Spark (Young Justice Fanfiction) COMPLETED :)

Not Forever

WASHINGTON, D.C

June 28; 12:43 EDT

Marie stood on top of a roof, she wore a grey hoodie and ripped jeans, with her hands stuffed into her pockets as she stares down at the city below. She closed her eyes as she feels the wind blow against her face.

"Marie?" Annabelle called from behind her.

Marie opened her eyes, and she turns around to see some of her best friends before her. M'gann, Zatanna, Raquel, Annabelle, and Artemis. She wanted to tell them first of all people, they were going to be the easiest tell to that... "I'm leaving."

"W-what?" Annabelle looked at her friend with disbelief. "You're leaving? Where? Back to Ninjago? What about Spark, you're just going to leave after everything that's happened."

Marie looked down at her feet with a sigh. "I'm leaving because of everything that just happens." Marie looked back up with tears in her eyes. "A-Alya, she's going to be fine. Her real mentor is back, and Green Lantern promised that he isn't going to leave her. And I'm not going back to Ninjago, I have no idea where I'm going... I just... I just need to find where I'm from, okay."

"Where you're from?" Raquel questioned. "I thought that was Ninjago."

"No," Marie shook her head. "I'm missing sixteen years of memory, but somehow I'm biology eighteen, but with a worth thirty-four years of memories. Eiram says that we're not from Ninjago, that we're from another universe, a universe that I have a family, a large one. And I have put off going to that universe for far too long." Marie wiped her tears, "I made the excuse that I'm not going to be that person that family knows, I had a whole different life, and I don't remember any of them, but after we told the team that Artemis was alive." Marie closed her eyes for a second. "It put everything into perceptive. What we did to the team, to everyone when we faked Artemis death, how sick I felt that I put everyone through that, I'm still doing that, to my family in the universe that I came, they... they think I'm dead. When I'm alive and breathing right here and now. Who am I to decide that I'm not the closure that they need. And I wasn't planning on leaving with all the loss that has happened but... I just can't stop thinking about them, and how they have been feeling for the past eighteen years. And if I can take away that feeling with just returning for who knows how long."

The five stood in silence for a few moments, before Zatanna pulled Marie into a tight hug. "What happens to we need to hang out more?"

"We do." Marie choked out a laugh as tears began to form. As she hugs her friend back. "But I need to do this. When I get back, we'll hang out all the time." Marie looked up at the rest of the girls, with a slight nod "We all will." The girls joined in the hug, each of them becoming teary-eyed, as they say, goodbye to their long-time friend for who knows how long. "And when I came back, I'm going have my glow up that somehow, everyone else got, but me."

COAST CITY

JUNE 20 13:15 PDT

"So you're leaving again?" Jessica Cruz questioned as they sat in Gina's. "I'm not all that surprised, I'm surprised you haven't left sooner. When will you be back?"

Marie played with the paper wrapper of the straw, not looking her friend in the eye. "That's the thing, I don't know... it's one of those I have to find myself world trips. I have no idea when I'm going to find myself, but for the past several months, all I have been doing is putting myself for the needs of everyone else, for Alya, Hal, Dick, my job. I need to take a pause, and I need to worry about myself, live my own life, take a long-needed break from everything."

"Well, looks who's all grown up." Jessica grins, placing her hand on her friends. "You're looking a lot less stressed already. And I'm guessing that your dad is back? You only look this way when he's home."