This is the sequel to 'The secrets we keep'. You don't need to have read the first story to understand this one but you can if you want. This is mostly told from Diana's (Robin's) POV but some parts aren't. I can't tell you which parts mostly because that could ruin the story.
Enjoy and please review.
I don't own Young Justice!
Diana's POV
He aimed a block at my neck. I dodged it easily, delivering a gentle kick to his thigh. I smiled just as a blow raked across my shoulder. I felt a spark of pain but it was soon gone, taken by adrenaline. The boy I was fighting against was faster than me but I was better trained. I could take him out if I wanted. Not that either of us were trying to hurt the other too badly. Then I ducked, swinging my leg out and knocked my attacker to the floor.
"Hey beautiful, slow up." my sparing partner said.
I offered down my hand to the boy on the floor. He was shirtless, dressed in only a pair of loosely fitting black jogging bottoms. We had been training together.
"Maybe I'll let you beat me one day." I smirked.
"Okay, Diana." Wally, my boyfriend, said, as I pulled him to his feet.
He pulled me into his chest and picked me up from the ground.
"Training with you is amazing." I murmured.
"Well, you seem to not want to do anything else."
Wally was right. Zucco had shaken me up more than anything I had ever experienced. The lives of the people I loved had been on the line and I had been completely helpless. I could still remember the horror I had felt when Zucco had shot Wally. He had completely healed but sometimes, when I closed my eyes, I could remember the cry of pain and the sound of the bullet smashing through Wally's knee.
"I will, just... Give me some time."
"Zucco can't hang over your life forever. It's been months." Wally moaned.
We had been through this a thousand times. I pulled away, unable to look at him. We both knew that this was the only thing that really put strain on our relationship.
"Maybe if I had a better sparing partner, I would not need to train so much." I joked lightly.
Wally smiled and grabbed my hand.
"Remember, I promised never to hurt you. I'm not going to do it just because you want someone to pretend to be the villain. You've got Batman for that." he told me.
Wally spun me around.
"Go and get some sleep." he told me.
I smiled and walked towards the door.
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Insomnia. It is a strange condition where the sufferer can not sleep. Strangely enough few superheroes suffer from it. I unfortunately am a sufferer. When I had been younger, I believed my insomnia had been brought on by my almost constant nightmares. Now I was beginning to suspect that I had seriously messed up my body clock with my nightly activities. It was past two in the morning and I was sitting at my computer, faking an interest in the project it was showing. Me and Wally were combining our science knowledge to create the most protective bullet-proof vest in the world. We had been working on it for a week. I had been sitting there for roughly two hours and there was only so much work I could do on the project.
"Do you ever listen to me? I thought I told you to sleep." said a familiar voice behind me.
I turned to see my boyfriend standing there. Wally was mask-less like I was. He was smiling and seemed happy to have found me.
"Can't." I answered.
"Nor can I." Wally told me. "I was worried about you."
"Why?"
"I'm always worried about you. The sooner we get this bullet proof vest finished the better I'll feel."
"Maybe you'll feel better if you know that I'm not planning to get myself hurt." I smirked.
Wally nodded. He studied me for a few minutes and I felt a warm blush meet my cheek. I didn't falter under the coldest glares. However, I couldn't handle it when Wally looked at me. His eyes were so perfect and his glance was so warm. Wally zipped over to the stereo and turned it on.
"Miss Grayson, can I have this dance?"
"No, I've got to pretend to work." I answered with a smile.
"You work too much." Wally informed me, having super sped over to my shoulder.
"You don't work enough." I scoffed.
"Well I have a very distracting team mate." Wally said was he took my hand and got me on my feet.
We began to dance slowly, me pressed against his chest.
"I have something really special planned for tomorrow." Wally whispered. "It's going to be the best date ever."
I frowned and pulled away.
"Me and M'gann are going dress shopping for Roy's sixteenth."
Roy was going to turn sixteen in a few days. He was having a party at the mountain and it was just going to be the teenagers. He had specially said no adults allowed. Anyone over the age of eighteen was not getting in. Apart from Captain Marvel. He was legally still a kid.
"You mean M'gann is dragging you round shops in the hope you might actually pick something girly."
"I own girly clothes." I protested.
"Said the girl who spent six years of her life convincing a large group of her friends she was male."
"Said the boy who dates her." I smirked.
Wally smiled and kissed my forehead.
"After Roy's party we'll both pretend to be kidnapped, spend a week together living on the farm Superman grew up on. No work, no fighting, no disasters."
"A completely arterous week." I smiled.
We both knew we wouldn't do it. We both lived for crime fighting and I had too much work to do. I was training more than ever to make up for Zucco managing to capture me. I knew Zucco was dead but I wasn't going to let any other criminal come as close as he did to destroying me or my friends.
Wally pulled me into a kiss and smiled. He was about to say something. Suddenly an alarm blared. We both looked around in horror. I raced over to my laptop.
"There's been a break in at a medical lab not far from here. We should get over there, check it out." I said.
"I'll go and wake up the team." Wally said and zipped off.
