Look who's finally back with another chapter! I'm sorry for my disappearance, I was dealing with last month of school stuff as well as the transition into summer. But I'm back and I'm very happy with this chapter!

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It had been an entire week since Wally and Dick had first admitted their feelings for each other and became a couple. It had also been an entire week since Dick had seen or heard any sign of Reggy.

Dick had thought at first that maybe because of Wally and his new relationship that Reggy was just avoiding him for a while, trying to perhaps set aside his feelings and accept what this all was. Dick could understand that so he wasn't worried. But after more than three days had gone by without any word from him Dick really started to get concerned.

Not only was Reggy gone making him anxious, but there also seemed to be more and more ghosts that he knew going missing. It was like they had all packed up and left. Dick knew that there was something going on, he just didn't know what.

None of it felt right either. There was something disturbing and unsettling about it all, and it was setting his teeth on edge. It was like something in the supernatural world had shifted, and not in a good way.

Wally was concerned too. But not for the same reasons as Dick. He was concerned about Dick. He could tell that something was wrong, that something was troubling him, but Dick wouldn't let anything up about it. Even the rest of the team were getting concerned about him. He seemed a little distant, constantly looking around for someone they couldn't see, making up excuses for his obvious anxiety and shiftiness. At first they all thought that it was just something involving Batman that was making him a bit off; a mission perhaps. But then they saw Wally talking to the bat off to the side of the mountain's main room. They knew that something was wrong.

"So what's going on, Baywatch?" Artemis asked Wally as he walked over to the group minus Robin. He had just finished his conversation with Batman and was now sporting a frown across his face.

Wally sighed. "I don't know, Batman just asked me if I knew what was going on with Robin. I told him that I didn't and that we were all concerned for him too," Wally explained. The team nodded together, now that even Batman was openly acknowledging that something was wrong there was no denying it.

"So what do we do about it?" M'gann asked, looking to Wally. Wally just shrugged a bit.

"Bats told me that we should keep an eye on him, and try to figure out what's wrong. There's nothing much to do you know," Wally stated.

"And besides," Artemis spoke, "we don't even know if it's something we need to be this worried about anyway. It could be something that Robin just needs to work out for himself, and we're just blowing it out of proportion. Or it could really just be nothing at all." Except they knew that the latter statement wasn't true. But she made a good point, they really didn't know how big of a deal this was and they could just be blowing this all up too much.

"Artemis is right," Kaldur addressed the team. "If something really is wrong, Robin will either tell us himself or we'll figure it out. So for now we do as Batman ordered and keep an eye on him. Is that clear?" The team all said things in the affirmative, and Kaldur dismissed them. But Wally turned their attention back to him with one more piece of information.

"Guys," Wally began, "Batman also said to make sure that whatever this is doesn't affect Robin during battle. That's why he brought it up to me in the first place actually."

"What happened?" Superboy questioned.

"Bats said that on their last mission two nights ago Robin almost made a fatal mistake while fighting Bane and his cronies." They all reacted to this accordingly. "He said it was what really tipped him off that something was going on, since Robin doesn't make mistakes like that. At least, not how he did during that particular fight." Something shifted within the group because of this, but they all just nodded grimly and went back to the living room area. Wally stayed behind momentarily and looked back at Batman where he was talking with Flash and Superman.

"Zatara has just informed me of a concern of him," Batman explained to the other league members.

"A concern?" Superman raised an eyebrow, not entirely understanding the meaning behind this.

"Yes, a concern," Batman repeated to him as if he just asked the stupidest question ever. Flash stifled a laugh and Superman just rolled his eyes.

"What kind of a concern?" Superman rephrased.

"A 'magical' or supernatural concern," Batman started his explanation. Flash coughed a bit, and Superman just nodded. "He says that he felt a change occur in the supernatural world through his magic. He explained to me that this is not a good change, and that he will be keeping an eye on things surrounding this matter."

"When he says a change what exactly does he mean by that?" Flash asked skeptically.

