Blair's POV
I hate waking up. I hate waking up period. But there's one thing I hate even more than waking up and that's being woken up. Especially by my loud-mouthed god brother at 6 am on a Saturday.
He was arguing with someone I don't know who and I don't know why but now I was awake, not wide awake, but awake enough to need coffee. I walk out of my new room, I'd crashed in their earlier that morning/last night, I don't really know what time zone watchtower runs on.
I walk around in a daze trying to find coffee, my eyes are barely open, I'm going by the smell of bacon and food in general to figure out where the cafeteria is. I think I walk into someone but I'm not quite sure; it could have been a wall, it could've been superman. I don't know.
I grumble something about coffee, I feel like I'm being followed, I don't bother checking, I mean this is supposed to be a safe place for me, right?
I walk into the large circular cafeteria, I feel a few eyes on my, I pay no attention, it's too early in the morning to care, my primary goal is coffee.
I join the end of a long queue, I'm guessing it's for food. "Urgh this is taking forever, all I want is coffee" I mutter under my breath .I don't know if you've guessed but I'm not a 'morning person', I'm more of a 'don't sleep at all' person.
Mostly because I hate waking up.
Oh my God I have been standing here for like ages, it feels like hours. I'm finally near the front.
"Scan your ID." The lady tells me.
"ID? I don't have an ID, (I got here yesterday, all I want is coffee), I don't (want food), just caffeine."
"Do you realize you're speaking half of your sentences in French?" a male voice pipes up from behind me.
"Oh sorry, thanks." I say absentmindedly, "I have to stop doing that. Please can I have a coffee, I don't have an ID yet."
"Why didn't you just say so in the first place?" The lady asks me.
"I did, it's not my fault I'm tired and caffeine deprived." She chuckles at this and smiles at me evilly.
Now to drink this and remember where the gym is. I sit down at a table and start to drink my coffee. Urgh decaf, what kind of sick place is this? I frown and I think about going off in search of real coffee, or maybe a nap. Whichever comes first.
Artemis's POV
"Hey Artemis, is your kid meant to be walking around watchtower in her underwear?"
"She's what now?" I ask Gar. Of course Blair would be walking around watchtower semi-naked.
"Yeah she went to the cafeteria in search of coffee I left before she realized it was decaf, she doesn't look like the kind of girl you mess with when it comes to coffee."
"Are you sure it's Blair?"
"Um, red head, green eyes, vaguely zombie looking, unless Lian's started walking around in her underwear. Or it could be Wally, if he suddenly had boobs? Not that I was staring at her boobs, I'm sure they're fine but- I'm going to shut up now."
"Thanks Gar, that sounds like Blair, I'll follow behind you."
"You don't even look surprised?" Connor says from the seat next to me, we'd been on monitor duty since I got in last night.
"We're talking about a girl who walked around the entire country naked because of a dare. It's highly possible that she enjoyed it. You want to come meet her?"
"Do I want to meet your super-secret daughter that you kept hidden from everyone for 17 years that I haven't met yet? Uh yes."
"Come on." I say pulling the large kryptonian behind me.
He chuckles as we wonder the long corridors of the watchtower. I walk into the cafeteria and look for the familiar locks of dark red hair.
"Can you see her?"
"I don't know there's a lot of people in here, red hair right?"
"Yeah, probably half asleep."
"Well I see feet poking out from under a table."
"Probably her. I don't understand this thing she has about embarrassing me." I say massaging my temples.
"She's a teenager, it's in their job description."
"Still, does your kid run around a country naked?"
"No, but my kid's only 8 and not related to you."
"There's still time." I joke
"I wouldn't give up M'gann for anything. And I don't think you'd give up Wally ever again."
"Not for all the Connor Kent's in the world." I say with a laugh, flicking him on the shoulder.
He chuckles, "You want me to carry the kid?"
"No, can you wake her up. I'm going to see if they have proper coffee, because she's going to go crazy if she can't have caffeine."
"Ah, she gets that from you, remember how many times you slept over at the cave and literally just growled at everyone you came across until you had coffee." he comments
"Shut up I was not that bad."
"I believe him." My daughter murmurs from under the table.
Connor chuckles, "your kid definitely."
"Blair, why are you under the table?"
"I was given decaf." She says poutily
"Well that explains the sleeping but not the lack of clothing." I mutter.
"I'm not wearing clothing?"
"No Blair, you're not."
"I'd say this is awkward, but I'm oddly comfortable, so that's okay, besides it's more than I usually wear. I don't like wearing clothes, I like caffeine, mom can I have caffee."
