Anything is possible if you wait

by callenlover1031

Season 2 of Young Justice. Sequel to "Are you ever to young for love?" Angelee and Dick are back for more action. Much has happened since Season 1; changing their personality and way they think. Things begin to change between them as they finally accept what has been harboring inside them for years... and it's going to make them think about what they really want in life.

4. Chapter 4-Salvage

Hey readers, how are you? This chapter is "Salvage" where Nightwing, Black Crane, Wally, Jim Harper, Green Arrow and Black Canary find Red Arrow and confront him on his recent lifestyle. The next episode is "Beneath" where the girls on the Team go to Bialya to search for missing Teens while Angelee stays behind to study for an honors biology exam. However… something happens which distracts her; as a NEW character joins the team. No it's not Outrage; all that will be explained at the beginning of that chapter. Anyways, onto "Salvage". I hope you enjoy and please review with thoughts, suggestions and opinions.

Disclaimer in Chapter 1

Chapter 4-Salvage

~Bludhaven, Dick and Angelee's POV, 21:06 or 9:06pm, February 13th~

"Oh my god I'm so tired…" Angelee plopped onto the black leather couch in Dick's apartment, "school is killing me."

The refrigerator door was shut in the kitchen; Dick laughed,

"Is it the homework, the extracurricular activities or the gossiping you do all day?"

"All of the above. Nicki, Heather and Kylie are talking about Prom already and they keep asking me if I'm going and with whom… Student Gov is all Prom preparations; Art Club is the only quiet thing."

Dick came into the living room with two bottled waters in his hands; he handed one to Angelee,

"And homework?"

"Honors biology is the hardest; between the labs and the exams… I'm stuck doing at least one hour of homework just in that class. Calculus is fine; exams are easy if you do the homework… then all the homework in the other classes; I barely sleep." She took a drink of the water.

"Add the Team to that… how do you do it?"

Angelee shrugged,

"I don't know… how did you do it?"

Chuckling, Dick took a drink of his water bottle,

"I was 14 then… and I wasn't 2nd in command of the Team."

"Yes you were. If Aqualad were to step down or something would've happened to him, you would've been leader."

"Hmm… I guess. Have you gone back to the Manor yet?"

Angelee shook her head,

"I can't… it would feel too empty without Bruce around. Tim and Barbara just bring the things I need; shower stuff, clothes, spare sketchbooks… I miss Alfred though. Have you been there?"

"No. I'm not there too much anyways but I don't think I could go back until he gets back; how ever long that would be."

"Yeah… me too," The apartment fell silent, "what are you staring at?" Angelee noticed Dick staring at her.

"Oh…"Dick quickly looked to the side of her, "nothing."

Angelee glared at him; her hazel eyes twinkling in the lights,

"Come on boy… I know you better. What were you staring at?"

Dick stared at her again; it was nice having her at his apartment. For some reason, it felt right,

"Just thinking."

"While staring at me?"

"To the side of you," Angelee wasn't buying it; she stared at him, "come here."

"What?"

"Just come here."

Shrugging, Angelee got off the leather couch and went over to the other leather couch. Sitting next to him, she was shocked at what happened next; he wrapped his left arm around her and pulled her closer to him.

"Dick… what are you doing?"

"SSshhh… just be quiet for a minute," Angelee didn't say a word, "what do you feel?"

Angelee didn't understand,

"Well… I feel your heartbeat, your muscle spazzing in your shoulder…"

"Not that kind of feel… what are you feeling?"

Now she got it… she felt the sensation again and her fingers began to show it,

"What do you feel?" She turned it around to him.

"Uh huh, you're not turning this around on me."

"We should be heading to the Cave; the Team might need us." Angelee got off the couch.

"Relax. I already told Mal we're taking the night off," Dick stood up too, "come on, when do we ever spend time together, just the two of us?"

Angelee giggled; her cheeks becoming slightly red,

"We don't have time to do that anymore Dick. You're the leader of the Team, I'm 2nd in command and I have school. We have responsibilities."

Dick came up behind up and placed his hands on her shoulders,

"Come on, just one night."

"Why do you all of a sudden wanna do this?"

"Just to spend time with you," Angelee folded her arms, "alright… you got me. Angel… we've known each other for almost 8years now and…"

Angelee turned around and saw his face; his blue eyes staring down at her,

"Dick… what are you saying?"

"Angelee…I…" Angelee phone rang.

"Hold that thought…" she answered it, "Hello?...Oh hi Wally… you did? Are you sure it was him? We're on our way!" She hung up, "Wally got word from Green Arrow; he found Red Arrow. They want us to meet them in D.C. Come on!" Angelee ran for the door and grabbed her jacket; she'll change into her Black Crane suit later.

"But…" She was out of the door already. Sighing, Dick followed her; he was so close this time. After all these years, he was so close to telling her.

