Hello fellow readers, I have managed to hack into my computer again (mwahahah) unfortunately I am still grounded (I have no clue why, I think it has something to do with yelling at my brother and duct tape) Here's the chapter you all have been waiting for. Now on with the show! I mean story…

Also I don't own Dc comics b/c if I did YJ would be on its fifth season. Ok now I'm gonna shut up so you can read the chapter. Enjoy!

Spitting Image Chapter 5

Artemis was consumed by anxiety; she was so worried about her daughter Abby. She knew her daughter was tough, but the shadows were after her. That was enough to make the fearless archer so scared she couldn't move without feeling the pain of regret. She took a deep breath; Artemis knew that with each passing second the Dark Knight was closer to her house. Another second that would mean her daughter is farther away. The archer took in another gasp of air; she was about to face another of her worst fears. Batman never scared the archer before; she was the only one that had the guts to talk back to the Dark Knight while withstanding the Bat glare. Now 16 years later the blonde wanted to go die in a hole to avoid the dreaded confrontation, but she couldn't. She had to grow up and be a big girl. Still tears welled in her tired steel blue eyes as she retreated back into the corners of her mind, deep in thought.

Zatanna felt the butterflies flutter in her stomach, she was as nervous as ever. She was worried about her niece. Abby could always find a way to make people smile. It would kill the magician if she would never get to see the redhead's optimistic grin. Tears briefly rimmed her cyan eyes before they were forced away. Zatanna knew she had to stay strong; for Artemis and Abby.

Both women jumped when they heard the sharp bank on the door. Artemis tried to get up, but Zatanna beat her to the door. The magician took one more deep breath before ushering Batman into the small suburban home.

Batman knew that he was going to Artemis's house as soon as he saw the coordinates, but he never expected this.

The archer remained frozen when the Dark Knight walked into her kitchen. She flinched when she fell victim to the Bat glare. The tension in the air grew thicker with the silence. Batman turned his unbearable stare towards the shivering magician.

"Why am I here? I want answers now." He ordered breaking the silence, startling the two shaken women. Batman wasn't concerned when he saw Zatanna jump, but when he saw Artemis flinch he knew something was really wrong. Even he couldn't scare the archer, but red flags went off as she stayed silent. While the women composed themselves, he took a quick look around the room searching for a clue to what was going on.

Zatanna gulped slowly and revealed the painful truth to the Dark Knight.

"Artemis's daughter is missing…" The pieces all fit into place. Batman looked over to see a small picture of the blonde archer hugging a redheaded teen.

When Artemis had left 16 years ago Batman kept tabs on her, just in case he needed to find the former hero. But he never knew she had a kid. The Dark Knight inspected the photo of the small family: the girl looked very familiar. She looked a lot like Wally, under his mask the Batman's eyes were wide with shock. He turned to Zatanna. He knew.

"Does he know?"

It took a second to figure out what Batman had meant, but when she realized he was talking about Wally she glanced over to the sullen archer.

"No." was all Zatanna could reply before Artemis cut her off.

"It's my fault, all my fault." She whispered before she broke down and tearfully revealed the whole story to the Dark Knight. The archer was on the verge of insanity because she was so upset, but she managed to keep herself somewhat together as she confessed the whole truth.

….

Batman's face softened slightly as the archer finished telling her story. He felt sorry for the crying archer.

"Artemis, we're gonna find her.'" He said softly, the kind words felt foreign coming out of his mouth, almost sounding reassuring. The broken archer gave him the- we better find her or there will be hell on earth-glare. There was grief in her eyes, but she was furious on the outside. The shadows were going to pay.

"I'll go call the league for back up." The Dark Knight said in his usual monotone.

Then, for some reason Artemis lost it.

"NO! NOT THE LEAGUE!" The angry blonde shouted. Zatanna had to temporarily restrain the archer to prevent her form making an attempt on Batman. She begged him for her friend's sake, to not make it a league mission. The Dark Knight was about to refuse when he saw Artemis's pained expression. He finally gave in upon agreeing to an unofficial covert mission.

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Once Artemis had calmed down, the heroes agreed on a plan to meet up at the cave and search the country. She just wanted to scream; the pain tore her up inside and the guilt felt like a landslide had crushed her. The archer wistfully stared out the window of the Bat Plane as they flew to the cave. Tears silently slid out of her eyes as she remembered all of the good times she spent with her daughter.

