"Look," Kon said, frustrated even as he cooked omelets at the makeshift kitchen Young Justice had managed to drag into their new base. "Look, we have this under control. It's the easiest world saving mission we've ever gotten, and we even have help; these little skeleton dudes? With the name tags? Pretty useful."
As he spoke, he handed one of the skellies, with the nametag reading "Betty", a plate to give to Cassie.
Cassie was in the workout area, whaling on one of the training dummies. Bart and Cissie were playing video games, empty plates next to them already being picked up by skellies. Keli was in the reading corner, curled up on one of the many piles of pillows and close to taking a nap herself. Tim was currently on cuddle duty, and was actually sleeping, curled up against the subject of Kon's conversation, who the skellies had dressed up in the usual very expensive looking loose tunic and pants that were made from like, space or something. Kon didn't know, it was a weird god thing.
Red Tornado was quietly talking to Amethyst and Naomi, very used to everything that was going on with the god thing and not particularly caring about it anymore.
It had taken about two years, but Young Justice had carved out a place for themselves in the best lair they'd ever gotten. They'd run wires to the sleeping god's chambers, carefully set everything up, and taken full advantage of a constantly moving army of servants that required no rest at all.
But the peace of their sanctuary was being disturbed.
Batman and Superman stood on the other side of the crates serving as a kitchen counter, unimpressed.
"We have a schedule, we have backup plans, what more do you want?" Kon asked, whisking another omelet together.
"You've been letting your other members, ones with children, come here to 'help'. You are putting them at risk."
"Don and Oshi love nap times with Briar and playing with the skellies! It gives Anita a break and an excuse to hang out with us!" Kon argued, pointing at the elders with his whisk.
"You...named it Briar?" Batman asked, pained, as raw egg dripped off of his cowl.
"Yeah, after Sleeping Beauty. The Grimm Brothers version, though, cuz Aurora didn't fit."
Superman nodded, looking thoughtful.
"It does fit better, I agree."
"You...named a god." Batman said, pinching the bridge of his nose. "When gods get power from belief. And names are a part of belief."
"Well we needed to call him something, 'the sleeping god' is a mouthful and Rob said it was becoming a name anyways," Kon shrugged, pouring the egg mixture into the pan.
Batman opened his mouth to reply, only to go unnaturally still.
"Yeah. Yeah, he was already getting a name, so we just gave him a shorter one." Kon said, narrowing his eyes at Batman.
"Uh. Uh, Kon?" Superman said, voice unusually quiet.
"Look, I don't care if you think it's a bad idea, we did it, we've been doing it. We...oh hey dude, what's up?" Kon trailed off, noticing a hand resting on his shoulder.
A head of long white hair leaned against him, making an inarticulate sound.
"Ah, I gotcha," Kon nodded, putting down the spatula to reach over and pout a mug of coffee. Greedy pale hands made grabbing motions as he handed it over, then grabbed the spatula again and flipped the omelet to the other side.
"Superboy," Batman breathed, sounding like he was about to go off on another useless argument.
"I appreciate you checking in, really, I do, but we've got this," Kon interrupted, finishing up the omelet and giving it to the still hovering member of his team behind him.
Briar, for his part, hummed in appreciation and sat down on the floor right next to Kon.
"...Look man, there's tables right...over..."
Kon trailed off, finally looking down properly.
The sleeping god was awake. And eating an omelet.
"There's tables right over there," Kon finished saying, pointing to the tables in question. Screw it; Briar was already awake, and he seemed friendly so far, just bleary and waking up.
"Yeh," Briar mumbled, shoving another piece of omelet into his mouth and pointedly not getting up.
"By the way, do you actually have a name you prefer or do you still wanna be called Briar?" Kon asked, faux-casual as he started making an omelet for himself.
The god paused, swallowing and taking a moment to take a sip of coffee.
"Sure, sounds good. So what are you the god of?"
"Well alright then, false alarm." Kon said, looking back at Batman and Superman. "He says he's not a god; so everything is fine then."