Case Of The Grey Eyes

|Chapter 15|

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Justice League Watch Tower; September 4th;  11:00am EDT

I was standing in an empty space. There was only a faint light and just...me standing in it.

"We are in your mind." I jumped out of my skin when I heard Manhunter speak from behind me. I look over and he slowly started to float?, next to me.

"I had to reach far to find this plane. Right now your memories are... I guess you would call it frozen. They are here, it's just your mind couldn't play them for you. Are you still sure you want to see them?"

"Right now, I don't think I want to remember all of it. I just want to know what happened that led up to me being in Cadmus, and to see if I know this weird Mist guy that keeps popping up."

'I just want to see what happened. I don't want to get attached to previous memories if it's just gonna hurt me later.'

"These are your memories. So there will still be missing pieces, and by that I mean whoever had a hand in it." He explains and I give him a nod.

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That's when the space around us turned into an actual scene. It was the inside of a car, there were two adults in the front seats and a small child playing with a stuffed animal in the back middle seat. Me and Martian Manhunter were now sitting in this car on either side of the child.

"Are we almost home yet?" The small child, er, my child self asked our parents.

"Not yet Zay, will be home in a few minutes. Alright?" The man in the passenger seat, my dad, says over his shoulder. My younger self doesn't give him a response, just a happy hum before humming a song to himself.

They continued on the not so busy road for a few more minutes before the car pulled slowly over to the side out of traffic.

"Are we home Mom!?" He says with excitement, clutching his toy to his chest.

My dad looked over at my mom who started to get out of the car, he let out a sigh and remained in his seat looking at the road ahead.

The door next to my kid self flew open and there stood our mother.

"We don't have to do this Ileana." My Dad said, still looking straight ahead at the road at the one or two cars that would every minute or so.

"We don't have a choice Elliot! We could always have another child if we really wanted to! This needs to be done!" Mom screamed her face beet red.

All Dad could do was sigh and put his hand over his face before glancing at younger me and snapping his head away.

"Just... Just get it over with, and we never speak of this again after the fact."

Our Mom stood there, almost like she was deciding on if she really wanted to do this, before she grabbed my younger self and dragged him out the car.

I turned away when I heard my younger self scream out as he was being dragged out of the car and to the side of the road. That's when I grabbed and squeezed Manhunters arm and hopefully he understood that I didn't wanna see what happened next.

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Everything was frozen once more but I still didn't have it in me to look up.

"Do you wish to stop there?"

"Y-yeah. I think I can piece the rest together from the files. Just... Could you see why they did it? They said they 'didn't have a choice.'"

"No. I can't... It seems to be something that only your parents would know. I would have to look through their memories" The room slowly turned back to Martian Manhunter's room with us sitting on the floor.

"I suggest trying to find out more information on your end, and if you could, try finding someone from your family to shed light on what happened."

"I just don't get it. They did all that to kill me, so who is this Mist guy trying to get me now?" We were there on the floor silent for what felt like awhile.

"Was that all you wanted to see?" He asks not bothering to move. I mean after all we did disturb him first.

I think that was all I wanted to know from him. Just to confirm what happened and how I got to Cadmus. But if anything that gave me more questions that I wanted answered. The big one was obviously why my own parents?

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That was on my mind the rest of the day, I mean I guess it didn't help that the moment I got back to the cave I went right back to looking over those files again.

I know, I know, it isn't healthy to be this absorbed but when all I have been doing lately is waiting for the others, what do you want me to do?

My own parents were so willing to kill me and for what? What could be more important then their own child? I wanted to know more from them before I even attempt to figure out who Mist is and what his deal could be.

"Do you want my help?" Wally rested against the arm of the sofa that I was on and was looking over at what I was reading. He probably could tell I was confused so he kept talking.

"You kind of left the files you had on the kitchen counter, and well me, Megan, and Conner kind of peaked?" He says nervously.

"Conner, who is that?"

"Oh right! Megan and Co- er Superboy, started going to school and since Superboy can't walk around being called that, we gave him the name Conner Kent."

"Oh...hm. You know what, I actually do need your help with something." I grabbed the files next to me and started to make my way to our room area.

"What is it?" Doing a light jog to catch up and walk with me.

"You don't have to if you don't want, but... Can you help me find my parents?"

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