Hey guys! Sooo sorry for not updating earlier. I forgot my charger by my aunt and my computer went dead. So I will post chapter 10 and 11 together, one after the other. I am also considering a spin off story form chpt 10 about Artemis.

Do not own YJ yada yada yada.

Hospital Room Tuesday morning 11 am

Zatanna POV

Zatanna woke up uneasy and fully alert. What was it that had woken her up? Then she heard several rustling sounds.

'What the? Why is it so dark?'Then Zatanna realized she had her eyes shut. Opening them cautiously, she realized what it was that had her uneasy. Giant drapes covered The windows in the room barring the sunlight from entering unlike her room at home where the sunlight announced its presence to her earlier than breakfast.

Zatanna shifted her body to sit up better. Just as she was doing that, the door opened and a middle aged, sweet grandmother kind of woman stepped through. When she saw what Zatanna was doing she hurried over to help her.

" there, there dearie" she said fluffing the pillows as well " all good?"

"yes, thank you"

"Good. Do you mind if I draw these drapes it has this room way to dark for eleven in the morning"

"Sure it's no problem. Wait eleven? I don't sleep that late on a normal day and I have to go to school-"

" not today sweetie. The doctors wanted to release you tomorrow but your father asked they keep you until Thursday."

"So I can leave on Thursday, meaning I can go to school from Thursday."

"Yes and we will be giving you your own Epinephrine Auto-Injector or Epi pen for short."

"A what? An Epi pen?"

" it's like a first aid medication in case you eat any hazelnuts." The woman took out a wide pencil like object and motioned towards the instructions and demonstrated what to do and how you knew if it was safe to use the Epi pen and other useful information. "... Usually people who are allergic to peanuts use this but your case was severe so we tweaked the medicine so it works better to counteract your hazelnut allergy."

"Thanks um.."

"Sophie"

" Right thanks. Hey can I give a spare to a close friend so if I'm really bad she can inject the epinephi- the medicine?"

" sure, yes once you trust her and you and your father talk about it"

"Thanks again"

When Sophie left it was quiet in the room. Zatanna tried surfing channels but nothing good was showing and after a while reclining in the bed, she began to get sleepy so she slept.

5pm

Zatanna jolted awake instantly alert.

"Dad!" Her father had been trying to step in quietly so he didn't wake her up. It didn't work

"Sorry" He was carrying a bowl of soup it looked like, some crackers, a glass of both orange juice and water and a candy bar. " I thought you might be hungry, the nurse informed me that you hadn't eaten for a whole day so I brought breakfast, lunch and dinner"

Zatanna's stomach growled as if to agree with her father.

"The nurses informed you? Where were you for the whole day then?"

" I had some business to take care of"

" JL business?"

" No a bit more personal"

"I'm guessing it didn't work out, you look a little irritated"

"We're in a negotiating phase"

"Ah, I see. Dad, you asked the hospital staff to release me on Thursday?"

"Can they release me on Wednesday night so I can go school on Thursday?"

"Zatanna I want to make sure you are completely healed"

"Dad. I'm sure from Monday afternoon to Wednesday night is enough time plus I promised you good grades and I can't do that if I don't understand the work now can I?"

"Well no, sigh, promise to call if you feel any tightening in your chest or anything like that for no reason?"

"Yes and Sophie, the nurse, she showed me how to use the Epi pen medication injection thing"

"Well fine then"

"You're going to be completely overprotective these next few days aren't you?"

" A little"

Zatanna and her father talked some more and while she negotiated the consequences for the fake date, she ate her food. It slid straight down to her stomach as if saying she shouldn't have slept through breakfast and lunch. Finally, her dad kissed her goodnight and left to go home, something that surprised her and also scared her a little. After so many years of him practically smothering her, the way he gave her that little bit of responsibility shocked her a little. With the food settled in her stomach Zatanna began to be lulled into sleep once more.

ZATARA POV

Zatara was a bit peeved. As soon as he had arrived home he'd began to pace back and forth. It annoyed him. Should he? or should he just leave it. The ways things were happening was a little wrong morally but he didn't want to aggravate the situation even worse, plus when Zatanna goes back to school she'd probably come back home saying he ruined her life or something like that. But just thinking about that man and his arrogant smirk...

Zatanna's High School 10:00am

Principal's office. Inside the room are Mr. Zatara, Rachel and her father Mr. Sanders a high level executive at a software and computer development company and beside him an unknown man...

"Mr. Zatara, Mr. Sanders it is a pleasure for you to join us today" The principal had gushed. Mr. Sanders had looked pleased and Giovanni had only raised an eyebrow.

"Oh course not under the circumstances, no, the circumstances are quite severe. We are here as you know because Rachel and Zatanna were involved in a violent incident at school. A fight. Now as a means of fair trial, Rachel, why don't you tell us what happened?"

Rachel got up out of the chair she was sitting down in. Her nose was covered in a pyramid of bandages and two splints that set her nose, she had a swollen, bruised eye and her hand was wrapped in bandages She attempted to sniff but a bit of spit only came out her nose and a little trickle of blood hung just on the inside of her nose like a booger.

