Dick's P_O_V

"Let's see, where to start?" I asked myself, and then looking back I found the perfect place to start my story. "after leaving the team, I went back to Gotham and started helping Batman again, it was just like before, except, I couldn't get any of you off of my mind, I started making mistakes, they were little ones, but they were still mistakes. after awhile Batman decided I should get over it, so he decided it was time we had a nice little talk."

'the Talk, four years ago':

"you wanted to talk to me?" I asked as I came into Bruce's office, being the fifteen year old I was, I could only come up with back reasons for my adopted father to want to talk to me alone, and I dearly hoped it wasn't because of that fight I got into at school. Bruce was sitting behind his desk, looking at a file, the name of the file was in a weird language, but I knew it had something to do with Wayne industries.

"take a seat Richard." I gulped as I did as he said, if Bruce was using my full name, it meant I was in trouble. Bruce put the file down and looked at me, and I was surprised to see no anger in his eyes. "Richard, you need to move on, forget about the team."

"I know Bruce, but I can't, every-time I close my eye's I see them there, and I remember every lie they told me. how am I supposed to forget them?" I asked, I hadn't even realised that I was crying until Bruce stood up and came around the desk to wrap his arms around me. I was fifteen, but I didn't mind when my father pulled me onto his lap and just hugged me, letting me get my tear's out, and knowing that I just needed to cry.

"when we first made the Justice League, I didn't trust any of the other members, and I kept to myself, even more than I do now. Clark knew about my past, so when a mission came up that involved the man that trained, then betrayed me. Clark managed to convince the others not to tell me, they lied to me for a couple months and they finally managed to get the man, when I confronted them, told them I knew why they had lied to me, and that if they wanted me to trust them, they had to trust me to know when I couldn't go on a mission, we agreed never to keep someone out of a mission unless it was necessary for their survival. this could be like that, they could have decided that there was a mission that you couldn't handle, and lied to protect you."

"I guess you're right, but it will take time to forgive." I said, and from the small smile he gave me, I knew that was all he wanted to hear.

end of 'The Talk'

"besides that, its just been some nightwing stuff." I told them, and then smile and turned to Kaldur. "your turn."

I knew that I was making it so the team couldn't ask me any questions, but I needed them to not ask them, so they didn't discover that I had only told about the talk, and not about the last four years of my life. now on to Kaldur's story.

Kaldur's P_O_V

I looked around at the faces of my former teammates as I decided how to begin the tail, of the past four years of my life. Looking around at their faces, I studied them all. Wally's hair had gotten longer since last I saw him, and his eyes seemed to be bluer than when he was younger, I could see the regret in his eyes, but I also saw the love and joy there, Wally was happy to once more be in the presence of his adopted family. Artemis' hair was down to her but, and her eyes were still a piercing green, in the green I would make out only one emotion, joy. Artemis was happy that her husband was happy. Conner's hair was still cut short, and his UN-humanly blue eyes were still as secretive as ever, allowing me no insight as to how he felt about this entire meeting. Dick had changed a lot, his hair was still the same length, and I knew that his eyes would still be just as secretive, just like Conner's. But Dick's body had filled out and under his suit you could clearly make out each and every muscle. His suit had changed when he became Nightwing, but you could still tell that he was Robin, at least, you could if you were once family to him. M'gann was still the exact same, just a little older, and I could see in her eyes that she was overjoyed by us all being together again.

After looking around at, and studying the faces of my former family, I found the perfect place to start. And so I began the tail of the past four years of my life.

"After the team broke up, I returned to my home. I took up my training once again, and started spending more time with my beloved Tula. We were married three years ago, we have three children, and another on the way." I told them, I didn't have anything to tell, since all I've done in the past three years is marry Tula and protect the Kingdom. "Besides that, all I've done is help to protect my kingdom from threats; it has been a rather boring four years, when compared to Nightwings.

