AN: Once again, I am soooo sorry. But a lot has been happening lately from decorating my room to going to the hospital with my dad for his treatments to job interviews. Plus this chapter willing wasn't helping by being so difficult to right. But I pushed myself through it and got it done! I WILL complete this story even though I can already tell it's going to be long as heck… I refuse to abandon it! *fist pumps* Also, this chapter was just skim-edited, so if you find any mistakes please tell me. Oh, and there's a sketch of Fae as the new pic in her GL mode (though it's really just a placement 'til I do the real thing.) Thank you to all who faved/followed/reviewed! Special thanks to R.J. North. Your reviews made me extremely happy and actually reminded me that I needed to get a move on.

Disclaimer: If I owned YJ, I would've fired the fools who ENDED THE SHOW! *ahem* I no own song(s) either. I only own Faith, Emily, Joe, and any other OCs that I create.

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: Superhero-Simon Curtis

Word Count: 3,143

"Communicating through something (ie: communicators, phones, rings, etc…)"

"Thinking"

Dreams/Flashbacks

"Talking"

Quotes/Lyrics

Chapter 8: "Today is the Day!"

Stand up! Everybody look alive.

Say: "Come on. Come on. Come on. We're gonna get it now!"

Hands up! If you're ready for a fight,

Say: "Come on. Come on. Come on. We're gonna win it now!"

I don't need you to believe in me.

I know how to change my destiny.

Sit down! 'Bout to rewrite our history.

Rewrite our history.

Rewrite our history!

Flying next to Hal, covered in her own green light, Fae didn't know whether she wanted whoop for joy or hurl from anxiety.

Today was "the day" (she knew it wasn't) and she was finally going to meet the sidekicks -err- junior superheroes after a year and a month of training.

Thinking back on that very training, Fae couldn't help but smile. She had made a few, but very special, friends in Oa. Kilowag, whom she spent most of her time with next to Hal, had become a Grandpa Joe to her (he was probably older even though he didn't look like it, being alien and all).

Katma Tui ("Call me Kat") and Laira, two other female Lanterns, also helped her with hand-to-hand combat and weapons training respectively. And when they had extra time, they would often be seen together at a café of sorts, eating and relaxing from the hardships of the day.

Arisia, whom she immediately connected with since she was one of the youngest Green Lanterns, reminded Fae of Emily with her bubbly personality. She never failed to put a smile on her face and encourage her after a particularly grueling day.

And even though the training was tough (she'd only beaten Kilowag once when she got a lucky hit in with one of her constructs), it was well worth it. She could tell she was way stronger than before, not to mention she now had a large storage of energy in her ring.

In all honesty, Fae had gotten used to Oa and kind of missed it, though she was happy to be back on Earth. Oa had become a home away from home.

She had stayed there for a year for her official training (apparently Hal wasn't joking when he implied that she would have to take a test at the end of it…). When it was done, they had gone back to Earth, and Hal started her training as a superhero.

They went on patrols together, and he even introduced her to Earth's other Green Lanterns, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner. They were pretty cool to hang around, though John was a bit strict. They made her feel welcomed into their little group, which helped erase some of the loneliness since Hal was the only person she really knew in this world.

Just a week into patrolling, Fae was thrown into the fray without much warning.

Her first fight was against Giganta, and "huge pain" didn't even begin to describe the hassle that fighting her was. Knowing what villains can do and actually facing them head on was totally different from each other.

Fae'd known that Giganta really didn't have a fighting style, opting to use her strength in her –uhh- "giant mode", and therefore didn't think that she would be a problem.

She was wrong.

When Giganta got frustrated, she tended to throw things.

Big things.

VERY big things.

Fae vividly remembered thanking Kilowag every five seconds for helping strengthen her shield (via breaking it multiple times in their spars) because she definitely needed it when she couldn't dodge the debris from the tossed building parts.

Lucky for her, Hal was able to sneak up behind Giganta and knock her out with a large bat-like construct, using Fae's distraction ("That's what I was doing?!" He just laughed) to his advantage.

Now they were on their way to Washington, DC so the side-partners could be inducted into the League. Or so Fae'd been told. She, however, knew better.

She would rather face Giganta, by herself, 100 times over, than face off against Superboy, genomorphs, and a crazy scientist.

Not only that, but Fae would be meeting the rest of the superheroes (the ones who had protégés at least). That meant she was going to meet Batman (effin' BATMAN!), and that was way more than enough to make her nervous as hell.

Unknowingly, she had started to clench and unclench her fists, a nervous habit.

