Hey everybody!

Ok, so there's no excuse right now,I'm on holidays for heaven's sake so... Sorry guys.

To make up for my lateness (and also because this chapter isn't as good as others I don't think) I'll be posting another chapter in a couple of seconds, so you'll be able to read both. All I ask in return is that you actually read them and then review (please!).

So yeah, disclaimer and then story!

DISCLAIMER: Can we be honest here? Why would I be on a fanfiction website if I owned DC? I'd just make the story into a movie or something and get money for it.

"Morgan!"

A voice, I can hear a voice! It's vaguely familiar… Who does it belong to?

"I'm here" I whisper. I don't know why, anyone normal wouldn't even hear me, but I do anyway.

"I heard her, this way" comes a different voice.

There are only three people I know that could possibly hear of that so clearly that they can tell where I am. It was a boy so it can't be Supergirl. That leaves Superman and… Superboy!

Young Justice is here!

I hear footsteps, metal ones. NO!

"Don't come any closer, Slade's here, he'll kill you" I whisper and the soft un-metal footsteps stop. The metal ones follow suite.

"Run!" I shout and the soft footsteps flee quickly. But of course, not away, towards me. Stupid hero complex.

The door opens and Slade towers over me, throwing me to the floor as he goes. Pulling out a gun, he aims it at my head just as Young Justice burst into the room.

"You know the drill, take a step closer and I'll shoot."

I close my eyes and take a deep breath, preparing myself for what I had to do. Swinging my legs up, I knock his gun so that it's not pointing at me or anyone else in the room. Using the momentum of my swinging legs, I throw myself over in a backflip and land perfectly without as much as a scratch on my wings.

"Nice job" Slade purrs "But actions have consequence."

He then raises his gun and fires, a loud crack echoing in the room.

Artemis lets out a scream as a bullet embeds itself in her arm and she falls to the ground in pain.

"The tip is poisoned; she'll die if you don't start trying to save her right now." Slade says.

"We're not leaving without her!" Kid Flash growls and then suddenly, I'm speeding out of the darkness known as Slade's lair. I can hear whooshes as various other heroes grab their fellow team mates and then fly out.

The jolting of Kid Flash's footsteps cause my body to ache and I begin to feel a sticky wetness penetrating my clothes. My body holds out longer than most, but eventually, it shuts down and I fall into cool blackness as the real world slowly fades away.

# # #

I wake up to blinding whiteness and instantly close my eyes again. It's so bright that it hurts. I slowly blink my eyes as they adjust to the light around me. The first thing I see is Robin.

"She's awake" he calls and then focuses his attention on me.

"I'm-" he begins but I quickly cut him off.

"There's nothing to be sorry for, no one would've been able to find me fast enough to stop any damage. In fact, you found me very quickly, faster than most actually so don't blame yourself for something you couldn't control and actually excelled in." I say my voice croaky and dry.

"Thanks" he whispers.

"Why is it that when everyone else says the same thing, he doesn't listen but as soon as A speaks up he's reduced to a whisper?" Kid Flash asks.

"Maybe because he, unlike some of you, actually cares about the wellbeing of others." I say, a little peeved off.

"Not even a thank you?" Kid Flash whines.

"Do you want a bird-a-rang in your eye? Because that's where it's going if you don't apologise and then shut up." I say, bird-a-rang in hand.

"Where'd you get that?" Kid Flash says eyes wide.

"From Robin's belt, duh. Now hurry up and say sorry." I reply, holding the bird-a-rang slightly higher.

"I'msorryfornottrustingandrespectingyouaswellasdisrespectingBatmanbyconvincingtherestoftheteamthatyouweretryingtogetusallkilledandweshouldinvadeyourmindtoseewhatyou'reupto!" He squeaks rapidly and I smirk in reply.

"Thankyou" I say and then proceed to turn to where Batman is standing in the dark corner. "And there's your proof. Don't be too harsh though, he was only doing what he thought was best for the team."

Batman steps out of the shadows and then smirks.

"You're here? You knew he was here? HOW?!"

"Have you ever met Slade? Hones-"

Suddenly it hits me like a ton of bricks.

"Artemis! Is she ok?!"

"She's alive" Batman says, smirk completely gone. "But only just."

"The poison went through her system fast, real fast. We don't know if she's going to make it yet" Robin says quietly.

I close my eyes.

