Man writing this hurt my brain. But I'm getting caught up! Somewhat!

Now, for the record, I love you guys for reading this, and I really hope you enjoy the story. But, I must warn you, I left it at another cliff hanger.

Now! On with the story!

(I'm fairly certain, you know the disclaimer.)

Chapter Sixteen: Misplaced

Denver, Colorado

October 31, 22:29 MDT (10:29 PM MDT)

Rose stood in front of a couple gravestones in one of Denver's cemeteries. She glanced at the two to gravestones to the immediate left, before staring at the ones in front of her again.

As Rose sat down, crossed-legged, Arrow walked up behind her, casting a shadow over the gravestones she sat in front of.

Rose didn't move. "What do you want?"

"I was wondering where you went. Why are we in a cemetery?"

Rose glanced at him, before staring at the gravestones in front of her. "Did I ever tell you about my parents?"

"Other than your dad worked for the Shadow's, and hearing from the League that your mom was one of them, no." Arrow glanced at the stones in front of Rose. "Why?"

"The night before I joined the team… my parents were killed when our house exploded. Sportsmaster's the one that planted the bomb."

"Is that why you're so touchy on the subject of your parents?"

Rose nodded. "I wasn't even there for their funeral. I don't even know if there was a funeral for them, or if they were just buried here."

"You're not the one who buried them?"

"No, I was too busy with the team. Some billionaire from Gotham paid for everything." Rose glanced at the set of gravestones next to her parents. "The fact they're buried right next to Natalia's parents, is somewhat ironic."

Silence hit them for a moment, as Arrow watched Gabrielle stare at the four gravestones.

Arrow finally spoke. "Gabrielle… Are you okay?"

Rose glanced back at him, and nodded. "Yeah. I just… needed to pay my respects."

Rose stood and walked over to the set of gravestones next to the Anderson's. She laid a rose in front of each. She then turned to face Arrow. "Let's get out of here."

Mount Justice

November 1, 00:46 EDT (12:46 AM)

"You disobeyed direct orders to re-"

"Oh come on Bats, I think we all know by now that I'm not taking any of your orders seriously."

"You were told not to leave the cave until-"

"Until I'm fully healed, yeah, I know. But I'm perfectly fine! And seriously, Wally has a broken arm and you're still letting him go on missions! There is no way that even you can have a logical argument to that."

Canary spoke up. "Why were you gone for so long?"

Gabrielle, still clothed as Black Rose-sans the face mask, stared at her Mentor. "Oh Arrow and I were just taking a stroll around town, figuring that the longer we wait to come back, the more you all would freak out."

Gabrielle received blank stares from the League members. Gabrielle crossed her arms. "We were fighting, and avoiding Sportsmaster, Cheshire, and a team that we ran into back on the sixteenth of last month. Sorry that we worried you, but I had a bit of unfinished business to attend to with that team."

"And exactly what unfinished business was that?" Batman questioned.

"If you're such a great detective, why don't you figure it out?" Gabrielle glanced around the room. "Where's Nat?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Because, we're going home. I'm sick of being cooped up in here, I'm sick of being watched like I'm an irresponsible child, and I'm especially sick of your rules." Gabrielle proceeded to leave the room. "Now if you don't mind, I'm going to get my sister."

Everyone watched as Gabrielle left, no one offering up a word.

Happy Harbor

September 5, 19:38 EDT (7:38 PM)

Gabrielle sat on the couch in her apartment, feet propped on the coffee table, staring at the TV as Roy and Natalia whispered to each other, occasionally glancing at the very moody Gabrielle on the couch.

Gabrielle assumed Roy was questioning Natalia on how to stay on her good side, as Roy had yet again managed to make Gabrielle mad, the direct result of this was Gabrielle not talking to either of them.

The phone suddenly rang and Gabrielle muted the TV before answering. "Anderson apartment, who the heck are you?"

"Wow, nice greeting, how long have you worked on that?"

Gabrielle furrowed her bow as she stood up. "Who's this?"

"Give me the phone Ethan! I told you that I would call her! Ethan! Hand over the phone!"

"Ethan…" Gabrielle bit her lip as she attempted to remember how she knew that name.

She finally walked over to the dining table, swiftly picking up her notebook and flipping through the pages until she found the one she was looking for.

Written at the top of the page in bold was 'Uncle Trevor' and a phone number. She removed the phone from her ear, since all she heard on the other end was what sounded like a wrestling match, and compared the number in the notebook to the one on the telephone.

Once she confirmed that it was a perfect match, she quickly returned the phone to her ear and whistled as loudly as she could. Praying that the boys were still true to their nature and put the phone on speaker.

This was confirmed when both boys simultaneously yelled 'what.' Gabrielle couldn't help but chuckle.

"Alright boys, if you're done kicking the snot out of each other, is one of you going to say 'hi Gab, miss you, how've you been'? Or do I just hang up now?"

More noise came from the other end, before Gabrielle heard a faint beep. "Sorry about that, Ethan was… well… being Ethan."

"I thought that was to be expected."

"Good point. So, how've you been? And where in blazes are you? That isn't the house number, or a Denver area code."

