Hey guys. Its late here and im bloody tired but i really wanted to update. Happy friday the 13th. Thank you for all the love and support i have got for this story. I would love it if you, the reader will review. It will only take a second. You can do something as simple and a heart, or you could tell me about your day, i dont care. Any kind of review, except a mean one, will make my day. Please, if you are reading this, review. Let's get this story to 100 reviews! But here it is, chapter 17!

Zantanna walked aimlessly down a hallway of the huge mansion with the rest of the team behind her, chatting quietly. She ran her fingers along the wall, the texture putting her fingers to sleep. She walked with abouslutly no purpose expect to walk, but she stopped suddenly when the wall dropped in thickness.

'woah.'

She back tracked her fingers. The indent felt about 3 feet across.

'wierd'

She thought as she traced the indent. It felt like a door. She rolled her finger over a button.

"Whaa?"

A keyboard popped put.

"Dick! Come check this out!"

He came over quickly.

"Look at this."

She stepped back, giving him a good look at the keyboard. He studied it.

"Can you hack it?"

Robin laughed and began typeing.

"Of course I.. can? Wait, this can't be right."

"What?"

Megan popped up from behind Zantanna.

"This is a 600,400,1 gibte wall. It's impossible to make, and I don't think anyone on earth is smart enough to hack it."

"Of course. I made it."

They all turned around, shocked that someone snuck up on all of them. A little african American girl stood in front of them. There was no doubt it was Surge. She had take her purplish-white hair down from its elaborate braid Zantanna had been admiring earlier, and pulled it back into a poofy ponytail. Her mask had been removed, so they could all see her wide electric blue eyes. All in all she was a cute girl who was probably going to grow into a beautiful woman. But that didn't matter now.

"You seriously designed that wall?"

Wally laughed. It did sound rediculace. A little girl designed a wall not even Robin could hack? Insane. But she just shrugged and said,

"yep! Now do you want to get in there?"

"Yes, yes we do."

Zantanna said quickly before Robin could go off about how it wasn't possible.

Surge walked over and typed three words into the keyboard. The door let out a hiss before opening.

"By the way, my name is Sapphire, please call me Sapp, and welcome the photo room ."

…...…

Zantanna gasped as she walked in. It was a small room, about the size of her room at the cave. And it was covered, floor to ceiling in pictures.

"Woah."

She heard Megan gasped.

"What is this?"

Wally asked while Zantanna walked up to one wall and began looking. There was a picture of a little Spirit with dark brown hair on hospital bed next to a pretty woman with dark honey colored skin and beautiful blue eyes. A tall bald man with medium-dark brown skin and a black goattie sat on the other side of the bed, his arm around the woman. She looked very tired but happy as she smiled, a bundle of pink blankets in her arms. The picture was so painful for Zantanna, she had to move on. There was a picture of the famous Artemis in a light lilac dress. It was sleevless, and ended right above her knees. It was simple, yet beautiful and elegent. Her make up was simple and understated, her blond hair (no dye) was lose, and she was holding a bunch of flowers. A beautiful smile adonrned her face. There was another picture of Artemis in her Pulse costume,smirking as she stood infront of a gang that had been knocked out and hogtied. Here, Zantanna had to smirk.

One picture stood out. It was a picture off all the kids at the beach. Artemis was standing in the middle, with Thunder on her hip and Spirit on her back. Sapphire was clinging to one leg, and Artemis looked as if she was doubled over in laughter. The photographer had caught her at a moment of weakness. Artemis's eyes where sparkling, her skin glistened in the sun, and she had a wide, happy smile on her face. Her grey bikini showed off her beautiful figure (and many battle scars) and Artemis's hair was wavey and tossed about by ocean wind. With the kids with her and just the pure joy radiating off her, Zantanna doubted she had ever seen someone so beautiful or happy in her life.

"Well I see Sapp let you into the photo gallery."

They all snapped arounded. It was the second time that day someone snuke up on them. Artemis half smiled in the doorway. Her blond hair was in a loose bun with a purple hair band holding her red bangs out of her face, and she had changed out of her jeans and dark sleevless button up top, and opted for a looser look with long grey sweatpants and layered red and blue tank tops, but you could see what Wally always said about her was 100% true. She was a totally babe.

"Hey big sis, remember this?"

The little girl passed Artemis a picture. When she saw it, she burst into a fit of raspy laughter. Zantanna could still not believe she was in the presence of the real Artemis Crock. She was some sort of a urban ledgend on the team. The younger newbies, Beastboy, Wondergirl, and Batgirl, all doubted she existed. She sounded too awesome. And that legend was said not to laugh a lot. Zantanna looked around at the team. Conner and Kaldur had small smiles on there face, Rocket looked about as starstruck as Zantanna probably did, Megan and Robin where basking in the glory of being in Artemis's presence. And Wally, well Wally looked like he was using every bit of self restraint he had to not run over and squeeze the stuffing out of her. He really did miss her.

