New York City- June 16- 8:00 A.M-

Jade rushed through the now empty hall of the school, she hurried around the corner almost losing her balance but made it in time just to have her teacher shut the door in her face and crashing into it. She could hear the laughter inside as the teacher reopened the door and let her in, Jade rubbed her nose and walked up to the empty seat on the third row in the middle of the senior class.

"Ms. Collins next time please just arrive on time," said the teacher as he opened his big book and turned the pages, the small chuckles could still be heard so she placed her hoodie over her head and laid down on the desk, "take the hoodie off Collins, you will not be sleeping in my class," that was it, she thought covering her face with her hands as the class burst into laughter. After the two hours that felt like an eternity Jade walked out of the class only to be tackled by a tall blonde with a squeaky voice.

"Jade! Haven't seen you in so long!" she said as she laid on top of her, Alex Greenwood, Jade had met her on her fist day and since then the girl had stuck around her. Mainly because she thought Jade was amusing to watch.

"Alex, you saw me yesterday, now get off!" she said and stood up once she had gotten off, again people were staring at her, she tried to go unnoticed but it seemed impossible. "Why are you always jumping at me?" she asked as the blonde walked with her to her locker, Jade shoved the books in and took others out causing some of them to fall out.

"Because you amuse me, you are so clumsy it's impossible to stay away," she said as she helped her put the books back in the locker. The girls then walked to the next class and parted ways half way through. When the morning was finally over and it was time for lunch Jade pulled out her phone to find seven missed calls. And all of them were from the same person, Robin. She tried returning the calls but none of them went through. Once inside the cafeteria she tried again, but still no luck, so she grabbed her lunch tray and walked up to her table. On the way there one of the girls at a table pulled out her foot and made her fall to the ground. The truth was that she had seen the foot and that it was incredibly easy to avoid but she just decided not to, just like she decided to crash into the door which in both occasions had turn out to be more embarrassing than she thought.

"Sorry, didn't think you would really fall for that one. Are you sure you're a genius?" asked the girl, Alex helped Jade up and gave her a glare in the process.

"Jade, the outside world is a dangerous place for you," said Alex, "and now with all the superheroes and villains, how do you plan on surviving NYU without us?" she kept making fun of her. Lance and Skye looked at each other with a worried look trying to go along with Alex. Suddenly her phone rang and as soon as it did Jade rushed out of the room bumping into the girl who had tripped her and avoiding the crowd that was coming in. she walked up to the front gate and answered the phone.

"Do you have any idea of how many times I have called you?" asked Robin on the other side of the line, clearly angry with her.

"A couple?" she said and prepared herself for the next scold.

"I don't have time for this, Nightshade I need you in Central City in less than an hour. The Flash and Kid Flash are having trouble with The Rogues," he said.

"Where is the rest of the team?" she asked hoping someone was closer than her.

"Artemis and Aqualad are down in Gotham fighting off the Electrocutioner, Miss Martian, Superboy, Zatanna and Rocket are in the Hall of Justice talking with their mentors. Happy?" he asked, on the background there was a loud noise and a scream so Robin ordered her one more time and hung up. Jade sighed and ran up to the side of the school, hopped on Lance's motorcycle and drove off without noticing that the parking lot was directly in front of the cafeteria and that Alex and a bunch of other people had seen her.

"Is that the same Jade that ran into a door this morning?" Skye and Lance nodded, "the same one that got her shirt caught on the door and ripped it two days ago? Or the one that thought the window was closed and leaned on it only to fall to the ground?" they kept nodding until Alex ran out of embarrassing scenes. "Holy shit, she just got more interesting," she finished.

Central City- 1:15 P.M-

Kid Flash stood in the middle of the main plaza in Central City with Mirror Master, Heat Wave and Captain Cold, he was busy dodging their attacks and at the same time trying to keep them away from the civilians that hadn't been able to evacuate. Kid Flash was getting tired and he kept looking around for anyone that might come, since Robin told him he was going to get back-up, but it had been an hour since then and there was no one to be seen. Captain Cold raised his ray gun and prepared to shoot Kid Flash when his gun was shot out of his hand. The group turned to look in the direction of the bullet only to see Nightshade walking up to them.

"Hey, do you really need my help with this clowns?" she asked.

