The Littlest Wayne

~11~

{Coming clean}
"How is she Red?" Nightwing asked Red Tornado as he completed the medical scan.

"All her readings are stable, she simply fainted from exhaustion. She will be ok." Red Tornado said to the relief of the two bat brothers.

"You said she created something sort of massive burst energy?" Black Canary enquired.

"Yeah, one minute she was freaking out, saying that her head was hurting and the next, the bad guys are knocked out and place looked like Poison Ivy had an orgasm."

Blue Beetle gave the back of Beast Boy's head a light slap for the vulgar comparison.

"Her tests for the meta-gene all came back negative, so it suggests that these... abilities, have more supernatural roots." Tornado explained.

"So you're saying she has magic?" Beast Boy asked.

"Let's not jump to conclusions before we have more facts." Canary interjected. "Have any of you ever noticed anything that would back this up?"

"Besides what happened when she was a baby, no." Nightwing answered.

"Wait, no, there was something." Robin spoke up. "The flowers back at the manor, they just... don't die."

He turned to Nightwing.
"You remember that vase with roses and daffodils?"

"The ones that were there when I moved out?"

Robin nodded. "They're still there."

Nightwing's eyes widened slightly.
"That was nearly three years ago, no flower can live that long."

"Those ones have."
Everyone took a moment to absorb that information.

"I suppose, all the answers lye with Lily herself." Red Tornado said.
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Lily stirred in her bed with a slight groan, until jolted up with a panicked gasp.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you're alright, you're ok, you're safe." Dick reassured her.

She calmed down, realising where she was.

"Dick!" She threw herself into her brother's arms burying herself into the crook of his neck. "Please tell me it was all just a bad dream." She said pleadingly.

"Afraid not kiddo." Dick answered, he heard Lily start to whimper.

"Kaldur really did go bad, and Black Manta was so mean..." Dick stroked her head in comfort. "Why is he doing all of this?"

He hesitated to answer, he guessed people had to find out eventually.

"Sis, there's something you need to know."

He went on to explain that Kaldur was actually working as a double agent, how Artemis wasn't really dead, how she might have magic powers... and begrudgingly how Mount Justice had been blown to bits.

But right now she was too distracted by the former three things to care.

"I knew it! I knew he was still good!" She beamed, Dick was glad she was in better spirits. "I can't believe him and Artemis have to deal with those... those..."

"Say it." Dick encouraged.

"I don't want to, Alfred said it's not ladylike."

"Say it!"