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Well it's the final chapter of The Shaken and I'm surprised it's done in really about a year. Once Again took me forever to do (three years to be exact I think). Granted Once Again is my favorite between the two, I think I rushed this one a bit but oh well. Anyway, just wanted to say thank you to everyone who took the time to read this story and much love to those who put it one their favorites and alert lists. You guys rock and to show my appreciation I'm dedicating this story to all of you: artemis roth, Fears Unspoken, Golden Griffin, Yachiru456, Dawnmist11, JadedFoxFire, and xpoisened-black-rosesx. Hugs to all of you! Now, on with the last chapter!

"There goes my hero, watch him as he goes.

There goes my hero, he's ordinary."

-Foo Fighters

Thalia sat in the main room watching the life around her. Christmas music was playing in the background and some of the couples were dancing. Others were drinking hot chocolate and laughing. There was a little arguing going on but that was all in good play. Marcus had just beaten Derek for the fifth time at Guitar Hero. Derek scowled at him and then challenged the older boy to a rematch.

"Man you know you're just gonna lose again right?" Marcus teased with a very smug look on his face. Derek stuck out his tongue in response and said, "Well if you're too afraid to do it then I understand."

Marcus laughed at Derek's attempt at an insult, "Ginger you're in no place to be pullin' that kind of stuff. I've wiped the floor with you already. Let's go do something else huh? This is getting boring." Marcus didn't wait for a reply as he lifted the guitar stap off from around his neck. Slowly a smirk made it's way onto Derek's face, "I know, how about an arm wrestle? My alien strength versus your muscles, what do say?" Derek held out his hand for Marcus to shake. Marcus looked at it for a second then said, "You're on little man, just don't whine about it when I beat you at this too." Derek shook his head, "Oh I won't, cause you're going down metal-man."

Thalia smiled and turned away from the scene to look at Monica and Skylar trying to teach Jonouchi how to do the Soulja boy dance. Jonouchi's feet got tangled at one point and he tripped over himself, making Skylar's face widen in a smile that turned into a laugh. "Johnny, you tried to do two things at once now c'mon lets try again." She offered a hand to the boy on the floor.

Jonouchi looked less than eager to continue the dance lesson but took the blonde girl's hand and she hoisted him up. "I do not see the point in this dance. It will not help me in battle," the boy said.

Monica replied, "Oh so what Johnny? It's fun! Now watch me and Skylar again." Monica and Skylar proceeded to demonstrate the first steps of the dance, slowly and a little nervously Jonouchi joined in. He succeeded in completing the dance without falling over once. Skylar's already huge smile got even bigger and she went to hug the boy. "That was awesome Jonouchi! I knew you could do it!" The young man blushed in the blonde's embrace. Skylar didn't notice but Thalia did, 'I wonder how long it'll take him to tell her, and how upset Tyler is going to be when he finds out.'

Just then a loud and angry voice shouted, "NO FAIR! I DEMAND A RE-MATCH!!" Marcus was the one to shout, his loud booming voice was impossible to mistake. Every head turned to the direction of the two boys. Derek was the one who now wore the smug look on his face with his arms crossed against his chest as he leaned back in his chair. "I told you you were going down but you didn't listen." Marcus snarled at the smaller red-head.

"C'mon now Marcus take it like a man and suck it up," Monica said handing her brother a mug of hot chocolate with a big marshmallow floating in it. Admitting defeat, Marcus took the drink and seethed in his seat. Meanwhile Jared was trying to coax a very reluctant Erica into stepping out of the hallway.

"Erica please come out, you really honestly look fine. I bet no one will notice," Jared said his voice still somewhat raspy as he leaned against the wall next to the doorway which was currently closed. A muffled voice came from behind the doors. "I look ridicculous, I'm not coming out no matter what you say."

The ghost-boy rolled his eyes and smiled, "Okay then I guess I'll just have to come get you then." Before Erica could respond, Jared phased through the doors and reappeared flying through the room with a very disgruntled Erica in his arms.

"JARED FENTON PUT ME DOWN THIS INSTANT!!!!!" Erica shouted.

Jared laughed and slowly floated down to floor. "As you wish your majesty," friendly sarcasm dripping from his words, "and here, if you're so self conscious about it here you go." Jared handed the girl a pretty blue knit ski hat that had silver entwined into the blue yarn.

Erica took it and looked at it before she placed it on her head to hide the bald spot on her head that the doctors had shaven off to stitch up her head wound. She then wrapped her arms around Jared in hug and said, "Thank you Jared, this is very sweet of you."