"The Rogues are not so much of a problem, Zoom is," said Kid Flash just as a gush of wind passed them by. Even though Kid Flash could easily tell it was Flash and Zoom; the only thing Nightshade saw was a red streak being followed by a yellow one. She finally understood what was going on, Zoom had paired up with the Rogues to take down The Flash and Kid Flash, so while he was busy with the Rogues, The Flash was fighting Professor Zoom.

"fine, I'll take Captain here, you take the other two," Captain Cold looked at her and swallowed before pulling out another gun. Nightshade jumped at him and the fight started between the two of them. While they were doing that, Kid Flash was trying to figure out which one of the copies was the real Mirror Master, but everyone he tried vanished in thin air. He avoided a hit form Heat Wave's flamethrower and ran up to him to try and take his weapon, but Mirror Master got in his way. On the other side of the sidewalk Nightshade was dodging ice blasts that came from Captain Cold's gun, she managed to knock the gun out of his hand, but then Captain Cold pulled out a small gun from under his sleeve and pointed it at Nightshade's arm causing it to freeze.

"This is going to be painful," she said as she crashed her arm against one of the brick walls of the building leaving some pieces of shattered ice stuck in her hand, but she pulled them out carefully and then looked at Captain Cold, "for you of course," she said. He watched as the wounds in her hand slowly closed and left no mark. Captain Cold started to back away from her, when the two of them spotted a small vintage music box in the middle. Captain Cold recognized it and ran away from it, leaving Nightshade behind a little confused; she took a few steps back when the box started playing that annoying little song. The box suddenly opened and a clown came out flying, it was only a second later that they toy exploded.

Kid Flash came out of the smoke cloud with Nightshade in his arms. "I was starting to wonder where he was," he said before putting her down on the ground.

"Who?" asked Nightshade.

"Trickster. Try to stay away from anything he throws at you, it usually explodes," he explained before dodging the flames coming from Heat Wave. Nightshade looked up to see a young guy floating in the air, his shoes seemed to allow him to do just that, Trickster lowered himself to the ground and smiled at her. Nightshade was a creeped out by his smile and found herself moving back from him, it was then that Captain Cold hit her with his freeze gun in the back, covering her whole body in ice in just a few seconds.

"Here, pull my finger" said Trickster walking up to her, with his index finger extended. "Oh wait, you can't!" he said letting out a frantic laughter. It was probably a good thing that she was covered in ice, because otherwise she would have beat the shit out of him just for that stupid joke. The girl took a few deep breaths, her hands started glowing bright red and the ice around her started to melt, slowly at first but as the heat rose, it melted faster. Both Captain Cold and the Trickster stepped away from her.

Nightshade looked around to see whether Kid Flash had seen her or not, he had finally found the real mirror master, but was getting dragged around by him and Heat Wave. He was trying to avoid Heat Wave and at the same time holding onto Mirror Master who was using his mirrors to teleport hoping he could shake Kid Flash off. Kid Flash had his arm around Mirror Master's neck when he saw Captain Cold's gun roll towards him. He looked up to see Nightshade pushing both Captain Cold and the Trickster against the wall and then she did something he hadn't seen he do before, she lit her hands on fire and cause a second degree burn in Captain Cold's hand.

He was distracted for a few seconds, but was shook out of his thoughts when Mirror Master threw him over his head and into the hard pavement right next to the freeze gun. Kid Flash grabbed it and shot Mirror Master freezing the lower part of his body. Once he did he cuffed his hands together in time to have Nightshade drag Captain Cold and Trickster right next to Mirror Master. Kid Flash looked at her for a long time, until she noticed; her glance made him look away and towards the only one Rogue left was, Heat Wave. the two teens turned around to look at him; before they could do anything, he used his flamethrower and aimed it at them. Kid Flash carried Nightshade away from the fire and placed her at a safe distance, then he rushed towards him, ran around a few times to take away just enough oxygen for him to pass out.

"What was that?" asked Kid Flash leaning down against the wall next to the villains.

"What was what?" asked Nightshade raising an eyebrow. Just then, from behind her, Flash and Zoom came running and the gush of wind caused both teen to step back and hold onto to the wall to avoid falling. They followed them with their eyes until Kid Flash grabbed the freeze gun and shot Zoom, but this one was too slow and it almost hit The Flash.

