Bruce strode out of the Zeta room and ran straight into Oliver and Artemis who bumped into Roy and Dinah "Come to apologise?" he asked sarcastically.

"Yes actually, we really are sorry, for what it's worth." Replied Oliver trying to look as ashamed and apologetic as humanly possible.

"Yeah well Robin's gone back home, he's got school tomorrow as do you Artemis."

"Oh my God, Robin goes to my school! I almost forgot about that."

Batman tilted his head "Robin isn't the only one that goes to your school."

Artemis looked at him confused "Who else-" Batgirl walked round the corner. Without her mask "BARBARA!" her mouth dropped "Barbara Gordon is Batgirl!?"

Batgirl snorted "And this is why the Arrow family could never be detectives." Then she glared at the four and zetaed (is there another way of saying zetaed?)out of there.

Batman said stiffly "You should just go home everyone has stuff to do tomorrow."

They walked past Batman into the Zeta room and Dinah turned around and sighed "We really are sorry Bruce."

"Yeah well tell that to Dick." Then they all walked through the beams and ended up in their respective homes.

Oliver and his ward, Roy, in the Queen mansion in Star City, Dinah in her penthouse apartment, Bruce in the Bat Cave and Artemis to her mom's (I'm British so I have to remember not to say mUm, not that it really matters) apartment in a bad area in Gotham City.

TIME SKIP - IT'S-THE-NEXT-DAY-GOTHAM-ACADEMY

Artemis POV (First Person POV)

I walked into school the next day my eyes darting around the halls looking for the red headed girl or the raven haired boy, who secretly patrolled the Gotham skyline at night, but neither bat nor bird were in sight, knowing them I wouldn't see Barbara until class and I wouldn't see Robin until their next mission. Stupid bat training.

I sighed and walked to my locker, thoroughly depressed, I put in my combinationand got out my maths and science books. Two boys named Victor Stone and Garfield Logan and a girl called Karen Breecher walked past me. Victor reminded me of Kalder appearance wise, they were both tall, strong and African American (I'm just gonna use Cyborg but without the Cyborg parts)but he was a lot goofier he didn't have the same sense of duty and he was great with electrical items and vehicles, his parents are scientists, they had made some ground breaking discoveries in the past and were on the verge of another one which was cool but he didn't talk about them very much, she got the feeling they were too busy to spend much time with him.

Garfield(Beast Boy before the beast)was even goofier; cracking jokes 24/7 but not much was known about his home life, I had a suspicion he was an orphan but I'm not sure and I didn't pry what with me hiding the fact that I'm a super hero and all, I respected his privacy. Karen was a good friend of mine, her parents were also scientists of a different field, I think it was genetics like all that Spider-man stuff, maybe one day there really will be a Spider-man running around New York because of them but for now the only spider themed vigilante was Black Spider and he wasn't the good kind of vigilante. (Bumble Bee I know she goes to Happy Harbour with Megan and Conner but oh well!)Karen was also African American and had afro hair that she usually wore in two pom-pom bunches. Ironically she was a cheerleader, the best cheerleader in all of the Central City and Keystone City area; as she was my Best (school) friend I was constantly attending her Cheerleading competitions or making excuses as to why I couldn't go to them at the last minute. Karen and Victor had been dating for a year now, it was sweet but also kind of sickening for me and Garfield who forever make jokes at their expense. They were walking past me to get to their lockers which were close to mine they all said "Hi." to me and went to their lockers then they came back to meet up at my locker.

"Hey girl, where have you been all weekend I thought you had died or something! Answer your phone! Seriously!" Karen yelled at her friend.

I said sheepishly "Sorry I got into this fight with my friend and I didn't really want to talk to them so I turned my phone off."

Garfield nudged her suggestively "Are you sure it wasn't your boy friend haaa," I glared at him and he backed down immediately "Okay just a friend."

Victor threw his arm around Karen's shoulder and asked "So have you and your mystery friend made up yet?"

Dick Grayson chose that exact moment to walk past. He heard. Of course he heard, he had bat hearing, we locked eyes for a second before he looked away - he was still mad - I turned back to the three waiting for my reply "No. No we haven't." She sighed before shaking her head and asking Karen "So after a weekend of radio silence what have I missed?"

"Keystone Academy is versing Gotham Academy tomorrow in a(n American) football match, I'll be there cheerleading and Victor is quarter-back so he'll be there so it will just be you and Garfield, I suppose you're going to sit with Barbara Gordon, the comish's daughter while we're gone.

Garfield said "Yeah." at the same time I basically screamed "NO!" everyone in the corridor around my locker stared at me "Uuuuh I mean, I don't really like Barbara's friend Cindy... she's too... cynical for me." I rubbed the back of my neck nervously and hoped they wouldn't question it.

They all exchanged looks and then focused back on me, their expressions said 'Spill it'but obviously I couldn't tell them the truth I opened my mouth to explain although I had no idea what I was going to say but then the bell rang. I sighed, 'phew' saved by the bell "Well gotta get to class Ms Perkins will have a fit if I'm late again!" I dashed away from them getting lost in the crowd of students and hurried to the maths block not looking back at them once. Now I only had to think up an excuse for break(recess) or at least stall until lunch. Today was going to be a looooongday.

I realise that since the first Chapter I haven't really mentioned Tim, I'll have to bring him back to the plotline in the next chapter.