Hi! An update that's on time! Imagine that!

Really though, I'm super happy I managed to write this all. I also got a page finished for the next chapter, which makes me feel even better about going on a holiday hiatus.

Mickey's Girl, The Shadow Keeper, and MJ (a guest reviewer) are the winners of my three one shots! I already have The Shadow Keeper's request, so if the other two would kindly leave their request in their review (especially you MJ) that would be great. :)

MJ: I know, I'm having a lot of fun with this, although figuring out how she's making him an assassin has been difficult. I already have some fun ideas. *cackles evilly* Also, you did win one of the one-shots. Choose a fandom, a character for it to center on, and a plot, and I'll get to writing!

Guest: Thanks. The story is heating up, and it's great! I'm glad you're enjoying it. :)

Kim: You did post the review twice, but hey, that's not a bad thing. :) Yeah, Talia's still trying to figure out what to do, because I am still figuring out what to do, so this shall be interesting! I know! Poor Wally! D:

I did get Roy to come in, as I promised, so here his is!

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Disclaimer: The Justice League is currently holding me in an interrogation chamber because I know what happened to Robin, so I'll make this short. Wait, this is already really long! Oh well . . . in any case, I DON'T OWN YOUNG JUSTICE! Oh dear. Batman's here. Bye!

Chapter 7

Mount Justice

May 1, 13:00 EDT

Wally watched as Jason paced across the room, rubbing his shoulder. The young boy had just gotten back from a mission with Batman, and the scowl hadn't left his face since.

Wally wanted to ask what had happened, but Jason was nothing like Dick, and even Dick didn't like being bothered when he was in a bad mood. Jason had dislocated his shoulder on the mission, and Wally could bet that Batman was not pleased about that. The bat had always been super paranoid and over protective (for good reason), but now he was worse than ever.

Wally had been over at the Wayne's hideout a few days before with Jason, hanging out with Timmy, and telling him and Alfred all about Jason's time in the cave. Or at least, telling them the totally made up version that Jason and Bruce had fabricated. Wally knew something had happened, something way worse than Batman or Jason were willing to say. He'd been tempted several times to see if he could get it out of them, but Batman had been in a dark mood since Dick's disappearance, and Jason was always in a dark mood.

"Do you think he's alright babe?" Artemis asked, coming up alongside him and nodding her head towards Jason. "He's been at it for about thirty minutes now."

"Yeah, yeah, he's fine," Wally said, trying to dismiss it. He frowned when he realized how unconvinced he himself sounded, but shook his head. "Alright, no he's not, but I think bothering him would be counterproductive," he admitted.

Artemis snorted. "So all of the bats are like that, not just Rob and Batman? Must run in the family."

Wally smiled. "Nah, Timmy's not half as bad as the rest of them," he pointed out, and Artemis nodded, her eyes narrowing in thought.

"True enough, but he has enough hacking skills that getting on his bad side would be just as counterproductive," she pointed out. "Come to think of it, so does Robin," she added, frowning.

Wally grinned. Artemis had made Rob mad a couple of months before, and hacked into her life, causing several incredibly embarrassing situations to take place. Artemis hadn't spoken to him for a week before admitting that it had actually been pretty funny.

The two of them continued to watch as Jason paced. He seemed to be slowing down, relaxing slightly. Then he turned and headed right for them. "Wally," he said quickly. "Does Dick spend a lot of time in the rafters here?"

For a moment Wally didn't know what to say, then he shrugged. "I guess. He goes up there when he wants to be alone, and sometimes when he's playing a prank, so I guess he does."

"Oh there's no guessing involved," Artemis put in. "He spends a lot of time up there, especially when Wally's not around. It's always kind of . . . Worrying."

Jason snorted. "I can imagine," he muttered. "There's no telling what he does up there. I'm going to go check it out."

With that, Jason fired his grappling gun up into the air and was gone. Wally almost expected Robin's trademark laugh to ring through the air after him. It just seemed like something Dick would do if he'd been there.

"What do you think Robin has up there?" Artemis asked curiously.

Wally shrugged. "I don't know babe, snacks, and a pillow? A computer lab? Maybe he's stocked it like the batcave. It's Rob, it could be anything."

"You have a point," Artemis admitted, looking amused. Wally squeezed her hand, and they wandered into the main room. Kaldur was sparring with Troia, while Garth and Tula watched.

Troia, status: fail, flickered over the floor as Troia fell with a thud.

"Crap," she muttered. "How do you do that? I mean, I have super strength and can fly, but you've beaten me every time, just with your magic."

"That is where your problem lies," Kaldur said evenly, helping her to her feet. "Don't go into the battle thinking that you have an advantage. Try to counter my strengths, look for my weaknesses. Be confident, but don't underestimate your opponent."

Troia nodded. "That makes sense," she agreed, brushing a stray strand of hair out of her face. "I generally just rush in without thinking."

Kaldur shook his head in dismay and amusement, and started talking again, but Wally was quickly too distracted to listen.

"Recognized, Red Arrow, B06." The zeta tube activated, and Roy stepped through, looking furious. When he saw Wally, he took his bow off his back and nocked an arrow.

"Wally West," he growled. "You are dead."

In the the quarter of a second that it took for Wally to take off, he also started thinking. What had he done that could have pissed Roy off so bad?

"Roy! No!" Artemis yelled as Roy fired off a shot, missing Wally by several inches as he zoomed away. "What are you doing?"