~Mount Justice, 21:51~

Mal, Jaime, La'gaan, M'gann, and Conner was watching a holo-video from Taos; the Zeta shield was up,

"Congratulations! The Zeta Shield is now operational."

"Absolutely historic." La'gaan had his arms around M'gann's waist, "Professor Car, you should have your Cave school pupil write a term paper about this!" Beast Boy was sitting at desk; he was getting Cave schooled since he couldn't attend an actual school. He slit his throat with his finger; telling La'gaan to cut it out, "With this Zeta shield in place, no alien can teleport to our planet from off world. Not even your Strange friend will be to travel to and from Rann without prior approval."

"The shield's great; but it won't stop a space ship… or a boom tube." Conner was standing next to Mal; his arms folded. He reminded everybody that it's a zeta shield and not a force field.

"What's a boom tube?" Jaime asked but then looked over his shoulder to his back, "not compatible with what? I swear I don't understand half the things you say!"

Mal and Conner stared at him; Mal a little freaked out,

"Feelings mutual."

"Where's Nightwing?"

"Taking the night off; personal business." Mal told Conner.

"And Black Crane?"

"Same thing."

Conner exhaled,

"Perfect." Looking over his right shoulder, Conner saw Beast Boy being schooled. Over his left, La'gaan and M'gann were all lovey-dovey.

"So… back to movie night Angelfish?"

"Tag, you're it." Conner fiercely gripped Jaime's jacket; dragging him away.

"Hey hey…!" Jaime began to freak out; not how he wanted to spend the night.

Mal, also becoming concerned, followed them,

"Whoa Whoa Con… what are you?"

"Taking the night off; personal business."

~Washington D.C. Red Arrow, Black Canary, Green Arrow, Nightwing, Black Crane and Wally's POV~

They watched him zip line from the other rooftop. Man has he let himself go; his hair was unkept and it looks like he hasn't showered or shaved in weeks. What made it even worse, once he reached the ledge; he lost his footing and rolled. Finally, he fell at Green Arrow's feet.

"Uugggh…" he groaned. Seeing whose feet was in feet in front of him, he looked up.

"Hey Roy." Green Arrow greeted him, "need a hand?" His left hand was extended to the beaten down Roy Harper clone.

Roy smacked it away,

"No!" Wobbling, he managed to pull himself to his feet.

"We think you do." Roy turned his head to the voice; Nightwing, Wally and Black Crane emerged from the shadows. Black Canary and Jim Harper emerged from the other side; they all huddled together behind Green Arrow.

Furious at the intervention, Roy put his guard up,

"I have nothing to say to any of you! Nothing to explain, nothing to justify." He picked up his red bow and turned away.

"Well that's fine, then just be quiet and listen!" Black Crane forcibly informed.

Green Arrow reached out and pulled a wad of cash from his waist,

"Nothing?"

Roy stopped,

"It's… not what it looks like. I mean… that store owner won't miss it," he turned around again, "he offered me a reward anyway. Besides, I deserve it! Guy wouldn't have any of his money back if I hadn't stepped in."

"Please let me hit him…"

"Dude…" Wally tried a more subtle approach, "are you even listening to yourself?"

Roy snatched the money from Green Arrow's hand,

"Look I need it! I need it to find Speedy; the real Roy Harper. A search is like is expensive. Especially when the REST of you have all given up!"

Black Canary tried to go all psychologist on him,

"Roy… I know you feel lost. But that doesn't mean you're alone."

"I'm not the one that's lost." Roy heard enough; he turned to leave again.

"When was the last time you trained? The last time you slept?"

"Don't even start! I'm in the best shape of my life."

"Yeah if you wanna look like an old, worn out archer…" Nightwing glared at Crane, "What? It's true."

"OH really…" Black Canary delivered a powerful round-house kick. Roy successfully dodged it but Canary kept going at him; throwing punch after punch. In no time, Roy was at the rooftop ledge above to go over. She gripped his shirt; stopped him from going over, "best shape of your life. That was me holding back… way back. Roy, you used to treat your body as a temple. But now…"

He fell to his knees,

"My body's no temple! It's a cheap knock-off; a clone."

Green Arrow went over; hand extended again,

"Roy, come back to Star City. It will be like old times; you and me training, fighting crime, and just hanging out shooting…"

"You're confused," Roy spat out, "probably thinking of the other guy; the original, the one you stopped looking for. Me, I'm just a…"

"We get it! You're a clone," Jim Harper finally spoke, "but you're NOT the only clone on this rooftop; and I know from personal experience how tough it was to come to grips with being a copy of someone else. That's why I gave up my identity as Guardian, so I could figure out exactly whose Jim Harper supposed to be."

Looking at the floor, Roy reminded him again,

"That's not the only thing you gave up."

