Chapter 11 us out! Yay! This one will leave you with questions...mwahahahaha. I feel evil...Okay, maybe not, but still. Unanswered questions are the worst! :) I hope you all like it though and keep reading. Please review.
My thanks go out to the following (as usual my devoted followers :D ):
Jade Riddle 19 - I'm glad I can keep you guessing!
Beth - I'm happy you liked her meeting with the other and her confruntation with Red.
ArcaneHex77 - I'm always afraid people won't like my OC's. So I'm very happy to hear that you love Cody's character.
And lastly, Youngjusticefan10 - I'm happy you finally got to see her meet the team. They didn't talk much, but in the chapters to come I hope they get more involved.

Chapter 11
Fault

Cody didn't mind having Megan – or Miss Martian – staying in the living room that night. It was easier for her to relax knowing she was right there. Even with all of her doubts in her mind, she found it a little easier to sleep. It helped that Conner – or Superboy – was just outside keeping watch out there. He was perfect for the job, having super hearing and sight. They also kept watch for her at school.

However, having Kid Flash there the night after with Robin wasn't as pleasant. Kid was flirting with her all night as she changed her bandages. Robin just laughed and told him there wasn't anything in the world that'd make Cody go out with him. It was amusing the first hour, but after that, she just wanted some peace and quiet. So despite her sore feet and hand, Cody went into the basement and worked out. She spent a couple hours down there, as usual. Just because the mini-heroes were there didn't mean she couldn't train. And with her being on a hit list, she needed to keep in shape.

Since she wasn't allowed to go outside and run, Cody went on her treadmill. And for some reason, she was going faster than she usually would. It seemed she had lost track of what she was doing. Her mind was wondering and she just got lost in them. She even forgot that the heroes were upstairs and outside for a little while.

What Erik said was bothering her too much along with her memory. Cody and Carson had trained with Erik and the others. They were looking for her brother? Wasn't he dead? Maybe he was just missing. But they said he ran away. How could he just get up and leave his parents, his friends, his little sister or his whole life like that? Something wasn't adding up.

They were training to be assassins. How could they do such a horrible thing? How could Carson, who was the nicest person she could remember, do something like that? How could he allow his sister to do that? From what she remembered, he was very protective of his sister and couldn't let anyone hurt her? How could he let her kill someone?

xXx

The door slammed open and Cody turned in her spot on the couch to welcome her brother back home from his meeting with their Master's bosses. All she saw was him running up the stairs. She barely got a good look at him. It was unusual behavior. What he usually did was talked to his sister and then goes upstairs to change.

Cody quickly got up off of the couch and walked up the stairs to her brother's room. She knocked on his closed door, wondering what all the noise was about. She didn't get an answer right away so she knocked again. More noise could be heard coming from behind the closed door. Was he having trouble finding something to change into? What was he doing in there?

"Carson?" Cody asked. She waited. She knew how much her brother didn't like her going in his room without permission. But something was wrong. She was getting nervous. Usually if he didn't want her there he'd let her to go away and if she had permission he'd tell her to come in, but he wasn't doing either. She was worried. "Is everything okay, Carson?"

The door to Carson's room flew open and he ran out, pushing Cody aside. The girl was caught off guard and feel backwards, hitting her head against the wooden table in the hallway. She clutched her head as she barely made out her brother rushing to the living room with a black duffle bag over his shoulder, tossing in various things into it. Her eyes were watering and her vision was blurry. Cody managed to stand up with the support of the table and looked at her hand briefly to see her hand covered in blood.

Cody looked back up to her brother completely confused to what was going on.

xXx

Cody lost her footing on the treadmill coming out of her flashback. The unusual speed and distance she had run had gotten to her along with what she had seen. The brunette's head collided with one of the weight machines weights. The girl clenched her teeth and clutched her head. She looked at one of her hands through her blurry vision and saw red, sticky blood. The girl gulped and managed to get up with the support of one of the machines.

xXx

"Carson?" Cody asked, as she managed to walk down the stairs and into the living room after her brother. "What's going on? What's wrong?"

