When we got back to the apartment, Dick was wide awake and eating breakfast on the island. It fell out of his mouth when we walked in, man, I wish I'd a camera to get the little troll back for all the times he's had a camera in all my embarrassing moments. Let's just say my first New years eve with the legal drinking age was interesting to say the least. I mean I was curious as to where he got the cereal.

"What the-? how the-?" his mouth opens and closes several times, he resembled a fish.

"Wow look at that ladies and gentlemen, the boy genius is speechless." Zatanna teases as she kisses his cheek,

"Lian, why don't you go sit in the sitting room and watch some tv." She nods before scurrying off in the direction I pointed.

"Who'd give you a kid?" Dick asks.

I raise an eyebrow at him, as he starts to back track, "I mean, not that you aren't completely responsible and independent adult, but you know nothing about kids." He states sarcastically.

"Alright Mr I know so much about kids, I guess you'll have to show us what to do, put some pants on and help Zatanna make a shopping list. 'Tanna, help your idiot boyfriend find his pants and tell him about the kid."

"Artemis's sister dumped her kid at her office. Oh Arty show Lian the spare room, she can have it."

"Thanks Zee, I mean it, you're seriously being so good about this."

"Ah its fine, this place was getting a little quiet anyway, maybe the kid'll bring some life back into the apartment."

"You know I have 3 little brothers and a little sister, right." Dick says after interrupting Zatanna. We ignore him and continue planning.

"Alright, well we're going to need all hands on deck, can you call Kaldur and see if he can get some clothes for her? Might as well use his personal shopper expertise."

"Yeah, I'll call him, set up a meeting for later."

"Alright, I'm going to show Lian her room, you guys write a shopping list, no nuts, she's allergic."

"Alright. Zee, where are the pens?"

"Err, Artemis?"

"Don't look at me, I keep all mine in my desk after last time."

"What happened last time?" Dick asks.

"I accidently lost the pens in a different dimension, okay?"

He snorts, "How do you 'accidentally' lose something in another dimension."

"Well they might not be in another dimension, but I was practicing a new trick and I lost therm."

"So what if they just fell out of the sky and hit some kids in Africa?"

"Well then they'd have a couple of very nice/expensive pens."

"But what if they hit like a president or something."

"Then I sure as hell hope that they weren't the monogrammed pens that Artemis got for me last year when they were on sale."

"But what about-"

"Guys," I say cutting Dick off, "Shopping list?"

"Yeah we're getting to that part."

"Right, okay yeah, I'm going to go shower so you have time to write the list." I tell them.

I pull Lian away from the TV and show her, her room, she gasps upon seeing the cream room, that has silver and black accents adorning it, it's not small, not with Zatanna's extravagant tastes, a small bathroom is at the back and by small I mean piddly it's got a small shower, a toilet and a sink in fact when we were first shown the apartment we hadn't known about it, we'd thought it was just more closet space, not that it was needed Zatanna's room had a built in wardrobe bigger that the room Jade and I used to share.

"This is all mine?" she asks

"Yeah." I say nodding, "Pretty cool Right?"

"It's like a dream?"

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"I've never had a room to myself, I've always shared with my mother, it's not like we stay anywhere long enough for it to really become my own."

"Well, this will always be your room, for as long as you want it, okay, we can get some more personal touches when we're out okay?"

"Okay." She says with the first smile I've ever seen on her, it's not one I've seen Jade wear, I like that, it's a happy smile.

"Alright, I need to shower, are you okay to be alone for a minute."

She nods absentmindedly, I remember what it was like moving in with Zee, it was overwhelming, the big modern furniture, that somehow fitted in with all her family heirlooms, the big windows adorning every inch of the apartment showing the city from every angle, it was breath taking.

I pulled the chopstick out of my hair letting my ashen blonde locks tumble over my shoulders as I hop into the steaming hot shower. Man I need this.

I get out 10 minutes later, feeling refreshed. I pull on white leggings and a grey tank top and a black chunky knit cropped jumper, I pull my wet hair up into a messy bun. I walk into the kitchen, Dick and Zatanna are still bickering.

"So are we going to put pens on the shopping list?" he asks her.

"Shut up! It wasn't my fault."

