A/N: omgosh, I am so sorry it's taken me this long to update. I've been really busy, and it's been so humid where I am, you know the kind, it's so hot you don't want to move and stuff, that and I'll admit to being a bit lazy, hopefully I didn't lose any readers. Anyway, I hope everyone had a great forth of July, and now back to the story.
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Chap3: Who did it?
Everyone, except for the original members, were in the observatory. Everyone was confused and wanted to know why they were there. All they knew was that J'onn had summoned everyone single person in the watchtower into the observatory. Vixen stood at the front of the room, watching them all whisper to each other. It was only a matter of time before they wondered why she was in charge, what was happening and why they couldn't leave.
As if on cue someone yelled out. "What's going on? Why do we have to stay in here, and why are you in charge?"
"Yeah" almost everyone else shouted out
"You want to know what's going on? Fine, someone among us, in this room is a traitor. We have to stay in here so the person can't get away, and the original members can search the tower without anyone getting in the way. They put me in charge because..."
But someone cut her off. "I bet they put you in charge because you're the Green Lanterns girlfriend."
"Wrong. The Green Lantern and I are no longer a couple and they put me in charge because I have been found innocent."
"Fine, but can you please tell us what was so bad that they had to hold everyone up in the observatory?"
"Someone tried to kill one of the original members." She replied
"Can you tell us which member it was?"
"No, that's all I'm allowed to say until they find out more about what happened."
That seemed to quiet them down a little. But Vixen wanted to hear what they whispering so she used one of her animal powers to hear them. It wasn't much just small conversation. But then she heard something that sounded suspicious.
"Hopefully, it was that traitor that was almost killed. I don't know why they let her back in."A worker said
Vixen used her communicator to talk to J'onn.
"Go ahead."
"J'onn I think there's someone here you should talk to."
"Now? We're in the middle of an investigation."
"I overhead him talking. He wants Shayera dead." She responded
"Alright I'm on my way.
A few minuets later J'onn phased up through the floor, next to Vixen. When everyone saw J'onn they quieted down immediately.
"Which one was it?" he asked her
"This one here in the front. The one with the water bottle." She pointed. Indicating a man in his late twenties or so, with shortish spiked brown hair and almond shaped hazel eyes.
"You. Come with me." J'onn said to the man.
The man followed J'onn out of the observatory without a word to anyone. J'onn lead him to the interrogation room. "Sit." Was all he said to the man. J'onn left the room for a few minutes, and returned with Batman.
"What's your name? Asked Batman
"Devin. Do you mind telling me why I am here?" he asked exasperated.
"You were overheard saying that you hoped it was and I quote ' hopefully it was the traitor that was almost killed.' correct?"
"Yea so. She shouldn't have been let back in. Isn't it her fault that the Thanagarians invaded us, and caused us all of this misery?"
"Yes but they betrayed her. She thought that they were there to help us, not destroy us."
"I don't care. She's still a traitor." He said crossing his arms contemptuously. "So I'm guessing that since you all are ticked at the fact that I don't like her, she was the one who was almost killed."
Batman just glared at him.
Thought so." he said smugly
"Listen you, your in no position to talk back, to anyone." Batman snarled
"Whatever."
"Since your already here we're going to question you."
"Do I have a choice."
"No." Batman snarled
"Ask away." he said smugly
"How long have you been working with us?"
"A month" he said yawning
"I'm sorry, am I boring you?" Batman asked sarcastically
"Well actually yes. You could've found that answer in your database couldn't you? So was there any real point in asking me that question?"
"I'm the one doing the questioning here."
"Oh touchy are we?"
Batman slapped his hand on the table hard, as he leaned forward. "What is your problem?"
"You called me here to ask me questions, and I'm waiting. But so far the only question you asked me you could've found out in your database. So if your going to question me go ahead, but ask me questions that you can't find the answers to in your database."
"Fine. Then I'll just get on with it. Did you try to kill Shayera?"
Devin took a sip from his water bottle before answering. "Yes." he stated
Batman was taken back for a minute. He wasn't expecting him to come out and confess like that. "Why?"
"Because I want her dead, and I'm not the only one. I might be the only one in the watchtower that does, but do you really think the people of Earth has forgiven her yet? No. The majority of Earth practically hates her. So does her own planet, Thanagar. They defiantly want her dead." He said taking an even larger sip from his water bottle.
"We couldn't identify the type of hallucinogen that was used. So what was it?"
"I don't know, all I know was that it was from Thanagar."
"Who gave it to you?" Batman asked
"Wouldn't you like to know."
"Why else do you think I'm asking?"
"Well I'm not going to tell ya."
"Do you want to spend the rest of your life in jail?"
He smirked. "I'm not going to. In about 15 minutes I'm going to be dead anyway."
"What are you talking about?' Batman asked
"You see this water bottle? Well it's not all water. There's poison in here." he said indicating the now half empty bottle.
"J'onn get in here quick." Batman shouted through his communicator. "Why would you want to kill yourself?" He asked
"So the Martian can't read my mind and find out where I got my instructions from. No one will ever know until it's to late." he said laughing like a maniac.
Just then J'onn phased through the floor. "We need to get him to the infirmary quick" Batman said
By the time they got him to the infirmary Devin had lost consciousness and was on the brink of death. There was nothing they could do for him, and he died a few minutes later.
(Back with John and Shayera)
When Batman and J'onn came into the infirmary carrying an unconscious man all Shayera and John could do was stare in shock as the man slowly died.
"Was... was that the guy who did this to her?" John asked quietly
Batman nodded his head curtly.
"What happened to him?" Shayera asked quietly
"He poisoned himself." J'onn said
"Why?" John asked
"So we couldn't find out where he got the hallucinogen from, and where he was getting his instructions." Batman said.
"Your hiding something." Shayera stated "What did you find out that your not telling us."
Batman sighed "We found out that the hallucinogen was of Thanagarian make."
Shayera was silent for a minute. "It makes sense. Did he give any kind of clue of who it could've been?"
"No."
Shayera sighed, trying to figure out who it could've been. Now that she was no longer in contact with her people, she had no way of knowing who was still alive after they had come back form Earth. She knew it wasn't Hro. He was dead, that much she knew. She had found out that a lot of Thanagarians had lost their lives because of her betrayal, but she had no way of knowing who was left.
"Well, I know that it wasn't Hro. He's dead." she said quietly.
"How do you know that?" John asked her curiously.
"Remember that mission I was on with Vixen and Vigilante? Well it was a trap. It was Parann and Kragger, along with a few soldiers who came to take me back to Thanagar to stand trail for treason. As you can guess we defeated them as they left. I had been naive to think that they would finally leave me alone." she said quietly
Seeing that Shayera was getting upset John interrupted "Alright, well we know where it came from, so that's a start, but Shayera don't worry to much about it. We'll figure out who did this, and don't think for a second of blaming yourself. it's not your fault."
"But John..." she started
"No buts Shayera."
"Fine." She reluctantly agreed.
"We'll talk about it more when your feeling better. Ok?" he said
"Yes." she said
"Good now get some sleep. You need to get your strength back."
"Uh-huh" she said through a yawn as she quickly fell asleep.
A/N: I know the ending sucks. But I didn't know how else to end it. Well anyway I'm sorry it took me so long to update. I having trouble writing this story. For some reason the story isn't coming to me as fast as I would like it to. So I have no idea when I'll update bext. Well any way please review. :)
