A/N: This tooke me a while to right, I just seemed to have writers block, I'm also trying to fit all the parts I want to include into the story and I just keep adding twists but this next one I think you'll like a lot but I'm not going to give out any spoilers and trust me if you read this chapter you'll know what I mean when I say 'there will be more of them'. *Snickers* HA! I love knowing the plot and you all sitting there having no idea what's coming next. So yeah there's probably a lot of errors but I've given up proofreading this story maybe later I'll go back and check so yeah, enjoy and if you see any errors just make your best guess.
Disclaimer: I really should just put this up on my homepage and tell you to look at it instead of having to write it again and again and again, but yeah I dont own the Teen Titans *sobs* or anything DC related.
"Naomi why are you crying? Lexa said turning and seeing one of her best friend running up to her from behind and crashing into her, hugging her and sobbing into her stomach like a little girl to her mother.
"I… I… kissed Sparky… and, then… then… we agreed not to… too… kiss ah… a… again even though… though I want… too." She stuttered through almost every word. Lexa looked around and saw the pub she was heading too not too far away. Even though the city was run down there were still a lot of places that were still up, this Pub happened to be the only bar left in Jump City. One she took weekly trips too.
"Shhh… its okay, come on." She said gently shoving Naomi down the street who was still sobbing and into the all too familiar Pub. We walked in the air was thick from the smell of cigars, the room was warm and steamy also which was probably because of all the smoke from the cigars. Men played pool and poker at several tables while the bar was almost empty. Everyone looked up for a second to see what was going on but Lexa shot them a look and they all went back to their games quickly.
"Hey Sal do me a favor and a get one of those drinks that makes me forget about all my problems." She said looking at a gruff but friendly man standing behind the bar cleaning out a glass with a towel.
"You drink; I thought you were a stickler about that stuff?" Naomi questioned. She didn't think she could ever imagine Lexa drinking but now for some reason she could picture it.
"I don't Naomi, never have never will." Lexa said as they sat down on the bar stools.
"Yes missy this drink has a special fruit I have imported from Coast City." He said placing a fruity looking drink in front of her.
"But thought that Coast City was abandoned and everyone moved into Star City?"
"No a few friends of mine stayed behind.
"What is it?" She asked twirling the straw around in it.
"Don't ask just drink." Lexa said and Naomi took a hesitant sip. Her eyes went wide and started to inhale the drink. Lexa was forced to pull the drink away from her before she suffocated herself from lack of air.
"Oh my god, my brain feels like its buzzing."
"Well actually the acids from the fruit cause a mental reaction temporarily shutting down the part of your brain that causes angst or worry." He said.
"Why didn't you tell us about this, Lexa? You know what we go through; this would put an end to all that suffering." She said wanting to get angry at her but felt she couldn't. She mentally cursed the drink for stopping her ability to be mad.
"I would advise you not to do that missy." He said. His ran a hand through his dark brown hair his green eyes seemed to be pulsing.
"Why not?" She asked.
"Sal she needs to know." Lexa said. Naomi looked between Sal and Lexa wondering what she was talking about.
"Come on, follow me." He said. Lexa got out of her seat followed by Naomi and he let them past the bar. They followed him down a long hallway and at the end was a door with a hand scanner. He put his hand on the scanner and the door let up green and the door unlocked. He opened the door revealing a dark room and Lexa and Naomi shuffled in past him he then slammed the door behind them quickly. He then switched the lights on revealing a large two level room. The floor was made of metal grates and under neat that was lights beneath a green and white glass. She looked around and found a familiar symbol spread out throughout the room.
"Sal, can you please tell Naomi your name?" Lexa said looking at Naomi who was gaping in shock.
"Names Sal Jordan, previously known as Hal Jordan, more commonly known as-"
"Green Lantern." Naomi looked like she was about to scream. "Oh my god, you're not in jail, oh my god I'm in Green Lanterns lair, oh my god I'm talking to Green Lantern!" Naomi looked like she was about to hyperventilate.
"Naomi calm down." Lexa said. GL just chuckled seeing her glee. Naomi took a few deep breaths and finally calmed down but continued to wander through the place marveling at all the equipment.
"But you're in jail; well you're supposed to be in jail, how'd you get out?" She asked finally turning to her.
"I was never in, not many of us in there. Slade never caught us he just said he did, the only one who was caught was Superman, because of Kryptonite." He said. "I must say it was a brilliant plan, if people thought we were in jail they lost hope, and we couldn't go back into the open because all of our enemies are now in a seat of power. Plus you guys submitted to Slade and we didn't need some of our own kind fighting against us, especially because your powers to say the least are quite impressive. So we all decided to go into hiding and that eventually and hopefully one day you guys would finally decide Slade's rule was long enough and that he needed to be brought down. I haven't seen any other members of the league for years, who knows if they're still alive." He said and Lexa's turned her face down at the floor like in some sort of guilt.