Batman cleared his throat. "Zatara described it as a shift of sorts in the dark direction, and that we should keep an eye out for dark magic users like Wotan and Abra Kadabra." Superman and Flash both nodded and went their separate ways. Batman sighed through his nose and looked to see Wally looking at him. He nodded at the boy and went to the zeta tube to head back to Gotham.

"Recognized, Batman 02." And in a flash of blinding white light he was gone.

Wally blinked himself out of his thoughts and turned to head to the living room with the others. He was greeted with the sight of the team chatting with each other and Robin. As he approached, Artemis made room on the couch for him to sit next to Robin. Because of this action, Robin noticed his new boyfriend's presence and he smiled brightly up at him. Wally smiled back.

"So what's going on?" Wally asked as he plopped down next to Robin, immediately laying his arm over the younger boy's shoulders.

"Just deliberating as to whether we should all go out to eat after training," Robin explained cheerily, completely oblivious as to what had just transpired in the main room not minutes ago. Wally hummed at the thought of food and the rest smiled, glad that the other topic was off the table.

"What do you think we should do Wally?" M'gann asked. Wally opened his mouth to answer but stopped when he felt Robin's shoulders tense up suddenly. He turned to him and saw that he was staring wide eyed straight ahead. The rest of the team noticed too, and they looked at each other with concern.

"Rob? Babe?" Wally called to him slowly, shifting his position to get a better look at his boyfriend. But Robin didn't move. His eyes were staring blankly ahead as far as they could all tell behind the sunglasses. He was breathing slowly and shallowly, his heart rate was slowing as well and that's what made Wally act.

Wally began shaking Robin's shoulders back and forth to try and get his attention, but he didn't react. M'gann floated down in front of the bird, her eyes glowed as she reached out and touched the side of his face. Wally moved slightly back to give M'gann space while she was trying to see if she could figure out what was happening. Her muscles tensed to match Robin's for a moment before she was pushed back from him. She slowly dropped her hand from his face when Robin blinked once, twice, and finally rapidly another couple of times back into awareness.

Robin's body and demeanor relaxed, and he looked around at his concerned teammates' faces.

"What?" he asked genuinely confused. The group all stared at him, then their eyes shifted to M'gann for her input.

"I'm not sure?" she said in response to their stares and Robin's questioned. Robin furrowed his eyebrows and so did Wally.

"Did you not get anything?" Wally asked M'gann, she just shook her head and stuck out her lower lip slightly. Robin's brow furrowed further.

"What?" he asked again, completely confused in every way possible.

"You just froze up all of the sudden," Artemis explained to him, and the group's attention shifted to her. "Wally tried to get your attention, but you didn't react. He was even shaking your shoulders but you didn't move. So M'gann tried to look into your head..." she trailed off. Robin pierced his lips for a moment before his head tilted back and eyes lit up with understanding, his body relaxed again before tensing up once more.

"Oh," he let pass his lips before he shook his head and moved to stand up. Wally's hand grasped Robin's bicep and he stood with him.

"Robin?" Wally asked softly, holding his boyfriend in place where he stood so he couldn't walk away. Everyone else stood as well.

"I'm fine," Robin assure the team, softly at first before he repeated himself louder and with more confidence. "I'm fine, really. It's okay. I don't know what got into me there," he laughed it off. None of them were convinced however, and Artemis couldn't help but look at him like he was the stupidest person in the entire world.

"Robin, we knew before this that something was going on with you but we did not want to address it with you directly. But now I feel as though it would be inappropriate to allow you to brush this off arbitrarily," Kaldur stated. Robin just sighed.

"I know you guys are worried about me and I know Batman is too, especially since what happened with Bane..." he trailed off. "But I'm fine! Really! I know that what happened right now may have seemed weird but I just zoned out, that's all. It's okay, you guys don't have to baby me you know," Robin said to the team, then he turned to Wally. "I'm okay, Wally. I would tell you if I wasn't."

"Fine. Well if that's true, then tell me what the heck is going on," Wally threw back at Robin. Even if Robin was "okay" and "fine" as he put it, there was still something majorly wrong and even if they couldn't help him with it he knew that they would all feel much better know what it was.

