Hi, BeutifulViolence here.

This is my first Young Justice fanfic I've ever written so it's not amazing and I'm sorry if the characters are OOC. And all I can say is thank you Young Justice Wiki timelines on the characters pages.

Becoming A Hero - Part I

Ever since Jade had left it was just Artemis and her dad. She was basically alone in their home; her dad didn't really care about her he'd made that pretty clear. When she'd turned twelve he'd started training her and before that she'd been pretty much ignored.

He trained her every day before and after school and for most of the weekend. She would do her homework when she should have been sleeping leaving her tired and drained unable to train properly. He taught how to kill a man by placing a knife in exactly the right place in their back; he'd trained her to kill using weapons and her bare hands. But she'd taken the time to learn by herself to use a bow and arrow the day that she showed him what she could do with her bow that was the only time she'd seen him be impressed by her that she could easily remember.

To help with her training he sent her on "missions" to test her to make sure that she could and would kill whomever he told her to. And she did.

She went to school, did her homework, trained, and she had a part time job waiting tables at a nearby café, basically she was trying to be a normal teenage girl. But it was hard.

Sometimes she wished that her sister Jade had stayed but somewhere in her heart and mind told her she'd have never have stayed for much longer than she did. She wished that Jade could've stayed to help keep their family together or at least stayed for her. And more importantly she wished her mother had never gone to jail and that her family wasn't made up of criminals.

Then came the day her mom was finally let out of jail for good behaviour. Her dad had never let her see her whenever he went there, he never told her that he was going to see her mom but just by looking at his face she knew where he was going. She hadn't seen her mom for years and she'd really missed her.

She went to meet her on the day of her release, she could remember seeing the smile on her mother's face, her running over to her in her wheelchair and giving her a hug. She could remember the words they said to each other that day so very clearly.

She remembered a feeling something she hadn't felt in a long time; happiness and hope.

The same night after her mom got home Artemis overheard her parents talking in the kitchen. She didn't hear all of their conversation but from what she heard she gathered the information that her mother was turning away from her life as a criminal and wanted her to do the same. And her mom wanted her dad to leave them so they could start a new life.

Quietly moving along the hallway unnoticed back to her room she put on her green uniform, grabbing her bow and quiver of arrows which she strapped on to her back. Take a deep breath as she stood still in her bedroom before walking over to her window, opening it and climbing out onto the fire escape. She turned and closed the window behind but leaving a small gap to make sure that she could open it when she came back later. She turned and began to up the stairs onto the roof.

She reached the roof in a matter of seconds. Standing there looking at the lit up Gotham City she could hear the muffled noises from the street as cars drove quickly down the street.

She hesitated for a short moment then thought to herself "This is for mom, for a better life." And then she ran and jumped across to the next roof and the next and the next. She was looking for a crime that she was more than willing to stop. Because she wanted to better herself, not just for her mom but for herself, and if that meant she'd have to learn some new tricks then so be it. She was going to change her life around she was going to become a hero.

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