I had a day in between two written exams.

So you get a chapter.

The computer beeped.

Robin turned to it and started typing.

"Did you find something?" Kaldor asked.

"I don't know, maybe..." Robin said, sounding a little confused. "It seems the emails were sent from a computer in another town, but the it's GPS shows that it's in Lia's house..."

"You mean, that the person who sent the emails to her lives with her?" Kaldor asked.

"So it seems," he said.

"What does that have to do with Wally?" Artemis asked.

"Well... who do think out of the two adults in that house is responsible for the emails? The mom, that Wally's mother vouched for? Or a guy that just moved back in?"

"So what do we do now?" Conner asked.

"Well, you could start by explaining which part of you're not supposed to get involved, you don't get."

"Flash!" Artemis said surprised.

He scratched the back of his neck. "Look, I know that you want to help, but we have everything under control."

"He's been missing for a week, and you haven't found him yet." Robin stated and clicked a few buttons on the computer.

"We're working on that." Flash said with a pained expression.

"That's not right. When Red Tornado went missing, you guys said we couldn't go after him because he was in the justice league." Conner said with his arms crossed over his chest.

"And you went after him anyway." The Flash reminded him.

"You're missing the point!" Artemis said angrily. "He's our team, we should be out looking for him."

Flash turned to her. "And he is my nephew."

Then he was gone.

"Guys?" Robin said, he hadn't taken his eyes of the screen even once.

"What is it?" Kaldor asked, coming into the room.

"I ran Wally's neighbor through every police station's archives and the only thing I found was from crimes in his early teens."

"Then how does he fit in with the … what was it again?" Kaldor asked.

"Xenothium," Robin just said. "I'm not even sure he is anymore, but who else would it be? He's the only one that fits."

"There … there is another possibility..." Artemis said hesitantly. "He could be … in the league in shadow."

"Wally, they're asking for a progress report." Lia said quietly, while Wally was focusing all his attention on the xenothium running through an elaborate system of tubes, where it continuously was cooled down and heated up.

"Then tell them they shouldn't have recruited two lazy teenagers." He said and dripped a few drops of water into the tubes.

"They want to talk to you." She said and seemed like she wanted to turn into a little mouse and run away.

"What?" He said and turned around. "Why?"

She took a step back. "They just do."

Wally looked at her with a raised eyebrow, then he tilted his head to the side.

"Lia, is there something wrong?" He asked, she seemed very scared, but by what, the league of shadows? Or assassins, or whatever they were called.

She shook her head. "Of course. Wally, I'm terrified."

He gave her a forced smile. "It's going to be alright, I'm almost done."

Lia put her arms around him and looked over his shoulder at the maze of tubes with xenothium running through them.

"What is that, anyway?" She asked.

Wally broke away from the embrace.

"Oh that?" He said with a genuine smile. "That's just to make it look like we're making progress."

Just then the door opened.

Both of them froze, scared that they had heard the last part.

"Hate to break up the flirting, but you got somewhere to be handsome." Chesire said from the doorway.

Wally and Lia looked at each other with a knowing expression, then Wally looked at Chesire.

"Sorry, Lady I prefer blonds." He said.

"Master," Chesire said, as she lead him into the room. "I brought him."

"Thank you," the man said with his back turned. "You may go."

As soon as the door closed behind her, the man turned around.

"The girl says you have a high intellect." He said and walked towards him.

"Girls says a lot of things," he just said.

It was weird being so close to Ra's al Ghul, it was even weirder that they seemed to have started a conversation.

The man narrowed his eyes at him. "I would like a strait answer."

"Then you probably shouldn't have brought in two teenagers." He said.

All he really needed was to make the fabric-like xenothium even thinner and softer and then … they just needed to locate an exit.

"How's your progress?" Ra's al Ghul asked.

"Right on schedule," he said without even thinking.

The man smiled and walked over to a small table with bottles. "That's good, I did the right thing in bringing you and her."

"What do you know about Lia?" Wally asked out of curiosity.

"The man turned to him again. "Pardon?"

"You have to have some connection with her, since you pick us, and I surely don't have one with you. And you seem to affect her behavior a great deal. One moment she is more than willing to help you, then she's reluctant, and now she seems downright frightened."

Ra's al Ghul poured a brown liquid into a glass.

"She hasn't told you? Of our connection?" He said with an amused expression.

Wally narrowed his eyes and shook his head.

"Well … it's not really for me to tell, is it?" He asked and poured another glass of the brown liquid.

Then he turned around with a glass in each hand and offered one to Wally.

He just shook his head. "I'm not old enough to drink alcohol."

Ra's al Ghul put one glass down on the table again. "You're old enough by my standards."

"I'm home," She said and put her bag down by the door.

"Artemis," her mom exclaimed. "Did they find him?"

She just shook her head and sat down on the couch. "We got a lead, but then we hit a dead end again."

"Oh really, what was the lead?" She asked.

"We think the girl he was taken with, her dad maybe a shadow." Artemis said hesitantly.

Her mother blinked. "Oh."

"Do you have … do you know anything about this?" She asked her mother.

She just signed and smiled. "I was an assassin, it doesn't mean I know every shadow in the league."

"But … you don't have any idea where he would be, do you?"

Her mother looked down at her hands in her lab, then up at her daughter.

"Artemis … those people … Ra's al Ghul … I can't betray him, not even after turning my back on them."

Aretmis signed loudly and annoyed.

"I need to use the phone." She said and went into room and slammed the door.

She picked up the phone and called Robin.

It rang for three seconds before he picked up.

"Yeah?" he said on the other end.

"She has nothing to say about it." She said in a deadly tone, as she threw herself on the bed.

"Well, that's okay." Robin said, through the phone, almost automatic.

"What do you mean?" She asked and sat up in bed.

"I think, I know where he is."

Tell me what you think.

This was a bit of a filler (I have no idea whether that's spelled correctly or not)

there will not be anymore updates until I have passed my exams, because if I don't, I'll have to spend the whole summer reading for the make-up exams, and then there won't be anymore chapters for months to come!

Wish me luck