"Move over."
"No."
Should she have expected anything else?
"Cassie, I love you more than anything else in the world, but you've been hogging that fan for an hour. I know you're always off saving the world and stuff, so you get a pass for that, but I need a turn." (Y/N) begged.
Cassie hissed pathetically, like a deflated cat balloon, and hugged the industrial-grade fan as tight as she could. Summers in DC weren't just hot, they were humid. Especially at night. The air was thick enough that (Y/N) thought she could swim through it. If the sun wasn't so hot it vaporized her flip-flops on the asphalt, she actually would try to swim, even if the pool was packed like a can of sardines. And closed, at this hour of the night.
"Pleeeeease," (Y/N) had avoided pulling Cassie away through physical force, any skin-to-skin contact would surely melt the two of them together, but the heat had sapped all (Y/N)'s strength, so she ended up slumping forward on top of Cassie.
Cassie giggled, and (Y/N) melted a little more than she already was.
"You're gonna have to do a whole lot more than that to convince me to give this up, you know that right?" Cassie asked, still hugging the fan.
"I'll do anything," (Y/N) said deliriously.
Cassie giggled again. "Liiiike, fly all the way to Themyscira to get me that lavender shaved ice that I love so much?"
"You know I can't fly," (Y/N) said.
"Yes, but would you be willing to do so?"
(Y/N) shrugged. "Sure, why not?"
She blinked, and suddenly she was airborne. Cassie's arms were firmly around (Y/N)'s legs, and she returned in kind, wrapping her arms around Cassie's neck.
"I didn't know you meant literally!" (Y/N) shrieked as they zoomed past the point of the Washington Monument, out over the Potomac, the Tidal Basin, and out to sea.
Cassie laughed. "You cooled off yet?"
(Y/N) hadn't noticed, but yes, she actually had cooled off a bit. Something to do with their proximity to the atmosphere, and the wind chill, and being out over open water now. Her grip on Cassie relaxed some, and Cassie began to fly faster.
(Y/N) glanced down at the water rippling below, trusting Cassie to keep them from falling. She glanced up at the stars too, counting all the new ones she wasn't able to see back in the city.
"You good back there?" Cassie asked, hardly above a whisper.
(Y/N) smiled, hiding her smile in the back of Cassie's shirt, "In a totally different sense of the word, you just became a million times hotter."

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"Don't Call Us Sidekicks" [Young Justice]
FanfictionA collection of Young Justice short stories, headcanons, ships (Spitfire and SuperMartian can be found in the respective books I have for them), and AUs. I DO NOT OWN YOUNG JUSTICE OR DC Or the cover art