Chapter Twelve:

The Truth About The Video...

It had become a tradition in a sense for Artemis to receive a text from Kara the day after the young girl spent the night somewhere. So come the next morning, she wasn't surprised to find a text from both her girls. The thing that surprised her was receiving text from at least three League and team members as well.

"This is odd…" Artemis said as she looked at phone.

"What's odd?" Wally half mumbled.

"I always get a text from Kara the day after she spends the night at a friend's," she said sitting up, "But I just got ones from Dinah, Tim, and Barbara as well."

"So what do they say?" he asked turning his head slightly to look at her.

She read one of the messages on the phone before saying, "Well the girls say hi, Tim says he is never making Karen mad, Barbara is asking us to continue to let Karen train with Diana and sent a pic of a bald Grayson."

"A bald what?" Wally said sitting up. She turned the phone so he could see a photo of Karen holding her sword as she stood next to a bald version of the former team leader.

"She is so our kid." he said before he started laughing.

"Yeah she is," Artemis said before looking at the last message, "And we have a problem."

He wiped a tear from his eye as he asked, "Dick trying to sue for her doing that?"

"No. Barbara sent a video to Dinah," she replied looking at him, "The video is how the League from the other Earth was killed. Karen had it on her wrist comp."

"Please tell me Karen hasn't been watching that." he said worried.

She looked back at her phone for a few seconds before saying, "According to this, Karen no more than saw the video icon and started to panic. Barbara had her transfer the video itself to her wrist comp." She exited out of the messages and quickly dialed a number.

"Calling Barbara to check on the girls?" he asked quietly.

She nodded before putting the phone on speaker and saying, "Hey Barbara, its Artemis. Just calling to see how the girls are."

"They're fine, Artemis," the redhead said over the phone, "I let them build a pillow fort after pretty much scalping then kicking Grayson out and they both crashed out during a movie."

"I'm glad they're having fun," Artemis said smiling a little, "But that's not really why I called. I received a text from Dinah about that video." The line was silent for a few seconds before Barbara whispered, "I haven't known Karen that long, but she looked terrified the instant she saw that video was still saved on her wrist comp."

"And you sent it to Dinah after Karen transferred the file to you." Artemis said.

"In exchange the video of her shaving Dick bald with her sword. By the way, where did she get that?" Barbara asked.

"She made it," the blonde replied simply, "Are they up yet?"

"Up, had breakfast, and on their way to your mom's," the redhead replied, "I haven't looked at that video, Artemis."

"Don't," the blonde said before her phone beeped, "Sorry, Babs. I have another call coming in."

"It's fine. I'm supposed to meet my dad for lunch. Talk to you later," Barbara said before ending the call.

Artemis hit the button for the other call and said, "Hello. This is Artemis."

"Hey, it's Dinah," a familiar voice said on the other end, "I just finished watching that video Barbara sent and I see why Karen hates Batman and said all those things to him."

"Is the video that bad?" Wally asked a little worried.

"Considering everything I've seen over the years, I think this is going to be giving me nightmares," Dinah replied sounding a little unnerved, "Savage's forces spent a year replacing almost every member of the League with robots. When it was finally revealed, there was barely a handful of both the League and team left to stand against him. The ones he hadn't taken, he used drones to fake them being captured and killed the com-links to prevent the truth from being discovered."

"I wonder how many Karen saw get taken out." Wally said solemnly.

"One is one too many," Artemis said pulling her knees to her chest.

He wrapped an arm around her shoulders and held her close. The room was quiet for a few seconds before Dinah softly said, "She never saw a single one of them killed, but she did see what she thought was Batman betraying the League."

"Destroy that footage," Artemis said staring at the phone, "I don't ever want her to see that again."

"Already done, Artemis," the blonde leaguer replied, "And I do have a message from Batman."

"Apologies will only be accepted if they are done in person." Artemis said leaning against her husband.

"Actually, he wants to know what it will cost him for you to let your girls troll Dick to the point he never does it again." Dinah said with a slight laugh.

"An R&D lab for a day and he never talks to my kids like he did after the girls saved the school again." Artemis said coldly.

"I'll let him know. Enjoy your day off." Dinah said before ending the call.

"You want to go see the kids, don't you?" he asked after a few seconds.

She lifted her head slightly to look at him and asked softly, "Do you mind?"

"I'll call your mom and let her know we're coming for lunch," he said before giving her a kiss, "And to tell you the truth, I'm worried about them too."

She returned the kiss before getting up and heading to her dresser. As she started to pull open one of the doors, she looked over her shoulder to see him watching her.

"Call my mom, Wally." she said trying to stay calm.

He nodded as he started to smile saying, "I will."

She turned to face him and crossed her arms over her chest before saying, "Call her now, or Reina and Nicky will be in second grade before you see me naked again."

His eyes locked with hers as he dialed the all too familiar number.

"Hi dad," Kara said cheerfully answering the phone.

"Hey munchkin," he said kicking the phone on speaker, "Could you let your grandmother know that Artemis and I will be coming over for lunch today?"

The line was silent for a few seconds before they heard Artemis's mother, Paula ask; "Is something wrong?"

"We'll explain when we get there, mom." Artemis said trying to hide the concern in her voice, "How are the kids doing?"

"Having fun playing with Reina and Nicky and trying to convince me to invite you and Wally to lunch," her mother stated, "You better tell me what is going on when you get here."

"Planned on it mom, see you soon." Artemis said before ending the call. She looked at her husband and smiled before turning back towards the dresser.

"How do you think mom is going to react?" she asked as she slowly started to pull her night shirt off.

"Bad," he said watching her. She glanced over her shoulder at him as she tossed her shirt into a hamper asking, "Don't talk about that video in front of Karen, ok?"

"Got it." he said smiling. She took a step backwards and bent over.

"You ok over there?" she asked pulling open one of the draws, "It's not getting a little hard for you to talk, is it?"

He shook his head saying, "Nope. Everything's fine."

"I see," she said taking some clothes from the dresser, "Well that's too bad. I thought since we were alone we could have a little fun, but since you're obviously not in the mood…."

Wally's jaw dropped as she stood up and walked to the bathroom.

"I guess you really DO want to wait till Reina and Nicky first day of school, huh? Your loss." she said before closing the door.

Wally sighed as he KNEW he had lost his window of opportunity.