Family

Chapter sixteen

"Well they took it better than I thought they would" Jason said seemingly disappointed.

"Hey I don't want the justice league going all protective mama bear on me so I'm just glad that they didn't freak out" I replied.

A few hours later the boys and I were still at the watchtower, but we were eating lunch in the cafeteria.

"So.." I was kind of hesitant to bring up the topic on my mind. "Do you think we need to send me back?"

The boys stared at me in shock.

"Guys I can't stay here, I'm missing five years with you, and it's complicated with Kaldur"

"But allowing you to get shot by a gun? Good luck with convincing bats to let you do that" the red hood replied. "Or any of the league members" he added as an after thought.

I pushed my salad around my plate contemplating what to do.

"Well I better go meet the team if I'm gonna stay here" I shrug standing up, there's no chance dad would willingly let me get shot so I wasn't about to try and convince someone as stubborn as him.

I started walking toward the trash can, dumping my food.

Once that was done I marched out of the room, slightly peeved that I couldn't go back. I could feel dickie and Jason exchange looks.

Without looking back I marched towards the zeta tubes and beamed to the mountain.

"Recognized Amethyst B0-8"

Was what I heard as I walked back into the cave. I just wanted to talk to my boyfriend, because well the talkers of the batfam either just disagreed with me or they we currently at school.

I found him in the training room, he had thankfully changed out of the black armor settling instead for his sleeveless red shirt and tight black pants. He was currently attacking a punching bag, with brute force.

He brought a sense of familiarity and at the moment it was really comforting.

"Gosh what'd that bag ever to to you kal?" I teased.

He promptly stopped in his tracks, turning and looking at me. He got this dorky smile that was so sweet on when he saw me, it made my heart flare.

"Amethyst it is good to see you"

"Kal you saw me a few hours ago" I teased again

"My apologies, it has just been a long time for me"

"Yeah, I'm um sorry about that" I said slightly sheepishly and biting my lip. "Hey kal can we go talk?"

"Always my love" he finished with a gentle smile, pulling my hand into his, leading me to the pool, where our spot was.

A smile broke out on my face, he still loved me after all this time for him, he still did.

A few days before I got shot, kal had set up a romantic date, formally asking to be me to be his girlfriend, after a few months of already dating. My blush was off the charts that day, he said "even if you say no, I'll love you more than the ocean loves the shore, than the sun loves the sky" that day we had both said I love you to each other and then I had gotten sent five years into the future.

We reached the pool, we got settled on some cushions that were there for this very reason, and I was laying on Kal's leg, he played with my hair, while I was swirling the water around with my fingers.

"Kal I don't know what to do, if I get shot by the gun again it might send me back further than I wanted to go or I might go further forward than i already am. If I go back things will happen that I don't want to happen, but if I stay, I lose five years of my life that I'll never get back" I finally said with a sigh.

"The question is my love, do you want to go back and risk those bad things happening that were going to happen weather you want them to or not or do you want to stay here, where you lose five years but you don't have to go through those bad things that happened?"

I sighed again. "Kal it's a really hard decision to make"

"I know"

We just sat there in silence listening to the water's filters running, kal playing with my hair, and me trying to make the hardest decision of my life, either I go back and witness Jason dying, or I stay here and completely miss Damian and Tim growing up, going through high school with dickie, and the wild child that is Jason become the amazing person he is right now.

Why do I have to make that decision? I'm only fifteen, why did the joker have to put me in such horrible positions.

Suddenly I hear yelling.

"WHAT SHE CAME BACK AND YOU NEGLECTED TO TELL ME THE GIRL I VIEW AS MY LITTLE SISTER, IS ACTUALLY ALIVE AND IN THE CAVE? HAVE YOU ALL COMPLETELY LOST IT?" That would be Roy or red arrow.

"DON'T TELL US TO CALM DOWN SHE'S OUR LITTLE SISTER" and that's Wally.

Obviously they found out that I'm alive.