"Shut up!" Carson yelled, turning to face his sister. His eyes were red as if he had been crying. He was a little shaky and he seemed on edge. "I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to see you!" He turned back around and started to grab more things to put into the bag once more.

Cody was beyond confused and rather hurt. Never had her brother said such mean things too her. Her and her brother had a rather strange brother/sister relationship. They didn't fight at all like other siblings did, except if they had to spar in training, but that was completely different. They didn't shout at each other. They didn't tease one another very much either. They were best friends and looked out for one another.

Carson went into the kitchen and straight to the fridge. Cody followed closely behind rather wobbly. "Did I do something wrong?" Cody asked confused. She used the island in the middle of the room for support. She could feel the blood running down the back of her neck. Head injuries bleed a lot, Cody knew that. But she was too concerned with her brother to worry about herself. He was more important than her safety. Or so she thought.

"Did you do something wrong?" he retorted angrily, slamming the door to the refrigerator closed. He looked at his sister furious. For what reason, she didn't know. "Did you do something wrong? How could you even ask that?"

"Because I don't know why you're acting like this!" she yelled back.

"How could you say that?" he asked, getting in Cody's face. "How can you life to my face? How could you have lied to me for so long?"

Cody shook her head regrettably. The world around her spun. She grasped the counter even tighter. "Carson, I don't know what you're talking about. I don't lie to you," she insisted.

"Yeah right," he said, shoving passed the young girl. Cody turned around and tried to follow, but stumbled forward and ran into the couch into the living room. He turned to the girl who was leaning against the couch. "I don't even know who you are," he stated. "I can't believe I've been protecting you all this time when you're just as bad. You're one of them and you're okay with that."

"I don't know what you're talking about," she repeated. How was she going to get it through his thick skull? She didn't know what he was talking about! "Talk to me, Carson!"

"No!" he yelled. "I can't believe you!" He went to walk out of the door, but turned once more when his sister called out to him.

"Where are you going?" she yelled.

"Leaving," he stated as if it was obvious. "Away from you. It's the only way to keep Mom and Dad safe. As safe as I can keep them."

"Why would they need to be kept safe?" Cody asked her voice weak and strained. Her injury was getting to her. The injury her brother gave her.

"Protection from people like you!" he retorted.

Cody froze. People like her? What kind of person was she? She didn't understand. She didn't understand any of what he was saying. Something had gotten him all riled up and it had to be something big. But what was it? It had to have been something from the meeting or after when he was coming home. He had never wanted to leave before, what made him want to leave to protect them now? What protection did that need? Her head was hurting even more.

"Don't bother coming to look for me," Carson added turning around to face outside. "Tell them I didn't come back. That I never came home when they asked where I am."

"But," Cody started to say, but was cut off by her older brother.

"Goodbye, Cody," Carson said. With that, he was gone. And truly gone. When her brother didn't want to be found, there was not finding him.

xXx

Cody stumbled up the stairs despite her vision and the lightheaded feeling she was getting from her bleeding head. Robin was sitting on the couch watching some TV as she slowly made her way in. Having nothing to grab onto to keep herself standing, Cody fell on the floor with a loud thump. She got Robin's attention, to say the least.

"Yeah," Cody moaned out. "That wasn't pleasant."

"Cody? What happened?" Robin asked. He helped the girl get up to her feet and walked her to the bathroom where he sat her on the closed toilet so she couldn't fall herself over. He pressed the ear piece and said, "Kid, we're got a problem."

A second later, Kid was standing next to Robin asking, "What's the- whoa, what happened?" He knelt down next to Cody, took a clean towel and put pressure to the back of Cody's head to help stop the bleeding. "What happened?" he repeated a little more seriously.

"I don't know," Rob said. "She came up from downstairs like that."

