Present: The Nest and The Assassins

After Black Frost demanded to know what Nightwing did, they glared at each other for a moment. It seemed like one of them won, and Black Frost ordered Lucy and whichever hero that wanted to go to go to the med bay. In the end, Lucy went with Batgirl and Black Canary.

Fred wasn't around nor Winter Angel, and the two wolves were sent outside.

"I guess we should talk." With one last glare at Nightwing, who was starting to look a lot like a lost puppy, lead the way to the living room. It took one hallway to reach a huge kitchen and living room.

"Wow." Bart stated, running onto a couch.

Black Frost seemed to smile a little, but was gone before too many could notice.

"Feet off the coffee table!" A voice much like Lucy's spoke, making a few jump including Bart. A hologram appeared the said coffee table showing an image of Lucy?

"Lou." Nightwing and Black Frost greeted the hologram.

"Black Frost." She greeted in a formal voice. "Nightwing!" She laughed and tried to give him a hug, causing him to laugh a little. He moved to the end of the couch, sitting down in the seat next to the wall and with his back to the kitchen.

Black Frost smiled a little at the sight, it always had warmed her heart. Her ice cold heart. Her unforgiving heart.

Black Frost frowned, almost missing the conversation due to her thoughts, she caught the conversation before anyone really noticed. Except Nightwing, but he doesn't count. She saw him frown, she smirked.

"How did Robin get shot?" Batman asked, the man of many few words looked like a concerned parent, to those who could see it.

Black Frost turned to Nightwing, who was typing on a tablet. "When did that happen?" She asked, very concerned for Robin.

Nightwing stopped typing, frowned and answered. "It was when you told me about the drug deal."

Her eyes widened. "He saw you, didn't he?" She actually stated, already knowing the answer. "What happened? You wouldn't have shot him. He's too close to you for you to be able to do that. Especially since..." She trailed off, not willing to bring up their first time meeting.

"How?"

"Excuse me?" She asked, not really knowing what Nightwing was asking.

"I know why you did it, but how did you do it?" With a heavy heart, Frost realized what he was asking.

"Because you needed a reason. We need a reason to do things without the type of fear that stops us from crossing lines. You and I both know that for some people we would cross more than a few lines." Black Frost explained, wanting to reassure him that it wasn't his fault for what happened.

Nightwing stared at her for a moment longer, afterwards he turned back to the tablet and continued typing.

Frost softly shook her head from her spot behind the couch that was connected to the couch that Nightwing sat at making the couches into a 'L' shape. She took note that everyone was sitting down either on a couch, against a wall, or on the floor.

"You taught him to be a killer?" Aqualad asked, his face not containing his concern and anger.

Black Frost stared at him. "If I hadn't then he wouldn't be here, and we wouldn't be having this conversation. You wouldn't be here in The Nest." She paused for a second. "If I hadn't taught him how to kill...The Nest wouldn't be here because I would have died." Frost finished, looking at everyone in the eye, masked or not.

Satisfied, she walked over to the coffee table and sat crossed-legged on the top in front of Nightwing, taking the tablet out of his hands in the process.

Nightwing didn't complain as if it was totally normal, it was. He wasn't going to complain about it, something he learn not to do early on.

"You actually can't be a part of this family without knowing how to kill." A new voice commented.

"Thank you, Fred. You are the right person who would say that." Frost spoke back, not giving anything away.

A throat clearing tore the two from their tension-filled silence. Looking over the room, Lucy stood in the doorway of the other entrance hallway to the living room, Batgirl and Black Canary behind her. "Really? You two have to argue without truly arguing?"

The two shared a look, shrugging.

Lucy shook her head in fake despair. "This family has gone even more insane." Her voice colored with humor.

"With Nightwing or without Nightwing, we're one big, happy, dead family." Fred stated suddenly. It was silent for a second before everyone from The Nest starting to laugh uncontrollably.

"How is he?" Nightwing asked, tense for the news after a few moments the four stopped laughing.

