Prompt Post - Part Ten
I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.
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/ Apollo - 2
Apollo doesn’t like Rae, but that’s okay because Rae doesn’t like Apollo either. He blames her for Jade’s disappearance, which made her father really unhappy. So unhappy that Apollo spent most of his nights in the room, hunched around himself as his father (is he really a father if he does this to you?) pushed in and out, in and out.
Rae disappears too, sometimes, but only Apollo notices because it’s always at night. He doesn’t know what she does, but he probably doesn’t want to know, either. Finally, father stops being so angry all the time and rewards Apollo with ice cream, which makes his mother happy, too.
Apollo loves his mother.
Even if she does nothing. Even if she never will do anything.
Rae gets punished a lot more, but for some reason she still smiles a lot, too. Apollo doesn’t know why, but he also doesn’t care. As long as the punishment isn’t his to bear.
He goes out one night, all by himself, just to get away for a bit, and comes across something beautiful-the Justice League. Black Canary and Green Arrow are in an alley taking care of some drug dealers Apollo recognizes as being part of Bane’s company. He eavesdrops on their conversation after they take them out.
“We have to tell the others about the aquarium.” Black Canary says. Black Canary is lovely, and destroyable. But truthfully, Apollo would rather kill someone like her quickly. He is not the sadistic mess Jade is.
“It can wait. Batman is busy dealing with the Joker-he escaped Arkham again, did you know? And the Flash has been having a lot of trouble with Professor Zoom and Inertia.” Green Arrow replies. Even though Apollo hates Green Arrow with a burning, bubbling passion, he feels no necessity to kill him. Jade would. Rae might. His father wouldn’t hesitate. His mother would.
“Yes, but,” Black Canary purses her lips and glances around, “I don’t want to get into this here. But we do have to discuss it. There’s a press conference in a few days and if we don’t have an answer for the aquarium killing, then the people will go ballistic.” Black Canary, at least, is smart. Apollo almost admires her.
But that’s been beaten out of him.
“I know,” Green Arrow sighs, “I know. Honestly, I don’t know what we’re going to tell them. That Sportsmaster is back? They’ll go ballistic anyways!” Apollo stiffens.
They know. They know that his father and his mother are back in the city and it’s only a matter of time before they figure out that Apollo and Cheshire and Red Arrow have been helping them. He has to tell his father.
Apollo slips away, races back to the house, and does. His father is, surprisingly, overtly satisfied with his findings, and does not punish him that night. Instead, Sportsmaster sneaks into Rae’s room.
Apollo muffles the grunts with his pillow and winces into an uneasy rest.
Where is my innocence, again?
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