She wouldn't have realized it either if Hal hadn't of flown beside her and put his hand on her shoulder.

"You're worrying too much. Everything'll be fine. You'll see."

Fae gave him a dry look simply because she knew it wouldn't be fine. But she couldn't possibly tell him exactly why she was worried, so she settled for giving him a small (unconvincing) smile.

He frowned at her, obviously seeing through the smile, but shrugged and continued to fly in silence.

Fae let the smile drop, feeling slightly guilty for not telling him what was on her mind. They'd gotten close in the past year, and she could usually tell him what was on her mind. But how do you tell someone that you're from another dimension, where they don't even exist, and possibly mess up their whole timeline?

Easy.

You don't.

So keeping that in mind, Fae refocused on their course and noticed that they'd arrived. She could see all the mentors and their partners.

Batman and Robin.

Green Arrow and Speedy (soon to be known as Red Arrow).

Aquaman and Aqualad.

And even the Flash and Kid Flash were there!

Fae glared at Hal, to which he just smirked, knowing full well that he was the cause of their lateness.

""Let's take our time." He said. "I promise you we won't be late." He said. UGH!"

As soon as they landed on the ground, all eyes turned to them.

Sucking in a deep breath, she released it slowly in order to calm herself.

"Today is the day."

Rip it off. Show the symbol on your chest.

Say: "Come on and show the world who you really are!"

It's not enough to be better than the rest.

Gotta take it to the top and make yourself a superstar!

You don't need them to believe in you.

Get your mission on lock and see it through.

You've got all the power you need in you.

Power you need in you.

Power you need in you!

Kid Flash ran to DC alongside his uncle as he mentally beat the crap out of said man. They were going to be late, and he'd never hear the end of it from Robin.

He could break the sound barrier but he couldn't even get to a meeting place on time?! Kid was even willing to bet that they'd be the last ones there. Not to mention that today was the day!

He was totally blaming Uncle Barry for this.

""Don't worry," he says. "We're the fastest men alive," he says. "We'll totally make it in time," he says. Note to self: NEVER listen to what Uncle Barry says!"

Catching sight of the rest of the heroes and sidekicks, Kid Flash sped up and stopped behind them, noticing that they were, indeed, the last ones there.

"Called it…"

"UUUGH! I told you we'd be late! AND we're the last ones here!" He threw his hands up in exasperation.

Aqualad looked amused while Speedy just turned his head to look toward the Hall of Justice.

Robin snickered and Kid shot him a glare. He was probably the first one there.

"Stupid bat-err-bird! How do they even do that?!"

He was interrupted from his new game of "try-to-melt-the-stupid-bird's-head-off-via-glare" when his uncle/mentor put a hand on his shoulder.

"I don't think we're the last ones, Kid."

Kid looked up at his mentor only to see him looking in another direction.

Turning his head to where his uncle was looking, he saw two Green Lanterns landing a few feet from them. One he already knew as Hal Jordan (his uncle was best friends with the guy. Of course he'd know him!) and one he didn't know.

But wanted to.

Like, right now.

Hal said something then (a greeting maybe?), but Kid was too focused on checking out the new girl to notice.

The new girl was slightly taller than him by an inch or two, but he could work with that. She had long dark hair with a side bang to the left. He couldn't see her eyes due to the mask, but she had lightly tanned skin, a straight nose, and full pink lips.

In other words, she was gorgeous! And he couldn't be blamed when his eyes started to wander downward to check out the rest of her.

And he wasn't disappointed.

His gaze immediately went to her –ahem- chest, and he was almost positive he drooled.

She was definitely a C-cup or bigger no doubt.

And now he was 100% positive he was drooling.

Tearing his eyes away from the beautiful sight, he continued looking her over.

She was wearing a sleeveless black cat-suit (that definitely worked for her) with dark green, armored shoulder pads that connected to the Lantern symbol above her chest and dark green, armored boots that covered her knees. To top it off, she had black gloves that stopped at her wrists with the Green Lantern ring on her right middle finger.

Finishing his inspection of her, not noticing that the rest of the sidekicks were doing the same, some more discreetly than others (himself), and not really caring about them (he got dibs since he saw her first!), Kid Flash sped towards her and stopped to her right.

He could tell he'd surprised her by the way she stiffened and stared at him in awe (that's what he believed anyway).

He leaned in, lidding his eyes to give off a flirtier look, and sent her a smirk.

"God, she looks even more gorgeous up close!"

