turns to look at her, meet her eyes, breathe her air while she's still looking at him. like, play the game, that's all he meant! except that isn't all he meant, because they have had this conversation before. a lot. she says that diana likes him, and he knows it's true on some level -- he grew up around the justice league, he knows how they care about him and donna. he knows it's no small thing for amazons to approve of him, for jillian to let donna live out in the world of men and work with him. (for whatever value of approval jillian feels about him. if she disliked him, he'd know.)
maybe it's just a sick sense of masochism, or maybe it's some kind of arrogance, but sometimes the mood seizes him and he can't help thinking: what if he just isn't enough for her to stay. what if he did more, was more, and was enough to make her want to stay? ]
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turns to look at her, meet her eyes, breathe her air while she's still looking at him. like, play the game, that's all he meant! except that isn't all he meant, because they have had this conversation before. a lot. she says that diana likes him, and he knows it's true on some level -- he grew up around the justice league, he knows how they care about him and donna. he knows it's no small thing for amazons to approve of him, for jillian to let donna live out in the world of men and work with him. (for whatever value of approval jillian feels about him. if she disliked him, he'd know.)
maybe it's just a sick sense of masochism, or maybe it's some kind of arrogance, but sometimes the mood seizes him and he can't help thinking: what if he just isn't enough for her to stay. what if he did more, was more, and was enough to make her want to stay? ]