The night when Secret came into his room and gave him the file, Kaldur went through the file page by page carefully. The League had 20 men as suspects in the kidnapping and torture of Kaldur. He could instantly eliminate about 8 of the men since they were of different race, height, weights, and have different occupations. When he heard a knock at his door, he started to hide the files underneath his mattress. He went to the door and was slightly shocked to see that it was Black Canary.

"This is a surprise, Black Canary. I am going to assume that you are not here on a social call." Kaldur assumed.

"I hate to say it, but you are correct. We need to have a chat," Black Canary said.

"What time is it?" Kaldur asked curiously.

"Around 8 o'clock in the morning," Black Canary replied to Kaldur.

Kaldur honestly lost track of time. The last time he checked the clock, it was around 11 o'clock in the evening. 10 whole hours went by.

"Kaldur, are you okay?" Black Canary asked worriedly.

"Hm. Yes, I am fine. Sorry I was just lost in my train of thought. Shall we get going?" Kaldur said as he came out of his clouded mind.

"Yes, follow me," Black Canary said as she started to walk to the therapy room.

Kaldur followed behind her slowly.

When they arrived into the medium size room with cream color walls and a two lounge chairs, Kaldur knew he was in for a treat. He knew that this was about his mental state of mind. Canary motioned him to sit down in one of the chairs.

"Kaldur, you know that we need to talk about what happened," Canary said bluntly.

"I know. Black Canary, you do know that nothing you say to them about me is going to change Aquaman's mind, right?" Kaldur explained.

"About what?" Canary asked.

"About Aqualad. He's going to send me back to Atlantis no matter what anybody else says. In all honestly, Aqualad died the minute I was forced into the van. So you see, no matter what you say, in favor of me or not, I am going back to Atlantis and I will remain there, forever. And there is nothing you can do to stop it," Kaldur explained as he voice began to shake.

"You don't know that. Look, let's just get back to what I came here to you to talk to you about. Can you tell me about what was going on through your mind when you were held captive?" Canary asked.

"I was scared. I always thought that I was going to die. I kept thinking about all of the things I wanted to do in my life. All the things I ever dreamed of. All the people I would have left behind. My team, my king and queen, my mother," Kaldur explained in a soft and slightly fearful tone.

"Did you ever think of a way to escape?" Canary asked.

"If you ever think of trying to escape, I will kill everyone you love. Starting with your mother."

"No," Kaldur said simply.

"Why not?" Canary asked.

"My legs were broken, when they began to heal he would just break them again," Kaldur lied smoothly.

"Understandable. The doctor said that you were extremely underweight. Can you explain that?" Canary asked as she looked at the file in her hand.

Kaldur looked longingly at the bowl of yellow slop in front of him. He was about to reach out and grab it but a fat rat that came from the wall got to the bowl first. The rat dove in the bowl and nibbled at the slop. When the rat got out of the bowl, it died. Kaldur took the bowl and threw it at the wall.

"I can not say that I can," Kaldur said watching his words.

"Why is that?" Canary pressed.

"I try not to think about it," Kaldur said.

"Okay then. What about your scars and bruises? How did that happen?" Canary asked.

"He would beat me up everyday. He would wheel in a cart full of weapons, chains, and a steel baseball bat on one occasion. He would ask me a question. I would always reply with 'go to hell' before he began to beat me," Kaldur said as he sighed heavily.

"What was the question?" Canary asked.

Kaldur froze in his seat. He looked Canary in the eye and thought of a way to avoid answering the question.

"Do not make me answer that," Kaldur said in a soft yet stern tone.

"Kaldur please, answer the question," Canary basically ordered.

"He would ask me if I was ready to die. I would tell him 'never'," Kaldur asked as the memory of the questions came in his mind.

The cart was wheeled in slowly. Kaldur's whole body froze in fear but his face was kept stern, no matter how scared he was deep down inside.This time he brought in two guns. Kaldur's mind slowly went to all of the things the torture was going to do to him. The main one that Kaldur thought of was being shot.

"Are you ready to die today?" The man asked slowly.

"No," Kaldur said sternly as he braced himself for the shot.

Bang! Kaldur screamed as the bullet was lodged in his leg. Bang! Bang! Bang! Three shots rang throughout the small room as three more bullets became lodged in his legs and arms. The man left him there bleeding before he walked away. Kaldur was released from his chains. Tears made their way down his bloody face as he tried to breath through the pain. Sobs forced their way out of his throat. He wanted the pain to stop. He felt a soft hand on his knee cap and flinched away.

"Kaldur!" Canary said in shock as she tried to bring him back.

Kaldur's head popped up and soon came back to full reality. HE saw Canary's hand on his knee to shake him back to reality. He wiped his eyes to dry his tears but Canary caught them.