"Hey Beautiful. Name's Kid Flash, and I had no clue angels flew so low."

Before he could say any more of his ingenious lines (if he did say so himself) he was pulled away from his soon-to-be girlfriend.

He turned his head around and scowled at Robin, who'd snuck up on him (he hated when Robin did that) and dragged him away.

"I'd advise you to stay away from KF. I don't know if idiocy is contagious, but I wouldn't risk."

Kid stared at his best friend as he said all this with a laugh in his voice.

"DUDE!"

However, Robin just ignored him and continued on as though he hadn't just shouted.

Pointing, he introduced himself and the others.

"I'm Robin. That's Aqualad." The Atlantean gave a small smile. "And that's Speedy." The archer just nodded with a straight face, being as serious as ever while in the suit.

The new girl smiled (and he thought she was beautiful before) and introduced herself.

"Well as you can see," she gestured towards her uniform (he tried really hard to keep his attention on the Green Lantern symbol and up). "I'm the new Green Lantern of Earth."

Did he mention that her uniform really suited her?

Hal stepped up then.

"Well now that we've all met, there's somewhere we've gotta be."

Where- Oh snap! He'd totally forgotten why he was here in the first place.

Glancing at GL (the hot, female one), he couldn't help but think that he had a good excuse.

"This day just got a whole lot better."

We can change the whole world!

Gonna take it over!

Gonna start it over!

Don't you know what we could be?

A new beginning!

Fight until we're winning.

Tell me that you're in it.

Don't you want to be…?

A superhero.

Superhero.

Superhero!

Anybody could be…!

Fae was still reeling from her first encounter with the future Young Justice team as they walked at a steady pace to the Hall through the crowd.

She'd actually met them. They were real (not that she didn't know that since she was around Hal, but still)! And she would be a part of it all!

When Kid Flash, "Wally West" her brain automatically supplied, ran up to her and started flirting, Fae had been sufficiently surprised.

Back in her world (and even in this one), she hadn't really bothered to look for a boyfriend or even put much stock into her own personal appearance since she was always either taking care of Emily, working at the restaurant, studying for school, or training. She didn't have time for it.

So even if it was a bit weird to be hit on by a fictional (not anymore) person, it was kind of flattering.

Though the look he gave her (which she was sure was supposed to be appealing) made him look like an idiot, especially with the little drool running down his chin, and his line was pretty cheesy. She would give him points for trying though.

Robin –"Richard 'Dick' Grayson"- was her savior in disguise when he ended the potentially awkward conversation by dragging Kid Flash away by the collar of his suit and saying something witty in true Robin style.

Fae had to resist squealing when she saw the Boy Wonder. He was even cuter in real life! She was sure that if Emily had been here, she'd be sticking to Robin like glue.

Fae smiled at the thought.

As Robin introduced her to Aqualad –"Kaldur'ahm or Kaldur"- and Speedy –"soon-to-be Red Arrow or Roy Harper"- she had inwardly spazzed.

Besides Robin, Aqualad and Red Arrow were two of her favored characters in the show, Aqualad more so than Red Arrow because of the way he went about the whole "respect" thing. But she was probably upset because she could never get away with stuff like that with Grandpa Joe and Kilowag.

She couldn't stop the smile coming from her face though when she'd introduced herself.

It faltered only little bit when she'd glanced at Hal to see his reaction to the whole thing.

She'd expected him to be smiling that way he did when he found something amusing. Instead he was frowning a little bit in Kid Flash's direction, though she couldn't be too sure since it went away as quickly as she saw it and replaced with a smile.

Fae had shrugged it off when he commented on how they had places to be.

So here they were now, walking through the overly large crowd who were yelling out random comments about their favored superheroes.

"Hey! It's Batman and the Boy Wonder!"

"Dad? Can I get tattoos like Aqualad's? There super cool!"

"When you're forty, we'll talk."

"I see Flash and Flash Jr.!"

"Isn't his name Speedy?"

"No, Speedy's Green Arrow's sidekick."

"Well, that makes no sense."

Fae used all of her willpower to stop herself from laughing because she was sure Red Ar-err-Speedy wouldn't appreciate that, and she didn't want to get on the archer's bad side since she barely knew him (for real, not from a tv show).

"And look! There's Green Lantern. With a new Green Lantern!"

"Oh she's so pretty mom! Look!"

"I see her dear. She is very pretty."

Fae had to stop herself from blushing, succeeding but only barely, at the little girl's comment.

She knew she'd get noticed, but not this soon! Though it probably didn't help that she was walking alongside popular superheroes.