"What's caffee?" I ask ignoring her previous sentence because it's true she's in a sportsbra and boyshorts
"I couldn't decide on whether to say coffee or caffeine. So I mixed them together."
"Okay, you definitely need coffee, I'm going to go find some of the real kind of coffee, watch her, please." I ask Connor, he nods.
I stand in the line in watchtowers cafeteria since the leagues expansion a few years ago they just keep on adding sections the teenagers have their own little wing of watch tower. It's changed a lot since I was last here nearly 18 years ago.
I know taking on a team of teenagers and leading training sessions and being a den mother is a lot of responsibility, but I have Wally to help me out. We're meeting the team today, I'll see my niece and some of my friend's children and also the kids of older justice leaguers. I've been reading files and talking to Connor about them when he was on monitor duty. He says they're a good bunch of kids just very green, and inexperienced.
I scan my ID card as I get coffee, seeing as I am not a teenager, a speedster or a redhead I'm allowed coffee. I understand the speedster thing but redheads? I feel like that's a little discriminatory. I blame Roy or Shayera.
But the teenagers thing, the teenager probably need it more than anyone, I mean they juggle school friends and missions I remember how hard it was having essays and midterms mixed amongst crime fighting and mission, I wouldn't have survived my teenage years without the caffeinated drink my daughter is so obsessed with.
I hand her the coffee, "Go put some clothes on, preferably workout clothes, We're meeting the team and I want to put them through their paces."
"Sure!" she singsongs happily after a few sips of the liquid magic that changes her from a grumpy teenager to a happy go lucky person.
"Scootch, I'll see you there in 15." I tell her. She skips off happily back to her room
"I better be getting home. Arty you guys better come over for dinner soon, M'gann is going to kill you if you don't. She seems like a good kid, a little bonkers but she is related to you and Wally so that was unavoidable. You did a pretty good job, as far as I can see, she's very chatty and bubbly."
"Not fun in the middle of the night when she comes home drunk I can assure you."
"No I can't imagine it is." He says absentmindedly, with a look on his face as if he's trying to picture it.
I walk to the team's common room and it is a sight to behold, two of the boys are on the sofa wrestling over the remote, the sofa looks like it's seen better days, a girl is sitting by the island in the small kitchenette reading, she's using magic to flick the pages. A brawny looking boy who looks a bit like Connor (I guessed he was superman's son) and an ebony haired girl were arm wrestling, the poor table looked like it was about to break. A girl at the end in a green and black outfit was leaning over a pile of books mumbling to herself in Spanish. And a red head is arguing with someone on the phone, she looks familiar, I think its Lian, I mean speedy. And finally Ollie's little girl Olive is sitting on the rafters sharpening arrows.
"No dad, I promise, I'm fully clothed, I swear I'm not running around watch tower in my underwear…. Oh since when are you friends with Kyle….. I- look the new instructor chick is here now I gotta go, I'll talk to you about this later." She says rolling her eyes where appropriate, and looking extremely aggravated.
"My idiot dad." She explains," You must be Artemis my aunt, you look different to the pictures. I'm Lian, I've changed some since you last saw me. The idiots wrestling on the sofa are Gio and Don, I have no clue where Dawn is, and the idiots breaking the table are Will and Dianne, the one cursing in Spanish is Milagro, Olive is up in the rafters, she's having a bad day. And Taika's the only normal one she's reading. I don't know where aqualad is"
"Right." What did I get myself in for?
"You okay? You look a little shell shocked."
"Yeah, Lian can you get everyone to the training room, I want to see you guys in action, I've read your files, but I want to see what you can and can't do with my own eyes."
"I knew I liked you." She says with a smile, Jesus this kid smiles a lot considering she lives with Roy the angst machine, she puts to fingers in her mouth and whistles, the whole room stop and look at her. "Report to the training room pronto, Don go find Artie and your sister."
"She's probably on the phone to her boyfriend."
"Shut up dork, at least I can get someone to go out with me." says a strawberry blonde from the doorway.
"Pft I could do it if I tried Dawn."
"Yeah like you can vibrate your molecules through solid objects if you tried."
"Shut up Dawn."
"Make me loser."
They lunge at each other, or at least they try to before they can they are encased in green, «Will you guys shut up, I have to make up my final seeing as I missed it, because you dorks cannot handle a little robot." Says Milagro, Lantern girl
"That robot was not little, miracle grow." Don retorts
"I told you not to call me that dweeb."
