Artemis disappeared into her room after hearing the news about her father, leaving Wally with Paula. She had been showing him her photo albums of the girls. Apparently, Artemis had an older sister named Jade (and she wasn't very nice judging from how many mug shots she had). In fact, almost all the photos were mug shots or taken from security feeds and they all had labels like "Jade's First High Speed Chase—11" or "Artemis Steals Dog—7." The dog in question, Wally noticed, looked strangely like a young Brucely. Paula had just started on the baby stories (more robbing banks, less naked in the bath tub) when Artemis returned from her room.

She was decked out in a dark green hoodie and leggings of the same color that were tight enough to draw Wally's eye to places he shouldn't be looking at with her mother in the room. She had her bow from school in one gloved hand and her quiver strapped across her back looking for all the world like a Green Arrow cosplayer. And it was damn sexy… but Wally didn't get it.

"What's going on?" He asked, forcing his eye back up to her face, which he now realized was covered from below here eyes all the way to her neck by a lighter green cloth that matched her gloves. "You look like a visual anti."

"That's the point," she told him, her voice muffled slightly by the mask. "If the cops won't do their job, I will."

"Artemis," her mother said, eyes wide in fear and anger. Fear because she knew what her husband was capable of, and anger at the fact that she saw so much of him in her daughter at that moment. "You cannot do this."

The girl gave her mother a long look before pulling the hood farther over her face, casting her eyes in shadow, "Watch me."

x-x-x

"Dick," Barbara said through his Bluetooth with a sigh, "Bruce said he was going after Sportsmaster."

"I know," the boy replied, running across the roof of an abandoned factory. He kicked off the edge and landed on the next building with a summersault. Years without proper practice made him rusty, but the skills were coming back to him quick enough.

"So why are we on this?" Babs was annoyed. It was their date night, and she was stuck in the computer room while her boyfriend was out tracking baddies against Bruce's wishes. She wheeled her chair back from one computer so she could look at the data on the next.

"No one threatens my friends," Dick practically growled as he perched above a grimy sky light, "no one." The wind stirred, and the boy froze, his ears staining to pick up any sound. In a swift, fluid motion, Dick Grayson rose and swung around, extending his leg as he pivoted. The action was stopped before his foot could make contact, a hand wrapped around his ankle.

"I told you," Batman said with a gruff growl, "not to interfere."

A flash of green caught Dick's eye, and he glanced down at the skylight, expecting to see Green Arrow. Dread felled his entire being as he realized who it actually was who had entered the building. Her face was covered, but he could see who she was in the way she held her shoulder, the way she walked. Artemis Crock was going after her father. "Someone should have told her that."

x-x-x

Megan giggled as Connor kissed down her neck, her fingers in his hair. This was nice. This feeling of acceptance, of mutual want. She had been so starved of love in the past that even the though to Connor made her heart melt in joy. Greed filled her and she pulled him closer, almost not registering the fact that her phone was ringing with the Hello, Megan! theme song. Connor did, however, and pulled away to answer it.

"Yeah?" His irritated expression quickly faded to shock and then worry. The phone call only lasted thirty seconds, but by the time Connor hung us, he looked sick to his stomach. "We have to go," he told Megan, standing and helping her off the couch, "Artemis's in trouble."

x-x-x

Wally groaned as he woke up, a wet cloth on his forehead. "Ow," he moaned, sitting up on the couch in Artemis's living room. The cloth dropped to his lap as he looked around the dark room. She was gone.

"You should not have tried to stop her," Paula's voice rang out softly in the quiet space. "Neither of them takes kindly to being stopped." She rolled herself closer to him, the moonlight illuminating the tears in her eyes.

"She kicked me," he accused, "in the face." Wally supposed there were worse places to be kicked, and he did want kids someday, but he could feel the bruise on his cheek bone as he talked.

"Here," Paula held out a strip of note paper, ignoring his comment. "Go to this address. The Harper twins live there. They will know how to find Jade. Please… you must bring my daughter back alive."

Wally took the paper and nodded as his phone buzzed in his pocket. He pulled it out, and with a quick glance at the Caller ID, answered it. "I'm on my way," he said after his best friend explained the situation he already knew too much about, "I have backup."

First of all, I'd just like to thank everyone. I'm pretty sure this is my most popular story as of favorites/follows. I have changed Megan's history slightly, also. In stead of her mom re-marring, her dad did which is why she and Gar look like her mom (this information does not effect you if you've just started reading this story). I would like to encourage everyone to read my other YJ story set Parallel. You can read more about it on my profile, so please check it out :D

So, how do you like changes on Artemis's first costume? She'll get her real costume later in the story, don't worry.