Disclaimer: I don't own young justice. I only own Alex Matthews .A.K.A. Mia Sanders

Srry 4 d late update. N this is still Robins POV.

Suddenly her hand grabs onto the front of my uniform, yanking me to an upright position. I open my mouth, about to thank her for saving me. But then she pulls me closer till her mouth meets my ear. "You don't get to die that easily. Bad people deserve to be punished." She whispers.

I twist out of her hold and jump backwards. "Alex…" My mouth clamps up when I look at the person in front of me. The Joker mutilated her mind and then dumped her into the world as an incomplete version of herself. The torture she sustained made her crack. She's more monster than human.

I raise up my hands in surrender. "I'm not going to fight you Alex. I want to help you. I'll take you back to the mountain and Ms Martian can-"

"No! I will not go crawling back to you! I don't need you anymore, I don't need anyone!" She shrieks wildly into the air. Her eyes glaze over and she charges at me again, displaying her teeth like an animal does before devouring its prey.

I easily side step her wild attack and throw a smoke bomb onto the ground. In her disoriented state of madness she panics, twisting around until I land a punch to her face. She drops like a tonne of bricks. I bend and pick her up just as Batman lands the final blow, ending his own fight. The Joker soars into the sky and rolls to a halt in front of my feet - I stare at his unconscious form.

My anger builds, and I clench my fists in an attempt to subdue my boiling rage; hero's don't allow their emotions to cloud their judgment, hero's should be calm, hero's should be logical, hero's should… should… Fuck it. I think as I smash my boot into Jokers face, grinding it deeper for extra measure. I raise my foot, and stomp on his head again, and again, and again. "You think you can just mess with Alex?! You think you control her?!"

I pull my foot back to deliver another kick to his now shattered jaw, but Batman yanks me away. "That's enough. Revenge is never the answer."

I glare up at him, and then look down at the unconscious form of Alex in my arms. "You say that because you don't know how I feel."

"Regardless, hero's do not seek revenge. We fight purely for justice."

I look up into his eyes, silently begging him to understand why I did what I did. "If the situations were reversed – If it was me lying unconscious in your arms… would you have done the same to Joker?"

He remains silent and the steely expression on his face does not waver.

I frown and walk away from him with Alex in my arms. "Of course not. What was I thinking? You're the Dark Knight. Perfect as ever."

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"So can you help her?" I ask again.

Wally places a hand on my shoulder. "Dude calm down, you need to give M'gaan time."

I shrug him off. "I have. It's been an hour already."

M'gaans eyes finally return to normal, loosing its green glow. "I believe I could fix her mind, but it will take time. Everything she was, is destroyed. Her personality, her feelings, her thoughts, her -"

"We get it M'gaan." I spit out in a strained voice.

Superboy raises a fist menacingly and M'gaan gently pushes it back down.

Wally pats me on the back. "Don't stress so much. Alex can get through anything."

I look down at the battered girl on the couch who is now wrapped in bandages from head to toe. Whoever that is, she's not Alex.

Superboy folds his arms. "Hey Robin, you never told us why Alex was pretending to be Mia. Or why she was working with Joker."

"I…I'm not really clear on that myself." I sigh heavily and rub a hand over my face. Turning away from the team I walk towards my room for some much needed solitude.

Collapsing on my bed, I take in a huge breath and cover my face with my hands. What happened to Alex? And who the hell is she now?

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Four weeks later:

I'm the last person to visit Alex. It kind of makes sense since I've been avoiding it all day. I'm just not sure if I want to… what if she's changed? What if she hates me? It's been so long, that there are so many 'what ifs'.

I drag my feet into her hospital room, and stare at the thin form in front of me. All her bandages have been removed and her bones have healed properly. In the past weeks her hair has grown out to its natural brown. It now rests on her shoulders. She stands, leaning gently against the bed, with her Mia costume on and her mask twirling between her fingers. Her face appears fully healed, with only a light scar below her eye. I stare into her grey pupils as she stares at me.

Her face breaks into a bright smirk. "What's up with your face? You look constipated."

I let out a quiet sigh of relief.

Alex is back.

Alex POV:

I flip the red mask between my fingers and try to muster up some anger or resentment towards the guy in front of me. But right now, I can't find any. Hell yeah I remember everything, but it just doesn't bother me right now. Not with Robin standing right in front of me.

I raise an eyebrow when he doesn't speak. "You frozen or what?"

He blinks rapidly and clears his throat. "No…I…Why were you working for Joker?"

That was sudden. I pull my body into an upward position. "Why did you save me from him?"

"You can't answer a question with another question." He argues.

"I just did genius."

He frowns and I chuckle - that brings back memories.

"Don't laugh Alex. This is serious."

I roll my eyes. "Fine. But if your gonna ask me questions, we better gather the other dorks. They'll want answers as well."

"Those 'dorks' mended your sanity and healed your injuries." He growls.

I narrow my eyes at him. "I don't give two fucks. I didn't ask for any of that."

He falls into silence and stomps ahead of me. I shrug and hold my head high as I enter the lounge where everyone is chilling. I fold my arms and look each of them in the eye as I do a three-sixty of the room. "Get one thing straight guys. I'm answering your questions because I'm choosing to. It does not mean I've forgiven you." I turn to look at Wally as I say my next sentence. "If any of you piss me off, I will break you."

Wally's smile slowly drops from his face and Artemis nudges his shoulder, her voice taking on a grim tone. "Look on the bright side, at least she didn't say 'kill'."