"How did you meet each other?" Naomi asked.
Lexa looked at Hal then back at Naomi, and began to explain to her the day she met.
-1 Year Ago, about 1 year after Slade took over-
"Alcohol, don't care what kind just something that will make me forget my trouble now and make me puke in the morning." Lexa said sitting down at the Pub, today was a bad day for her, she and Grant made a bet and she lost. She was forced to endure dinner with him, and Slade, in their 'castle' which seemed more like a prison. She looked around the bar and found it empty, lucky for her because she had a huge migraine and didn't want any noise.
"I'm sorry I don't serve Alcohol to your kind." He said while whipping off the bar.
"Don't you know who I am, aren't you worried about me taking you in."
"Oh I know who you are and that's why I'm not afraid of you, and what I am worried about it your well being." He said placing the towel back on the rack before rubbing his hands together.
"Why do you care, you're a bar tender all your kind cares about is money, and you don't know the first thing about me or my well being." She shot back still waiting for the drink. He in response walked over to the door double locked the door.
"You realize I can rip that door off its hinges, right. Are you suicidal?" She said igniting the starbolts in her hand. When he didn't do anything and suddenly started to make a drink she sat down and took three deep breath's trying to calm down she said to her as he set down the fruit in front of her,
"Well neither do I?" She asked realizing that she had almost hurt him because he wouldn't give her a stinkin drink. She took a sip and her mind started to buzz and all of her worries seemed to melt away.
"Thanks." She muttered.
"Your name's Mariand'r Alexandria Grayson, the daughter of Princess Koriand'r of Tamaran and Richard Dick Grayson heir to the Wayne dynasty AKA Starfire and Robin. Your parent's disappeared at the age of one, leaving you with your overbearing grandfathers until you're ran away and restarted the Teen Titans. Shortly after you fell in love with Grant Wilson son of your father's archenemy unknowingly, then fell in love with Ibn Wayne son of your non-biological grandfather. Then Slade and Grant took over the world and you and the other titans who have to share the burden of working for a psychopath. You blame your father and are forced between three sides, the one you with right now the one with your friends, the one in the darkness with Ibn, and Batman, and the one that requires you ruling the world with Grant and Slade. You really aren't a bad person you just tend to be in a position where evil seems to be forced upon you from all three corners. Now I think I know you pretty well." He said cocking his head to the right with a cocky smile on his face.
A slap sailed straight across his face, Lexa was appalled that he even spoke all of that aloud.
"What are you a stalker?" She screamed ready to lose it.
"I guess I deserved that." He said after shoving his jaw back into place. "Come on there's something you need to see." He said and started to walk off. Against her better judgment she jumped over the bar with one swift single movement and walked behind him down the hall to the door at the end. He placed his hand on a scanner and it opened.
"Where that heck did you get a scanner like that?" She asked.
"Built it." He replied simply.
She gave an unbelieving look but when he turned on the lights within the room all her mind seemed to go blank.
"Hal Jordan, call me Sal, or by the name your grandfather and father new me as, Green Lantern." He said holding his hand.
"Oh my god you're Green Lantern, aren't you supposed to be in jail." She looked ecstatic while running around the room looking at every piece of high tech equipment he had and checking out the ring which sat profoundly on a pedestal in the back on the second level of the insanely large room.
"Never went, none of were there except Clark who got captured because of the Kryptonite thing but Slade forced us into hiding since none of us wanted to be fighting Clark or you guys especially because we were afraid that you would win."
"You were afraid of us, the Teen Titans, why? Were just kids of some superheroes that never even made it into the JL." She said almost laughing at the fact that she was sort of dissing herself and her whole team.
"That's why you're unpredictable, the JL know each member like the back of their hands, and you're kind of like wild cards. You're the daughter of an alien princess and the one man who surpasses even Batman. Your teammates are the powerful equals of their parents, that boy, Damon, son of a half demon, and a changeling, his sister a changeling herself who can turn into any animal in the world. Say from a cockroach to a viper in 2 seconds flat, we'd be dead right there. Then there's Sparky and Laura I believe. The children of the most technological man known to all mankind mixed with their mothers abilities and attitude isn't a good combination. Now tell me why we wouldn't be at least a little bit scarred of you guys. You were practically made for fighting unlike the rest of us who grew into it?" He asked typing a few things on the large supercomputer on the wall. Suddenly several pictures of both the JL and her parents, aunts and uncles appeared up on the screen.
