For those of you waiting for Darkseid's Vengeance and Blooming love I'll try to post them during the Christmas break.

…December

"Come on boy." Kon says to Wolf as they walk inside the cave as they finish their run for the morning, not that it seemed like it, it was dark and still snowing even through it was 9 am. Kon walks into the living/kitchen room. "Whoa." He mumbles.

"Morning." Roy says with a yawn. "Whoa. What happen?" he asks as he looks around the place.

There where red socks on the TV's with their names Zatanna, Megan, Kon, Roy and Kaldur, a tree next to it with lights, ornaments, tinsel, Christmas decorations everywhere with red, green and blue.

"Santa threw up." Kon says.

"Morning!" Zatanna and Megan yell.

Roy and Kon force a smile on their face. "Morning." They say to the two girls.

"I keep getting a text from-" Kaldur starts looking at his phone and looks up. "I was only gone for a few minutes." He says to them.

"I used a little magic." Zatanna says. "It's ok right?"

"Smile." Kon whispers to Kaldur, he smiles at them.

"What do you guys think?" Megan asks. "Did we go too overboard? Oh, we know sometimes we can go a little overboard."

"No, we love it." Kon tells the girls.

"It's great." Kaldur says to them.

"Really great." Roy says with a smile.

"Oh, yay." Megan says happy.

"I love Christmas." Zatanna says.

"We know." Kon says.

"Clearly." Kaldur says.

…Happy Harbor high school

"Hey can we talk?" Mike asks Conner.

"Yeah, what's up?"

"About the four little words that I said to you the other night."

Conner looks at him and thinks. "What?" he asks confused.

"I love you."

"Oh yeah, that."

"So?"

"So…thank you." Conner says again.

"Conner."

"I'm sorry I can't say it back."

"But you will." Mike says to him. "At some point in our very short lifespan relationship."

"Yeah, at some point."

"That's all I need to know." Mike says to him. "Let me walk you to class."

"Sure."

Mike puts his arm around Conner's shoulder and he takes his literature book form him, which was about 600 pages long and they walk. "I love you."

"I know."

…Gotham

Superboy is siting midair above the clouds looking down, his x-ray vision was no good since most of Gotham was old and old meant lead. It was hard to see through most of the buildings. His super hearing was good, so was his TTK power, he had scanned absolutely everything down there. He hears a woman yell out. He looks down at a teenager running away with a purse, he uses his TTK power to pick up a piece from the sidewalk and he falls on flat on his head and passes out, the woman runs grabbing her purse without hesitating she runs away.

"Nice." Superboy mumbles, she could have at least called an ambulance or the police for him, he could have a broken nose or something.

"Superboy."

"Yes."

"What are you doing in Gotham?"

"Patrolling, what are you doing spying on me? I thought we were over this phase."

"Come down from there, I need to talk to you."

Superboy turns to look around using his telescope vision seeing Batman on a vacant Gotham tower and flies toward him, his arms on his side as he lands on the building feet first.

"So? What did you want to talk about?"

"You're powers."

"What about them?"

"I want to run a diagnostics on them."

"No."

"It will help us understand them better."

"No."

"Superman agrees with me."

"No."

"Kon."

"Noooo."

"Why not?" Batman asks a bit annoyed.

"I don't like doctors."

"For obvious reasons." Batman tells him. "But I have a friend who can help you understand them better."

"A friend?"

"I trust him." Batman says to him. "You can trust him as well."

"Alright." Superboy says to him. "Don't get all after school special on me." he says to him, Batman looks at him odd. "I heard it on a movie once."

"Tomorrow at 6."

"Sure."

"Meet me at the cave."

"Yeah alright, I'll be there."

Happy Harbor High School…locker room

"So let's have dinner." Mike says as he puts on his plain blue t-shirt.

"Dinner?" Conner asks.

"At a restaurant with tables and chairs."

"I'd love to."

"Great I was thinking Italian we can go home change and I'll meet you there, or I can pick you up at your house."

"I have a doctor's appointment."

"Is everything ok?" Mike asks a little worried.

"Yeah I'm fine, no need to worry, it's just a checkup."

"Ok."

Conner looks at Mike. "Rain check on dinner." he says as he puts his hands on Mike's waist.

"You good with Italian?" Mike asks as he leans on Conner pushing him on the locker.

"I'm good with Italian."

Mike kisses Conner on his cheek then on his lips licking his bottom lip.

"Guys." Riki starts as he walks and looks at them. "Oh god!" he covers his eyes, Mike and Conner turn to look at him. "Alright, I'm not being mean or whatever. I'm cool with you two making out." he pauses looking at them. "Just not in the locker room."

"Are you telling me that if you could you wouldn't make out with your girlfriend in a locker room?" Conner asks him.

"That is an awesome point but if Michael wants to get a ride with me he's gonna have to come fast." Riki says and walks off.

"Ok, I would never have sex with him here. This place is disgusting." Mike says to Riki as he leaves. Conner looks up at Mike with a smirk. "But I mean if you want too, I would."

"I gotta go, my appointment is at 6."

"Ok." Mike leans down kissing Conner on his neck and whispers. "I love you."

"Bye." Conner says and pulls away from him walking out the locker room.

"Did I say something wrong?!" Mike yells out as Conner leaves him confused.

…Wayne Biotech

They were in a big room with computer on the side a platform in the middle.

"Let's get this over with." Kon says as he wears some black shorts only.

"Is something wrong?" Bruce asks him as he looks up from the computer.

"Fine." Kon says a bit annoyed.

Lucius Fox a 50 year old black man with a lab coat and glasses puts electrodes on his chest, back, shoulders, knees, arm around his elbow, thighs and temples. "Alright, those are all." He says as he looks at Kon making sure they stuck to him.

"How do I look?" Kon asks him sarcastically.

Lucius looks at him. "Fantastic." He says. "How about we start with your…what do you call it?"

"Tactical Telekinesis." Bruce says.

"Quite the mouth full." Mr. Fox says to Kon.

"I call it TTK."

"That is shorter." Mr. Fox says to him as he rolls a table in front of him with weights. "You ready?"

"Yup." Kon says as he crakes his knuckles. "Hands or eyes?" he asks them.

"Eyes." Bruce says to him. Kon picks up the two 5 pounds and two 10 pounds easily. "Pick up the 50 tons." He tells him as he points to the side of the room. Kon turns to look at the weight laying on the ground, he picks it up just by looking at it.

"How much can you pick up?" Mr. Fox ask as he looks at the holo-graphic body parts of the body lighting up like a Christmas tree, green, yellow, and red.

"Never actually tested. Three cars at the same time is kinda my limit but if I push I can probably pick everything up."

"How can you pick it up if you haven't actually touched it?"

"I have, I touch the ground with my feet, I scan, I touch everything."

"Interesting."

Kon turns to look at them, the weights still up in the air behind him. "Now what?" he asks them.

"Bruce tells me you can teleport."

"Yeah, what me to show you?" he asks him.

"If you wouldn't mind." Mr. Fox says, Kon puts down the weights carefully as to not break the floor, then teleports out siting on the table. "Wait do that again." He says as he looks at the holo-body, nothing had happen to it, Kon teleported out and was now sitting down on the floor.

"Lucius?"

"I can't get a read on it."

"It?" Kon asks looking at him.

Lucius looks at Kon on the floor. "The power." He adds.

"Scientist." Kon scoffs. "And you can't get any readings because there isn't any, I break down my cells by molecules. I literally tear my body apart. This is why I don't like taking people with me."

"Ouch." Mr. Fox says.

"Not really, it happens so fast. I don't actually feel it."

"The red dust?"

"Subatomic particles. My physical structure being disassembled."

"Fascinating. You can make doubles of yourself."

"My astral projection." Kon says as another Kon appears besides them both. "Bruce doesn't like it when I use it."

"True."

"What does that mean?" Astral Kon asks pointing to the red lights on the brain of the holo-body.

"It means that you use your brain when using this…astral projection." Mr. Fox says to him as he looks at the readings. "How do you feel?"

"Like I'm in two places at once."

"But you can make more of them right?"

"Sometimes, yes."

"And when you return the body?"

Astral Kon disappears. "It's as if he never was."

"Do you have the memories of the…him?"

"Yes. And if he dies, I feel it." Kon says to him. "Wicked painful."

"What about your red eyes?"

"I can't control that."

"Why don't you try it?"

"I can't control it, plus it only happens with I'm either in danger or when I'm going to die. It's what a normal human would call an adrenaline rush."

"But you have done it."

"No." Kon tells him, Bruce looks at him. "Maybe…yes." He says hesitantly. "But I was tired afterwards, really tired." He says quickly.

"Try it."

"But Bruce."

"Please."

Lucius looks at Bruce surprised.

"Fine." Kon says as he closes his eyes siting down on the floor indian style and takes a breath.

"Kon?" Bruce asks after 10 minutes of silence.

"Shh, concentrating." Kon says as keeps breathing.

After an hour of Kon concentrating he opens his eyes and they look at him astonished by it. The holo-body whole body was turning red.

"He's power is…wow."

"Kon are you alright?"

"Yeah, I think so." Kon says and closes his eyes as the holo-body red body disappears. He sighs. "I'm ok." He tells them. "Please don't make me do that again."

"I won't. Try your disappearing act."

"Can't I just juggle knives instead? Cause I am good at that."

