AN: Nothing much to say. Thanks to those that faved/followed/reviewed!

Disclaimer: If I owned YJ, Superman and Batman would fight for Wonder Woman's love (though Batman would win in the end), and Miss Martian would never have done what she did to Superboy! I no own song(s) either.

Summary: Faith Evans, a 16-year-old girl, was just trying to make sure that she and her little sister got by in the world. "She was prepared to die when she took that bullet. So can someone explain to her why a dead guy's ring just decided to hitch a ride on her finger?!"

Genre: Humor/Adventure/a little Angst/a little Drama (cause you always need just a bit of Angst/Drama in every story)/Romance(?)

Song(s) used: When I'm Gone-Three Days Grace

Word Count: 3,670

"Thinking"

Dreams/Flashbacks

"Talking"

Quotes/Lyrics

Chapter 3: A New Light in a New World

There's another world inside of me that you may never see.

There're secrets in this life that I can't hide.

Somewhere in this darkness there's a light that I can't find.

Well, maybe it's too far away, and maybe I'm just blind.

Maybe I'm just blind.

"Fae."

"Uhn…"

"Fae, wake up."

"…Wha-?... Emily?..."

"Open your eyes, Fae."

"E-Emily? Where are you? Emily!"

"Come on! Wake up!"

"Wait? Who-?"

"Come on, girl! Open your eyes. Wake up!"

So she did.

She opened her eyes-

-And nearly screamed when she saw how many faces were so near her own. She had to stomp down the urge to start throwing punches when she heard most of them let out relieved sighs.

She shifted her attention when she heard someone clear their throat.

"Phew. You're okay. Had us worried there for a moment." A man, mid-thirties it seemed, who was the closest to her on her right side said. He looked like he was still trying to calm down from his panicked state.

"You literally came out of nowhere! You were just standing there, in the middle of the street, and then you just collapsed! Luckily I was able to swerve in time."

Her eyes widened at his words, and she tried to scan the street from her vantage point. Seeing what she was trying to do, the unnamed man moved a little out of her view and commanded the rest to do the same, to give her some "breathing room" as he put it.

Indeed, she was in the middle of the road. People were crowded around on both sides of the street watching the commotion. She turned her head, and to the far right was a haphazardly parked car.

"Must be his. At least he didn't wreck it crashing into something…"

She decided it was high time for her to get up, the concrete wasn't exactly comfy. But when she went to lean up, pain shot through her chest, and she fell back as her face scrunched up in agony. Her hand immediately went to where her wound was and was immensely surprised when she felt nothing.

"Wha-What the?!" Her eyes once again widened in shock. "I was shot! I can even still feel the pain! So…where's the wound?"

The man must've seen her pain-filled face because he was by her side in seconds.

"Are you okay? What's the matter? I can take you to the hospital if you need to go."

She might've taken him up on the offer if she hadn't remembered why she was shot in the first place.

"Pete…he shot me…then ran! That coward! And Emily…EMILY!"

Gritting her teeth against the phantom pain, she propped herself up on her elbows, determined to get to her feet.

"Whoa, whoa. Hold on a sec. You need to go slow if you're in that much pain."

His hand came up behind her to support her back while his other one held her arm. He helped her up as gently as possible, and she was thankful, the pain had started to ebb a bit since she wasn't trying to lift herself.

When she finally made it to her feet she turned to face him, most of the people had dispersed after realizing she was pretty much okay, consequently making him release her.

"Thanks for your help. I should be fine now."

"Are you sure you're okay? You don't need to go to the hospital or anything?"

"Yeah, I'm sure, and there's no need. The pain's mostly gone now, but thanks again."

He gave her disbelieving look and shook his head but otherwise dropped the subject.

"If you say so. Be careful on your way home."

She nodded and he went back to his car. Walking towards and down the sidewalk, she couldn't help but run her hand across the spot where her wound was, or, well, should've been.

"What the heck is happening? There's no way I should be alive right now. I can even remember feeling my body going numb… And what did he mean by "appeared out of nowhere"? And STANDING no less!"

She came out of her musings when she noticed she was at an intersection.

"Okay, first thing's first, I need to get back home and get Emily. She's probably worried sick."

The memory of Emily crying out to her and sobbing her little heart out made her stomach twist in remembrance. She really needed to get home.

Looking up, towards the street signs, Fae was confused. She didn't recognize the names. In fact, when she looked around at the little stores lining the roads, she didn't recognize them either. What was going on? First she collapses in the middle of the street, out of nowhere apparently, then she's NOT DEAD like she should've been, and now there're new streets and shops? When were these built? She didn't remember any construction sites…

"Whatever, I'm not here to shop anyway. I need to find Emily, and then maybe find Pete and make sure that he understands that I'm not the person to mess with." She very nearly growled in her mind on that last thought.