"Well sir, Mr. Josiah sir," she said sounding very nasal " it all happened so fast I don't know where to begin or what to say" She then broke off

" Now, now Rachel just relax, it's okay just start when you're ready okay" Rachel nodded her head slowly. She opened her mouth as if to say something, then burst into tears.

"I- I don't know. Daddy? I want Mom, she said she'd be here!"

"Now Rachel, you know your mother had to go to the station to get ready for the awards and convention day." He turned to Giovanni " She's a top class reporter" He whispered haughtily.

Giovanni nodded politely and watch as everyone including that mysterious man fawn over Rachel promising her the world. To him it all looked like a well rehearsed act and if Rachel hadn't been discovered by an acting agency she ought to go in the business

"I- I guess I have to start somewhere so I'll start at the beginning. This morning my girls: Mimi, Suzie, Jo and I entered the school like every Monday"

"Didn't you have another friend? Um oh that girl Tiffany. Tiffany Dots" A quick expression of disgust flash across Rachel's face quickly replaced be puzzlement.

"No" she had snapped visibly annoyed to be interrupted while speaking. " Anyway, we were walking in the halls like normal and the school newspaper group was handing out the weekly newspaper to everyone that passed. We took the newspapers only to be polite I mean we could've been less bothered about what those frea- free spoken people have to say. Then-"

"Isn't your mother a news anchor or something? so shouldn't you respect them a little" Zatara had asked this out of pure curiosity. Rachel just stared at him like he'd asked a stupid question.

"Well you see newspaper writers sit in the shadows and write boring articles, but news anchoring? That's where the story at! I mean who wants to hear about some boring person who writes a smelly, old article? No one. The news anchor is the face of the news so it's completely obvious she or he is more important"

"Oh really?-"

"Anyways like I was saying, we took the newspaper and on the front page some stupid writer wannabee bitc- big headed person out a shot of me at the dance when that mentally unstable girl poured punch down my dress. They also insulted my friend Mimi making fun of her name and it made us so angry and defensive so we went to confront the writer.

"The writer and Zatanna were talking and laughing about how hilarious it was to have punch spilled on me in front of everyone and I tried to stop them. I began telling Zatanna about how I'd at least gotten a boyfriend who wasn't only there for the dance or at least something like that and she lunged at me."

"I didn't even mean it in a bad way, what I meant to say was that at least my boyfriend goes to school with me and her don't and he could have a girlfriend at his school and to be careful since he could be cheating on her and then the fight happened. I got hit so much times and while we were fighting, and it hurt. While she was hitting me, my syringe the doctor gave to me with peanut based mixture dropped out of the case I had in my pocket. The cover drooped of and it stuck Zatanna. Then someone pulled her away from me and she began to vomit and stuff. It was disgusting. That's my recap" Rachel had sitten back down down.

"This brings us to the next proceeding in this meeting. Mr. Zatara?"

"I was wondering if we could discuss medical bills?" his voice had taken on a cold tone

"Yes medical bills, dear me the price is $400 for the nose surgery, $ 70 for the eye treatment, $30 for the bruises and cuts and $ 75 for her hand treatment."

"I beg your pardon?"

"Well look at my baby girl. It's obvious that your daughter has got some sort of anger management problem"

"I will not pay any of your daughter's medical bills when my daughter's in the hospital and she nearly died!"

"Really? then I will sue you on the counts of physical bodily harm, defamation of character and the knowledge of reckless, mental instability"

"What?"

"My lawyer Mr. Griffin here has it all drawn up"

"That isn't possible as the incident happened on school grounds and the school has a policy that allows it to take responsibility for any and all medical emergencies. All parents and guardians are required to sign the form when their child enrolls in the school and the policy pertaining a child is abolished when the child graduates, dies or is withheld from the school"

"Now you see you can't expect the school to pay for all this now can you Mr. Zatara, we have no money" This came from the principal who sounded a bit panicked.

"No they don't and you can't expect the owner of this school and the head of both the PTA and Board of management to pay for such a trivial thing now can you?"

"Owner of the school?"

"You see a few years back, the school went bankrupt and with the financial backing from my company, we lifted the school out of its bankrupt state. A meeting was held with the bank who, after many legal meetings said the school could be saved as long as they sell it to me and of course the added bonus was that my son was going here at the time and I'm sure no parent would have wanted his or her child to relocate. It's to tiring. As I own the school and I am the president of the board of management, I can easily fire any uncooperative members of staff" With this last bit of his speech, Mr. Sanders flicked a glance towards the principal.

Giovanni had looked at the principal who'd had his eyes cast downward. They had flicked upwards when Mr. Sanders had finished his speech and though his eyes were sympathetic the words coming out of his mouth were not. "Oh course Mr. Sanders we already know this, sir. Well with legal representative in the room I think it best we start the proceedings"

"Oh course. With all the before mentioned acts the amount you are being sued for is $50,000,000.00."

"$50 what?" I don't have that kind of money"

"Of course you do. Before we checked you daughters college fund and she has $51,000,000.00 inside, I'm sure she would be able to sacrifice a few thousand, millions. You've been an active saver Mr. Zatara I commend you on that and it's not like we're leaving her penniless. We left a dollar!"