"Let's take it slower." Mr. Fox interrupts them. "How about some more TTK?"

"I'm cool with that." Kon says with a smile and flips up. "Let's dance." He picks up all of it, the weights, the tables, the knives, he turns them around him and sees the water bottle he uses his TTK bringing it to him he pours the water on his palm touching it. It falls on the floor.

"What are you doing?"

Kon waves his hand as he picks up the water with his TTk waving it around him.

"That's…amazing." Lucius says with a smile. "Why didn't you tell me he could do that?"

"I didn't know."

…Mount Justice

"No Mike tonight?" Superman asks his brother.

"No."

"Why not?"

"He keeps saying he loves me and it's freaking me out."

"Really, wonder why?"

"What does that mean?"

"You have commitment issues." Superman blurts out at him.

"Gee, I wonder why." Kon says annoyed.

"Let's have dinner and talk about your miserable life." Superman says to Kon.

"I can't, I'm doing the thing with Batman." Kon says Batman looks away from the computer to look at Superman as they walk towards them and the Team.

"What thing?"

"He's running tests on me. Every day after school, it is really cutting into my sex life." He says sarcastically. "But I have to admit, the training is making my TTk powers better." He adds as they walk into the briefing room. Batman looks at Superman, Superman looks back at Batman. Kon looks at them both as he stands in-between them both. "What's happening right now?" he asks confused by the tension.

"Remember when I told you I talked to Superman about it?" Batman asks.

"Yes." Kon answers.

"I lied."

"This is so not my fault." Kon says quickly.

"I cannot believe-" Superman starts.

"He agreed to the testing."

"He is not a guinea pig, you can poke and prod."

"I know that."

"So what are you going to do with them?"

"Superman-"

"You have the results and I know about your list."

"What list?" Kon asks confused.

"List of weaknesses on the League and every hero in the world."

"That's sick!" Kon yells at him. "How can you do that to us? We're your family!"

"I wasn't-"

"I'm done with the test. And just so you know I trusted you. I thought you wanted to help me control my powers." Kon tells him upset. "I am so mad at you!" he yells at him.

"That was my fault." Batman says.

"It could have been mine." Superman says.

"Yeah, you both suck." Wally says to them.

…

"Attention everyone!" Kon yells and takes out a paper that was folded in his pocket, the Team looks at him confused after his outburst they thought he couldn't show up for anymore debriefings, Batman and Superman standing with the Team as well. "I have paper." He clears his throat. "Number one-Erase his memory. Number two-Blue kryptonite bullet."

"How did you get that?" Batman asks him recognizing the list.

"You are the one who taught me to hack." Kon says. "Number three- Red sun gun. Now how exactly are you going to build a red sun gun?"

"Kon-"

"What is that?" Superman asks as he looks over the paper.

"This is a list of ways to kill me."

"They're not all about killing you." Batman says to him. "There are other options as well-"

"Like erasing his memory?" Superman asks him.

"That is a comparatively humane solution."

"Drop him in a non-speaking planet?" Superman asks reading then looks at Batman.

"See, I'm just trying to stall for time." Batman says to him. "I know you're gonna find your way back." He says to Kon.

"That doesn't make me feel any better!" Kon yells at him.

"And there's a file like this on all of us?" Artemis asks.

"I didn't see your name, most of the League members and villains and other hero's."

"How come my name isn't in it?" Wally asks.

"I'm ok with that." Robin says.

"You are a valued member of this team and no one is going erase your memory or dispose of your body in a vat of acid." Batman says to Kon.

"That's in here too." Superman says as he reads.

"Oh, my God." Kon says as he takes the paper. "Where?"

"Here." Superman says pointing to the sentence. "Number 52."

Kon looks up at Batman shocked. "It probably wouldn't work." He tells him.

"I am so angry." Kon says and walks off.

"Robin, you taught him how to hack the computer at the cave?" Batman asks.

"oops." Robin whispers.

…Mount Justice

"He keeps saying it, why does he keep saying it?" Kon says annoyed.

"Because he means it." Zatanna says to him.

"I hate my life."

"No you don't."

"For today I hate it."

"That's better."

"What do I do?"

"Say it back."

"I don't want to talk about this anymore."

"Good, let's talk about me." Zatanna says with a smile. "I think me and Dick are ready to take the next step in our relationship."

"Good for you." Kon says to her. "Oh wait what does that mean exactly?"

"You know next step." She says again with enthusiastic, Kon looks at her still a little confused. "You know the thing you and Mike are always doing." He still looks at her confused. "In the bed."

"Sex?"

"Yes."

"Ok first of all if you can't say it, then you really shouldn't be doing it." Kon says to her, she rolls her eyes. "Second-use protection."

"Ok, so should we do it on Christmas or new year's day?"

"That's quite the schedule you have."

"Come on, please help."

"Me and Robin have a thing to do Christmas day, so not Christmas."

"What thing?"

"It's a thing."

"Conner."

"I can't help you with this."

"Yeah." Zatanna says and sighs. "I know." She says annoyed as she sits and Kon reads, his book. "Should I wear something sexy?"

"Sexy?"

"Lingerie."

"Wear blue, that's his favorite color."

"Good idea." She says to him. "Wanna go shopping with me?"

"Please don't make me."

…Oblivion Bar

"I am so jealous of my feet." Zatanna says as she looks at her high heel black boots while sitting on a chair and her 5 shopping bags clothes.

"Yeah beautiful." Kon says bored as he puts his combat boots up on the table and yawns.

"So you really like the red one."

"I like anything red." He says to her. "And black. I really love black."

"Love." Zatanna says with a smile.

"Don't start with me."

"Hello lady, gentleman." A man says as he walks up to them with a smile and a leather medical bag. "Can I interest you in some plant roots, fungi, herbs. Oh how about creature parts, insects, some fairy wings." He says as he pulls out a jar of wings.

"Wait, fairy wings?" Kon asks him.

"I didn't kill them if that's what you're wondering." The man says to him quickly.

"Then how'd you get them?" Zatanna asks.

"I found them."

"That's disturbing." Kon says as he looks at them.

"I don't do dark magic." Zatanna says to him.

"Ok you can leave us now."

"Let's dance." Zatanna says as she hears some Skillet music on. "I'll try my boots on you." She says as she stands up, Kon puts up his hand she grabs and pulls him up walking to the far side of the bar as some more people in black dance.

As the two were distracted the man puts a something in one of the shopping bags and walks off with a smile.

…Mount Justice

"Oh! Winded! Too many steps."

"I said I'd carry them."

"Need water. These boots are killing me!" Zatanna says as she sits down putting her bags on the counter as Kon walks over to the fridge.

"They're not that heavy."

"We should make a closer zeta beam."

"First thing tomorrow." Kon says as he grabs a water bottle, Zatanna starts looking though the bags.

"All stuff I need or want, or think I might someday need or want." Zatanna says excited. "OK now let's find your new wallet!"

"We can get it later."

Zatanna keeps looking through some bags. "No, it's buried in here somewhere. Have I looked in this bag already?" she asks pointing to it.

"You didn't have to buy me a new wallet. My old wallet was fine."

"Your old wallet is tiny."

"It works."

"It's miniature. Now come on, let's find it." she tells him as she goes through the bag and something bites her. "OW! What the hell?"

"What?"

"Something bit me."

Kon picks up the bag and goes through it. "Ow! Something bit me." he says shocked, they look at each other. He dumps the bag, clothes falling out as they look through it pulling the clothes looking for…anything. "I don't see anything." He says.

"Nothing?"

"Nothing." He emphasis worried.

"Ok."

"Weird."

"Put my clothes back."

"You're giving me a headache." Kon says walking off.

"You're giving me a headache." Zatanna says annoyed.

…

Kon had woken up at 2 in the afternoon with Zatanna, he in his boxer and she in shorts and a muscle shirt. He walks in scratching his shoulder. "My head is throbbing." He mumbles walking into the kitchen.

"Like a sailor on shore leave." Zatanna adds following behind him sitting down.

Kon walks over to the pantry pulling out a box of Trix putting it on the counter then pulling out two bowls of pouring out the cereal in them, then gets the milk out pouring it in.

"Thanks." Zatanna says as she rubs her temples.

"Whatever."

They eat their cereal.

Zatanna stops and looks around. "Do you hear that?"

"What?" Kon says as he scratches his neck.

"I don't know, it sounds like whispering kids or giggling elves." Zatanna says as she eats. "Did you bring home elves last night? I'm not judging, l just want to know."

"All l hear is somebody who will not chew with her mouth shut." Kon snaps at her, she looks at him. "Oh, I'm sorry, Z. I'm sorry. I just l feel so ugh!"

Kon's phone starts to ring.

"Oh my god, shut it off." Zatanna snaps at him.

"Who could be calling me at this hour?" he asks as he turns to look at the stove's clock. "It's 2?"

"Apparently, are you going to answer that or I'm I going to have to throw it against the floor."

"Hello?" he says as he answers the phone forgetting to look at the ID. "Oh hey Mike…Eating, why? Oh right, yeah making out, sure I'll be there. I can finish my breakfast first can't I?" he asks annoyed. "Yeah, yeah, whatever." He hangs up.

Zatanna finishes her bowl and pours more Trix in it. Kon finishes his bowl and walks off.

"Have fun!" Zatanna yells as he leaves.

