Mars and Venus the age-old question.
Author: Erika 
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Pairing: None
Disc: The characters are property of DC comics and their associated companies. Wonder Woman was created by William Moulton Marston.
Rating: PG

Summary: Dswynne put up a challenge/request on the Wonder Woman's message board. This is challenge number 4: A day on the town with Diana, Donna and Cassie.

Location: In Ottawa, about 3 blocks away from the Parliament building there is this really friendly, nice open market.

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A week had passed since Diana's meeting with Clark in Central Park. She was now in Ottawa with Donna and Cassie, spending a quiet time walking through the city's open market. They had picked Ottawa as their point of rendezvous as it offered them relative obscurity from prying eyes. They were walking by the fruit stands when they came upon an open area where the sidewalk vendors sold clothing. All three were looking through the cloths racks when Cassie spoke up.

"Um ... guys?" Diana and Donna stopped and glanced over at her. "Who was your first?"

"Cassie!" Donna proclaimed aloud.

"I mean, the first guy you kissed?"

"Oh ... well it was Roy Harper."

"You two are like dating again, right?"

"On and off," explained Donna. "Why the sudden interest?"

"You know," at Donna's continued glared Cassie hurriedly confessed. "I was like interested. It's not like I can ask Artemis." 

"I see," Donna said trying to hide her grin.

"Has someone kissed you, Cassie?" Diana asked, as Cassie started to blush.

"Umm..."

"Cassie?" Diana and Donna both asked patiently.

"Yes," she confessed reluctantly. 

"Was it Robin, because it couldn't be Impulse he's still too young ..."

"Robin?" Cassie asked, looking at Donna questionably.


"Dick used to look so good in tights."

"Donna." Diana warned her twin, catching sight of Cassie's confused expression.

"Who's Dick?" Cassie asked curiously.

"Never mind that Cassie," Diana reassured her, sending her sister another look. "You were telling us, who kissed you, remember?"

"Oh." All thoughts about this Dick person were tossed aside as Cassie remembered the young hero who kissed her.

"Well ... we're waiting." Donna gently teased.

"Superboy." Cassie confessed glancing everywhere but Diana. She finally gave up trying to ignore her mentor and took a peak at Diana's face.

"That was my second guess," Donna proclaimed watching from the sidelines.

"It was just one kiss," Cassie reassured them.

"So, do you like him?" Donna asked.

"I guess," seeing their expression, "yeah."

"It's okay to like them, Cassie." Diana reassured her a smile hovering over her lips.

"It is?" 

"You won't get thrown out of the Amazon nation, if that's what you are wondering." Diana shook her head. "You won't. Now Cassie, don't feel like you can't talk about boys to Artemis. She too is your mentor. She won't stir you wrong."

With that said they walked to the other stands. Diana reached over to buy some flowers. "Neither of you is going to ask me who was the first person I kissed?"

Not wanting to make her feel left out, Cassie explained. "But we all know it was Superman."

"Really?" asked Diana raising her eyebrow.

"Well yeah, ... you mean it wasn't?" One of the first things she, Secret and Arrowette had discussed after joining the Young Justice League was the history of their mentors. The relationship between Superman and Wonder Woman had also been analysed, studied, researched and studied some more. Now Cassie was stunned that the main man-in-tights hadn't lip locked with her mentor, Diana. When the heroes had been de-aged, by Klarion the witch boy, and the young heroes in turn aged to adulthood, afterwards when everything had gotten back to normal Impulse had commented that a young Diana had looked pretty. 

Of course Superman must have kissed Diana, the Young Justice Leaguers had concluded. How could he have resisted her, they thought? Surely, they had argued, if Impulse could even notice a girl this had to be further proof that here was a Superman/Wonder Woman connection. After all, Kon-El had pointed out, Superman was smarter than Impulse.


"You mean he didn't?" asked Donna who was the first to recover her voice. It was a known fact they had kissed. The kiss had become accepted as truth in the hero's community. It had gotten a status of mythology, all by itself. Now to find out it wasn't, surprised her. She knew that the Superman topic was something she still felt she could not openly discuss with her older twin.

"Oh, we did kiss ..." she said holding their attention and waiting until they started to fidget to conclude, "once."

"Only once?" Donna asked putting aside her preservation of discussing this topic.

"Once," confirmed the princess.

"But if he wasn't the first, who was?" Cassie excitedly asked. Ha! Wait until she tells the guys that Diana did lip-locked with Superman.

Diana just smiled and paid the vendor who handed her the wrapped flowers.

"Diana." Warned Donna who was surprised in discovering her sister had such a teasing nature.

"But it had to be Superman," Cassie objected remembering the article Robin had uncovered in Batman's files. The article mentioned Superman and Wonder Woman had dated. "I mean you came, you conquered, you kissed."

Diana just continued to smile. "It happened before I entered the patriarch's world," and with that said, the princess walked away from them and headed toward the vegetable stands. Behind her, she left a stunned Donna and Cassie who upon sharing a look both mouthed the words, 'she kissed a girl?'

"Diana," they heard a man call to their friend.

"Arthur." The saw as the princess smile a greeting to Arthur, King of Atlantis. "I'm surprised to see you here." She told him as he approached her.

"I am attending a conference with officials about the conditions of the water in the Arctic. I'm concern at the volume of activity, specifically military and oil carrying vessels in that area. A spill could ..." he stopped finally noticing the other two people with Diana. "Donna. Cassie." He greeted them.

Cassie just blushed and Donna smiled in greeting. "Arthur."

"Actually Arthur, we were just talking about you." Diana unexpectedly revealed. 

"We were?" Both Donna and Cassie asked in surprise.

"Yes." Diana confirmed. "They have a hard time believing we met before I entered the patriarch world."

"Do you know Diana, no matter how hard I tried, I never again could find Themyscria." Arthur said wistfully.

"You mean, you actually were there?" Cassie squeaked.

"Yes. I believe you were about fifteen when I first met you, right Diana?"

"Yes." Diana confirmed.

"Ladies, it was a pleasure seeing you again." Looking at his guard who was standing a close distance behind him, he nodded to him and turned his attention back to the women. "I need to get back to the meeting, I believe the lunch break is finally over. Diana can I talk to you for a moment. I received a disturbing message from J'Onn, something about the personal mating habits of mammals. You know I beginning to think we really need to get him away from those Oreo cookies ..." 


Meanwhile both Donna and Cassie seemed grounded with shock. Arthur. Aquaman. He kissed Diana. He kissed her before Superman.

"If we tell anyone ..." Cassie started to say.

"... they won't believe us." Donna finished for her.

They both rushed in the direction where they last saw Diana walking with Arthur. As they caught up with them they tried to decipher every look, gesture and smile shared between the two heroes.

'Boy wait until I tell the guys,' Cassie thought. Meanwhile beside her, Donna was thinking, 'Hm ... we really should have more of those sisterly discussions. I wonder if Garth knows anything about this?'



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