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And here's the next chapter
The woman smiled, her eyes were shining.
She closed the distance between them and put her arms around him.
If he hadn't been restrained by the branches, he would have pulled away.
But she had him right where she wanted him.
"Thorn," she said in a motherly voice, and combed her fingers through his hair. "You really worried me, you should not have left, ever."
Her words were like a death sentence.
She let go of him and the branches loosened a little.
She looked at him for a few seconds, as he slowly and carefully pulled his arms out of the branches.
Then suddenly she grabbed at his hoodie and pulled at it, like she was trying to rip it off him.
"What are you doing?" He asked confused and took hold of his mother's wrist, trying to get her to stop.
"You shouldn't be wearing things like this!"
Thorn looked down himself.
"You mean clothes?" He asked confused and ran his hands down the branches, still restraining his legs.
"They are unnatural for you," she scolded.
He nodded sharply and looked down his mother.
Her body was covered by leafs and thin branches, that took the form of clothes, but he knew that they had grown from her body, just like leafs sometimes did with him. Was that what she meant?
He looked over her shoulder. No one was there.
"Where is Ace and the others?" He asked and pulled at his legs, unable to get free.
She waved her hand and the branches let him go.
He stumbled forward, but managed to catch himself.
"We were told, that if we did what they told us to, then we could do whatever we wanted with our children afterwards."
His eyes grew big. "Who?"
She put a hand on each side of her face.
"Don't worry, Mommy just have a little job to do."
"How many days has it been?" Rocket asked from the couch she was lying on.
"Two," Robin answered from the computer.
"What do you think happened to them?" Kaldor asked.
"I don't think they left willingly, if that's what you mean." Artemis said, she was sitting on the other end of the couch with a math book.
"I agree," Wally said. "The two twins were arguing with Wotan, wherever he took them, they didn't want to go."
"But what about the other two?" Kaldor asked. "You didn't see them after you got down on the street, right."
Wally shook his head.
"And as far as we know there hasn't been any more break ins or shoplifting incidents around where they were living." Robin explained.
"And the glamour they put around the building is gone," Zatanna added.
"So..." Miss Martian said. "They're just gone?"
"We should report to batman, then see what he thinks we should do."
"Do you want to know what I think?" Wally asked, as he leaned on the back of the couch, right behind Artemis.
Before anyone could answer him, he pointed to a question in her math book.
"That one is 36." He said. Then he turns around. "I think their parents got to them too, like Wotan did."
"But why just now?" Superboy asked.
Wally shook his head. "I don't know, maybe someone, fx the Light, found out what we were doing and sent their parents after them."
Superboy scratched his head. "How did they know what we were doing?"
Wally signed. "I don't know, it just a theory."
Artemis signed too and put down her book.
"Whatever happened to them, we have to decide what we're going to tell the league." She said and turned around on the couch, so she was facing Wally.
"She's right," Rocket said.
Wally opened his mouth, but then his phone rang.
He pulled it out of his pocket and looked at the screen, then he looked at Artemis, then back at his phone and at Artemis again.
"I got to take this," he said and speed out of the cave.
"What was that?" Artemis asked, looking at the other girls for clues.
Zatanna shrugged. "Maybe more secrets."
Artemis' signed as she let her head fall back, exhausted.
"There has to be a limit to the secrets he can have, right?"
She woke up, confused and dizzy.
"What?..." She grunted, as she looked around and tried to figure out where she was.
Her head ached.
The last thing she remembered, she was walking behind Thorn, they had just been outside their home, but then...
Her arms were tied to her sides with thick rope.
She rocked back and forth, until she could finally sit up.
It looked like a kind of warehouse, but there was a poisonous smell.
It reminded her of one of her dad's hideouts.
Her dad! That had been him...
She suddenly heard a laugh, his hyena laugh, echoing through the warehouse.
"Where are you?" She asked and looked around, trying to spot him.
"You are always so glum, you should try to smile!" She heard him laugh and suddenly he just stood there in front of her.
She was stunned and scared.
When she didn't say anything, he reached down and pulled at her cheeks, pulling them up into a wide smile.
She had no idea what to do, and she had less of an idea of what he wanted with her. He had never been that interested in her before.
"We are going to have a little fun together, you and I." He said and continued to pull at her cheeks.
He must have seen the terror in her eyes, because he suddenly he let go and turned around.
"Why am I here." She asked.
He turned back around with a flask in his hand and a wide, crazy smile.
"There are such boring situations out there, we must gave them interesting."
She looked at him stunned. Did he really think she would help him?
"Sorry dad." She said, glad her voice didn't shake. "I'm not doing that."
He pulled the lid of the flask and held it to her noise.
"Of course, you will, you just need to laugh!"
Whatever was in that flask, it made her feel weird, dizzy.
Her dad, The Joker, was laughing.
She giggled.
She had no idea what was so funny, but for some reason she thought it was hilarious.
Wolf made an angry hand gesture towards the wall.
A yellow ball of light hit the wall, but nothing happened, like the wall just absorbed the ball of light.
"It's no use," Whisper said hopelessly from the couch she was lying on. "We can't get out."
"We got out before!" Wolf argued.
"Then it didn't expect us to leave, now it knows we want to leave, so now there are measures so we can never get out."
"So we should give up?" Wolf sneered at his sister, as he turned around to face her.
She stood up, irritated.
"Of course not, but wasting our energy in anger is not going to do us any good." She yelled.
Wolf signed.
"You're right," he breath. "But how can we get out, before we were in control of this dimension..."
"But it took that away." Whisper concluded. "Our former home is now a prison."
"And our creator became our warden." Wolf finished.
Whisper closed the distance between them and knitted their hands together.
Both leaned their heads forwards, so they stood with their foreheads against each other, with their eyes closed.
The physical contact had a calming effect on both of them.
They breathed in sync.
"This place is like a spiderweb," Whisper said. "We can get in, but we can't get out."
Wolf looked up.
"What did you say?" He said with a hopeful smile.
"This house is like a spiderweb?" Whisper repeated confused.
"No, no," he shook his head. "The other part!"
"We can get in, but we can't get out?" She said, not understanding what he was going on about.
"That it!" He said, and continued when his sister gave him a weird look: "We can't get out, but maybe we can pull somebody in, that can help us!"
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