"Yeah, Robin," Superboy piped up. "I know that something's bothering you despite the obvious and despite what you say, your whole body's showing signs of anxiety and discomfort," Superboy pointed out.

"Conner's right," M'gann said, "I've been feeling these emotions as well, you've been radiating these feelings for all this past week," M'gann confirmed. "And with what happened just now..."

"What did happen just now?" Artemis questioned both M'gann and Robin.

Robin sighed in exasperation. "Nothing happened just now. I told you, I just epically zoned out for a moment there. It happens to plenty of people." Artemis mumbled 'what people' under her breath but Robin ignored her. "And as for what's wrong? Well..." I've been seeing ghosts since I was eight and there's this one ghost Reggy, a dead kid from my school who was in love with me, that has been following me everywhere in his afterlife but last week he suddenly disappear just after Wally and I became a couple and now other ghosts are disappearing for no apparent reason too, and while at first I thought this might be a good thing, you know ghosts moving on and all, I've now realized that there is something very very wrong happening and I don't know what. Also that thing that happened just now? To be honest, I have no idea what that was! It just felt like a cold darkness came over me and I couldn't move... I've never been that cold in my life, not even when we were in the arctic. And it wasn't just cold, it was... empty.

"I've just been stressed out about telling my... parents about Wally and me," Robin roughly explained, nearly tripping over the word 'parents' since the team minus Wally didn't know of his secret ID. "And I'm worried what they might do to me, or what my dad might do to Wally since he's so protective." Wally let out a small 'ah' in his understanding, though he didn't completely buy this story it seemed plausible enough given him knowing Bruce. "Also one; my parents don't know I'm gay, and two; they're both not exactly super into the idea of me dating someone let alone a boy." Robin furthered his story, and while all of this was true it wasn't the whole truth in more ways than one.

Because first; he didn't have parents any longer, just Bruce and Alfred, and second; while he was worried about telling Bruce and everything the main source of his anxiety had to be kept hidden.

"It's going to be fine babe," Wally said smiling a bit, more relaxed now though not completely. "We can even tell them together if you want?" he suggested. Robin smiled back at him.

"That would be... nice. Also probably a good idea since Bru-uh, my uh, my dad, will want to know what your intentions are," Robin replied. The team seemed more at ease now with this new explanation and they were all very eager to take this excuse and run with it in the hopes that everything will blow over, and that Robin will go back to normal soon.

"This explanation sound viable enough for now, Robin," Kaldur spoke. "But we all shall still be keeping an eye on you. And in the event that even after you and Wally reveal yourselves and your relationship to your parents you still are anxiety ridden and more of these.. things continue to happen I will not hesitate to, as leader, not only inform Batman but to have you sit out of missions until further notice." Robin had to swallow a retort because he knew that Kaldur was only being a good leader, and that he was completely right. Should his behaviour put the team at risk in the field Kaldur as leader would be responsible, and he couldn't let that happen.

"I understand," Robin stated. Kaldur nodded once, then turned to the rest of the team for their confirmations. They all nodded or gave a small 'yeah' before Kaldur told the team that Black Canary would want them for training in about fifteen minutes and that they all should begin getting prepared. M'gann grasped Superboy's hand pulling him away from the team and towards the hall where their rooms were so they could get changed. But just as they began to move M'gann turned back at to look at Robin, her eyes filled with concern. Robin gave her a small smile in the hopes that that would be enough to ease her worry. While it did help a little, the concern did not leave her eyes as she turned away from him.

"So," Wally said to get Robin's attention, "when exactly do you want to be telling your parents about us?" Robin shrugged and looked up at him.

"I'm not sure. I guess maybe we could tell them after training? Today? Since I know that they'll be home tonight and we might as well not wait, so..." Wally nodded and smiled.

"Alrighty then, tonight it is." He smiled then pecked his boyfriend on the cheek, since they'd only been dating a week and they were taking the whole transition slowly. Robin faintly blushed and slipped his hand into Wally's as they walked to the changing rooms to get ready for training. I just hope that whatever just happened in the living room won't happen during training, Robin thought to himself. And honestly, he really could only hope.

