A/N: Sorry about the delay. I've been working on my other story, Maybe It's Not Too Late. I'd love it if you guys checked it out.

And to Chalant lover, they don't remember their lives before they changed the time stream. All the flashbacks are from before they went back in time.

So, enjoy!

Disclaimer: Still do not own Young Justice (or we'd have a third season)

Chapter 5

It's natural to feel excited on your first day of work. I mean, you get a job at one of the coolest places in the world. Especially since that place has everything you need to have a fun-filled vacation. And she knows that she's lucky that her boss just happens to be her grandfather. Things can work to her advantage using that.

Still, she's counting on getting there first. Still, that doesn't stop her from feeling extremely fidgety in the morning.

"What do you even pack for your first day as a sports coach?"

She looks over to the blond teenager rummaging through his drawers. She's at Jason's house, in his room actually, helping him pack. The three of them were given the choice of picking of what they wanted to do. She decided to go with what she loved most, music. So, she volunteered to teach little kids how to play some simple instruments. Kim decided to take the open position as the lifeguard. At first, she didn't get why the club's pool needed a lifeguard. But then she saw the pool, and then realized why.

Don't blame her. That's one hell of a pool.

Jason, on the other hand, had taken to sports, basketball, to be exact. She may not get why, but that guy was on a sports roll for the past ten months, since he auditioned for the basketball team at school. The surprising thing was, they actually started to win games once they got him on the team. Well, she's not judging. She's always known that he's talented at a few other things other than music and dancing (and being dumb), she just didn't know that he would be so good at basketball since he hated sports, to be honest. But that time, she was glad she talked him into auditioning for the team or he wouldn't know how good he actually was.

A crash snaps her out of her thoughts. She looks over to see him on the ground with a drawer beside him and clothes all around his room. He pulls himself up onto his elbows and looks at her with a tired face.

"You broke it, didn't you?" she sighs.

"Yep." He answers, knowing that he can't argue with her.

She shakes her head and helps him up to his feet. "You're hopeless, you know that?" she chuckles. "Just wear what you always wear to your basketball practice."

"You couldn't have told me that half an hour ago?" he asks.

"Where would be the fun in that?"

The two of them laugh at the joke for a few minutes before bending down and picking up the clothes all over the place. He may be a slightly messy kind of guy, but if his mother saw this mess, he'd be grounded for the summer. That had happened once too. He wasn't even allowed to see anyone (including her or Kim) for at least a whole month, so he had to sneak out to meet up with them. It worked for a week, but then his mother found them. Originally only a month's grounding extended to the entire three months of summer. That was when they realized that Artemis wasn't to be taken lightly.

With that thought in their minds, it only takes them about ten minutes to clean up the room. When Artemis comes around to check on them as she had heard a crash, she finds a clean room with two teenagers sitting on the edge of her son's bed. She gives them both a curious expression before telling them that they'll be late for work and to hurry up.

She also wonders what happened in there, but she's learnt not to ask questions and to just go with the flow.

He slings the bag over his shoulder as Zaina checks her watch. "Well, we're on time." She says. "That's a start."

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" he protests.

She simply shakes her head and playfully pushes his shoulder. They both joke around, playing around before going in. Right at the gate, they both hear a voice call out to them and find Kim running up to them. The first thing she does is hug Jason and he hugs back. He could have stayed that way forever but then he notices that Zaina is smiling at them both. Then he realizes that Zaina is still there and awkwardly pulls away.

"Kim, what took you so long?" Zaina asks the blond girl as Kim goes red at hugging her boyfriend in front of her best friend. Even though Zaina was the one who prompted them to take it to the next level, they still feel a bit shy around her. He just doesn't feel comfortable with eyes on him when he's with his girl.

"Well, my dad overslept today." Kim quickly answers, using her hand to push a few strands of hair out of her eyes. "We're not late, are we?"

He shakes his head. "Nope. We're on time."

"For once." Zaina adds. The two girls share a laugh as the sentence is left. They can still make out that Jason is the reason why they've been late to places numerous times. It's actually pretty embarrassing if you think about it. So, he leads Kim inside, shooting Zaina a look, but failing to intimidate her as she gives him a knowing smirk and making him sigh and turn his head away, focusing on his beautiful girlfriend underneath his arm. He pulls Kim to the side as Zaina talks to the receptionist.

"Jason, what's this about?" Kim asks, her blue eyes shimmering with confusion.

"We didn't really get any time to spend together." He says. "And we only just applied yesterday."

"Well, it's not gonna become a regular thing, if that's what you're worrying about." She assures him, looking at him in the way that makes him want to kiss her.