"I fell off the treadmill," she told them. Cody took the towel from Kid and pressed it against her head herself, despite wincing at that pain. "Flashbacks kind of throw you off."

"What'd you remember?" Kid asked.

Cody was going to shake her head, but she decided it wouldn't be very wise to do so. "It's nothing," she muttered quietly.

"Doesn't look like nothing," a voice from the doorway said. The three teenagers looked up and over to the door to see Red Arrow standing there. He was leaning against the doorframe with his arms crossed and his bow over his shoulder. The same bored, scolding, unhappy looked plastered on his face.

"Speedy," Robin said. "Uh, Red Arrow. What are you doing here?"

"I'm the next watch," Red said. He walked in and leaned against the sink. "You guys have school tomorrow and Bats and Flash don't want you to be too tired."

The other two boys looked at one another. Unsure of what to do, they just continued to stand there. Where they supposed to go now? What about the injured girl? Were they just supposed to leave her there?

"I'm fine," Cody said, knowing what the two boys were thinking. "You go ahead. I can take care of myself."

"Okay," Kid said a little hesitantly. "See ya, Babe." Cody just rolled her eyes at the boy who disappeared from the room.

"We'll see you area," Robin said. "Make sure she get's taken care of." With that, he left the room.

Cody sat there and stared at the doorway where the two younger heroes had left from. Great, Cody thought. I have a huge headache, a bleeding head and now I have to deal with a guy who doesn't seem to like me very much for the rest of tonight. Just great.

Cody slowly stood up and took a step forward, but Red stopped her, pushing her back down where she had been sitting. "Where do you think you're going?"

Cody rolled her eyes and pointed to the medicine cabinet he was standing in front of over the sink. "I have something to take care of this in there," she stated.

Red turned to the cabinet and opened it. He stood there for a minute looking at all of the strange content inside. Cody smirked. He had no idea what he was looking for. Most of the stuff in there was stuff she made herself. Things she had learned to make when she was in training. It came in handy too. Like the antidote for the poison. She had things in there that could help heal burns faster, make cuts stop bleeding and things to simply get rid of headaches or sore muscles.

Cody stood up once more, pushed Red Arrow out of the way who huffed and stood on her toes to try and reach the clear class jar on the top shelf with green goo in it. She was a little too short though and jumping with her injury wasn't the smartest idea. She hated to do it, but she had no other choice. Cody looked at Red and silently asked him to get it for her.

He reached up and got it for her and went to had her the jar, but pulled back right as she was going to take it. A smirk playing on his lips. Uh, Cody mentally thought annoying. She knew what he wanted to hear and didn't want to say it. Cody went to reach for it again, but he took a step back. She wasn't very fond of his games. It's going to be a long right.

"Thank you," she said, finally giving in.

She wasn't usually someone to give into things, but for some reason she didn't want to put up with Red. She found him rather annoying, cocky, and a kill joy to be around with his downright, far too serious attitude for a teenager. He needed to learn how to lighten up. Cody had been though some hard and horrible things in her life that she was just starting to remember, but she wasn't dark and brooding like he was. She was taking a step back and looking at everything like see was seeing things through a new light. She was given a second chance for some reason and she was going to use that to the fullest.

Red smirked once more and handed the girl the jar. Cody sat back down and opened the jar, taking some of the green goo and rubbing a small amount on the bleeding area of the back of her head. The medicine stung and was supposed to be left on for a moment, but then washed off. Considering she had it in her hair, she had to wash her hair completely to get it all out. She was going to take one anyways seeing as she was all sweaty and had blood on her.

"What were you doing running with your injured feet anyways?" Red asked.

"I've had worse," Cody stated simply.

Cody got up, feeling the injury burn but ignored it. She was already starting to feel better. Her headache wasn't as intense as it was before and she wasn't dizzy or light headed. The girl grabbed a towel from the little cabinet she had bought to house things like then and turned to see Red still standing there, leaning against the sink once more. Cody rolled her eyes at the guy. He couldn't take a hint, could he? There was even a set of clothes on the counter that she had placed out for after her work out. Did he not see them?