"Don't mention it, Merry Christmas," he rasped out a grin plastered on his face. For it he recieved a small kiss on the cheek from the raven-haired girl. Jared had dumbstruck look on his face as it was his turn to blush.

The scene made Thalia giggle, but her attention was once again stolen by another conversation. Xander and Rowena were talking about something very important it seemed. Thalia hadn't realized it last night at the battle being too distracted to notice that Rowena was incredibly beautiful. The woman was tall, almost as tall as Xander, with straight, glossy dark reddish-brown hair that went just a bit past her shoulders. Rowena also had a small amount of freckles that were scattered across her cheek bones and the bridge of her nose. Her eyes though looked somewhat troubled at the moment.

"I do not know what I'm supposed to do now, I've been fighting The Shaken for close to four centuries. Where am I supposed to go? What am I supposed to do?" She did not whine these thoughts but merely stated them as the facts that they were. Xander gave her a look and then slowly went to grasp her hand. Her hazel eyes met his green ones. It was hard for Thalia to hear since he spoke very softly, but she thought she heard the dark-haired man say something like, "Don't worry, you're going to stay with me and Jude. We can all figure out something together."

Rowena looked at Xander, "Thank you, I won't be much trouble. I'll only stay as long as I have to and then I'll be out of your way."

Xander shook his head, "I want you to stay with us, there's no need for you to leave now. I'll take care of you Ro', I promise." The young adults just looked at eachother. Slowly Rowena nodded and a small smile appeared on her porcelain face.

Thalia wondered for how long Xander had eyes for Rowena. Her thoughts however were interupted by a a voice whispering in her ear, "Boo!" Thalia jumped and sent a hex out at Jude who merely absorbed it as he laughed. Thalia clenched her fists and scowled.

"Not funny Jude!" Thalia placed her hands on her hips and narrowed her eyes at the boy who was now doubled over laughing.

"I'm sorry but you should have seen your face!" Jude said inbetween laughs. His mouth formed an "O" as he mimicked Thalia's expression. "It was priceless." Jude proceeded to laugh and didn't notice the green energy sparking at Thalia's fingertips, making him unexpectedly fall over. His laughing immediately stopped and he looked up at her and scowled.

"Now that was pricelesss," Thalia laughed as Jude got up and dusted himself off.

"Yeah yeah, very funny," he said though Thalia had already returned her attention to the older couple. Jude followed her gaze, "Well, it looks as if she's finally caved."

That sparked Thalia's interest. She turned her head to Jude and asked, "What do you mean?"

Jude smirked, "Oh nothing just that Xander's been trying to get Ro' to come with us since she got injured back in '64. One of Rigel's cronies Circe started a girl fight and almost sent Rowena into a coma. He tried to convince her to come travel with us but she refused, said she didn't want to drag us down with her. You see Rowena was of high interest to The Shaken because of her sister, they thought she might have some great amount of power too so they followed her trying to absorb her constantly until of course recently. Well the whole incident with Circe made Xander nervous but you'd never be able to tell, Xander doesn't like to show his emotions save for anger and frustration, anyway he begged her to stay but she didn't listen, said she could take care of herself. She left in the night, it messed Xander up for weeks worrying about her. We met up with her a few years after that but only briefly.

"It continued like that up till now, every time we met up with her he'd try to convince her to stay and she'd say no and leave without saying goodbye. I think that's the reason why he's such a dick sometimes but now it seems like she's not going to argue and stay with us this time."

Thalia looked at the auburn haired woman, "She cares about him too, that's why she left. She didn't want you two to get hurt."

Jude shrugged, "Yeah maybe. We've got to figure out some stuff about us now. We mainted our powers but we don't know about the aging still, it'd be smart of her to stick around now, y'know we'd discover stuff quicker with three brains instead of just two."

Thalia was quiet, her eyes staring at the floor. Jude noticed this, "Hey what's wrong?"

Thalia looked up, "You're not going to leave Jump City are you?" she asked him quietly.

"Oh Thalia no, of course not," Jude smiled and pulled Thalia into a hug, "Like I said at the hospital, I'm not going anywhere. You're stuck with me okay?" That made the young girl smile.

"So are you going to join us? I'm sure there could be a spot open for you on the team. I mean what else are you going to do?," Thalia asked.

Jude thought seriously about it for a minute before he spoke, "I don't think so," before Thalia could feel slightly hurt he explained, "I've been doing the hero thing for a long time Thalia, I think I'm just going to relax. Be normal for a little bit. My whole life I haven't had the chance to be a normal kid I want to see how that feels. I'll still be open to helping out if you guys really need me though. You know who to call if there's trouble."