"What are you playing at Kid?" he yelled at him without stopping. Kid Flash ran off to help Flash, he got in the way of Zoom and forced him to turn only to meet Flash head on.

While they did that, Nightshade turned to look at The Rogues, she grabbed the heat gun and examined it. It didn't look much different from a normal gun; she was looking at it closely when she heard a loud bang, she turned around to see Flash knocking Zoom down with Kid Flash's help. When Kid Flash forced Zoom to turn around, he ran into Flash who grabbed him and tackled him to the ground causing the loud noise Nightshade had heard.

"Thanks for the help. Nightshade, right?" Asked The Flash as he made his way back to the her and extended his hand, "Batman has been ranting about you for the past few months," he said as Nightshade shook it and nodded.

"I tend to have that effect on people," she said, Flash smiled.

"A feisty girl. I like it," he said, Nightshade rolled her eyes, "If you want to stay, Central City has a lot of interesting things, have you seen The Flash Museum?" he asked.

"I have to go, but I'll keep that in mind for the next time," she said and left on her motorcycle before Kid Flash could even ask her about what he had seen. Flash placed his hand on Kid Flash's head and gave him a little push before walking away.

"Come on, they are waiting for us at the Watchtower," he said waiting for Kid Flash to catch up to him.

Watchtower- 2:45 P.M-

The Flash and Kid Flash walked in, it didn't take them long to realize they were the last ones to arrive, but that didn't explain why neither Robin nor Nightshade were there. The whole Justice League was sitting across from them, not only the main members, most of the others where there including Huntress. After a while Wonder Woman got up from her chair and looked at the team and the League carefully before speaking.

"I guess most of you are wondering why you have been called up here, well we have an issue that involves all of you," she said and on a giant screen behind her, a familiar red head popped up, "this is Nightfall, you may or may not know her. She has been inactive until just a few nights ago, her first sighting was in Gotham City, and she was also seen last night in Metropolis. We know nearly nothing about her other than she has murdered a few of our friends. She's dangerous, so we ask you to keep a look out and call the League if you see her," she said.

"Where is Nightshade and Robin?" asked Aqualad. It didn't feel right to be talking about something like this when they were missing some of their teammates, even if one of those teammates was Nightshade. His question was followed by silence that was only broken by Wonder Woman.

"Robin is busy at the moment, and Nightshade was not invited to the Watchtower. Some of us are convinced she has a deeper relationship with Nightfall than she cares to share," she explained. So even the Justice League had noticed, thought Artemis while staring back at the powerful Amazon Princess.

"I think we should give her the benefit of the doubt, after all Nightshade has been helping the team all this time," said Huntress, who had previously been quietly watching the whole thing. She leaned back on her chair and watched their reactions. Some seemed to like the idea, others showed strong disagreement, and just a few remained expressionless. "I've worked with Nightshade before, sure she is not really the best partner you could ask for, but she gets things done," she continued, unwrapping some candy she had in one of the compartments on her belt.

"You're suggesting that we work with Nightshade even if we can't trust her?" asked Wonder Woman. Huntress nodded. "Fine, but if something happens it will be on you Helena," she said.

"Then I'll share that responsibility, after all I'm in charge of the team," said Batman. "Meeting is dismissed. Keep a lookout for Nightfall," he said before walking deeper into the Watchtower.

New York City- 3:15 P.M-

Jade and Lance had just come back from buying some groceries and were now walking into their building, "do you think she's back yet?" asked Lance digging around his pocket for the keys to the front door of the building.

"Probably not," answered Jade before taking the grocery bag from him while he opened the door.

"Is that beer? Aren't you a little too young for that?" Jade turned around recognizing that voice as no one other than Robin. The guy stood a few steps behind them wearing jeans and a hoddie with sun glasses over his eyes.

"What do you want?" she asked handing the grocery bag back to Lance, "and take off those glasses, you look ridiculous, Grayson," she said.

"Is that really how you are all the time?" asked Dick while he took his sunglasses off to reveal his deep blue eyes.

"Not all the time, if you understand what I mean," said Lance, getting closer to him. He was a whole head taller than Dick, so he had to look up to meet his glare.

"Do you have some time?" he asked looking to get rid of Lance.

"I'll see you in a while," she said and walked up to Dick. He looked at her, she was wearing dark blue jeans and a leather jacket that covered a plain black shirt with a rather revealing cleavage. "You better have a good reason for this, Grayson, and how do you know where I live? Not even Batman knew" she asked.

