For the first time in her life Shayera hol was floundering she had been assigned to earth to determine if the threat it could pose to thanagar. She had never anticipated she had been having a night off from the constant fighting of the league and had gone and had to many drinks that night and here was the result she was pregnant and she couldn't even find the father. She knew that she didn't have the heart to end it, but knew she could not care for and for the next nine months developing a plan for the baby she knew she could not care for she used the leagues computer to hack the severs for people looking to adopt and found a couple that she felt would be the best, the man and woman were law officers, so she knew her baby would be safe. And after nine months of dodging her comrades and ensuring that she was on watchtower duty as much as possible and on the other side of the planet when big baddies showed up.

Shayera was holed up in her home high in the rocky mountain rang when the contractions started she had expected pain and as a warrior of thanagar and as a member of the league had taken a fair bit of punishment but this felt like her body was trying to rip itself apart. She swore to do this alone, she swore she would endure the pain, but for the first time in her life she asked for help.

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J`on Jones, the last Martian stood aboard the massive station of the watchtower when her heard what could have been equal to an explosion going off next to his head , he had kept a minor mental trace to all the major league members in case they needed help and their communicators were inoperable, it was through this that he heard the mental cry of anguish from hawk girl whatever was happening she needed help he phased through the wall and then down to the teleportation pad and imputed for emergency transport to her location, when he arrived he found her collapsed against a wall he gently turned her to face toward him. when he did he found something he had not expected , Shayeras belly had swollen in an unmistakable way, 'Shayera's pregnant' was all he could think, of all the things that he had expected this was not it, he moved to lift her from the floor when a hand reached out and clamped onto his throat, Shayera had woken up and for the first time since he had known her he saw fear in her eyes, her grip loosened as she realized who he was

"J`on?" she muttered weakly before she clenched her teeth in a grimace of pain.

"Shayera?!"

"I couldn't do it alone I thought I could, but I can't, arg" she groaned as she felt another contraction "I need help"

"I'll get you to a hospital." he moved to lift her when she cried out

"arg, NO HOSPITALS, ARRH, to dangerous, here get me to the bed." fluid suddenly rushed onto the floor soaking her legs and floor "NOW!"

The Martian moved as swiftly as possible with his cargo, when he reached the bed he laid her as gently as possible on the beds surface, she reached out and grabbed his hand in a grip that with a lesser beings hand would have been crushed beyond repair.

with a deep cry Shayera pushed, her wings flared out behind her, she would have collapsed onto the bed if J`on hadn't caught her, she smiled up at him in thanks, she began to push again, and again, time was lost until a shrill cry broke through the air, J`on moved down as Shayera fell against the bed breathing heavily, he reached and lifted a squirming baby boy from the soaked sheets. "J`on" he heard Shayera weakly called him, turning she lifted an arm; he gently placed her son against her shoulder, pressing her cheek to his face, tears leaking from her eyes.

The newborn squirmed in his mothers grasp giving a soft coo his eyes wide glittering green in the light, eyes that were a reflection of his mother`s

Without turning to him she began to cry in earnest whispering "thank you J`on, thank you".

"What is it Shayera, why do you feel like this?"His question set off a new round of sobs from the new mother; she shifted her son to her chest and held him tightly

"Because I know I can't keep him."

"Why Shayera"

"our life j`on, we risk our lives protecting others, there are times when we face death and we make enemies of the people we fight for life, how could I force a child to live that life."

J`on knew she was right anyone associated with them was a target even if it was minimal. "What will you do?"

"I arranged for him to be adopted a couple in England, they are police officers far from any point of interest from any super villain"

"But what about his wings they are not exactly native to earth."

"That's not an issue a child with only one thanagarian parent has a less than one percent chance of growing wings."

"Still are you prepared for it?"

Shayera looked at her son who over the course of their conversation had fallen asleep. "No J`on, no I'm not, but I know I have to be for him."

With that she reached up and grasped a single feather from her wing and pulled it from its position and grabbed a strap of leather from the bed side table and fashioned a necklace before placing it around his neck. tears still falling she spoke with pain in her voice "I give this to you little one, this little part of me, hear me and know that even though we are far apart and may never meet once we part, I love you my beautiful son." with that she placed a kiss to his brow.

"J`on, I need you to take him the family will be expecting him their address is in a folder on the table in the other room, take him now before I lose my nerve."

Solemnly he took the child in his arms and whispered "I am sorry Shayera." as he left the room he heard the broken sobbing of a mother who lost her child to a world that was to cruel to raise a child.

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England

J`on Jones in his human disguise beamed down in an ally two blocks from the address of the new soon to be parents, he began to walk down the block. It was a nice little village his caped comrades would call it quaint. as he came upon the house he found that the house he sought was the most kept up of all the homes on the block when he knocked on the door he did a quick scan of the area finding that there were two people inside, the door opened to reveal a woman with bright green eyes and long red hair, she looked at him before noticing the bundle wrapped in his arms, her eyes went wide and ushered him inside. In a quiet voice she questioned "is that him?" she appeared anxious with a look of longing in her eyes.

Somberly he replied "yes, he is your son." she gasped and had tears in her eyes this time of joy rather than of despair like the woman who was giving this woman her son, a man came down the stairs.

"Lily who is it?" the man asked

The woman, Lily reached out and took the child into her arms gently rocking him

"It's our son James" the man paused before moving to stand with his wife, he looked to J`on,

"Thank you sir you have no idea what this means for us"

"Just please care for him as best you can"

James struck his hand out and the Martian took it in his grip, there were papers to be signed and that only took a minute of time, on his way out he turned toward the new parents "if you don't mind, what you will call him?"

Lily turned, baby still in her hands and looked at her husband "we decided if we had a boy we would call him Harry, Harry James Potter." with that J`on gave a slight nod before he turned and left the house as he made it to the end of the walkway he turned and looked to the house "good luck Harry Potter". This wish would go unanswered as only a year later both Potters would be dead and young Harry would be in a place that he was unwelcome and unwanted, it would not be until nearly 13 years later when he would when he would escape his fate.