"This is my fault. If I hadn't tried anything-"

"This isn't your fault A!" Aqualad says. It's then that I notice the whole team excluding Artemis is here.

"Yes it is! If I hadn't been so stupid and yelled, Slade wouldn't have known you were there. And even if he did, I knew that he knew where the Batcave was, yet I still showed my friendship with Artemis blatantly clear so that he knew who to aim for straight away."

"If I'm correct, Robin is your friend too, why wouldn't he have been in the same danger" Miss Martian says quietly, obviously ashamed of what she did before.

"Because it would've missed Robin" Superboy says for me. "He was ready, Artemis wasn't"

"I still shouldn't have angered him. I knew he was going to do something; I was just stupid enough to think he was going to do it to me. And now Artemis might die."

"No one is going to die" Batman says, "but the way I see it, we need to have better security around you because Slade managed to capture you from the Batcave and no one was able to do anything about it."

"He took you from the Batcave?" Kid Flash exclaims.

"You think he was just there to observe who I was friends with? Of course he came for me, that's all he ever does. How is the little girl by the way?"

"She's back at the circus, but I think they're looking for foster parents." Robin says softly.

"He- he killed her parents" I whisper "Because of me… Why doesn't someone just kill me already? It would be better that way…"

"No it wouldn't. I might not have trusted you before, but I now know that without you, there are going to be massive amounts of problems if that prophecy is right." Kid Flash says truthfully.

"And what if it's wrong?" I ask angrily

"It wouldn't matter, you're still important because honestly, I think you're one of the only people that can take down Slade" He replies.

"Hah! Me take down Slade? You have to be kidding! Every time I see him I'm either beaten up, captured or forced into killing someone, knowingly or not! There's not much I'm going to be able to do other than get in the way." I say hotly, shame burning through my body.

"If you believe that, you'll never be able to defeat Slade. It's all in your head, A." Miss Martian says gently. She's right, we all know it.

"The problem is that I can't get into that mindset. I'm terrified of him. He knows every advantage against me; he's known me for almost my whole life! I can't defeat him!"

"Then you have to surprise him" Robin states. "It's the only way."

"Easier said than done" I mutter.

Robin frowns slightly.

"You know I know that just as well as you do, but it's the only way."

"No Robin, you don't know. You haven't lived with him your whole life. You spent what, a week with him? That's nothing compared to how long I've been in his grasp."

"A, calm down" Aqualad says.

Of course this only makes me even more furious.

"How am I supposed to calm down when my friend is close to death, a little girl no longer has her parents and a madman is after me!"

"A!" Aqualad shouts while Superboy and Miss Martian slowly back away.

"You don't understand! None of you do!" I shout back angrily.

Suddenly I feel hands on my arms.

"A, look at me"

I look up and my eyes are filled with Green. It's Kid Flash.

"I know it's hard but you have to calm down. Shouting isn't going to help Artemis and it certainly isn't going to bring that little girl's parents back. You need to calm down so that we can talk this through properly and work out a solution."

"NO! You don't get it Kid Flash! You don't know how hard it is to break free!"

"That's where you're wrong. I haven't told this to anyone ever, I was too ashamed. I still am. But I'm going to tell you now."

"As you all know, my father and I have issues. What you don't know is how big these issues are. To put it simply, my father abused me."

"I used to go home to him every day and get beaten because I wasn't good enough, wasn't perfect. I tried so hard to please him but nothing was ever enough."

"At first I thought it was normal, that every kid had fathers who did the same thing. But when I found out that I was the only one, I started to believe that I deserved it."

"I didn't try to fight him after that. I just let it happen. Even once I got my super speed, I let him hit me because I truly believed I deserved it. In my opinion, I was a huge stuff up."

"I would always mess up, trip over and break stuff. Sometimes I got other people hurt or in serious danger. So I let him hurt me."

"Eventually though, I realised that didn't deserve it after all. But breaking away from my father and all my previous beliefs was hard, so very hard. But I eventually managed to by surprising my father."

"I finally got up the nerve to use my super speed and run. I never looked back. Sometimes I still have relapses where I believe that I deserved it and still do deserve it, but I'm mostly over it now. I broke free and I know that you can too. It's hard but you can do it."

By now the tears are slowly rolling down both of our faces. I understand why he was always so happy now. He was hiding his pain.

We share a hug and I know that things are going to get better.

Artemis is going to be ok. That little girl is going to find a lovely new foster family.

And I'm going to break free.

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