I don't own Young Justice.


The next day came quickly and I had got dressed in civilian clothes. I still wore sunglasses while I was out but not a wig. In fact all the wigs I had owned had been incinerated shortly after deciding that Robin should become female.

M'gann was still getting ready as I sat in the lounge, talking with Superboy. That was why Wally came in.

"Hey." I said.

"Hey." he called back, moving towards me.

"Did you sleep well?"

"Not a wink." I said.

I just couldn't sleep. Something didn't add up to me. I just couldn't work out what it was.

"I'm so bored." Wally said, after a few moments.

"You could come with me and M'gann." I suggested.

Wally would never admit it but he liked going shopping so long as it was with me.

"Nah." Wally said. "I'll see if there's anything good on telly."

I nodded and M'gann came in.

"Please tell me you haven't arranged for Wally to come with us." she said to me as I got up.

"No, he's staying here and watching telly." I told M'gann.

Wally smiled and began to watch me leave. Then he got to his feet and moved towards me. He took my hand and kissed my cheek.

"You have to promise me you'll stay safe, okay?" he said.

I nodded.

"That's my girl." he said.

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"I didn't think Wally could go this long without flirting with more than one girl." M'gann said as we sat in a fast food joint.

We were eating incredibly tasty meals that I knew was probably shorting both of our life expectancies but it was too good to stop.

"I like to think he just found the right girl." I said.

"You actually like to think that you've tamed him." M'gann laughed.

I smiled, taking a sip from my milkshake.

"So how long had you fancied him before you started going out?"

"Too long." I answered. "I was beginning to think I should just give up because I was never going to get a chance. I met him when we were nine and I had a crush on him then but it went after I saw him eat and then... We were twelve and it was me, him and Roy. Roy was once again trying to teach us archery and failing. Me and Wally just began to mess around and we talked about random things until we both drifted off to sleep on the sofas in the base. We had never really done that before. We had either watched him or played games or joked around. We had never really just talked. And Wally was sweet and attentive and intelligent and everything you don't really get to see unless you've known him a long time."

A dreamy grin touched my cheeks and M'gann smiled.

"I hope he knows how lucky he is, having you there for him." M'gann told me.

"I hope he does too." I smirked half-heartedly.

We sat in silence for a few moments. Me and M'gann had bonded very quickly after I had revealed to be a girl but she was still closer to Artemis. Artemis ignored me ninety percent of the time and the other ten percent of the time she needed to talk to me because we were on missions. I guessed she was still sore that, despite her feelings for Wally, I was his girlfriend.

.

As me and M'gann returned back, I heard a familiar voice.

"No wonder the League needs such tight security, keeping two beautiful girls like you around."

I turned to face Roy, trying to hide my blush. He often did this. Since I had been revealed to be a girl, he would often skip all the pleasantries and simply flirt. The worse thing was it would always make me blush.

"You're insufferable." I informed him.

"And you need to feel the aster." Roy smirked back. "I certainly am."

He walked over to me and then looked at the shopping bags M'gann was holding. It had been a long, hard task but we had finally managed to find a dress that I would wear. M'gann had brought two bags full of dresses since Bruce had given us the usual amount he spent on dresses for me. I never knew that anyone who would spend the price of a small car on a dress that was only going to be worn once.

"We were shopping for your party." M'gann said as we began to head in. "Diana looks beautiful in her dress."

"I think it's horrible." I informed him.

"No, it's beautiful." M'gann said.

"So it'll suit her perfectly." Roy smiled, putting his arm on my shoulders. "Come on. I want to beat your boyfriend at video games."

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Despite a lack of sleep the night before, me, Roy and Wally played long into the night. We decided to play winner stays on and that left me almost constantly playing.
"Okay, this is to see if Roy can stop Diana from reaching a fifty game streak." Wally announced to an absent crowd. "If Diana wins, she will have joined a very elite group of video games players."

Roy clutched the control nervously. He knew he couldn't beat me. He didn't know I had hacked the system so all I had to do was press a button and the game would swing my way.

"Wally, you do know that if Diana wins, she will be the first girl into a scarred group of only male members."

It was true. Currently the League had four members in the group, Batman, Flash, Green Arrow and Martin Manhunter. The partners had one, Roy.

"Surely you don't want to be beaten into a club we started by a girl."

"She's my girlfriend." Wally protested as I set up the next game.

"But she's still a girl." Roy told him.

I pressed the play button. Suddenly two strong arms picked me up and carried me, bridal style away from the controller. Roy smiled and began to play, watching as Wally disappeared away with me struggling in his arms. After he had won, he went off to find us. He turned a corner and stopped.

