I sighed...where did she go?

"Hey Megan, have you seen Bluejay?" I questioned, looking up at her.

"No...well yes, she ran in and grabbed her suit and said something about Wonder Woman wanting her." Megan lifted her gaze from the bowl.

"Okay...thanks."

I don't think that's true...Wally said he did something stupid...that he said some stuff...

I don't know what it was about but...

"Contact Wonder Woman." I said walking into the training room and the computer pulled up a video chat.

"Hello Robin. What do you need?"

"Have you been in contact with Bluejay?"

Percy

I sighed, sitting on the edge of a building, suit in stealth mode.

The white cape may seem like a bad idea but...it kinda makes me seem like a ghost at night.

But, right now I don't want anyone to see me.

My wrist computer beeped and I pulled up the screen, noting the positions of the Team.

Yes, I slipped a tracker onto them. Makes it easier to protect them...and avoid them.

"Bluejay."

Resigned I looked over my shoulder staring at Diana.

"Hey Wonder Woman." My gaze turned back to the lights slowly inching along the city streets.

"Why did you lie to Miss Martian about me wanting you?" My cousin sat beside me.

"Just needed time away from everyone. My family...friends...I just needed an excuse. Sorry if I caused you trouble."

Apologies... that's all I'm able to do anymore apologize.

"I don't think that's it."

"Yeah... I'm pretty sure I know the real reason."

Oh great...Wally.

"Listen I'm-"

"You weren't wrong...you just told me the truth...which everyone else refuses to do." I chuckled softly. "It would be better if I didn't exist."

"No."

That earned a long drawn out sigh from me. "Kaldur, don't argue with me on this."

"Bluejay, he is right. There are so many people who would miss you...you are by far the best protégée I could have wished for."

I chuckled darkly. "If you knew what I've done...what I've caused..."

She doesn't know the full extent of it. She doesn't know what I did in the Pit...she doesn't know that I enjoyed drowning a goddess in her own poison.

She doesn't believe that it was my fault...

"I've killed people, there's not much worse you can do." Artemis commented.

"I've lied to everyone about my race... I'm a white Martian."

"I started this because I wanted to take the people who murdered my family down. So did Batman."

"I've killed... I've tortured...what else can you call drowning someone in poison?"

I felt a hand on my shoulder. "Bluejay...we love you." Kaldur mumbled, the unspoken I love you hanging in the air. "We do not care about what you have done in the past."

"It was my fault." I stood, shrugging his hand off and pulled out my grappling hook.

Grappling hook!

Before I could fire it, Kaldur sighed.

"I cannot keep this secret any longer. Not if it is causing you pain." He grabbed my arm pulling me back towards him, into a hug.

"It's all my fault...I killed them...I shouldn't be alive... everything would-"

"No, you are alive for a reason. And the world would have been destroyed without you." He tilted my chin up so he could look me in the eye.

But when he stared at my mask that had tears falling from beneath it, he frowned. Then he lifted a hand and peeled off my mask.

"Starfish, you need to stop thinking that." He smiled before pressing a light kiss to my forehead and wiping away my tears.

"Percy?!" Wally and Dick cried in surprise...well the others did too.

But Diana probably suspected this let's be honest.

I didn't respond to them, instead leaning against Kaldur... mumbling what I knew to be true... ignoring every attempt he made at comforting me.

"So... Percy's a demigod and she's also Bluejay? Huh, did not see that coming." Connor commented.

"How long have you known this Aqualad?" Bruce questioned.

"Since the Atlantean mission when I was originally not allowed to go." He gently rubbed my back.

"Listen... Percy, I was upset. I didn't mean what I said."

"It doesn't matter Wally. She believes it herself...she always has but I am curious, what did you mean by drowning someone in poison?"

I shook as memories flooded my mind. My arms wrapped around Kaldur's body in a death grip.

"The Pit...There was a goddess...she tried to kill us...Annie was so scared...of me...of the fact I didn't want to stop."

I paused. "We were captured after that...t-tortured...I didn't let Annie get hurt...I wasn't going to let her get hurt...so I...I...took hers."

Kaldur's grip on me tightened to match my own death grip. "I knew about this...yet I still feel a sense of surprise...a sense of protectiveness."

"Not surprising. It is in our blood to want to protect any children of the sea, depending on how much Lord Poseidon wishes for them to be safe...but for you that feeling has developed out of your love."

Oh... Orin's here. Didn't realize that.

"Kaldur...I uh, I think I might need you to stop being super protective Dad and Triton have that covered.

He simply kissed my head. "Never."

I groaned and shook harder, the fall coming back to mind.

"I am never letting you go starfish. I will always protect you."

Well...

Hope this publishes...

I have to get to bed so...

Which now means go to school cause this didn't publish last night so...

Uh

See yah