Before he can act upon this urge of his, Zaina walks up to both of them, not noticing (ignoring) that he had his hand on Kim's arm and had been running it up her arm before Zaina came up. She flaps a few papers. "I got the work schedule." She tells them, handing them each a paper. "We have frequent breaks, access to lockers as well as free food from the cafeteria, which serves the best food." She tells them. "And also, due to me being the owner's granddaughter, which grants us some free privileges. We can quit whenever we want and we can have a few parties too."

He nods happily. "That's great, Zen." He says, lightly shifting his head so as to signal to her. "But, Kim and I…could you…"

"You guys can bond in our break that's an hour from now." Zaina says, emphasizing the word "bond".

"We have a break in one hour?" Kim asks, looking at her schedule.

"I know crazy, right?" Zaina answers. "But we'd better get going now." Saying so, she turns around and walks to her respective place, but not before shooting Jason a sympathetic smile since she knew what he wanted to do.

"Guess I'll see you in an hour." Kim says, turning to Jason.

"Yeah." He says in a soft voice. She blushes at his smile and walks away. He stares after her for a moment and then moves off to the basketball court.

The three of them meet up in the cafeteria. Zaina was right. The place is simply huge! She's fairly surprised at the emptiness of the place.

"Anybody else feeling that this place is too empty?" Kim asks, while Jason gets their meals.

Zaina shrugs. "I guess people are busy." She says, examining her fingernails.

Kim nervously drums her fingers on the table. Zaina raises her eyes to her blond friend and cocks an eyebrow. "Okay, what's up?"

Kim turns her head to look at Jason waiting for their orders. She then turns her head to Zaina and leans a little over the table.

"Do you notice that Jason is a bit distant lately?" she asks.

It takes everything she has not to burst out laughing. "Kim, did you really think that he lost interest in you?" Zaina asks. "Jason is head over heels for you. So, I wouldn't worry too much if I were you."

"But we haven't spent any time together today." Kim protests.

Zaina rolls her eyes. "Just chill, Kim. I'll bet he's already set something for you two."

"What makes you so sure?" Kim asks.

"We've been friends since we were five." Zaina says. "We pretty much know what the other is thinking."

"Oh, really?" Kim sarcastically asks. "Well, prove it!"

"You know what, I will." Zaina says. "Watch." Kim turns back in her chair while Zaina puts her elbows on the table. "Jason'll get himself a few pickles, then leave them and settle with a cheeseburger."

"That is just stup…" Kim starts, but stops as Jason does exactly as Zaina predicts. With her mouth open, the blond girl turns back to her friend, who just cocks an eyebrow, a small smirk in her blue eyes. "How…How did you do that?"

Zaina shrugs. "I told you, Jason and I've been friends for a really long time. I know him inside out." She slowly looks up and her eyes widen as she suddenly spots the huge mountain looming in the distance. It's huge enough for her to wonder how she even missed that, even though she's been here for half a day. Still, it looks kinda nice there in the background. She's about to look back at Kim, a sarcastic yet heartfelt piece of advice forming in her head when something on the mountain catches her eye. She suddenly wonders why the mountain seems familiar in a vague way when she suddenly notices that the entire place seems to be spinning. Only then does she notice the growing pain in her head. Not again…

Before she knows it, she's experiencing another vision.

The sky is a dark shade of red and orange, and it doesn't feel good. This sunset has a deep brooding feeling, like it knows that something bad is about to happen. Within a split second, the mountain top seems to burst apart as a fountain of lava and ash erupts from the top. The sky becomes a darker and grimmer hue of red as the lava fountain reaches towards it, as if trying desperately to mix with the sky. The lava flows in different streams down the mountain, reaching out to the city, as if it was awakened after a long time and all it wanted was to engulf the city in its hot embrace.

"Zen? Zaina? Zen?"

She shakes her head and opens her eyes to find Jason looking down at her, a plate of food in his hand and a concerned expression in his eyes. Kim also has a similar look on her face. It just takes her that look for her to understand that she just had another vision. Mentally cursing, she runs a hand through her black bangs.

"Zen, are you okay?" Kim asks. "You kind of froze there for a few seconds and your eyes went all glassy and stiff, it was freaky."

"I'll bet it was." Zaina grins, shooting Jason a look out of the corner of her eyes before he could do something stupid like ask her if she was having another vision. "I'm absolutely fine."

But in her mind, she knew she wasn't. She made up her mind to once and for all gain control of her foresight ability, as well as find out what that mountain was. She didn't want to admit it, but it sent a chill down her spine. She couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen.

A/N: Hey guys.

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