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This Chapter contains: Another surprise Pregnancy, angst, more mention of alternate worlds.
Ten Worlds: The Return
Chapter Nine of Ten
“Any luck finding Jason Todd?” She asked Tim as she settled down at the diner she had asked him to meet at. She was glad he’d come considering how strained things had gotten after their brief attempt at a relationship. He shook his head and she guessed he wasn’t going to say anything more on the search for the Red Hood. “Thanks for coming by the way.” She said and then got quiet as the waitress arrived to take their orders.
Once they were alone again in a back corner of the diner she got to the real reason she asked him here. “I need a favor and I need your word that no one else can find out about this.” She still couldn’t believe she was even in this spot since it shouldn’t have been possible. He nodded. “I want you to say it Tim to give me your word as my friend that no one not Batman, not David and especially not Kon will hear a word of until I’m ready for them to know if I ever decide to tell them.”
“I give you my word,” He said and she wondered if he’d keep it but he was the only one she could think of who could help her find the answers she needed other than Diana and she didn’t want to go to the Oracles about this.
“You know how Tana Moon just learned a few days ago she was pregnant with Jeff’s kid,” she said quietly and he nodded. “Well the fact they unexpectedly got pregnant made me worried since David is so much more human than Connor was; so I took a test and the result was positive.” She looked down. “I need you to help me confirm it and find out if I can abort it if I choose to.” She wasn’t ready to make up her mind on this yet not until she knew for sure . “I don’t know if I’m ready for this and it might just be a false positive because I’m freaked out over things.” She was also worried that an embryo formed from a part god and part kryptonian meta human would be impossible to abort some how.
“I can arrange some test to confirm your possible pregnancy with Star Labs in secret,” Tim said after a moment. “If you are pregnant you should be able to abort the embryo normally unless there is something unusual about it which Star Labs can check for if you are pregnant.” She nodded glad that Tim knew what to do. “Is something else bothering you besides the possibility of a pregnancy?”
“Yes, a lot of things,” She said deciding to just admit everything to him before he got worried and bugged her latest therapist office. “I thought I was ready for Connor to come back and secure in my relationship with David but now with everything going on I don’t know.” She then looked away. “And I keep worrying now that Kelex arranged all this and programmed David to be the type of guy I could fall for.” She knew that was why she’d tried so hard to believe it was just a final trick of Black Zero despite everyone else deciding Kelex was the master mind. “I know J’onn checked their minds for programming and hidden instructions and found nothing but Kelex was in my head he could guess what would make me fall for someone.” She could tell that he didn’t have any answer for her. “I just don’t know what to do Tim I hate feeling like my life is out of control and I haven’t felt this bad since the time I was sleeping with Match.” She had never brought up her biggest regret from the months she spent spiraling out of control she wasn’t surprised that he didn’t even blink. “Can I ask you something personal?”
“Go ahead,” Tim said though she suspected he was only doing it to humor her. She knew that she’d have no way of knowing if he lied to her since he was such a good liar. She knew that but she had always held back on asking this but now with everything going on she wanted to know. “Cassie, what is it?”
She realized she’d been holding her breath. “When I realized how I was using Match and ended it he said something to hurt me.” She looked out the window then for just a second to get up her nerve before turning back; she wanted to see his face. “He told me that you were hung up on Kon El too and he should have tried seducing you instead.” His face was emotionless. “I guess I’m asking if it was true or not did he lie to hurt me or are you bi like Connor?” She wasn’t sure what answer she wanted to hear.
“It was true to a certain extent,” Tim said after a moment. “I guess Bi is the closest descriptor that works for me.” She didn’t quiet understand but there was a lot about Tim she didn’t understand. “It doesn’t really mean anything since Connor and I have never been involved and never will be.” There was a cold finality in Tim’s statement that made her curious but not enough to ask.
She really wanted to know why so many of the people she’d dated were bi but decided against bringing it up. It was one of those things she just needed to get over because obsessing over it could drive her crazy. “I think I’m going to head back home now please arrange for those test quickly.” Tim nodded as she stood and left the booth.