"What happened?" She asked worriedly.

"I remembered something, I'm sorry. Are we done here?" Kaldur asked bluntly.

"What did you remember?" She asked curiously.

"I-it was a gun. He shot me with it in my arms and legs. Can I go now?" Kaldur asked as he got nervous.

"You know that we are not done yet?" Canary said as Kaldur got up and headed to the door.

"For now we are." Kaldur said as he walked out of the door and headed to his room.

Canary sighed heavily and turned off the hidden recorder under the small coffee table. She felt horrible for recording their session. She went to the meeting hall and placed the recorder on the table. She was faced with the founding members and Aquaman.

"What happened?" Aquaman asked worriedly

"Just listen to the tape," She answered feeling conflicted.

They listened to the recording and was satisfied with most of it. Aquaman was surprised by Kaldur being snippy as he was. When they got to when Kaldur was having the flashback, they heard Kaldur muttering something in Atlantean.

"Neptun ju lutem më fal për atë që unë jam gati për të bërë. Unë nuk dua për të dashurit e mi për ta vajtuar mua, por unë jam aq i lodhur. Neptun, ju lutem mbrojtur një tim të dashur."

"Neptune please forgive me for what I am about to do. I do not wish for my loved ones to mourn me but I am so tired. Neptune, please protect my loved ones. It's like Kaldur was praying for forgiveness. Oh my son,'' Aquaman translated as he started to realize something.

"What?" Flash asked.

"I remember that the doctor said something about marks on his wrists. He said it was self inflicted. After hearing what Kaldur said then that..." Aquaman refused to finish the last sentence.

"There was a chance that Kaldur tried to kill himself," Batman finished for him.

Canary held her hand to her mouth in shock along with Hawkgirl and WonderWoman. Aquaman was two seconds away from sobbing in his hands because his son almost tried to kill himself.

"What did this monster do to my son?" Aquaman said as tears started to roll down his face.

"Are we going to put Kaldur on suicide watch?" Flash asked worriedly.

"Kaldur is not going to like that," Aquaman said as he wiped away his tears.

"It doesn't matter if he likes it or not. We can't allow him to hurt himself," Superman said.

"We could try another therapy session, but I don't think he would go for another session like that again," Canary imputed.

"I don't think Kaldur would try a second attempt," Green Lantern said.

"Care to share with the rest of the class." Flash asked with a small chuckle.

"His file says that he was in the Atlantean Military, right?" Lantern said.

"Yes, he was in the Academy when he was 9 and he instated at the age of 11," Aquaman said.

"Well, I don't know how you trained them but how I was trained was to never talk to the enemy. My guess is that he tried to kill himself but something went wrong. He would have tried it again but he was too scared to try. I guess he was either caught in the act or that the fear of dying actually made him stop. Maybe even leaving people behind that loved him shook him. All that I can figure out is that Kaldur will not make a second attempt," Lantern explained as he pulled up his file.

"And you know this because?" Hawkgirl asked.

"Look at the injury. If he was actually going to do it, it would have been deeper. All he did was barely penetrated his skin. Kaldur was trained to kill and not to hesitant while doing it. If he really wanted to kill himself, he would have tried it again and got it right," Lantern explained as he pulled up the picture of Kaldur's wrist.

"He has a point. Just to be safe, all we could do is keep an eye on him but not too close. We don't want to provoke him into doing something he would regret later on," Batman said.

"One more thing. What are we going to do about Kaldur's eating habit? We tried to make him eat something but all he does is push it aside. The doctor said that he is severely underweight," Canary said.

"We can't force him to eat. If he doesn't eat within 3 days, then we can place him on an IV drip. Anything else?" Batman explained.

"Kaldur talked about how Aqualad died the second he was shoved in that van. He also said that the second that his gills are healed that he would be taken back to Atlantis for good. My question is this, what are you going to do with Aqualad and Kaldur after he has recovered." Canary asked curiously.

"He will go back to Atlantis until further notice. And what I do with my protege is none of your concern," Aquaman said as he got up and walked away.

"You know if you do this, it will destroy Kaldur," Canary said to him as he stopped in front of the door.

"Excuse me?" Aquaman said with a small chuckle.

"If you take Aqualad away from him it will kill him. Aqualad is the only thing keep him stable. Take that away from him and I guarantee you that it will kill him. Not to mention that he will never forgive you," Canary explained as her motherly instincts kicked in.

"This doesn't concern you," Aquaman said as he walked out of the room.

"Why are Atlanteans so stubborn?" Canary said as she sat down tiredly.

"I have no idea," Batman said as he too sounded exhausted.