Zatara could have only stared in shock when Rachel and her father laughed.

"Absolutely not!"

"Of course if you can't pay, your house and any vehicles or anything worth in assets will be taken. Penniless and homeless? Not a smart way to go Zatara. Choose wisely" and with this he had gotten up and walked out of the room. Rachel had followed her father and so did the lawyer but not before resting the legal suing information in a folder in front of him.

An awkward silence had filled the office when the Sanders and Mr. Griffin had left.

"Now see Mr. Zatara, it's best if you don't try to counter sue and just pay the money and-" But Zatara got up, picked up the folder and exited the office.

END FLASHBACK

STILL ZATARA POV

Zatara sighed thinking about the legal problem." What am I going to do?"

9:00am Gotham Prestigious private school

BARBARA POV

She had finally found her, Her Prey.

ARTEMIS POV

Artemis sighed tiredly. Today was the annual visit to her mother's physician. Even though doctors had said nerves in her mother's spinal cord were completely damaged, the doctor said it was still a good idea to exercise the muscles and keep them fit. In her hand she had a bunch of notes the doctor had given her stating the muscles were firm and fit and to continue the daily exercises. Even though the reports were good Artemis still worried. Anything could go wrong in 24hrs. ANYTHING.

"Hello Artemis Crook" Artemis jumped as she heard her name from an unfamiliar and slightly annoying voice.

"What?" Artemis stared at the 13 yr old girl who had "threatened" her yesterday.

"Artemis Crook, 15yr old. transferred her from Gotham High school on a scholarship. Daughter of Paula and Lawrence Crook" Artemis' heart jumped at the mention of her father. "Younger sister of Jade Nguyen , no other siblings .livingon single parent and disability benefits. Mother Paula Crook was in jail for assassination and father Lawrence Crook was a suspected assassin but it hasn't been proven or couldn't."

"How?" Artemis' voice sounded horse even to herself

"Yeah, that's the question. How could your parents kill people for money as a job. and to make matters worse you're living with her, you're mother. An assassin!" Barbara's voice had risen and people heard what was being said and started whispering and pointing.

"My dad's a cop so the first thing he taught me was how to investigate suspicious things and to trust my gut. He also taught me to dig to the base of the story and yours doesn't look so solid now. A paralyzed assassin, yeah right! You're mom is probably faking the disability so she can get the benefits and she probably trains you in assassin classes in private. What's your job. huh Artemis? Or is that even your real name? Is your job to murder these kids and take their family money to get your family back in power or what because I'm sure the first thing your dad taught you was to kill."

"Th- that isn't true. it isn't"

"Isn't it? So if we go to your house right now and attack your mom she wouldn't kill us?" The taunt an threat were obvious.

"Don't you dare go after my mom! She's everything to me and worth so much more than you!" Uncharacteristic tears had begun to leak out of her eyes.

"Um what's going on?" A quiet, male voice said.

"Dick, thank goodness you're here! Did you hear everything, this girl probably been only hanging around you because she wanted your dad's money." Artemis was shaking her head desperately, tears streaking down her face but she looked angry.

"It- it isn't true"

" Then I typed and printed this classified file off the CIA convict alert files for a joke?" Shock slapped Artemis in the face.

" Wha-?

"Babs stop"

"Don/t act like you didn't know Artemis."

"Babs stop"

"I didn't"

"Yeah right as if, I bet you were proud to be on the list. Wanted to be just like dear, conveniently, missing Daddy.

DICK POV

'Babs stop!" Dick shook her shoulders gently. " stop!"

"It isn't true!" Artemis screamed but the damage was done. People had begun to whisper and point. Dick saw something in Artemis' eyes he never saw before .What was it? Shame, embarrassment, shack? All three? Whatever it was, he didn't like it.

"It's not" This was a hoarse whisper and then Artemis began to shove through the crowd who parted instantly and ran towards the administration building.

"Artemis!" Dick started to run after her but Barbara held him back.

"What did you do?" He only asked her and before he walked away, he handed her a bunch of neat stapled papers.

BARBARA POV

Barbara only watched in confusion as Dick walked away to look for the Artemis girl. Why couldn't he understand that she was trying to protect him from danger? Besides everyone else was patting her on the back and congratulating her. When she finally got out of the buzzing, gossiping crowd, someone caught her eye. It was one of the older students Bette Kane. When she caught Barbara's eye she only shook her head and walked away. What was wrong with her acting all disappointed.

Then she remembered the papers Dick gave her and she took a look at them. After reading the papers, shame and shock twined through Barbara. She had made a big mistake and acted before she fully checked out the situation. She had to find the Crook girl and apologize but somewhere deep inside Barbara knew no amount of apologizing could erase the shame Artemis had felt at that moment. She had to find her now!

"Children! Why are you all still out here! Off to class!" This instruction came from Mr. Johnson, a strict science teacher.

"All of you! Chop chop! You to Barbara Gordon inside let's go"

"Yes sir" Barbara dejectedly walked towards the classes compound looking back at the administration with a heavy heart.