"I'm killing your boyfriend!" the archer snapped, "and for once, he really deserves it!"

Wally yelped and raced up the wall and around the perimeter of the room. "RoystopnowhatdidIdo?TellmesoIcanfixitorsomething!" he yelled. Of course, he wasn't entirely sure that his friend could hear and understand what he'd just said, but he had to try something.

"YOU DIDN'T TELL ME!" Roy roared.

Wally froze. He knew what Roy was talking about now, and boy had he screwed up bad. "Crap," he muttered. "I'm so dead."

The foam arrows hit him, surrounding him so that he couldn't run. He could have vibrated out of it, but he didn't even try. "Dude, I am so sorry, you were on a mission, and GA didn't know where you were and you weren't answering your communicator or your phone messages, and I didn't know what to do, but hey I tried!" he babbled.

Roy stalked close to him, leaning in. His teeth were gritted, and his green eyes were dark and furious. "You should have tried harder!" he yelled. "I saw it on the news, the news Wally! He's been missing since the fifteenth of April? That's almost a month ago, and I didn't know, so I was looking for the real Roy Harper instead of Dick."

"Woah there arrow boy," Artemis said coldly, stepping between Roy and Wally. "He just said that he'd been trying to contact you, so if you didn't choose to listen, that's your problem."

Roy stopped, glaring at her, then relaxed, sighing. "You're right."

Artemis looked startled, then relaxed. "I'm not chipping him out of your foam Roy, so you'd better do that yourself," she muttered.

Wally laughed. "Don't bother!" he said cheerfully, then vibrated out of the foam. "Uncle Barry's been teaching me how to get out of situations like that."

"Ok, I'm still not sure what's going on," Troia said, and Wally realized that she was hovering behind Roy, looking as though she was ready to beat him to a pulp. "Who is this guy, and why are you all so calm about the fact that he just tried to kill Wally?"

"Oh that's right, Troia, meet Roy, Roy, Troia. Roy's an old friend," Wally said easily, slinging his arm over Roy's shoulders. "He's like this sometimes."

Roy shot him a glare, but Wally just grinned and zipped off to hide behind Kaldur.

"Old friend, I did not know that you were unaware of Robin's capture," Kaldur said softly. "Or else I would have tried as well. I know that Green Arrow and Batman were attempting to contact you, but I had assumed they succeeded weeks ago."

Roy sighed, running his hand through his hair. "Not so much, I was working on a lead. I can't say that I even noticed what was going on at the time. I don't remember getting messages."

Wally sighed as he zoomed back over to stand next to Artemis. "Yeah, well, now that you know Rob's missing, we can tell you that Talia Al Ghul is behind it, and that Cheshire paid Jason a visit a little while ago."

"Jason? How did Cheshire find Jason?" Roy asked, startled. "Wouldn't Batman be keeping Tim and Jason somewhere safe?"

"Batman's safe place for Jason just happens to be the cave," Artemis said. "It didn't work as well as he would have liked. I'm still glad Cheshire didn't hurt him, otherwise I might have an arrow with her name on it."

Artemis fingered her bow as though she might still go after her sister, and Roy exchanged a long look with Wally. "So Batman revealed his identity?" Roy asked in disbelief, looking around.

Wally nodded. "He came to the cave the day Rob appeared and told everyone. I'd already spent the morning freaking out because I'd seen it on the news as well, and I can't say that helped much."

"He spent the rest of the day curled up on the couch with a book," Artemis put in when Roy shot her a questioning glance. "He wouldn't eat, and he wouldn't run around. He was really worrying me."

"And M'gann, and Kaldur, and even Superboy," Troia added, and she flew by, trying to get away from Garth as he chased her. "They're still talking about it."

"I've officially been put on watch at all times," Wally whispered loudly. "Help me."

Roy laughed. "No way Wally. The thought of you sitting still and not eating is way too scary. I'm going to leave you to them. I might even join the watch."

Wally groaned, and everyone laughed.

"Roy," Jason said, seemingly appearing out of nowhere. "Good to see you I guess."

Everyone jumped, staring at the younger boy in surprise. "Darn it, we're going to have to get used to Robin again," Artemis groaned. "We've been too long without him."

"What do you mean, 'get used to him'?" Jason asked curiously.

"We'll have to get used to him sneaking up on us again," Wally said dismally. "He does it all the time. We were pretty much used to it when he disappeared, and now we're back to jumping."

Jason smirked. "Maybe you're just not used to me doing it," he pointed out, "although, you're probably right, since Dick has always been better at moving silently."

"Is he better than Batman?" Wally asked curiously.

Jason nodded. "It's one of the few times I've ever seen Batman admit that someone was better than him at something. It was pretty funny, although I think Dick was embarrassed."

"I'll bet he was. He never seems to think he deserves compliments," M'gann said, coming over to them. She was balancing a tray of cookies, which for once weren't burned. "I didn't even have to read his mind to know that," she added.

Jason shrugged, taking a cookie. "Yeah, well . . . He's better than he thinks he is," he muttered.

They fell silent, watching as Troia and Superboy fought, then Roy started pestering Wally and Kaldur with questions while the others listened.

The pain of the loss was getting stronger.

Bwahahahahaha! and there I leave you, with only one POV the entire chapter, and no sign of what Talia is doing with Dick! :) I'm awesome.

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