Behind her and to the left, she heard Green Arrow asking Re-Speedy if he was ready to see the "Inner Sanctum". Knowing his reply and hearing the words come from his mouth, Fae couldn't help but snort mentally.

"You, my friend, are gonna be sorely disappointed. If I didn't know that you would throw a hissy fit, I would almost feel bad for you. Almost."

Aqualad, who she was currently walking next to, on his right, spoke up then.

"I am glad that we are all here."

If she hadn't known of his heritage, Fae was sure that she would've thought Aqualad was a prince by the way he spoke.

"You obviously don't get the full effect of his voice through tv as you would in real life."

His voice was just that smooth.

"Yeah! Have all four-" Kid Flash quickly glanced at her, blushed in embarrassment, and immediately corrected himself. "I mean, have all five sidekicks ever been in the same place at the same time?"

"Don't call us sidekicks! Not after today."

Fae knew Speedy was a serious person (he'd always been). But sheesh! Did he have to be so harsh? She'd been accidently calling them sidekicks in her mind for most of the day. Though she'd probably be on his shit list if she said that out loud.

"Sorry. First time at the Hall. I'm a little overwhelmed."

Oh my God! Here it comes!

"You're overwhelmed. Freeze was underwhelmed. Why isn't anyone ever just whelmed?"

Fae was ready to bust up laughing but managed to hold it in and only let a smirk grace her face. That was probably her and her sister's favorite line in the whole season.

Too bad she couldn't help but to ruin it though since she had looked up what it meant right after the episode.

"Probably because it means to submerge or engulf, usually with water. So I doubt you can be whelmed in most circumstances."

Robin looked back at her wide-eyed and his mouth slightly agape, speechless.

Fae had a huge urge to do a victory dance since she was pretty sure no one, excluding Batman and Alfred, could do that to him.

By the look Kid Flash was giving her from beside him, she must've been right about that.

Robin faced forward again, but not before she saw the small pout on his face, probably because she ruined his word of the day, kind of.

Walking up the Hall of Justice, Fae was definitely overwhelmed as she looked up at the gigantic golden statues of the Justice League founders.

"Wow…This is way more impressive than just seeing it on tv…It's actually pretty intimidating."

Following the others as they walked forward, they were all greeted by Martian Manhunter –"J'onn J'onnz/John Jones".

"Welcome Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Speedy, and Green Lantern to the Hall of Justice."

As they all stepped through the doors Fae had one last thought that was so cliché, she would've smacked herself immediately afterwards if she could.

"And so it begins."

We can change the whole world!

Gonna take it over!

Gonna start it over!

Don't you know what we could be?

A new beginning!

Fight until we're winning.

Tell me that you're in it.

Don't you want to be…?

A superhero.

Superhero.

Superhero!

Don't you want to be…?

A superhero.

Superhero.

Superhero!

Anybody could be…!

Superhero…

Chapter 8 End

A/N: So we have met the future YJ team plus Speedy. And yeah, I decided to use Kyle Rayner instead of Guy Gardner (who I found out was the actual 3rd Green Lantern on Earth before Kyle, but whatever. It's called "Fanfiction" for a reason, plus it's AU). I LOOOOVE Kaldur's voice! It's just so…so…amazing! I could listen to it all day, no lie. And I actually did look up the meaning of whelmed, and that's what it said, but I'm betting Robin is still gonna use it. So, I didn't really like how I ended this but it was the best I could do since this chappie was givin' me such a hard time, but at least I finally finished it. It was kinda fun writing from KF's POV. I didn't expect it to be but it was. I was actually fighting myself from doing it in KF's or Rob's POV and KF just sorta, kinda won. No action in this, but there will be in the next one, which will hopefully be out next week.

Announcements: So the poll is officially up. Here are the OC pairings to choose from (there'll be a separate poll for other pairings):

HalxFae

WallyxFae

RobinxFae

KaldurxFae

SuperboyxFae

OtherxFae

(And I forgot to put RoyxFae up there, but now idk if I should. Review if you think I should leave it out or put it up there)

So far HalxFae is winning (I counted your vote Reviewer J) so vote for your pairing if you don't like it. I had a little HalxFae moment in there. Did ya see it? Though I'm pretty sure neither of them know why he was frowning at KF XD. I also had a one-sided KFxFae moment (since she doesn't see him that way and it will stay like that if he's not voted for). Plus KF is just a flirt, so I had to do it.

So vote and review! You knoooow you waaant tooooo!

-SP