A/N: See under a year for an update now... (: I'll try to update faster, but with exams, last minute projects, and then three weeks of camp, we will have to see... I changed the summary for all of my stories, and I fixed up my bio if anyone wants to check that out... speaking of bio, I still have Biology homework... well then I must dash... Enjoy!
Lev and I walk up to the steps of the manor, it was nice having someone to walk with, only problem is it gave me less time to think to myself.
I remove my hand from his and put it in my pocket, "Well, I'm home now, thank you." I say, slightly awkwardly, I don't really know how to address the current situation I find myself in.
"Not yet." Lev says, stepping forward to take my hand again. "A gentleman walks a lady to the door."
I look at him suspiciously, studying him momentarily, "Is Lev short for something?" I ask curiously.
"That has nothing to do with what I said, so I'm not going to answer that." He says, while crossing his arms stubbornly.
I glare at him. "Fine." I state. "Wow Lev, how sweet it is of you to walk me all the way to the door."
"Wow, literally all I heard was sarcasm dripping from your words." Lev says to me, smirking like he has been the entire way here. "But since you actually responded to my comment, I shall do you the honor of telling you my full name." Lev says, while raising his hand to his heart, as if reciting a heart-felt poem.
"…"
"Alright, fine. My name is Levitt." He says, slightly defeated.
"Levitt," I repeat. "Cool, but you said full name, meaning at least one other name should follow." I say, grinning up at the brunet.
"Levitt Davis."
"No middle name?" I ask presumptuously.
"Whoa there hun, I only give out the middle name to people I've known for years, even my best friend doesn't know it, but there is a way you can find it out." Levitt says to me, moving closer to me.
I back up a little bit, but Lev has my hand still. "Uh, what are you doing?" I ask, slightly obnoxiously, as my back is pressed against the door.
"I was gonna tell you a secret, but now I'm just gonna give you my cell number and leave because I feel insulted." Lev says, as he hands me a scrap of paper with numbers scribbled all over it.
"Do you have these pre-made?" I ask sarcastically.
"Actually, no." Levitt says, "I was just hoping I'd run into an attractive blonde today."
My eyes widen as I hear the door to the manor start to open, unfortunately my reflexes aren't fast enough to stop me from falling backward onto the hardwood floor of the entryway. Fortunately, I didn't slam my head on the floor, unfortunately, Dick is standing above me, and is most likely glaring at Lev.
Dick sighs quietly as he looks down to see me on the floor, with his former glare still playing on his features. He lowers, and picks me up by raising my back, so I sit up. From there I stand and look at the two boys. Lev looks slightly confused, and Dick looks angry. Great, I have to explain this.
"So how was the walk Anna?" Dick asks, putting emphasis on walk for some reason.
"Oh it was good Dickie." I say smirking up at him, unfortunately he grew taller while I was kidnapped, meaning the short little Boy Wonder is only going to get taller.
"I'm sorry, I should go..." Levitt says, slightly awkwardly, as he turns to walk away.
I stop him. "Wait a second." I say and turn to Dick, "You go inside for two minutes." Dick sulks, narrows his eyes at me and Lev, then walks inside.
Lev looks at me, "So that's Dick Grayson?" He asks.
"Yeah, he's kinda acting weird around me lately, he'll get back to normal soon. I think." I say to Levitt.
"Well, I still should probably leave, text me when you have the time, maybe we can hang out sometime." He says smiling.
"Maybe..." I pause, "I still have to decipher if you're a serial killer or not."
"Well if I am, don't forget I know where you live." He says, pitching his voice to make it sound creepy. He turns and leaves, assuming he's heading home, I close the door and turn to Dick. Who is sitting in an armchair with a very, interesting look on his face. It looks like a mixture of anger, and amusement.
"So, what were you up to?" He asks, in a slightly, fatherly tone, creepy.
"Oh ya know, just wandering about, met this guy named Lev, who noticed that there were sketchy people around, and he offered to walk me home." I say nonchalantly.
"And that's all?" Dick asks, not sold on my answer. "Why were you leaning against the door?"
"Who are you my mother? I was leaning against the door cause it's comfortable." I say, crossing my arms, okay sure it's not exactly why I was leaning against the door, but if I told Dick the Lev pushed me up against the door, he'll get angrier.
"Okay, fine. " Dick says as he stands up. "You should go to sleep, it's late."
"Now you really sound like my mother." I say grudgingly, as I stomp up to my former room.
