Ah well. Didn't manage the 20 reviews. It's not particularly important. I'm not exactly doing that badly!

Chapter 4

Lynn was in an extremely bad mood. She'd been in the basement for a couple of hours now, she was starving, and there was no-one around to irritate and therefore let some of her anger out.

She should have been more careful, no two ways about it. She'd known for ages that she'd be a target because of her brother, so she had taken every measure possible without attracting attention. She'd thought she'd been so clever, being on top of everything, always thinking ahead, etc... She smiled bitterly. Amazing how wrong you can be sometimes.

The founders had been in the Council room for an hour know. Kara was starting to get worried. The news that Flash's sister had been kidnapped, and by Lex Luthor, had got out quickly. Flash was well liked by everyone, so naturally they were worried. The entire League was gathered at the Watchtower, waiting to see what would happen.

After a while, the doors slid open, and Flash came out, looking ready to kill. He walked quickly out of the room, the other Leaguers parting to make way for him.

The rest of the founders walked out of the Council room, looking slightly surprised to see so many people waiting there, but choosing not to comment on it.

"Well?" Kara demanded impatiently.

Batman cleared his throat. "We have two choices. Either we disband and let Luthor play havoc with the world as much as he likes, but the girl will be safe, or we look for her and hope to god we find her before Luthor kills her."

"And what have you decided?" Dove asked, coming to stand next to Supergirl.

"We've decided that the continued well-being of the entire world cannot be sacrificed for one girl." Superman said, his voice carrying right to the back of the room. "We're going to try and find her, but we can't promise anything. I'm sorry, Kara."

"You're sorry! You shouldn't be saying that to me! You should be saying that to Flash for not trying to save the life of the one person he has left in the world! You should be saying that to Lynn herself for not for practically condemning her to death! She's my best friend, I haven't seen her in years, and now you're going to try and get her killed! You know, when Luthor called to tell us he had Lynn, I didn't think I could hate anyone more than I hated him. I just found out I was wrong. You are the most despicable person I've ever met, Clark Kent!"

Kara spun around, running out of the room. She didn't even notice she was crying 'til she reached her room.

When Kara had gone, Dove turned back to Superman. "I'm guessing you put it to vote?"

He nodded.

"Who voted what?"

"You don't need to know."

"Yes we do."

"Fine. Flash, Hawkgirl and Lantern voted that we disband, me, Wonder Woman, Batman and J'onn voted that we didn't."

The rest of the League left slowly. Green Arrow stayed behind. "You do realize that this is going to disrupt the League one hell of a lot, don't you?"

"What do you mean?" Diana asked.

"I mean that most of the League will take sides over this, and I'm guessing that the majority will side with Supergirl and Flash. You're in for trouble."

"And what kind of trouble do you think that'll be?" J'onn asked.

"It'll start small, you won't even notice it at first, but after that... I'm guessing insubordination."

"Oh great. Just wonderful! That's the last thing we need!" Superman turned and stalked out of the room.

Shayera turned to Arrow. "I hope you're wrong, for the girl's sake. I didn't want to do it like this. The way I see it, we could just pretend to disband, and then come back together. Why not?"

"Shayera, we've been through this. Luthor'll see straight through it! There's no point." Batman explained.

"Whatever, Bruce."

Thank-you to the reviewers, see you next time!

Carline