"That's because he didn't care," he answered. "You live with your boyfriend?" he asked looking at Lance who was walking into the building.

"Not my boyfriend, he and his sister are my roommates," she explained. "Now, what do you want?" she asked once again.

"Really? Then you should tell him, because I think he likes you. Do they know about your other activities?" he asked.

"No. Is this one of those 'I really don't want anything, I just want you to know that I know who you are' kind of thing?" she asked, suspicious of his visit.

"Maybe, but I also came to ask if you want to get something to drink? You know if your scary boyfriend doesn't mind," he said.

"Still not my boyfriend," she said adjusting her jacket and checking her phone before walking down the street with Dick right next to her. He matched her pace and the two of them reached a small coffee shop in the corner, Dick order something for the two of them and they sat down to drink. At first the uncomfortable silence was almost too much to bare until he started talking.

"So, where are your parents?" he asked before tapping a large sip of coffee, but it was too hot and he his face started getting red. Jade couldn't help but let a small laugh escape her mouth, he looked like a little kid. He stared at her while she laughed, thinking the same thing she did, she looked like a little kid when she laughed. The laughter soon died out and Jade stared at her coffee.

"They died when I was seven. My dad fell asleep when we were heading back home and crashed into a pole, I was the only one that survived because my brother covered me with his body," she said finally taking a sip. She checked her phone one more time to see if she had gotten any messages, but the only thing her screen showed was the time. Since Dick didn't say anything, she continued talking "Since then I spent some time going from foster house to foster house until I ran away and settled in that apartment with Lance and Skye," she said anticipating his next question.

"I'm sorry. Why didn't you tell us?" he asked finally being able to speak since his tongue stopped throbbing.

"Yeah well, you never really asked me anything personal, Bird Boy," she answered.

"Was that really necessary?"

"Very. Don't worry you'll get used to it," she said giving him a half smile. "Anything else you want to know, I have time for one more question." Dick thought about it for a while, he could ask what he really came to ask or he could just let it go for now.

"How long have you had your healing factor? Where you born with it or what?" he asked cowering out of asking what he really wanted to ask. He knew Jade would never really answer his question and the timing just wasn't right for something like that. His question changed Jade's expression, her smiling face turned into a soft frown, she was also taking her time answering the question. It seemed that without meaning to, he had touched a sore spot.

"I guess I was born with it, I only found out about it when I got into a fight in school with another girl. She pulled out a pair of scissors and stabbed my arm with them, but the wound just closed right after she pulled them out. Of course, we all freaked out, but no one ever believed us. After coming to New York, I found out it didn't work that well with bullets," she answered gulping down her coffee. They stared at each other for a few seconds and were only interrupted by a Jade's phone going off. "I have to go. Thanks for the ambush, though I'll admit the coffee was a nice touch. Next time come tell Artemis she can come too," she said.

"Jade!" Yelled Dick calling after her, "you look better when you smile," he said, but instead of answering, the girl just ran back to her apartment. Dick went off in the other direction, he walked a few blocks before reaching down for his phone and dialing Artemis' number. He let it ring a few times, but hung up when he saw the blonde girl waiting for him in front of a bus station. It looked like she had been sitting there for a while since there were three empty cans of coke right next to her and another one on her hand.

"So?" she asked, "did she say anything?"

"Well she knows," he said sitting down right next to her.

"How?" said Artemis burring her hands in her palms. Dick didn't answer, he didn't know how she knew either. "Did you at least get something?"

"Right, because going up to someone and asking them: 'hey we know you have something to do with Nightfall and the Light, so why don't you just tell us?' is easy," he reminded her. "I do know she is an orphan and she's probably had her power her whole life," he said. Artemis wasn't listening anymore, after finding out that she wasn't the only one that suspected Nightshade, she had more reasons to believe she was right about her. Nightshade had something to do with Nightfall and most likely she had something to do with The Light, otherwise why would her father be involved with her?

"Fine, let's stick to following her. I'll take tonight, you go home," she said cutting him off. Dick noticed that she hadn't heard when he told her that they should probably tell the rest of the team, so he decided to just go with it. He said goodbye and walked away from the bus stop leaving Artemis alone with her thoughts and her can of soda.