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Chapter 4

The entire team had assembled, Aqualad, Superboy, Miss Martian, Robin, Kid Flash, even Zantanna had been called in, much to her father's displeasure.

"Artemis has been abducted." Batman said, cutting to the chase.

"There's no sense in sugar coating it. Her family has taken her, and it is of utmost importance that she is rescued as soon as possible." The team stayed unusually quiet as Batman pulled up a picture of an older looking Asian looking woman in a wheel chair onto the screen.

"Huntress is her mother, an ex-con. Her name is Paula Crock. After the League heard that Artemis was taken we put Paula in a safe house, but it's not likely that the Shadows will be looking for her."

"But if Huntress is her mother…" Wally trailed off, the puzzle pieces clicking. "No, no way, you're lying!" Batman looked at the young speedster evenly.

"Am I?" The six hero's looked around at each other, desperately searching for something in the other's face to tell them that it wasn't true.

"She's the mole." Superboy growled. "She was the mole and you knew all along!" He pointed a finger at Batman, anger quivering inside him, barely controlled.

"She was never the mole." Batman said, "Artemis was unique in-"

"Liar!" The cave exploded into ugly cries for the truth and unfair accusations, layered by M'gann's loud denial for it all.

"Enough!" Seven pairs of eyes turned to Robin who stood behind them all.

"She's not her family." He said quietly. "Artemis never lied to us. She just kept her secrets to her self." He looked at them carefully. "And we all have secrets." None of them could deny that.

"The League knew." Batman added. "She was doing vigilante work at night. Green Arrow and I approached her after she saved Kid Flash from Amazo." Wally looked up stunned, still trying to come to grips with everything that had happened to the harpy. His harpy.

"No way! That was Speedy- Red Arrow's arrow!" The word DENIAL flashed across his mind.

"You know that's not true." Batman said, his eyes narrowing. Wally looked at the ground, too spent to argue.

"The Watch Tower is working on tracking her location." Batman said, pulling up a map of North America with twelve red dots flashing on the screen.

"These are all the places she could be. By tomorrow morning we should have these locations narrowed down to four. You'll start doing recons on each area to see in fact whether or not Artemis is there." The screen turned off and Batman looked at them all.

"Get some rest, you start at 0700." The Team watched the zeta tubes transport him away, silence following him out.