Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice, DC, or any DC characters, though the storyline is mine. This is AU – meaning alternate universe and SLASH, MEANING GAY! IF YOU DON'T LIKE, DON'T READ! Slight language.

Pairings: DickGraysonxWallyWest, ConnorKentxTimDrake EVENTUAL!

A/N: Now to kill Jason. Lol, just kidding! But I had lots of you going there, huh? But seriously, how am I supposed to write a spinoff/sequel with the Red Hood as the main character if I kill him off now? Anyway, for this chapter I had to look back at the infamous "Superbitch" comment from, "In Which Tim is Badass." I cringed at reading my own writing, since I've learned more about Tim's characterization and stuff since then. But that got me thinking… Would Dick say that type of thing? Anyway since Targets had Kon and Megan going to school, I thought I'd do a few school 'verse scenes.

Also, remember in the first chapter? When I had Dick telling Tim a bit Bitterly that Wally wouldn't notice them switching places 'cause he was too busy flirting with Megan? Yeah, well, if you caught how I had Dic liking Wally before this whole story started, then kudos to you! Anyway, onward!

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Background Info: (What I got from Wikipedia)

Mal Duncan –aka Herald, made a cameo in Targets at Conner and Megan's school

Karen Beecher – aka Bumblebee, also made a cameo in Targets

Artemis goes to the same school as Dick, and subsequently Tim.

Gotham is apparently on the east coast, while Central City is… not, but is westward, so there's a timezone difference.

Gemini 9

"Robin!"

"Ooof!" Tim grunted as Ms. Martian tackled him in a hug. Geez, he hadn't been gone from the mountain for that long, had he? One week searching for Bats plus one week watching over the man recover only made for half a month's worth of absence.

…

Okay, maybe that was awhile.

"It is nice to see you again, my friend," Aqualad nodded, "You have been missed."

Tim rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. Definitely awhile if even Kaldur was commenting on it. From the corner of the room, Conner sent him a smile. Blushing a bit – Tim told himself it was because he was just flustered from all the attention – he went to move out of the main meeting room towards the kitchen to grab a drink. He'd need one to continue with this charade.

Honestly, Tim was getting a little fed up. Dick's arm had been healing nicely up until his fight with the Batman. Now his recovery was likely to be delayed at least for another few weeks. Bummer.

Out of the corner of his eye, Tim saw Conner move to follow him and he smiled to himself. At least one good thing came from this whole situation. Kon was a great guy to talk to. Over the past two weeks, Tim and the Kryptonian had begun exchanging phone calls via a secure line. The boy was a bit more vocal than Tim had first thought once he got past his initial shyness, and their conversations were varied and detailed, from discussions about Tim's insecurities to questions Conner had about human tendencies.

"Wally's been acting weird lately," Conner had said one time.

Tim smirked. "Weirder than normal?"

"Yeah…" the clone said hesitantly, as if considering his next words. "He's not… uh… paying as much attention to Megan anymore."

It took a minute for Tim to figure out what his friend was actually trying to say. When he did, he snorted. "You mean he's finally quit with the fruitless flirting?"

"… Yes?" Conner replied hesitantly.

A pause.

"You don't know what flirting is, do you?"

"… Does Superman do it?"

Snapping back to reality, Tim frowned. Superman. Right. He was the reason Tim was currently at the mountain at 6:30 on a Monday morning instead of getting ready for class.

He was also the reason that things at the mountain were going to get decidedly awkward in the next few minutes.

Clearing his throat, Tim got the others' attention. "So, you've probably heard, Batman's still a bit, uh, incapacitated… Right?" He began uncomfortably. His three teammates nodded their heads."Because of that, the League's decided to have another member step in, to substitute in his place."

Again, the other three nodded, though Tim could begin to see a glimmer of suspicion forming in the eyes of Kaldur and Megan.

Tim took a deep breath. "Therefore, starting today, Superman will be stepping in."

In an instant, a tense silence descended upon the room. Conner stiffened, while Megan and Kaldur sent him wary glances. Tim tried to look apologetic, but wasn't sure how effective he was being with his eyes hidden behind sunglasses. Silently, he fought the urge to sigh.

