cisskabob

[Private: Hackable (because she's distracted)]

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride. ~Nancy Lopez



...That sounds like my mother. "You don't quit, Cissie." "Don't just give up." "Do better next time."

Okay, maybe that's not exactly what the quote is saying. But it seems close enough. It feels like something Mom would have typed up and laminated and framed, somewhere we could see it all the damn time.

( ...I don't know why I'm getting all bitter and annoyed. )

I guess--I'm happy. Happier as Cissie than I was as Arrowette, anyway, and that... has to count for something, right?

~1000 words

From father_archer:

1 question...
1 chance...
1 honest answer...

That's all you get. Ask me one question. Any one question, anything, no matter how crazy it is. An honest answer. No catch.

All comments will be screened so your question stays private between you and me, and only you will get to see my answer to your question. Then repost this and see what people ask you.

[OOC: Obviously, they're not really screened, where's the fun in that?]

Two lists for justprompts.

Ten Defining Moments of My Life (In No Particular Order, Save #1):

1. The first time Tim said he loved me. Our first kiss was pretty defining, too.

2. The night in the woods, and the day I officially quit Young Justice. I think I cried myself to sleep for like a week.

3. The Olympics. I had given up on archery until the trials, and the Games had their share of misery and badness, but standing on that podium and receiving that medal? Kind of gave me a new direction.

4. When Harm put that arrow through my shoulder. If he hadn’t, I wouldn’t have had an excuse to go looking for Bart and then there might not have been any Young Justice for me. Which would mean none of my best friends. And no Tim.

5. The first time I picked up a bow. I don’t really remember it, but trying to imagine my life without archery is like trying to imagine someone else’s life.

6. Arrowette’s first night out, and the night I met Bart and Max Mercury called Social Services on my mother. It feels weird to say that was a good thing, but—Mom and I get along better now than we ever did then. Though it really did suck when I was first taken away and put in Elias.

7. When my father died. I was five, but I remember that day perfectly, and I remember that the hospital waiting room had green plastic chairs. People Cassie are surprised when I say that I miss him, but I do. Even if I didn’t remember him—which I do—I would.

8. I was writing my autobiography and figured out that Mom lied, and that Daddy isn’t my biological father. I think Tim knows who that is, but I don’t want to know yet.

9. The Crisis. Losing Kon and… that year sucked. And then when things were finally feeling okay again, Bart died, too. Everybody else I love had better just stay safe, because I will kick some serious ass otherwise. Tim. I mean it.

10. Can I re-state #1?

( Ten Secrets I Wouldn’t Tell Anyone [Private, but it’s entirely possible that Tim could hack it ; )] )

OOC: Tim is mrsarcastic003, and he and Cissie are dating. #8 in the first list is in reference to a fic that hasn’t been posted yet.