Last chapter, readers. I know, I left a few scenes out, but I hope everyone understands what happened. Thanks to everyone that enjoyed the story, and I hoped you're all satisfied with the ending. I loved writing it, and I know it's probably not what is expected, but I hope it's enough. Thanks to all the ideas over the two stories, and thanks for being so nice. My writer's block has finally gone, but I don't think I'll be writing another Justice League fic, or at least not of CJ. Maybe I'll stick to one-shots or something.

If you don't remember, in the first chapter, CJ was reading her file, and she didn't know what Mission and Personal Log were. Now she will.

Warning: Curse word. No one is intended to be damned.

Chapter 12

It had been bugging CJ for a while now, and finally, Flash taught her how to do it. He sat her down at a computer in one of the lounges and explained it to her. When a team went on a mission, they all got the same mission log. The personal logs were usually for that mission, but a team members own personal experience of the mission. Or, he said, they could be logs about anything that was on their mind, Flash just usually used it to describe his mission in more detail.

CJ understood what he meant, and soon enough, she was filling out her personal logs.

Firebug
Real Name: Cynthia Jane Stahl
League ID: K-T-012
Place of Origin: Alternate Earth H-23-0001.
Powers: Create and manipulate fire/heat, absorption of fire/heat, can project the fire from her body, can fly while on fire, and impervious to all forms of fire. Can essentially become fire.
Mission Logs: Frostbite's First Encounter
Personal Notes: Dr. Raphael Norman
Caroline Jade Stahl

Mission Log [Frostbite's First Encounter]: Caroline Jade Stahl came through a portal from Alternate Earth H-23-0001. The portal she came through was remnants of Firebug's. Stahl was unstable when she first came to this world. League members tried to help her control her abilities, but she did not have the mutation that was able to safely send her through the portal, and so her emotions were difficult to control. Caroline had multiple episodes where her powers turned her to complete, solid ice. Once she escaped the WatchTower, posing as her twin to gain access to the teleporters, she attacked Firebug in Genocian City. The two fought, but Firebug kept the city from harm. The battle ended with Caroline being trapped within her own ice. Once she awoke in Arkham Asylum, where she would be monitored and her powers contained, she was given the name Frostbite from fellow inmates and kept the name.

Personal Log [Dr. Raphael Norman]: I first met Dr. Norman when I helped the Justice League help take his army down in New York. Then, I was not a member of the League, but still took part in defeating the man. When he took over my body, he was literally a shadow. I know that he wanted to take over this planet and rule as the superior race, and had planned to use my powers to his advantage. I eventually rejected him from my body, but in the process I put a crater in the streets of New York. After the battle, Norman was placed in Arkham, in a cell where he cannot extend his powers and control another living being. The second time I encountered the man was in Arkham. I visited him after my sister came to the world through a portal, thinking he had made it. There, he proceeded to tell me that he believed he was a god and would one day bring salvation to all under his rule. The man is a psychopath, and I recommend that he never leave Arkham.

Personal Log [Caroline Jade Stahl]: Caroline is my twin sister. When we were younger, we were best friends and could trust each other. Then I left her and came to this world and joined the Justice League. Now, Care has followed me here, after I told her that I would never see her again. She hates me for leaving her, which is where she gets her anger from. She said she can control her powers when she draws from her anger. With this anger she wants to take her revenge on me. I hurt her, and she feels she must now hurt me. I don't want to hurt her any longer, but if she tries to hurt another being, I will do what I must. She already tried to hurt someone close to me to upset me, to get to me, and doesn't care what happens to others if she were to hurt them with her ice. This is why I will always fight her, even my twin sister; because I will not allow anyone to purposefully hurt another, not when I can help it. I would die to stop her, to stop anyone, from injuring other people. It's the right thing to do. I'm waiting for her to be ready to talk. Hopefully that's soon, because now she's in Arkham, where she won't be able to hurt anyone else. I have a feeling she will try to escape, and that I will face her many times mores. But when she is ready to stop, I'll be there for her. I will be at her side 'till the end.

CJ returned home just after sunset. She knew this, not because she had seen it on the WatchTower, but because it was the first thing Ted said when she walked into their apartment.

He had is back to her, with one lamp on in the living room, creating a glare in the window. He was staring out it, holding a mug in his hand. CJ assumed it was hot chocolate, because he usually drank that at night when he wasn't working. He clearly wasn't working at the moment. He looked like he had been waiting for her.

"You just missed the sunset," he said after he heard her enter the living room. He didn't turn to her when he spoke, but continued to stare out the window.

CJ dropped her jacket onto the end chair and began to pull off her gloves.