…Mike's house

Conner was lying on Mike's bed as Mike kisses him on top of him, Conner starts to scratch his shoulder.

"Ok, that's enough." Mike says as he pulls away sitting on him.

"What?"

"You got the chicken pox or something? You keep scratching."

"Well sorry, I'm itchy."

"You ok?"

"I'm fine." Conner pushes him away

"Right. Come here." Mike says not realizing Conner was annoyed as Mike started to rub his back. "That good?"

"Yeah good." Conner says as he scratches chest under his t-shirt, closing his eyes enjoying the rub.

Mike looks over at Conner. "Are you sick?"

"No, I don't get sick." Conner says and opens his eyes. "I don't get sick." He remembers, he stands up, puts his boots on.

"Where are you going?"

"Home." He says and puts his jacket on. "Thanks for the rub." He says as he leaves Mike alone. Mike sighs, Conner comes back and kisses him on the lips. "Bye."

"I love you." Mike says as Conner leaves him again.

…Mount Justice

"Zatanna! Kaldur! Megan! Anyone?!" Kon yells as he walks around the cave and ends up in the kitchen. "I think there's something wrong with-woah!" he says shocked as he gets pulled down to the couch.

"Get over here. God, you're so aggravating." Zatanna whispers as she crawls on the floor going to the briefing room.

"What has gotten into you?" Kon asks as he crawls behind her scratching his neck.

"I think we need to call an exterminator, or 10 because l almost got webbed in the face by the mother of all spiders." She says as she crawls to a hallway.

"An insect? Really?" he asks her. "We live in a cave Z."

"It tried to web me in the face, part of my face." She says paranoid. "You don't believe me? Fine. It's being scared of us in the basement or whatever it's call. That's where it scurried." She says as she stands up looking into the hallway with steps.

Kon stands up looking in. "Why don't you go first? Wouldn't want you to push me down the stairs or anything." He says as he pushes her.

Zatanna looks at him slightly panicking. "It's just a bug. It's just a bug." She repeats. "It's just a big, badass bug." She says as she walks down the steps. "I've seen this movie. The girl in goth ends up with a freaking hockey skate in the jugular every time."

"Well, let's hope the spider isn't wearing skates."

"AH! You've been marked, chosen by the spider." Zatanna says as she turns to look at him. "I'm safe." She says with a smile.

"I thought you said he went for your face."

"Shut up." She says punching him on his shoulder.

"God." He says as he punches her back, he walks ahead of her and looks around the 'basement'. "Oh, that is a lot of web for a wee little spider." He says looking at the cobwebs.

"Wee? You could put a saddle on that thing." Zatanna says as she gulps.

"I thought you said it was the size of a rat." Kon says to her, they hear something and quickly turn. "What was that?"

"Plan B." Zatanna says standing behind him.

"What's that?"

"You, go get them, tiger." She says as she smacks his butt and runs off.

"I hate Plan B." he mumbles and runs after her, they run to the zeta beam and stop as they see a brick wall on it. "We're trapped." he points out the obvious.

"At least we're together." Zatanna says with a smile.

"Right."

"Together we'll be fine."

"As long as we keep our heads." She says with a smile. Kon walks off to the kitchen speaking Spanish-mostly bad words. "Hey!" grabs hold on him, hands on his shoulder. "Kon, do not go full Mexican on me, okay? Don't panic."

"Why?" he asks her confused.

"It's something people say." She shrugs.

"People that lose their favorite jacket or gain some weight, not somebody trapped by a spider that is trying to eat us."

"What the hell is wrong with you!?" she yells at him.

"We just need to stay calm, ok?" Kon says not panicked anymore.

"Calm."

"You're too strong." Kon realizes.

"Concentrate on beating this thing." She says ignoring him pacing.

"Before she disposes of me. I know she will. Look at her eyes." Kon mumbles to himself.

"KON!" Zatanna yells at him. "We are trapped in this tomb of a cave by a giant freaking spider. Do you think you could not talk to yourself right now!?"

"Hello! We are home!" Robin yells as he walks in the zeta beam. "Or you know…cave." He mumbles.

"Kon, we need to talk." Batman says.

"He still mad at you?"

"He hasn't shown up for any briefings, or training."

"OH MY GOD!" Zatanna yells as runs up to them and hugs them.

"Good to see you too sweetie." Robin says as he hugs her back.

She pulls away from them. "Ok, all right." She starts as she scratches the side of her stomach through her shirt. "The basement spider is going to kill us and we need to leave-how did you guys get in?" she says panting looking at them, with a crazy look in her eyes.

"Just relax, take a deep breath." Robin says.

"What spider?" Batman asks.

Kon knocks them both upside the head with a tap in the head.

"Why'd you do that?" Zatanna asks as she looks at them on the floor passed out.

"They knew about the spider. They're in on it." Kon tells her.

"Totally." Zatanna says nodding, forgetting she had just told him. "Good thinking."

After they grabbed two chairs and tied them with their own handcuffs and took the keys away from them, and took their belts away tossing them aside.

"You good?"

"Yeah." Zatanna says as she grabs some duct tape and starts wrapping it around Batman as she walks in a circle around him.

"Is that my shirt? Did you steal my shirt?" Kon asks pointing to his angry face black t-shirt and red face.

"It's not stealing if l haven't left the house yet."

"God, I'm so angry at you!"

"If we were in prison, I'd give you a shiv."

"Why am I so mad at you? I mean you talk a lot, Dick is pulling away from me, nobody understands me, daddy this, daddy that. At least you had a dad. You could at least think about my feelings about it, god you're awful." Kon says annoyed. "Something's not right with my head." He says as he scratches his neck.

"Can we talk about your hair?" she says rolling her eyes as she continues to walk around Batman putting the tape around his body.

"I'm serious. The headaches, the itching, the voices-" he says as he looks at them. "You're going to kill me."

Zatanna turns to look back at him. "You're the one with Luthor blood." She growls at him. "No, wait it's the spider." She remembers shaking her head walking back to the middle of the room, as Kon starts to circle around her-a wolf stalking his prey. "I won't let you kill me." she says with a glare.

…Watchtower

The computer on the watchtower starts beeping.

"An attack in Mount Justice?" Green Arrow asks.

"I would imagine." Red tornado says to him, the was the alarm for it.

"Batman went down there." Canary says to them.

"The cameras are down." Tornado adds.

"Let's go." Green arrow says with his bow in hand.

…Mount Justice

"Noitadnuof." Foundation. "Sepid."pipes. "Doow." Wood. "Ssalg." Glass. "Ecnef tekcip." Fence picket. Zatanna says her magical words and a house appears above Kon and falls on him. Kon breaks the house with his TTK, taking it apart and walking up to her. "Why won't you die!?"

"NEVER!" Kon super speeds and sends a fist, she barely-barely dodges it as she ducks down and runs to Batman and Robin who were yelling at them to stop for the past minute.

"Z, you gotta get me out of here." Robin says to her.

Zatanna looks at him. "No, I need strength." she tells him.

"Zatanna!" Batman yells at her.

She turns to look at Kon, who's fist was on the rock wall, he turns to look at her with glowing red eyes. "I need strength." she says again. "I need yours."

"You can't have it."

"I wasn't asking."

Kon super speeds to punch her again, this time she mumbles intangible. "Elbignatin." His fist goes through her, she grabs his neck and starts to drain him. "YES!" Kon pushes her off using his TTK, she lands on her side, then stands. "Thanks bestie, that was awesome." She says her eyes glowing light purple. "Give me strength." she says as her body glows purple and takes a breath, she walks towards Kon who was on his knee panting, he stands, she punches him sending him flying to the wall with her new super strength.

Batman realizes they weren't paying attention to them, he stands up and smashes the chair against the wall, then uses his glove as it pops up fins to breaking through the tape.

"Basement, we need to go to the basement." Robin says as Batman breaks the handcuffs on Robin.

"Let's go." Batman says as they grab the belts and run.

Kon stands. "It takes more than that." he says as he walks to her.

She swings her fist, he pulls his body back and punches her, she groans, he punches her again, and again and again. Zatanna tries to punches him, he spins around behind her does a spin-kick and gets Zatanna on the back of her head, then does another spin kick. She falls on her knees.

"No, not yet." Zatanna says as she gets back up and punches her twists and putting her arm in a lock. She yells at him impatient. He dislocates her shoulder she screams in pain.

"That the best you can do?" Kon teases her. "Bestie." he says with a smile.

Batman and Robin look at the basement with the cobwebs.

"This wasn't like this before was it?"

"No." Batman says as he pulls out a hand full of pellets throws them in, Robin joins, the hit the wall/floor and they explode.

Kon puts Zatanna in a choke hold as he squeezes, she tries to breath.

"Efink." She whispers, as a knife appears in her hand turns it around facing Kon and stabs him near his heart, he gasps.

Batman and Robin hear a baby scream, Batman puts his hand on Robin's shoulder. "It's just the spider."

"Yeah…right."

"Help! Help!" Zatanna yells, they run back up to the briefing room. Batman and Robin look at Kon with a knife in his chest pool of blood starting to form, Zatanna's hands on the wound trying to stop the blood. "I think I killed him." she says crying.

…2 days later

Unlike a normal wound, a magical knife to the chest needs more time to heal.

"Morning, or afternoon. Man, it's like Vegas around here." Kon says as he stretches walking in the briefing room.

"Kon!"

