A Successful Plan

Ann's POV


it's been a Month and a half since everything happened. a month and a half since Conner and I got married and had an awesome honey-moon, a month and a half since we found Jynx and she joined the team, and a month and a half since since Jynx and Robin met. but even though so much time had passed, the two of them have spent almost no time together, Jynx had told us she liked Dick, but Dick wouldn't say how he felt about Jynx. and I had just had a wonderful idea for how to get the two of them to spend some alone time. which is why I now found myself in the cave approaching my father, hoping he would help me with my idea, and knowing that he was the best person to talk to about something I had found out earlier this morning, but first, the idea.


"hey Baby, need something?" Dad asked as he turned his chair to face me, looking at his computer screen I see that he's just working on some Wayne Industries stuff, I relax, feeling better now that I know I'm not interrupting Batman business. but even though he's doing stuff as Bruce Wayne, he's dressed like Batman and I know that it will take seconds for him to go into full Batman mode.


"I was wondering if you would help me with something?" I asked him, he raised an eye-brow knowing that since I wasn't giving him a pout, that I wasn't asking for help for myself, but for someone else that probably didn't want help.


"and what would you like me to help you with?" he asked politely, acting as if he might say no, when we both knew that no matter what it was all I had to do was fake cry and he'd help me with anything.


"do you remember that training exercise you had the team do when I first joined them?" I asked hopeful, hoping that he would get my idea without me having to explain to much.


"yes, what about it?" from his voice I could tell he was prepared for me to ask him to do something crazy for the team, like throw a pool party or a sleep over, and I knew that he was about to be surprised, something that rarely happened.


"I want you to make a training exercise where the team is split into groups of two and sent to different places to get item's, and they have a list of questions they have to ask each other while they are getting their items, and I want you to make sure Robin and Jynx are a group, you can decide who to put together beyond that." I told him, and I knew that he was a little intrigued with the idea, as he was tapping his fingers on the arm of his chair. "so will you do it?"


"I don't see any harm in it. but I'll need some more information." he told me, and I nodded to tell him to tell me what he needed. "I need the questions, the items they will be sent after, and a date."


"how about this after noon?" I asked him and he nodded, "then the items can be ripe Cherry's, red grape sparkling cider, steaks, and Japanese rice from japan."


"interesting items," he said, but I just smiled at him, not telling him what it would be for. "what about the checklist?"


"the questions will be easy at first and then get harder to answer." I told him, and I quickly wrote down a list of the he looked over.


"alright, the exercise will be this afternoon," he said, then he looked at me questioningly, and I smiled knowing that he knew the exercise wasn't the only reason I came here. "what else did you need to talk to me about?"


I looked at the ground, all of a sudden finding that I didn't know what to say, and scared of what was going to happen in the future because of what I was about to tell my dad. something about my posture tipped my dad off, and told him that I was scared. he was almost instantly standing in front of me and rapping his arms around me in a protective hug.


"baby whats wrong?" he asked me worried, knowing that if something had scared me, than it was big and not a matter to be taken lightly. "you know you can tell me anything."


"Daddy," I looked up into my fathers eyes, all of a sudden feeling like a scared little kid, but knowing that my father will know what to do, and how to help me prepare. "I'm pregnant."


"are you sure?" he asked worried, and I knew that he was only worried because I was scared about it, if I had been smiling he would have been happy for me. and he only asked because he wanted to make sure before he tried to help me get used to the idea of being a mother.


"yes, I took the test four times, and I went to the doctors just in case." I told him, ad I looked into his eyes again and saw the confusion there, instantly realising that my father thought the problem was that I didn't want the baby, and I quickly made him forget that thought, "I want to keep the baby, and I know that Conner will want to as well, but it scars me, who will he or she turn out to be when both their parents are heroes? they would always be in danger, what if we coudn't protect them? what if we do something wrong?"


by now I had tears streaming down my cheeks, I wanted the baby, but what if it wasn't safe, so many things could hurt my child, and I was scared of all the things that Conner and I could do wrong as parents.


"Ann, look at me." my father ordered, and I looked to see him smiling at me. "you and Conner are going to love your child, and your going to do your best to protect it, so what if you make a mistake? its part of being a parent. but this child is going to turn out great, because he or she is going to be raised by to of the most remarkable people I know, and they will be loved and protected their whole life's. so don't worry about things like that, because you and Conner are going to be amazing parents and the child is going to turn out fine." he said, and then he seemed to have a thought, and he looked at me with a questioning look, "does Conner know your pregnant?"


"not yet," I told him a little sheepishly, "I only just confirmned it half an hour ago, and I wont see Conner alone until this evening, so I was going to tell him tonight."


"alright, just don't wait to long to tell him, he will want to be there for you through the entire pregnancy." he told me, then the computer brought up a live news feed and showed that Batman was needed downtown, "I'll see you this afternoon." then he was gone, and smiling to myself I made my way out of the cave.


