So like I was inspired to do a drabble of we don't talk about bruno in the JLU universe. But it's we don't talk about Hawkgirl.
Set this in my au where Shayera left the leauge while unknowingly pregnant with Rex and my hawklantern daughter OC, Eve. In this AU Shayera has adopted the name Sara Hall, uses holographic technology to hide her and her kids wings, and dyes her hair black to match the color of her kids. She does a lot of undercover/tracking/scouting stuff for the leauge "anonymously." It's like Sara does all this information gathering for us but we don't say anything about it. And to Shayera it's her way of trying to redeem herself to her family but also protect her kids.
But anyway Shayera has to do deep under cover mission and leaves the other 7 in charge of her kids.
Rex and Eve want to know more about their mother from when she was in the league, and secretly guess their extended family's reactions should they ever find out their true parentage.
They start with their Uncle Clark and Uncle J'onn, the most netural when it comes to their mother.
J'onn and Clark tense. Clark gently tells the kids. "We don't talk about Hawkgirl."
Rex and Eve push a little harder, and maybe lost their tempers a little bit, which made the their uncles chuckle.
"I haven't seen a temper like that since Hawkgirl," Clark said.
"Temeper?" Rex and Eve looked at each other. Their mother never raised her voice their entire lives, or even shown any signs of anger. In fact the woman was so reserved almost eveyone thinks she's shy.
J'onn snickered. "Be careful, if she heard you say that she would throw you into a wall."
Clark laughed. "You don't think she use her mace?"
That made the twins look back at each other. That wall decoration never left the hooks it was hung up on. They thought it was cermional and had never seen actual combat.
A slammed tray and a pissed Wonder Woman sucks all the amusement out of the room. Their aunt Diana levels a glare at the them. "We don't talk about traitors."
"Diana!" Clark said in warning.
J'onn gives her a disappointed look. "There is no reason to take your anger out on children who were not born when all of this happened."
Tensions and voices rising Rex and Eve back out of the room. Damn it. They knew it was a risk asking. They knew the world was angry at their mother for whatever her part in the Thangarian invasion. They've known about it and the basic details for forever. Shayera never hid it from them for their own saftey. But to have that big of a reaction.
Rex and Eve make it five feet out the door before running into someone else.
Rex and Eve wince. Shit they didn't think of what to say to him yet. "Hi Batman."
Uncle Bruce moves his head in a way that reminds the twins of when their mother raises an eyebrow at them.
"Hawkgirl was given an impossible choice. No matter who she picked she would be considered a traitor."
Bruce began walking in another direction when it hit. The invasion, the reason their mother left. They jog to catch up.
"The Thanqgarians sent her to Earth as a spy to collect information on Earth, and later about the League. When they came Hawkgirl rejoined them and Earth was invaded. She gave them eveything, all our weaknesses filled her reports."
Rex and Eve looked at each other. Their mother was still doing that. Except this time she's helping the leauge.
"The Thangarians built a machine that would help them break the barried the Gordanians used to protect their home planet. It would have destroyed Earth. They told us it would help defend Earth. They told her that too."
"Her own people lied to her." They...they never heard that before. When Shayers told the story she never once put any blame on anyone but herself.
Bruce just kept walking. "Hawkgirl could have let things continue and save her people. Go home where she would be declared a hero for her part in the end of the war. It would have been the easy choice, it should have been her only choice."
"But she chose Earth." The mantra came out so natrually. They don't know how many times they've seen their mother muttering that to herself on those hard days where she could barely get out of bed.
Batman nodded. "She did. She made the harder choice to save an innocent planet that will never choose to try to understand the choices she made. Hawkgirl chose Earth, knowing it would most likely be her prison."
There was an unspoken question that hung in the air.
Do you try to understand? And what would you have done had you been in the sam position?
Diana in her angry state let it slip that Rex and Eve were asking about Hawkgirl to the rest of the Leauge. Rex and Eve have never seen so many adults give the side eye to a pair of 10 year olds.
Why ask about that dirty hawk?
It's not like she's ever coming back.
Hawkgirl would be a fool to even try to return.
Let's hope someone did the world a favor and put a bullet in her head.
It was scary how many of the so called heroes wished for that last thing. Of course it was never said around the other founders. None of them would tolerate it even Diana for some reason.
Uncle Wally was all to eager to talk about Hawkgirl. And was the nicest of any one.
"Hawkgirl was a good person. In the end she chose us and that's what matters." Wally said, pushing Rex and Eve towards the Founders' room. He was irritated, they walked in on another group of heroes bashing Hawkgirl. "If anything she deserves a chance to earn forgiveness. Why does she have to be so good at hidding!"
Walking next to them is John Stewart aka Green Lantern aka Rex and Eve's unknowing father. He was probably the only hero who has said nothing about Hawkgirl.
Their father sighed. "She can come back anytime if she wants Wally. Prehaps she's not ready."
Rex and Eve stopped. "She can come back?"
Wally groaned. "It's been 10 years GL! We've should've looked for her years ago!"
"Hawkgirl can come back?" Rex repeated, loud enough to catch the mens' attention.
Wally nodded, seeming to remember their audience. He's all smiles. "The vote ended with letting Hawkgirl stay."
Rex and Eve stared on disbelief. "Does Hawkgirl know that?"
"Does Hawkgirl know what?"
Well there mother was back.
Eve quick to speak before the adults could stop her. "Hawkgirl can return to the leauge whenever she wants!"
Their mother freezes. Well she didn't know.
She turned to the other founders. "You would really let Shayera Hol back in? After all she's done?"
The whispers must have been getting to all the founders because all of them glared at their mother.
Bruce is the one to answer. "Sara Hall may I remind you that...."
Bruce trails off. "Sara Hall. Sara Hall. Sara Hall." His eyes widened. "Sara Hall."
Rex and Eve watched their mother crossed her arms over her chest. She was getting ready for a verbal attack. "You gonna say something else besides my name Batsy?"
Bruce looked at their mother, like soul searching looked. "Hidding in plain sight Shayera?"
Rex and Eve were placed behind their mother.
Shayera glared at ever last one of her co-founders. "I have my reasons.
