Prompt Post - Part Four [CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS]
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“Can this place get any more sucky?” she asks rhetorically.
“Probably,” Kid Flash answers. “If it weren’t, Klarion wouldn’t have sent us here.”
“There’s probably a monster waiting on the other side,” Robin agrees.
“I think we need to be more concerned with the monster on this side,” M’gann says, rising high into the air to watch the landscape behind them. “And it’s approaching very quickly.”
“We need to get across,” Kaldur decides. “M’gann, you fly one of us. Superboy, you can jump carrying another...” he trails off.
“I could probably jump it, if I get a running start,” Wally says doubtfully.
“I’ll make two trips,” M’gann says, and Kaldur counters, “We shouldn’t separate our forces.”
Robin laughs. “No problem. I’ve got this, guys.”
And then he runs straight for the edge, leaping at the last moment and - cart wheeling isn’t the word, Artemis knows, but she doesn’t know what the right word is. Robin flips across the gorge, body ramrod straight, hands and feet touching down on the stalagmites, his body switching direction when necessary without a break in the flow.
When the gap is too great, he pinwheels in mid air; keeping his height while his momentum drags him forward. In less than thirty seconds he’s across, and then M’gann’s hands lift fit themselves in Artemis’ armpits, and they’re all across. Robin is grinning triumphantly.
“What are you?” she asks, voice only partially disguised by the sonic boom of Superman’s landing. She asks, because Robin just flipped across a fifty foot chasm.
Kid Flash’s legs slipping out from under him as he lands at a bad angle, and his butt hits the ground. “Seriously, dude, what was that?”
“Gymnastics,” Robin answers, smirking.
Artemis snorts. “Yeah, right. Whatever happened to” and she raises her voice to a mocking pitch “ ‘It’s nice not to be the only non-meta on the team, Artemis’?”
Kid Flash gets up slowly, rubbing his ankles. He gives Robin a mock-hurt expression totally ruined by the grin on his face. He’s not actually angry, Artemis realizes, not like she is. “No kidding. You should have told me, Rob. What happened, did you get bitten by a radioactive rabbit?”
Robin snorts. “Nope. Got bit by a tiger once, though. Come on; let’s go. Klarion’s gotta be around here somewhere.”
While they run, Robin hangs back a second to run beside her. “I’m really not a meta-human,” he says, as quietly as he can over the sound of six sets of pounding feet. “I’m just really, really good at gymnastics.”
She doesn’t look at him. “Uh huh. Sure.”
“Okay, seriously, what is your problem? I’m one hundred percent fully non-meta human! I didn’t lie to you!”
“Really?” she hisses. “Because that was not normal.”
“If you’re looking for normal,” he says. “You’re looking in the wrong place.”
He sighs, and whispers, “I grew up in a circus, Artemis. You wouldn’t have been able to find ‘normal’ there, either.”
Since her childhood life wouldn’t have touched ‘normal’ either, Artemis supposes she'll have to get over herself. It's just that she's the least versatile member of the group, and once, she'd thought she and Robin were the same. But they're not.
(Once she had been Tigress, and one day, it will come back to bite her in the ass, and then they will be the same again. Sort of. And that'll be alright, she supposes. If he ever forgives her for lying to him.)
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Thanks so much for writing this :D :D :D
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