"It kind of was." He teases.

"Artemis, do you think Lian will need some clothes?" Zatanna asks trying to change the subject.

"Probably, but it think food is a priority for now. Hold on I'll ask her."

I walk down the hall way to the guest room, Lian's sitting on the bed with her bag.

"Hey." I say as I tap on the open door.

"Hello."

"So Zee wanted to know do you need extra clothes?"

"Um, I don't know, all my clothes are in my bag."

"You want me to help you unpack? If you need anything we can make a list and buy it, we have a friend who's a personal shopper he can bring some stuff over."

"Um. Okay." She says quietly.

We unpack putting her clothes in the lower drawers so that she could reach them. She desperately needed a new pair of jeans, as hers had worn away where she'd stood on the backs because they were too long, she needed a few more t-shirts as she only had three, if she was going to be living in new York she was definitely going to need a warmer sweater and possibly a coat. She'd probably need some boots.

"What's your favourite colour? Kal can bring anything you want."

"I love red and green. But I also like purple."

"Alright I'll tell Kaldur.

"Okay." She says with a smile.

"Alright, lets go grocery shopping."

We parked Dick's car outside the Kwerki Mart, We'd made it in one piece no thanks to Zee's scary driving. We wondered through the aisles Dick and Zatanna wondering around and coming back with random things to put in the cart, being with them is like being with two children, Lian was better behaved than both of them she stayed close to the cart staying quiet and always within eyesight. We get to the rainbow filled candy aisle and her eyes light up, she keeps quiet and puts her head down looking at her shoes, I know that expression, it's one I used to know whenever we went grocery shopping, well more like stealing. No candy, that's what my dad would tell Jade and I, he didn't give a reason but we didn't dare question him.

"You can have something if you want."

"I can?" her smile fills her face.

"Yeah, stick it in the cart." I say as I reach up for a box of fruit roll ups.

She looks up at the shelf it towers over her, its about 3x her height, I turn my back to get a box of frosted sugar cinnamon pop tarts pf the shelf, when I hear a crash from the next aisle, I run to the next one along. Dick and Zee are on the floor laughing surrounded by a tonne of cereal boxes, some had spilled onto the floor they had an action figure each that they were making fight each other among other things.

"How old are you?"

"22"they say at the same time. They burst out laughing again. And I avert my eyes pretending not to know them as an angry store clerk shows up, I switch my focus back to Lian. Crap. I lost Lian. I lost a 7 year old, my sister is going to murder me if she ever comes back. I find the cart abandoned filled with all our junk food.

"Aunty Artemis look." I hear a small voice shout, I look around trying to locate her.

"Up here." She shouts, my eyes focus upwards, she's walking around on the top of the shelf. Note to self, leave all three children at home next time we go grocery shopping, usually I can deal with just Zatanna, but Zatanna and Dick and Lian.

"Catch me Arty!" she shout taking a leap off the shelf, my eyes widen in surprise as I leap forward to catch the flying seven year old. I catch her and fall backwards, Jesus, this is why I hate gravity. I fall onto something squishy, oh dear god please don't be another child, I can't take any more kids. I get up to realize I had actually been knocked back into a pile of watermelons, and now I had red watermelon juice covering my ass resembling, well I'm sure you can figure out what I'm getting at.

"Sorry." Lian says quietly looking worried, and shrinking back, I think she was expecting me to get really angry.

"It's fine, let's just get this mess sorted out."

"Hey Artemis I guess you found the watermelons. Speaking of watermelons do you remember that guy you hooked up with in high school, you know the one you dumped by throwing a watermelon at his face." Dick says.

I glare and switch the subject. "Let's just go pay for everything we need and everything we broke. Lian, Zee, Dick-"

"Oh sure I get put last." He says

I ignore him, "The person who keeps contact with the cart for the longest gets to pick what take out we have for dinner."

All three run to the cart and jump in gripping on for dear life. I try to move the cart but it's too heavy.

"Um guys?"

"Yeah?" All three turn to look at me.

"Get out the cart!" I shout

Okay so this has taken forever sorry, hope you enjoyed it Kaldur is in the next chapter. Do I have to do a disclaimer in an Au i think i might so i don't own YJ sorry