"Roy, you know we both spent years looking for the original Speedy and everyone else here did the same. We never found him, because the Light didn't keep him alive. It was Cadmus policy to delete the source material. He's dead Brother. Which is all the more reason YOU have to live; to honor the Roy that was."

Sitting down on an air vent, Roy held his head down,

"I'm whelmed by all this attention," Crane snickered, "what are you laughing at over there?"

"That just shows that you still care… Night used to say that all the time; 'whelmed this…' or 'whelmed that'. I find it… refreshing."

Roy rolled his eyes then continued,

"What are you even doing here West? I thought you ditched the hero game?"

"Ditching the game doesn't mean ditching my friends. And before you round back to the 'original Roy' again, let's face the facts. He was never our friend."

"We've all done the math. Speedy was abducted before any of us met."

"You're the guy we trained beside, fought beside. You're the only you we know."

"You're our friend," Nightwing had his arms folded; "just cause you're a clone with anger management issues doesn't change that."

"Seriously; have you met Superboy?" Good old' Wally and his sarcasm. Crane missed that.

Roy thought everything through,

"All done? You wanna salvage someone's soul, go get Kaldur to see the Light. From what I hear, he needs course correcting. But leave me out! Write me off… or don't. Either way, blow."

"You're not just our friend Roy," Crane finally spoke, "you're our Brother; well mine at least… my oldest brother. Think back to two years ago," Roy grinned, "you remember… don't you?"

Roy froze on the ledge of the rooftop

"Yeah…"

"You took time away from your own self-loathing and search for the real Roy to be there for me when I needed it. At that particular moment in time, you didn't care about anything else… you weren't thinking about being a clone or wondering where Speedy was. All you cared about was being there; comforting me. That Roy… clone or not… is who needs to be here right now."

"I'm sorry Ang… I can't." He jumped off the roof.

"Roy…" Crane ran over to the ledge; but he was gone, "I'm so over this…"

Nightwing came next to her,

"Just let him be; maybe he'll come around some other time."

Crane sulked,

"I don't know… I hope so…"

Nightwing wrapped his arm around her shoulder; he knew her pain. She and Red Arrow were really close when they first met; she was his baby sister… she was everybody's baby sister. For Roy to act this way with her… it hit her hard.

"Come on… let's go home."

"Okay," Crane began to walk with Nightwing before stopping in front of Wally; they hugged, "I miss you Wally…"

"Miss you too Ang. Be careful okay?"

"I will. Say hi to Artemis for us."

"I wouldn't do anything less."

Everyone went their own way; Wally heading back to Palo Alto, the Leaguers heading to the Watchtower and Dick and Angelee heading back to his apartment in Bludhaven. By the time they got back, it was after midnight on February 14th; Valentine's Day.

~Dick and Angelee's POV~

Angelee sat on the black leather couch again,

"After everything we've been through with him over the years… he still won't listen."

Dick sat next to her,

"There isn't anything we can do for him now. We tried to make him see that he was the Speedy we knew but he refused to see it. We can't force him."

Sighing, Angelee leaned back,

"Yeah… I know. I just wish he'd understand."

"I wanted to ask you… what were you talking about when you were mentioning two years ago?"

"Oh that… don't worry about it; it's nothing."

Dick stared at her,

"Come on… what was it?"

"Alright… when I got back from Europe and after Josh broke up with me; I stayed at Nicki's for a while to think things through."

"Yeah I remember you leaving for a few days."

"Well, I ran into Roy one day; told him what was going on. He came to visit me at her house the next day; try to help me through everything. There was one day; Tuesday, that I was considering… leaving the Team," Dick couldn't speak; this was the first he was hearing about this, "I know what you're thinking, why would I leave? While in Europe, I really enjoyed being Angelica; just Angelica. After telling Josh my secret that I was Black Crane then him breaking up with me, I seriously considered quitting the Team and just be Angelica for a period of time. Nicki kept heckling me about it so I got upset and ran upstairs to the bedroom. Roy forgot about everything and came upstairs to comfort me. He just wrapped his arms around me and convinced me to stay."

"Oh…" Dick moved over a cushion, "I didn't know…"

"Dick… it's not like that. I didn't know what I wanted at the time; I loved being Angelica for that short time but Roy reminded me how much I loved being Black Crane too," Dick was silent, "Richard… are you… jealous?"

"I can't get anything past you can I?"

Angelee giggled before rotating her body; her head landing on his lap,

"You've never been able to get anything past me. There's nothing going on between Roy and myself. He loves someone else… and so do I?"

That caught his attention,

"OH really? Who?"

"Some friend…" she closed her eyes; she was getting tired and had school in the morning.

"Oh no, I don't think so," Dick began to tickle her, "spill."

Laughing from being tickled, Angelee rolled to avoid it,

"Stop… it… that's not… fair." She laughed.

