#khaji da: you ditched me here. take it back

[looseleafteeaves]

Okay so I am SLOWLY continuing work on this! No idea when chapter two will be posted, but I AM working on it. Here is a snippet.

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‘Jaime, I can sense the young justice team on the other side of the door. It appears that we managed to be invited after the Impulse.’

Jaime, moving forwards without fear prior to this, freezes. He hadn’t- His team! They were right there! He could talk to them again-

His team. Who hadn’t noticed for 2 years that he was- That something was wrong.

2 years of paranoia and frustration and anxiety and hope and disappointment and the bitterness of betrayal. Because Khaji, as great at playing Jaime as they were, had faked it badly on purpose. And still no one noticed.

Batman glanced at him. “Blue Beetle? What’s wrong?”

“I know that I said we time travelled to stop a bad future but I forgot that I would see the people I knew again, and-“

Batman’s slight glare deepens. “Did they all die? Why didn’t you lead with-“

“No sir, they didn’t die.” Jaime stopped talking there, trying to prevent the spiral that would occur if he continued.

“Were they controlled? Benched? Hurt in some way?”

“For TWO YEARS not a SINGLE person on my team, my second family, noticed that something was wrong. Have you ever experienced that? Add the knowledge that the one controlling you was PURPOSEFULLY PRETENDING BADLY. So yes, I have some mixed feelings.”

Batman stared. Jaime noticed, flipped up his hood, and retreated backwards in his mind.

Khaji Da, thrust into the driver’s seat without warning, sighed, deeply and with feeling.