"Come on Kaldur, there must have been something interesting happen in the past four years." Wally said, looking at me over his feet from where his head lay on Artemis' lap. "Tell us about how you proposed to Tula; it will make an interesting story."

"It will be a boring tail; you will not find it interesting." I tried to persuade Wally, but it didn't work, for he continued to look at me expectantly, so with a sigh (A/N Kaldur is a bit of an OC, but it's not on purpose) I began to relate to story of how I proposed to Tula.

Flash back to three years previously:

I slowly made my way to Tula's room; taking a left and continuing down the hall a couple more paces, I stopped in front of the first door on my right. I took a deep breath, knowing that as soon as I knocked on the red wood door there would be no turning back. But I also knew that there was no turning back already, reaching my hand into my pocket, I pulled out the ring I intended to present to Tula tonight.

the ring was a silver band with diamonds surrounding it, and on the top the band split into two and held in place a large sea blue Sapphire. the ring had belonged to King Orin's great grandmother. she had given it to her son who had given it to Orin. but when king Orin married he had created a ring for his bride, and given his mothers ring to Kaldur, saying that he wanted his wife to have a ring that truly came from the heart, and that Kaldur should keep the ring and give it to his future bride, since Kaldur was practically his son.

Kaldur found strength by looking at the ring and remembering the words of his king, and using this new strength he raised his fist and rapped his knuckles on the door. Tula opened the door and looked at Kaldur, smiling that beautiful smile that made Kaldur's knees weak. Tula was wearing a tight blue dress that was so tight that it left nothing to the imagination

"Kaldur, what can I do for you?" Tula practically pured. it gave me goosebumps and for a moment I forgot why I was even there. and then I felt the ring in my hand and I remembered.

I went down on one knee and took Tulas hand in my own, larger one. she looked at me surprised and I saw tears beginning to form in her eyes. I thought I had done something wrong and began to let go of her hand, only for her to grab ahold of mine with both of hers, did I realise that they were tears of joy.

"Tula, you are the worlds most beautiful girl alive, you are the reason I life, and the reason I breath each day. you are the light that shines in my dark world, and the answer to all my prayers. without you I would surly die." I told her, letting her here the emotion in my voice, and knowing how much I truly cared for her. "so I beg of you Tula, do me the great honor of being my wife."

"I thought you would never ask." Tula cried as she threw her hands around my neck, and kissed me on the cheek. "or course I'll marry you Kaldur."

I slipped the ring on to her finger and stood up, gathering Tula to me as I pressed my lips to hers. her lips tasted like honey and I melted at the taste. but I continued to kiss Tula until I heard someone clear there throats behind us. turning I found my king standing behind us, and a smile the size of the moon was on his face.

"I'm glad you finally asked her," Orin said, and then he was hugging both me and Tula. "I've always seen you as my son Kaldur, and now I gladly welcome you into my family Tula."

"thank you my king." we both spoke at the same time. then smiled at eachother, letting out love for one another show in our voices.

end of flash back:

"oh Kaldur, that was so romantic." M'gann said, and everyone else moments later everyone else agreed.

"whose next?" I asked, wanting to change to another persons story before they asked for another telling of something that happened.

"MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEMMEMEMMEM." M'gann said as she jumped up and down excitedly. and no one could say no to her. (except Conner but he doesn't count, because he's her ex.)

M'gann's P_O_V

I started with the first thing that came to mind; my break up with Conner.

flash back to Conner and M'ganns break-up:

"you used me, you took my trust and then stabbed me in the back, I trusted you." Conner yelled, it was easy to tell that he was upset, but impossible to tell if he was just upset or angry. but I did know that he wasn't happy that I didn't even care about what I had done, I felt no remorse. "how could you do that to me M'gann?"

"it was the only way to keep you near me, I couldn't lose you." I said, but I didn't let my sadness get into my voice, instead I made it seem as if I didn't care, as if this didn't effect me and I felt no remorse for messing with him like I did. but the truth was, I didn't care that I had messed with his mind. I didn''t care that I had betrayed his trust, I just cared that I had been caught doing it.

