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Chapter Forty-Five: Returning Home

If anyone had the right to collapse onto the couches, chairs, and even the floor back at headquarters, it was the heroes, mystics, and ghosts. Phantom had collapsed onto one of the more comfy chairs, Dani happily floating near her dad as she read a book. It was an unanimous decision to keep the ghost girl out of the fight. They had no idea what Dan would have done to her if she was there. She had been upset about it, but there is a reason why she gets her stubbornness from her father. She is a brick wall of stubbornness, but her father is whole mountain of stubbornness.

All of the sirens looked ready to fall over fast asleep, they all looked so tired. The fighting and the use of Perfect Harmony left them basically flying in their sleep. They were exhausted.

But that could be said for everyone. Between the Guys In White agents, the demon zombies, Shendu, and Dan, they were  all drained of power and energy. Even Beast Boy and Impulse. And that says something considering that they were usually the ones that had boundless energy. Roland was even curled up on his opal polar bear, using its fur like a giant pillow.

"Anyone else wanting to pull a Sleeping Beauty and sleep for a hundred years," Melinda asked.

Basically everyone raises their hands. Except for Roland, who seemed to have already gotten started on his hundred years of rest.

"I would ask Maleficent to borrow her little spinning wheel, but I already fought one dragon today," Krinos stated.

"Yes, fairy tales are real," Lena answers the un-asked questions that the heroes were about to ask. "We can explain more once we are not just about ready to go right to sleep."

"Roland's already started," Sarah poked the hybrid, but he did not even stir. "That must be one comfortable bear."

"We're all so tried, a bed of nails would probably even seem comfortable to us," Garth commented.

"I'm bulletproof, so it's not like I would have anything to worry about," Conner said.

"Okay, no more trips to India for you guys," Danny says. "Especially you, Conner. I am not going to have my boyfriend sleeping on a bed of nails, bulletproof or not."

Everyone else seemed to freeze. It was like they were all cars and someone had slammed on their brakes. Siren facepalmed, as did Aqualad. Superboy's eyes widen as his brain registered what Phantom just said.

"Kept that secret for over a year and he blows it in one evening," White complained, falling over on the couch with him landing in Aqualad's lap.

"It was bound to happen sooner or later," Kaldur commented.

"I blame his lack of sleep," White sighed. "Whenever my brother doesn't get enough sleep, he loses his filter and whatever he is thinking will come out of his mouth."

"Guess that explains why Skulker and Box Ghost always got his sassiest comments," Valerie laughed. "Those two had nasty habits of attacking late at night."

"Without a doubt the most annoying, yet very persistent, ghosts we have ever met," Jazz says.

"Persistent equals annoying is what she is trying to say," Valerie said.

That was when Jazz seemed to finally catch on to what her brother had said. She felt like slapping herself to see if she was dreaming. This was the first time that he had ever even been interested in a boy. He had the biggest crush on Paulina for the longest time, even though she was one of the meanest girls in all of Amity Park. There was also how he had dated Valerie and Sam.

Her brother was never the best at romance, especially given all of Sam's forced fake-out make-outs and how Technus had basically forced him and Valerie into romantic situations without them knowing. Yet even with the difference in genders, her brother certainly had a type. Dark-haired tough people that also had hard heads as well as being very very stubborn. Personally, she had thought Valerie was a much better girlfriend for him than Sam ever could have been. But now he looked very happy with Superboy.