There was a thick layer of dust covering the entire base, it had been abandoned about ten years ago as the team disbanded and moved on. Oddly enough the cave still felt like home to the archer even though it had been almost 17 years since she had been there last. She walked with Zatanna to the meeting room while Batman did bat things on the computer. The silent tears falling out of Artemis's eyes soon turned to quiet sobs as the past caught up with her. Her knees felt like giving in as she arrived in the meeting room, she couldn't shake her feeling of guilt. The archer sat down at one of the chairs and buried her tear-streaked face into her arms on top of the table. She erupted into loud heart wrenching sobs that shook her fragile frame. Zatanna sat next to her weeping friend, trying to comfort her; it killed her to see Artemis like this.

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Nightwing was the first to arrive at the cave. He had rushed over to the old base as soon as he got the message from Batman. His quick paced footsteps echoed through the dim empty hallways as the former boy wonder headed towards the mission room. Dick Grayson gulped as he saw Zatanna (His exgirlfriend was one of the few people that actually scared him) and some crying blonde woman he didn't immediately recognize. He swiftly glided into the room and towards the chair the furthest away from the magician. Nightwing caught another look at the blonde; she looked so familiar to him, the dective started going over all of the blonde people he knew in his head. Then one face popped up, it was a face he hadn't seen in 16 years "No- it can't be her." Was all he thought. Dick finally had enough courage to speak up and confirm his suspicions.

"Is that Art-" he began but was quickly silenced by Zatanna giving him the Shut-up-or-I-will-end-you glare. The former boy wonder quickly scurried over to the couch on the other side of the room. "Oh My God. It is her." He thought when he saw a green quiver on the floor. The hacker was shocked at the appearance of his former teammate.

The next to arrive was Aqualad and Rocket. The two were chatting quietly as they walked through the entrance. The former leader started to go to the conference table to greet Zatanna and the mysterious weeping blonde. Nightwing shot up and mouthed," I wouldn't do that if I were you." to the atlantian. The pair heeded his warning and strolled over to the former robin. Dick filled the two in with what he knew, which wasn't much.

M'gann and Connor came in next; they were holding hands and wearing matching gold band on their ring fingers. The couple parted with a kiss as the martian walked over to Zatanna and the "yet to be identified" crying blond. Connor joined the guys (and Rocket) to be filled in with what they knew. (Which was basically nothing)

Miss Martian sat next to Zatanna and telepathically asked the same question that everyone else in the room was asking. "Zee, What's going on?"

The magician let out a deep sigh and briefly explained the situation to M'gann. All the martian could say was "oh." until the shock settled in. "That's Artemis?" she whispered quietly. Zatanna answered the green woman with a small nod. Almost instantly the martian's eyes were full of worry and compassion. M'gann floated to the other side of Artemis and put her hand on her crying friend's back, trying to comfort her.

Soon after, some teen titans and justice leaguers started to trickle into the mission room. A few of the titans went to go talk to Nightwing, while others sat down and started their own conversation. The room fell silent when the Dark Knight walked in followed by Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern (Ryan Rayner), Hawk girl and Steel. Batman pulled up an image of Abby on the main screen and turned to the group of heroes and began the briefing.

"Team, our mission is to find a missing teenager that disappeared a little over 24 hours ago. We have reasons to believe that she is either being pursued or captured be the League of Shadows." There were a few gasps through out the crowd. Artemis finally revealed her now puffy; tear streaked face out from under the shelter of her arms. Batman enlarged the picture of the missing teen and continued his speech.

"Our target is Abigail Crock, she was reported missing yesterday in Gotham." The room was dead silent. Connor, Rocket, Kaldur, and Nightwing's jaws hit the floor when they saw the picture of Abby. Most of the heroes in the room seemed shocked at this revealing news. There were a few gasps and grunts *Cough* Nightwing *Cough*. All eyes turned to the blonde archer.

hope you liked the story. This was all I could manage to type up so sorry for the disappointment. Please, please, please review. I have made the decision to not publish any more chapters until I get it least 10 new reviews. So if you want me to update, review please. Also our favorite scarlet speedster might make an appearance in the next chapter, so hurry up and review, please.