"you've already lost me M'gann, I don't want anyhting to do with you anymore," Conner growled at me, reminding me of Batman, and scaring the crap outa me. "goodbye M'gann, forever."

"so let me get this straight, you went into Conners mind, messed with his thoughts, and then tried to use him. and then you became mad when he broke up with you for it?" Wally asked, and only then did I remember that the others had never known why Conner and I had broken up, we had always kept it a secret.

"and you guys said i have temper problems." Conner said with a smirk, and soon all of the others were on the ground laughing, as I stood by and blushed, and Dick and Conner stood there and just shared a secret smile with each other.

"as soon as you're all done laughing your asses off, I will continue to tell you of my life for the past four years." I said, hands on hips and mouth set in a pout. they managed to get themselves under control, soon they were all sitting quietly as I continued, already knowing it was going to be a long story.

"as I was going to say, after Conner and I broke up, I started dating L'Gann. but as you all know, that didnt work out to well. we broke up and then I started seeing other people, until I desided that i was going to give up men all together, so now I'm an anti-man woman."

'thats cool, but I don't think I would have been able to give up men, and now that I have Wally, I know I couldn't" Artimes says. and I smile at her before continueing.

"since then my life has been boring, I haven't been MM since the team broke up, so I've just been a normal human, its boring, and there is nothing to tell really." I say, and its true, I've been prettending to be a human since the team split, and i havent been MM for four years

"that interesting." Wally said sarcasticly, and I smiled, then pointed towards Artemis.

"your turn Arty." I said, and everyone nodded there heads in agreement.

"since Wally and I have spent all our time together, the past four years in exactly the same for both of us." Arty said, and everyone nodded, seeing the truth behind the words, and knowing that the next past' they heard would be the past of two, not only one.

Artemis's POV::::

I looked around at the others and thought of how little they had actually changed.

Dick had grown, and he was more masculine since last I'd seen him, but he still looked mostly the same. He still has the ebony hair that makes the night look bright, and those blue eyes that are outmatched only by Conner's. He didn't smile as much as he used to, and his laugh didn't hole the same joy and innocence that it once had. But his smile still brought happiness to others, and his laugh was still contagious. Richard had changed in the past four years, but he was also still the boy we had once known. Sure he changed his name and costume, and he had grown, but he was still the Robin we had once known and loved.

Kaldur still looked the same, his tattoos still as weird as ever, and he was the exact same height and build he had been four years ago, though he looked like he was starting to get some grey hairs. He seemed more outgoing than he once was, he was more forthcoming with laughter and smiles, probably because of his wife. He was still as calm as ever, and still thought through something instead of just acting and hoping everything went right. He seemed to still be the same atlantian that had once led us on our missions, and stayed calm even when Robin was freaking out.

Megan looked the exact same, if not a little older. She still acted like a child but she had improved to a degree. I couldn't believe that she had actually given up on men, but then again. The only boys she had ever liked turned out to be the wrong people for her, I was positive that she would fine her special someone someday. And when she did, I would be right there to make sure he didn't break her heart, like she had broken the heart of my brother. She hadn't changed at all really, and I was glad for that, because it meant she was still the girl that had made us all – really burnt – cookies.

Conner was the only one that had changed a lot, his hair was cut short, and he was wearing combat boots, black pants and a black t-shirt that showed off his muscles. Over that he wore a black leather jacket that made him look sexy as hell. But he was calmer, four years ago he would have lost his temper over the simplest of things, but now he was acting like the damn Batman. He stood in a relaxed posture that made him appear at ease, but gave those around him a slight sense of discomfort. He reminded me of the Batman, and I found myself wondering how much time he had spent with Dick in the past four years. (How was I to know they got together almost every week to talk about life?) He used to be quiet, and never smiled, let alone laughed. But now he chuckled lightly, and shared secret smiles with Dick, the change was amazing.