Time honestly wasn't any happier with this assignment than he assumed Conner was, especially considering how his last meeting with Superman went down. Looking back, he didn't actually know what possessed him to threaten the guy with laser beam eye. Maybe it was because a small part of him could sympathize with Conner, having experience with a father that was never there. That, or he'd listened to one too many of Dick's rants about him being a deadbeat dad.

Speaking of the guy with laser eyes, Superman never did get back to him on Conner's Kryptonian name…

Shaking his head out of his thoughts, Tim saw the clone move to leave the room. Frowning, he made to follow.

Tapping the boy on the shoulder, Tim tried to grab Conner's attention, though Kon didn't look to be in any mood to talk. Instead, Tim offered him a smile.

"It'll all be okay," he said, catching the Kon's eye. The boy just stared back at him wordlessly, before reluctantly nodding. That wasn't a great reaction…

"Besides, if the big man tries anything, I have some Kyrptonite in my belt," he tried again in a playful tone.

Surprised, Conner looked at him strangely before he let out what could have been a chuckle. Tim smiled. Mission accomplished.

As much as Tim would have loved cheering up his friend more, an alarm beeping on him phone served to remind him of the time. It was nearing 7:00 and if he didn't get back to Gotham now, Tim was going to be late for school.

And, come to think of it, so was Conner.

Blinking in realization, Tim slapped himself on the forehead as he remembered that today was Kon and Megan's first day of class. The League, through Bruce's many contacts, had arranged for the two of them to attend class at a local establishment in about half an hour.

"Dude," he said. "We have to get to school."

XXX

Damian paused as he took in the sight before him. This was Batman's weakness? This boy?

Jason Todd. He'd read up about him. A street rat his father had been gracious enough to pluck off the streets. Damian couldn't figure out why. What help could a common pick pocket possibly provide the Dark Knight, especially considering who the Batman had worked with before. Although Damian would never admit it out loud, Grayson was an ideal first partner for his father. Life as an acrobat physically conditioned him to be an adequate Robin, until someone with more training, like himself, was ready to take his place. Nevertheless, whether the redhead before him was fit to fight besides the Batman or not did not change the reason Damian was here.

He was going to eliminate his father's weakness.

Walking up to the boy, Damian sat down on Jason's bed before punching coordinates into a small mobile device.

A moment later and the two teleported away.

XXX

RIIIIIIIIIIIIING

"Ugh!" Conner groaned and Megan patted his shoulders sympathetically. Those stupid school bells! They were hurting his ears. They were surprising too. The first time they'd gone off, Conner had nearly jumped through the ceiling. The bells made him want to punch something.

Getting up to go to his next class, though, Conner realized school wasn't so bad, aside from the fact that he already knew the entire school curriculum thanks to the Genomes. That and the disguise Red Tornado and Megan's Uncle J'onn forced him to wear. Plaid shirts and fake glasses really weren't his thing. Other than his dorky civilian costume, though, school seemed pretty... manageable.

"Unff!" A walking wall crashed into Conner. "Watch it, nerd!"

Maybe he had spoken too soon.

Conner glared at the teen that had bumped into him, a boy named Mal Duncan, as he pushed his way past and frowned.

"You bumped into me," he growled.

Mal paused before turning back to face the clone. "What did you say?" he demanded, thumping him on the chest. Kon stumbled back from the force, glasses clattering to the ground. Still, though, he didn't back down.

"I said, you bumped into me!" Conner repeated, getting back to his feet and shoving him back, super strength seeping out and crashing the guy a little too roughly into a wall.

Conner! Megan's voice shouted in his mind.

Right. Need to stay under the radar. Which meant no superpowers.

Much to both Conner and Megan's surprise, though, Mal got up, unperturbed by the Kryptonian's display of strength. Must come from being a football player. Ready to fight, the teen stormed towards the clone, but stopped short as a new voice cut in.

"Easy Duncan," Karen Beecher, resident cheerleader and the angry teen's girlfriend, interrupted, placing a hand on the boy's shoulder. "Just calm down."

Growling, the boy looked about to respond, but reconsidered, settling for one last acidic look back at the clone before storming away. Conner and Megan watched as he went.

"Thanks," Conner grunted, turning towards the dark skinned girl. She just nodded.