LATER THAT AFTERNOON, IN THE CAVE:


ROBINS POV


"the groups will be Wally and Artemis, Kaldur and Conner, Jynx and Robin, and then Ann, Zatanna and Megan will be a group." Batman told us, he had just spent the last half-hour telling us about a new training exercise we were going to do. the team divided into groups and we had to go get items while asking each other a list of questions, and I was in a group with Jynx. "you all know that your group is getting, to go get your item, answer the questions, and get back here. there are only ten, but all of the questions are to be answered on your list and if you don't have all of the answers, you will not go on the next mission."


I coudn't believe it, not only was I being forced to do something with Jynx, but if I didn't do it I wouldn't get to go on the next mission. don't get me wrong, I had nothing against Jynx, I just didn't get why everyone was trying to get me to spend time with her. sure she was attractive, but after Zatanna, I just didn't feel like letting myself get involved with another girl. and I didn't know anything about Jynx, which was about to change.


"so we have to get, Cherry's?" Jynx asked me, and I looked at her before nodding, why we needed to get cherry's I didn't know. "where do you want to start for the questions?"


"let's start with question one and work down." I said, not wanting to get out of order in case I forgot one. and I looked down at my list to see what the first question was. "alright, what's your favorite movie?"


"my favorite movie is 'The Savage' with Charlton Heston." she told me, and I was so surprised I actually stopped walking, "what about you?"


"The Savage' with Charlton Heston," I told her, and we looked at each other for a moment before we both smiled, and she asked me why it was my favorite movie. "because a white boy is orphaned and taken in by Indians, even though they have no reason to help him, they raise him and he becomes one of them, but when it comes between choosing between the white men and his Indian family, he can't really choose, he is loyal to both, even though the white men would kill him, what about you? why is it your favorite movie?"


"for the same reason, but I also have a fashination with indian movies, and indian stuff, so most of the movies I watch have indians." she told me, and I smiled.


"who do you hate the most?" I asked her, looking at the next question, by know we had walked to a cherry farm and started picking cherry's.


"any one that can't see the beauty in being yourself." she told me, and I once again found myself stunned by her. "you?"


"anyone that will look at others and call them weird and unwanted just because they aren't afraid to be themselves." I told her, and we smiled again as we moved down the list, asking the other eight questions and finding that our answers are the exact same.


3) favorite book series-Rangers Apprentice


4) favorite color-Blue


5) favorite activity-acrobats


6) favorite school activity-annoying the teachers to death, then saying you didn't do anything


7) worst thing you've done-different answers, both would get us into trouble with mentors


8) worst thing ever told friend-you can go rot in a hole for all I care, you son of a B***h


9) favorite memory-different answers, to personal to share


10) favorite person-different answers, DICK-Batman, JYNX-doesn't have one.


by the time we asked each other the last question, we were just getting back to the cave, and I was in love with Jynx. so as we dropped out item off at the kitchen and handed our questions over to Batman, I smiled at Jynx, before grabbing a rose from a vase and giving it to her.


"Jynx, will you go on a date wth me tomorrow night?" I asked her, while praying in my head that she said yes, and as if she could read my thoughts, she said yes, before kissing me. then the two of us left to go talk in my room as we waited to see what the items the groups had gotten, were going to be used for.


6:00 PM THAT NIGHT, MOUNT JUSTICE.


ANN'S POV.


everyone was sitting around the table eating dinner, which was made from the items the groups got, we had steak, mashed potatoes, sparkling cider, and a cherry pie. and to make it even better, Robin and Jynx were sitting together and holding hands, meaning we had been successful.


"that was amazing Ann." Conner said as he kissed me before heading towards the sink with his plait. I took a deep breath, I was going to tell him right now, in front of every body, because I knew that they would find out soon, and because I knew that if I didn't do it now, I would loose my courage and not tell him. but as I turned around and faced my husband, I gasped in shock.


Conner's face was pale, and he was swaying from side to side as if he was dizzy. at my gasp everyone at the table turned to see what was wrong, just in time to see Conner's eyes roll back in his head before he collapsed to the floor.


Ann: you evil little writer, why can't you just let us be happy with out any interferences?


Me: because than it wouldn't be an interesting story and people would loose intrest.


Jynx: what did you do to Conner?


Me:I can't tell you, you'll have to read the next chapter to find out.


Superman: can you at least tell us if he's going to be okay?


Me: no. because I haven't decided whether he's going to be okay, or die.


Ann: if you make him die, I will come out of this book and kill you, then I'll kill myself and haunt you.


Me: you can't do that, you'd kill the baby


Ann: not if I wait until after the birth, that Robin can take care of the baby while I kill you.


Me: just. REVEIW.

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