DC x Reader One-shots

Little Menace - Jaime Reyes/Khaji Da [Blue Beetle]

Summary: Blue Beetle has been handling you as a villain for ages. But what happens after he shows up expecting a fight, only to find you bloody on the ground. Against Khaji Da's better judgment, Jaime suggests dragging you back to their apartment and getting you cleaned up – after all, they need to find out what happened, and they can't leave you to die. Which leads to their current predicament of getting you into the bath without leaving you unsupervised.

Note: Reader is not in a relationship with them (yet), but Khaji Da and Jaime are together. Khaji Da is still a little shit in this and Jaime is just trying to survive for the night. Translations at the end.

Based on the prompt by @gingerly-writing (Tumblr), prompt #3109: "You know," the supervillain rasped as they eased their battered body into the bath, "when you finally got me naked, I was imagining a much sexier situation."

Villain!Reader

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"Any sign of life?"

"None yet, Jaime Reyes," the voice echoed back in his head.

They had spent enough years together that it was white noise in his mind by now – the feeling of Khaji Da scanning the area for any sign of attack or threat. A constant source of vigilance that Jaime had long since learned to trust with his life. They were so regularly, deeply, integrated that when they were on the field it became hard to tell where one of them started and the other one ended.

Neither seemed to mind. It just made them a more formidable opponent in battle.

Outside of a fight, though Khaji Da was on regular alert, they were easier to tell apart. Jaime had grown, and Khaji Da had learned over the years what his personality was. It had been a long road for both, but they were better for it.

A clicking sound, just a small warning trill somewhere at the edges of his thoughts brought Jaime back to the present.

Khaji had caught him wandering and pulled him from his own head.

"The leak said that the meeting was supposed to be happening tonight, but this doesn't seem like their normal drop-spot." Jaime scanned the area, eyes darting along shadows and thick branches that swayed above crumbling stone walls.

The whole area was falling apart this far out of town. The only common residents among the decaying architecture tended to fall into a small demographic: bored teens looking to tag the old walls, get away and hang out to act a bit stupid, or just making out. It wasn't the same secure locations that you would normally frequent.

Too many things could go wrong. A bystander could show up – not that you would be unable to handle something so small – or a drone could spot you and your newest client out in the open.

In all the time that he and Khaji Da had been facing you, attention to detail and a vicious fighting strategy had kept you just out of their reach. Nothing more than a taunt away always.

But this wasn't right.

It felt more like the hero was waltzing open-armed into a trap.

Even Khaji Da seemed more on edge – locked on to each snap of a twig or sway of a branch that cast a shadows' puppet play against the cold earth around them.

Their information had seemed pretty solid however. While you often worked alone – leaving less room for error when you handled things yourself – occasionally outsourcing was required. And unfortunately for you, not all your chain had as much of a backbone. The most recent investigation had lasted less than two minutes before the sniveling man had recounted every tid-bit of information he knew about you and your dealings.