Through some serious convincing, I had managed to get Wally to hang upside down from a grappling line while I stood level to him, only with my feet on the ground. I smiled as he drew me closer to him.

"This is a really nerdy thing to do." I told him.

"But you're still willing to do it."

I nodded and we kissed, him hanging upside down. It was based on the scene out of one of the Spiderman movies – I forget which one. Wally had convinced me to watch it once and Wally had heard how romantic some girls through the kiss was.
"You two really need to get a room." Roy informed us with a smirk.

"The League won't let us." Wally answered as he hung upside down.

I watched as he tried to work out how to get the right way up. I took a step back with a bemused smile.

"We should time you to see how long it takes you to free yourself."

"You boyfriend is hanging helplessly upside down, can you help?" Wally asked, sending a pleading look at me.

I looked into his eyes and, suddenly, a hand was clamped over my eyes.

"Don't look, Diana." Roy hissed into my ear. "One look and you'll be completely in his power."

I heard the familiar sound of an arrow being fired and the strange sound of Wally hitting the floor.

"Shouldn't you be in bed?" Black Canary asked from down the corridor.

"Yeah." I answered back as Roy removed his hand so I could see.

"Then go." Black Canary said.

Wally offered me his arm.

"Diana, would you do me the honour of allowing me to walk you to your room?" he asked.

I smiled and linked arms with him. As me and Wally walked off, I could hear Roy and Black Canary begin to talk.

"And to think, the two of them were considering breaking up not too long ago."

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Three days later

I couldn't sleep. It was a frustrating, a 'I've forgotten something' moment or one of those moments where you have a puzzle you just can't solve. By two in the morning, I had given up the idea of sleep. It had been happening for four nights now, ever since the medical lab was broken into. On the first night I had checked to see if I had been infected with anything but I was completely healthy. The next night I had read the mission reports and the police reports to see if there had been something I missed. The third night I had convinced Wally to stay up with me. He was getting very concerned about me. That night, I simply wanted to rest. It would be Roy's sixteenth in the morning.

Why can't I sleep? I thought.

Only Bruce and Wally knew that I was struggling with sleeplessness. I decided to train my sleeplessness away. I got down onto my bedroom floor. I had been staying at the mountain since it was the holidays and I knew I couldn't risk going to the training room without getting some unwanted attention.

I began to work, doing sit-ups then push-ups then sit-ups again. I needed to train weakness out of me.

Kid Flash ran forwards to help me.

"Kid Flash! NO!" I cried out as he raced across the sawdust of the circus tent.

Zucco had been reaching for his gun. He fished it out of his pocket and fired. The bullet spun through the air, slicing it in half as it went towards Kid Flash.

Then there was the horrible sound of skin being pierced by a bullet. Kid Flash fell to the ground. He drew his bleeding knee up to his chest.

Memories flashed in front of my eyes. I gasped. I could have been better, I should have been better. Zucco had almost killed us both that night. The only reason we were both still alive was Wally.

I should have been better.

Suddenly I felt someone tap me on the shoulder.

"You look exhausted." Wally said.

"I am." I said and a tear trickled down my cheek.

Wally began to hush me and sat down on my floor beside me, wrapping his arms around my shaking form.

"Wally, I can't sleep. I can't focus on anything. I've got this horrible sensation in the back of my head and I keep remembering what Zucco did. I... I think I'm paranoid."

"Oh, Diana. You're not paranoid." Wally told me.

I knew he was lying. I had gone over every bit of information I had, every characteristic I was showing. I had serious paranoia. It wasn't hard for people to work it out.

"We could get Black Canary to have a word with you after Roy's party." Wally said.

He stood up and picked me up bridal style and smiled.

"Maybe you should go back to bed." he said and dropped me back into my bed.

"I can't sleep."

"I thought Robin didn't give up."

"I don't." I told him.

"Then sleep." he said with a smile.

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I was about to get ready for Roy's birthday when I walked into Artemis. I decided that we needed to work on our friendship.

"Hey, Artemis."

"Will Barbara be coming to the party?" Artemis asked.

"I think so. She hasn't said anything different." I answered. "So how are you doing?"

"Fine." Artemis snapped.

"I'm sorry about me and Wally it's just... Me and him were..."

I realised that there wasn't really a way to explain it.

"Diana, if I really cared about you and Wally being a couple, then I would have split you up already." Artemis assured me.

"That's great." I smiled.

There was an awkward pause and we both faced each other.

"When you set me and Wally up, did you fancy him?"

"Does it matter?"

"Yes, it matters."

I nodded slowly. Artemis looked straight at me.

"And you still set us up?"

"Yeah."

"You are one mixed up, kid." Artemis said, with a smile.

"Yeah, I am." I nodded.