Apparently hopping is a really helpful thing, because training went fine. Robin had to actually hide his surprise after they got through it perfectly. But now he had to really worry about that other thing Wally and him were about to do...

"C'mon, Dick, it'll be fine," Wally assured him as they both walked up the steps to the manor. Dick wasn't as sure as his boyfriend was however. But they were going to do this, no matter what.

"Yeah, sure sure," Dick mumbled while silently trying to list off all the reasons that this was a good idea; but he was coming up empty. Wally gave him a wide smile as they walked in.

"Alfred, I'm home!" Dick yelled out into the main foyer. The pair continued to walk side by side until they reached the main living area where they saw Alfred tidying up.

"Ah, Master Richard," Alfred spoke once he noticed them and looked up. Then he noticed Wally and smiled. "I was not aware that you were bringing Master Wallace over this afternoon?"

"Yeah, well, Master Wallace and I were just gonna hang out," Dick laughed out, stressing 'Master Wallace' in a mocking tone. "I also gotta talk to Bruce about something later too, so..." he trailed off.

"I see," Alfred nodded.

"Uh, Alfred?" Wally spoke up. "You really don't have to call me 'Master Wallace' you know. Wally's fine. We've been through this before," Wally stammered, laughing lightly at the end. He really hated being called Wallace in general, let alone Master Wallace.

"Yes, I suppose not," Alfred said with a small frown, but mischief and amusement gleaming in his eyes. He turned to Dick, "I'll inform Master Bruce that you and Master Wallace are here," he said then turned and walked off. Dick had to throw his hand over his mouth in order to contain his laughter until Alfred had left the room.

"Oh, my god," Dick cackled.

"Yeah, yeah, ha ha, laugh it up!" Wally exclaimed, before bursting into laughter himself.

"Gotta love Alfred," Dick commented before sitting down on the couch in front of him. Wally hummed in agreement and sat next to his boyfriend.

"Yeah, especially when he's not calling me Wallace," Wally smiled and Dick couldn't help but chuckle again softly. Wally's eyes flashed over him as he felt affection rise in his chest, he had to hold back from kissing the smaller boy right there and then while he took in the sight of Dick's bright smile. Wally was glad to see him smile for real again, he hadn't all week.

"Dick?" The boys turned to the direction in which a voice called out. They watched as Bruce walked into the room so they both stood up off the couch. "Ah, here you are. Alfred told me that you had brought Wally over. You wanted to talk to me about something?" Bruce asked. Dick cleared his throat and nodded.

"Uh, yeah. Yeah, we do," Dick stuttered out. Bruce nodded and motioned for them both to have a seat on the couch where they previously were as he sat down in the armchair across from them.

"Okay, go ahead," Bruce prompted his ward to continue. Dick nodded again while he tried to clear his head and get his thoughts sorted. Whenever Dick was put into an uncomfortable situation like this one, all his thoughts would get jumbled up into a mass of confusion. Dick made silent work of getting everything in order all while he wondered where he should begin.

"Um, okay so, essentially what I wanted to talk to you about is... well, basically uh-" Dick stumbled over each and every word before Wally cut him off.

"We're dating," he simply stated. It took about two seconds for Bruce to fully comprehend what Wally had just said, but once he did he raised both eyebrows and his eyes widened mildly.

"I see," Bruce said while slowly and barely nodding his head. Dick's mouth was left somewhat agape as he looked from Wally to Bruce, trying to figure out both what made Wally blurt it out like that and what Bruce's thoughts were about it all.

"Yep," Wally confirmed with a smile. He then draped his arm over Dick's shoulders and leaned back into the couch.

"Dick?" Bruce requested his input on the subject.

"Yeah, Bruce... Wally's telling the truth," Dick settled. "I wanted to tell you earlier but we only got together a week ago, so..."

"Okay," Bruce began, "so, are you gay?" he asked. Dick nodded.

"Yes, yeah I am. I also wanted to tell you that earlier but, you know."

"How long have you known?" Bruce questioned, and Dick's eyes widened slightly. He hadn't expected this kind of automatic acceptance from Bruce. He also hadn't expected him to ask normal and curious questions about the subject, but he guessed that now was as optimal a time as any.