Thalia smiled, "I believe it's "When there's trouble you know who to call."

"Oh really? Well okay then Miss Smarty get all technical about it," he said as he ruffled her hair, but Thalia didn't mind one bit.

Far off in a corner said girl's mother smiled wickedly. Wally saw this and immediately got concerned. "Jinx don't do whatever it is you're thinking."

Jinx looked innocently at Wally, "Now what exactly do you think I'm planning?" She asked as she positioned herself to lean up against him, taking a sip from her champagne.

"I'm not sure and I don't think I want to know. Knowing you it wouldn't be anything good and could end up with the poor boy naked in some bad part of town," Wally guessed. Jinx wore a shocked expression on her face, "Now what would ever give you that idea?"

Before Wally could answer he was saved by Kori, "Please would everyone gather around the coneiferous tree for a traditional photograph celebrating the 'mas' of 'christ'!" There were a few protesting groans but the alien woman's joy rubbed off on the others and soon the large group of people were all gathered around the tree. Thalia went to go stand in front of her parents when another speedster caught her eye. Gavin stood in the kitchen by himself. Alex walked up to the witch and said, "Y'know, maybe you should go ask him to be in the picture, in some weird way he is part of the family. I mean he did go tell your dad that you might be hurt, maybe he deserves a second chance."

Thalia sighed, "Yeah you're right. I'll be right back." As Thalia walked off she heard Raven refusing to be in the picture. "No Star, I'm not gonna do it! Just give me the camera and I'll take the picture." Starfire was about to give up until Beast Boy came up behind Raven, "Don't worry Star I got her," he said as he dragged the unhappy former goth to join the crowd. Starfire's smile grew incredibly wide. Thalia smiled and then turned to walk up to her half-brother. Gavin looked at her with an expression of befuddlement as she sat herself down on the counter-top beside him.

"Um hey, what are you doing up here? Everyone's gathering around the tree for the picture, let's go," Thalia said trying really hard to sound convincing. Gavin gave her a look that she couldn't exactly read.

"Thanks for the gesture 'sis' but I don't think many of them want me here," Gavin said noddin his head in Tyler's general direction. Thalia turned to see that Tyler in fact was looking at Gavin with a wary look that Derek shared with him. Thalia shot both boys a death glare and they turned their attention elsewhere. She then refocused her attention on Gavin, "Don't worry abou them, they'll come around. Besides you're kinda part of the family, you were the first bad guy we took down. You helped strengthen us as heroes and as a family."

Gavin rolled his eyes, "Should that make me feel special?"

Thalia maintained her composition, "Yeah it should, also I think it would mean a lot to your Dad if you did. If you're really worried about the others don't be, they'll come around. They forgave Jared, even Tyler's warming up to him. So come on let's go." Thalia grabbed the speedster's hand as she walked quickly down to stand in her place in front of Wally and Jinx with Gavin by her side. He smiled nervously as the camera's timer went off and the flash went off. 'Eh it's a start," Thalia shrugged as the crowd started to disperse.

Thalia looked around at her teammates and their families. Alex was sitting on the large semi-circle couch with Tyler's head in her lap. Tyler had his hand placed on Alex's bandaged arm and wore a solemn look on his face. Alex looked at him and knew immediately what he was thinking or at least along the lines of it, "It's okay, I'm still here. The scar should heal up in a few days, so don't worry about it."

"I know just for now it's another reminder that I wasn't fast enough to save you," he said still looking at her arm.

"Hey! It wasn't your fault okay? You couldn't have done anything about either of my scars so don't beat yourself up about it, besides you look way cuter when you smile than when you're sad," Alex said brightly.

It worked, Tyler's face lightened and he showed off his pearly whites to her, "Okay I won't worry as long as you don't make the whole near-death experience thing a yearly occurance."

Alex smiled back at him, "Deal." It was really good to see those two back together, things just didn't seem right when they were apart. From a distance Nightwing was glaring at the two and Starfire was trying to distract him.

Beast Boy had his arm wrapped around Raven's waist as they talked to Karen and Vic about something involving a moped with turbo speed and laser cannons. Terra was off gossiping with Skylar, whispering something in her daughter's ear that made her giggle hysterically. Aqualad appeared next to them with two glasses of champagne handing Terra one of them. He gave the older blonde a questioning look and asked, "Do I even want to know?" Terra smiled, "No probably not."

