A/N: Guess who sucks because she forgot to post a Short Story? This girl! :(

I'm really sorry. I'll try to get one up later today or tomorrow or anytime this week. To amend this mistake, here's another chapter...I feel really bad. Sorry!

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Enjoy!

Chapter: 21

Jason still stood where he'd been since landing in the seemingly different dimension. He still had a smirk under the helmet he wore. Sure, he knew that he was possibly in danger, especially because the wolf was still glaring at him and it had a very hungry look in its eyes. The wolf kind of freaked him out, but Wonder Woman Jr and Robin some number or such? No, they didn't scare him one bit. He could take them and then find Tori…and maybe Dick if he felt like it,

"Drop your weapons now!" The blond girl said with false bravado,

"So, you must be Cassie," Jason said casually, seeing her face morph form anger to shock with a pleased smirk. He was glad he had once actually paid attention when Tim had been discussing his teammates and their names,

"You look way different than you do where I'm from," he said,

"Who are you?" the Robin demanded, he took a step forward which prompted Jason to pull out his guns,

"Another step," Jason said, "I dare you," sure, he shouldn't be this aggressive to any one of his brothers even if it was a different universe. It could change the timeline like Tim had said before Adam the asshole teleported him here,

"Robin, have you seen Superboy I—," a new voice said as they marched into the room. Jason rolled his eyes, it was Dick…of course it was Dick. All dressed up as Nightwing…now Jason might actually be in trouble. Still he moved his left hand to face Dick while the other remained trained on Robin and WonderGirl,

"Who are you?" Nightwing demanded, a glare in place as he eyed not the gun pointed at him, but the gun pointed at Robin,

"Taking better care of this one aren't you?" Jason taunted, "Batman didn't really learn from his mistake did he?" Yes, he did still harbor hurt feelings for Bruce's refusal to kill the Joker after the madman had killed him and he was livid that the old man continued to take on partners. As if one death wasn't warning enough that Gotham was too dangerous for kids in yellow capes…sure, the cape wasn't yellow anymore and the colors were darker too but that still didn't change anything. And yes, Jason and Bruce were on better terms, he'd forgiven his Bruce…but this Bruce clearly didn't care enough either and while Jason didn't know the future of this world, it didn't seem like he was going to change. Jason stared at Nightwing's glare, slightly disappointed Goldie couldn't see his smirk. Nightwing glared a moment longer before smirking at Jason…that put him on alert, why would he smirk when he had a gun…

"Miss Martian," Nightwing called, and suddenly the guns were yanked from his grasp and flung across the room. Jason stared after them before looking back at Nightwing, WonderGirl and Robin as a green woman appeared floating a few feet away from them,

"What the fuck?" he muttered,

"Now, remove the helmet…or do you want me to do that for you too?" the green girl said, staring evenly at Jason, as if she knew they had already won.

Tori could hear Wolf growling. He'd been growling continuously for the past two minutes and it was really rather annoying. She gritted her teeth and upped the volume of the new headphones she bought and continued chucking her throwing knives at one of the many dummies in the training room. Dick had been with her for the past hour and a half when they'd been sparring together, now he was somewhere in the Mountain, while Tori decided to continue training. Tori moved to throw another knife when, through the headphones, she heard Tim speak,

"…Assume the position!" he demanded. Tori rolled her eyes, did he use that every time he was confronted by an unfriendly. She shook her head, moving to throw another knife when she froze mid throw,

"Wait…unfriendly!" she cried out loud before dropping the knife with a clatter and dashing for the door. Sure, she knew that this Tim was not her brother and he could probably take care of himself…but he was younger and less experienced than her brother back home and at the moment he was younger than her and she'd be damned if she let anything bad happen to him. Call her overprotective but even if it was a training exercise, and she doubted it was, she'd be running towards this confrontation in a heartbeat.