I smiled slightly and went to go and get my costume on.
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My costume had changed since I had revealed I was a girl. The costume was mostly the same, more suited to a female figure but pretty much the same. I let my hair fall lose while I was crime fighting and I didn't have to walk or talk like a boy. I enjoyed crime fighting as a girl. Most people were confused when a sudden female Robin had replaced the male one. It was amazingly the Joker who had worked out first that I was still the same person. He had recognised my laugh. Now the whole criminal underworld were fascinated with the way I had managed to hide my gender from them for so long.
M'gann ran in. She smiled at me.
"Come on. We're going."
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We all looked around. We were outside the medical lab. Kaldur looked at us all.
"So what's the plan?" I asked.
"Robin and Kid Flash will enter through the top floor, Artemis and Superboy through the second and M'gann and me through the bottom."
"Sorry, um... What happened?" I asked, pulling out of the kiss me and Kid Flash had been in.
Kaldur rolled his eyes. The team had got used to me and Kid Flash kissing at slightly inappropriate moments. Artemis still found it rather annoying but the others didn't mind so long as we focused most of the time.
"Just get to the top floor and look around."
"Okay, AL." I said.
I produced my grappling line and fired it up at the second floor. I smiled at it caught on and got pulled up. Kid Flash ran forwards and sped up the wall so we reached the top floor together. We slipped in through a window and looked around, offering Kaldur and the team a nod.
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"So, you know, after we go on this mission, we could go and grab a bite to eat and something to drink." Kid Flash suggested.
"At this time of night?" I murmured as we walked through the top floors.
"Okay, we could go and see Agent A and get some cookies."
"Bats doesn't like the idea of you constantly coming around late at night." I told him.
It was true. I had been involved in too many conversations about my boyfriend. Bruce had not liked the idea of Wally being almost constantly round, let alone him coming around when Bruce wasn't able to keep his eyes on us.
"How can I keep away, when you're so beautiful?" Kid Flash asked, taking my hand and turned me so I faced him.
"You're such a flirt."
"It's part of my charm."
I smiled and then heard some footsteps coming towards us. They were coming from behind me and, with Kid Flash's heavenly green eyes fixed on me, he clearly wouldn't notice the attacker until they made a noise. I reached into my belt, whipping at bat-a-rang out as I turned around. In one fluid movement, the bat-a-rang was aimed and flying through the air at the figure. It hit into the dark jacket they were wearing and dug into the wall behind them, holding the there.
"And that is why I'm so proud to call you my girlfriend." Kid Flash beamed.
We both walked over to the figure. He was dressed in the usual get-up of a breaking in criminal. He was wearing a balaclava and gloves. I pulled off his balaclava to reveal a young an with blond hair. He looked at me with wide eyes. Me and Kid Flash glared at him.
"What are you here for?" I demanded.
"We're here for money."
"We're? There's more than one of you." Kid Flash said.
"Yes." the man answered.
"Okay, Kid Flash, we might need to split up to help each other." I smiled.
Kid Flash turned to me and smiled. He kissed my forehead and ran his hand through my hair. Then he sped away. I watched him go with a smile. I turned to the guy and then walked out into the corridor, looking for trouble.
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I threw a couple of bat-a-rangs. The others on the lower floors had reported that they also had fights.
Me and KF have split up. I told everyone. How are you doing?
I'm missing you, beautiful. Kid Flash informed me through the mind link.
If anyone needs help, just say. We've almost finished up on our floor. Artemis said.
I continued to battle, throwing punches and knocking out the men. I only had four men to deal with but they seemed well trained.
Robin, find Kid Flash. I've lost him in the mind link. M'gann told me.
My mind raced. People were only broken out of the mind link when they were unconscious or worse. I needed to find KF.
I began to battle harder, throwing everything I had into the fight. The thugs noticed and fought back harder. I knew I had to break free from the fight and find Kid Flash, to make sure he was safe.
Suddenly, with one punch to a glass jaw, the final man was down. I had barely registered knocking the other three out. I scanned the men around me for less than a second and then my eyes darted around.
"Kid Flash!" I called.
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I found him. He was standing in a crowd of unconscious thugs. A relieved smile broke my lips and I walked over to him, kissing him on the lips. He didn't react for a few seconds but I put it down to how tired me must have been. After about a second, Kid Flash kissed back. When we pulled away, I looked at him as if he had misbehaved.
"We were worried, you broke from the mind link." I said, tapping one of my temples to emphasize my point.
"Sorry. I just got so caught up in the fight." Kid Flash informed me.
"Well, I'll see if you're back in."
I've got Kid Flash. Welcome back KF. M'gann said in her happy ways.
What happened Kid Mouth? Artemis asked.
Just got caught up in the fight. Kid Flash answered.
I looked around the lab, my chest heaving. I was excited but exhausted. I turned back to Kid Flash.
"You know what week we were planning? I really want to go now."
"Yeah that week to um... Japan?"
"The farm." I corrected.
It was strange that Kid Flash had forgotten our jokey plan. He normally could keep a joke like that going for months. I let it slide. We had just been in a fight.