"Get out," she demanded.

Red looked at her curiously. "Excuse me?" he asked.

"Get out please," she repeated. She placed the towel on the counter and threw the now blood stained white on in the hamper. Red still hadn't moved. Cody rolled her eyes and looked at him. "I'm going to take a shower and I'd much rather not have you in here, Red."

Red looked at the girl for a moment before pushing himself off of his resting place and walked to the door. She heard him mutter an audible remark as he left that made her blush and slam the door behind him. She turned to the shower and turned it on. The one good thing about her show was she didn't have to wait very long for it to warm up. It was just the right temperature as she stepped in it after stripping down.

Cody stood there as the water poured down on her for a moment. "Nothing I haven't seen before," she huffed, repeating the words the Red had said as he left the bathroom. "Please."

xXx

Cody was never one to take very long getting ready. She showered, getting all the blood, sweat and green goo out of her hair and cleaned the rest of herself. She got out soon after, dried and got dressed. As she was brushing her long brown hair though, her gaze feel to the mirror before her.

The girls pale green eyes were surrounded by red from being tired and stressed over the flashback she had seen not too long before. Her white skin seemed all the more pale. She looked kind of ghostly. She wasn't happy with that appearance, but considering what she had just remembered it was understandable.

Cody sighed and walked out of the bathroom. She pulled her hair back so she wouldn't get her shirt completely wet. The girl was walking around as if nothing had happened, but her mind was running a mile a minute. It all revolved around her past and her brother though. All involving things she couldn't remember. So how was she supposed to settle her mind when she couldn't get answers?

Red Arrow was looking around the living room at some pictures that they had managed to get out of the fire. Most of them had burned, but there were still some. She made sure to take good care of them and put them up in her new home, linking her past with her present. She also had a picture of her parents and her brother in her wallet. She had a little piece of them wherever she went then.

The clock on the wall said it was almost seven. She still had to make dinner and do some of her work as CEO. She may have almost been killed a couple nights before, but she still had work she had to take care of. She had responsibilities to the company. She couldn't just stop because of an almost death. She couldn't let it affect her.

"You hungry?" Cody asked Red from the connected kitchen.

Red glanced over at the girl and replied with, "I'm one duty. I'm not supposed to."

Cody laughed. "That sure didn't stop Kid Flash." The girl opened the refrigerator and pulled out a little wrapped package of meat. "Do you like stake?"

Red looked at the girl once more and then back at the picture. "Yeah," he answered. He didn't say anything else.

Okay, Cody thought. "How do you like it cooked?" Cody started to get things ready to season the meat and got the indoor stovetop grill ready.

"Rare," he called out, still looking at the pictures.

I think he talked more during the interrogation, Cody thought, thinking back to the night the attack happened. I don't even really like the guy and I'm trying to be nice, yet he still doesn't even really talk to me. Whatever.

Cody finished prepping the food and then started to do some of her work. Red had some in at the smell of the cooking food and stood by the back door looking out the window. At least he was doing his job and protecting her. She actually did feel safe knowing he was there. Although, she could take care of herself. And she would never admit that she felt safe with him there. He'd never let her live it down.

Cody made a plate for Red and set it up on the island so he could eat. Cody's was still cooking seeing as she liked her stake well done. He sat down and started to chow down while Cody picked up the home phone and dialed a number on the paperwork she was filling out. It was a long distance call all the way to china to a company there that was associates of her company. They were having some factorial problems.

After having talked on the phone with someone in fluent Chinese –which she had found out she could speak after talking on the phone with Wendy that afternoon – she sat down to eat her stake in piece. Red had already finished his food and put the plate in the dishwasher. He leaned back against the sink as Cody finished her meal. Once she was done, she headed over to the dishwasher to put it in, but Red took it from her and put it in for her.