I came out of my thoughts, and turned to the other, wondering where to begin. Then, feeling an arm snake around my waist, I looked up and smiled at my husband.

"Let me tell them beautiful." He whispered huskily in my ear, and I shiver in anticipation.

"Fine with me." I whispered back, and wondered to myself just how short he was going to make it, and then a thought hit me. "Do we tell them about Alyss?"

"Yes, Dick and Conner know about her already, so we might as well tell the other two." I nodded and waited for him to tell them of the past four years.

Wally's POV::::

I turned towards the others, as I decided how brief I was going to make this. You see, I used to be the talkative one that could never shut his mouth, but as I aged I found that I preferred to me quick and brief, when speaking of myself and my family. Even now, among friends, I could help but wanting to be as brief as possible.

"After the team broke up Artemis and I got married, we moved into my uncle's old house, and he adopted a young girl named Alyss. She is an amazing girl, with some amazing gifts. I believe that Dick had met her already, and that he's told Conner, No?" they both nodded their heads, and I continued "We also have two sons James and Allen, they are both two and they love their adopted sister. Other than that, there's nothing really going on in our life. We love our children and would do anything for them, and we don't believe in keeping secrets in our family."

"Speaking of which." Artemis cut in, then she glared at Dick. "Dick, would you like to share something with us?"

"Actually Arty." Dick said, and he gave her a smirk that told me he knew that we were talking about Will, and that he didn't care one little bit. "I'd love to tell you all, but it's his decision. He is in this room right now, listening to us and deciding whether he trusts you all enough to tell you his story."

"Wait. What?" Kaldur asked confused, and Conner, Arty, Dick and I just gave them small smirks.

"You will either learn tonight, or you will stay in the dark for an unknown amount of time, but it is not my decision to make, so you must stay in the dark for the time being." Dick told Kaldur and Megan, and they both nodded in acceptance, knowing they would get nothing out of any of us tonight.

"So when will we get to meet your children? Wally? Arty?" Megan asked excitedly.

"It all depends on how we stand with one another at the end of this little get-together." Arty and I said at the same time, then I turned to Conner.

"You're the last one man, ready to share your story?" I asked him.

"I have done nothing in the past four years that I'm not proud of Wally," he told me, knowing I had been asking because I was hoping for another embarrassing story. "I am quite ready to share my story."

"Then start your story man." I said, really wanting to know what was up with his look, I knew he liked combat boots, but he looked like he was in the arm for peats sake.

"Wait another moment please." He said, and I gave him a weird look. But before I could speak a phone started going off, and Conner disappeared into the kitchen after answering. He returned moments later with a big bowl of popcorn balanced on his head, two twelve-packs up soda under his left arm, a Walmart bag full of chips in his left hand, and five pizza boxes balanced in his right hand. "I was getting hungry, figure food was probably a good idea."

"Nice," I said as I grabbed one of the pizza's. "Now, tell us your story."

"Alright." Conner said.

Conner's P_O_V

I looked around at my friends as I decided whether or not to tell them everything, or keep the really important things secret. I went through what everyone had said about their own pasts. And then I realized that Dick hadn't really told us anything about his past, he'd just told us how he got over the team breaking up. I almost chuckled as I pictured the face Dick would make if I told everyone, and he was forced to tell about his past. But dick was like a brother to me, and I wasn't going to torture him like that. Not when I knew that all he had really done in the past four years, was taken care of Will, and Bruce. Became Nightwing, and fallen in love with Jay. At the thought of Will and Jay, I almost laughed again, because the team didn't know it, but there are three people hiding in the rafters, listening and waiting to tell their own stories.

Kaldur has had an easy couple of years, and the only exciting thing he really did, was get married, and becoming a father to three children. And Megan hadn't done anything interesting, except give up men. Artemis and Wally have had an interesting couple of years, but I knew that they hadn't told the entire truth. Which was fine because like Dicks past, it would be revealed when the time was right. And so, that only left me to tell my past, and then we could see if our three spy's were willing to introduce themselves.

