Conner and Dinah were sitting in green chairs across from each other. "I can only imagine how devastating it was. Losing your friends, in essence your family, convinced all the time it was completely real. I'm sure it must have been horrible for you. I understand, your Super boy, you're not supposed to have feelings of sadness or vulnerability." Said Dinah.
"The therapy sessions." Mumbled. TT Robin.
"Please tell me you aren't going to show all of them." Begged YJ Robin.
"Sorry, but I am." Said Amethyst.
"You don't know what I feel!" yelled Conner as he got up and left. She called after him. "Just leave me alone." He said.
"Then I went and found the forever people." Said older Conner.
The scene changed so that Artemis was sitting in the chair across from Dinah. "Look me dying during the exercise might have started things going south, but I was coma girl. Missed out on all the fun of forgetting it wasn't real, so no trauma, no need for the shrink wrap." Said Artemis.
"That sounds like a bad experience, what happened?" asked Paula wordily.
All the people who had experienced the exercise looked down. "We don't like to talk about it." Said oldest M'gann.
"You're too tough to need help." Said Dinah.
"Whatever, maybe." Said Artemis.
"Or maybe too tough to admit you need help." Said Dinah. "Artemis, it's not a sign of weakness to open up to your friends."
"So, she used the same strategy on me as Superboy?" said Tigress.
"I know that." Artemis said annoyed.
"But you still keep secrets from them."
"You won't tell them, you can't." ordered Artemis, her eyes wide.
"I won't, but you should. You could start by admitting you're not really Green Arrow's niece."
"You tried to convince the team you were Ollie's niece?" Don asked.
"Yep, she told us this, you just don't pay attention, like normal" Said Dawn.
"pft. Yeah right. Can you imagine what Wally would do with that?"
"Interesting, so the person you're most worried about is Wally?"
Older Wally smiled at middle Artemis.
Artemis's eyes widened.
Now Kaldur was in the chair. "I was the general, but I behaved like a soldier and sacrificed myself. I am not fit for command and must resign as team leader." Said Kaldur.
"Wait, you almost quit?" Dick asked middle Kaldur, alarmed.
"Yes." He said.
"Who do you recommend to take your place?" Dinah asked.
Kaldur considered it for a second. "Artemis is too raw and untrusting. Kid flash too rash and impulsive. Miss Martian remains too eager to please. Super boy carries too much anger." He answered.
"Wow, Kaldur." Said Zala. "You're just insulting everyone."
"Making Robin the logical choice." Said Dinah.
"But he is so young."
"Kaldur, you're all young."
"I cannot shift this burden to him. Not yet." He sighed. "It appears I must withdraw my resignation."
"He does end up leader of the teen titans two years later." Said Mary-Jade.
"And he's very good at it." Said Starfire.
Next Wally was in the chair. He was laying upside down, throwing food in his mouth.
"So you want me to believe after everything you went through, including your own death from fiery explosion, you're peachy?" said Dinah.
"I'm, uh, fairly certain I never use the word peachy, but I think you got the gist." Said Wally.
"Wow, you took this way better than the rest of us, I practically broke down." Said YJ Robin.
"Me too." Said M'gann.
"So you really have no interest in confronting your extreme reaction to Artemis's death?"
He started choking on popcorn, so he sat normally. "I rather talk about you, babe."
"Wow, Baywatch." Said younger Artemis.
"Wally, you're in denial."
"I'm comfortable with that."
Younger Artemis raised an eyebrow.
Next it was Dick's turn. "Hurting? Try traumatized." He said.
Everyone winced.
"I finally become leader and wind up sending all of my friends to their deaths. I know I did what I had to, but I hated it. When we started this team, I was desperate to be in charge. Not anymore. And that's not even the worst of it. You can't tell batman."
"Nothing leaves this room." Said Dinah.
"I always wanted, expected to grow up and become him. And the hero bit, I'm still all in. But that thing inside him, that thing that drives him to sacrifice everything for the sake of his mission, that's not in me. I-I don't want to be 'the' batman anymore."
"How ironic." Said Lian. She got some confused looks.
"Well, there was this one time when Bruce died (He came back, don't worry) that he became Batman. And Damian was his robin." Said Ferra.
People gaped at her.
Last was M'gann. "It was all my fault. Hello, Megan. Who else could take a simple exercise and turn it into a nightmare that terrorizes everyone she cares about?" Said M'gann sadly. Her skin turned into human colored skin instead of green.
She got looks of sympathy. Though older Conner kind of started thinking about how M'gann did abuse her abilities.
"You've turned white." Said Dinah.
M'gann gasped and looked at herself. "No!" she yelled.
"Oh, you meant Caucasian. Yeah, I'm fine being Megan. But I can't be trusted to use my other powers."
"M'gann, you're a Martian. Not using your natural abilities is like me refusing to speak. Which, by the way, I tried for a while, after my very first canary cry nearly deafened my entire first-grade class."
"That sounds horrible." Said Kaline.
" So I get how you feel, but not being yourself is never the answer and won't make your feelings of guilt go away. Learned from what happened. Your uncle would be happy to train you. Practice until you gain control and regain your confidence."
A/N: Please review! I need reviews. This was one of my longer chapters. Ok, The weirdest thing happened this morning. I was talking to one of my friends, and she was telling me about a fanfic she was reading. It was her first one, I suggested that she check out the previous day. And it happened to be one that I wrote. Not this one though.