"You're so beautiful..."
"Even after what Joker did to me?"
"You're still the brightest star in my night sky, Mae."
Nightwing x OC
Young Justice S1-TBD
started: July 26,2023
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"I'm here, Domino." Dick groaned and sat up, covered in sweat. I immediately stood up from the bed I was in and tried to run to him but fell down.
"Easy, Domino." Marvel said, trying to help me walk but I pushed him away and collapsed in Dick's arms. "Or not..."
"You're alive." I cried, holding him close. "I thought I lost you."
"I'm so glad you're alive." Dick shakily whispered, pressing his forehead against mine and closed his eyes. "Never again, please... never again."
"What happened?" We heard Bruce ask and pulled away.
"The exercise it all went wrong." Manhunter says.
"Exercise?" Dick's voice cracks as he heaves in his breaths.
"What you experienced was a training exercise... Manhunter psychically linked the seven of you within an artificial reality. You all knew this going in. What you didn't know was that it was a train-for-failure exercise." Bruce explained, handing both of us a bottle of water. "No matter what the Team accomplished, the scenario was designed to grow worse. Still you were aware nothing was real, including the deaths of the entire Justice League."
"That is why you hardly grieved." Manhunter picks up. "Even when Wolf was disintegrated before your eyes. But all that changed when Artemis died."
"Mouse..." I called out and she looked up with tears in her eyes.
"I-I'm okay, monkey." She assured but we all knew it was a lie.
"Though consciously Miss Martian knew it was not real, her subconscious mind could not make that distinction. She forgot it was only an exercise." Manhunter continued. "And her subconscious took control, making all of you forget too."
This isn't her fault! Why didn't you stop the exercise?" Conner demands.
"We tried." Manhunter says strongly. "But M'gann had a death grip on the scenario... Even Artemis, who should have awakened upon her death was so convinced she had passed, she slipped into a coma. I realized I would have to wrestle control from Miss Martian's subconscious from within. But upon entering the reality I was overwhelmed by your collective emotion. There was too much noise to think clearly to remember why I was there... especially Domino's and M'gann's."
