I'm sorry for taking forever to update, had a little trouble figuring out what to do next but I've got it!
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"I need to get out of here." A voice rang in the busy streets of Gotham. "I'll take anything you can give me; money or an address, anything."
The girl looked at the street as the voice spoke to her, she sighed in frustration.
"Yes, I get it. Thanks for trying anyways, Shawn… No I don't… Well I'm suck, wait what?... In that case just give me the number." She took a pen from her pocket and wrote something on her hand. "I'll talk to you later Shawn, thanks."
As the girl hung up the phone and walked away, she decided to rest for a bit so she found a nearby coffee shop and went in.
As soon as she was seated a woman came up to her. "Can I take your order?"
The girl sighed. "I'll take whatever you have that helps keep me awake, please."
The woman nodded, giving her a sympathetic smile. "I've got just what you need."
Aria nodded in thanks and looked down at the table. As the woman left she pulled out a necklace, holding it up to her face. "I don't know what to do, mama." She whispered.
The small gem that hung at the base of the necklace shone in the sunlight, making the girl look away.
And notice the man silently watching her.
She met his gaze before quickly turning away. This was one of them, the reason her father was running.
Trying to act as casual as she could she turned back to the man, only to find him gone.
She gave a sigh of relief and turned back in her seat. Big Mistake.
He was there; sitting right in front of her.
She struggled to stay calm. "W-who are you?"
He smirked, his eyes covered by a pair of sunglasses. "I don't think I really have to answer that."
Closing her eyes she spoke again. "You have no business with me, it was my father who you should be talking to."
He chuckled. "My business was with him, but now it's with you."
She narrowed her eyes. "I don't even know you."
"But I know you."
Both became deadly silent as the waitress returned with the girl's drink. "Here you go… oh, I didn't know you'd have company."
The woman eyed the blonde man. "He's just my uncle."
The woman nodded, appearing unconvinced. "Just call if you need anything, honey."
"Will do." The girl replied.
The woman warily walked away from them.
"Just tell me what you really want." Aria hissed.
"It's simple; your father's wanted dead by a couple of people." He replied.
She chuckled darkly. "It's a little late for my father, but you knew that. So what, are you here too kill me?"
He smirked. "I could do that, but it's not in my contract and I don't like to waste good talent. So I want to make you a deal."
The girl crossed her arms. "Whatever it is; count me out. I don't do deals with assassins."
He gave the girl an amused smirk. "You'd be stupid to refuse."
"Well then call me stupid and leave." She hissed under her breath.
"That's the thing, I can't just leave you all alone."
"So now you want what's best for me or what?" She snapped. "In case you haven't noticed you kill people."
"Of course, but so did you." He replied.
The girl forced herself to calm down. "Go to hell."
"I will, eventually. But so will you, my dear."
With a reluctant sigh the girl spoke again. "Tell me now or leave me alone."
"I think it takes guts for a girl to do what you did and you cover your tracks well, no one suspects a thing."
"No one but you." She corrected.
"I've been doing this kind of thing for a while." She didn't bother to ask what this "thing" he did was. "As I was saying; you have guts, you're smart and I hear your good with knives."
She crossed her arms. "Among other thing."
"All you'd need is some training." He finished.
The girl's eyes widened. "What's the catch?"
He shrugged. "No catch, all you have to do is agree to work for us."
"Who's us?" She demanded.
He leaned in closer. "You ever hear of the League of Assassins?"
The girl nodded. "Yeah, I've heard of them… you mean "us" as in them? And you want me to be trained… as one of them?" It all sounded way to suspicious to her. "And if I refuse?"
He replied calmly. "As you know, we don't leave witnesses." He pulled a card and handed it to her. "How about I give you some time to think it all through? Just give me a call if you accept, if you don't… I hope you know how to run."
She reluctantly took it. "Sure…"
"Call me Sportsmaster."
"So she was trained by Sportsmaster." Wally concluded.
They all sat around the hallway that held Aria's cell.
"It doesn't make any sense." Artemis muttered.
"What doesn't?" Superboy asked, catching the girl off guard.
Artemis shrugged nonchalantly. "None of it does; she murdered her own father to save an innocent woman, she worked with Sportsmaster? How is it possible we're only hearing about her now when she's been around longer that Cheshire?"
"Maybe she only recently started working as an official Shadow." Miss Martian offered.
"Or maybe she's been covering her tracks since the beginning." Kaldur stated.
"Just like Sportsmaster said." Robin concluded. "It is why he wanted her."
"And she took the deal." Wally finished.
"Or something like that." A voice rang through all their heads, making them jump.
"Miss Martian, did you forget to cut the mental link?" Artemis asked.
"Sorry!" Megan gasped.
"Don't be, I'm actually quite enjoying this." They all heard a small chuckle.
"You seem pretty happy for someone who murdered a part of their family." Wally remarked.
All was deadly quiet as they waited for her response. "What. Did. You. Say?"
"Good job, Baywatch." Artemis snapped.
"If you knew the whole story you'd shut up!" Aria hissed. "You would have done the same."
"Well then tell us, we want to know." Robin told the girl. "You don't have to hide anything from us."
As the girl brought her legs up to her chest and wrapped her arms around herself in the other room she reluctantly sighed. "Naida, she… she wasn't the first. And I knew she wouldn't have been the last. I had to do it."
"Why?" Robin asked. "What were you running from that was so bad?"
Aria bit her lip. "My dad, he wasn't as nice as he appeared to be. But he was still my dad and I still loved him."
"More than that woman you saved?" Wally asked.
"My saving Naida had nothing to do with the love I had for her, I would have let her die if I knew my father and I could finally be free of our pasts." She stated, much to everyone's shock.
"Then why?" Megan asked sadly.
Aria showed them all an image; a happy couple with their daughter all of them smiling happily at the camera. The woman had beautiful dark black hair that appeared almost black and shining gray eyes, the man had shaggy blonde hair and green eyes. And finally the girl; it was obviously their daughter, the blonde hair and crystal like gray eyes visible. "Naida wasn't the first victim; my father had murdered someone before, when I was seven. I didn't want to lose both of them so I went along with it, papa… the person he killed, well, it was my mother."
So does anyone else feel like this story is finally getting somewhere? Well maybe not because you don't know what I'm planning next! MUAHAHAHAHA! XD
No but seriously, even I can't wait till the next chapter AND I'M WRITING IT! ((((I ALSO CAN'T WAIT TILL ROBIN IS KIDNAPPED WHICH MIGHT ALSO BE NEXT CHAPTER IF I WRITE IT LIKE I WANT!)))))
Review and I'll update sooner, if you don't I'll probably go into depression and it'll take me a month to come out... (not kidding, it really would take me a month and I do get easily depressed... it's just that no one notices...)
