Young Justice Deaged

MORE HARPER STRESS (Ft Jade Nguyen)

-Edit: added doodle-

"Because," Roy hissed. "If your parents know, then their enemies will know, and your little sister will be at risk!" The woman laughed over the line. "Come on! Please don't tell them! Do you want your family enemies coming after a three year old? you don't have to like her moral code to want your baby sister to stay alive!" He listened to the phone and sighed.

"Is it Jady?" Artemis asked, stuck to his leg. "Can I talk? I wanna talk! Can I?"

"Shh! I'm talking."

"I wanna talk too!!"

Roy held up a finger to quiet her. "Please don't betray me here, Jade." He begged. "Your sister's life is at risk." He listened to her response. "Yeah, she'd right here." He passed his phone down to the little blonde girl.

"Hi Jady!" She bounced excitedly to hear her Big sister. They hadn't talked in months.

"Hi Artemis."

"What are you doing?"

"One second-" There was a scraping sound, like a struggle on a concrete floor, then it went quiet again. "I'm working tonight."

"Okay!" The girl was over the moon to hear from Jade. "We were just colouring. I did penguins."

There was another scuffle on the other side of the phone, and a crack. "Sorry, Arty,  can you repeat that?"

She did. "I coloured penguins. They were blue, but we had no blue, so they were green." She recounted, skipping in circles around the kitchen.

"Don't drop my phone!" Roy warned.

"I won't!"

"Won't what?" Jade asked

"Roy's being mean."

Roy's jaw dropped, eyes flitting wide. "SHH. Don't say that!"

She frowned, and returned to the phone. "He says not to say that."

Roy swore. "No!"

Artemis stopped jumping, and flopped down on the kitchen floor. "We made mud-slime too. Flash showed us. Is daddy there?"

Roy shook his head violently, mouthing something at her.

"Not today." Jade told her. "Do you want to talk to him?"

"No." The three year old replied. 

There was a soft jingle over the cave's PA. Roy waved her over. "Artemis, food is here, I need my phone back."

"No!" She told him, giggling a little.

"Artemis. We can't eat until I get my phone back! My card's in the case!"

"Artemis, can you please give him the phone. I want to talk to him."

"Okay." She relented. "Bye bye!" They exchanged kiss sounds over the phone, and passed Roy his cell back. 

"Finally. I'm hungry." Roy muttered.

"I'm hungry too!" The blonde added.

Roy held the phone up. "Look, I gotta pay for dinner- and I've left the others unsupervised for like ten minutes, so if you can-"

"I'm on my way over."

"whAT? NO! JADE-"

"I'll wash off first! None of them well recognize me out of costume! I think I might know something about this!"