"Look, new guy," she said curtly, crossing her arms and looking at the two suspiciously, "You'll have to excuse Mal, he's just under a little stress. With the state championships coming up and his sister running off, he's not exactly Mr. Sunshine at the moment."

"His sister?" Megan asked.

Karen nodded sadly. "She ran off after telling her parents she was a lesbian. Apparently they didn't take it too well."

Conner cocked his head to the side. "A lesbian?"

"Yeah," Karen replied, taking a defensive stance, "Got a problem with that?"

"What's a lesbian?"

For a moment, the cheerleader stared at him stunned, eyes widened in astonishment at the boy's confused expression. She looked at Megan for support, but at her equally curious expression, let out an exasperated sigh. It was then that the two young superheroes found themselves receiving an awkward explanation of sexuality from the young teenage girl.

"Uhhh, sorry," Megan later apologized, after the talk, "But you see… Conner and I… we've lived very sheltered lives and have been homeschooled until now, so…" She laughed uncomfortably.

"Uh , sure." Karen replied, giving her a strained smile. "No problem."

There clearly was a problem.

Was sexuality not an appropriate conversational topic? Conner mused. He couldn't see why it would be, though his knowledge of the issue was scarce. Apparently the guys at Cadmus didn't deem it necessary to program such information into his brain.

Karen's words puzzled Conner, though. From the teen's description, to be gay just meant that one preferred a mate of the same gender. He couldn't see what the big deal was, though.

Then again, Conner had never considered what it meant to be gay. Though he did hear the word occasionally get thrown around before by Wally and Robin –well the old Robin, the Robin he talked to now had never said the word. After what Kon referred to in his head as "the change," when he'd first noticed something different about the Boy Wonder, the teen had began mentally been classifying him as two different people: old Robin and new Robin.

What did it mean to be attracted to another person anyway? Conner didn't know. He's never felt that way towards anyone, had he?

Well…

There was that incident in Bilaya with Megan, but Conner chalked that up as a result of Psimon's mind wipe and the Martian's obvious crush influencing his impressionable and blank mind.

He'd have to ask Robin about it later, this concept of attraction.

Kon smiled. Robin. He always seemed to have an answer to his questions, no matter what the topic. Recently, the Boy Wonder and himself had been talking more and more, on the phone, and Robin had even offered to teach Kon how to use a webcam so they could talk face to face while he was in Gotham. He was such a great friend…

"Conner?"

"Huh?"

"We're gonna be late to our next class," Megan said, pointing down the hall and beginning to walk.

"Uh, yeah, right. Sorry," said the clone, following. Time to focus on school.

Conner however, soon found his thoughts wandering back towards the Boy Wonder during his next class.

They stayed on him for the rest of the day.

XXX

"Dick? Dick? Hello?"

Dick woke with a start. "Huh? What?"

Artemis laughed. "Kid, if you're gonna take a nap, I wouldn't recommend the middle of language class."

Rubbing his eyes, Dick sighed. "Thanks for waking me," he said. "Seriously, if Ms. A caught me one more time nodding off, I would've been in for some serious trouble."

The blonde nodded her head sympathetically and turned back to face the board, Dick doing the same. Honestly, though, he was battling to stay awake.

Lately, Dick had been having nightmares. The incident with Bruce was beginning to catch up with him. However, it was not Batman and fear gas that his dreams consisted of, but rather a certain redheaded speedster. More specifically, his death.

It was always different too. Sometimes Wally burned in flames, other times he drowned in water. Last night's nightmare, though, had been the worse. Wally was on a trapeze and had fallen to his death, screaming his name.

Though these dreams were frightening, terrifying, what scared Dick more was the revelations with which they brought. His dreams could have been about anyone: Bruce, Tim, Barbara, Cass, even Steph, yet Wally seemed to be the main focus. And reluctantly, Dick knew why.

Recently, Dick had realized his feelings for the speedster were no longer just platonic. He'd started noticing about the same time Wally started flirting with Megan at the formation of Young Justice, though had deluded himself into thinking all he wanted was friendship. His dreams, however, forced him to admit otherwise.

He liked Wally.

That truth was forcing him to reevaluate whether or not he should make Tim's placement on the team a little more permanent.