"Hey, Z."

Zatanna hugs him tight. "I was scared that I killed you."

"Me too." Kon says with a smile as he hugs her back. "Oh and look." He says as he pulls away from her, taking off the bandage around his chest. "No scar."

"You would have some serious explaining to do." Zatanna says with a smile.

Kon laughs, Zatanna joins. "Oh my god Mike." He says remembering him. "shit." He mumbles.

"Fairy wings." Zatanna says two words to him.

"That jackass." Kon says knowing what she was talking about.

"You are not going anywhere. You're still healing, the both of you." Batman says to them.

"Do you hear that?" Kon asks.

"Hear what?" Zatanna says afraid.

"What's wrong? What do you hear?" Batman asks him.

"There it is again!" Kon says referring to Batman. "Did you hear that?" he asks looking around, Zatanna realizes what he's doing.

"I saved your life."

"Number thirteen-put him back in his pod." Kon say glaring at him.

"Kon, I wouldn't have done it." Batman says to him.

"Yes you would have." Kon says to him angry. "Because to you, the end justifies the means."

"You can't blame me for trying to be prepared. After what you've put us through the last 2 years."

"Actually I can, because every villain I have come across tries to kill me and have almost succeeded. Now I have to worry about my family trying to kill me as well? And I was mentally unstable when I tried to kill you, I felt so bad about it afterwards I couldn't even look you in the eye. Well I'm done. I am done, feeling guilty, and I am done with you. I won't do any more missions for you. Just stay out of my way." He says and starts to walk off.

"You sound just like Luthor." Batman says, Kon looks at him with a stone cold look, hand in a fist then walks off, Zatanna goes to follow him.

"Wow." Wally says shocked.

"That was…" Kaldur starts.

"Wow." Wally says again, still shocked.

"You called him a Luthor." Robin says to him, pointing out the obvious.

"That was bad." Artemis says.

"Really, really, bad." Megan says.

"Wow." Wally says again, again, still very shocked.

"Yeah you said that already." Artemis snaps at him.

"Yeah…cause it was-well…wow!" Wally stammers.

…New York

"You got any powered toadstool." British accent with blonde hair, blue eyes early 20s asks the man, he was wearing jeans, skull t-shirt and a leather jacket.

"Right here young lad."

"Hi remember me?" Zatanna asks with a sweet smile.

"Shit." The man runs off with his bag.

Kon puts his foot out, he falls on his face. "I think he remembers you Z."

"I think so to K." Zatanna says to him walking towards the end of the alley, Kon grabs the bag and toss it to Zatanna, she catches it and closes it. "There was this spider." She says in a valley girl accent.

"And it made us want to kill each other."

"Not the best way for a relationship to end if you ask me." she says to him.

"Wait, I can explain." The man says crawling on the floor.

"Explain my dislocated shoulder?"

"Explain why I almost bleed to death in my house!"

The man takes off his coat and then starts to grow, big 10 feet tall big.

"That would be an ogre." Zatanna says as she takes a step back.

"Can they take a punch?"

"Go wild."

Kon crakes his knuckles and smirks. "Let's do this." He jumps up and punches him on his jaw.

"Kick him! Kick him!" Zatanna yells. "Go for the eyes!"

"Hi, I'm-"

"Interrupting?"

"You're the one who interrupted me love, I was just trying to buy."

"You can buy powered toadstool in any Chinese shop."

"You can?"

"Are you new at this whole magic thing or what?"

"No." British accent guy scoffs, Zatanna smiles. "Yes." He says honestly, why bother lying, she knew he was.

"Right well most herbs you can find in China town."

"Good to know, so what's your name darling?"

"Sorry, my father always told me to never speak to amateurs." Zatanna says to him, then walks over to Kon as he had had put down the ogre punching him in the face over and over and over until black blood start dripping on him. "So after this maybe we could go watch a movie, any movie, Oh The Little Mermaid, which should be fun."

Kon stops punching the ogre and stands up a bit dizzy from the adrenaline that was pumping through him, he turns to look at her, black blood on his face. "What?" he asks her.

"Can we have a pajama party and watch The Little Mermaid?" Zatanna asks him.

The British guy looks at her then at the boy who looked like a murder. "Sure." Kon says with a smile and starts walking off.

Zatanna follows.

"Hey, wait, can I have your number?"

"Oh sweetie, no."

"I'm John Constantine."

"Good for you." Zatanna says to him already forgetting his name, she stands next to the ogre's body. "Og kcab emoh." She says Go back home. Waves her arm and he disappears in a purple smoke, she walks towards Kon who was stood waiting for her.

"That was bloody awesome." John Constantine says with a smile.

"So?" Zatanna asks as they start to walk.

"I need a shower." Kon says to her.

"I need to put this away." She says picking up the bag.

"Ok, then you drop it off, I shower, pajamas, sleep."

"Sounds like a date."

"Oh damn it, Mike." He remembers again.

lunch…Happy Harbor High School

The only time that the cafeteria was quiet was when finals came around. Everyone was studying books out in front of them. Wendy had her physics book out, Zatanna her Algebra book with papers, Riki his history book, Sam with his Government book out, Conner was trying to read his Great Gatsby book, while Mike keep kissing his cheek and nibbling his ear, his arm around his shoulder.

"Dude if I was you, I'd dump Mike's ass for being so clingy." Riki says to Conner.

"He's just mad because I didn't tell him I was sick this weekend."

"Conner did that to me once." Wendy says remembering, he had a cold and didn't come to school for 2 or 3 days.

"What'd you do?" Mike asks her.

"I dumped his ass."

"She's so sensitive." Conner says to Zatanna.

"Yeah, right." Zatanna says as she continues to text on her phone.

"Everything ok with you two?"

"Did you guys get into another fight?" Sam asks.

"That's not good." Riki says alarmed, after what happen last time.

"We're fine." Zatanna says irritated.

"Yeah, fine." Conner says as he turns back to his book.

…Mount Justice

"Kon, we need to talk." Kaldur says to him as Kon lays in the water floating eyes closed.

"No."

"Kon." Kaldur says as he starts to swim in the pool going towards him.

"Not now." Kon says as he sits up in the water.

"I'm sure what Batman said about Luthor-"

"Don't defend him." Kon snaps at him. "He has a list of ways to put me down, like a dog if I don't do as he likes."

"I don't want to defend him." Kaldur says to him, Kon starts to fly off. "But we miss you." He says a bit loud, Kon stops in midair. "We miss you Kon." He says to him, Kon turns to look at him.

…

"You're here." Megan says surprised.

"Yeah." Kon says a bit annoyed. "Can we get this over with?"

"You missed the briefing." Batman says to him.

"We'll fill you in." Artemis says with a smile they start to walk.

"The bioship is waiting for us." Megan says exited.

"Kon." Batman says as he walks behind him.

"I have to go." Kon says as he continues to walk off.

"Five minutes. Just five minutes." Batman says to him putting his hand on his shoulder.

Kon sighs. "I swear, I can't do this right now."

"I am sorry about the thing I said about Luthor."

"Why? You meant it." Kon glares at him.

"It was in the heat of the moment. I just-"

"You know, you wanted to hurt me, and you did that, so at least have the guts to stand by it." Kon says angry.

"Will you just hear me out?"

"You could do worse than compare me to a brilliant scientist and a billionaire industrialist, but you meant it in the sense that I am cold and ambitious and selfish, a horrible human being. I got that."

"I love how you just switch it around so you can make it fit-"

"You think I sound like Luthor? You do. And now I get to live under the weight of your disappointment, too? Because of something I couldn't control."

"I know. I should have told you." Batman says to him, as the Team listens to him as well. "I am sorry." He says genuinely.

"We both made a choice we live with that. So do that. Live with it. And leave me alone." Kon says to him and walks off.

…

"You should apologize." Superman says to Batman they stand on the briefing room.

"I did apologize." Batman says to him, Superman looked surprised. "I apologized sincerely, and he said to leave him alone."

"To leave him alone?"

"He said, we both made a choice we live with that. So do that. Live with it. And leave me alone."

Superman scoffs. "When Kon's mad at you, you sure can die of frostbite. I don't blame him for being mad at you, but he sure is taking this to a whole new level."

"I broke his trust."

"I'm sure he'll forgive you. It'll just take time. You need to show him that you can be trusted."

"And how I'm I suppose to do that, when he can't even be in the same room for 5 minutes?"

"Superman, we need your help." Green Lanterns voice came in his com.

"I'm sure you'll come up with something." Superman says as he starts to walk towards the zeta beam. "I hope he can forgive you. I find you disturbing this way. "

"Thank you."

…later

"What happen?" Batman asks looking at them.

"They're fighting." Aqualad says to him.

"It's weird." Kid Flash says.

"Zatanna."

"I don't want to talk about it."

"No! You are. You're gonna talk to me." Kon says to her standing in front of her. "Please, we can't keep doing this." He says to her, she looks away. "Zatanna." He begs.

"How are you fine?" Zatanna asks him looking right at him. "How are you just completely fine? I'm ruined, okay? I am tired. I am wrecked. And you're just walking around, fine? Just all hunky dory. As if you didn't go through the same thing, too?" she asks him desperate to know. "Why are you okay?!" she yells at him.

"I don't know." Kon says to her honestly.

"You know what? You were there too. I stabbed you. I stabbed you! In the heart."

"Near the heart."

