Feel free to skip this authors note. You'll probably do it without reading this anyways.

It's finally here! But now you have to wait two more weeks for the next one. Sad face emoji ️. So this will be last chapter before I jump on the main storyline. Right now, it's gonna pick up at Downtime and go straight into Befert. (Reason 1 of why this chapter took so long. Reason 2 is mentioned in the A/N) Enjoy!

Mount Justice
August 24th 18:46 EDT

"I'm bored!", I shouted as I flopped on the couch next to Conner.

"You only spent two hours fixing the tv! How can you be done with that?!", Artemis exclaimed, pointing at the tv.

"What can I say? I'm a genius who is currently bored". I responded, sinking further into the couch. Artemis sighed before walking off.

It had been a week since I 'unofficially' joined the team. I say unofficially because only the team knows, none of the mentors. I've been coming in and out of the cave, usually from 4-6 because the rest of the day, I'm hanging with my friends, making videos or patrolling the city.

Today, however, I plan on spending the whole day here because Tori said she'd 'hold down the fort' for me. She's the only other one who know about my 'other' activities. She's my best friend for goodness sakes, she knows everything about me. And when I say everything, I mean everything. I've known her since I was 4!

I was getting bored sitting on the couch because, even though I fixed the tv, Conner was STILL watching static! I got up and started walking off in the direction Artemis went. I started to get lost in thought about my friends, Scarlet, Tori, Carter and Richard, and thinking about the giant responsibility we carry and yet, only we are aware of it.

Then I start think about if I should really be keeping these secrets from the team, my new friends. I'm pretty sure they'd take what the DotS Crew really is fine and I'm sure that they wouldn't care about what happened in my past either but it's another thing that bothers me. A darker secret.

Suddenly, I snap out of my thoughts when I collide straight into Artemis. I'm barley up to her shoulders so I collide right into her chest and stumble back onto the floor, landing on my butt. "Sorry, I didn't see you there.", I said as I got up.

"It's fine Saph.", she responded as she helped me up.

"Can I ask you quick question?", I said suddenly. I'd been dying to ask her this since I met her but never got the chance. "Who are you really?"

She froze. "What do you mean?"

"I know your not Ollie's niece. I've known him for most of my life and I've never heard of you.", I told her. She didn't respond.

"Look," I put her hands in mine, "I honestly don't care who you really are. We all have a right to our secrets." She remained silent.

"Come on! We're still friends right?", I asked as I nudged her.

"Why wouldn't I be your friend, shorty?", Artemis joked. "I'm fun sized!"

After that encounter, we joked and giggled all the way back to the living room. While we were gone, Wally and Robin had arrived and the joined the rest of us at the mountain. "The girls are just in time to help us pick a movie.", Wally said as we walked in.

"Are we gonna have a movie night?", I squealed excitedly.

"We didn't have anything else to do, so we might as well.", Robin responded as he looked through a box of DVDs.

"This is so exciting! My first movie night!", M'gann squealed as well as she flew in with some cookies.

"Why don't we watch this one?", Conner asked as he picked up a random DvD.

"Forrest Gump? I believe that is a very good movie.", Kaldur said as he looked at the DVD.

"It's the best! We need to watch it, now!", I said excitedly.

"I guess we're watching Forrest Gump then." Robin said as he took the DvD from Conner.

We all sat down in the living room to watch the movie. I took a spot next to Artemis as the movie played. As the movie continued we all started to drift to sleep. After fighting it off, I finally resigned myself to sweet sleep.

3rd POV

Meanwhile, it was now 8:00 and Hal was pacing in his apartment with one Barry Allen trying to calm him down. "What if she got kidnapped or worse she slowly dying in an alley somewhere or-"

"Hal, you gotta calm down. You know as well as I do that she's perfectly capable of looking after herself.", Barry told the worried Hal.

"But she was suppose to be home almost an hour ago. What if something bad happened?", Hal said, worriedly. "Even her friends don't know where she is! They haven't seen her all day! She usually spends every moment with them!" He continued.

"Listen, Hal. Why don't you come with me to go get Wally for our patrol and then we can look for Sapphire with him. I'm sure she just got side tracked or something. You know she does that sometimes.", Barry said calmly as he gave Hal a pat on the shoulder.

"Fine." Hal said as he walked to the door. The two exited the apartment building, turned down the next alley and stepped into the zeta.

Recognized. Green Lantern. 05. Flash. 04.

The two leaguers materialized in Mount Justice and Barry zoomed off to get Wally. When he arrived in the living room, he saw the most adorable sight. The entire team was asleep in the living room with the credits of a film rolling on the screen. Kaldur had fallen asleep in the arm chair, Conner was asleep in the other arm chair and Wally and Robin were leaning against the couch, asleep on each other's shoulders. M'gann was asleep on the left armrest of the couch and Artemis was leaning, asleep, on the right armrest. Barry also figured out where Sapphire had disappeared off to. She was asleep with her head in Artemis's lap.

Barry pulled out his phone and silently took a picture. Hal would think was cute after he yelled at Sapphire. He quickly ran back to Hal, who had been waiting for him by the zeta beams. "I found your sister. She's with the team.", Barry told him.

Hal sighed and walked with Barry into the living room where the team was asleep. "At least she's safe.", Hal said as he looked at cute sight. Even though he was upset, he had to admit they all looked pretty cute right now. Hal quietly walked over to Sapphire and picked her, laying her head on his shoulder. Barry went and picked Wally up bridal style. "I'll call their mentors and tell them that their protégés fell asleep.", Barry said as they carried their protégés to the zeta beam.