Having feelings for someone you worked with was dangerous, that much Dick knew. It's one of the reasons why Batman and Wonder Woman never got together and why the Green Lantern and Hawkgirl seemed to get into so much trouble on missions. And really, Dick didn't even want to get started on the whole Catwoman phase – and boy did Dick hope it was only a phase – Bruce was going through at the moment.

This decision, though, Dick frowned, would be difficult. He'd have to it with Tim. It would affect him as much as –

"Hey Dick? You know the bell's rung, right?"

Speak of the Devil. Tim was standing right before him.

"Uh, yeah," said Dick, gathering up his things. "Look, I have to talk to you about something," he said, slowly, "It concerns Wally."

Tim perked up. "Really? I was about to say the same thing."

Dick swallowed as he watched their teacher exit the room, then quickly went to lock the door, leaving them alone. The following conversation was going to require a certain degree of privacy.

Once they were alone, Dick took a deep breath. "I think I'm in love," he blurted. Tim just froze. He quickly made to clarify, "Erm… I mean, maybe not love, but, uh, in deep like?"

"With… Wally?" Tim enunciated after a moment. Dick nodded his head, a little unsure of his friend's reaction. "Oh… damn…"

"A-are you not okay with that?" Dick asked hesitantly. With all the shock at realizing his feelings for his friend, he hadn't stopped to think about how Tim would take the news.

"What? Oh, no, it's fine," Tim replied quickly, "It's just that –"

"Oh thank God," Dick interrupted, relief flooding his senses. "You had me worried there for a second."

"Really?" Tim asked, rolling his eyes. "You're my best friend, did you really think I'd care? But that's not this issue here. Wally –"

"If you're going to warn me about fraternization within the workplace, I'm ten steps ahead of you," Dick said, interrupting him for a second time.

Tim just shook his head. "Again, that's not the issue. I have no problem with you and Kid Flash getting together. It's just –"

"Wait, really? You're okay with me and him getting it on while still working on Young Justice?"

"No – I mean yes, but – Wait," Tim paused, giving Dick a weird look. "What do you mean getting it on?"

Dick blushed and Tim got his answer.

"Dude, you are way too young."

"Shut up, you're scared of boobs."

"Only when they're shoved up in my face."

"Really? Stephanie did that?"

There was a short pause before both teens dissolved into fits of laughter, though Tim quickly sobered up and caught Dick's attention again. "Look, Dick, I have no problem with you wanting to pursue a relationship with Wally, it's just, you should know that he–"

*RIIIIIIIINGGG*

Another pause.

"And that would be the bell," Tim groaned, a hand coming to his face as he let out the frustrated sound. Dick smiled sheepishly.

"Sorry you didn't get to tell me what you had to say, but I have to get to history. We can catch up later, after school, right?"

Tim sighed as he moved towards the door. "Just don't do anything with Wally before I get to tell you what I have to say. There's something about him you don't know."

Dick laughed. "Wally's one of my best friends. There's nothing about him I don't know. And don't worry, I don't plan on actually making a move until I'm back being Robin."

XXX

Wally West was a long way from Central City, once again in Gotham for what must have been the third time this month. He was going to pick up Dick from school.

Since Bruce Wayne had been found a little over two weeks ago, Wally had decided it best not to pursue the young Grayson for a while, to give him time to spend with family. He'd kept his distance from the boy, letting him heal and delaying his advances. Today would be the first time in a long while that he'd try to meet up with Dick.

His plan was simple. Pick the boy up, ask him if he wanted to see a movie, go for some ice cream afterwards, then possibly confess his feelings.

In retrospect, maybe confessing his feelings so soon to a guy he really didn't know that well was a bad idea, but in his time away from Dick, Wally realized that keeping his feelings tucked away was killing him. Plus, he didn't want to spend too much time with the boy without revealing his intent and get forever stuck in the 'friend zone.' That would be a real nightmare.

The shrill ring of the end of the day bell soon graced the speedster's ear and not a second later, the courtyard of Dick's school was flooded with teens. Keeping his eyes peeled, Wally caught sight of the twin raven heads of Dick and his lookalike friend that Wally'd first met at the mansion. They looked to be engaged in friendly conversation.

"So what is it you wanted to tell me?" across the courtyard, Dick asked Tim.

"Just that, before you start anything with Wally, you should know that he –"

"Dick!"

