Young Justice Fanfiction: Meeting the Fallen Hero (completed)

Chapter 7: My Curse

So now these next few chapters are going to take place in Mary Alice's future before it goes back into the young Justice Series. Sorry if this part of the book bores you, but it's only for a couple. Oh and seeing as these didn't really have much to do with the series, I wrote these before I watched season 2. Since there were a few things that I learned after I watched it, I fixed it up. But if you see something there that shouldn't be, please let me know. Like for example if the Cave is brought up instead of the Watch Tower.

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Chapter 7: My Curse

My life changed completely after I accidentally bonded myself to the Inanis Gemma. My mother's attitude seemed to change since then. She could barely look at me before gazing down to my neck toward the Inanis Gemma. The guilt and pain she felt could clearly be seen through the energy that emanated from her. She blamed herself for what happened, even when I didn't. It put a big strain on our relationship. The same was with my father. I could barely even look at him after what I did. I mostly kept to myself. The only people I felt close to were Colt and Grandfather Bruce and even then I couldn't be too close to them either. After years of training and struggling, I learned to control the thirst of the curse around my neck and after that, I avoided my mother as much as I could. I hated feeling that energy and no matter how hard she tried to hide her unhappiness, energy wasn't something that could be hidden from me and it couldn't be changed to seem like something else. She had nothing to feel bad about. It wasn't her fault, but she wasn't the type to push away guilt and listen. I figured that since I was the cause of my mother's suffering that then all I had to do was keep my distance from her. She would enter my room every night while I slept and would sacrifice some of her energy to last me the entire night and next day. She was sly enough to the point where she wouldn't even wake me up, but I knew this because every morning I'd wake up, I'd find that the hunger of the I.G. was tolerable. I knew energy extraction was terribly painful and I could only imagine the pain my mother felt every night. I wish I could tell her to stop, but I couldn't. Because her energy was the only thing that seemed to keep me from destroying the world. I was a leech and completely useless. I didn't understand why my parents insisted on keeping me. I should have been locked away in that cave and left to get my soul devoured. At least that way the universe wouldn't be at risk and I wouldn't be the cause of my parents' troubles.

I stood in front of the hologram of Wally West, the first Kid Flash. The stories about him revolving around my head. He and many others sacrificed himself for the rest of the world. They were true heroes...something I could never be. I wasn't even a hero or a sidekick. I was allowed in the Watch Tower to help out, but I wasn't really part of the team. I just sat behind a computer on missions that I was needed on, then the team would put a bug in the enemy's computer and I'd hack in and get the information needed. But that was all I did, nothing else. The energy I am given is just to keep my curse at bay. It is not so that I could help fight bad guys. My parents would never allow it. It was too much of a risk. I was allowed a costume to keep my family's identity from being revealed, but that's all I was getting from the hero job. I didn't wear a mask around my eyes, but a mouth piece. I wasn't allowed to cover my eyes. My eyes were the warning. If they were silver that meant my gem was empty and it needed to devour something. If I didn't find anything, then it'd attack my soul and consume that. My ability is to devour, consume life energy. How am I supposed to be a hero like that? It's not possible. I can't be a hero. Like I said before, I was a leech that if wasn't put away soon, was going to end up destroying the entire planet. If that happened, every hero who sacrificed themselves would be in vain. I can't let their death go to waste like that... How could I? I wasn't worth that risk! I looked at the original Kid Flash's hologram. He was my all-time hero. I might not have ever seen him in action or met him. But the stories of him made such an impact on me. I hacked into my father's computer and found all the files of him. My interest grew when Grandfather Bruce told me about him being my father's best friend. To think that I could be the reason his effort and so many other heroes' effort went to waste...I'd hate myself for it. I didn't know why he seemed to stand out to me more than the others. Maybe it was because from what I found, he was a big part of my parents' lives. The part that didn't involve me bringing misery to them. They don't let me know and don't tell me this, but their energy said it all. I don't know why I'm here or what they expect from me. I'm just a leech. I am a danger to the entire universe, but no one seems to understand that. I looked at the gem hanging from my neck. I know this...yet I'm standing here not doing anything to stop it. I looked up at the statue. Why am I expecting someone else too? I might not be part of a team and I might have a useless gem that can't do any good, but I can at least keep it from doing bad. I'll lock myself away. I will make the tough decision that everyone refuses to make. But first...before I sacrifice myself, there's something I want to do. I want to meet my all-time hero. I felt someone touch me and I jumped startled. Because it was already difficult to contain the gem's thirst, I didn't like to touch. But for some reason, my idiotic best friend never seemed to understand that. I looked up to glare at him, but then he held up a Popsicle and my anger seemed to fade as I snatched it from him.