Julia's pov:
"I don't know what you are talking about." I tried to seem confused.
"I know, I heard." He said narrowing his eyebrows. I stood there shocked. "Yes or no?"
"You promise?" I asked he nodded his head. "Fine then." I gave in.
"Great, now don't tell anyone otherwise I will tell. See you at the movies at seven." He called leaving.
I appeared in the mountain after going through the zeta-tube. "Cool, just like the blueprints." I said.
"Today is a team trusting exercise." Black Canary walked in. "First is a game, truth or dare." She smiled leading us in the living room. "Julia will start first. Aqualad is visiting Atlantis." With that she walked out.
"Umm Me'ggan, truth or dare?" I asked.
"I'll go with truth." She replied.
"In one word how would you describe Batman?" I asked.
"I guess serious." She told me. "Artemis, truth or dare?"
"Dare." Artemis faces Me'ggan.
"I dare you to make dinner." She decided.
"Great." She grumbled. "Robin, truth or dare."
"I'll go with dare, give me your worst." He glared at her in a playful manner.
"Prank call Batman." She smiled. Robin gulped, but took out his phone and dialed his number.
"Hello." Bruce's voice came on.
"Yes, hello. I'm here to talk to you about your debt." Dick tried to disguise his voice.
"Nice try Dick I know it's you." Bruce said.
"Blame Artemis, she dared me." Dick protested.
"Hey, Dinah told us to play." Artemis yelled so Bruce could hear. Dick announced he had hung up and we continued.
"Now let's work on trust." Black Canary offered. "We'll do the trust and fall. Superboy and Me'ggan, Robin and Julia, and Kid Flash and Artemis." She stood off on the side as we started. It was easy because we trusted each other and same with the others. We would switch and it would be easy.
"The last exercise is called confession, we'll ask each other questions, and have to answer truthfully." Black Canary stepped in after the last exercise. We all sat down and started asking questions.
"Are you ready babe?" Rick put his arm around my waist leading me inside the theater. It was after the trust exercise and we learned that Kid Flash and Artemis did like each other and they made plans to see a movie tonight, I just hoped that it wasn't this movie. When we walked in sure enough they were sitting there. During and after the movie they didn't see me.
The next morning it was regular until gym when Rick walked up. "Hey babe, you coming to my football game tonight?" he asked putting his arm on my waist pulling me closer.
"Actually, I have to work on a project tonight, sorry." I told him which was true. "We're starting badminton. Dick, you and me I'm going to kick your butt." I said before running to the court, waving to the team. At lunch I had to eat with Rick while he talked about football I pretended to eat and excused myself, running to the tree.
"The eggs will be here soon." I whispered to the bird, stroking its feathers. I smiled when the male bird flew in and rubbed the female. The bell rang and I went to my next class.
Dick's pov:
I noticed that Rick and Julia were together a lot at school, so I decided to ask later. "So I noticed Rick and you are going out." I implied lying on the rug in the cave's living room with Julia mimicking me.
"Yeah, last night." Julia told me writing an answer on her paper.
"Why," I went to the point. "Everyone knows you hate him."
"So." Was her reply I sat up and pulled her up too.
"So, why do you go out with him?" I almost yell. "Just tell me." I calmed down.
"I can't tell you in order to protect you." She said her voice a little loud. She stormed out of the room.
"Is everything ok?" Me'ggan floated in with a mix of cookie batter. An idea popped in my head.
"Me'ggan can you read Julia's mind to figure out why she's going out with Rick?" I asked. She opened her mouth to ask questions, but I added more. "She said she can't tell me why in order to protect us." She nodded her head, put down the bowl, and closed her eyes.
"Rick knows we aren't human and is blackmailing her." Me'ggan told me after a little while. I couldn't believe it, he was blackmailing her.
"Tell the team, but don't let Julia know." I ordered. "We need to stop this." Me'ggan closed her eyes and in a minute the whole team (beside Julia) came in.
"How did he find out?" They all chanted.
"I don't know, but he's blackmailing her to date him. He could get her to rob a bank with the way she'll do anything to keep it a secret." I told them. They all knew how bad it was.
"What will we do? We cannot let our friend be blackmailed, more importantly we cannot let him tell people our secret." Aqualad asked.
"I think she's being really strong, taking the hit for all of us." Artemis commented. "But Kaldur is right, what will we do?" and for the second time the boy wonder didn't know what to do.
Julia's pov:
I stopped at the tree Rick told me to meet him by. "Rick." I called. Something jumped me from behind and brought a cloth to my nose. Then I blacked out.