Dick continued to tickle her,

"Then spill."

Angelee took a large breath but her com went off,

"Yeah…" she pushed Dick's arm away, "whoa whoa Blue slow down…okay… yeah I'll be right there," she got off Dick, "I've gotta go, Blue needs me at the Cave."

"Everything okay?"

"I don't know but Blue was freaking out. I'll see you later." She put her jacket on then rainbow surrounded her; she teleported to the Cave.

~Mount Justice~

"RECOGNIZED BLACK CRANE B02!"

"Alright, I'm here… what's going on?"

Jaime ran over,

"Never…ever take a night off again please I beg you!"

Crane looked at the somewhat freaked out Jaime,

"What happened? I take one night off and a rookie freaks out?" She thought to herself, "CONNER!" Conner came in, "Why in the world is Jaime freaking out over here? What did you do?"

"Nothing, I just took him on a mission; no one else was free."

"What kind of mission could possibly freak him out like this?"

"The Appellaxians…" Jaime let her know.

Crane's mouth dropped,

"The Appellaxians…? The ones from the Hall of Justice?" Conner and Jaime nodded, "You took Blue to fight the Appellaxians?"

"We weren't supposed to. We went to go find information about the bomb that destroyed Malina Island. We ran into Bruno and Whisper of Intergang; they made the hollow husks of the Appellaxians into a golem."

Crane shook her head.

"It wasn't fighting it; it was watching it get killed."

"You guys killed it?!"

"We didn't… something else did," Jaime lowered his head, "that's what freaked me out."

Understanding his position, Crane smiled,

"Yeah that's never easy… you wanna talk about it?"

"Just… how do you get used to it?"

"You never really do. Some say it gets easier the more you see it but you don't. Watching someone… or something… get killed in front of you will never be easy. You just have to shrug it off… but that doesn't mean it's easy."

Jaime smirked,

"Thanks Black Crane…"

"That's what I'm here for. Head on home; it's late."

Nodding, Jaime headed for the zeta tubes.

"RECOGNIZED BLUE BEETLE B23!" Jaime was gone.

Crane folded her arms at Conner.

"What?"

"You should've called me or Nightwing. One of us would've come."

"Mal said you two took the night off for personal business. Blue managed fine! You can't keep them from everything Ang… they have to experience everything on their own. We didn't expect the thing to die."

Sighing, Crane held her head,

"This is not how I wanted the night to go… first Roy and now this… perfect," sighing again, she ran her fingers through her hair, "I'm going to sleep… I'll see you tomorrow." She headed down the hallway towards her room. Sure she wanted to head back to Bludhaven and be with Dick but she needed to work some things out first. With the problem with Roy, Jaime freaked out and her feelings for Dick; she was beginning to feel the stress. Reaching her room, she fell on her bed and shut her eyes. She hadn't drawn in a while; she just hadn't had the time. She'll draw later in the week… well, at least try.

She managed to draw on Tuesday and Wednesday; spending all her free time drawing. Getting drawings of all the new members, some began to ask what she was doing. Nightwing and Superboy had to explain she was an artist and loved to draw the Team. Most thought it was so cool while others thought it was risky. She didn't care. School was killing her; she had a huge biology exam on Friday and she had to study for it. Making room for drawing between homework and studying was beginning to become difficult.

Friday came; all the studying paid off. She knew she did really well on the exam; she knew all the material. She wouldn't get her grade until Tuesday the earliest but that was the last thing she was worried about right now. All she cared about was drawing and spending time with Dick. She finally figured out what she was feeling; she was feeling love again. She hadn't felt the love for him in years; she pushed it aside after her and Josh broke up but it was coming back… and hitting her with everything it had. She had another dream about a possible future but she couldn't remember most of it. All she managed to remember seeing was her, Dick and the twins training on their martial arts together. They looked younger this time; like 12 or 13. Why were they that young when the last time they were 15 or 16? Was this vision trying to tell her something different than the other one did? All these visions were starting to get annoying. In a way, she wanted them to end but on the other hand she didn't. She liked seeing a happy future with her and Dick but she was getting tired of trying to figure them out. Dick hadn't asked about them recently which made her feel better; maybe he forgot about them. Hopefully; there was no way she would be able to explain them to him without putting non-wanted pressure on him. Sure he should know but she was too afraid to tell him. One day… one day he'll find out.

Alright… done and done. "Salvage" is over and now we're on "Beneath". That episode will most likely be cut into two parts… maybe… focus won't be on the girls going to Bialya but on Crane at the Cave. A new character will be added and she's bound to cause quite a stir. More details about her will be in the beginning. That episode chapter may be up a bit later in the week; I need to make sure everything is alright with a fellow reader. Anyways… I hope everybody enjoyed the episode. Please stick with me and please review.