"Enough!" I hear a voice shout from the doorway behind me, I turn to see Blair. "God I thought you guys were meant to be a team of covert operation superheroes, not a gang of grandmas at a squat and stitch. Do you guys even know what silent is?"
"Who the hell are you?" asks Don
"I'm Blair." She says with a smile, she's a bit more presentable, a tank top and leggings cover her long slim frame, her wild lion mane is up in a ponytail.
"I remember you, you walked into my about an hour ago, you were semi-nude." Will says
"Oh yeah, sorry about that, Time zone problems and being in space and all." She says jokingly
"You look a lot like Lian, I mean seriously stand next to her for a sec." Don notes,she does as told and stands next to the other red head.
'It's true' I think as I observed them, they were both ginger, although Blair's was more of a red at the moment it got lighter in the summer, they had green eyes, Lian's were more of a hazel tone though in comparison to Blair's emerald eyes, they had the same olivey tanned look about them as if they'd spent weeks in the sun. The height was the only real difference, Lian was about 2 maybe 3 inches shorter than Blair, and Blair was abnormally tall. I don't know where she gets it from probably a genetic anomaly. Blair stood just shy of 5, 10 ft. They had the same athletic build, sloping cheekbones and oval faces, they could be sisters.
"Hi I'm Blair, we're cousins." She greets.
"Lian, I'm guessing you're the reason my dad thought I was running around watchtower half naked." She says narrowing her eyes, Lian looks unsure of what to think about her cousin.
"Sorry." She says rubbing the back of her neck, it's a gesture Wally used when he was uncomfortable, it was something she'd always done in instinct.
"No its fine, saved me from actually doing it, I love winding him up."
"You don't say?" she says giving an evil smirk, "Well if you ever want help, I'd be more than willing to help make some mischief."
"Oh I like her. Olive come meet new girl, she's gunna help us wind up Roy."
The blonde girl in the rafters drops down, she smiles at Blair, "Did I hit my head or am I seeing double?"
"Neither, this is Blair, she's my cousin, she's the reason my dad rang to shout at me about the woes of public semi nudity." Lian says
"Ah, so you were the one running around semi naked, don't worry word travels fast around here, like you being Artemis's best kept secret. The flashes really struggle to keep their mouths shut, never tell them anything. Isn't that right Dawn?"
"Shut up! What part of reporter mom and flash as a dad do you not get?" Dawn protests
"The part that requires you to tell everyone that I once got tied up in my own grappling arrow." Olive retorts
"Guys you have this same argument every single day, can we talk about something else?" Will asks
"Yeah, I want to know more about the newbie." Milagro says.
At this point I feel like I should just leave the room and let them bond, but they can do that later, now they need to train.
Well they've got potential, if they'd stop arguing with each other for 5 minutes and co-operate enough to train. It appears that Lian and Olive are quite close, Lian seems almost protective of her. Will and Taika seem to get along quite well, I'd be lying if I said I didn't see the possibility of them having a relationship in the future. Don on and Gio seem to be quite close, I'd say they're like the trolls of the team, Gio is a lot like his dad at 14.
Milagro is Lantern in training, basically she's a teenaged green lantern, she's that crazy Jamie guys' kid sister. Lian and her seem to be pretty good friends. Aquaman's son Artur, usually Artie, Art or Aqualad, is a nice boy polite and remind me of a young Kaldur, very boisterous a bit like his father.
Dawn and Don are a lot like their parents meaning their inquisitive, fast and absolutely insane. They seem nice enough.
Diane and Will are the Daughter and son of Wonderwoman and superman, they are strong they tend to punch first and think second.
All are very powerful in their own right, I am as of yet to meet Robin as it is uncertain on if he will join the team, I've heard from Lian the boy is a bit of an ass.
Question do you guys want Robin? Just let me know.
I know where's Wally (Hehe) in this chapter? Truth, he's visiting his parents, think how they feel, I mean their only son came back from the dead. I promise he will be in the next chapter as will Roy, Zatanna, Oliver and Dick. So I'm not too sure on this chapter please tell me what you guys think in reviews, you can review as a guest even if it's just to point out errors or mistakes or how sucky the last few chapters have been. i own Nothing and make sure to check out my new teen titan fanfic that I'm co writing with my friend who had a wattpad, it's basically just Flinx Fluff at the moment but it will have a plot and be a fully fledged book. Sorry for any mistakes, tell me any ideas you want me to try and incorporate them into the story. Seriously please review because it means the absolute world to me and makes me feel accomplished (even though my grammar is awful).
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