[The Daily Planet] "In the Moment"
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- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:10:04 -0400
"In the Moment"
Wonder Girl and Green Arrow II
It had been decided that while she was training Selene would stay under
the radar. Barbara didn’t want to send a compete street novice, who she
just happened to watch grow up, out into the real world and Selene
didn’t want to tip her mother off. She knew the moment her mother found
out about Wonder Girl she was going to hit the roof, and even though she
expected her mother’s tirade, she didn’t want her mother blasting
Barbara. As she stood on the roof of the Gotham museum playing look out
for Huntress she couldn’t help but smile. The more time she spent with
Oracle and her birds, the more her already great respect grew, and the
more she was convinced that Oracle was an even match for her mother and
could stand up to the great Princess Diana and even Wonder Woman. She
couldn’t help the soft laugh, she’d actually enjoy seeing that.
After spending an hour in the rain she’d finally gotten the all clear
from her teachers and was on her way back to Barbara’s. She liked her
weekends with the redhead and her daughter, it was so different then
life on campus and life at the Embassy. It actually gave her a chance to
be a normal nineteen year old kid. When she was there in the apartment
she wasn’t a super hero in training or a princess or a diplomat in
training, she was just Selene.
Pulling the grapple gun from it’s hook on her belt, Selene aimed it for
the building across from her. She felt silly using a grapple and jump
lines, but it was part of her training. What if something were to happen
to her powers? It had happened to Cassie, Oracle had pointed out. It had
taken two weeks of training with Huntress before she stopped kicking
into a true fright and flight mode. Every time she’d jump, her instincts
would kick in before the jump line went taught and she’d end up flying.
Now, as she sailed over Gotham in the only true way to sail over Gotham,
she could understand the thrill and freedom of doing it this way.
She was half way across Gotham, the clocktower in sight, when something
prickled her enhanced hearing. The sounds of a fight wasn’t something
unusual for Gotham, even the sound of a cross bow wasn’t unheard of
because of Huntress, but the sound of a taught bow string from a
hunter’s bow, now that was an unusual sound. On pure impulse Selene
switched directions and headed for the sounds. When she landed on the
roof of a warehouse, she crouched to watch. Somewhere in the back of her
mind a voice was telling her to call Oracle, and for a moment her hand
hovered over her ear piece, but the sound of gun shots distracted her.
In seconds she was on the roof of the warehouse, looking in through a
skylight. She was only partly surprised by what she saw.
Again on impulse she jumped through the skylight, landing beside the guy
in the middle of a group of thugs. Instantly her arms went up,
deflecting the bullets being aimed at the man behind her. He was about a
head taller then she was. His hair was blonde, she couldn’t see his eyes
behind the mask he wore, but he had an amazing smile. He was dressed in
green tights, a green shirt, and a brown jerkin. The first time she’d
run into him, nearly a month ago when he’d dropped in to give Huntress a
hand which really ticked off her teacher, her mind went right to Robin
Hood, but then Barbara’s lessons had kicked in and she’d realized who he
was. “Awfully far from Star City aren’t you, Arrow?”
Green Arrow; or technically Green Arrow II was a vigilantly out of Star
City. The second to carry the name, the first having been around when
Barbara was still bopping along rooftops with a gold bat on her chest.
He smiled as his fist landed in the face of a goon. “Told you last time
Wonder Girl, I got business in Gotham.”
Taking her lasso from her belt, Wonder Girl easily used it to rope the
gunmen then pull him from his preach on the catwalk above them. With the
gunman out cold, she was free to bust heads. “You know how the Bats and
Birds feel about outsiders, and this is the third time I‘ve seen you
since Huntress warned you of just that.”
“And what are you?” He asked, a touch of teasing in his voice. “Last
time I checked Gotham wasn’t Wonder territory either.”
Wonder Girl smirked as she ducked a punch, then swept her leg out to
topple the thug. The difference between a contest fight, and a street
fight was so huge that she once again found herself thanking the Gods
for Barbara’s training. Then she realized how much trouble she was in
when she got back to the clocktower. This wasn’t exactly keeping under
the radar. “Little Birdies are allowed, besides what better place to get
my street feet wet?”
That made him laugh. “So the Wonders are going darker?”
“Well, this one is.” She smirked as she used him as leverage, pressing
her back against his while kicking out with both feet. “Figure while
Wonder Woman’s taking on the mythical threats, I could help with the
more domestic kind.”
Green Arrow smirked as he reached behind him, grabbing her by the wrists
and helping her flip over him. His smirk grew into a smile when she took
out two more thugs when her boots crashed into their faces.
As the fight wound down, Wonder Girl could feel the remaining thugs
trying to separate her from Arrow. Again it was her hearing that picked
up on the threat. Spinning she saw the flash only seconds after the
hammer click. “Arrow!”
Before he could react Green Arrow felt himself being pushing to the ground.
As she drove for him, Wonder Girl took her tiara off and threw it. It
wasn’t a batarang, but it had the same effect. Their bodies hit the
ground with a thud, and as she reached up to retrieve the tiara that had
just knocked the last of the thugs unconscious, she was suddenly very
aware that she was laying on top of him. His body was warm and strong,
she could feel the hardness of well defined muscle through his costume
and hers.
“So it’s not just an accessory.” He breathed out as he stared up into
blue eyes.
Her throat and mouth felt dry all of a sudden as she looked down into
his eye mask. “Everything has it’s purpose.”
For several moments the two simply lay there looking into each others
eyes, finally after what seemed like an eternally of slow sallow
breathing, Green Arrow reached up and pulled her down into a kiss.
Selene was taken aback but once the shock wore off she found herself
returning the kiss. The sound of police sirens finally made her pull
away. “Cops.”
Green Arrow smiled. “Then lets get out of here.”
She nodded, then got to her feet. A moment later she fired off a jump
line, Green Arrow right behind her. Somewhere between the warehouse and
the East Bride, he’d stopped following her. Standing on there, looking
out over the city, her fingers reached up to brush at her lips. She
smiled. “I’m gonna have to start spending more time in Gotham.”
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