Tori was halfway down the hallway heading towards the main entrance to the Cave when she heard Nightwing growl,

"Who are you?" he sounded angry, this must be real. Tori started jogging. She knew her footfalls were generally silent, but she didn't know if this intruder was a Meta or not and she didn't want to lose the element of surprise. How had this person even get here without alerting everyone else? Tori heard a clatter of two objects, probably weapons, as if they were yanked from somewhere by a rope. Tori started to sprint even when M'gahn's voice sounded out, calm and serious,

"Now, remove the helmet…or do you want me to do that for you too?" Tori stumbled to a stop…there's only one person she knew that wore a helmet. Tori started sprinting again, a huge smile on her face as she exited the hallway and stumbled into the main room where Nightwing, Miss Martian, Robin and WonderGirl all stood surrounding a man who was in the process of removing his giant red helmet. He had only just started to lower his hands when Tori pushed through the ring of heroes and launched herself at him,

"Jason!" she cried happily as he dropped the helmet to catch her,

"Toria," he said, sounding shocked as he lifted her up and spun her in a circle and gave her a kiss.
As he put her down Tori realized they still had an audience who were staring at the two of them eyes wide,

"What did you say…?" Nightwing asked, "…Jason?" he added as soon as he saw the 'intruder's' face,

"What's going on? Are we attacking?" Cassie asked, eyeing Miss Martian in question who in turn was looking at Nightwing with a skeptic look on her face,

"What the hell is going on?" Tim demanded, Tori took a deep breath,

"Well…um…you know how we're from another dimension or world or whatever you want to call it…?" she started, only to get interrupted by Dick walking into the room,

"You do realize you're out of—Little Wing!" he cried, smiling brightly as he launched himself at Jason, a sinister grin on his face, "Aw, wittle brother Jaybird finally made it to the party," he said as he threw an arm around the disgruntled Jason's shoulders and gave him a noogie,

"Ow, Dickface get off!" Jason snapped,

"Aw, but wittle Jacey we mwissed you soooo much!" he continued to noogie him while cackling,
"Get off!" Jason yelled, he waited a few seconds for him to stop before finally getting fed up and flipping Dick over his shoulder. Dick landed heavily on the stone floor with a loud BANG! Tori, who had been watching with great amusement, looked over at the others with an apologetic expression,

"I can explain this," she said, ignoring Dick's groaning and Jason's snickering, "You must be very confused…and yeah…shocked…but—,"

"—you died!" Tim cried, his outburst silencing Jason's laughing and Dick's groaning as he got to his feet shooting Jason a glare,

"Yes, I fucking died," Jason agreed, a glare in place as he crossed his arms,

"Okay…this is too much…" Nightwing said, putting a hand to his forehead,

"What's going on—?" Cassie started,

"Out!" Nightwing snapped, causing Cassie to shrink back slightly at the raised voice, "Anyone who is not a partner of Batman out!" he said, this time less sharply. Miss Martian and Cassie shared a glance before exiting the room,

"Keep any others out as well," he called after them before facing Tori, Jason and Dick, "Please do explain how our dead teammate is alive," he said, looking at them gravely. Tori sighed,

"Well…um…how do I explain this?" Tori said. How does one explain why someone who was dead in this world is alive in another?

"You said he was your boyfriend as in past tense…you said that when you and I were talking about him," Robin said, a glare in place and with an accusatory tone,

"You never asked whether he was alive or dead," Tori said, crossing her arms, "And besides I only said 'was' because he wasn't alive here,"

"He was the evidence we told to your Batman when we got here to prove we weren't clones or enemies," Dick added,

"And of course he didn't tell us that," Nightwing said bitterly, "How is any of this even possible. How is he possible,"

"Um…well—," Tori started, only to get interrupted,

"—I woke up, dug out of my grave, wandered around Gotham brain dead for a shit long time, was picked up by the League of Assassins and then tossed in the Lazarus Pit by Talia Al Ghul which rewired my brain," Jason said bluntly, if a bit bitter,

"What do you mean you woke up?" Tim asked, he looked disconcerted and Nightwing just looked like he was staring at a ghost,

"I'm guessing based on your reactions that I'm dead here," Jason added, ignoring Tim,

"Yeah…sorry," Tori said,

"Is it some universal fact that I have die in every universe where I exist?" Jason asked no one in particular, he was trying to make a joke,

"I'm sure there's some place where you don't die," Dick said helpfully, rubbing a sore spot on his back, "And thanks for the judo flip…I was just saying hello to my brother who I haven't seen in a week," Jason rolled his eyes,

"You gave me a noogie…I hate noogies,"

"You use guns?" Nightwing demanded,

"Bruce and I don't exactly see eye to eye nowadays," Jason said with a dark smirk as he moved to retrieve his weapons, "Especially about weapons and lethal force,"

"They get along better than before," Tori inputed,

"Yeah…it's complicated. On the bright side he hasn't tried to kill any of use in a while," Dick said with a pleasant smile, clearly enjoying the others shock a little bit,

"What?" Tim choked out,

"Dick!" Tori snapped, "Knock it off!"