"You died, you died Kon. I had our blood in my hands, there was a stain of your blood on the floor. Red Tornado had to do some surgery thing to stitch you back up so you could heal properly."

"I'm ok."

"How is that even possible!?" she yells at him.

"Zatanna, if you hadn't stabbed me, I would have snapped your neck."

"And you're ok with that?"

"No, but if it had happened, I would have been a wreak."

"I keep having nightmares about stabbing you. I keep thinking about how I felt afterwards-relief, even if it was for a second. I keep thinking that you would have been going through the same things but you're not, we're not the same. You wouldn't have, you are a cold heartless robot." Kon looks at her and teleports out. "Oh god." She mumbles, Robin goes up to her and hugs her.

…Roy's apartment

Roy was in his apartment making breakfast at 1 pm since he got home at 5 am from patrolling so he was moving pans around making noise in his kitchen.

"Dude, you mind keeping it down?" Kon says as he sits up on the couch.

Roy yells looking at him, his hand on his chest. "I think I died a little." He breaths.

"Morning to you too." Kon says as he stands up walking over to the table.

"What the hell are you doing here, man!?"

"I got in a fight with Zatanna."

"Seriously?"

"She hates me." Kon says sadly.

"I hate you a little too." Roy says to him, Kon looks at him sad/shocked. "I was kidding it was joke." He says quickly when he looks at Kon's face.

"It's not my fault that the spider tried to make us kill each other."

"True." Roy says as he grabs an egg. "Eggs?"

"Yes please."

"What about your boyfriend?"

"What about him?"

"Why aren't you bitching to him?"

"Because he doesn't know who I am, because he doesn't understand my relationship with Zatanna, because he-"

"I only need two reasons."

"Right."

"Look, you guys tried to kill each other, I get that, you guys have to get over yourself."

"I am over myself." Kon says to him. "It's her, she's the problem, not me."

"The age old, it's her not me."

"I don't know what to do."

Roy walks over with a plate with scrambles eggs and puts it down for him. "Nothing." He says as he puts down his own plate.

"Come again?"

"Nothing." Roy says again. "She's mad at you. You have to push through the anger and get to the other side of the bridge."

"Is it weird that I understood you?"

"We're each other's people. Let's just agree that we can understand each other without using too many words."

"Yay us."

"Eat."

"Milk or juice?"

"Juice."

Kon stands up and walks to the fridge pulling out the juice.

"You are so domesticated."

"Isn't that what you like?" Kon whispers in his ear putting down the two glasses and the orange juice.

Roy laughs at him. "I'm telling your boyfriend."

Kon laughs at him.

…Mike's house

After not one, not two but three rounds of sex Mike was tired, sweating and seriously dehydrated. Conner was being clingy and needy which he loved, it was what he wanted. Conner was always independent and strong he was a bad submissive partner.

Conner is now licking Mike's neck, pushing him down kissing his chest.

"What are you doing?" Mike asks him tired as he tries to drink his Gatorade bottle putting it on his nightstand.

Conner sits up, looking at him, confused then smiles. "Is this a dirty talk thing? I've never done it, but I'm always willing to try new things." He goes to says as he goes back to kiss his chest. "I will now kiss your stomach, and lick your abs." he says as Mike was actually turned on by it as Conner licks him. "And now I will take put my tongue on your cock-"

"OH GOD, please stop!" Mike yells at him sitting up pulling him up as they face each other.

Conner looks at him. "What? Was I doing it wrong?"

"No, you're good." Mike assures him. "Good at everything apparently." He mumbles mostly to himself. "I need you to stop because I want to talk to you and I can't do that with you have your mouth on me, we can return to do it later but first, what's wrong with you and Zatanna?"

"We're in a fight, it happens on occasion."

"You want to talk about it?"

"Nah, I already talked to Roy about it."

"Who?"

"Roy." Conner says again. "Wanna get back to the whole, dirty talking thing?"

"Who's Roy?"

They both hear a door open and close, they look at each other. "Mike, we're home."

"This is getting ridiculous." Conner says as they pull away from each other and start to put their clothes on.

"I'm sorry, I just can't tell my parents yet."

"Whatever."

"Conner-"

"You're the one that keeps saying that you love me, yet you can't be bothered to tell your parents." Conner snaps at him, Mike looked sad. "I'm sorry, it's a bad day." He tells him and kisses his lips.

"I will tell them, I just need some time."

"I know you will."

"Hey about Christmas."

"I know, it sucks. Me and Zatanna are mad at each other and she promised she would show me what it was all about."

"You've never had a Christmas family dinner." Mike says as if it was the most ridiculous thing ever.

"Yeah."

"Mike you here."

"Yeah!" Mike yells out as he puts on his shirt covering the hickies Conner had made on his chest and opens the door, Conner walks out as they walk down the stairs. "Hey mom, would it be ok if I invited Conner to Christmas with us?"

"Honey I'm sure he would rather spend it with his family."

"He has none, remember."

"What about your brother?" Mr. Shepard asks Conner directly.

"Working." Conner says, he was patrolling that day. The league took turns on holidays, this year it was Superman's turn.

"Well…" Mrs. Shepard starts and turns to look at her husband.

"Yeah ok, I'll tell my mother."

"Tell her hi for me."

"What just happen?" Conner asks a little confused.

"I'm inviting you for Christmas over to my grandparents' house."

"Didn't you spend Thanksgiving with them?"

"That was my mom's parents, this is my dad's parents."

"Geez, all four of your grandparents are alive?"

"Good genetics." Mike shrugs, to Conner.

"Help me put the groceries away." Mrs. Shepard says to them.

"I thought you were going to Chicago for a week."

"Yeah, grandma made us buy it for the big day."

"Alright, one more name on the list." Mr. Shepard says as he walks back in the kitchen.

"So you've never had a Christmas family dinner?" Mike asks Conner as they start to unpack bags.

"I did once."

"How was that?"

"I had this foster mom and I told her, I never had a Christmas tree before, so she saved up all her money to buy a tree but instead she bought a dozen bagpipes cause well she was crazy and when she saw how sad I was during the night she painted a tree from floor to ceiling."

"Oh babe that was so depressing." Mike says accidently calling him babe in front of his parents.

"Don't worry Conner, we'll show you a good Christmas time."

"Thanks Mr. Shepard."

"Call me Mark."

"Call me Laura."

"Sure." Conner says a bit uncomfortable.

…Christmas Day

"Here open mine." Dick says to Zatanna.

Zatanna grabs the small cube box and shakes it. "What is it?"

"Open it."

She opens it and smiles at the skull necklace. "Oh, it's beautiful."

"You have weird taste." Wally mumbles as he eats a of pie.

"I'm here, Merry Christmas." Roy says bored as he walks in with everyone already open most of their gifts eat all of the food.

"Dude, you missed everything."

"I know."

"Here." Kaldur says as he tosses him a medium size box with a red bow wrapped around it with black wrapping paper.

"Thank you." Roy says to him. "Love the wrapping paper." He says as he pulls on the ribbon and opens the box. "Whoa." He says as he looks at the present. "Killer." He says pulling out the brass knuckles.

"Wow." Dick says as he walks over the couch looking at the knuckle.

"Badass." Wally says as he looks at them.

"Boys and their toys." Zatanna shrugs.

"Yeah." Artemis says looking at her new watch.

"You wanna go see it too don't you?"

"Just five minutes." Artemis says as she jumps over the couch looking at them.

"So, not from anyone of you?" Roy asks.

"I would have keep it." Artemis says.

"Me too." Dick says.

"What's it made out of?" Wally says as he examines it.

"It's from Kon." Kaldur says to him, having read the card.

"Great." Zatanna whispers.

"Knock it off." Roy says to her.

"I didn't say anything."

"I have excellent hearing."

"Let's not fight." Wally says to them.

"He's been sleeping in my apartment, in my bed which is very weird." Roy tells her.

"You like it don't you?"

"Shut up Artemis." he snaps at her, she closes her mouth with a smile. "It's not funny. He eats my cereal, drinks my milk. I have a roommate and he doesn't even pay rent."

"Then tell him to come back." Megan says to him.

"I have dozens of times, he doesn't listen." Roy says to her. "It's her fault he hasn't come back."

"You can't blame me for this."

"And their fighting." Wally mumbles going to the table getting some more leftover food.

"I should have just spend time with my family." Artemis says.

"Well then maybe she should get over it!" Roy yells.

"We tried to kill each other!" Zatanna yells as she stands up looking at him.

"We know!" Roy yells at her. "We know you tried to kill each other. And we know you're pissed at Kon, but, maybe you could try get over it anyway. Sort of like the spirit of this holiday you keep shoving down everybody's throats!" he tells her and walks away with his new metal knuckles.

"Where is Kon?" Kaldur asks.

"With his boyfriend." Megan says as she pours chocolate in a cup, they turn to look at her, she looks up at them. "I don't think I was supposed to tell you guys."

Chicago…car

"Ok, my grandma and grandpa have three kids all guys. Uncle Cole, the oldest has 3 kids, Charlie, Chad and Chris. Then it's my uncle Luke and his 4 kids, Leo, Luca, Lyle and Leslie. Charlie and Leslie are the only girls in the family."

"Seriously? Name matching?"

"Clark and Conner."

"Good point."

"Leo is already in college he's gonna be doctor and Charlie is graduating this year like me."