"I've been good, and so has Nat, not that you really asked about her, Brandon."

Natalia gasped dramatically. "They forgot about me?"

"Apparently Nat, should I hang up?"

"Yes!"

Brandon quickly spoke. "Hey, she's the new kid in the Anderson's; we haven't really met her yet."

Gabrielle shrugged. "Well, that's true. Alright Nat, he gets a pass."

Natalia sighed and went back to talking to Roy.

"You still haven't answered 'where are you'." Brandon spoke again.

"I doubt you've heard of this place. I think it's a secret government town that's off the grid and it might just be filled with science-y people who specialize in mutations."

"Imaginative as always."

Gabrielle grinned. "Why thank you, I do try to keep my imagination intact."

"Now, a name please?"

"Happy Harbor."

"Never heard of it."

Gabrielle laughed. "I told you!"

Brandon chuckled. "So what state are you in?"

"Rhode Island I think. I'm not entirely sure. Where are you guys? I never really knew where uncle awesome lives."

"Uncle 'awesome'?"

"Yes, he is the awesome uncle therefore he is known as 'uncle awesome'."

"Gab… He's our only uncle."

"That is exactly why he's the awesome uncle!"

Roy glanced at Gabrielle, with a curious expression.

Gabrielle didn't even acknowledge him. "So, where are you guys?"

"You can not have heard of this place." Brandon replied.

"Try me."

"StarCity."

Gabrielle's mouth dropped, as Roy and Natalia glanced at each other. Gabrielle turned to face Natalia and Roy.

"You probably won't believe me, but I've actually been to StarCity, quite a few times."

"You're kidding."

"Not even." Gabrielle looked around for something to write with, before quickly picking up her pen. "Brandon, can you give me the address?"

"Sure."

Gabrielle wrote down what Brandon told her, and smiled. "Maybe Nat and I can visit you guys, maybe tomorrow or sometime soon."

"That'd be nice, it's been how long since we've seen each other?"

"I don't remember." Gabrielle muttered.

Brandon chuckled. "So we can be expecting you guys soon?"

Gabrielle glanced at the clock, 7:46. "Yeah, I think if we get to bed early we could, maybe, be there tomorrow."

Gabrielle glanced at Natalia who grinned widely. Roy just stared at the two Anderson's before staring at Gabrielle. "You know you're going to need-"

Brandon spoke. "Who's tha-?"

Gabrielle gasped as, in a flash, Roy was suddenly gone.

"Roy!" Gabrielle exclaimed, rushing over to where he stood moments ago.

"Brandon I-" Gabrielle suddenly realized she heard nothing on the other end of the phone, except for faint sound of crying and someone whispering.

Gabrielle hung up the phone and ripped the paper with the StarCity address out of her notebook before picking Natalia up. She then rushed out the door, somehow managing to remember to lock the door behind her.

If anyone knows what's going on, it'll be the team.

Mount Justice

Gabrielle and Natalia rushed into the main hall of the Cave to find civilian clothed Zatanna and Robin examining the holographic screens that were in front of them.

As she walked closer she heard Wally's voice over the comm. system. "Any luck with-"

Robin cut him off. "No." he scanned the screens. "Can't raise the Batcave, the Hall of Justice, or the Watch-" Robin ceased his typing. "Or any adult hero, even Red Arrow."

"Guess we're on our own. Kid Flash out."

Gabrielle walked closer as Zatanna spoke up. "Traditional media's offline, but kids worldwide are all posting the same thing. Every adult, eighteen or older has disappeared." She stared at Robin, a worried expression on her face. "The sorcery necessary to pull this of... scary big."

"And we need you to find its source."

"How am I-?"

"I pulled this footage." Robin typed on his holographic keyboard. "It's your dad helping us locate Wotan and the injustice league, last month."

The footage played and Gabrielle watched, allowing herself to zone out as Zatanna and Robin continued to talk.

Gabrielle was remembering fighting off the mutant plant on the bridge in StarCity with Roy, and later Green Arrow and Black Canary.

Worry crossed her face as she thought of Roy. Why was she so worried about Roy? She was mad at him.

Gabrielle returned to reality when Natalia pulled on her shirt. Natalia watched as Gabrielle blinked a few times, before staring at the three year old. Gabrielle then proceeded to walk over to Robin and Zatanna as they finished talking.

"If you had called I could have told you that reaching Red Arrow would be impossible, he disappeared."

"I thought you might have disappeared too, just like the other adults." Robin explained.

"I'm seventeen Rob." Gabrielle smiled, before realizing what he had said. "What do you mean 'other'?"

"Every adult has vanished without a trace."

Zatanna spoke up. "It has to be high level sorcery."

Gabrielle nodded, before glancing at the paper in her hand. "Are the Zeta tubes online?"

"Yeah, why?" Robin questioned.

"Can you Zeta Nat and me to StarCity?"

"Sure."

Gabrielle stared at the paper again, as Robin set the destination for the Zeta-Beam.

Star City

November 5, 22:06 CDT (10:06 PM)

Gabrielle sat in the main room of her uncle's house. She held a crying infant, attempting to lull it to sleep.

