Young Justice

(Author Note) My own drabble/one shot collection. All the usual show pairings, SuperMartian, Spitfire, Robin & Zatanna, Kaldur and Raquel. I'm not a good writer, so constructive criticism is appreciated! Not all are romance, some will be just things that I write to get rid of writer's block…

(Title) Family

(Summary) They will always be together, they will always be a family.

(Characters) Kaldur, Robin, M'gann, Connor, Wally, Artemis

(Genre) Family/Friendship/Slight Romance

(Rating) K+/T

Kaldur

Kaldur was a leader. He was a person that was ready to take responsibility for his actions, as well as his friends' and family's. He was calm, level-headed, and was not easily angered, he was the fatherly figure that helped everyone out.

He was the one that was expected to bail everyone out.

He had found a family in his team, something that he had had to give up when he became Aquaman's side kick.

However, like all families, and their members, Kaldur was not perfect.

Kaldur had relationship problems, and he found it hard to vent his feelings because who could he turn too? As a team leader, he could not turn to his team mates, and he did not think it was right for a petty subject to bother his king with such petty matters.

Kaldur also had times of doubt, usually piling the blame onto himself and then isolating himself from the rest of the team.

His friends would always find him though.

He liked it best when he didn't have to be a team leader, but instead, just a teenager who could hang out with friends.

With his family.

Robin

Robin knew how to keep secrets. Only few knew who he really was, and those few, at first, did not include his own team mates.

As Batman's side kick, he was tutored in the ways of brooding, of hiding, of scheming, of being alone.

He had learned to be independent, to not rely on others.

Bruce and Alfred were more of his mentors than his family, so when he joined Young Justice, the feeling of having a family was unfamiliar.

He hadn't had a real family in years.

When he stopped being Batman's side kick, started being his own hero, he realized that sometimes, it's okay to rely on other people.

It's okay to have a family.

M'gann

In many ways, M'gann was the most delicate, the one that needed the most help.

Being the rookie made her uncomfortable, made her feel out of place, not to mention the fact that she was from Mars.

The customs were so… new… so confusing, so weird.

She knew that keeping secrets was bad, but she couldn't stand it if the team didn't accept her, if they pushed her away, she would be heartbroken.

She had grown up in a world where people communicated through the mind, where secrets weren't kept, but here, on Earth, there were so many secrets, so many hidden truths, and she had one as well.

However, she learned to keep it hidden, to keep it under control, to naturally assume a human form.

It made her heart ache sometimes at the thought that her team mates would never accept her, so it was too her great relief that they had simply accepted her for who she was.

Her home was Earth now.

And her fears about not being accepted had been vanquished.

Vanquished, by her family.

Connor

Connor used to have no meaning. He had been programmed by CADMUS to complete his objective, and then wait for more orders.

His home had been a test tube, and his knowledge had been simulated, placed inside his brain at the beginning of the cloning process.

He only had relations to two people, Superman, who thoroughly ignored him, and… a criminal.

His brain defined family as, "Any group of persons closely related by blood."

If that was the case, he had no family.

He acted mostly out of rage, out of fury, fueled by his anger and his superstrength.

However, with help from his friends, mostly M'gann and Black Canary, he learned to channel his anger, to become another normal person.

He now had a family, granted, they weren't blood-related, but they were his family all the same.

Wally

In one word, Wally was stubborn. He was a person who didn't quite know when to stop talking, when to be quiet.

He had always been a person who took things head on, who charged without a plan.

However, he was kind-hearted, innocent, and didn't have many secrets.

Many.

Some of his secrets included the fact that he was afraid, afraid of the unknown. That's why he reveled in the sciences, they were logical, real, facts.

He was also bad at feelings. He had always been a flirt, but he brushed girls off when he realized that they actually made him feel something, other than his hormones, but actually want to protect her, to hold her.

That's why M'gann had always been safe, because she didn't make him feel anything, didn't actually love her.

Artemis scared him. She made him feel so out of control, so unable to compute what was going on around him.

However, over time, the Team, Artemis included, became his family.

A family that he for a fact, that he loved.

Artemis

Artemis had grown up independent. She had learned not to count on anyone, to work alone.

At the age of eight, her mother was in jail, her sister ran away, and her father was a well-known criminal.

Growing up, she had trained with assassins, and eaten dinner every day with a criminal mastermind. She had wanted to escape, she didn't want to journey on the path down toward the evil, the dark side.

She had been reluctant about joining the team, at first, only joining because Green Arrow had forced her too, because she had never worked with a team before.

It was a new experience for her, being able to trust people, to count on people to be there for her, every day.

Her "family" was so messed up, that she couldn't even count on them in the morning, wondering every day if her Father would make another appearance, if her Mother would still be breathing, if her sister would make a surprise appearance.

She finally had a real family, one that she could trust, one that she could count on.