"Well" I began, finally deciding how I wanted to go about this, "let's start with when the team first broke up. I was confused, I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, and after all, I was only 18. I decided that I still wanted to help people, but that I needed a break from being superboy. So I went to Washington and volunteered for the army. I went to a boot camp for a year and a half, then went out on the field for the first time."

"What happened your first time on the field?" Wally asked when I didn't immediately continue. I had gotten used to war in the past three years, but that first time on the field still haunts me.

"I was partnered with a man named James, he and I had trained together, and we had become close friends. We were moving people away from a little town, we were trying to get them to safety. But there was this man, a villager, that didn't want to leave his home, he refused to move from his home." I paused, thinking of that day. "James and I tried to talk to him, but he remained rooted in his chair. We would have given up, but we had been ordered to get everyone out of that town, even if we had to force them to leave, so that's what we tried to do. I threw him over my shoulder in a fireman's carry, and James and I started for the edge of town, where the trucks were waiting to take the villagers to safety. We were almost to the edge of town, when the guy pulled a gun out of nowhere, before I could even react he had shot James in the shoulder. I punched the guy, knocked him out cold. I picked James up and carried him and the guy the rest of the way to the trucks."

"What happened then?" Arty asked, she knew from my pause that there was more to the story, and that there wasn't a happy ending.

"James seemed to be fine, his arm was in a sling and he couldn't use it, but he was fine. Then three days after he was shot, he dropped dead. The bullet had been dipped in poison, and he had been slowly dying for the past three days, he didn't feel a thing." I sighed. "Since James, I've had tons of partners, and I've watched almost half of them die. But none of them hurt me as much as that first one."

"I'm sorry Conner." Kaldur said, and I gave him a sad smile.

"It's fine." I said softly, and then smiled at them all to show them I was ok. "In the past three years I've been getting better and better at fighting. But I've also been hurt in many ways. I never realized how painful it was to get shot, until I got a bullet dug out of my shoulder."

"Wait. Stop there." Wally yelled loudly, "you're invincible, how the hell did you get hurt?"

I smiled and showed them all a right on my finger, on my ring finger was a led ring with a wolf head design.

"You see this ring?" I asked with a smirk, and when they all nodded I continued. "The wolf design is made from blue kryptonite, and if I twist it just right, the led disappears, and I become like a regular human. I've worn this ring every day for the past four years, and whenever I'm on the field, or doing training, I'm using the kryptonite. I've been training as a human, so I can protect myself with or without my powers."

"That's awesome." Arty said, and I chuckled lowly, knowing that they would probably be impressed by what I was about to tell them.

"That's not the most interesting part that would be the fact that I passed through the ranks quit quickly, and I'm now a General." I almost laughed at the shocked looks on their faces, I knew they would be surprised by that little fact. "I'll have to show you my uniform some time."

"That. Would. Be. AWESOME." Wally yelled loudly, and everyone else was smiling as well. "Ok so all you've been doing was stuff for the army?"

"I didn't say that, I said that's what I've been spending most of my time doing. I've also been learning every human language, and tons of alien ones. I've been doing a lot of traveling." I told them, and they all looked kind of impressed.

"So, no lucky woman?" Megan asked. And I shook my head no.

"Are you another boy scout?" Wally asked laughing.

"Actually no. the men under my control actually fear and respect me. Although don't ask me why they fear me, they just do. I don't have to take orders from anyone, and I'm the youngest General in history at 22, it's amazing really. And I love being able to help people and not have to hide behind my powers. It's refreshing to know that I can protect myself if I'm attached while acting as a civilian." I told them.

"Have you ever been captured?" Wally asked intrigued, and I almost burst out laughing as I remembered one time when I was captured along with Dick, who had been visiting me at the time.

