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Queen's Residence, Star City

Thursday 15th of November

6:10pm

"Ollie what am I going to do?" Artemis says warily, her eyes were red from crying. She was sitting on the couch with Ollie. She was still in her school uniform; all her things had been completely trashed. Oliver was the first person she could think too go to. She didn't have anyone else and he was the only one who knew about the situation with her father.

"Arty, I don't want you to worry about this. I will do everything in my power to get your mother back. I promise." Oliver replies confidently.

"No, Ollie you don't know him. He's…he's crazy. That's why I had to get me and my mom away from him!" She shouts. "I don't even know why I'm here. I should be out there looking for her." She says as she stands up from the couch. Oliver puts a strong hand on her shoulder gently guiding her back to her previous sitting position.

"You are not going up against him on your own." Oliver lets out a frustrated sigh as he rubs eyes with his fingers. "I think we're going to have to get the team on this one."

"What! ?" Artemis exclaims as she shakes her head franticly. "No. You can't do that! If you do that then everyone will know! Batman will kick me off the team! Wally will-" she couldn't bring herself to finish that sentence, even the thought of it made her feel sick.

"I can do this on my own, I know how he works and I know how the Shadows work, please Ollie just let me do this."

"No. Artemis you are not going on your own." Oliver replies in an angry voice. "It is way too dangerous. Even if I helped you we would be outnumber and he could potentially harm your mother if we try and go up against him. I'm going to call Batman and see if I can meet up with him." Oliver says as he stands up from the couch. He pulls out his cell phone from his pocket. Artemis jumped up and put her hand over Oliver's before he could start dialing. She looked up at him with pleading eyes

"Ollie, please don't do this." She begged.

"Arty listen to me. We can help. I'm going to met up with Batman and I'll explaineverything to him. And then we'll deicide or next move. Until then you stay here tonight. I'm going to put this place on lock down so that nobody can get in… or out in case you get any ideas."

"Fine." She snarled. She had never been this angry at Oliver before and he knew it. She gave him a cold look before she left the room.

Mount Justice

10:00pm

Oliver walked through the automatic doors that lead to the briefing room, the first thing he saw was Batman standing in front of the large computer that was placed in the center of the room

"You wanted to see me Oliver?" Batman asked quietly without even looking back to acknowledge Oliver's presence.

"It's about Artemis. Her mother was kidnapped earlier today."

This caught Batman's attention. He turned around to look at Oliver. He gave him a level headed look before he spoke.

"Do you know who took her?"

"Sportsmaster." Oliver answered silently.

"Sportsmaster? Why would he take Artemis's mother?" Batman asked calmly. He paused for a moment and took in Oliver's agitated posture before he continued.

"Oliver I think we both know that there's something you're not telling me."

Oliver though about a lot of things before he answered Batman question. He wasn't sure how Batman would react if he told him that he had lied to his face. Would he kick him of the team? He had brought someone who could potentially be a spy or a danger to the team. But Oliver had every faith that Artemis was none of those things, she couldn't help what she was born into. And he was proud that she hadn't embraced it. She was a good person, he knew that and he would defend her if anyone thought otherwise. He looked Batman straight in the eye.

"I lied. Artemis is not my niece and I didn't train her. I met her when I was leaving the Wayne and Queen Benefit in Gotham a couple of months ago; she took a man's wallet as she walked by. I saw her and I tried to stop her but she fought me for it. It was pretty impressive and I knew that someone good must have trained her because no ordinary teenage girl could fight as well as she did. So when I finally got her to calm down I asked her who trained her to fight so well, she was reluctant at first but she told me her father had trained her. She begged me to let her go because she needed the money for her and her mother."

He paused for a moment, and looked to see if Batman was still listening.

"I told her I'd give her the money if she returned the wallet. She agreed and after we tracked the guy down and returned his wallet, I took her home and gave her my card in case she needed anymore help but before I could leave she just spilled everything out to me and told me where she was from and who exactly her father was. She kept apologizing." Oliver let out a humourless laugh before he continued.

"It was like she was apologizing for being who she was. She wanted to change, that's why she ran away from her father. I couldn't just leave her after that, she deserved another chance. I know I should have thought about the precautions… but I went to see her and her mother that week and I got to know her and she told me she was an archer. And that was it. I took that as a sign. At this point Roy had left and I thought maybe this was the chance she was looking for, so I told her I was Green Arrow and that I wanted her to work for me. I'm sorry I lied to you but I don't regret what I did." No one said anything for a while and Oliver prepared himself for the worst. Batman turned around to face the computer, his back turned to Oliver once again.

"We're going to call the team in with all their partners. I should be able to locate the Shadows whereabouts. We'll have to move fast if we want to catch up with them. Bring Artemis here; she might be able to help us."

