, she suggested they meet-said that she had missed him, and couldn't wait to see him; she very nearly said that there was something she wanted to tell him. It was just obvious that Tim was preoccupied and stressed over what was happening with Batgirl and-the timing, as usual, wasn't right.
4.) Cissie had kind of told herself that even though she was in love with Tim, she wasn't going to say anything-because Tim wasn't ready. Even after a year, he didn't seem ready to date again… And then he mentioned his tutor. Cissie didn't think much of it-until Tim told her about his date with Zoanne. What she said was "have fun." What she wanted to say was "don't date her-date me."
5.) The first time Cissie talked with Tim after Bart died (before the funeral), she said "I love you." Tim took it the same way he always did, but that wasn't what Cissie meant.
Five times Cissie wished that Tim would quit being Robin/Kestrel:
1.) Every time Tim is seriously injured on the job, she wishes it-but there are some times that are worse than others. The first time Tim was seriously injured after they started dating, Dick brought her to Gotham and while she sat with Tim, she seriously entertained the idea for the first time.
2.) Every time Cissie wakes up in the morning to an empty bed, or the phone rings in the middle of the night, she wishes Tim would stop. She knows he won't, and she'll never ask him to, but she could do without all the worrying. (She will never tell Tim this, however, because he's so ridiculously stubborn about not wanting her to worry about him.)
3.) After Tim didn't die, she had a very difficult time letting him go back out. Even though he wasn't injured and nothing had happened, she didn't sleep until he was home again for the entire first two weeks. It was a good thing Bart came to distract her the first night Tim hit the streets again, as she was a basket case.
4.) When Sadie said she wanted to be Robin and she and Tim began their cold war, Cissie wished that neither of them would do it.
5.) Cissie was pregnant with Aiden, Sadie had the flu and Tim was injured. Bruce called her in the middle of the night to tell her he was keeping Tim at the Manor to monitor his concussion, and when she hung up the phone, Cissie sat awake the rest of the night. It was the first time she realized that every time Tim went out, she was a phone call away from becoming a single mother.
I will still take requests! These are too much fun.
(Also, in the battle of Me vs. The Leaves--the leaves kicked my ass and took my name. Ow.)