Fandom: DC / Young Justice
Pairing: Bart Allen x OC slight Will Harper x OC
Notes: This takes place around season 2ish.
I honestly really want to write more Gigi and Bart stuff (or just more Gigi stuff) So Thank you Kim for the request. I’m sorry if there isn’t enough Faith and Gigi.
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“They are scared” Antoinette’s voice flooded Gigi’s mind as the two small girls lay in their bed “I can hear their voices so loudly”
Gigi took her twin’s hand closing her eyes “It’s ok, they are our parents they will take care of us”
“I don’t think they can.” her sister’s voice had an edge to it. “The bad man is coming.”
“The bad man can’t get us, remember what daddy said.”
Antoinette shook her head moving closer to her sister the fear and dread she could hear her mother’s thoughts telling her otherwise. Even at her age of 4 she knew, she knew it was coming.
“It’s ok,” Her sister’s voice broke through Antoinette’s thoughts, “I’m here for you, we are a team remember.”
A promise made by two girls who were much too young to understand who they were or what was out there for them. Just two children barely babies who didn’t understand that sometimes promises can be broken by fate itself.
“I’m telling you, it’s an army of penguins.”
“But if she saved Santa wouldn’t it be more like reindeer? Or I don’t know, something cooler like Dragons?”
“You don’t think Penguins are cool?” Gigi looked up at her best friend who was swinging her legs back and forth on the counter as she watched Gigi construct her classic ice cream concoction.
“I mean Gotham has this villain named the Penguin and he’s kind of a dork.”
“You say that about all the villains.”
“That’s because they are!”
Two types of chocolate syrup on top of three sugar cubes, and don’t forget the sprinkles (rainbow of course). Faith stole a bit of her friend’s ice cream with her finger, however the moment it touched her lips she made a face. “Honestly, I don’t know how you can eat that.. It’s… kind of sweet.”
“I have a refined pallet.” Now to add some extra whip cream before topping it with cocoa pebbles cereal.
“Is that what we are calling it?”
The sound of the alarms went off in base, an intruder. Both girls looked up at the flashing lights confused.
“Should we…” Faith’s voice trailed off as a yellow streak flashed by the kitchen only to come back for a moment the speedster slowing down enough so both girls could see him.
A bright red-haired boy stood there for a moment his head cocked to one side looking over the two girls who were sitting there just looking back. Well in Gigi’s case she was standing there, a large bowl of diabetes in her hand a spoon of said treat in her mouth.
A second later he was gone, Nightwing shouting something from the command room.
“Who the hell was that?” Faith asked, her friend shrugged taking another bite of her ice cream.
“I guess, I mean alarms are a bad thing, right?” Jumping off the counter Faith sighed running her fingers through her hair “I can’t keep up with the comings and goings of this place.”
“They found your sister,” Jean’s said gently as she walked into Gigi’s room. It had been Three years since Gigi had lost her sister. She was still just a kid. A kid who’s world had been filled with villains and heroes. People who cared for her and made sure she was safe. They were her family, helping her find her sister. Helping her learn about her own powers.
“But Gigi,” Jean’s voice trailed off for a moment as if she wasn’t sure how to put what had happened into words. This was their lives the young teen thought as she looked down at the young girl before her. This unrealistic crazy life.
“Is she ok? Is Antoinette ok?”
“The bad guys, the people who took her. They were collecting mutants from all different times and, while it’s only been three years for us it’s been… nine for her.”
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Never in the red-haired girl’s life had she never imagined she would ever be part of this.
Being a mutant meant there was a certain stigma attached to her, being born with a deformity, something that wasn’t right.
Yet here she was. Going on a mission with the sidekicks of some of the greatest heroes around, Superman, Flash, and Batman. And being led by the best of the best.
She had saved Santa once. No other hero could top that.
“Willow, Angry Spice won’t let me sit next to him!”
“Stop calling me that!” Superboy snapped pushing Guardian Angel’s (known by Gigi as Faith her very bestest friend in the whole world) head gently as the girl bounced in her seat.
“And after I made you come on this mission and everything” Angel grumbled crossing her arms over her chest sticking out her tongue out.
“Yeah you should be grateful,” Blue Beetle said, “it took two missions before she even admitted I could stay.”
“She doesn’t have a choice who goes on these missions,” Superboy said glaring back at Angel.
