Conner's POV.

"Conner, what will it take to make you smile?" Wally demanded, it's been over a month, and the only thing we have heard from Ann is that she's alright, she told Batman so through her necklace. but I refused to smile until Ann was safely back in my arms. and no one has managed to make me smile, not even my parents. "we'll do anything, just smile."

Wally, Kaldur, Zatanna, Dick, Megan, L'gann, Roy, Artemas, Flash, Black Cannery, Superman, and I were all sitting in the living room eating pizza that flash had brought over. the only one that wasn't here is Batman, and he was here, until he left about half an hour ago, with no explanation about why he was leaving. ever since he heard from Ann, Batman has been acting lime a caged cat, he would pace for no reason, and he always seemed to be on the edge for no reason.

we are all just sitting in the living room, doing nothing. I'm sitting on the floor trying to ignore the others, but they are all staring at me and trying to make me smile by doing different things.

Wally put on a pink frilly dress, a wig and make-up, and danced around the room singing at the top of his lungs, but as funny as it was, I still wasn't smiling.

Kaldur did a bunch of tricks with water, he made it form pictures and images that had most of the others laughing, but I didn't even smile.

Zatanna turned Wally into a bunch of different animals and then turned Dick into a doll and dressed him in a bunch of different doll clothing, but when every one else laughed, I remained quit.

Dick did some of his acrobat's and it almost made me smile, but I didn't.

Megan did a bunch of her martian tricks, and then she and L'gann did an act that involved a bunch of yelling, but I didn't smile, they only managed to make me even more grim.

Roy and Artemas did a fake fight, that involved Roy getting kicked in the crotch, Artemas getting spanked and both of them ending up with a very hurt body, and for some reason, every one laughed at this, but I didn't find it funny, I couldn't smile until I knew my love was safe.

Flash made a tornado and destroyed Black Canaries looks, and so she beat him up until he begged for her forgiveness. and Superman just sat on the ground beside me and polled me into a hug, knowing that I wouldn't smile until I was ready

"hey bat's, where did you disappear to?" Wally asked as Batman came, Batman was carrying a box, and as soon as he saw it Dick jumped up and ran to the DVD player and turning on the TV and held his hand out to Batman, who rummaged in the box before poling out a CD that said "family", and as he poled it out Dick spoke.

"no, please can't we start with something else?" Dick pleaded, but Batman just shook his head.

"we are trying to make Conner smile, and this disc will have him laughing." Batman said, and then he handed the disc to Dick, who frowned, but still put the disc in the player, before the two of them sat down on the floor next to dad and me, Batman had grabbed the remote and he now pushed play, and the TV started to show what was on the disc.

a seven year old Dick came onto the screen, he had tears in his eyes and he was holding his arm, which looked like it had been dislocated.

"Dick" Bruce (every one knows who Batman is know) sounded worried, as he walked over to Dick and gently looked at his arm. and then a ten year old Ann came on to the screen and Bruce rounded on her. "what did you do?"

"Dick and I were fighting and he came at me and I acted on instinct, I dislocated his shoulder, but I didn't mean to, I swear." Ann now had tears in her eyes and Dick walked up to Ann and rapped his little arms around her, and Bruce rapped his arms around them both.

"it's okay Ann," Dick said, "we're family, we stick together through everything. isn't that right Bruce."

"that's right Dick," Bruce said, and then he gently pushed them both towards the stairs, "now its bedtime for you both."

the screen went black.

"Alfred have you seen Dick?" Bruce came onto the screen, he looked worried.

"I have not Master Bruce." a voice said from behind the camera, "have you checked his room? maybe he is taking a nap."

"I'll check," Bruce started towards the stairs but then he turned back to the camera, "are you almost done with Dicks birthday cake?"

"yes master Bruce. I finished it this morning." Alfred said, and Bruce nodded before heading up the stairs with the camera following him, he turned towards it and raised an eyebrow, Alfred answered his unanswered question. "you know how much I love making home movies, and I have nothing else to do around here today, so I thought I would tape you, Dick and Ann."

the two of them walked to a door and Bruce knocked, and they heard a muffled yell from the other side of the door, Bruce quickly tried the door but only to find it locked, so he stepped back and and kicked the door, after a couple kicks the door slammed open and they saw Dick, he was lying hogtied on the floor, with a gag in his mouth, in seconds Bruce was at his side and untying him.

"Dick what happened? who did this?" Bruce asked, he finished untying the boy and he had poled him into his arms.

