It wasn't fair!

Jason, at that very moment, hates them. He hates Dick and Bruce because they didn't bring Kaldur back like they said they would. He angrily rubs his eyes, trying hard not to cry in front of them when he got the news.

He runs, Ace keeping up with him as he races up stairs to Kaldur's room and shuts the door behind them.

It wasn't fair! He thought again sniffling, trying to keep himself from crying but a sob escapes his mouth and his breathing was labored as he moves to the perfectly made bed.

It wasn't fair how he had gotten attached to this family-however odd they were- and that everything had been near perfect to him and then this happens.

He crawls up on the bed and curls up on his side, hugging himself as another quiet sob escapes his trembling body.

He hates this.

Why is everything taken from him? Why do they leave him behind?

Jason's emerald green eyes swam with tears before he closes them tightly and buries his head in the pillow. The bed moves once, and he could feel Ace just laying down beside him.

He stays like that a long time until the door opens- the lock was picked- and Dick comes into the room. He offers Ace a soft sort of smile when the dog picked his head up but puts it back down.

"Jason.." He doesn't know what to say to make this better. In fact, he's not entirely handling this well and he knows good and well that Bruce never handle these things well.

Jason only looks up at him with watery eyes and instantly clings to him.

Dick only holds him, rubbing his back slowly, focusing on him made it easier not to think about his own emotions.

And Bruce... his mind shies away from that.

When Roy came around, his first thought is the battle, but seeing Black Canary sitting at his beside reading, he begins to relax a little.

"Dinah...?" He mutters groggily looking around the medical wing. Mount Justice or..? It looked too different to be Mount. Justice. "What happened?"

"You're awake, that's good." She brushes a blond lock of hair away from her face as she stood, "We thought you wouldn't wake up."

"I was hit pretty hard- Wait. What happened?" He looks around frowning a little, "Where's Kaldur?"

Dinah says nothing for a long moment. She simply stares at him then looks away.

That's all Roy needs to understand.

"No.." He moves to get out of the bed, to see- this cannot be real. It cannot be happening. After all that. After everything- "I..No, you.."

"Roy." She moves to comfort him, "I know. I know.."

He doesn't refuse or bat her away as she held him. In truth, he held her tighter because that was all he could do right now.

She's hugging herself because right now, there's no one to hug her. Artemis was in Mount Justice, but she's alone right now. Superboy, having lack of ..well anyone too really, had gone with Martian Manhunter to be there when M'gann wakes up.

Artemis shudders at the notion of waking up to that. In fact, she really can't think of anything to be honest. Her mind still rewinds and plays over the things that had been done.

Things they- she- should've said to him.

"We need to tell him!" She had said to robin when he told them, "What if he doesn't trust us because of this? I mean-"

"I know, I know." Robin sighed, "I told Batman that if he doesn't I will- well we will because he's our friend and he deserves to know that Black Manta's his dad."

"Supervillian father." Kid Flash whistled, "Wonder if that's genetic?"

She hit him, hard, in the shoulder and glared, "Of course it's not!" She turned from him, "Lets just wait until he gets here."

They should've...it...She just didn't understand how it all went so very wrong. After everything they had been through together, her second family- one she had tried hard to keep up with and together too- was falling apart it seems.

At least she thought it was.

"Artemis?"

She rubs her eyes, which were red and puffy now, looking over at Static and Gear. They hadn't returned to Dakota yet, mostly because they were just too tired and a myriad of other things to even consider it at the moment.

"Oh, you're still here." She uses both hands to dry her face, even though it still felt hot and her eyes stung a little. "I thought-"

"Yeah, well..." Static walks over to her where she was sitting on the couch, taking one side and Gear taking the other side of Artemis. "When things like this happen, you can't just leave."

"Yeah." Gear throws an arm around her, "You gotta be there to support your friends."

She barks out an almost bitter sounding laugh. "We're friends now? I wasn't very nice to you when we met."

"Not everyone is." Static gave her a small smile doing the same as his best friend, "But that doesn't matter. What matters, is that you know we're here for you too."

"We might not have known him well-" Gear began.

"But we've fought together." Static finishes, "That's gotta count for something."

Artemis can't find it within herself to refuse this. So for now, she sits with them and they talk about the most mundane things. Mostly though, it's her talking about her second family and the things they used to do around there.

She does that until she falls into a fitful sleep between them, completely and emotionally exhausted.

Static looks over her head at Gear, one of the times the silent communication between them was most potent.

Gear only nods.

Yeah, they'd have to keep their eye on this team.

If he could only get this right. He could do it- theoretically speaking- after all Superman did it! If he could just get enough speed to actually reverse time-!

"Wally!" Flash, he could hear his uncle's voice calling to him, but he's ignoring it.

He has to do this. He has to-

He trips, not paying attention for once, and ends up tumbling full speed at a wall. At least, he would've if Flash hadn't caught him in time.

"What are you doing?" Flash looks down at him, brows knit in worry, "You could've hurt yourself! You're still not a hundred percent yet."

"It...It doesn't matter." Kid Flash pulls himself away from him. He doesn't want to end up like that again. He nearly broke with the rest of them.

Nearly.

"I have to do this. If I can-"

"You can't." Flash rests a hand on his shoulder, "You can't do that."

Kid Flash swallows thickly, but he doesn't want to believe it. He wants to believe that there's a chance. That there was always a chance-

And for once he wishes that magic was real. That it could make everything better, but he knows it's not and it won't. The cynic inside of him calls him an idiot for believe that what they did wouldn't really 'touch' them. That it wouldn't really catch up to him.

But it did.

It took his friend-one of his bros- and it was unapologetic about it.

He hates that his shoulders are shaking, he wants to resist his Uncle pulling him close into a hug because Flash knows the boy needs it.

Wally just wants the world to rewind to two days- or even a day- ago when everything wasn't hurting so damn much.

An: Still haven't decided yet. Since I'm changing my mind every few hours. Oh well, I think I might have a way to end this. =D

*Pets Jason * Poor baby. Only what? Seven-about to be eight. '3' Actually *Pets the Bat Fam. They really don't have good track records and keeping people do they?*

Easter Egg-

One of the Superman movies, Superman flies around the earth against it's normal spin to reverse time just enough to save Lois from dying from another one of Lex's schemes.