Jared was on his phone with his parents trying to explain how to get to the tower."Dad, it's a giant T-shaped tower on an island, kind of hard to miss," Jared said trying to not sound impatient. Erica walked up behind him and put a hand on his shoulder. Jared simmered down a bit and was able to calmly explain to his dad once again how to get to the tower.

Desiree was reading a new book her mother had given her for Christmas, totally engrossed by it while Derek was challenging Marcus to a chugging egg nog contest, Marcus was winning this one. Gavin was talking to Jonouchi and Bushido about some ninja movie that had come out recently and how fake it actually looked. "I mean you could totally tell that most of it was done with special effects! It was really sad don't go see it," Gavin said enthusiastically. The two samurai both nodded their heads in agreement.

Xander and Rowena had decided to go home early saying they were exhausted and had to um, figure out where Rowena would be sleeping at the studio apartment. After hugging them goodbye and thanking them for all they had done for her, Thalia searched for her parents, they were slow dancing in the middle of the room to an instrumental version of "I'll Be Home For Christmas". Thalia stared in amazement, her mother hated that song as well as slow dancing. Jinx was more of a fast dancer than a slow one, anyone who could get her to slow dance should consider it as the highest achievement.

Now her eyes wandered over to find Jude was standing near the doorway, his hat and scarf on along with his leather jacket. She walked over to him and wrapped her arms around his neck, he did the same except his arms were around her waist. She looked up into his beautiful gray eyes that had the smallest hint of blue in them. 'I could get used to looking into those, they're a pretty color.' Then she was brought out of her reverie and said, "You're going home?"

Jude smiled as he leaned his forehead against hers, "Yeah someone has to supervise those two crazy kids back at the apartment. I have to make sure they don't cause any trouble." His usual smirk on his face.

"Well I guess if you have to go, why the scarf and hat though? Can't you just teleport home?" she asked with a quizzical look.

"Hey remember what I said? I'm going to be normal for a bit, normal people walk home Thals" Jude said as if he were stating the obvious.

"Okay so you're going to swim to shore then?" Thalia said. Jude was quiet for a second. "Maybe I'll teleport to the shore then walk from there," he said reconsidering. Thalia nodded, "Yeah that's what I thought." "Shut up," Jude said before leaning down to kiss her briefly, "I'll call you later okay?" Thalia nodded and watched as he walked out the door. The funny thing was she thought as she watched him walk down the hall, if you saw him walking down the street you'd probably not even give him a second glance. You'd assume he was just another normal person like yourself.

She turned to look at the still full room, what she saw there was the exact same thing she realized as what she just saw in Jude. They were just a really large extended family celebrating the holidays together, if you saw the teens laughing, playing, arguing and flirting with each other you wouldn't think that one of them had superpowers and took down evil masterminds almost everyday. She herself had gone up against a man who had wanted to kill her and live off her powers and defeated him. If you looked at Thalia and didn't know her and you were told this, you would crack up and walk away, but that doesn't matter.

The same goes for the parents, on the outside they looked just like normal business men and women, designers or whatever else they did but inside they were all far from normal. For now though, in this moment they were normal. Thalia decided that she liked normal and would savor the moment before they were called to save the world once again. Thalia for about the millionth time that smiled.

Alex and Gavin walked up to her and Alex said, "Hey Thalia come on! We're all going to watch Charlie Brown's Christmas special." The raven haired girl pulled the platinum blonde alongside her until they reached the couch and put in the dvd. As Thalia sat down in between Alex and Gavin she knew she wouldn't trade what she had at Titan's Tower for being ordinary any day. For now though ordinary was okay.

The End.

Okay that took forever to write, hope you guys enjoyed the story! Once again thank you for reading! Peace and love to you all!! Also explaining Derek's burst of competitivness, he is Robin's kid it was bound to rub off sometime. Oh and here's the playlist:

Let It Be by The Beatles

Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen

New by No Doubt

Lil' Red Riding Hood by Bowling for Soup (I know there's an older version so you can use that one if you prefer)

Confessions of A broken heart by Lindsay Lohan (don't kill me please!)

Monsters by Matchbook Romance (battle music)

A Lack of Color by Death Cab for Cutie (Wally and Jinx)

Emergency by Paramore

Pressure by Paramore

Attack Music- Machinae Supremecy (I think that's how you spell it)

Hate that I love you by Rhianna and Ne-yo (FLiNX)

I Miss You by Blink182 (Alex and Tyler)

My hero by Foo Fighters (or Paramore same rules apply for this as they did for Lil Red Riding Hood)- all the Teen Titans, young and old.