"Since I was twelve," Dick told him, and Bruce nodded.

"I'm bisexual by the way," Wally piped up to get into the loop, he said this with a grin.

"Alright," Bruce responded to them both. He looked to Wally then, deciding to begin his interrogation of the boy. "And since you, Wally, seem so eager to get into this conversation, I have some questions for you as well." Wally swallowed nervously and nodded.

"Sounds awesome," the speedster voiced.

"Good," Bruce began, "because I must ask, what are your intentions with my ward?" Wally furrowed his eyebrows, and frowned a bit in consideration as to how he should respond.

"Well, I guess my intentions are to... date him?" Wally said slowly, turning to Dick for assistance. Dick just smirked and gave him a shrug. He was so enjoying this.

"And?" Bruce prompted him. Wally looked around the room in an attempt to figure out what Bruce wanted to hear.

"And um, my intention is to never ever hurt him ever at all in anyway shape or form and to always make him happy and to never ever push him into doing stuff he doesn't want to do and to always be a gentleman at all times and to not take any of this too fast and to have my top priority be to keep him safe?" Wally rambled out at near super speed. But luckily for him Bruce was used to having to keep up with this kind of fast speech when he was working with Barry so he understood every word.

"Good," Bruce blankly expressed. Wally felt a rush of relief and the tension drained from his muscles. Bruce internally smiled at the speedster's reaction, but he only allowed a faint smirk to appear on his lips. Dick, unlike Wally, could tell exactly what this minute expression meant. So he smiled too.

"So... are we okay?" Dick hesitantly asked after a bout of silence went by. Bruce's attention turned to him.

"Of course, Dick," Bruce told him. Dick smiled wider at that and held eye contact with Bruce. "It doesn't matter to me what your sexuality is, all I care about is whether you're happy. And believe it or not, for some reason, I trust Wally to treat you well. So... you two have my blessing," Bruce finished his thought. Both Dick and Wally felt a rush of joy overflow them.

"Seriously?" the boys exclaimed at the same time. They then looked at each other and laughed.

"Yes, seriously," Bruce joked. "Just promise me one thing," he added and the couple shifted their focus back to Bruce, "promise me that you'll both be smart about this and not jump into anything prematurely."

"Yeah, yeah, of course!" Dick assured his foster father ecstatically. Wally nodded vigorously in agreement, and Bruce sighed with something of his own relief.

"Good. Now, was this matter what's been making you act... strangely this past week?" Bruce directed this question to Dick, and Dick's expression immediately dropped. Before either Wally or Bruce could point out this change, Dick picked his smile back up off the floor and nodded.

"Yeah. I've been stressing about telling you I'm gay for a while, and then when Wally and I got together last week it just added to the load. So, yeah, this is what's been bothering me," Dick roughly explained. Bruce nodded and even though he wasn't completely sold on this explanation (neither was Wally, still), he accepted it.

"Okay," Bruce said as he stood up, "I'll leave you two to do whatever it is that you do, have fun. But not too much fun." Dick laughed and nodded with Wally. Bruce turned and left the room.

"Wow," Wally began, "That was surprisingly easier than I thought it would be."

Dick cast a confused glance over at his boyfriend. "Wait, but you're the one that's been assuring me that this would be easy in the first place," Dick mentioned and Wally laughed.

"Well yeah, I said that because I knew it'd be okay for you. Bruce loves you like a son and the fact that you're gay wasn't going to change that. But me on the other hand, what he was gonna do about me dating you, well, that's another story," Wally concluded. Dick cackled, sucked in a deep breath, then grabbed Wally's hand pulling him up off the couch.

"Makes sense," Dick said as he pulled Wally towards the stairs up to his room where he planned on making Wally attempt to beat him at any of the video games he owned (which he wouldn't, by the way).

Now, that's that out of the way, Dick thought to himself, but what am I going to say the next time something happens and I can't simply blame it on being stressed about telling Bruce? Again with the hoping, Dick nearly prayed for this to all just fix itself. Though he knew that it wouldn't.

The Watchtower, Position 34695 in Earth's Orbit.

6:27 pm EST.

