Arthur's pov

I force myself not to cry as I walk through the tower. I am praying that it is not Kaldur's body. I have no idea what I will do if I lost him. I see the league standing at the Jet Quin opens her arms to me and hugs me tightly. She has always been the mother of the league.

"Are you ok?" She asks me.

"No. I will be better when I bring him home." I explain shakily.

"Come on then." Superman says sadly.

I sit near the window and start to remember when Kaldur first called me 'papa'. I honest will never forget that day.

Memory

Me and Mera were making our way down the wall. Just enjoying the silence until we heard a small voice:

"My king! My king where are you?!" Kaldur shouted down the hall.

I looked down the hallway to se Kaldur looking for me excitedly.

"Yes Kaldur. I am here." I called out to him.

He swam to us quickly. He had an excited yet nervous look in his eyes.

"What is it my son?" I asked while placing a hand on his shoulder.

"My king, you are still going to the surface today yes?" Kaldur asked trying to avoid my eyes.

"Yes I am. Why do you ask?" I asked.

"I wanted to ask if I could accompany you. I understand that you said no the last time I asked but," He explained in his usual quiet calm voice.

"You believe that since today is your birthday I would change my mind." I finished for him.

"Yes my liege." Kaldur said softly.

"I am not sure my son." I replied not really sure.

"Oh please papa please." Kaldur said in a pleading voice.

I froze for a few seconds. That was the first time he ever called me anything but 'my king' or 'my liege'. Kaldur also froze with a fearful look in his eyes. I smile at him reassuringly.

"Only if you promise to be on your best behavior." I said to him as his smile brightens.

"Thank you so much my king. I promise to behave. Thank you." Kaldur said happily as he hugged me tightly.

I smiled as I hugged him back.

End of Memory

I smile at the memory. I feel something on my shoulder and look to see Diana smiling at me weakly.

"Aquaman, we landed." She says with a sad voice.

"Thank you." I reply to her as I slowly get up and walk behind her.

I see a body under a bloody sheet. I see Roy Harper standing next to the body, his face covered in tear stains and red eyes. I walk to him and place my hand on his shoulder.

"Aquaman. Are you ready?" Batman asks.

"Yes." I whisper to him, fighting yet again tears.

Batman slowly takes the bloody sheet off. There he is. My son. My only child that I have ever cared for, dead. Roy falls to the ground in pain and cries his eyes out. Oliver and Dinah rush to him and try to calm him down. I put my head down and cry as loud as I possible could. Letting go of all sense of control. I soon fall to the ground and gather my dead son in my arms.

"Arthur, I am so sorry." Superman says.

I can not even hear him over my sobs.

"Manta is dead. I will kill him." Roy growls angrily.

Before I could even speak I hear a scream. It sounds like, no it could not be.

"Aquaman, turn around." Batman says slowly.

I turn around to se a small television screen showing Kaldur being whipped and beaten. The time is stamped before Kaldur's death.

"Ah!" Kaldur screamed.

"You are weak!" Jury shouted.

"Pathetic!" Torture shouted.

Whip and whip until blood came from Kaldur's body. The whips soon turn to kicks. I try not to look but it is so hard not to.

"Please stop." Kaldur begged.

All he received was another kick. Now blood was dripping from both his mouth and his back.

"Please stop! No more please!" Kaldur cried in pain.

"You faggot!" Matthew shouted with another whip.

"You deserve to rot in hell!" Erik shouted with a kick to the ribs.

Kaldur again screamed in pain at his rib possibly cracking.

"Father please! Help me! Father!" Kaldur cried.

Kaldur tried to crawl away from them but his legs were whipped. Roy is bawling into Green Arrow's arms. Tears swell in my eyes as Dina tries to make me look away. I do not know why I am not looking away.

"Aquaman you don't have to watch." She says to me gently.

"Yes I do." I whisper to her

"Come one Kaldur, say it." Matthew ordered.

"Never." Kaldur groaned.

"Say it!" Matthew shouted.

"No!" Kaldur shouted back at him.

Erik left from the camera's view. He came back with a clear glass bottle.

"No! No! Please not again!" Kaldur cried in fear as he tried to back away rapidly.

They flipped Kaldur over roughly. Erik poured the liquid on Kaldur's back and I soon realize that it was alcohol. I force myself to look away as Kaldur screamed in pain.

"Say it!" Erik screamed angrily to him.

"Confess boy!" Matthew shouted with a whip.

Kaldur picked up his head and glowered at both of them. His red eyes and bloody face breaks, no shatters my already torn heart. He stared at the camera and for a second, it is like he is staring at me. He lowered his head to spit out the blood then picked up his head.

"I-I have sinned against God." Kaldur said with a cough of more blood.

"What is he doing?" I ask looking at Diana confused.

"Get the Judge." Matthew ordered.

One of the guards left and came back in the room with a man in a black robe. It is mostly likely Thomas.

"He's confessing." Erik said.

"Go one Kaldur." Thomas said in a soft tone.

Kaldur put his head down and whispers something.

"Louder!" Erik ordered with a kick.

"I killed a man." Kaldur said as he slowly picks his head.

I remember what happened. He was still a child when it happened. He must have only be 12 years old. The man he killed was going to kill both me and Mera. Kaldur stopped him but they began fighting. Kaldur killed him. It nearly destroyed Kaldur after words. He never stopped feeling guilty for his death. He even went to his funeral.