Both boys turned to see the redhead in question waving enthusiastically from across the street of their school.

"Wally?" Dick exclaimed. "What's he doing here?"

"And are those a pair of your sunglasses?" Tim added, inquiring at the superhero's civilian disguise.

"Dick Grayson only knows him as Kid Flash, so I guess – Oh hey, KF! What are you doing here?" he replied as the boy superspeeded up next to him, right between him and Tim.

"I was thinking it's been too long since we've hung out," he said, flashing him a smile.

Besides Wally, Tim sent him a look and mouthed a message at Dick. What about our talk? Dick just sent him an apologetic look. Tim threw up his hands in exasperation.

"Wally?" a new voice inquired, Artemis. Wally suddenly stiffened, smile turning strained, as he ignored the blonde. Thinking he didn't hear him, she approached the scene, placing a hand on his shoulder and turning him to face her. "Wally, aren't you still suppose to be in Central City? School hasn't let out there yet, right?"

In the background, Tim's hand flew to his head. Missy just blew Kid's secret identity. Or would have if Dick hadn't already known who Kid Flash was.

Though Wally didn't know that.

"I'm sorry, Miss," he said, lowering his voice in a vain attempt at misdirection, "I think you've got the wrong person."

His eyebrows twitched.

Quickly catching on and realizing for the first time that they weren't alone, Artemis quickly backed up. "Uh, yeah, right. Sorry, from the back, you look just like a friend." She backed away, turned and left.

Tim shot Dick a glance. He was looking very amused.

"So KF? What did you have in mind?" he asked, getting Wally's attention again.

Tim rolled his eyes at the sickly sweet tone of Dick's voice, but stopped as he saw Alfred's car roll up. "So I guess I'm heading back to the manor alone then?"

Dick spared him a quick glance, before nodding. "Yeah, sorry, we'll talk later then?"

Tim nodded, before heading out to the vehicle, unfortunately bearing witness to the obvious flirting as he left.

"So, that girl was right, wasn't she? You should totally be in class right now."

"I skipped last period just to meet with you~"

Tim gagged. Didn't Dick say he was going to wait until he got better before revealing his feelings as Robin? Which, by the way, could be a problem as Wally had already confessed his crush on Grayson to him as Robin. Now the two were spending time together, getting closer, with Dick obviously forgetting to keep his two identities separate, before Tim had time to fill him in and… he had to stop it.

Tim had to delay Wally and Dick's relationship until he at least could update his counterpart on the going-ons of the mountain. If he didn't and Dick and Wally's relationship progressed, there would be trouble down the road. This situation was sticky enough with Dick barely maintaining his separate identities in front of the speedster.

Tim sighed as he crossed the street. Obviously, Wally's civilian relationship with Dick could have progressed normally if it weren't for the fact that later, Dick would confess to Wally under his masked identity. And since Tim knew that Wally had a crush on Dick and not Robin, that would force the speedster to choose between the two when in actuality, they were the same person. This could little tidbit could ruin their friendship or worse lead to Dick revealing his secret identity. That was not an option. Batman would be furious.

Flipping out his cell phone and getting into Alfred's car, Tim sent a text. "Sorry Alf, Dick's gone out with friends."

Surprisingly, Alfred didn't respond.

"Alfred?" Tim asked looking up. He was met with a sigh.

"Aww, and I was so looking forward to seeing Dickie again," a voice that clearly was not Alfred replied from the front seat. Tim's eyes widened as he caught sight of a flash of red hair sitting at the wheel, Damian at his side in the passenger seat.

"Hi," the redhead smirked, extending a hand, "I'm Jason."

XXX

Miles away, in the labs of Central City, the phone of Barry Allen vibrated animatedly. Plucking off his lab gloves and picking up the device, the man went to answer the text from the familiar number of one Boy Wonder. With a gasp, the man read the message.

Wally has a date.

Xxx

A/N: Hmmph. I was gonna write more Wally in this chapter, but really, I seem fixated on Tim/Kon. And sorry for the delay, my internet's been on the fritz and I meant to upload this on Monday, but it didn't get done. And then I added stuff. So… I brought Barry in! Plus I mentioned pretty much all the YJ members thus far. That's good, right? The plot lines probably are gonna diverge from here, but if you like everything in one chapter, drop a review?

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