With renewed vigor, she forgoed the signs and took the paths that she thought would lead her home.

When your execution x-ray cannot see under my skin,

I won't tell you a damn thing that I could not tell my friends.

Roaming through this darkness, I'm alive but I'm alone.

And part of me is fighting this, but part of me is gone.

Finally coming upon a familiar plain-looking apartment, she sped-walked the last few feet, so as not to alarm anyone, and entered the building.

Heading straight for the stairs, she was stopped by a shout of "HEY". Looking around and noticing no one else was in the lobby, her head turned in the direction of the noise.

It was a male, early twenties, who appeared to work at the front desk. He had shaggy brown hair that ended just below his ears and blue eyes. He beckoned her towards him with a stern look and, not wanting to start anything that would further prevent her from getting to her sister, she went to him.

"Excuse me, Miss, but unless you live here or buzz in as a visitor, you can't go up."

"Well, since I do live here, it shouldn't be a problem then."

He sighed.

"Miss, I've been working here for almost a month and a half now. I've practically seen everyone who lives here come and go, and I've never seen your face before. Now either buzz in the apartment number for visitation or leave the premises."

She felt her eyes widen in shock and then, not a moment later, narrow at the man. She breathed in and out to calm herself down before speaking at a slower pace.

"I don't need to buzz in because I live here. My apartment number is 325. So if you'll excuse me."

He made an irritated noise in the back of his throat and mumbled something that sounded suspiciously like "crazy teens" before setting her with a scowl.

"Look, I don't know what kind of prank you're trying to pull, but it's not going to work. 325 is currently occupied by an elderly couple, and all of their kids are grown. So go run along before I call the cops."

She let out a frustrated groan, swearing in her mind and thinking of drop kicking him in the face for keeping her away from her little sister longer than necessary.

"Listen here-"

She glanced at his nametag and inwardly sneered.

"-Thomas. I need to get up to that room where my little sister is waiting for me and probably worried to death. I need to get up there. So you can either let me go up or I can knock you out instead and still go up. Your choice."

Perhaps she shouldn't have been threatening him since it probably just made her situation worse.

She snorted.

"Now doesn't this feel like one big déjà vu?"

He studied her for a moment with a firm glare. However, he must've heard the desperation in her voice or saw the anxiety in her expression, because a moment later, he let out a huge sigh and inclined his head towards the stairway.

"Hurry up." And in a lower tone, he added, "You'll see I'm right soon enough so it doesn't matter."

Unfortunately, or fortunately, for him, she hadn't heard that last statement and was already half way up the first staircase.

Arriving at the designated door, she frantically searched her pockets for the key, and upon not finding it, "must've dropped it in that fight…", she knocked, borderline banged, on the door.

"Emily? Emily! Please open up! It's me, Fae! I know you're probably worried, but I'm here now, and if you want, we can go to Grandpa's until we find Pete and-"

She was cut off by the door opening to reveal a small old woman, barely reaching 5', with completely white hair tied up in a bun. Her kind brown eyes, lined with deep crow's feet, studied her for a moment.

"What can I do for you, dearie?"

Mouth slightly ajar and eyes wide, Fae couldn't answer her. Instead, her eyes steadily drifted upwards, over the older woman's head, as she scanned the inside of the apartment, at least what she could see.

It was totally different. Instead of plain white walls with the occasional childish drawing here and there, the walls were beige with old black and white photos hanging up. If she looked further, she could catch a glimpse of old 60's like furniture instead of the modern stuff she had bought. There was even faint Swing music drifting through the hall along with a gruff tenor, singing lyrics she couldn't make out because of the low tone.

Gathering herself and pushing the growing panic and confusion down, she returned her attention to the old woman in front of her who was patiently waiting for her to answer.

"…Umm…it appears that I have the wrong room. I'm sorry if I bothered you or interrupted anything."

"No, it's quite alright. I hope you find who you were looking for, dear."

With that she stepped back inside and softly shut the door.

In a daze, Fae headed back down the stairs, still not comprehending what had just occurred.

When she got to the base floor, she went straight for the exit in the same daze-like state, missing the shake of the head from Thomas.

Making it outside, the panic and confusion finally started getting to her.

"This can't be happening. No. This is our apartment, or was… Nothing's making sense! The streets are different, the stores are different, and apparently the apartments are too! I don't understand! What's going on?!"

She closed her eyes and took deep breaths to calm herself once more.

"Okay, firstly, I need to find out where the hell I'm at. It's obvious that I'm not at home anymore. I hope Emily's okay…where ever she is…"

Steeling herself, she reopened her eyes and set off to find some answers.