"Ok then where is the rest of the League?" She asked walking up next to him arms crossed.
"No idea, when we all went into hiding we disbanded. The only one I kept in touch with was Bruce." He said typing in something else as statuses appeared beneath the names beneath the pictures. Most of them said unknown or missing in the case of her and her aunts and uncles.
"Now that makes sense, Bruce would never recommend going to a Pub unless he knew I was going to stumble across you." She said finally working it through her head.
"Exactly Bruce said he'd send you to me when you were ready." He said finally turning to her.
"Ready for what?" She asked.
"To restart the Justice League to lead them into battle against Slade then lead them into a new era of democracy where we can lay in the background helping fight for Justice whenever need be." She almost chocked when he said lead.
"Lead, have you gone insane, I thought Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman led the Justice League." She said.
"This obviously isn't our world anymore we need a new generation that's more experienced in the way this world now works to lead. All we can do is help." He stated pulling up a map of the world from now and one from long ago. The picture of the world from now looked really bleak compared to the picture next to her.
"Why me, Damon or Laura is more fit for the description, the only reason I'm the leader of the Titans is because my father was. I'm just a silly girl with powers prancing around Jump City not sure which way to go." She said looking down at the floor. He placed his hand on her should in a fatherly way and looked at her proudly.
"Your father would be so proud of you… Lexa it's in your blood to lead, I can tell you have your mother's passion and your fathers drive and no matter how much you like it you became the leader because you put yourself in that position and no one questioned that decision. I'm not sure if you noticed but your friends put a whole lot more faith into you than you perceive." He said.
"Thank you… We'll need to find the rest of the Justice League." She said turning to face the screen abruptly.
"I take it you're not one who likes to express their emotions." He said.
"Used to be, but that person left town a long time ago, it's a rarity to see her truly return. Damon taught me how to hide my emotions when I need to; it's good when you need to bluff." She said. He just chuckled in response and brought the profile pictures back up onto the screen.
"What?" She asked curiously, she wasn't making a joke when she said make a bluff; she had to make a bluff whenever she was around Grant.
"It's almost scary how much you're like Robin. When he was young he used to be a cheery young boy who just enjoyed life despite all the terrible things that happened to him. Then shortly after he left Wayne Manor, and the Batcave he matured into a man the ever happy boy who loved life seemed to be gone, but the night of your parent's reception after almost everyone had left I was leaving for Watchtower and I flew past your parents. They were dancing upon the top of the roof just enjoying the company of each other. I hadn't seen him that happy since he was very young, and the look in your mothers eyes, I wish I knew what it was like to be in love like that, but what I'm saying is that I think the Lexa that you say disappeared a long time ago hasn't really disappeared I think she's just hiding, hiding from the mess you've made of your life. Whether you want to admit it or not Lexa you're scarred."
She tried to object to that statement but he just held up his hand stopping her.
""Everyone's scarred of something; it's how you decide to deal with that fear that defines you as fearful or fearless."
"You sound like you're reading straight out of a fortune cookie or something." She joked.
"Actually Bruce told me that one. He told me it would be better coming from my mouth than his own." He said. She shook her head in disbelief.
"What do I need to do?" She asked.
"Well I can't go out of town because Slade would instantly get suspicious about a bartender going in and out of the city on a regular basis, but you on the other hand can leave town without being noticed or questioned." He said.
"And I can scour the globe quickly searching for all of them. Okay I'm in." She said.
"One condition Lexa you can't tell your friends about this yet." He said.
"Like I was going to tell them?" She said as if it were obvious.
"I take it you're not the trusting sort either." He said. He felt like he should've figured that one out.
"What was your first clue?" She joked. He saw a reflection of Robin's cocky smile in hers he watched as she jumped up the stairs and ran for the door with a kind of giddiness that reminded him of her mother.
She truly is something. He thought as she quickly turned around.
"Meet you here next Friday and you can give me a rundown of what you know I was supposed to be back a long while ago." She winked and then ran out of the room and jumped over the counter disappearing out of his sight.
I swear one day that girl is going to lead us to salvation or be the downfall of us all.
-GL, L, N-
"Like I was going to tell them?" Naomi mimicked. "Lexa, what else aren't you telling us?" She practically screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Sorry Nai, there were just some things that you guys don't need to know about me." She said laughing at Naomi's exasperated expression.
"Like what, what can be so bad that you can't tell your closest friends, your family for god's sake?" She yelled. Lexa rolled her eyes then cupped her hand next to Naomi's ear she whispered something within, and Naomi's eyes went wide.