Robin takes a step closer to me. "First question: What's with the costume and name change? Its like you made a new identity."

I shake my head at him in disappointment. "When did you get dumber? Of course I changed my identity. I had to if I wanted to become a villain."

Robin grinds his teeth, about to shoot back an insult until Wally butts in. "Well why'd you become a villain? It really doesn't make sense."

"With a brain as small as yours, I'm not surprised." I snap.

"Hey! I'm a science geni-"

I roll my eyes. "Yeah, yeah. Whatever. You keep saying you're a science genius but Im still waiting for the proof."

He folds his arms, and glares daggers at me. "I have no idea why everyone missed you." He mutters bitterly.

Robin brings us back to the topic. "So why did you become a villain Alex?"

I look him straight in the eyes and step closer with each word. "You don't know? You really can't think of a single moment in time that pushed me towards this?" He remains silent, and I let out a bitter chuckle. "You threw me out of the team!" I spin around to face all of them. "You all did!" I scream.

I clench my fist tightly into Robin's shirt, my breath blowing hard against his face. "You threw me out like family meant nothing."

Robin gently unfurls my fist from his shirt. "It was the right thing to do. You were… you were a liability to the team. Your actions were more of a danger than a help."

"I never put anyone in danger apart from myself!"

Wally raises his hand with a smug expression on his face. "Actually…"

Artemis quickly slams his hand down and covers his mouth. "Listen, if you're gonna commit suicide don't do it in front of me."

Robin grabs onto my shoulders. "Look, we don't regret the decision we made." He looks around for the teams support, but they all take a step backwards. Wally shakes his head as if to say 'If she beats you up, you're on your own man'. Robin sighs. "But after you warned us about Jokers assassins, we think our earlier decision was too… uh, hasty. Will you come back to the team? Please?"

I snort. "Dream on idiot. You think you can just throw me out and then beg me to come back whenever you feel like it? I've got better offers."

He raises an eyebrow. "Really? Like what?"

I freeze. I didn't actually think he'd ask me. I hold my head up high. "I'm heading back to the Joker as Mia Sanders." I put on my red mask and hope like hell that they wont call me on my bluff.

Robin grips onto my arms and shakes me violently. "Are you crazy?! You can't go back. Not after what he did to you."

I narrow my eyes at him. "I can do whatever I want. And right now, I don't want to be on a team that doesn't deserve me."

"Sheesh." Wally grumbles. "Was she always this self-centred."

Robin's eyebrow twitches in annoyance. "Look Alex, we want you back on the team. OK?! We regret kicking you off, more than anything. We were stupid, and we're sorry."

Everyone nods, but Wally huffs. "Speak for yourself. The girl left me unconscious in Gotham."

"Will you let that go already!" I shout in annoyance.

He just frowns. "Fine." He speaks woodenly, purposely dragging out his words. "Come back to the team, we cannot survive without you. You are our rock, blah, blah, blah."

A devilish smile passes my face. "I'll come back to the team then… just because Wally asked so kindly."

Robin smiles in relief. "Welcome back."

Kaldur nods in agreement. "It is good to have you back Alex. You are part of our family and we have missed you dearly."

Artemis joins in. "Yeah, I was getting sick of the peace and quiet." She says good naturedly.

M'gaan claps in glee and flies over to hug me. I push her away with clenched teeth. "Still don't like you."

Superboy growls at me.

I sigh loudly and roll my eyes. "But since you fixed my mind and stuff, I guess... I can pretend that I don't want to punch you."

She squeals in glee and hugs me again. I immediately regret my words.

Superboy gives me a light nod of acknowledgment. "I guess it is kind of cool that you're here and not dead somewhere."

I roll my eyes, but end up accepting the kind-of compliment. "A simple 'Glad you're back', would have been fine."

Wally comes up to me with a stubborn scowl on his face. "I don't understand how you can get through life being as rude as you are."

"Not surprising. You don't understand a lot of things."

His scowl deepens. "Would you quit it with the 'stupid' jokes!"

I smirk at him and tiptoe so I can pat his head in a demeaning fashion. "Isn't that cute...you think I was joking."

He attempts to reply, but then just shakes his head. "I'll let you have that one." A gentle smile crosses his face. "You haven't changed that much." He says ruffling my hair.

I push his hand away, scratching at an itch in my armpit. "What am I, a dog?" I say in exasperation.

He laughs. "You act like a boy you know."

"How did you ever get Artemis with compliments like that." I tease.

He smiles, then the laughter drops away from his face. "You didn't even say goodbye."

I blink, floored by the sudden change in conversation. "What?"

"You didn't even say goodbye. Just disappeared. You know, just because you got kicked off the team it didn't mean any of us stopped caring about you. "

I frown. "I had to. Its not possible to be part of a family you never see, Wally." He remains silent and I cross my arms over my chest. "I don't regret leaving the way I did. If you expect me too, then you don't know me at all."

He shakes his head. "I get it. We both made mistakes that-"

"I didn't make any mistakes."

He sighs. "Fine, whatever. Your perfect."

"And you're annoying as hell." I counter.

"Hey! That was a compliment." He protests.

I snort. "Not the way you said it."

He gives me a cheeky smile. "I may be annoying, but according to Mia, I'm cute." He says proudly.

I roll my eyes. "Mia was a liar."

I walk away from him, heading for the kitchen. I knew they'd be begging for me to come back.

I didn't doubt it for a second.

After all, the team isn't Young Justice with Alex Matthews.

Note: Alex loves thinking about herself in third person cus she's got a big ego.

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