Natalia and Gabrielle's six year old nephew sat on the couch watching Gabrielle. She then glanced at the two. "Trent, where's your sister's stuff?"

The brunette boy stared at Gabrielle confused. "Stuff?"

"The bag your mom brings for her?"

"Oh!" Trent rushed to the bag and brought it to Gabrielle.

"Thanks." Gabrielle took the bag with one hand, and put it on the coffee table. She rummaged through the bag until she found a pacifier.

She gave the pacifier to her niece, before rummaging in the bag for the formula milk. Once she located it and the baby's bottle, she carefully handed the infant to Trent before walking off to the kitchen to fix the bottle for her niece.

"So Trent, how've your parents been?"

"They've been good. They've been worried about you and grandma and grandpa."

Gabrielle 'humph'ed as she continued to fix the formula. "So how old is your sister?"

"Five months old."

The two were silent for a few minutes as she finished the formula and stared at the bottle, allowing herself a triumphant smile. Partially for the fact that she fixed something without burning it.

She walked back into the living room staring at the bottle. Natalia spoke up. "You didn't burn it!"

Gabrielle glared. "Alright shrimp, just because I've burnt a few eggs..."

"Almost thirty to be exact."

"No one asked, know-it-all."

Natalia smiled, as Gabrielle stuck her tongue out.

However, Gabrielle about jumped out of her skin when a voice came from her left. "You've burned thirty eggs? I knew you were a horrible cook, but seriously?"

Gabrielle instinctively turned; ready to attack the source of the voice. Her eyes met the hazel ones of a red haired male. She glanced around as there were now two other males and two females in the room.

One of the males was blonde and blue eyed, she recognized him immediately to be her Uncle. The other male was black haired and brown eyed, he gave her a smile as his arms were crossed.

All three males towered over Gabrielle by quite a few inches, but she was almost of equal height with the two females. A dirty blond with emerald green eyes, and a brunette with amber eyes.

Gabrielle stared at the five for a moment before piecing together who was who, before turning to Trent. "How long have they been here?"

"A few minutes."

"You're officially the worst nephew ever."

Trent and Natalia laughed as Gabrielle placed the bottle she had been holding on the coffee table before attacking her brothers with a group hug.

"Oh come on Gab, dad gave you the strength, don't squeeze the life out of us!" Ethan exclaimed.

"I'm not trying; I can try if you want." Gabrielle replied, not letting go of her brothers.

Brandon couldn't help but laugh as Ethan tried with all his might to push his sister away.

When Gabrielle finally let go, Ethan made quick work of getting as far from his sister as possible.

Gabrielle laughed. "Oh come on Ethan, you can't be that much of a wimp! What happened to the guy that wouldn't hesitate to team up with Brandon to pull surprise attacks on me?"

"If I recall, that was before you let dad do those experiments on you."

"Which you chickened out of."

"And the score is still Gab; a hundred, while Ethan still sits in last with a mere five. You're giving the Anderson boys a bad name bro."

"Okay, wait, back up." Gabrielle pointed at Ethan. "How did he manage to get five points?"

"We agreed to allow him those five points, because he was smart enough to team up with me to attack you."

"Right, I forgot, that was like ages ago."

"She hasn't been back two minutes, and they're already plotting against me. I'm doomed." Ethan headed into the kitchen. "I'm going to get something to eat."

Gabrielle followed Ethan with her finger, and once he was in the kitchen, she turned to Brandon. "Well, I'm glad to know he hasn't lost his apatite."

Everyone laughed, especially after Ethan yelled 'I heard that' from the kitchen.

Gabrielle hugged the rest of the adults, ending with her uncle. Once the hugs were done, Trevor spoke up. "Oh, before I forget. There was a bloke who came here; he said he was a friend of yours."

"Did he give you his name?"

Brandon spoke. "No, but he was a little taller than you. He had auburn hair, blue eyes..."

Gabrielle interrupted him. "Is he here?"

"No." Trevor replied, cupping his chin with his fist. "He left soon after he arrived, never came in. I believe he said something about an apartment?"

Before anyone realized it, Gabrielle had spun and was already outside, door wide open.

Trevor and Brandon stared at each other for a moment, before both nodded and spoke in unison. "She knows him."

Gabrielle had quickly left her uncles after he mentioned the apartment.

Roy could have only been talking about his apartment here in StarCity, right? He wouldn't have Zeta'd back to HappyHarbor, would he?

As Gabrielle reached the apartment building, she glanced up at the upper floors and bit her lip before rushing into the building, narrowly avoiding collisions with a few residents.

He has to be here, he just has to be.

The residents yelled at her, but she ignored them. She reached the door for the staircase and quickly ran up the flights of stairs until she reached the floor of Roy's apartment.

Once she entered the floor, she glanced around at the empty halls, before reading the number on a nearby door, using it as a guide to find Roy's apartment.

She ran through the halls, glancing at the door numbers. She suddenly skidded to a stop, before walking back to one of the doors she just passed.

She pulled out the spare key from its hiding place, and pushed it into the lock, turning it until she heard a click.

She took a deep breathe as she slowly turned the handle.

Please be here, please.

She pushed the door open and peered into the apartment.