"Guess we'll have to go patrolling tomorrow. Night Barry.", Hal said as he walked through the zeta beam. After he exited it, he carried Sapphire up to their apartment. He walked to her room and gently laid her down on her bed. He cover her with her sheets and gave her a kiss on the heads. "Goodnight sis." He whispered as he exited the room before going off to patrol by himself.

The following day, the team was cleaning up the mess from the previous night. They had woken up the following morning to find Sapphire and Wally weren't there. Robin mentioned that the two were suppose to patrol together last night and probably just left to go while they were all asleep. They assumed that was the reason before Wally came in a panic. "Yo, Wally. Why do you look like the apocalypse is coming?", Robin asked.

"Becausemyuncleandsapphiresbrotherfoundoutthatsapphireknowsabouttheteamandnowwereallscrewedbecausetheleaguewantshertohavenothungtodowiththeteam.", Wally said in one big sentence.

"Uh...did anyone understand what he just said?", Artemis asked.

"He basically said that the league's gonna kill us.", Robin elaborated. "Why would they kill us?", M'gann gasped.

"Robin is talking figuratively. The league is very overprotective of Sapphire.", Kaldur explained.

"Why? She's just one girl and from what I've been told about her, she seems very capable of defending herself.", Superboy said.

"Yeah, we understand that. The league, however, can't get past the fact she's barely a teenager.", Robin stated.

"But if we believe in her, the league shouldn't be mad, right?", M'gann asked innocently.

"You don't understand! Sapphire been with league since their founding! They practically raised her! It took her a hell of a lot of convincing for her to even become a prodigy and even then, they rarely let her leave Coast City or do anything near as dangerous as we do!", Wally said, having calmed down slightly.

"Honestly, I think it will go over fine.", Robin said calmly. "How can you be so calm? From what Wally's saying, we're probably in a lot of trouble.", Artemis responded.

"Oh, if I know Sapphire, she's not gonna let this go quietly.", Robin said with a smirk, "Definitely not."

Sapphire POV

"No!", I shouted for about the if-tith time, "I will not let you punish the team because of me. They're MY friends!"

"You shouldn't even have know about the team to begin with!", Hal shouted back at me.

"Well you shouldn't have hid it from me!" "It was for you're own safety!" "I can take care of myself!" "You sure proved that didn't you!" "You don't know what I went through and you sure as hell don't have the same problems I do!"

"Will you two be quiet!", Wonder Woman, or Aunt Diana, shouted at the us. I sat down with huff. Ya see, when I woke in the morning and realized I wasn't in the cave, I knew I was screwed. That lead to me being dragged up to the Watchtower and now I'm being scolded by my over protective family AKA the Justice League. Hal may be the only one of them I'm biological related to but they practically RAISED me.

"I don't get why me knowing about the tea is such a big deal.",I mumbled grumpily. "It is a big deal because as they youngest of the protégés, you are also the most innocent-" Uncle Clark started. "INNOCENT?! I am the farthest thing from innocent at this point. If you wanted that to be true, maybe you shouldn't have raised me in a world of heroes!"

The room faded into silence as they took in my outburst. In the time since I had met my best friends, they had helped me become more and more confident then I used to be.

"I say that we should let her join.", Uncle Bruce said. "Seriously!", I shouted with the biggest smile on my face.

"You can't be serious!"

"She's too young!"

"What are you thinking!"

The other founders continued to yell before his fist came down, silencing. Uh, #hesthegoddambatman anyone? "Look, I believe that Sapphire would be a valuable asset to the team. Hal, you know as well as I do that the green lantern ring would not of chosen her if she didn't have potential."

The room quieted again for a moment before Hal huffed. "Fine she can join the team." "HELL YEAH!" "But! There's one condition, if everyone agrees with this, that you must carry out."

Team's POV
As the team stood in the cave debating if they were dead or not, the zeta beam came to life. Recognized. Green Lantern. 05. Sapphire Jordan. A02.

"Hey guys!", Sapphire shouted cheerfully as she and the three leaguers stepped through. She looked drastically different from yesterday as now, she was in her hero costume. (Here's a picture cause I'm too lazy to write it out in words. P.S. The wings will be explained momentarily.)

"Woah, since when do you have wings?!", Artemis exclaimed.

"Don't you watch the news? I've always had wings, I just hide them when I'm not out heroing.", Sapphire respond, "And I love how that's your first question and not if you guys are screwed or not." That caused the team to tense up.

"Spoiler, you're not!", she said happily. "Does that mean your an official member of the team?", Wally asked excitedly. "Yup. Little S is gonna be joining the team part-time." Hal said as he ruffled her hair as Sapphire wiggled away.

"What do you mean, part-time?", Superboy questioned. "Well, I've got a lot of responsibilities outside of school so I can't spend all my time at the cave but I can still be here."

"Part-time, smursh-time. Your part of the team now!", Artemis said as she slug her arm around the smaller girl. She didn't seem to notice the small glare Hal gave her. "Yep! I'm sure glad to be here and not in trouble!", she responded with a laugh.

The rest of the team happily conversed with their newest member but Robin couldn't help be see the slightest hint of regret, guilt and sadness skillfully hidden behind her cheery disposition.