Lucy smiled. "He's alive. Won't wake up for a little bit." Everyone let out a breath. "But," They tensed. "He's going to have a killer headache and some stomach nausea , kinda like-"

"A hangover. I know the feeling." Nightwing finished, taking the tablet back from Black Frost, giving her a pointed look.

Frost put her hands up in surrender. "I'm sorry for shooting you in the stomach, I saved your life doing it." She defended.

Nightwing raised an eyebrow. "Then you shot me in the head."

Black Frost smiled. "And Renegade was born..."

He shook his head, chuckling a little. He got serious after a moment. "We should tell them."

Frost frowned in thought. "I could say many things in this instance, but the only thing I will say is, the choice is yours. You do trust them, right?"

Dick stared at Black Frost, thinking. "I'll tell them, then you'll tell them."

"Deal." Black Frost agreed after a moment of hesitation, many residents of The Nest looked surprised.

Nightwing nodded, turning and looking around, he started. "Have you ever heard of the Court of Owls?"

~

Past: Drama, Direction, Death

Nightwing hit the wall again, breaking through it. Black Frost saw what happened and yelled in frustration. This fight wasn't going the way she thought it would.

If only-

Several shots rang out, and they all fell to the ground. Black Frost spun away, watching as the gun slips from Nightwing's suddenly limp hand.

Frost's eyes widened, reacting on instinct she lunge and caught him before he could hit the ground.

She needed to help him get over the mental block of fear for guns. Though, he had the strength to pick up one of her discarded guns in a last attempt at surviving.

He would survive this, she would make sure of it.

~

"One more time. As fast as you can." Black Frost commanded.

Nightwing reloaded and shot at the moving targets as fast as he could.

He beat his record, he smiled big, making her smile a little at the sight.

He was such a child at heart.

~

Nightwing dragged the last body onto the hovercraft that Black Frost had created for years. It, right now, was only the size of a small car underbody with a control panel and side rails.

He put the last body on the platform and raced back to The Nest.

~

"The Freezer is where we put the bodies of the Talons under the Court of Owls command. I named it The Freezer due to the fact that it keeps the bodies frozen. If something bad happen to you, that's where you will be."

~

Then came when Nightwing met Black Frost's brother, Fred, the Apprentice of their Uncle Deathstroke.

Fred kidnapped Nightwing and tried slicing his throat open in front of Black Frost, the scene similar to what happened to their parents.

Luckily, Black Frost had a plan and stopped the bleeding. Nightwing survived, but at the price of his vocal cords.

Later Jason came back and tried to do the same thing to Black Frost.

~

For almost two years, Nightwing and Black Frost defeated Talons and the other members of the Court of Owls, before then took down the Light without anyone really knowing as practice. Until one day, the Court got lucky.

They threw Black Frost into a dungeon and took Nightwing to become a Talon.

It took two days for Black Frost to escape her prison and to find him in the underground maze of a place. When she found him, it was so bad at that point that he attacked her without a second thought.

It went from her coming into the room, kicking and screaming for Nightwing to be let go to her having to fight for her life against him.

She tried getting him out of it mentally, but had to kill him instead. Now, every time he dies, he comes back to life.

That time, they defeated the Court for good, or so they thought.

~

After six months or so later, Nightwing had enough control to leave The Nest. At that time, it was only the talking computer, Lou the A.I., Stan the wolf, Spike the wolf, Black Frost, and Nightwing.

It came to when Black Frost had to fulfill her side of the deal, and together, Nightwing and Black Frost helped Wally out of the speed force.

~

Nightwing was supposed to be gone and with the League and Team by now, only for him to be too attached to The Nest and Black Frost.

That was the time, Winter Angel came.

After Black Frost left Nightwing at the Watchtower, she convinced Fred to come to the good(ish) side, then Lucy came back to life.

And that's where the story of the past meets the present. What awaits everyone in the future?

~MsPenguingirl1234.

Published: July 2, 2017.