“Yeah, you should be grateful you are part of the losers, it is really just Willow, Plastic-girl and I until sneaky sneaker and then BeeBee, we only took pity on you because you're always so angry.”
“Yeah” Gigi aka Plastic-girl twisted her head around in her seat exorcist style to look at Superboy, “Why are you always so angry? There are so many amazing things to be happy about. Like Vines.”
“Vines are amazing.” Impulse, aka sneaky sneaker, nodded in agreement. “Jamie spent all last night showing them to us.”
“Hey, I helped!” Angel said added.
“You spent the whole time throwing popcorn at Bart to see if he could catch them in his mouth.”
“Which he did, my favorite was when I did a backflip off the bookcase.”
“Please tell me you got that on film,” Willow said
“Of course” Plastic-girl, said holding up her phone to show the greatest hero that ever lived. “I’m going to start our own vine account.”
“Too bad it no longer exists.”
“WHAT!?!” Both Plastic-girl and Impulse cried in pure shock and horror.
“It’s because he crashed the mode”
“Don’t say that to them Angel, they don’t know.”
“Impulse wouldn't do that, would you.”
“You think I would?” the look on Impulse’s face was so hurt that Plastic-girl instantly regretted saying it.
“No of course not! You are here to save us all not take away happiness and joy. In fact, you have brought extra happiness and joy since joining our team.”
“Yeah I mean did you see all those videos we did, they are so cool.” Plastic-girl scooted close to Impulse to show him more of the videos she had taken from her best friend and the best hero (besides Willow of course) doing crazy stunts.
“I’m just hoping she could cram one more happiness and joy into that sentence” Guardian Angel snickered to Superboy
“Does all their freakouts end like that?” Superboy asked as the two redheads obliviously watched the videos laughing and sitting way too close to each other to be “just friends”.
“And people said Roy and I were bad” Willow muttered.
“You guys still are,” Angel said.
“I have no idea what you mean.”
Antoinette turned as her young sister walked into the room. Her twin. Now 6 years younger than her. It was as if they didn’t even know each other anymore. Gigi her sister she was some older girl, broken and a shadow of a memory.
For Antoinette Gigi hadn’t changed at all. She was the same as she remembered. So sweet and full of possibilities. In Gigi, Antionette saw what her life could have been.
If she was still Antionette.
“It’s Hope, I know you and mom are still getting used to calling me that but… I’m sorry” Hope turned “But Antoinette just holds a lot of pain for me, from the lab and… just everything.”
“I’m sorry” Gigi whispered crawling into bed next to her sister.
“It’s not your fault, it’s because we’re mutants. People are never going to know what to do with us. Kill us or use our powers.”
“Mommy says she wishes we were normal so we didn’t have to deal with those people.”
“Yeah…” Hope’s voice trailed off, “Sometimes I do too.”
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“Plastic-girl!” Guardian Angel’s voice could be heard in the distance as Plastic-girl struggled for air as the bad guy with the huge metal arm held her up by her neck. Normally she would be able to squeeze out of this but for some reason… she couldn’t.
Her team wasn’t far off but they were also struggling with the team of them who seemed to have some impressive tech. It was like they had known they were coming. How their tech had singled them out, dividing them and coming right for Plastic-girl.
“I’m going to have fun opening you up girl,” the large man said leaning forward so only she could hear “little mutant skum, seeing how you tick, how you got those powers.”
Her world was blacking out, spots forming around the sides of her eyes. As hard as she tried she couldn’t seem to fight it.
Her sister's voice echoed through her mind. How? Where?
The bad guy let out a scream of pain dropping Plastic-girl gasping on the ground clutching her neck where large bruises were forming.
The dark red-haired woman walked slowly through the bad guys as they all fell to the ground. Her eyes glowing red as the man who had once been strangling her twin was now screaming in pain.
“Hope let him go.” Plastic-girl whispered horsley as her sister raised her hand, “He…”
“He was going to kill you, I’m just showing him what pain he has inflicted on mutants like us.”
“No Hope… we are the good guys”
The bad guy fell to his knees tears streaming down his face as he tried to claw at his brain as Hope pulled apart his mind from the inside.
“Please!” Plastic-girl cried her voice squeaky and in so much pain it felt like she had just pulled sandpaper out of her throat. They were better than this. If they treated the bad guys the way they were treated what was the point? They would only prove them right.
From where she was standing Hope let out a small grunt hitting her neck only to realize someone had shot her with a tranquilizer dart.