"I was doing my homework when Ann came in and asked me where her necklace was, and I told her that I had found it on the ground and picked it up, but ti was caught on the rug and the chain snapped, I gave her back the necklace and then we started arguing and then she just hogtied me." Dick told Bruce, and then he looked at Bruce, "why is Ann so mad today?"

"I have two guesses, 1) she's broken up with her boyfriend." and then Bruce looked at Dick and he smiled, "or 2) she's PMSing." and both Bruce and Dick started laughing.

I couldn't help it, just seeing her on a tape was enough to remind me how much I loved her, and watching these two memories made me realise just how much her Dad and Brother loved her, and I couldn't help but smile at the first memory, and laugh along with the others at the second.

I looked up and everyone was looking at me and smiling.

"yay, you're smiling." Dick said and then he hugged me, and soon everyone else in the room was hugging me, and I felt at peace, because I knew that I had a family to turn to as I waited for the return of the woman I love.

Ann's POV.

l looking around the room, I studied everyone. Batman looks the same as he does in my own dimension, there is a boy at his side, that looks to be about 16, and beside him is Conner, he looks exactly like my own Conner but he is older. after Conner is Alfred, who looks the same as he does in my dimension just a lot older. and after Alfred is a man in a black and blue suit, even though he older and in a different suit it's easy for me to recognise Dick, but the girl hiding behind him is who caught my attention. she has red hair and brown eyes, but what caught my attention was the fact that she has a tail and wolf ears, it was easy to tell that she had been spliced and from how scared she looked I was guessing that she had only just been spliced, I looked into her eyes and what I saw there made me angry, I had seen that look in my own eyes, before. it was the look I had just after the joker raped me when I was ten. I turned back to Batman.

"even if you're not my own beloved Batman, its been to long since I've seen that wonderful suit that I'm just glad you are Batman." I said, and Dick chuckled, making me look at him with a raised brow. "is there something you would like to say Richard?"

they all looked extremaly surprised that I knew his name, and I could tell from the looks that passed between them that they were trying to decide whether I was a friend of foe, but ignoring the looks I spoke to Dick again, deciding to lighten the mood by teasing Dick. "I like your new suit, although. I think your Robin suit was more you. it showed your fun loving nature, and although the bad guys didn't know it. it gave them a key as to who you were behind the mask, now you just look like a guy in a hero costume that likes to scare little kids."

and just like that the boy and the girl were both laughing, "I like you," the boy said, but then he raised a brow at me "but are you a friend?"

"of course I'm a friend, this might not be my dimension but Bruce is still my father and Dick is still my little brother." everyone was shocked by this statement, and I knew that I had caught them off guard, and that almost made me smile, as I remembered how hard it was to catch my dad and brother off guard.

"you're Bruce's daughter" Dick asked shocked, he looked like he was going to faint, and I knew that if it wasn't for Batman's image, he probably would have been as freaked out as him, but he had an image to uphold and he obviously wasn't going to let me ruin it.

"didn't I just say that?" the I asked Dick annoyed, and Conner couldn't help but chuckle, making me turn my gaze to him, which instantly silenced him, but made the girl smile, so I turned to her, and as soon as I saw her I smiled and before anyone could say anything, I had gone down on one knee and was reaching out a hand to her, "you look like you could use a bath, while these men try to find a way for me to get back to my own dimension, why don't you and I go get cleaned up."

the girl smiled at me and then took my hand and allowed me to pole her up, we started to head towards the door but before we got very far Batman stopped us.

"I think you need to tell us more about you before we get to work on finding a way to send you back to your own dimension." he told me, "and we still don't know your name."

"of course, I'm sorry." I said, shaking my head at my forgetfulness, "my name is Annabeth Marie Wayne, I'm the daughter of Bruce Anthony Wayne, who is also Batman, I am known as Shadow when I am in this suit, I am sixteen, and I am engaged, with dad's approval of course. but I was attacked by Luther and Match and they sent me to a different dimension, they managed to make a portal that was supposed to send me home, but instead it sent mo here, and know, like I said, I need to get cleaned up, it looks like this girl does to, so we are going to leave you men to find a way to get me home, and we are going to go make ourselves presentable."

"alright, we will see if we can find a way to send you home, but we will need something from your dimension so that we can lock on to its location." he said, and after thinking for a while I reached up and poled off my mask, I almost smiled at the shock I saw on their faces when my appearance change. "how?"

