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[raptorcanaria]

To say that things have been awkward in the Justice League since that thing they never talk about, would be a pretty severe understatement. Dinah is by now convinced that even Aquaman must have noticed how much she's very studiously avoiding any sort of eye contact with Green L- with Hal, and as for Flash and J'Onn - well. There's a reason she's

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[overcame_fear]

All eyes turn to Snapper.

"In where?" Flash asks.

"In the Headquarters! In J'Onn's room! A spy!"

Words can't express how glad Hal is to hear it. Anything to break up all the clumsy pauses and long silences and.... You know, Hal really doesn't do well with 'human resources' stuff, the times when everyone isn't getting along. He keeps telling Carol--. No, never mind.

He hopes whoever it is, they brought a robot army with them.

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"A..."

Dinah's cry of disbelief sticks in her throat as Snapper presses the viewer he's carrying into her hands.

"Good Lord, I know him."

That's not just a spy. That's Mike. A Gotham cop who'd become a regular at the florist shop. The one person in her non-Milliways, non-Justice League life that she could consider a friend. She'd confided in him; about ill advised make outs with friends, about her growing crush on another friend. About her life.

She barely notices when Flash takes it out of her hands.

[overcame_fear]

The Flash knows the intruder too, but GL could have sworn he said a different name. But it gets a whole lot stranger when he gets a look at the display himself and sees: "Lora Denton! She claimed to be an F.A.A. investigator!"

He hands the camera over in turn. "How about you, Aquaman? Friend of yours?"

Aquaman takes the camera, and the look he gives the display is even more stony faced than usual. "Someone I trusted. Someone we all trusted."

And when he tells them who it really is, GL can hardly believe his ears.

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Dinah doesn't even hear the name Aquaman says; his projection is a hundred times better than it was a year ago when he wasn't used to talking in air, but he's apparently lapsing back into natural instincts, or Dinah's ears blocked out the name before he brain could process it.

Instead she looks at the viewer, at the image of the man in J'Onn's room, who had looked like Mike, or three other people known to Flash, Aquaman or Lantern.

Now, watching the image change again, she realises there's only one person who could look like all three. Who's always looked like all three. And even as she looks, brown skin turns to green and her stomach freezes and turns with the sickening of betrayal.

J'Onn.