Prompt Post - Part Five [CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS]
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"Why do you do it?" he asks one night when she is finished.
"It is one way that helps me find peace, and helps me resolve conflicts with myself." Superboy tries it a few times, but always ends up feeling restless, each time becoming shorter than the last.
Then one morning, he wakes before the sun and Wonder Woman. He feels so restless, he scratches out a note in the dirt, and goes running through the forest. He runs for miles, and does not stop running until he trips over a large log. He feels angry.
Why? asks a small part of himself. The log could not help being there. The anger dissolves. Superboy sits on the log, and looks up to see that the run has begun its run across the sky. He looks down at the roots of a tree he's uncovered by his run and trip. He looks at the tree, mighty and tall and thick around its trunk. What it must have survived to be that large. Superboy looked at the tree, and kept looking. He did not move, for his body had had the restlessness beaten from it. When twilight fell, he stood and began running back to their camp.
When he returns, Wonder Woman is tending the fire, and looks up at him, but does not speak.
"I'm angry," he says, "really, really angry, and I thought that was because he...he can't look at me, and I wanted something from him, something he didn't try to give me. But it's not. It's because I'm afraid that I will always be like this, always having people turn away from me because I'm not...because I'm not Superman, and I...I'm not good enough for him."
Wonder Woman take him in her arms, and Superboy does not even realize he's been crying until her shoulder gets so wet.
"Anger is often easier than fear, but today you have chosen a very brave path." She's smiling when she pulls away. "Now we can truly begin."
They still go for runs, but Wonder Woman has decided that it is time to integrate philosophy into those runs. She teaches him hand combat, the kind they would have used in Greek times. She even pulls out short swords from the invisible jet, and teaches him to throw a discus and javelin.
"It's a pity I could not take you to Themyscira," Wonder Woman tells him. "For then you could train against one hundred amazon warriors."
"That would be interesting," he says as he blocks her punch. "I would like to meet the women who raised you."
After many weeks, when the days are getting colder and short, Wonder Woman tells him that they will be leaving.
"There is something I wanted to ask you, though," she says, looking into the fire. "I am known as Diana Prince in my day to day life. But you do not yet have a name. Have you thought of what you would like to be called in civilian life?"
"A little," he admits.
"Have you chosen a name?"
"Conner," he admits. She smiles at him.
"I was wondering, then, if you might like to be called Conner Prince?" she asks. At first, he is not sure what she means, but then the thought comes to him, and he is almost overwhelmed by it, but smiles, and nods.
"Yes, I would like that very much."
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