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“So what did you say to piss off Tim?” Ken asked him again as he swirled the small led balls around himself. “And what the hell are you doing with those balls?” He ignored the first question because why Tim was giving him the cold shoulder was none of Ken’s bussiness.
“I’m thinking of starting to carry lead balls with me in case someone pulls out kryptonite,” he said answering the second. “Pick up that dumbbell and pretend its green k.” Ken did as he instructed and he sent the swarm of small lead balls onto the weight and mashed them together with his TK. “See instant lead containment.” He just needed to find out how thick he needed to get it for Kryptonite radiation but he’d have to ask Tim that and he was avoiding him at the moment.
“Neat idea if I still had TK and was vulnerable to kryptonite I’d do the same,” Ken said and then smiled smugly. “Now what did you do to piss off Robin did you finally tell him about how he was head over heels for you in one of those ten worlds?”
“No and I’m not talking about it,” He had found Ken the easiest of the four to talk to but he wasn’t about to go into such personal matters with him. “And unless you want me to start asking about you and Slo-bo I suggest you drop it.”
“Consider it dropped,” Ken said with a smile, “For now.” He was really starting to wonder if things were better when Ken seemed to irrationally hate him. “By the way Joseph says according to the League files you met the fifth one of us.”
He wasn’t even going to ask how Joseph got into the league files again. “I did, he doesn’t think Joseph is stable.” He privately shared that belief the other clone was way too invested in their origins.
“I agree he isn’t,” Ken said which really surprised him. “But the same could be said about all four of us me especially.” He certainly agreed with that in the few days they’d been working out together he still saw flashes of Ken’s troubling temper. “But I know what he meant Joseph is way to obsessed with our origins and you.” Ken said shaking his head. “I worry about him a lot especially now that your back.”
That didn’t make him feel any better. “I should head back to the farm I promised to help Ma with the planting.” Ken nodded and went back to lifting a huge amount of weight. He felt guilty leaving on that note but he just couldn’t think of what to say in response.
To be continued...
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This Chapter contains: Another surprise Pregnancy, angst, more mention of alternate worlds.
Ten Worlds: The Return
Chapter Nine of Ten
“Any luck finding Jason Todd?” She asked Tim as she settled down at the diner she had asked him to meet at. She was glad he’d come considering how strained things had gotten after their brief attempt at a relationship. He shook his head and she guessed he wasn’t going to say anything more on the search for the Red Hood. “Thanks for coming by the way.” She said and then got quiet as the waitress arrived to take their orders.
Once they were alone again in a back corner of the diner she got to the real reason she asked him here. “I need a favor and I need your word that no one else can find out about this.” She still couldn’t believe she was even in this spot since it shouldn’t have been possible. He nodded. “I want you to say it Tim to give me your word as my friend that no one not Batman, not David and especially not Kon will hear a word of until I’m ready for them to know if I ever decide to tell them.”
“I give you my word,” He said and she wondered if he’d keep it but he was the only one she could think of who could help her find the answers she needed other than Diana and she didn’t want to go to the Oracles about this.
“You know how Tana Moon just learned a few days ago she was pregnant with Jeff’s kid,” she said quietly and he nodded. “Well the fact they unexpectedly got pregnant made me worried since David is so much more human than Connor was; so I took a test and the result was positive.” She looked down. “I need you to help me confirm it and find out if I can abort it if I choose to.” She wasn’t ready to make up her mind on this yet not until she knew for sure . “I don’t know if I’m ready for this and it might just be a false positive because I’m freaked out over things.” She was also worried that an embryo formed from a part god and part kryptonian meta human would be impossible to abort some how.
“I can arrange some test to confirm your possible pregnancy with Star Labs in secret,” Tim said after a moment. “If you are pregnant you should be able to abort the embryo normally unless there is something unusual about it which Star Labs can check for if you are pregnant.” She nodded glad that Tim knew what to do. “Is something else bothering you besides the possibility of a pregnancy?”
