~De's P.o.V~
The light of the blue computer screen I was looking at was beginning to hurt my eyes as I monitored the whereabouts of the small squad Nightwing was leading. I was to be the one to make sure everything went well on this mission that Nightwing had assigned to himself, Acacia, Aria, and Octavia, so that they'd all be safe. If there were any issues that I could see on the computer screen, I was to report to Nightwing over the com link that Miss Martian had cautiously set up. Luckily there hadn't been any sign of trouble and the mission seemed to have been a success because it wasn't long before Nightwing's thoughts echoed in my head, 'We're heading to a zeta tube platform nearby. Shouldn't take long for us to return. Great work with the communications, De.' I smiled proudly to myself at his little praise.
First time doing something like this and I succeeded in impressing him! I thought quietly to myself, blushing slightly as I spun around in my chair, idly waiting for the zeta tube to announce the return of my teammates. Letting out a soft huff, I twirled around in the chair I sat in and looked around at the mission briefing room's interior, allowing my thoughts to wander. For a few minutes, I was left to my own devices, sitting like that in the chair, my head leaned back against the headrest as I groaned in boredom. "Ughhh, they should've been here by nowwww," I grumbled, turning to face the computer screen once more to see where the squad was.
As my eyes focused on the little dots that represented my teammates, a familiar voice piped up from behind me, "Chill, De! I know you really wanna see Nightwing again, but dude, he said he'd be back soon. So calm down." /Wally/. I scowled, rubbing the temples of my head as I closed my eyes in irritation.
"I am calm, stupid," I grumbled, trying to hide my embarrassed blush, "I just don't understand what's taking them s-"
"I mean, it's not like he doesn't know-" My conversation with Wally was interrupted by the sound of Octavia, Aria, Nightwing, and Acacia returning to the cave. The ginger speedster left my side and zoomed over to Aria and Octavia.
"Don't know what?" Wally chirped, always the obnoxious speedster on the team, nosing into everyone's business. I tuned them out, walking towards Nightwing and Acacia awkwardly. They were in the middle of talking about something, but as soon as Acacia noticed me standing behind Nightwing, she stopped speaking and glared at me, causing Nightwing to turn around and smile kindly at me.
"Glad you guys made it back in one piece!" I managed to awkwardly laugh, feeling the ice cold stare of Dick's girlfriend on me the entire time. Nightwing smirked softly at me, placing a hand on my shoulder.
"What? Did you think you were gonna have to see your leader in pieces?" He joked, causing my face to flush and for Acacia to sneer out of the corner of my eye, "Like I said, not gonna happen anytime soon~" Nightwing smirked, putting his hands on his hips. I rolled my eyes, amused by his cocky attitude.
"Riiight. Anyway, I'm just gonna go say hi to Aria. Talk to you later," I quickly said, aware that Acacia was beginning to hover over Nightwing again. Her presence was giving me the chills... I mean, I get that she loves Dick, but seriously. She doesn't need to act like that, especially when I'm just speaking to him. I wouldn't ever dream of stealing Nightwing from her.
~~~~~ Later ~~~~~~
Aria and Octavia had gone off to do their own thing together, so I was left in the main hall with nobody to talk to. I didn't have any work to catch up on and I didn't feel like doing some independent training, so I decided I'd sit on the couch in the den and see if anything was on. However, just as I sat down, I felt two strong hands on my shoulders and I screamed in alarm, scrambling off the couch and turning around so fast that I got a crick in my neck. Sure enough, there stood Nightwing, laughing at my reaction to his greeting.
"DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO SCARE ME LIKE THAT?!" I snapped at him, trembling a little. He knew I hated being snuck up on! Especially in a quiet room by myself!!
"You should've seen the look on your face," The tall black haired young man chuckled softly, managing to recover from his stupid hyena -laughing fit.
"YOU!- are not a very nice person..." I whimpered, regaining my composure as I fixed my shirt and pouted at him. Unaffected by my weak insult, Nightwing just smirked arrogantly, flipping over the couch so that he sat beside the spot I had been sitting in. He patted the couch, grinning impishly.
"You can't hate me just because I like to mess with you. I've always been like this, I mess with everyone," he tried to reassure me as I wearily sat beside him, trying to not blush at the feeling of sitting beside him, "You know you love me," Nightwing teased, nudging me softly as I looked away from him, pouting.
"I would if you weren't such a doofus all the time," I grumbled, crossing my arms over my chest as I turned to face him once more. The raven haired male just rolled his eyes at my sour reply.
"Awe, come on. Don't pout, cutie~ I was just messing around," he got closer to me as I moved away, scowling once more at him. /Why do you have to act like that, you stupid dork.../ I thought to myself as our eyes met.
Suddenly there's a low growl from behind us and we turn around to see Acacia looking extremely upset. The look in her eyes was unreadable as she met my bewildered gaze. Nightwing jumped up, walking towards her, his hands up defensively. I frowned in disapproval.
"Acacia, De and I were just messing around-" he began to explain, then followed acacia's stare toward me. He face palmed, "Honestly, Acacia? Stop glaring at De like that. She's been nothing but nice to you-" His girlfriend's eyes darkened and she stormed out of the room, back to wherever she had came from. Quickly shooting an apologetic glance at me, Nightwing ran after Acacia to try to get her to understand what had really just happened.
Running a hand through my hair, I frowned once more to myself, wishing that Acacia would stop getting so fed up and angry all the time about me hanging out with her boyfriend...
~TBC~