"Why did you kill him." Thomas asks.

"He was going to kill my king, Orm, and my queen. After was going to kill me. What was I supposed to do? Let him kill me then my family? I would rather go to hell for killing a man, saving 4 lives in the process, then going to heaven for not kill him, and lose my family again along with my life." Kaldur explained angrily.

"Doesn't matter." Erik said as he kicked Kaldur again.

"He isn't done yet." Matthew said.

"I have not sinned anymore than what I just admitted to." Kaldur said.

"You have that boy toy yes." Erik said with a smirk.

"If you so much as touch him I will personally kill you." Kaldur glowered at them as he slowly started to sit up.

Matthew whipped him twice, causing him to scream.

"Brother stop. You'll kill him. You made a deal with Manta. Honor it." Thomas said.

"Get him out of here." Erik ordered.

They locked Kaldur in chains and took him away. The screen went blank. I slowly start to break down in Diana's arms. She tries to calm me down but I will not have it. My only son was tortured and beaten before he died.

"Arthur, I know you are hurt. Please do not do something you will regret." Superman says in a serious and depressed tone.

"They killed my son. My son is dead. I held my son's dead body. Don't you dare tell me not to do anything. I will find the men who killed him! And I will them!" I shout angrily at him.

I look to see Roy looking at Kaldur's boy.

Roy's pov

I stare sadly at Kaldur's dead body. I slowly and gently wipe away dry blood from his face. I lean my head down and kiss his somewhat warm lips. I pull away slowly and held him closely to my chest. I lost the only person who ever gave me a second chance. I look up to see Superman looking concern.

"Superman, what's wrong?" Batman asks.

"I hear something. Listen." He explains.

We all turn silent to listen. We hear a small beeping sound. Oh crap.

Kaldur pov

As I am being carried or dragged back to the cell, I feel the blood dripping down my back and legs. They put me on the ground and walk out the room. I hear footsteps walk to me and a gentle hand on my shoulder.

"Kaldur, wake up." Martha asks.

I slowly open my eyes to see Martha and Alfred looking at me

"What did they do you?" Alfred asks.

I couldn't find a voice to speak with. I hear the door opened and the chains grab everyone, pinning them to the wall, except for me. I force my eyes open to see Thomas kneeling over me with a small first aid kit.

"I am sorry for my brothers. You did not deserve what happened." Thomas says sadly.

"What a-are you doing?" I groan to him while trying to move.

"Just relax. This will hurt a little." Thomas says softly.

He pours liquid on my back slowly and I do not even hold back my scream. Tears flow out of my eyes. He starts to stitch me which painfully lasts for about an hour.

"Relax. It's over. I promise." Thomas whispers softly.

I soon relax my tense body ad try to breathe evenly.

"Why did you help me?" I ask with a groan.

"No one should go through pain like that." Thomas say sadly.

"Thomas you do not have to do this. You can get us out of here. Do the right thing, please." I beg him as I try to stand.

The door opens and Matthew comes in. The guards take me by the arms. They take me to a room with a medium size room with a screen. The screen turns on to see Roy and the League next to 'my dead' body. I turn around to see Erik having a smirk on his face.

"What have you done?" I demand.

"Just watch." He says slowly.

I turn around ans watch as my mentor, League, and Roy grieve over me. There is no sound coming from the television screen. I see Annex take the corpus in his arms and completely breaks down. I have never seen him cry in all the I have known him. I look at Roy to see him crying in Carnay's and Green Arrow's arms. I have only seen Roy cry twice, the first was during his intervention, the second was the when I was kidnapped by Torture. To see him like this now, it hurts. I see Superman's head pop up with a fearful look own his face.

"What did you do!?" I scream at him.

Erik did not say a word. I look to see Superman look behind a bush to see a bomb.

"Stop this! Now!" I order him.

"Too late boy." Erik purrs.

The boom went off and I fall to the ground. This can't be happening. I do not even hear the sob that escape my throat. I can not even feel the tears pouring down my face. I glare at Erik angrily. He body starts to bend and convulses in pain. I feel a zapping pain in my back and I completely fall unconscious.

When I eyes slowly open I see Mary trying to wake me up.

"Kaldur. What happened?" She asks.

I sit up slowly as tears rapidly flow down my face as I start to remember. I fight back the sobs.

"Kaldur why are you crying?" Iris asks as she starts to wipe my tears.

"Superman, Batman, Green Arrow, Black Canary, oh god father." I sob to them slowly.

"Kaldur calm down, what happened?" Martha asked.

"All of them, they are- they're dead." I answer bluntly as I start to cry more.

"What happened?" Alfred asks.

"There was a bomb. The League was near 'my dead' body and. It went off. There is no way that they could have survived. I am so sorry." I explain as I fight back more tears.

I put my head down and flat-out sob. I feel a hand rubbing my shoulder. I force myself to stop crying.

"Do you know if anyone else was there." Alfred asks as the others quietly begin to cry.

"Beside the people I just listed. Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, oh god Roy." I try to say as I completely break down.

I put my head down and I feel a hand touching mine. I do not know whose hand it is. All I can do is squeeze it tightly and shut my eyes to stop crying. My family is truly gone.