"I've put little electrics into my mask and it makes it so every time I put on my mask, my appearance will change, I tried doing it to Batman's and Robins mask's, but the two of you only lasted a day before you were telling me to take them out because they were to uncomfortable." I explained. and Batman nodded, before he took my mask and nodded towards the door, giving us leave to get cleaned up. and we headed out the door. leaving the men to find a way to get me home.

the girl and I walked up the stairs and I led her to a giant bathroom on the second floor of the mansion, there was a giant bathtub and a big shower, there was a wall in between the two.

"I never did get your name." I told her.

"it's Jay." she told me, and I smiled.

"well Jay. why don't you get into the bath while I take a shower, and then I'll help you get clean, you look like you might have some trouble." I said, and then she turned to me and I smiled at her, I knew what she was thinking, she was worried about what I would say about the splicing, so I decided to try and reassure her "I don't need you to tell me what happened to you, I've seen splicing before, and I know from personal experience how you look after being raped."

my last sentance seemed to suprise her, and antsapating what her wuestion was, I answered. "I might be Batman's daughter, but I'm also Bruce Wayne's, and that made a lot of people want to kidnap me while I was growing up, my dad couldn't always protect me, no matter how hard he tried, I was kidnapped once when I was ten by the Joker, and he raped me. it killed my dad,but it made it so he allowed me to train and become a hero."

"I know how it feels to be raped by the Joker." she said quietly, but not so quietly that I didn't hear what she said, and my head snapped up and turned towards her,seeing my unasked question she answered it. "yes, it was the Joker that raped me, and it was only this morning, same with the splicing."

"I'm sorry." I said, and even I could hear the sincerity of my words, and it made her smile. "but as an older sister, I have to ask, what is going on between you and Dick?"

by now we had decided to just take a bath together (as friends) so that we could talk. so now both of us were in the bathtub and we were washing our hair.

"I think I love him," she told me. and now she just couldn't seem to stop, "Will and I have been friends since we were ten, and last week I met Dick, and he asked me out, and when will found out he insisted on coming with until he knew more about the man that asked me out, and he found out it was Dick, and when Dick dropped me off he kissed me, and then Joker grabbed me after he had left, and everything happened., I was turned into a freak with a wolf's tail and ears. and know Dick will never love me."

I knew then that Jay and Dick were meant to be together, and I told myself that when I got back to my own time I was going to see if Jay existed in my dimension and if so, I was going to get her and Dick together. Jay and I had finished washing and I got us some clothes, then we walked down to the cave and saw the men gathered around a machine, and know Dick turned to us.

"we can send you home right now Annabeth." Dick said, "although I would really like to get to know the sister I never had. why are you in such a hurry to back to your dimension."

and I smiled, then Bruce turned the machine on, and a portal opened, which I walked towards, but then I turned back to Jay.

"I loved talking with you Jay, and I really hope you exist in my dimension, because you and Dick seem to belong together, and I would love to be able to call you my sister-in-law." then I smiled at her and turned to the others, "I want to get back to my dimension so badly Dick, because I'm engaged, and I dearly miss the man I'm engaged to. "

I looked at Jay and then let my eyes wander over to Conner, and I knew that Jay got my message as soon as she nodded to me and with a smile on my face, I stepped threw the portal. I soon found myself standing in the middle of the living room of Mount-Justice, surrounded by my friends and family, and there was Conner, before I could stop myself I was kissing him, and him me. but then I remembered something and I let go of Conner, and running to my room I grabbed a watch off my desk and ran back to the portal, before going threw.

the watch changed the apperance of the wearer, and I quickly grabbed Jay's hand and put the watch on her wrist, "this is a watch that will hide the tail and ears when your out in public, all you have to do is press this button and they will disappear." I told Jay, then I kissed her cheek and after dropping a little bomb on the portal so it would blow up as soon as I went threw, I jumped threw the portal again.

"Ann, what happened." Dick asked me as he and dad hugged me.

"let's sit down and I'll tell you." I said, and when Conner sat down on the coach, I sat down on his lap and settled in to tell them everything that had happened.

Conner: thank you for returning my love to me.

Ann: yes thank you, and please say I get to find a Jay in my dimension?

Me: your both welcome, and I don't know if you'll be able to find a Jay or not.

Ann: if I do, you should make it so we have a double wedding.

Me: that would be wonderful, and I could take an idea for the wedding out of my dream book.

Conner: what is a dream book?

Me: it's a book where you right down all your ideas for the future, like what you want your wedding to be like, and what your dream house is like, and just things like that.

Conner: okay.