Curate, connect, and discover
They’re all laughing with the kid, Danny, as he starts getting drowsy. His body gradually shuts down and his laughter gets softer. More distant. Theres confusion at first when the boy that had been nothing but excitement and giggles for the past half hour slumps over on his lunch. His laughter petering off before he lands face first onto his sandwich.
Martian Manhunter, who was sitting right next to him feels as his thoughts cease completely. That doesn’t happen when people sleep. That only happens when…
Oh.
Oh.
He shoots up to his feet the moment they cease. Superman not far behind with an expression that conveys his feeling of how sudden it felt. When the rhythmic too-slow beating of his heart just, stopped.
The other leavers present share confused glances at eachother trying to peace together what they were missing when J’onn falters from his upright posture and crumped back down. They see as he places a tender hand on the boys back.
The cafeteria is in complete silence now as more JL members catch on.
There are gasps, murmurs of no no. J’onn looks up at them all from where he still hadn’t moved since placing his hand on Danny’s back.
“He has,” there’s a beat before the words they had been dreading for the past couple seconds that felt like years hits them fully, “he has passed on.”
So Sam has a maniacal plan to get back at the Justice league for not believing them when they needed help.
She submits a make a wish application for her dead friend Danny has a terrible illness that could cause his heart to stop at any moment, doctors believe he may only have a few weeks left to live.
All he wants is to meet Martian Manhunter and the Justice league. She stipulated that they should absolutely not tell him it’s a make a wish thing so it doesn’t remind him about what’s coming.
Danny bears no ill will towards the league and has no idea what’s going on. When he wins tickets to meet the Justice league he flips his shit
Fun fact: Danny has developed a sort of narcolepsy where he can and will fall asleep at random times so long as he feels safe and he’s incredibly hard to wake up.
Danny’s heart stops any time he falls asleep.
So Danny is having the time of his after life, he spent most of the afternoon with Martian Manhunter, whose also having the time of his life because it’s so rare that he’s the favorite hero, and now they’re all sitting down to eat.
They’re all talking and Danny starts to doze off and just passes out then and there.
Panic ensues and all the league members are traumatized by the child that just died right in front of them.