"So, care to explain to me in more depth exactly what you're so concerned about?" Superman casually asked Zatara as they walked through the halls of the Watchtower, heading towards the main room.

Zatara stifled a sigh at Superman's tone, and he spoke, "Trying to explain the magical and supernatural workings of Earth to a Kryptonian who has no base understandings of such things isn't exactly an appealing idea. Hell, even the prospect of explaining these things to someone who does have a basic understanding of magic and the supernatural world doesn't sound pleasurable."

Superman laughed kindheartedly. "Humor me, then."

This time Zatara didn't bother snuffing out his sigh. "Okay, first things first, in order for me to explain this particular issue you must reconcile the existence of spirits and the energies left over by the dead," Zatara began. Superman gave him a wild eyed look.

"Wait, you mean like ghosts?" Superman questioned with a baffled tone. Zatara rolled his eyes in exasperation.

"Yes, ghosts," he continued. "I know that for many people the idea that people 'come back' as spirits after they die is far fetched, but for people who practice magic and mediums-" Superman cut Zatara off mid sentence.

"Woah woah wait, mediums?" Zatara gave Superman possibly the most whipped look ever expressed in the history of mankind.

"Yes, mediums." Zatara had to resistance making a noise of complete agitation as he continued. "As in living people who can see dead people; their spirits I mean," Zatara explained.

"You mean like Ghost Whisperer?" Superman asked, and the fact that he even knew what that show was made Zatara want to hit him even more than he did before.

"Yes, like Ghost Whisperer. Jennifer Love Hewitt, 'I see dead people', the whole shebang," Zatara furthered.

"Wait, but isn't the line 'I see dead people' from the movie The Sixth Sense?" Superman pointed out, and this time Zatara did let out an exasperated noise.

"Yes, but that doesn't matter," Zatara spat back. Superman raised his arms in mock surrender and Zatara sighed even more deeply than he had before. "Okay, so, anyway, now that you understand that there are in fact spirits of the dead and people who can see and hear them, I can explain my concern.

"About a week ago I was helping Zatanna with some more intermediate spells in our home. All of the sudden during our session I was overwhelmed with a feeling of cold and emptiness, Zatanna felt it too. It affected us both so greatly that our magic ceased to be accessible for a few minutes after the fact. This feeling was like none I've ever experienced before, I've not even ever felt it when I've been hit by some very dark magic cast by some very dark people.

"Do you remember when the group of sorcerers lead by the Lord of Chaos Klarion split our world into two separate dimensions? One for adults of the ages eighteen and over, and one for the children?" Superman nodded.

"Yeah, I remember."

"Not even then when they were all working together did I feel a force as strong as this one," Zatara told him. Superman felt himself tense up at this revelation. An entire group of sorcerers plus a Lord of Chaos didn't even create a force as powerful as the one Zatara felt? Now that's definitely something to be concerned about.

"What does this mean?" Superman asked, but Zatara merely shook his head.

"As of yet, I cannot be sure of. But I do know one thing, whatever this is it is not something we should take lightly." Superman let out an anxious sigh, then furrowed his brow.

"So, what does this have to do with ghosts?" he asked. Zatara's expression changed, as he had forgotten to mention.

"Ah, right. What this has to do with that is that ever since I first felt this disturbance a week ago, many of my medium contacts have been informing me of the disappearances of spirits in rising quantities," Zatara summarized.

"But aren't ghosts supposed to do that? Like, go into the light?" Superman asked.

Zatara shook his head. "Not like this they aren't. Also one of my more trusted friends who is a medium informed me that she believes that the spirits that are disappearing are both not simply moving to different parts of the world, or going into the light. But that they are being taken by something much darker than she can comprehend," Zatara concluded. Superman turned away and began to walk towards the main Watchtower computers.

"What do we do?" he questioned. Zatara sighed and walked up next to the Kryptonian.

"Honestly?" Zatara asked. Superman nodded. "I... have no idea."

What? Another cliff hanger? From me of all people? Absolute lunacy.

I hope that you guys enjoyed this extra long chapter in penance for my absence. And I hope you guys will look forward to more!

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