'wow, he really did miss her'

The magician silently marveled. Then she heard the laughing stopped and Artemis was hanging the picture back on the wall. The she stopped and her hands found there way to a different picture.

"Hey Sapp! I didn't know we still had this picture."

The 7 year old pulled down Artemis's arm to see the picture.

"Oh yeah! This is when you where in the hospital… whaa?"

A green blur (A/N Zantanna changed them into civvies) shot past, taking the picture from Artemis and zooming to a stop in front of Robin, who immeaditly began studying it. Everyone else crowded around as well. Artemis was lying on a hospital bed with a baby under her arm. She had a IV running through her wrist and bandages wrapped tight around her head, but you could still see blood peaking through. There were various bandages wrapped around her arms. Her blond hair had a blue tint and was cut very unevenly just under her shoulders, like someone had taken a knife to it. Finally Disk asked softly,

"Arty, what happened to you? After you ran away."

Artemis sighEd before sitting down.

"Sit down. It's a long story."

So they all sat, and respectfully Sapp left the room.

"You guys know that when I ran away, I took a train to Nashville. Well somehow, Batman got there before I did, and tried to force me to come back. I ran. I hitchhicked to the middle of Kansas, where I met Lekira. Together we made it to New Orlands. The reason I went there is because my grandma used to head a HUGE manufacturing company that's been shut down for years. But she was a multimillionare, she left her entire estate to me. So I collected my money before calling my mom."

Her voice turned bitter.

"I should have known. Sportsmaster rigged the line and immeadinew knew where I was. I tried to run. But it didn't work. He caught up to me around 10 miles out of town before questioning me on everything I knew about the league. I refused to tell him anything, which, well resulted in this."

Artemis gestured to the picture.

"I was lucky one of my friend's boyfriends, well he wasn't at the time but anyway he was taking his morning run when he found me. He took me back to town where Ella healed every injury she could. She a metahuman by the way. We are still discovering most of her powers. And"

She caught the look on Robins face,

" the hospital works on a healer-doctor secrecy. Only the doctor and occansional the healy now the healers identity. Anyway,"

Artemis stood up and walked to the east wall, searching for a picture.

"A young couple,"

She found the picture and pulled it down.

"The Fieespets where in the middle of having there three'd child. "

The archer showed them the picture. It was a wedding picture with the man with the goatee and the woman with the dark honey skin. The woman, Kathis was wearing a beautiful white dress with a drop waist and long train. The man was wearing a suit.

"Kathie was having some complications with her pereganticy. In the end, they saved the baby. But Kathie died."

Artemis's voice was low, and heavy.

"Clayton, Thunder to you, was perfectly healthy. But he just cried. For a little while, Stewart, my dad would just hold him and they would cry together. Stweart was a complete mess. And so where Damarius, Spirit to you, and Sapphire. But Clay knew something was wrong. He just would not stop crying. Anyway, I woke up after a couple days of sleep in the hospital and the first thing I heard was crying. So I got up to investigate. I found this little baby, crying alone in a nursery with all of his blankets kicked off, and to this day,"

Artemis smiled a bit.

"I still don't know why, but I picked him up. And immeaditly the crying stopped. If I put him down, he would start again. So I just took him back to my room and we both slept in there."

"Soo, you babynapped him."

Robin asked.

"Yeah pretty much."

She shrugged.

"Cool."

He nodded.

"Anyway, my alarm clock in the morning was a nurse screaming. It took awhile, but we got it all cleared up. Later, I was just sitting on my lap feeding him formala, when he opened his eyes for the first time, and I fell in love. Easy as that. And later, when I met Sapp and D, I fell in love twice more."

They all looked at her, shocked it was quite the story. But it wasn't over.

"I knew there dad was in a bad spot, and I already had a house picked out. The plan was to live in that house for a few years, and the Fieespets where only going to be staying until dad got on his feet. But soon, they all had permant rooms and we needed a bigger house. We moved into the mansion, hired Jonas, and the rest is history. Our dad found a job and he now works a few hours away, so he stays in a apartment until he can come back on the weekend. He finally did get back on his feet, but by then, I already adopted them."

"Don't you mean they adopted you?"

Superboy corrects, the only one not conpletely shell shocked by the story. Artemis smiled and shook her head.

"No, Im pretty sure I adopted them. Anyway, thank you. It felt good to talk about it. But,"

She got up and streched.

"I have to go walk Nelson and Spitfire. Come!"

The two pitbulls came racing up. Wally hid behind Conner.

"Let's go."

The two dogs bounced after Artemis. The room feel silent. Zantanna finally moistened her lips and said

"Wow."

"Wow indeed. Wow indeed."

"You can say that again."

"Yep."

"Ditto."

"Guys, I think we can all agree Artemis is bloody awesome."

Then, all the way down the hall they could hear Artemis shout,

"I BLOODLY KNOW!"

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