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Mount Justice

July 23, 10:30 EDT

The others ran after Mia worried about what made her run out of the Cave crying. By the time they reached her, she was on her knees crying her heart out. Wally was the first to walk closer to her.

"Mia what is it?"

"I-it's…they're…I-I…NO!"

Mia couldn't talk straight let alone say a complete sentence. Wally hugs her and she clutches his shirt like it was a lifeline. Everyone glances at Mia worriedly, not understanding how they're sarcastic, lovable, bubbly teammate is so broken in front of them.

"Mia you're not making any sense" Robin tries to reason.

He didn't get any kind of response from her except hearing her muffled cries. As she lets out a blood curdling scream and more tears, Kaldur looks to M'gann with a grim look.

"Read her mind."

"But Kaldur…"

"M'gann she's in pain" Wally reasons.

M'gann nods "For Mia."

M'gann's eyes turn green as she uses her powers to enter Mia's mind. She falls to her knees clutching her head in pain at the sheer amount of emotion that's going through Mia's mind.

"Ah!"

Kaldur and Superboy rush to M'gann's side.

"M'gann what is it?" Kaldur asks.

"I couldn't get anything. There's too much pain, sadness, and anguish going on in her mind. However I did get something, a name that she keeps repeating. 'Rogers'. I don't know who that is."

Superboy looks over to Mia's crying form "I do" and walks over to pick her up from Wally's grasp. When he took her away from Wally, she went hysterical and Superboy tried his best to calm her but it wasn't working with her kicking, punching and screaming. Robin rushes over to her and hits a pressure point on her shoulder knocking her out.

"Dude what'd you do?" Wally asks.

"I hit a pressure point to knock her out" they gave him a look "She was going hysterical, what was I supposed to do? Let her hurt herself and Supey?" Robin reasons.

They knew that he was right and didn't say anything about it. Superboy carries her to the medical bay where Red Tornado and Black Canary were waiting for them.

"Red Tornado, Black Canary, what are you guys doing here?" Wally asks.

"I was alerted to Mia's screams and called in Black Canary" Tornado answers.

"Let me take her Superboy" Canary said walking over to him.

He was hesitant on letting Mia go but he does none the less. Mia whimpers softly when she left Superboy's embrace and into Canary's. Canary sets her down on the bed and gives her a shot.

"What'd you give her?" Robin asks.

"Something to help her sleep. Now come on, we should let her rest" Canary orders.

She ushers everyone out of the room but Superboy stops at the door when he hears Mia mumbling "They're dead. It's my fault they're dead. All of them dead. My fault."

He frowns and leaves her room. As he walks away from the Medical Bay, Superboy drags Robin with him to the Mission Room.

"Hey Supey!" Robin exclaims.

Superboy places him in front of the holo-computer only saying "Search."

"For what?"

"Rogers in the D.C. area" Superboy states with his arms crossed.

Robin immediately starts searching for any Rogers in the surrounding D.C. area and found results. Police reports, Coroner's report, pictures, obituaries, anything and everything about the Rogers'. "Oh" was all Robin said as he reads the police report. The others show up and were stunned just like Robin.

"William and Rose Rogers: married for 25 years, owners of an apartment building, one son in the Army a Colonel Jack James Rogers, 23 years old. Credit's good, no debts, no bankruptcy, no connections that would indicate that they were tied to gangs or loan sharks. Police say it was a robbery gone bad but that doesn't correspond with the crime scene photos" Robin states.

"How old were they?" Wally asks.

"48 and 49, respectively."

"Dude that's around my parent's age" Wally thought.

"I still don't understand how this has to do with Mia" M'gann says.

"Because the couple was letting Mia stay there for a cheaper price than most of their other tenants" Superboy answers.

The four of them looked at Superboy like he grew a second head.

"And you know this because" Wally starts.

"Because she told me everything I needed to know about her at the moment."

"When did she tell you?" Kaldur asks.

"The night you freed me from Cadmus."