“Yes, a lot of things,” She said deciding to just admit everything to him before he got worried and bugged her latest therapist office. “I thought I was ready for Connor to come back and secure in my relationship with David but now with everything going on I don’t know.” She then looked away. “And I keep worrying now that Kelex arranged all this and programmed David to be the type of guy I could fall for.” She knew that was why she’d tried so hard to believe it was just a final trick of Black Zero despite everyone else deciding Kelex was the master mind. “I know J’onn checked their minds for programming and hidden instructions and found nothing but Kelex was in my head he could guess what would make me fall for someone.” She could tell that he didn’t have any answer for her. “I just don’t know what to do Tim I hate feeling like my life is out of control and I haven’t felt this bad since the time I was sleeping with Match.” She had never brought up her biggest regret from the months she spent spiraling out of control she wasn’t surprised that he didn’t even blink. “Can I ask you something personal?”
“Go ahead,” Tim said though she suspected he was only doing it to humor her. She knew that she’d have no way of knowing if he lied to her since he was such a good liar. She knew that but she had always held back on asking this but now with everything going on she wanted to know. “Cassie, what is it?”
She realized she’d been holding her breath. “When I realized how I was using Match and ended it he said something to hurt me.” She looked out the window then for just a second to get up her nerve before turning back; she wanted to see his face. “He told me that you were hung up on Kon El too and he should have tried seducing you instead.” His face was emotionless. “I guess I’m asking if it was true or not did he lie to hurt me or are you bi like Connor?” She wasn’t sure what answer she wanted to hear.
“It was true to a certain extent,” Tim said after a moment. “I guess Bi is the closest descriptor that works for me.” She didn’t quiet understand but there was a lot about Tim she didn’t understand. “It doesn’t really mean anything since Connor and I have never been involved and never will be.” There was a cold finality in Tim’s statement that made her curious but not enough to ask.
She really wanted to know why so many of the people she’d dated were bi but decided against bringing it up. It was one of those things she just needed to get over because obsessing over it could drive her crazy. “I think I’m going to head back home now please arrange for those test quickly.” Tim nodded as she stood and left the booth.
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“So what did you say to piss off Tim?” Ken asked him again as he swirled the small led balls around himself. “And what the hell are you doing with those balls?” He ignored the first question because why Tim was giving him the cold shoulder was none of Ken’s bussiness.
“I’m thinking of starting to carry lead balls with me in case someone pulls out kryptonite,” he said answering the second. “Pick up that dumbbell and pretend its green k.” Ken did as he instructed and he sent the swarm of small lead balls onto the weight and mashed them together with his TK. “See instant lead containment.” He just needed to find out how thick he needed to get it for Kryptonite radiation but he’d have to ask Tim that and he was avoiding him at the moment.
“Neat idea if I still had TK and was vulnerable to kryptonite I’d do the same,” Ken said and then smiled smugly. “Now what did you do to piss off Robin did you finally tell him about how he was head over heels for you in one of those ten worlds?”
“No and I’m not talking about it,” He had found Ken the easiest of the four to talk to but he wasn’t about to go into such personal matters with him. “And unless you want me to start asking about you and Slo-bo I suggest you drop it.”
“Consider it dropped,” Ken said with a smile, “For now.” He was really starting to wonder if things were better when Ken seemed to irrationally hate him. “By the way Joseph says according to the League files you met the fifth one of us.”
He wasn’t even going to ask how Joseph got into the league files again. “I did, he doesn’t think Joseph is stable.” He privately shared that belief the other clone was way too invested in their origins.
“I agree he isn’t,” Ken said which really surprised him. “But the same could be said about all four of us me especially.” He certainly agreed with that in the few days they’d been working out together he still saw flashes of Ken’s troubling temper. “But I know what he meant Joseph is way to obsessed with our origins and you.” Ken said shaking his head. “I worry about him a lot especially now that your back.”
That didn’t make him feel any better. “I should head back to the farm I promised to help Ma with the planting.” Ken nodded and went back to lifting a huge amount of weight. He felt guilty leaving on that note but he just couldn’t think of what to say in response.
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