Willow stood a few feet away holding up her bow next to her Plastic-girl recognized Cyclops and Nightcrawler.
Nightcrawler teleports behind Hope catching her as she slowly blacked out. Plastic-girl scrambled to her feet feeling two hands helping her.
“I got you,” Impluse said next to her, “Are you ok?”
“My sister…” Plastic-girl muttered tears filling her eyes threatening to fall. She wasn’t sure if it was the pain of seeing her sister like that. So angry. Filled with so much hate.
“She’s fine,” Cyclops said, “we have been looking into a gang that has been taking mutants kind of like the ones that took your sister and her friends. I knew we shouldn’t have brought her with us.”
“What do they want?” Willow asked coming up next to him
“We aren’t sure yet but it seems like maybe some kind of virus.”
“Can we help?” Angel asked glancing from Plastic-girl to her sister as she bit her lip. For a moment her eyes met Her best friend before the red-haired girl looked away.
“Not right now but thanks, this is a mutant issue.” Cyclops said “So I would appreciate if you guys maybe didn’t get the League involved they tend to make things more.. messy” he added.
“Yeah no problem,” Willow said cutting Superboy off shooting him a glare, “We all know what it’s like to deal with an internal issue.”
A mutant issue, the words seemed to swim around Gigi as she sat in her bed her knees pulled up to her chest.
It was always the same. The Mutants and the Justice League.
The people who were born with a defect and those who had a defect happen to them.
No matter how much she tried to lie to herself it always felt like she didn’t belong to either of them.
Next to her Faith rubbed gentle circled around her back
“Do you think Conner will tell?” Gigi asked glancing up at her best friend.
“Maia would make him keep it quiet.”
“I just… she’s not bad you know, she just… had a lot of bad things happen to her.”
Faith shrugged, “Who am I to judge? I mean she did save your life. She seems ok to me”
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“Hey man, I was thinking maybe we could…”
“Bring Gigi’s favorite Ice cream?” Bart finished Jamie’s sentence holding up a large bowl of sweet ice things.
“In order, two scoops of Coffee, two cookie dough and a scope of something different because you should always be open to change, three cubes of sugar then top with white and dark chocolate syrup. Add sprinkles then cover with whip cream for a surprise rainbow, add one normal gummy bear and one sour one, more whip cream with cocoa pebbles so it looks like a night sky only the opposite. Then finish with two cherries dipped in strawberry syrup.”
Jamie stood there mouth hanging open “Wow Hermano you have it bad.”
Bart blinked, a blank look on his face, “What bad?”
Jamie shook his head chuckling “Tell you what, how about you go give Gigi her special ice cream and I’ll meet up with both of you later.”
“You sure? I mean we’re all a team…”
He was gone before Jamie could say another word.
Both girls were laying on Gigi’s bed now talking about anything and everything. Faith was telling a silly story about the last time she was on patrol with her uncle and Tim Drake when she was interrupted by a knock.
“Hey is it cool if I come in?” Bart asked peeking in. Gigi nodded sitting up giving a small wave. Her eyes and nose still slightly red from crying. “I brought gifts!” Bart said holding out the bowl of ice cream.
“It has two cherries! And a sky full of black stars.”
“And a hidden rainbow and a yin and yang gummy bears”
“Wow,” Gigi said reaching out taking the bowl before taking a bite, “You’re amazing”
Bart chuckled rubbing the back of his head, “Thanks”
“I can’t believe you remembered her whole ice cream.”
“How couldn’t I? It’s totally crash”
“Have you actually tried it?”
“Probably for the best,” Faith said motioning to a free spot next to Gigi “join us.” Bart scrambled up onto the bed glancing over at Gigi as she dug into her ice cream.
“I’m sorry about all the mutant stuff.”
“S’ok” Gigi mumbled, “Family can just be complicated sometimes.”
“That’s why you have us,” Faith said nudging her, “We are your family too. And no matter what we have your back.”
“Y… Yeah” Bart said, “We hate seeing you sad.”
Gigi smile holding out her bowl for Bart to take a spoonful. “Thank you,” she said with a wide smile. “You guys are really the best ever” Bart matched her smile as he took a large spoonful.
“Ok wow… that is REALLY sweet”
“Told you.” Faith snickered
“It’s prefect,” Gigi said moving her spoon around so a few colored sprinkled showed up, her hidden rainbow. Like her friends, they were always there, no matter what was around they were always there ready to make her days just a little more wonderful.
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