After the fight in which they had indeed found and taken down the drug ring that began to take off, the three present members of Young Justice had invited Oceania to accompany them to the mountain. She had stared at them through the blank white eye pieces before nodding reluctantly.

"Ok. I won't be joining your 'boy-band' though."

Nightwing snickered and Miss Martian frowned in confusion but Blaze laughed and wrapped an arm around her shoulders. "Come on, ocean-girl. Let's show you our super awesome base."

Persie allowed herself to be let to a zeta beam disguised as a broken telephone box. Taking a moment to appreciate the irony she allowed herself to be led into the box after Blaze and when she stepped out of the whirling white light to the robotic voice saying "Announcing Guest."

She strode into the room, determined to make a good impression but stopped short when she saw who was standing there to meet them. She barely noticed the arrival of Nightwing and Miss Martian but she returned the smile that Aqualad bestowed on her. "Do you two know each other?" Blaze asked, looking between them so fast his head blurred.

They both ignored him and Aqualad crossed his fisted arm across his chest and bowed at the waist while Persie sank into a short curtsy with her head only slightly lowered. "Princess." Aqualad greeted formally.

"Captain Kaldur'ahm." she replied with a grin, moving forward to give him a hug. "Do I still have that title?" she asked self-depreciatingly.

"Of course." he replied pulling away from the hug and holding her shoulders companionably. "You should never have lost it. It is your birthright."

She gave a short laugh. "As a bastard?"

Kaldur shook his head, looking annoyed with her. "As your father's daughter."

Persie let another small smile to curl across her mouth. "He is no longer my father though, is he?"

"He acted most unbecoming of the station." he whispered looking guilty at even uttering the words.

"How do you know each other?" Miss Martian asked, floating to their sides and a curious expression blooming on her green face.

"Princess?" Blaze blurted, held back only by Nightwing's hand on his arm. "Are you really?"

Persie sighed, glad that the majority of her face was hidden by the helmet but still itching to run her hands roughly through her hair. She settled instead for letting some of the water from her belt out to run along her fingers. "Yes." she admitted. "I suppose I am no longer bound by their laws?" she questioned Kaldur who shook his head slowly.

"No. as you are no longer a part of their world, you are not governed by them and their decrees." "I'm a half blood." she admitted. "A demigod."

"Half human." Kaldur explained for her. "Half Greek God."

"Greek god." Blaze repeated in a flat tone. Nightwing however nodded and hummed a little as if everything now made sense to him. Blaze turned to his friend, mouth hanging open. "You knew about them? They're real?" Nightwing just nodded. "Why didn't you tell me?!"

Nightwing shrugged. "Batman." he said simply. "They weren't our rules to break."

"I'm Poseidon's daughter." Persie said in a voice that was a lot calmer than she thought she was capable of. Evidently more so that what Kaldur thought at least. He was edging slowly away from her as if waiting for an explosion. "The people of Atlantis - to them Poseidon is the king of the seas. By blood this makes me a 'princess' I suppose despite the illegitimacy."

"But I thought Aquaman-" Miss Martian began but Persie and Kaldur both interrupted by shaking their heads.

"Aquaman is king of Atlantis, the kingdom of Atlantis, nothing more. Poseidon is the king, the lord of the seas." Kaldur explained patiently. "Think of it as the ocean as one kingdom. Poseidon is the ruler of the entirety but Aquaman holds a considerable state. There he rules supreme yet he still answers to Poseidon."

There was a small silence as they digested the knowledge, Nightwing no doubt filing it away to report later. "Why did you say that you're no longer bound by their laws?"

Persie looked away, her hand convulsing around the hilt of her sword. "I was exiled."

They all take an involuntary half-step back, looking for reasons that she was a threat, reasons why her own people shunned her. Kaldur on the other hand, moved closer, laying a hand briefly on her armour-clad shoulder. "For no fault of her own." he assured his friends.

"I was exiled shortly after I saved the fucking world." Persie scoffed. "They thought me too powerful and they became wary of me. Then there was a new oracle announced. It wasn't her fault, she had no control over it but her first prophecy said that a daughter of Poseidon would unleash lightning upon the Earth." she shifted restlessly, fingers again clenching around her sword and looked away even though they couldn't see her face. "Fools. It was the perfect reason to send me away. They probably would have had me killed except for the fact that I saved them all before."

"Dicks." Blaze's voice broke the stifling silence that had fallen and Persie found herself smiling. "What?"

"Dicks, the lot of them." he clarified. "You wanna stay for..." he paused looking over at a clock on the wall. "Breakfast?"

Persie looked up at the wall too and saw that it was now four thirty in the morning. "Fuck." she hissed under her breath. "I need to go."

Nightwing nodded as Blaze said a hasty goodbye and zoomed into the kitchen where the sound of the fridge and several cupboards opening and closing emanated. Miss Martian sighed and drifted over to give Persie a brief hug. "Goodbye." she said earnestly. "I hope you and I can become friends." she then presented her with a huge smile and flew into the kitchen after Blaze.

"Here." Nightwing said holding out hand which held a small communicator. "You might never have to use it but this is a just-in-case."

"Just in case what?" she asked, plucking the device from his palm and holding it up to examine it closer.

"We need you or you need us." Nightwing smirked.

Persie smirked back. "You came to Manhattan on purpose didn't you?" Nightwing just nodded and she laughed. "Yeah, ok I'll keep it but no guarantees."

"Noted." he let out a little cackle-like laugh. "This is so aster."

She eyed him oddly but gave him a wave and turned back to the zeta beam which now announced her as 'Oceania. B-27'. As she darted back through her city, putting down the few criminals still operating in the light of the sun, threatening to break the horizon before slipping through her bedroom window she thought that perhaps she wasn't so alone anymore. She had Paul yes and possibly Wally was on his way into her confidence but they didn't understand. The other heroes did. They would understand at least a little of what had happened to her and what drew her to become a vigilante. She might not get much of it but it was one of the more peaceful sleeps that Persie had managed to have in a long, long time.