Justice League Porn Story: The Enemy of My Enemy Chapter 17
The Enemy of My Enemy
By: Rachyzord
[ Rated PG ]
C H A P T E R . S E V E N T E E N
He reeled back and hovered in the air as she came to a stop and mouthed something to her. She stopped the music she’d been listening to.
“That was close. Are you alright Diana?” Clark said again.
“Yes, thanks.”
He nodded. “Good. What are the chances of that happening.”
“I suppose it’s a smaller city up here.” she mused.
“In a way, I suppose you’re right.” He took a good look at her, focusing on her hands and scar on her forehead. “What in the world happened to you?”
“There was an explosion in the lab. Some of my samples were lost and I had to replace them.”
His eyes narrowed. “Are you alright?”
“It’s not permanent.”
He nodded. “I’m glad you’re alright. So, how’s the project going?”
“Good.” She wouldn’t give away their progress without Luthor’s permission. She had helped but it was his money and his project. “It’s going to change the world.”
He nodded as he continued to hover. “From what J’onn heard from you, it certainly will. Congratulations.”
She nodded “Thanks. Where are you headed?”
“I just got off my shift and I was heading back to my apartment.”
She cocked her head “Ah. Ok. I’ll see you around then I’m sure. Sorry for the near-miss. Haven’t spent much time flying with entertainment.”
“From that statement, I take it you’re busy?”
“Not really, no. I don’t want to keep you if you have somewhere to be. Le…Luthor got called into work.”
“Nowhere important actually” he said. “If you’re not busy, how about we go somewhere and catch up, maybe grab a coffee? We may not be teammates anymore but you’re still my friend.”
She studied him for a moment and nodded “I was heading to the skyscraper over there.” she gestured.
“Mind if I tag along for a few minutes?”
“No.” she moved over to her target and landed on the top gently, sitting on the edge.
He flew up and sat down next to her. “So how’s life?”
“I can’t complain too much. You?”
“The same really. Things have been going on. League is continuing as normal basically.”
“That’s good to hear.”
“We miss you.”
“So J’onn said too.” she stared down. “It’s better this way.”
“Are you happy?”
She stared at him “I don’t know.”
He stared at her with a confused look. “You don’t know?”
“Yes. I don’t know if I am or not. I care deeply for him. I enjoy being part of his team and using skills I’d forgotten I had. I feel we’re making the kind of changes we just didn’t do in the League. But it’s been so long since I’ve been truly happy, I think I’ve forgotten what it feels like.”
His head dropped. “I never knew we were responsible for killing your happiness” he said sadly, moving off the ledge and hovering in front of her.
“I didn’t say you were. I don’t know if you were. I suppose if I were to be honest I’d say it was less you and more Batman but what does it matter now? The past is the past.”
“Because he’s a part of us. What one League member does, it’s like the rest do as well.”
She shrugged “My mistake.”
“No Diana. It was our mistake” he said, turning and flying off back to the Watchtower instead now.
J’onn picked up Clark’s muddled and frustrated thoughts easily, even without scanning. “Are you alright Superman?”
He started and looked around, then realized it was J’onn. “Yes J’onn. Just had a run-in with Diana. Literally.”
J’onn nodded “I sensed it.”
“It didn’t go well.”
“How so?”
“I asked her if she was happy, and she told me she wasn’t sure. Apparently she hasn’t been truly happy since she came here, and we’re to blame.”
The Martian’s brow arched slightly “I can sense pain in her but she masks it will, even when I was close to her.”
“She’s hurting and it’s because of us. She blamed Batman, but we’re all to blame.”
“Perhaps. We shouldn’t jump to any conclusions. There’s many reasons she could be hurting. If Batman is at the center than there’s little we can do.”
“Batman is one of us J’onn. We can’t shift everything to him.”
“Not everything but relationship issues are personal.”
“I know J’onn. I guess we just have to wait and see if anything more comes to light.”
“Perhaps you should speak with Batman about this.”
“I think that’s going to be the plan. But after I get some rest. I can’t deal with him unless I’m functioning at 100%.”
J’onn nodded.
The project had exploded, thankfully metaphorically this time and not literally. Luthor had barely been home in three days as he took up the business side of their alternative fuel source. She’d seemingly ended up on the wayside in the process. She had stopped by LexCorp but all he’d only hastily told her that various inspectors, scientists and government officials were scheduled to come to a test opening in the hopes of approval and increased funding before she was shut out.
She floated through the air, zipping between buildings and up around the spyres as the music blasted in her ears. She hoped Lex’s meetings were going well. After that, they should know within a day or two and then there would be the meeting with the government and soon after that, the press conference. She’d never been a part of something this large and it was slightly intimidating to her. She wasn’t sure why Lex had chosen her to do the press conference but she hoped she did them all justice.
“I still fail to see where that’s an issue, except that you’re an idiot.” Clark said as Bruce expounded on his reasons he wouldn’t date Diana and why she had left.
The cowled face began to contort with rage, but he held his cool. “She deserves someone that will be there. I’m here and patrolling Gotham all night. I don’t have a social life and could never give her the attention she deserves.”
“Bruce, we’ve worked with her for four years. If there’s anything I’ve seen it’s that she doesn’t require much upkeep. I still consider her a friend but if I didn’t have Lois, lord knows I would have pursued her.”
“I wanted you to.”
“So you’d have a convenient excuse not to. Sorry, already taken.”
“What exactly did she blame me for Clark?”
“I told her that I hadn’t realized that the League was responsible for killing her happiness. She said it was less us and more your doing. It was half-hearted at best. She said it didn’t matter and that it was in the past.”
The blow struck him hard. He sat in silence for nearly two minutes. “She said that?” He put his hands to his head and shook it. “Clark, answer me honestly. Do you want her back?”
“Of course.”
Bruce nodded and stood, slamming his hand down on the table. When he pulled it back, his communicator lay there. “Then I’ll make it easy to get her back. I quit.”
Clark sighed. “That’s not going to work. She isn’t staying because you won’t resign.”
“We don’t know it. But it’s not just because of her. I’m leaving before I kill someone else’s happiness.”
“I highly doubt that’s going to happen. The only other woman is spoken for and the rest of us don’t swing that way. You’d be better off trying to talk to her but if you want to walk off as well, that’s fine.”
“You need her Clark. You don’t need me. The only thing I provide to this damn League is a headquarters and funding.”
“That’s a lie and you know it.”
“Is it a lie?”
“Yes. Why don’t we all quit and run away because of this. None of us are needed. All of our solo accomplishments are small, afterall. It’s when you add up all those accomplishments and we work together that the larger things get done. It’s your choice Bruce. I don’t want to take your resignation but I know you’re going to do what you’re going to do. At this point I think you’re being ridiculous. You could just go talk to her but instead, you’re quitting.”
“You’re god damned right I am. She won’t talk to me. The last time we met, she pulled me through a wall. What’s to stop her from doing worse?”
“One, because this time you won’t be sneaking up on her and her…whatever. And two, she’s injured at the moment anyway.”
“She’s what?”
“There was an accident at the lab and she had to replace some materials. Her hands were crushed in the process.”
He thought back to the materials he had seen when it hit him. “They have to be temperature controlled” he said softly. “That’s why it was cold in there. When she yanked me through the wall, it contaminated their field.”
“She probably didn’t realize it then.”
“I didn’t either. We both do now though.”
“She couldn’t grab you even if she wanted to. You’re mostly safe.”
“She could’ve died” he said to himself mainly, heading toward the transporters.