"I've been captured quit a few times, but one of my favorites was a couple months ago, on my birthday." I said, and as soon as the words were out of my mouth, Dick was looking at me and begging me with his eyes not to tell them the story, but I just smiled at him, to let him know that I was going to tell them and there was no way he could stop me, he signed, and I smiled. "Want me to tell you about it?"

"Yes please, but why do I have the feeling this is going to be entertaining?" Megan asked.

"Because Dick was visiting me at this time, and he and I were captured together. We found a…ah…interesting… way to get away." I chuckled, and Dick chuckled along with me.

"Well don't keep us waiting, tell the story." Wally demanded, like a child.

"Sure"

The Capture:

"Dick are you alright?" I asked as my little brother slowly came back to the world of the living. We had been taken from my office at gunpoint, and Dick had struggled a little, getting punched a few times by the men guarding us. They had brought us outside, to the middle of the clear grounds in front of all the barracks. They had placed a gun at my head, and called all of the men on the grounds out of the barracks. Now we were surrounded by all of my men, and they were all looking at me worriedly, as I still had a gun pressed up against my head.

"I'm fine Conner." Dick said, and I sighed softly to myself in relief. I looked around at my men, staring them in the eye one at a time, telling them that all would be alright. Then I looked at Dick, and the moment I saw the look in his eyes, I knew that we were going to have fun with this. We silently figured out our plan, but before we could put it into action, a helicopter arrive, and men climbed out of it. There were about ten men, and the one in the middle instantly caught my attention. Surrounded by nine armed men, with his hands bound behind him, and guns pointed at him, was the president of the United States.

After getting over the shock of seeing my President, and watching him get shoved to his knees beside me, I heard another commotion. Men were forcing five more bound men onto their knees in front of me. They were three visiting Generals and two Lieutenant Generals. Dick and I looked at each other again, and nodded at the same time. It was time to put our plan into action.

"Hey Conner, are you as bored as I am?" Dick asked smiling at me.

"Yes I am Richard." I answered him, "What do you suggest we do about our boredom baby brother?"

"You know big brother, I think we should sing." Dick answered, singing 'we should sing'

"I think that's a wonderful idea Richard." I smiled at him again, and almost burst into laughter when I saw the shock on the faces of the President, and my fellow officers. "And let's start with 'Hey Mickey' it's an amazing song."

"perfect." He said, and so we began singing. We sang song after song for the next hour-an-a-half, not even caring when the guys hit us and ordered us to be quiet. Then we started complaining that we were hungry and spent half-an-hour asking for food, and then saying it was they got the wrong thing when they did get us food. By then some of my men wanted to laugh, but I glared at them, clearly telling them to stay quiet.

"SHUT UP!" one of the guys finally yelled. It had taken two hours, but they all finally broke. They were all yelling at Dick and I too shut up. But we just smiled at each other, and started singing again. Soon all of the men were on the ground rocking back and forth, and crying. Dick and I smiled at each other again, and then he did his little trick, and had his hands in front of him. He quickly untied himself, then untied me.

We looked at the guys on the ground, and then at each other. And then we couldn't control ourselves, we fell to the ground laughing our butts off. And everyone was looking at us as if we were insane.

"That. Was. AWESOME." Dick yelled and I laughed again.

"Best birthday ever." I said, and then we picked ourselves up and untied the Generals and the President. All of my men were laughing their butts off, and we left them as Dick and I went back to my office, to talk and laugh.

End of the Capture….

Everyone was on the ground laughing.

"I wish I could have been there." Wally said, and the others all agreed.

"So what are we going to do now?" Arty asked. Dick and I looked at each other, before looking up without moving our heads. I could easily make out the shape of the three teens hiding in the shadows, and they all nodded at me when they caught me looking. Telling me that they were willing to trust them, and that they were about to come down.

"Now, you meet three new members of the team."

the next chapter will be the last. some of you might hate the ending, but it leaves room for me to write a sequel if I can ever find the time and motivation.