She was shocked to say the least. Was he starting to warm up to him like how she was with the other younger teenage heroes? Was he finally shoving passed his pride? Cody didn't really care. She liked that new side of the older hero. She could get used to it. "Thanks."

"I wasn't aware you spoke Chinese," Red said as the two walked in to the living room. He leaned up against the wall by the front window and looked out as he spoke to the girl.

"I didn't either until this afternoon," Cody said, sitting on the comfortable black couch. "I can speak French and Spanish. Wendy also said I can speak fluent Japanese, Italian, German, and Russian. She said my parents knew more about my linguist skills, but she doesn't know anymore than that."

"Sounds to me like an Omni-linguist," Red said.

"An Omni-linguist?" Cody asked. "What's that?"

"You really don't know anything do you?" Red asked rhetorically.

Uh! How rude! So much for nice Red, Cody thought. "Well then. Please enlighten me."

"Omni-linguists can understand and speak any language," Red informed her. "Wonder Woman possesses it."

Cody looked down at her hand and tried to shrink off the feeling that was in the pit of her stomach. "I wouldn't go as far to say I'm anything like Wonder Woman. I'm just Cody." Cody sat forward and picked the remote for the TV up off the table. She sat back and held it in her hand and turned it off. Robin forgot to turn it off before he left. She placed it on the couch next to her. "Plus, we wouldn't know if I had the power anyways. I can't remember knowing any of the languages. I just know them when I hear them."

Red rolled his eyes at the girl. "Sounds like it to me," he muttered. He moved away and picked up a picture frame that was on the fireplace mantle. "Is this your family?" he asked, walking over to the girl and sitting down beside her.

Cody took the picture from his hands and examined it. Cody knew she was fourteen when the picture was taken. Carson was in it so it was before her brother went missing and obviously two years before her parents were murdered. She touched the cold glass of it for a moment before handing it back to Red who was looking at her intently. He didn't know exactly how the girl would react to his question. He knew it was a little personal.

"Yeah," Cody finally replied. "I don't really remember it being taken though."

"I know those are your parents," Red stated. "But who's that?" He was pointing and referring to her brother.

Taking the picture from the hero's hands, Cody walked up to the mantle and placed the picture back on it. "That's Carson," she informed him. "My brother."

"Where's your brother now?" he asked. "I remember one of the guys who came for the assassination ask you that."

Cody plopped back down on the couch with some rather unnecessary emphasis. She had to think about her reply for a moment. Before she just thought that her brother was dead. He had been taken and went missing. That was what everyone else believed, but now that she knew the truth – since she had the flashback – she didn't know what to say. She had already lied so much to the people out there protecting her, but she didn't see any harm in doing it at the moment. That information wasn't important to them. Only her.

"He's dead," she said, deciding to stick with the story she was telling everyone else. Really, Carson Conwell was dead. He no longer existed. Whatever allies he had chosen to take up was who he was. His sister, his friends, his training were no long of importance to him. He had cut himself off from their parents to protect them, but in doing so, he was no longer a Conwell. So, Carson Conwell really was dead.

Cody got up and started to walk over to the stairs to go to bed. She had school in the morning and she really saw no point in staying up. When she got to the bottom of the stairs she heard Red Arrow said, "I'm sorry for your loss."

Cody looked down to her feet. One was on the ground level while the other was on the first step. Really, whatever caused him to go he said was partially her fault. It was her fault that her brother was gone and not a part of her life anymore. How was she going to be able to live with that? And what was it that made it her fault? She couldn't remember and apparently, she couldn't remember what it was in her memory either. She seemed just as confused as she was not.

"So am I," Cody muttered before heading up the stairs.

I have one last question...What do you guys think of me doing a short cross over of this story with one of my others? It's a TMNT story, but bother OC's would be in it. Just tell me what you thin kand if you'd read it. I'm not going to do it yet. I know exactly where I'd put it, but I'm not that far into the YJ season yet so...just tell me what you think.