"It was peaceful. It was out of place for the day I had."

CJ grimaced, knowing what he meant. She had, after all, been there with him. CJ locked her eyes onto the couch as she told him what had happened to Caroline. "She's in Arkham, surrounded by lunatics."

She saw Ted shift in the corner of her vision. "Not all of them are…. 'lunatics' exactly." He said this, but CJ knew he didn't completely believe it either. "They're dangerous, and until they can be around other people without hurting them, they have to stay isolated."

CJ sighed and finally lifted her gaze up to him. He had moved to the couch, and just as she looked up, he sat on the cushion all the way to the left.

She had to stop thinking about Caroline, because it would just make her upset. Though she loved her sister, CJ had other problems to deal with. Like Ted. She clearly had…. feelings for him, and she needed to tell him them. So she began with: "I wish things could have been different." It was the best way she knew how to explain it to him.

He had been in the middle of setting his mug down on the coffee table, but as he did he looked up at her, his brown hair suddenly flopping into his face with the movement. He looked beat, like he could sleep forever. She felt the same way, but seeing his hair out of place just made him seem adorable. CJ didn't think she had ever thought that about someone else, and it told her that Ted was indeed different. Special. To her.

He rose a confused eyebrow at her, not exactly sure what she was saying. CJ sat down next to him, on the middle cushion. Then she did it. "I wish I could have told you how I feel about you forever ago. I think things would have been different." She paused, to look him in the eyes, but she didn't take that long of a moment. "Well, I do. I care about you, more than I have for anyone else. Even my sister. I know that might make me seem cruel, or heartless, but it's true. You're my best friend, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I know that if I do, I'll be the happiest person on the planet." By the time she finished, she was smiling. She had never thought of it like that, but now it all made sense.

He grinned, too. "I feel the same way." He grabbed her hand and laced their fingers together. "You were right, about me not having any real friends. But now, I think it was because I was meant to meet you. You opened me up, and now you're stuck with the real me."

CJ's smile deepened. She scooted closer to him and leaned into him, setting her head on his shoulder. The silence that followed was nice. It was decided. They would spend the rest of their lives together. It felt right, knowing that she was with him, and would be in the future. Comforting.

"You were on the news again," he told her after a moment of silence. He proceeded to tell her what he saw. When she had chased Caroline through the park, someone had recorded her melting the ice that had formed on the statue of Callahan. It also showed a clip of her fighting Caroline. The heading of the story was "A True Hero of Genocian City" and it explained that she wanted to help her city by taking care of the bad guys and preserving the beauty of their parks. CJ just laughed. She only hoped she could live up to their standards, and wished she didn't have to fight anyone so close to her again.

From the couch, the glare from the lamp didn't reach the window, and so the two were able to stare out the window at the stars, past the lights of the city. It was peaceful, and they damn well deserved the peace.

10 Years Later

CJ Stahl-ahem- CJ Wallace. She had to get use to calling herself that. CJ Wallace had been invited to a reunion. She was still a part of the League, but not so much an active member. She had a family now, people to return home to- if she got hurt, there would be people that were worried about her. Sure, she helped save the world to protect them, but she couldn't help everyone.

She was young still, and was a hero to Genocian City. They even put up a statue of her in Memorial Park, like they did for Flash over at the Gem Cities. She stuck close to her city.

When aliens attacked, she was there to help. When war was about to break out, she was there to keep the peace. When her son fell and scraped his knee, she was there to patch him up.

Having a child was difficult, but having one with powers was difficult times ten. Roland Wallace was six years old, and had thankfully gotten through the phase where he couldn't control his powers. It was like potty training, but for powers. CJ hadn't even been able to introduce him to her teammates because his powers were dangerous for them.

She called it a super charge, because when his little hands lit up with purple sparks, anything he touched was amplified immensely. A cell phone would automatically be at 100%, or sometimes explode with too much of the energy Roland put into it. A clock would jump forward four hours. He could probably stop a heart. And when CJ was touched by him, she could feel the fire within her multiplying. She only had a few seconds to run to a window and get out to of the place as soon as possible before she was exploding with fire. Her powers were stronger with his super charge, and she could grow as hot as the sun; she couldn't imagine what the other's powers would be like if they got charged.

But Roland finally understood his powers, or as much as a six year old could. The reunion was a perfect place to meet everyone.

Ted had quit his research, and instead became a consultant with the GCPD. It had been awkward for CJ to show up, helping the police, and then seeing Ted there. They had to pretend not to know each other, but after a while, the officers caught on. They believed that they two had begun seeing each other after they met through the police, but what they didn't know was that the two already lived together. Years later, they got married, but the police didn't know that either.