"You have a big family."

"I do."

"Must be fun."

"Fun-loud."

"What else?"

"Oh my uncle Cole is married to my aunt Sonya, he's an engineer with Wayne enterprise."

"They live in Gotham?"

"No, they live here in Chicago, he's actually kinda in charge so they give him time off but he does travel a lot. My aunt Sonya is an artist. Uncle Luke married to aunt Amy, he's an architect and she's a nurse."

The car stops in front of a house, it wasn't a mansion, but it was big. It had Christmas red white and blue lights all over the windows and edges, the leafless trees had green lights, snow covered the grass, while Santa stood with his 12 reindeer who were randomly placed on the snow shining ever other minute.

"Wow."

"My grandpa is a Surgeon and my grandma is a lawyer."

"Come on you two, start unpacking." Laura says to the men in the car as they pull up on the house. "Michael sweetie help me with the presents."

They grab the presents in wrapping paper with all of the boys names on them as they walk up the door, Conner and Mark where grabbing the suitcases and follow them up to the house, the ring the doorbell.

"They're here!"

"There here!"

"Here we go." Laura mumbles as the door opens.

…

They house was filled with boys, and boys are loud. So they shoved them all down to the basement which had, a pool table, plasma screen tv, video games, leather couches, fridge, and a liquor cabinet which was locked. The younger boys where playing video games, Charlie, Leo, Michael and Conner are playing pool.

"Damn." Leo says as a ball misses the pocket. "You're up."

"Four-three-two-one-six with a bank shot."

"You don't have to call your shots." Charlie says to him.

Conner bends down shoots them all down.

"Shit." Leo says shocked.

"Damn boy." Charlie says to him.

Michael smiles.

"You guys have any more water?" Conner asks.

"Upstairs, hustler." Leo says to him as they start up the game again.

"Thanks loser."

Charlie and Michael laugh, Leo looked annoyed as Conner leaves going upstairs.

"Rack them up loser." Charlie says with a smile.

Conner was going to the kitchen but everyone was there, all of the aunts where talking drinking wine, then men where in the garage there father had bought an old time car that need fixing. Since Conner didn't want to interrupt the fun, he went back to the hallway and started looking around the house.

The house had 5 bedrooms, plus the master bed, 2 extra bathrooms plus the master bathroom. The rooms made him wonder if the had renovated them when the men of the house moved out to have families. All the bed rooms looked neat, blue or green or gray, colored rooms with art on the walls, even Conner had posters on his cave wall.

Conner walks to another door and opens it, he turns on the light it was filled with books, he smiles. It was a library or a study, it was probably a study. He looks at all of the books, they were mostly medical and law books some philosophy other random like architect and engineering and art, some of them where magazines. He pulled it out an art book and started flipping through it.

"That one's mine."

"Oh, sorry."

"No, no. Keep looking." She says as she walks up to him. "What do you think?"

"Geometric signs in three dimensions with flat faces and straight edges. It's impressive." He says as he looks at the art in the photographs all of them by her.

"Yes." She says looking at him a little surprised by his terminology.

"They look like a computer drew them."

"I also do models." She says as she walks over to the desk showing him a icosahedron star model with different colors on each side of the edge.

"It's beautiful Sonya."

Sonya looks at him. "Are you Russian?"

"No."

"You say my name with a Russian accent."

"Yeah, you are Russian aren't you?" Conner asks her, he knew she was, his super hearing could pick up small traces of her accent in her English.

"Yes I am. Do you speak it?" Sonya says to him curiously, he nods, Cadmus had download all known languages in him. "How does a boy like you know Russian?" she says in her mother tongue.

"I've made it my life mission to know every language." Conner says in perfect Russian.

"Very nice." She says shocked as his accent. "So you want to travel."

"More than anything."

"When are you going?"

"After high school, I've decided to pack some clothes and buy a ticket to Spain and go from there."

"You're parents are ok with this?"

"I don't have any, they gave me up for adoption when I was a baby."

"And college? I don't mean to pry buy you seem like a smart boy."

"Yeah, that's what all the counselors tell me at school. That I could get into an Ivy League college, I could get a scholarship, I could become a doctor." Conner says a bit irritated, he could never be a doctor, he was going to be 16 for the rest of his life.

They hear the doorbell ring.

"Who could that be?" Sonya asks everyone was already here.

They go back down stairs going the front door.

"Is he here, by any chance?"

"Conner it's for you."

"Roy?" Conner says as he hears his voice, they move to let him walk up. "And Zatanna." He says as he sees her. "And Wally, and Artemis and Megan and everyone else." He says confused as they hid beside the doorway. "Oh my god did someone die." He says a bit panicked.

"No." Roy says to him. "Although if somebody doesn't stop the Christmas songs, I might start breaking things."

"I'll help." Conner says.

"Not the point." Wally mumbles to him, Roy turns to stand behind Artemis and Wally.

"Ok so I do this thing you know, whenever anyone, says something really funny, and I'm laughing, I always look around to see if, you think it's funny, too." Zatanna says to Conner, he looks at her, and so does everyone else confused. "Even when you're not there, I still look around."

Conner looks at her.

Dick takes a step to Zatanna's side. "I don't think he understood that."

"I accept your apology." Conner says.

"You understood that?" Dick asks confused.

"You understood that!" Zatanna yells happy and hugs his tight. "I missed you so much K."

Conner hugs her back. "I missed you to Z."

Everyone sighs happy.

"It's a Christmas miracle." Artemis says.

"Thank god." Wally says.

"YES!" Roy yells out pumps his fist. "I get my apartment back." They turn to look at him. "I'll pack up for you." He says to Conner. "Later loser." He says and walks off.

"Later jerk face." Conner tells him.

"Well see you at home, let you enjoy the rest of your Christmas."

"Zatanna?"

"Don't worry, I have a present for you too."

…Dinner

"Pass the turkey."

They pass the plate of turkey slides around in a half circle.

"So you're going through this horrible period of applying to college."

"Horrifying is for like it." Charlie says as she eats her mashed potatoes with gravy.

"It's not so horrible." Michael says as he eats bread.

"He's got it pretty well covered." Mark says. (Mike's dad.)

"That's right." Laura says with a smile.

"All your applications are in?"

"I've applied."

"I remember when Leo first started to apply, he went through hell."

"You children put so much stress on themselves these days." Their grandmother says.

"It's pretty stressful." Mike says.

"Where did you apply, dear?" Sonya asks Mike.

"Stanford."

"No word yet?"

"I'm not supposed to hear back for a while."

"Where else?" His grandmother asks him.

"Where else?" Michael asks her.

"Where else did you apply? Your alternates?"

"We're just curious, Michael."

"Well, I'm pretty much counting on Stanford."

"Well, you didn't apply to just Stanford, did you?"

"Well…no." Mike says hesitantly.

"No?" Conner asks turning to his side looking at him.

"No."

"You applied elsewhere?"

"You can't just apply to one place." Leo says to him.

"Schools wouldn't allow that." Charlie tries to explain.

"Is that true?" Conner asks him.

"Pretty much."

"Why didn't you tell me that?"

"I was going to."

"You have to be safe." Charlie adds.

"At least six schools." Leo adds.

"Same with Charlie." Sonya says to him.

"Where else did you apply?" Conner asks Mike.

"Just at some other schools."

"Well, if you're aiming at Stanford, that would be Princeton, Yale, maybe Harvard, Brown."

"Yale because of grandpa's connections, right?" Leo says to him.

"I would assume so." Their grandfather says to him a bit arrogantly.

"Those are the kinds of places, yup."

"The kinds of places or the places? Mike?" Conner asks him.

Michael sighs. "Princeton, Yale, Harvard, um, Brown."

"Brown?" Conner asks.

"Yes." Mike whispers.

"Brown, Mr. Shepard?"

"Oh, this is the first I'm hearing about it, Conner."

"Oh, bull."

"Conner!" Mike yells at him.

"You did this."

"I haven't discussed this subject since I suggested you visit the campus." Mark says to Conner a bit surprised by Conner's outburst.

"You forced his hand."

"I did not."

"Conner, wait."

"You made it seem like you'd be deeply hurt if he didn't apply to Brown, and he tries to please you, so that's as good as forcing his hand."

"Conner, really."

"You wanted him to go to Brown instead of Stanford, didn't you?"

"Well, that wasn't a secret."

"Dad didn't force my hand." Mike says to him.

"Dude, you didn't know he was doing it."

"He is not a puppet, Conner."

"I needed a backup." Michael says to him.

"But why Brown?"

"I could live at home."

"You." Conner says turning to Laura.

"Excuse me?" Michael's mother asks.

"Well, you got to him. That was your thing."

"We didn't mean to start this." Mark's brother says.

"This is not your doing, Dan." Mark says to his brother. "I never spoke to Michael about that."

"I don't believe you."

"I figured it out on my own, Conner."

"You're saying there have been no conversations, no encourage?"

"I can google."

"This is unbelievable."

"And past indelicate you are our guests." Their grandmother says stunned by his attitude.

"Yes, I'm sorry, I apologize, I'm sorry you have to see this."

"This is paranoia, Conner. There's been no conspiring."

"I'm not being paranoid, Mrs. Shepard. For four years, he was going to Stanford, and now all of a sudden, he's applied to Brown and he's mimicking everything you say. This is just crazy." Conner says and leaves the room going outside.

