Here is the chapter for you, Piggythelaw! And everyone too!

I'm so sorry for the last chapter that it's tooo short! Y^Y

I felt so angry over the fact that my fiction bore everyone to death until I accidentally uploaded that chapter...

I'm so sorry Piggythelaw and everyone that followed this fic. Hope you guys still stay with me and enjoy this fic.

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Chapter 13

Shattered, Fix, and Open up.

Rou's POV

" Rou, can I have a word with you?" I looked up from the book in my hand when I heard Black Canary's voice. Black Canary eyed at me with worry sincerely.

" Okay." I gave her a short reply but tried not to make it sound rude and followed her to somewhere.

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Black Canary brought to the room that had two comfortable black armchairs which faced to each other. In the room, there was a waterfall certain that created a soft sound which made people feel relaxed and plain plants beside it.

" Have a seat. Wanna have some drink? We got a coffee, juice, and cold water." Black Canary walked to the counter that kept some beverage.

" Cold water, please." I seated on one of armchairs softly and looked around the room to stop being nervous.

" Here." Black Canary place the glass of cold water on the small table near my seat with a soft thunk sound before she walked to sit another armchairs across me comfortably.

" I know you feel distressed about an unpleasant experience that you got from the asylum which make you can't get along with the Team." Black Canary spoke up, calling me up from my drifting mind.

" I'm afraid that the problem wasn't about me feeling pain for that, okay? I'm fine. Everythingis normal. Nothing is out of place. Look, I have a lot of things to do. If you drag me to only talk about this, I leave this room." I stated with a soft monotone voice, feeling don't want to talk about it.

" Have a lot of thing to do because it really is or it's because you felt so lonely and you tried to hide it by that?" I looked away to avoid Black Canary's blue eyes that somehow had a magic to read people throughly like Nightwing. Feeling lonely? Is she kidding me? I never feel lonely.

" No, ma'am. I felt great and please -"

" I don't buy it. Rou, please let me help you." Black Canary sent me sincere look to me.

' Rou, maybe it's time to stop hiding away your feeling. One month for hiding your stress could kill you. Not literally but it could broke you up.' Morana spoke up worriedly. I guessed it's time.

" Ever since I was brought here by Nightwing, everyone tried to avoid me because of my appearance. Even I had Aqualad and Superboy befriend with me, it wasn't enough. Last week, Aqualad brought me to Atlantis, looking for the clue about my power but then, he kept his distance away from me. I know that he didn't do that but I think he used his king's request as an excuse. Same as Superboy, he used the excuse to avoid me since I made his love relationship with Megan ended badly. You don't know what it feel like to be alone and people judge you like how they judge the book by its cover." I took my breath shakily as I felt shaking because of my outburst emotion

"If you asked me why I tried to keep myself busy. It's because I want to distract myself from hearing what the team gossip about me and looked at me as if I could kill them when they looked away." I glanced Black Canary who was speechless.

" These are what I kept for a whole month. I tried not to be trouble for them, ma'am. But they still did that...and for whatever they said to you about me, I don't mind at all. Actually, I felt Sick of it until it is numb to me." Black put her hand on my knee and looked at me with sad eyes.

" Rou, all the times. Do you think we hate you that much?" She asked me gently as I tried to hold my tears back. I replied her by nodding my head and looked at my feet which covered by dark purple slim.

" Poor girl, you took it the wrong way." Black Canary kneed down to my level and put her hand on my cheek softly before I leaned my face to her warm touch.

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" It's alright, Ro. Let's try again." After I talked out my problem with Black Canary and lost a few tears to it, She decided to trained me hand-to-hand combat again from the basic. I decided to spill my bean on how I could do some combat move. At first, I thought she would resent me about the fact that I could copy people's move by let my slim have a physical contact with. But, it turned out that she didn't feel that way and wanted to help me deal with it as she could.

I practiced on the big dummy and tried to dodged like there was some attack from it. I jabbed on every parts of the dummy heavily and dodge without tripping my feet.

" Stay focus on your target. Stand strongly on full feet. When you attack your enemy, punch them with all your strength." Black Canary instructed me and she stood at safe distance not to get punched by accident.

" Recognized: Batman zero-two. Nightwing B zero-one" The computer announced the arrival as they appeared and walked to my way.

" Good to see you two. I haven't seen you much around here or at Watchtower." Black Canary greeted them with smirk. I stopped my training and looked at them.

Nightwing seemed to be lost in thought for something. Suddenly, he looked at my way as if he felt my gaze and smiled when he saw that I tried to looked away.

" Miss me?" He asked with mischievous smile.

" Nope...just making sure that you really existed." I replied grumpily.

" You mean to make sure that...you aren't dreaming, right?" Nightwing countered back as his smile widened to his ears. With that, I felt my face warm and I bet it was as red as the color of Flash's costume.

" It's- it's not like that..." I used my hand to cover my cherry red face, turning my face to the side. When Nightwing walked close to me, my shoulders were up as I tried to hug myself.

Suddenly, I felt a hand on my head patted me softly which made me look up and saw his blue eyes looked at me kindly.

" It's okay...you know...to let yourself loose up sometimes." Nightwing's deep soft voice whispered in my ears before he walked away, leaving me dumbstruck. I always thought that he was just a cheeky guy who only flirted new female member for temporary and then, move on to another one. No...this guy is really worried about me and wants me to let him in...into my life...and...into my heart...

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