"What did she tell you?" Robin asks "Why didn't she tell us?"

Superboy lets out a sigh and rubs the back of his neck "She's going to kill me but you guys deserve to know" he pauses for a bit and continues "Mia's here illegally, has been for the past three years. She won't tell where she's from but she did tell me that she escaped a group of people, who meant her harm, by using her powers which I guess emerged right at that moment. So she teleports where she would feel safe and ends up in some guy's boxing gym. I think his name is Ted Grant, he found her and trained her for a bit. He calls in a favor from the Rogers if they would watch over her, they said yes and she's been with them up until recently. That's all she's told me but I know there's more to her story, she just hasn't said anything about it yet."

After his explanation on the situation, they bowed their heads in sadness that their teammate…no, their friend had to suffer losing parents: her biological father and now her surrogate parents. "At least she still has her mother" they all hoped.

"So that's why Mia said that back when we faced against Twister. After losing her father, she didn't want to run the risk losing a second family she found and she won't" Robin thought silently swearing to Mia that it won't happen.

He raises his head with a look of determination and the others noticed.

"You got a plan don't you Rob" Wally concludes with a sly smile.

"I'm going to find out who did this while you guys help Mia back on her feet" Robin states and they went to work.

Two days passed and Mia was out of the Medical Bay, however she was on autopilot. Everything she did wasn't really her, it was like she's clocked out at the moment and basic survival skills clocked in.

Congressional Cemetery, Washington D.C.

July 26, 14:30 EDT

The day of the funeral had arrived and Mia didn't shed a single tear as she watched the service from a distance. Batman had gone with her and stayed not too far behind her to watch everything in the surrounding area. When the service was over, Mia walks up to her surrogate parents' coffins. She had two envelopes in her hands and she teleported the envelopes in each coffin. Mia looks at the picture of them that someone had chosen to showcase and blows a kiss to the picture then leaves the cemetery.

As soon as she came back from the funeral, Mia goes to her room to change into a sports bra and boxing shorts then went to the gym for a bit. The Team gathered at the door of the gym and watch Mia punch and kick a punching bag with all of her might. So they decided that she needed to be alone for a few hours then she would leave the gym, oh how wrong they were.

Mia stayed in the gym day and night after the funeral, not leaving unless it was to go to the bathroom, shower and change out of the clothes to only put on new ones. Everyone started to get worried that Mia hadn't set foot out of the gym to eat so they would try to get her to do something else and ask her to do something with them but all they got for answers were silence and the sounds of her punches.

One time Superboy checks on Mia and saw that her knuckles were bruised and caked with dry blood. He rushes over to check on her knuckles but she takes her hands away and continues to punch the bag. Not being able to handle anymore of Mia's attitude, Superboy tosses her over his shoulder and takes her to the Med Bay to get her knuckles bandaged. What worried him the most wasn't her bloody knuckles but Mia's lack of response as he carries her over his shoulder.

"Mia please say something" he thought as he reaches the Med Bay.

Superboy places her on the examination bed and Canary takes it from there. She bandages Mia's hand and tells her to take it easy but it fell on deaf ears. Mia heads back to the gym and continues to punch the punching bag with her bandages on. After getting her hands bandaged the first time, Mia used all of her free time at the gym punching out her emotions.

Eventually, Mia had been brought to the Med Bay so many times that when Canary sees someone from the Team bringing Mia in, she wasn't surprised at all. "This girl needs to stop before it's too late" Canary thought as she takes off Mia's old bandages and putting on new ones...again. Knowing the one thing that would stop Mia from damaging her hands past the point of recovery, Canary took a leap of faith.

"Mia if you keeping doing this to your hands, you won't be able to pick up a pencil. If you can't pick up a pencil then you won't be able to draw."

Mia was silent for a while before she hoarsely spoke "Ok. I'll stop."

Canary nods and Mia leaves the Med Bay. Those were the only words Mia had spoken since the funeral and hasn't spoken after that day in the Med Bay.