Red Letter Day (Justice League) *Flash/OC*

01. Eager Recruit

"Aww come on, don't be such a stick in the mud!"

"For the last time, I said no!"

Of course that didn't bother me. I'd been snubbed seven times already. One more certainly wasn't going to have any effect. People have told me I have selective hearing... I reckon I just hear the stuff that's worth hearing. But apparently that's 'the same thing'.

I danced after the man in the black cape - the superhero who was currently trying to avoid me, since I'd cornered him after he'd assisted the police with a store robbery. As usual it didn't deter me. I'd chase him for as long as I could. I'd been doing it every time I'd managed to find one of the members of the infamous Justice League.

Unfortunately, I seemed to keep finding the miserable ones. They were a little harder to work with...

"I can be of use to you, y'know," I insisted as I chased after him. I was determined not to let him out of my sights - he was very good at disappearing off the radar if you so much as blinked. "Just give me a chance."

"Do you have a hearing impairment? I already told you no," he said irritably.

"Well I have actually been told that I talk too loud," I admitted. "Apparently I'm not 'aware of my own volume'."

Batman just sighed and continued to stride around the corner. I had to practically jog to keep up. Though I wasn't too bothered about the seven rejections so far I still didn't really want to let the figure reach double figures. I was determined to at least make some progress.

People stared as I skipped past. I caught sight of us in the reflection of one of the big store windows. It did look a picture - the stoic man in black attempting to escape the girl with the tiny, bouncing red ponytail.

"You do know I'm going to keep doing this until you say yes, don't you?" I shouted brightly after him.

"Then you're going to be doing it for a very long time," came the annoyed reply.

"Hey Bats! If a girl's going through the trouble of chasing you then you could at least give her the time of day."

I looked round to see a guy in red stood leaning against a post on the sidewalk, looking highly amused. Now this was someone I hadn't tried reasoning with yet... Though unfortunately the superhero known collectively as Green Lantern was stood beside him. I'd spoken to him multiple times before and he was about as uncooperative as Batman was.

He was clearly thinking along the same lines when he spotted me. "You again!"

"Hey, I told you I'd be back," I reminded him with a grin.

"I was hoping it was an empty threat," Green Lantern grumbled.

"Hang on, how come you and Bats know this girl and I don't?" protested the guy in red.

"I'm Sidney Crichton," I announced helpfully.

Green Lantern ignored me. "It's better if you don't," he told his comrade. "We've been trying to..."

He didn't get to finish. The other guy had suddenly sidestepped around him with inhuman speed and come to stand in front of me. He held his hand out with a smile. "I'm Flash."

I smiled back. "I know," I said, making to shake his hand.

Flash looked impressed. "You do?"

Green Lantern knocked his hand out of the way. "Don't get cocky - she's not interested in you. She knows about all of us. She wants to 'join' the Justice League."

"So?" said Flash, giving me an obvious look up and down. "She's cute. I say let her join."

I felt a little smug and tried not to grin like an idiot. Well at least it looked like someone was prepared to vouch for me - who cared what the reason was? But of course there was always somebody else who had to rain on my parade...