"He what!" She screamed again at the top of her lungs. She looked like she was going to pass out at first then started hitting her head as if she was trying to get water out of her ear.
"What are you doing?" Lexa asked absolutely dumbfounded.
"Trying to knock what you just said out of my head." She said continuing to hit her head. Lexa laughed softly then remembered what she was coming to tell GL besides just to get one of those drinks.
"So this is what you've been doing every Friday and then all those long trips were to search for JL members, now that makes sense." She said.
"Speaking of the trips I've got some bad news Hal." She said. "It's Hawkman and Hawkgirl; I found them in South America. They're dead." GL eyes widen and then softly closed with sorrow. "They were killed by Slade Bots who found their home in the mountains."
"Oh god, no."
"Way to kill the mood Lexa." Naomi pouted trying not to be too rude about it since GL had obviously just lost a good friend.
"Naomi!" Lexa hissed and Naomi transformed into a turtle.
"They were good teammates, but even better friends." He said.
"I have Hawkman and Hawkgirl helmets and maces; I'll bring them to you tomorrow." She said softly. "Naomi let's go." Lexa turned for the door and they left leaving GL to grieve.
They walked down the street in utter silence they barely new Hawkgirl and Hawkman but grief seemed to wash over them for their allies. For some reason they felt responsible for their death, if they hadn't surrendered the JL wouldn't have gone into hiding and they would've never been killed.
"Naomi you realize you can't tell anyone about this right?" She said. Naomi just nodded, and then tried to lighten up the mood like her father would do on a daily basis.
"Well I am the blabber mouth of the team so maybe it wasn't the wisest thing to tell me of all people." She said lightheartedly.
"I trust you Naomi, you may not realize it but you're probably the one I trust the most." She said. Naomi couldn't believe those words had just come out of Lexa's mouth.
"Yeah Damon is my closest advisor and you know how close we are but when it comes down to just being well us, Damon can't compare to the rest of us. Most of his emotions are cut off from the rest of us and he thinks with his head and not his heart you're the opposite, your heart rules your mind. That's why I trust you because I know when it comes down to it you'll make the right decisions that aren't solely focused on by your mind but also by your heart." She said.
"Wait, are you calling me dumb?" She inquired. Lexa couldn't help but laugh softly at that one.
"No, I'm saying you're a good friend and that I can trust you." She said.
"Well why didn't you just say that?" She said.
"I did." Lexa said laughing a bit again. "Come on we better get back before they get worried."
Naomi nodded and transformed into a raven, and took to the air. Lexa followed and they flew quickly back to Titans Tower. They walked up to the Tower and found everyone in the living room sitting silently looking at each other with questioning glares. Lexa and Naomi walked in and everyone started to shout at them. Ibn, Grant, and Damon were yelling at her about how she shouldn't take off like that, Robin yelling about how she was grounded, Starfire saying she was so relieved, and the other Titans scolding her about her responsibilities. Lexa just stood there staring motionless taking the beating while Naomi stood to the side appalled at what she saw before her. Then she realized that this wasn't the first time this kind of thing happened, Lexa had so much on her shoulders that Naomi couldn't even realize it till now.
She then shifted into a elephant and blew her triumphant like noise shocking everyone except her and Lexa. Everyone became silent and looked at a fuming Naomi who changed back to a human.
"God you people are sick, do you realize how much Lexa does for you guys and all you do is complain about her. She makes sure were all eating, and fit, she takes care of training, she does most of the fighting, she has to put up with the crap that Grant and Ibn give her and now our parents are back all we can do is argue! It's pathetic!" She said then walking off. Everyone remained silent for a moment, that when they all noticed that Lexa and Naomi had been in a particularly depressing mood when they walked in.
"Lexa what happened?" Sparky asked.
"Not now Sparky, not now." She then walked into the kitchen pulled three icepacks and ran down to the gym. Suddenly Sparky, Laura, Damon, Grant, and Ibn ran to cling to something.
"What are you…?" Suddenly the entire Tower shook stopping Cyborg mid sentence and throwing them off their feet.
"What was that?" BB asked.
"Lexa, and she only does that when something really bad has happened and she can't go to Bruce's to get away from it all." Damon said.
"Geeze man does your daughter have anger issues or something?" BB asked.
"She is acting like Robin. Whenever you are mad or angry or confused you would take it out on the bag of punches, yes?" She asked and Robin nodded in response.
"The only one who could ever get him to stop was Starfire. Hey I guess that was our way of knowing that Robin liked Starfire." Cyborg shoved his hands over his mouth realizing he shouldn't have said that. Grant and Ibn were out the door like that before anyone could say anything to dissuade them from trying something.
