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Chapter 3

J'onn watched the screen in front of him, his mind clearly elsewhere. Flash had been acting even stranger around him lately, as if J'onn had caught him doing something he shouldn't have. He'd seriously considered just reading his mind to find out, but that was before his training had caught up with him. Nobody's mind should be read if they didn't want it, except in an emergency. This wasn't an emergency. Yet.

Something beeped. J'onn pulled up a communication screen on his computer. He almost groaned aloud. The last person he'd ever want to be talking to at this moment.

"What do you want, Luthor?"

"Just a social call."

"Whatever. What do you really want?"

Lex Luthor looked unforgivably smug. "I was just calling to tell you to disband your little league."

"And what makes you think we'll listen any more to you this time than we did the other times?"

"This time I have a hostage."

J'onn was stunned. He sent a mental message out to the rest of the founders. 'Get in here, now! We have a big problem!'

"And who is this hostage?"

"Why don't we wait for your friends to join you for me to tell you."

J'onn waited impatiently for the others to enter the council room (A.N. Is that what they call it?), filled them in and turned back to the screen.

"Alright, who is it?"

Lex smiled. "See for yourself." He moved aside. A girl was chained to a wall behind him, obviously Luthor had made the call from the basement. A gasp came from behind them. Luthor's smile turned into a feral grin.

"You've got forty-eight hours. Try to find us and we'll kill her." The screen went black.

None of the founders moved for an instant, then...

"Who is she?" Batman asked.

"She's my sister." Everyone turned to look at Flash.

Lantern was stunned. "You have a sister! And you didn't tell any of us!"

Flash said nothing.

Superman cleared his throat. "That doesn't really matter. What's important is how we find her."

Flash looked up. "But they said if we try to find her they'll..."

"I know, but we haven't got any other choice. If we disband the League, Luthor will be able to do what he wants, and if we don't, your sister dies." Hawkgirl explained, her face showing sympathy.

"So why didn't you tell us?" Wonder Woman asked.

"When I left home to come and join you guys, she thought I'd abandoned her. She was only ten at the time and when I didn't come back, she cut any contact I had with her, apart from a camera in the main room of her apartment. I put it there before I left, and she didn't know about it, so it's still there."

J'onn smiled. " That was what you were looking at when I walked in on you the other day, wasn't it?"

Flash looked uncomfortable. "Yeah, it was."

"Look, not to be unsympathetic here or anything, but I'd still like to know what we're going to do." Batman broke in abruptly.

A knock on the door interrupted them. Supergirl walked in, seemingly unconcerned by the fact that her superiors were all glaring at her.

"What's wrong? You all look pretty worried."

"My sister has been kidnapped by Lex Luthor, an he's said that if we don't disband in forty-eight hours, he's going to kill her." Flash said harshly.

"You have a sister!" Kara's eyes narrowed, as if in recognition. "What's her name?"

"Lynn West."

Kara looked shocked. "Lynn? He's taken Lynn?"

"You know her?"

"Yeah, she was my best friend at school. My only friend, for that matter."

Flash looked surprised.

Kara watched him for a second. "So, do you want any help with shaking some answers out of Luthor? I'd be more than happy to help."

Flash grinned. "Sorry, Kara, he also said that if we go looking for her, he'll kill her."

"Great."

On Chapter two I managed to get double the reviews that I'd got for the Prologue and Chapter one, do you think I could manage that again this time. Come on, people, twenty reviews! It's not that many!

Carline