Reed frowned, hanging his head. He could chalk it up to a loss- it really hadn't changed anything, aside from Luthor being a first rate a--... no, Reed wasn't going to curse again and he certainly wasn't going to give Luthor the pleasure of being responsible for another curse word out of his mouth.
He was just about to tell Johnny that they needed to be the bigger men, that sometimes life wasn't fair, that at the end of the day, they'd still have the Fantasticar and Luthor could just go to--
"Stretch! Hey, Reed! Didja see the news?" Ben called from down the hall, already teed off. "When'd we leave to go clobber that guy?"
Reed paused, trying to force himself to say--again-- that they weren't going to do anything. He had just opened his mouth, then stopped, looking at Johnny. Sue was going to hate this idea...