Maybe I'm just blind.

So hold me when I'm here.

Right me when I'm wrong.

Hold me when I'm scared.

And love me when I'm gone.

Everything I am and everything in me,

Wants to be the one you wanted me to be.

I'll never let you down and even if I could,

I'd give up everything if only for your good.

What she found took her completely off-guard.

The first thing she discovered was that she was in the past. It took a while for her to believe that. Half of the neighborhood probably thought she was crazy after she had a tangent on how "the newspaper and stations are wrong" and that it was "May 6, 2013 NOT 2009, those retards…" She got a lot of looks in that café after that little outburst.

Next, Terra City* was the place she had found herself in, a place she had never heard of. Okay, she wasn't a geography genius but she was sure that she was in the state of Illinois when she got shot, and nowhere was there a place called Terra City there.

Lastly, and this was the hardest to believe, everywhere she went, people would be talking about superheroes and villains, whether they be praises or insults didn't matter. It wouldn't have been so bad if it had been just the kids, but the adults were doing it too. Heck, it was even in the news! She couldn't count how many times she overheard people talking about how thankful they were to Superman, the Flash, or any other hero for keeping them safe.

After all of the running around she did, she ended up in an empty park, which she would've found unusual, since it was only late afternoon and kids should've been all over this place, if she wasn't already so absorbed in her own problems.

She sat at the bench closest to her and bent over to put her elbows on her knees as her head rested on her folded hands.

"This is not good. I'm not only in the past, but I'm in a whole-'nother fucking world! How the hell does that even happen?!"

She put her face in her hands as agitation swept through her. Her next thought, however, made her entire body freeze as the cold realization hit her.

"I'm not…I'm not in my world. Emily…I can't get back to her."

Images of her little sister's tear-stained face entered her mind unbidden.

"I CAN'T GET BACK TO HER!"

A few tears escaped her eyes at the thought of never seeing her precious sister again, the sister she had vowed to protect.

"I…I can't…"

Before she could put herself into a greater depression or even give herself an anxiety attack, there was a loud explosion nearby.

Whipping her head in the direction of the sudden outburst, she could her faint screaming as she saw people pause and then start running the opposite direction of the noise.

Wiping her tears with the sleeve of her shirt, she decided to investigate. She could throw herself a pity party later, when it didn't sound like the city was going to hell.

She followed the sounds of the numerous explosions as well as the direction the people were running from. Jumping behind an upturned piece of concrete, she peered around it and immediately put a hand to her mouth. It was all she could do to keep herself from yelling in surprise.

Right there, destroying the city, were Star Sapphire and Poison Ivy in all their pink and green glory.

"…What type of witchcraft is this?"

She watched as Ivy entrapped random men in her Venus fly traps, separating them from families and loved ones alike, while Star blasted holes in buildings and landmarks with her pink energy beams.

They started shouting about something, but she was too far away to hear what they were saying. The only things she could make out were "feminine touch" and "a woman's world". So they were hardcore feminists…awesome.

Just then, there were three flashes of light and Green Lantern, Fire, and the Flash appeared.

If she hadn't been shocked before, she definitely was now.

They exchanged words that she couldn't hear, to her frustration, and then all hell broke loose.

The Flash and Fire took on Poison Ivy while Green Lantern, "Hal Jordan" she thought with a mental squeal, went for Star Sapphire.

Flash attacked Ivy first, evading the vines that she shot at him through the ground but couldn't land a hit when spiked vines erupted all around her. Fire came in then, and lit the various plants on, well, fire.

The emerald flames turned them into ash and Ivy screeched so loudly that Fae had to cover her ears to prevent further damage. She was sure that Black Canary would be impressed if Ivy hadn't been a villain.

Another explosion sounded, nearer this time, and she lifted her head to the sky where Hal and Star were duking it out.

Star was sending blast after blast of pink energy towards Hal who, for his part, deflected them with the shield he had created.

Getting distracted by her partner's scream, Star took her focus off of Hal for a moment to check on Ivy and it was all he needed. He made a giant punching glove and sent it directly at her, hitting her into the building on the other side of the street.

So wrapped up in the fight was Fae, she hadn't noticed how close Ivy's vines were getting until one appeared right in front of her hiding place.

Startled, she leapt away and landed on her butt with a yelp, eyes wide.

All of them looked in her direction then.

She saw Ivy smirk and get ready to send a plant her way. The three heroes jumped in her path, but Fae didn't know what happened after that; she was too busy running away like the other people had done.

She allowed her feet to take her to safety since her mind was in overdrive with the fact that she had seen an actual fight between superheroes and villains. They weren't even supposed to be real!

Stopping to catch her breath, she looked around and found herself in the same park that she had been in before.