Other League members also had families, CJ learned over the years. Barry's nephew, Wally, the second Flash, had a wife and twins. They were a little older than Roland, and Clark's son, Christopher, was also older than. Batman continued to train more Robins, though they were all old enough to take care of themselves. J'onn brought his niece, who enjoyed taking acre of the younger ones.

Diana had brought up that everyone was bringing their families, and so CJ thought: Why not? Well, there were many reasons why not to, like Roland could supercharge any of the others. Once before, when she had come to the last one with them, Roland had touched Barry and he had immediately teleported into the Speed Force. But the boy had it under control now, for the most part. When he didn't, he usually called for his mommy.

When CJ spotted the League, a grin lit up her face. She hadn't seen these people in a while, unless they were on the news for some reason. The first to notice her was Dinah, and then they all welcomed her.

Roland was atop Ted's shoulders, pulling on his father's hair, bugging him. He was small for his age, so he wasn't a burden yet for carrying. When everyone turned their attention to them, however, he stopped and stared at the crowd with wide, anticipating eyes. The pyrokinetic got her sons attention by touching his hand, which he then held. "Roland, sweetheart, these are Mommy's friends."

The boy laughed. "Mommy has friends!"

CJ had been overwhelmed catching up with everyone, and found a bench to sit at away from them. Her fire was stirring within her with the anxiety of being around these people in such a relaxed environment. Normally, with them, she was helping them save the world. Now, everything was fine. They were just enjoying each other's' company. CJ wasn't use to it, that was all.

Diana appeared and took a seat next to her, drawing CJ back to the present.

The Amazon looked worried, and CJ knew why. She was thankful that the woman came right out with it, instead of trying to ease into it. "The results. Do you want to talk about it?"

CJ had undergone some standard tests up on the WatchTower a few weeks ago. She found out that- to put it simply- since she was made of fire, and technically fire could never end, neither could she. She wasn't immortal, exactly, but she was definitely going to live much longer than normal. Much, much longer. CJ had told Ted, but so far nothing had changed between them, or at least nothing that they had admitted. Both didn't want to think about what it was going to be like in forty years when Ted was fragile and withered, and CJ still looked thirty.

CJ shrugged. "There's nothing to talk about. I'm going to live longer than I should." She shrugged again, as if telling the woman that that was that.

Diana shook her head. "Almost twice your normal lifespan." She paused, as if to let it sink in. "You're going to outlive your loved ones. Doesn't that bother you?" The Amazon pointedly looked in Ted's direction. CJ did too, and saw him kneeling at Roland's height. The two were speaking, when suddenly Ted reached out and tickled his son, which caused laughter to break into the air. Soon enough, Roland was lifted into the air shrieking in delight. CJ would miss that. Not because she would live long, but because, like all children, they grew up.

"Does it bother you?" CJ asked, turning to the beautiful woman beside her. CJ was curious to know, as well. Diana was an Amazon. She was immortal. She would go through the same thing CJ would. These people around them, most of them anyway, would die before the two could.

The princess looked away. "Yes, it does," she said quietly. "They were my friends. They will always be in my heart, and I will always be grateful that they taught me to see the world."

CJ frowned. "I guess I can say the same thing. You guys helped me find out who I truly am. If it hadn't been for you, I wouldn't be here. I'd probably be in Arkham." The word brought up memories of her sister, Caroline, that had spent time in Arkham, and was a regular resident there. It was heartbreaking, knowing that her own sister didn't even lover her anymore. Not even respect. She told CJ that she was nothing to her. "I don't think I'd have lived this long if I had gone there."

CJ turned away to see that her husband was no longer with Roland, who was now tugging on someone's pant legs. "TEDDY!" She called, and the man immediately found her gaze, then turned in shock when he couldn't find his son right away. Eventually, he got their boy to stop tugging on other people.

The silence that came between them was only present for a moment as Diana tried to change the subject, knowing that it was a rough spot. "Are you happy?"

"Yes. I'm as happy as I'll ever be. I'm glad to be a part of this. The league, my family." She smiled. "I never wanted this, back in my world. But now, I met the league. I met Ted. Everything changed. I don't know what I'd do without them." She'd be miserable in her world.

Here, with them, life was much better.

Wasn't an ending I was expecting, either. Again, I hope you all enjoyed the ending. I know I have something in my eye…. CJ's story has come to a close, but I had fun writing it! She belongs in the hall of fame, or something. In my hall of fame, at least. Anyways, Thanks again, and don't be afraid check out my profile. Maybe I'll publish another story soon that you're interested in.

With Love and Respect,

Cherry