"What!" he said, raising his hands in surrender,

"The point is, this just happened. We don't know how other than the Lazarus Pit restarted his mind and he found his way back to us…sure he's changed compared to what you know of your Jason…but this isn't your Jason and for all we know something entirely different might happen. It's best to just…not worry about it," Tori said,

"Not worry about it?" Nightwing exclaimed, "He's alive and there's a possibility that might happen here and you don't want us to worry about it?!"

"Okay, I can see why that would be hard, but think of it this way: if you think about what happened to him and his resurrection and want it to happen but it doesn't happen, you'll feel like it's your fault and try to make his resurrection occur. If it's not meant to happen, don't force it. I know you want him back…if I were in your shoes and I got this kind of information that you just did I would be thinking the same thing, but you can't force things like resurrections. They just happen or don't happen and they aren't predictable," Dick said, looking very serious for the first time since Jason appeared in the Cave,

"I see your point, but this is just too…weird…I-I need some air," Nightwing said, running a hand through his shaggy black hair before disappearing from the room. They all watched him go before Dick spoke,

"I'll go after him," he said, Tim shot him a look, "Hey, I may not be from this world, but who else can calm him down better than himself?" Robin couldn't really argue against that so Dick left the room,

"Sooo, you're my replacement," Jason said, a dark grin on his face,

"Jay, knock it off," Tori said, throwing a glare his way, "Don't torture him, this is really shocking,"

"Oh please, like they haven't had a dead hero come back to life yet?"

"Actually they haven't," Tori said,

"Oh shit, seriously?" Jason asked, Tim was looking at them as if they sprouted two heads,

"Or clones," Tori added,

"Well actually…um…Superboy is a clone," Tim said, "He was created at Cadmus by some scientist named Dr. Desmond," Tori could feel her face pale while Jason let out a rather loud curse, "What…was it something I said?" Tim asked,

"Pull up a photo of him now," Tori snapped, marching over to stand by Robin, Jason moved to stand on her left. Tim shot the two of them a look before complying,

"Do you want the most current or one from five years ago,"

"Does it matter?" Jason almost snarled,

"Yes, it does. He tried one of his experiments on himself and it went badly," Tori let out a snort and crossed her arms,

"If only he did that in our world," she muttered, Tim probably heard her and wondered what that meant, but he didn't say anything,

"I'll pull up an earlier one," was all he said. The moment the picture finally popped up she let her arms drop to her sides,

"It's not him," she whispered, "he doesn't look like him," she could feel her hands start to shake at even the thought of Mac,

"What's his name, his first name?" Jason asked, putting a hand lightly on her shoulder as he spoke. Something that kept her grounded and stopped the panic attack that was working its way up,

"Um…Miles. Why is he of any significance to you?"

"That's none of your business," Jason stated. Tori's head snapped up at an idea,

"Does he have any siblings?" she asked Tim,

"I don't know. I could ask Nightwing—,"

"Don't ask, just hack," Jason interupted,

"But—,"

"Do it," Jason snapped,

"Fine…asshole," Tim muttered,

"What was that?"

"Nothing!" Tim said quickly before typing away at the holographic keys, "According to the records we have on him…which are very few actually…he does have a brother,"

"What's his name,"

"Mac," Tori felt like the room was spinning,

"Tori, are you okay?" Jason asked, gripping her shoulder tighter. She shook her head,

"I need to get out of here," she said as she started to leave the area and headed to her room,

"Is she okay?" Tim asked, she could hear them from the hallway as she stumbled towards her room, "She looks like she's going to pass out…what does all this mean?"

"I actually don't know…but it's none of your business anyway Replacement," Jason said as he went after her, his footsteps echoing as he made it to the hallway. He took her hand right before she entered her room and held it tight, "I've got you Toria,"

"I know," she said, though she felt that the tone of the answer sounded disembodied…and she felt hallow as if she were an empty shell again. Tori didn't want that, she needed to feel, which is why she pulled Jason into her room and hugged him hard. The tears that had been waiting to fall as soon as she heard Mac's name, finally falling.

A/N: Okay so hopefully you guys who read both the Short Story and this Story don't hate me...I'll try to get a short story up I promise!