Returning her attention to where she had come from, she noticed the sounds from the fight had gone down.

She went to the same bench she was sitting at before and let out a sigh of relief. Looking around once more, she realized how dark it had gotten.

"The fight must've lasted longer than I thought…"

She leant back on the bench and looked up at the night sky.

"So I'm in another world huh? And not just any world, a freaking SUPERHERO world…"

She put her arm over her eyes.

"What am I supposed to do now? I can't go back home, and Emily probably thinks I'm dead after what happened. Emily…"

Forcing back the tears that wanted to fall, she took her arm from her face to gaze up at the sky once more.

"Hopefully she's doing okay with Grandpa. Knowing her, she's probably still bawling her eyes out."

A small, sad smile made its way to her face at that thought.

Just as she was about to continue the pity party she had promised herself earlier, she caught sight of something flying in the sky.

"Wha-?"

She looked closer. It looked like a shooting star.

That made her smile a genuine smile, however small it was. The smile didn't last long.

As she continued to look at it, it wasn't the white-blue color that normal shooting stars were. In fact, it was actually a green color. But that wasn't the only odd thing.

Instead of veering off into space, it was heading straight for…Earth! In HER direction!

If her eyes widened any further, she was sure that they would be stuck like that.

She shot up from her seat and ran like a bat out of hell away from the strange shooting star-thing. She didn't know where she would go, just that she had to get away before she was caught in the line of fire.

She looked back in the direction of the star-thing and gasped. The thing was STILL headed in her direction! How was that possible?!

Not paying attention to where she was going, she ended up tripping and face-planting in the dirt.

Scrambling to her hands and knees, she looked around and saw that she had run into an abandoned construction site.

"And here I was saying that I hadn't seen any…Very funny fate!"

She flipped over when she heard a 'whoosh' sound and came face to face with the green star-thing which, upon closer inspection, was not a star.

She gasped.

"No…freaking…way. I don't even belong here!"

Right in front of her, was a Green Lantern ring. She didn't know whether to be giddy or horrified. She decided that she was a little bit of both.

Looking around to make sure that there was no one else around, maybe the ring was looking for someone else?, she lifted her right hand and reached out to it.

The ring reacted and flew onto her middle finger. It sent out a pulse and glowed for a moment before the light disappeared.

She looked at the ring in disbelief.

"What? I can't be a-a…I can't even say it! This isn't happening! This isn't HAPPENING!"

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath to calm herself, she was doing that a lot lately, before examining the ring.

It looked exactly like how she expected it to. It had a solid green band with the circle shape on top that had a lantern etched into it.

She ran a hand down her face.

"What does this mean?"

Before she could contemplate it any further, a glowing lantern appeared before her, softly landing on the ground after hovering a bit.

She looked between it and the ring and decided that it must be the power source that all Green Lanterns had.

"So does this mean that I'm..?"

She didn't want to finish that thought.

Getting to her feet, she grabbed the lantern by its handle and started walking.

"First thing's first, if I'm going to be staying here, I'll need to find a place to stay before I think about this anymore."

With that thought in mind, she set off to find just that.

Chapter 3 End

So hold me when I'm here.

Right me when I'm wrong.

You can hold me when I'm scared.

You won't always be there.

So love me when I'm gone.

Love me when I'm gone. Whoa-oh

Love me when I'm gone.

When I'm gone.

When I'm gone.

When I'm gone.

AN: See! No sad parts! So Fae's still alive. Well, in the DC world at least (YAY! She made it! FINALLY), and she's still having a hard time believing it all (who wouldn't?). AND she's got a ring. Hmmm, I wonder where that came from (*shifty eyes*). And before people comment, I know YJ starts in 2010. Well, this story starts a year before. So while she's in the YJ universe, the story hasn't started yet. She's still got to go through her GL training ya know. But don't worry, it won't be long before "the day" comes. So hang in there. And if you think I'm going to fast, please tell me. This is my first time writing a story so feedback is appreciated. No one's perfect, and I'm FAR from it. Review please! You knooow you waaaant to!

*Terra City: If this is an actual city or someone has used this, please don't report. I had no idea and it just came to mind when I was thinking of names for cities. Also, I have no clue if GL (Hal) has a specific city he protects a specific city (I don't think he does since he's a protector of Earth as a whole since it was assigned to him…). In any case, this isn't that city, just to let ya know.

P.S.:….I LOVE Hal! He's hot! So if I transfer a bit of that love to Fae, please don't fault me for it (*bows*).

P.P.S: I'll probably be updating in a 4 to 7 day time frame between updates (finally got my rhythm and it helps that my cousin is always nagging at me to hurry up). So now you won't have to be guessing when I'll update!