Michael looks as Conner walks off. "Excuse me, please." He says to them and walks off.

Conner was standing outside in the back patio watching as the snow slowly fell down. Mike walks out the back door and hugs himself as he looks at Conner's back.

"It's freezing out here." Mike tells him.

"It's Jamaica compared to in there." Conner says not feeling the cold.

"It's just an alternative to Stanford, a backup. It changes nothing."

"No, no."

"Conner."

"Mike, I don't wanna talk."

"I'm doing it for us."

Conner turns to look at him. "What?"

"Conner if I leave, I'll never see you again."

"Mike, we've already talked about this."

"No, you talked, I didn't agree to anything."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Conner asks him a little angry. "You've wanted to be a doctor since before I meet you. You wanted to go to Stanford, then go to medical school at Yale. That's what you want."

"I want you." Mike says to him, Conner stares at him as Mike steps forward holding his hands. "Come to Stanford with me, I know with your grades you can get an awesome SAT score and you can get early admissions and we'll be together. We can get an apartment together and sleep in the same bed."

"I'm going to pretend you didn't say that." Conner says to him pulling away from him as he takes a step back, now it was Mike's turn to stare. "Because you know that I'm not going to college, I'm going to, travel and you are going to medical school."

"Fine, go to Europe, go to Africa get shot in Iraq for all I care. I'm done." Mike tells him and walks back inside the house.

Conner froze, Mike had just broken up with him.

…Central City

"Just put the guns down."

"You can't catch all the bullets Flash! You are not that fast!"

"You don't want to hurt anyone, just put the guns down."

"You heard him, puts the guns down!" Police Captain yells out.

"Ok, this is getting out of hand." Flash whispers to himself, the cops on one side, the armed robbers on the other, if either of them fired, he could save them all but the bullets even if he missed one they would be seriously hurt.

"We can catch them together."

"No, I don't want to put innocent people in danger."

"But-"

"This is my city Kon."

"Put the guns down! We will open fire!"

"Not before we do!"

The robbers start to shoot, Kon hears it grabs the bullet. The cops start to shoot, Flash grabs the bullet.

"STOP!"

The continue to shoot at each other, Flash and Superboy use their speed to keep up with the bullets, Flash having to grab some random objects as to stop the bullets, rocks, coins ect.

Superboy stops in the middle of the standoff. "Why can't you people get along?!" Superboy yells at everyone a blue blast vibrates away from him.

"What was that?"

"My gun!"

"It just fell apart!"

"Exploded!"

"Pistol just broke in the holster."

"Kon, what just happened?" Flash asks him stand in front of him.

Kon looks around then looks at his hands. "I don't know. My power I never felt anything like that. I just poured out and I think I just dissected every gun in Central city." Superboy tries to explain, Flash stares at him mouth slightly open. "Can I just say…my bad?"

…Mount Justice

"Ok I have…no idea." Flash says as he reviews the entire test and exams on Kon's new found power.

"Seriously?" Kon says annoyed as he takes off a wire from his forehead was covered in them. "All of that poking and prodding for nothing?"

"Well, you're a heathy 16 year old, 5 feet 7 inches tall and 150 pounds boy."

"Though you were a scientist." Kon mumbles annoyed.

"You forgot to mention a hybrid half alien, half human with a hot temper." Roy adds.

"Screw you Roy."

"Usually I'm all about the insults, but what hell is wrong with you?"

"We should call Batman, he knows more about your powers then me." Flash says as he looks at the results on the holo-computer where normal.

"If I wanted to call Batman I would have."

"He's still mad at Batman for making the kill list of him." Roy explains.

"Oh then you're going to be a little made because…I called him."

"You did not."

"Flash call me, he said you were having problems with your powers?" Batman says as he walks in through the zeta beam.

"No, no problems." Kon says as he takes off the remainder of the senores.

"He did something and broke every gun in Central City."

"I'm sure you'll thank me when crime goes down." Kon says to Flash with a smile.

"Is he being stubborn?" Batman asks.

"Yes." Roy and Flash both say, Kon looks at them glaring/pouting.

"I saw it on the news." Batman says to him.

"Been keeping taps on me now?" Kon asks him.

"I always have."

"Gotta make sure the kid doesn't go off script huh?"

"According to the satellites and several surveillance cameras you used your TTk powers to disassemble them. But instead of you scanning it like you're normally do, you admitted a wave of your telekinesis disable all of the guns in Central City."

"Like a sonic boom?" Flash asks more interested then Superboy.

"Exactly."

"I didn't find any wave admissions." Flash says to him.

"That's because Kon's powers signatures hasn't been detected by any known technology on earth, yet. Which makes it easy to find." Batman explains.

"So, I just heard, you destroyed every gun in Central city." Superman says as he flies in the cave walking over to Kon.

"Disassembled." Kon corrects him. "Big difference."

"What?"

"He took them a part, piece by piece." Batman says to him, he knew Superboy's powers, it didn't destroy it took them apart, they could easily be put back together.

"It's gonna take the CCPD a while to put them back." Flash says.

"You did that?" Superman asks him.

"It was an accident."

"Oh Kon."

"Your TTk power is connected to your emotions Kon." Megan says to him walking in wanting to show support. "How are you feeling?" she asks him.

"No, no, no." Kon says to her. "This wasn't an I'm feeling thing this was an I'm angry that those people didn't put down their guns thing."

"Kid-" Batman starts.

"You do not get to call me that anymore." Kon snaps at him.

"Kon, talk to someone. It doesn't have to be me, or Superman. It can be Zatanna or Roy anymore."

"Thanks but I think I'll be taking my advice from the non-bat-wearing heroes from now on."

Batman walks off back into the zeta beam.

"That was mean." Superman says to him.

Kon shrugs.

…Conner' room

Zatanna walks in with a smile on her face.

"Just so you know, we are not repeat not mad at Mike for dumping me."

"Sure whatever." Zatanna brushes off, hearing that for the first time. "I had sex with a boy! Dick Grayson, to be more specific."

"How was it?" Kon gives her grins.

"I had sex." She whispers.

"That bad?" Kon asks her as he puts on his long black sleeve shirt.

"No, not that bad it was just kind of weird."

"Weird?" Kon says raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, but not kinky weird."

"I feel better about that."

"It was more like awkward. But hey, you know what? It was my first time and so was his, that's to be expected." Zatanna says sitting down on his bed while he leans on his desk. "And I did make some faces in the middle that I wish that I could take back but I can't. There was also sort of a whiny noise that came out of him in the end. It wasn't our finest hour. And it sucked so bad. I was like corpse just laying there, he was like a fish flopping around on dry land. Kon, I was Nemo and I just wanted to go home.

"Don't worry, you'll get another shot."

"I don't know about that, I think we've hit a rough patch, we just do the same things over and over. Movies popcorn, fall asleep together cause we're both so tired."

"I don't get tired."

"We are in a ditch I thought we could just jump off it. But now we have to deal with the corpse fish sex."

"I wouldn't refer to it as corpse fish sex ever again." He says to her as he puts on his boots.

"That's a good point, that's something that I was hoping to get a little bit more of tips, tricks of the trade or words of wisdom for me."

"Yeah, do it again." Kon says and leaves.

"That's...what I was afraid of." She mumbles. "Mike broke up with you?" she says hearing him for the first time.

…Happy Harbor High School

"Any chance we could ditch this."

"Maybe, I need to do some research."

"No, the year is almost over." Megan says to her two teammates. "We are going, Zatanna I signed you up for the Italian club and Conner I signed you up in Spanish club."

Zatanna and Conner look at each other than back at her. "We hate you." They say to her.

She gets in-between them, putting an arm around them. "It'll be fun."

"Megan we've talked about this, we have different definition of that word." Conner says to her.

"Conner!"

"Evasive maneuver." Conner says and pulls away from Megan walking into the school quickly.

"What?" megan says a bit confused.

Zatanna turns to her. "Mike broke up with Conner on Christmas, we're not mad at him, we are going to avoid him at all cost."

"Ok, that explains his powers, he was emotional."

"Is something wrong with Conner?" mike asks standing by the two girls.

The girls look up at Michael.

"Jerk." Megan says and walks off.

"Asshole." Zatanna says and walks off as well.

"What? Hey what did I do?" Mike says confused as the two girls walked away.

…

Conner was in his locker grabbing a book then sees Mike, then turns the opposite direction of his class. Riki and Sam both stop in front of him.

"Hey guys! Did you have a good break?" Conner asks him. "That's awesome, I gotta go." He says not giving them a chance to say anything as he tries to move forward.

"We like you Conner, but Mike was here first."

"Back stabbers."

"Ok so we had our first fight, and I got that you wanted to be alone, so I left you alone, but now you're avoiding me so I'm thinking you're still mad."

"Oh."

"Oh?"

"Um, well I kinda though something else."

"What did you think?"

"That we broke up."

"You thought we broke up."

"You said you were done."

"You said that?" Riki asks.

"Shut up Riki."

"Well if he did say that then it's kinda a universal we're breaking up."

"I said that as an I'm done fighting with you about moving to Stanford."

"Oh see I didn't know that."

"You thought I broke up with you on Christmas?"

"That's heartless." Riki mumbles, Sam elbows him on the ribs. "Well it is."

Mike puts his hands on Conner's shoulders, Conner looks up at him. "I'll tell my parents about you.