"What do you think happened?" Robin asked Sparky.
"Who knows if it had to do with Grant she would've just blown it off somewhere with Naomi, but when they came back they just looked utterly depressed," He said shrugging. "So no clue, dude, no clue."
"And what happened with Naomi, why was she with Lexa anyway. I would've thought she would've still been with you guys at the club but you said she took off after Lexa." Raven asked.
"Well that's another story for another time, okay?" Sparky said scratching the back of his neck.
"He kissed her." Damon stated quite rudely. All color seemed to drain from BB's face.
"Dude your son kissed my daughter?" BB said suddenly furious.
"Oh great, more topics for them to squabble about." Raven said to Bee who snickered.
"How do you know that it was my son that kissed her? Maybe she kissed him?" Cyborg argued back. Robin put his hand to his head and shook it in disbelief.
"Titans!" Everyone froze, Robin seemed mad but he was also managing not to blow a gasket.
"Ever since we've gotten here we've been arguing like mad dogs. Were family so it's time we started acting like one, let's let our kids handle their lives for now and when they totally screw that up then we can intervene." Robin said. Laura rolled her eyes but nodded in agreement. She knew they screwed up their lives a long time ago but if her parents didn't think they did she wasn't going to object any time soon.
"He's right we've been acting like children for the past few days, Cyborg and Beast Boy more than usual." Ravens said.
"No more secrets." Sparky put up. All the Titans old and new looked at each other thinking exactly the same things, as long as they didn't know about the secret it didn't need to be divulged.
"No more secrets."
-L-
Her head leaned against the punching bag sweat dripping down her forehead from the humid air within the room.
"Curse you Slade…" She muttered slamming her hand onto the punching bag without really trying.
"I'm sorry, we're sorry, Lexa." Ibn said and he and Grant walked into the room and shutting the door behind them.
"Just leave now I can't handle much of either of you for the rest of the day." She said her hand slowly curling into a fist against the punching bag.
"We promise we won't argue, or antagonize you we just want to talk." Grant said, as they walked closer to her.
"Then what do you want, because honestly I don't know what to expect, I either get rude statements from you or you're fighting each other half the time." She said finally turning to face them.
"Fine right now we're just going to have a conversation, everything outside this room doesn't exist let's just talk like civilized people without using our fists." Ibn said. "Clean slate."
Lexa rolled her head her bones cracking and started to crack her knuckles as she walked over to the other side of the room and sat down.
"Ok, clean slate." She said as they came and sat down next to her on each side.
"What's it like finally getting to meet your parents?" Ibn asked.
"It's cool but I don't exactly trust my parents, well my father at least. My mother's a good person I don't think she had a bad bone in her body." She said.
"Ok next question if you had to choose between the two of us who would it be?" Grant asked chuckling as he did.
She laughed and clapped her hands together.
"Well if I could combine you two I'd take that but we can't do that." She then pointed her fingers at both of them accusingly. "And don't you guys try anything."
They all laughed at the thought of Ibn trying to act like Grant and Grant acting like Ibn. They were complete opposites, Grant was immature, Ibn was mature, Grant was evil, Ibn was good in his own way. Though they did have many similarities, they were both good fighters, they're both sons of powerful mortal fighters, and Robin seemed to hate both of them by the menacing glares he would give them when he thought no one was looking.
"We'd destroy ourselves if we did." Ibn said.
"True that." Grant agreed. Strangely Lexa felt like she was actually having fun with the guys.
"But seriously like we said before we're sorry. I'm sorry for kissing you like that earlier, next time I'll give you a good 2 second heads up." He said.
"Hey all's fair in love and war." She said laughing.
"So which one is it? Love?" Ibn said.
"Or War?" Grant said.
"I think it's a little bit of both actually." She said smirking maniacally looking between the two. Grant and Ibn stood up and held out their hands for her to take then Ibn a wicked smirk on his face,
"Question is which one of us is Love and the other War?"
A/N: This was kinda a shout out to the new Green Lantern movie, yeah! I love writing this chapter because it puts wheels into motion and the whole plot line is going to take a sort of turn that I'm not sure you have figured out but I have a pretty good idea. *Spolier Warning* Next chp. will finally involve the drama, as if there wasn't enough of that, that starts to form around Lexa and Robin because of all the secrets they have. I told you in the second chp things weren't going to stay okie dokie for long, and I meant it. Also Operation Orion starts to come into play, so stay tuned I promise I'll try to get it done as soon as I can and if you also want to see another one of my 'thrillers' check out Crimeside, (that one is edited) you might like it alot, and I'll try to get around to gettign the second chp of that one up soon. R&R please, I like the feedback.