Oliver looked at Batman felling rather perplexed, it was as if he didn't hear anything he just said.

"A-Aren't you going to say anything? Did you hear what I just said?" Oliver practically shouted.

Batman typed quickly on the computer keyboard and the surveillance camera that was on Artemis's street came up on the screen.

"I heard what you said Oliver but it wasn't new information." Batman said steadily as he watched the most recent activity on the tape.

"So you've known this whole time?" Oliver exclaimed.

"Yes." Batman simply replied he was focusing all his attention on the surveillance tape.

"And you didn't say anything?"

"No…" Batman says distractedly, he played the tape back again; there was no sign of Sportsmaster or the Shadows, they must have hacked the system.

"But-"

"Oliver we don't have time for this, it doesn't matter anymore. We have more important issues to deal with now."

Oliver stood still for a moment taking in Batman's words. He knew he was right there was no time to discus a situation that couldn't be changed. Oliver nodded silently and left the room, he needed to get Artemis and tell her that everything was going to be okay.

Mount Justice

12:00am

The briefing room was filled with expectant Superheroes and their partners, nobody was sure what to expect. Batman told them the situation but left out a few details about why they were going after the Shadows. He informed them that the Shadows had kidnapped a civilian. Artemis stood with the team she was in her costume, just like everyone else but she felt so out of place she had to do whatever she could to keep her emotions at bay she couldn't let anyone know that this mission was personal.

"A civilian?" Robin questions sceptically. "It seems a bit low key for the Shadows. You'd think they'd have bigger fish to fry."

Kid Flash nodded his head in agreement with Robin.

"Yeah I'm with Robin. It's probably a trap…"

Artemis felt her heart begin to beat faster; she hadn't spoken or even looked at Wally yet. Artemis glanced nervously at Green Arrow. He gave her a quick nod to reassure her that everything was going to be fine. The team didn't know the civilian was her mother.

Batman cleared his throat and everyone turned their attention back to him.

"We need you and your team to guard the perimeter, While the rest of the Justice League try and enter the premises." Batman instructs the young heroes. "Do not try and enter without our say so. I suspect that the area will be heavily guarded." Batman looks at Aqualad when he says this as he expects him to keep his team under control.

Kaldur nodded in understanding.

"That's it! ?" Robin exclaimed in disbelief. "You want us to guard the perimeter?" He says in an incredulous tone. He stepped forward so that he was standing in front of the Dark Knight.

"Yeah, why can't we go in there and kick some Shadow butt!" Wally adds from behind with a small smirk tugging at his lips.

"You've been given an order and I expect you to follow it." Batman states in a menacing voice.

"Yeah but-" Robin following sentence was Interrupted by an impatient Artemis.

"Arrg would you guys just shut up so we can get this over with! I don't know if you've notice but the more time we waste here, the more danger we put the victim in." Artemis spat she felt her body shake with anger and apprehension. Green Arrow placed his hand on her shoulder to clam her down. The rest of the team turned to face their angry team mate. Aqualad stepped forward and looked at his fellow team mates.

"Artemis is right, it doesn't matter what their motives are. The important fact is that they have a civilian who may be in danger and we will do what ever we can to help the Justice League retrieve that person. No matter how small that part is."

Artemis was grateful that they had such a level heeded person as their leader, she felt her self relax as the rest of the team took this into consideration.

"I'll get the Bioship so we can get going." Megan says calmly, she floats towards the exit of the room and the rest of the team follow. Artemis lingers back as the rest of the young heroes leave the briefing room. She turns to look at Green Arrow.

"Make sure you get her back." She says half-heartedly.

"Don't worry we will." Green Arrow gives her an encouraging smile and with that Artemis turns and leaves the room. When she walks through the automatic doors she sees Wally lean off the wall he was leaning against and gives her a smile.

"Hey beautiful, you okay?" He asks coolly.

How can you be clam at a time like this? Why aren't you taking this seriously? Artemis wanted to shout all these things at him but she knows she can't. He's treating it like he treats any other mission. He doesn't know that she's so personally connect to this mission. He doesn't know that she needs him to reassure her and tell her everything is okay and for some reason this annoys her.

"You know what Wally? I'm not in the mood for your crap tonight." She snaps.

Wally is taken aback at her sour attitude.

"Whoa some one's in a pissy mood tonight." Wally barked back.

Artemis just scoffs and walks towards the Bioship, she hears Wally following quickly behind her.

"What's your problem? Are you still mad at me? I thought you were over that." Artemis spun on her heels and looked Wally dead in the eye.

"When are you going to realize that everything isn't about you? I wish you would just shut up and get over your self!" She doesn't wait to hear what he has to say, she turns her back to him and walks even faster towards the rest of the team.

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