Bruce told me to costume up, and tell Kaldur that I need a break from the team, since Kal is the leader, it's up to him if I can continue to be on it. Which makes sense, but I don't really feel like leaving in the first place. I told Dick that I wasn't really feeling like training Barbara, to which he said, "She's joining the team, Dinah can teach her." It's good to know Bruce had a back-up plan.(Ah sarcasm)
The cave announces my arrival as I walk in, I remove my mask, forgetting why I even wore it if I was just gonna Zeta back to the Batcave anyways.
"Annika." Kaldur greets me, he's standing at a holo-computer, typing something in, but the computer goes away as I walk toward him.
"Hey kaldur..." I trail off, I really don't want to leave, but Bruce said it would be the best for everyone, so...
"Annika? Are you alright?" He asks as I scratch the back of my neck, a habit I picked up from Dick.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I lie, "Uh I think I should take a leave of absence from the team, with everything that has happened, I just think it would be best." I say, basically reiterating what Bruce said to me.
"Hmm." Kaldur says, thinking to himself. "Is this what you really want? Or what Batman wants?"
"Regardless, I have to do it." I mutter.
"No, this team is under my leadership, meaning I am in charge of who is, or is not on this team."
I chuckle quietly, Kaldur's rebellious side always makes me laugh, it's good to know that someone that is typically so formal, can have a soft side, and even a dark side, of course Kaldur would never go fully bad, his morals would always be intact, and that is one of the many things that make his a good leader.
"What do you want to do Annika?" Kaldur asks me with a small smile on his face.
"Well, no matter how much I want to be on the team still, I do have to think about my whole memory mystery, so I'd say I should leave, or have a job on the team, but without leaving the cave." I say quickly, Kal nods along while I speak, and seems to like the idea.
"As you you being the team coordinator, instead of Batman?" Kaldur asks.
"No, like let's say you guys all need to be on a mission, so I can look for information on the person you're fighting, be it weaknesses or even what their plan is?" I phrase my idea as a question, mostly because I don't want it to seem like I'm telling Kaldur what to do.
"I am fond of the idea Annika, but you are still apart of this team, if we need you, we will not hesitate to ask you to join a mission." Kaldur says, placing his hand on my shoulder in a 'big brother' way.
We tell the team what we are planning, and everyone seems okay with it, well aside from Superboy, still don't get what his deal is.
Dick says he has to teach me all there is to know about the inner working of the tech systems in the cave, meaning, I get to geek up everything. Aside from that I get to know stats on basically everyone that is known by the league, and lesser, by the Gotham PD, as Dick often says, same system as the Batcave.
Barbara isn't a legit team member yet, she needs at least a months worth of training from my aunt, who was slightly disappointed that I didn't want to train her myself. Regardless, it's good to be back in the cave.
Dick suddenly stops at a doorway I've never noticed before, "This is the secret room, which basically holds majority of what you are in charge of." he says quietly.
I smirk, of course Dick would know about this room, and keep it from everyone. "So I'm guessing it's full of computers?" I asked, as that is my job description.
"Well, sorta." Dick says, as he opens the door and steps inside.
I follow after, and literally floor to ceiling, computer screens. My eyes widen in awe, while Dick smirks at my side. "wait till you see the best part." Dick says as he leads me toward a love seat couch.
I look down onto the couch and see a laptop, I open it and it has two accounts, Annika, and Dick. I almost squeal, (Okay I totally did.) And I give Dick a huge hug.
"Does this have the league system on it?" I ask, trying to bottle up my excitement.
"Yup. The Justice League, the Batcave, Gotham PD, and every major police department in the US of A." Dick says, looking extremely proud of himself.
"How did you know I'd choose to stay with the team?" I ask him, I mean he has been acting really strange so I don't really know if I could guess his emotions right now.
"Anna I know you better than you know yourself, especially right now." he says, lowering his voice during the last bit. I look at him, I mean really look at him, my best friend, Dick Grayson.
"What do you mean?" I ask, I mean he's been acting really strange, and it's the first time we've really had a nice conversation.
"Nothing." He mutters quietly. "Okay," He says, perking up, "So what Kaldur told me, is that you're going to give us information on people we don't know enough about, right?"
I think it over, "Basically." I say.
"Alright, well mainly, you'll need to work on this laptop, but it you need anything else from these computers, then the password is something that is very important to you." Dick says, as he starts turning to leave. "Gotta go, mission time , see ya later!"
I sigh and sit on the couch as I place the laptop on my lap. "I wonder what I can do with this." I say quietly. I open up the laptop. I spend the rest of the night looking up my friends on the program (did you know Wally's middle name is Rudolph?)
Really sorry about the sucky ending... I wrote it before, and right when i was about to submit it my tablet froze, AANNDD I'm going to summer cap tomorrow in which I'll be away for three weeks, and I really wanted to update, so when I get home I'll fix up my ending to a point where I'm happy with it.
see you in a few weeks!