"You haven't told your parents? The whole school knows and you haven't told them?"

"We're gonna go." Sam says as he grabs Riki from the back of the neck forcing him to walk.

"What did I say?" Riki says confused as they walk.

"You don't have to do that." Conner says to Mike.

"I want to, they should know how much you mean to me."

"After my outburst during dinner, I don't think they'll like me very much."

"I don't care." Mike says to him, using the back of his hand to rub his check. "I only care about you. I love you."

"I really don't like it when you say things like that."

"I know but I do."

"You don't have to."

"You told your brother about me, besides we wouldn't have to seek around anymore."

"True."

"I want you to be there."

"I don't think that's a good idea."

"Maybe, but I still want to do it."

…Mike's house

"Ok, so just let me do all the talking."

"Ok."

"But I should just tell them that that I'm with you. If I tell them I'm gay they'll freak out."

"Ok."

"I'm not gay, I mean you-your hot and smart and I wanna screw you every chance I get."

"Yeah." Conner says with a smile, Mike smirks as they hear the car parking outside.

"That's mom and dad."

"Alright." Mike says as he sits down next to Conner and takes a breath, Conner puts his hand on his thigh.

"It's going to be ok."

"Yeah."

"They're your parents."

"Right, they love me."

"Mike? You here!?" Mr. Shepard yells as he walks in with a bag of groceries.

"Yeah, here dad."

"Hey we could-" he starts as he walks in then sees Conner. "use help."

"Ok, right." Mike says as he stands up. "Come help."

"Sure."

After they unpack the groceries putting them in the refrigerator and then stop turning to look at Conner.

"You ok?"

"Um yeah."

"Michael-"

"Can we talk?"

"Sure, Conner maybe you should-"

"Stay." Mike says holding Conner's hand.

"Michael, what's wrong?"

"Do you need help, you can ask for it. There's nothing to be ashamed about.

"I know." Mike says still holding Conner's hand, holding it tight.

"You're afraid of something. I can see it in your eyes."

"I'm…afraid of you and Mom."

"Why are you afraid of us?" Mrs. Shepard asks him.

"Because I'm not who you think I am."

"You're Michael, our little boy." Mrs. Shepard says to him.

"We'd know you anywhere." Mr. Shepard says to him. "I got a picture of you in my wallet."

Michael sighs. "I'm eight years old in that picture. That's a different boy."

"It's the same boy, we just need a new picture."

"It's not that simple."

"Mikey-" Mr. Shepard starts and looks at their hands intertwined and looks at them.

"Please be ok with this." Mike says to his parents, he picks up his hand as well of Conner's. "We're together."

…Happy Harbor park

The cold air plus the snow mixed in was a bad combination, but Mike standing next to Conner was warm, so that's where he was standing beside him, keeping him warm.

"So after I left?" Conner asks holding Mike's hand.

"It was fine." Michael says to him, Conner looks up at him wearing his white beanie covering his hair part of his ears. "There was some yelling. But they want to have dinner tomorrow so come over."

"Ok."

They walk around the park some more, some people making notice that the two boys where holding hands some were surprised others smiled at them and walked on by. Mike chuckles, Conner turns up to look at him.

"It's funny." Mike says.

"What is?"

"Nothing, you're good, I'm good, we are both good." Mike says letting go of his hand putting his arm around his boyfriend.

"You're so weird."

"Yes I am."

…

"Dinner good?"

"Yes, it's been a while since I've had a home cooked meal."

"You don't cook?"

"No, take out mostly, pizza, Chinese, I hop."

"So what colleges are you thinking of going?" Mrs. Shepard asks trying to make conversation from the quite.

"Mom."

"What? I'm curious."

"I'm not going to college."

"I thought you had good grades."

"I do, I'm just not going."

"I don't understand."

"He's not going mom, the end."

"Why not?"

"I wanna travel."

"Well that's where the summer comes in, what is it 4 months?"

"I wanna go to Africa and Australia and Antarctica you can't really explore the world in 4 months."

"No, certainly can't." Mr. Shepard says agreeing.

"Have you ever gone traveling?"

"Yes I have, I travel to Europe before I went to college and I was in the peace corps."

"That's amazing! Was Africa just amazing? Did you see any animals?"

"I did, we lived a compound where they took care of some animals who were injured I got to see a baby cheetah grow up."

"That is so cool, I wanna do that."

"You can do that and go to college."

"Maybe when I finish exploring." Conner shrugs, Mike chugs down his coke. "You ok?"

"Thirsty. I'm gonna go get another drink." He says standing up. "You need anything?"

"No." Conner says to him, Mike walks out of the dining room into the kitchen. Conner turns to Mr. Shepard. "Did you go to Istanbul?"

"No, what's in Istanbul?"

"I have no idea, but I wanna go."

Mr. Shepard chuckles. "I think travelling for a young boy is a very important thing. Michael's never like it much, in fact he's afraid of flying. Which is why we have to drive to Chicago?"

"I know." Conner says to him.

"Right, you would know that." Mr. Shepard says shaking his head slightly. Boyfriends told each other that kinda of thing.

"I'm gonna go get some more wine." Mrs. Shepard says walking off into the kitchen.

"She'll adjust."

"I hope so."

In the kitchen.

Mike was leaning on the counter his back to the kitchen door, arms folded, ankles crossed.

"Michael?"

"Hey mom."

"Is everything ok?"

"Yeah, just…it's fine."

"Michael." His mother says looking at him knowing something was wrong. "Tell me."

"Just this whole traveling thing."

"I'm happy for him, and your father is ecstatic about it." she says making it seem like she didn't care he wasn't going to college.

"Yeah."

"But you're not." She says realizing it.

Michael looks at his mother. "I'm never going to see him again." He says as he almost start to cry.

His mother looks at him and hugs him. "Oh sweetie, it's gonna be ok."

…

"Are you sure you don't want my dad to drive you home? The streets can get a bit icy."

"I'll be fine." Conner says as he walks up to his motorcycle and stops besides it. "Did I do good?"

"What?"

"With your parents, was I ok?

"Yeah, my dad loves you and my mom is ok."

"Are you ok?"

"Me?"

"Yeah, when you went to the kitchen for the coke, it took you a while to come back."

"I'm fine." Mike says as he bends down a bit giving Conner a kiss on the lips. "Bye."

"Bye."

"Drive safe."

…Conner's room

"What took you so long?"

"I was dinner with Mike's parents."

"Yay you."

"It wasn't that bad although I kinda wish I had parents now."

"Hug?"

Conner nods, she walks over to him slightly hopping on her leg. "Are you limping?"

"Yeah, Dick kneed me in the leg."

"Why?" Conner asks as they hug.

"I don't know, but it was so not worth it." Zatanna says pulling away as she sits down on his bed, so does Conner, they lay down and sigh.

"So you guys did it again huh?"

"If you can call it that, there were limbs everywhere."

"Ew."

"I don't know what to do. Tell me what to do."

"I can get you a vibrator off the internet."

"That's…not what I meant…at all."

"Diana uses them."

"That's too much information Kon."

"Sorry."

"You two talk about that?"

"We talked about sex, subject came up."

"I don't think there's gonna be a next time, for me and Dick, not after this latest debacle." Zatanna says to Kon as she looks up at the ceiling. "I think it might be over, an what sucks about that though is that I know I have so much more to give."

"I don't need to know that."

"Fair enough, what about you, how's the sex with you and the swimmer?"

"Hot, steamy, mind-numbingly amazing."

"I hate you."

"Yeah."

"Yeah." She pouts.

"Hey, wanna go to Europe with me?"

"Seriously?"

"Next year, we are going backpacking just me, you and our clothes in our backs."

"That sounds…awesome!" Zatanna says sitting up. "Where are we going?" she asks exited.

"Moscow, Istanbul, London, Paris, Ruhr, Madrid, Milan, Saint Petersburg, Barcelona, Berlin"

"Wait when are we doing this?"

"This summer."

"Sorry no can do, how about next summer?" Zatanna asks.

"Deal." Conner says putting his hand out, she looks at his hand they shake hands.

They lay back down on the bed. "So where else are we going?"

"Switzerland."

"Blonde people, we'll fit right in." she jokes.

"Ireland." He adds.

"All green all day."

"Greece."

"I'll bring my swim suit."

Roy walks in dropping his things on the floor then grabs one of Kon's pillows and falls on the bed, Zatanna and Kon where still at the edge of the bed with their feet touching the ground.

"You ok?"

"Can I crash here, and before you say anything I let you sleep in my bed with me in it."

"Yeah sure."

"thanks." Roy mumbles already falling asleep.

"How about Germany?"

"Yeah, sure Germany would be good we can go to the Europa Park. It has roller coasters."

"Ok." Zatanna says as she moves over putting her head on Kon's chest and tucking in her legs, putting her arm across his chest.

"We could go to Finland, that could be fun." Kon says as she starts to fall asleep. "We could go to the top of the Elffial tower and I can show you my new mood where we can fly together, it's awesome."

"Fly." She mumbles.

"Go to sleep, the both of you." Conner tells them they grunt. "Wolf?" he whispers. Wolf sits up from his laying down position by the side of the bed look at his best friend. "I don't think I've ever been this awake in my entire life." He tells him, Wolf lays back down. "You're bad friend." He sighs looking up at the ceiling seeing using his x-ray vision looking out to the sky and starts counting in his head.

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