Artemis's head was killing her. Something was very wrong everything around her some warm and bright not like it had been a few minutes earlier when herself and Robin had been chasing the joker.
"What..." She started trying to get up from her bed only to be stopped by wally grabbing her hand.
"Careful babe." Wally sat down next to Artemis on the bed and wrapped his arms around her. "You're in the hospital, you have a concussion."
Artemis blurry vision finally cleared enough to see Nightwing standing by the door to her room. She also had a slight ringing in her ears but Artemis was sure she could hear people talking outside her room.
"What do you remember?" Nightwing asked. Wally shot him a dirty look that seemed to say seriously dude leave her alone but he didn't say anything.
"Um I'm not sure me and Robin were chasing the Um the uh the Joker I think and there was a bright flash and my sister was yelling at me. I... I think I blacked out after that." Artemis stuttered struggling to remember what happened. The ringing in Artemis ear had now cleared enough for her to be able to distinguish batman, the flash and GA talking outside her door. Artemis started to panic slightly.
"What's going on guys? Why is like half the league here? Where's Robin?" Wally and Nightwing exchanged a look again before saying anything. It was Nightwing who spoke first.
"He's dead. The joker took him to a warehouse just outside the city and blew it up with Robin still inside." Artemis felt sick to her stomach. There was a long silence before Dick stood up and left the room leaving her alone with Wally.
"I'm done." He said so quietly Artemis almost didn't hear him. " After the funeral, I'm leaving the team for good."
"You don't mean that wally." Artemis whispered.
"Yes, I do!" Wally yelled jumping up from the chair he was sitting in. "I'm sick of all this! I want to be able to get excited about starting college in a month without having to worry about if I'll actually get a chance to go or if I'll die before that ever happens. I don't want to keep track in my head of how many times you or Nightwing or uncle Barry have almost died this month! This is sick Tula's dead, robin's dead, Kaldur's went and gone off the deep end I mean we haven't seen him in months! I want to..." Wally was cut off when his uncle entered the hospital room.
"What's going on kid?" He asked perhaps a little too happily for the mood wally was in at the moment.
"Nothing!" Wally snapped storming past Barry out of the room.
- Time Skip -
"Master." Cheshire bowed.
"Well?" The man in the green cloak asked.
"It is done. The league and the team don't suspect a thing." She said.
"Very good." The man nodded. The mistake would soon be rectified and the boy would be returned to his family.
Robin's funeral had been short. There hadn't been a body because batman claimed he needed it for cover story purposes. So, Red Tornado had set up a hologram of Robin down in the grotto and that had been the end of it.
Wally was reading an article in the newspaper "Jason Todd ward of billionaire Bruce Wayne dies at sixteen years old." when the door bell rang. He tossed the paper down on one of the many boxes surrounding him and went to answer the door. Wally was thankful for the distraction anything to keep him from thinking about what the team might be doing right now.
Wally swung open the door to his apartment to find Artemis standing outside the door in civies holding a box.
"Artemis?" He asked not really sure he believed what he saw.
"Want a roommate?" She asked and he nodded moving aside to let her in.
"I thought you would be at the cave today." Wally said sitting on one of the boxes. Artemis put down her box and sat on the couch.
"I was but then M'gann got a call from Qurac and Garfield was in the hospital after being attacked by Queen bee and his mom was missing and then it hit me. I already died once in my life I really don't want to do it again. So, I left." They sat in silence for a few minutes before wally zoomed over to Artemis picked her up and placed her on his lap.
"This is a nice apartment." She said looking around.
"You think so? Wally asked. "Because I'm pretty sure there is a rat living in my closet. I'm going to name him Vandal Savage."
Artemis laughed. " Of course, you would."
Nightwing wanted nothing more than to be left alone at the moment however with Alfred coming down to check on him every hour he found that almost impossible to do. So when he heard someone walking down the starts in the batcave it didn't cross his mind that it could be anyone besides Alfred.
"This was the last place I expected to find you my friend." Kaldur said stopping at the entrance to the cave.
Nightwing looked up at the computer waiting for the lecture to come. The lecture he had already gotten from Alfred, M'gann, Wally, Barbara, Zatanna, and Black Canary. The it isn't your fault there was nothing you could have done you can't lock yourself up in the batcave all day and night lecture. It never came.
"You and I have something in common. We have both lost someone important to the Light and I believe I may have a way to tear the light in half permanently but I require your assistance." The Atlantean said. Nightwing nodded his head to tell Kaldur to continue. Kaldur took a few steps closer and checked to make sure they were alone.
"It Involves my biological father."
A/N Okay so let's just ignore that thing I did where in my last chapter when I said I would have the next chapter up in a week. Anyway, please leave a review. Disclaimer I own nothing.