Hi guys!

How are you doing today?

I know many of you have requested part two of my renegade chapter however I am going to do one or maybe two chapters before that. Today in fact I thought I would finally bring Troia/Donna into the story and thought I may as well bring the others from the five year gap, mainly the marvels.

So as usual I own nothing, apologise for spelling/grammar and OCCness.

It is set after the invasion (but before renegade) and also sorry for anything that is incorrect but just go with it, it is an Au after all. Also I don't know Washington D.C. so I've made it up. The descriptions may be wrong as well, I'm just going off what I can find.

I hope you enjoy.

Robyn 

When the new team (minus Robin and Batgirl who were apparently busy with family - something to do with a demon according to come vague mutters they had heard) happened upon Nightwing in civilian clothes and his signature sunglasses, strolling towards the door of the Hall of Justice they were suspicious. To be fair you couldn't blame them, after that had happened lately any slightly suspicious activity always appeared extremely strange. It didn't help that they were even more suspicious if the strange activity involved Nightwing. As hard as they were trying to get over what had happened during the invasion, they couldn't help the lingering thoughts. Him being in the Hall was also suspicious as he wasn't around often - as he had 'temporarily' left the team.

That said, it shouldn't come as a surprise to you on what they decided to do. Guessed yet? Yeah, they decided to follow him. After they had also changed into civilian clothing that is. Wonder Girl, Beast Boy, Guardian, Bumblebee, Guardian, Impulse, Blue Beetle and the newest member Static were transformed back to their normal selves Cassie, Garfield, Mal, Karen, Bart, Jaimie and Virgil. (They had decided La'gaan should stay behind in case they were needed and because he didn't have as good as control on his temper around Nightwing recently).

Following Nightwing turned out to be easier than expected, probably due to the fact that he wasn't expecting it. As they followed him into the centre of town, hiding behind something or pretending to look at this or that every time he turned around (maybe they weren't so great at following him after all). Though that is to be expected as most of their supposed 'stealth' missions ended with less stealth and more fighting.

Finally he seemed to reach his destination, a small café besides a green park. It had a view of a few kids playing, a family kicking a ball around, and an elderly couple sitting on a bench in the sun. Nightwing stopped, looked around as if he was scanning for something before turning to a table outside overlooking the park where three people already sat. He smiled, the kind of care free smile that they hadn't seen on him in months, before strolling over to join them the first girl waved in greeting as she saw him arrive, the other two were oblivious, stuck in a discussion.

The initial conversation was lost to the wind as the group of teenagers settled at a table (one in earshot but not too close) and took in the appearance of the three teenagers/young adults with their former leader. The first was a girl who looked to be in her early twenties who had her back to them. Her black hair went down her back in waves, she wore long boots and a blue skirt. Her t-shirt had the Wonder Woman logo on a red background.

The other girl faced them, she had shoulder length brown hair and they could see her emerald eyes shinning as she talked. She wore a short red dress and golden boots. Her hands waved in the air as she explained something to her companion with a grin on her face.

The last person was a boy with short black hair. His face was turned away in what appeared to be an argument with the second girl. He had a pair of jeans on and a light blue t-shirt with an undiscernible design.

Garfield turned to his teammates with his head tilted. "Emmm, anyone have any clue who they are?" The rest of the group looked back at him with confusion apart from Cassie whose eyes had widened comically and Karen whose face had scrunched up in concentration, as if she was trying to place where she had seen them.

"I don't know about the other two but the girl with the long black hair is Donna Troy also known as Troia. She's Wonder Woman's sister and the first Wonder Girl. She was on the team for a while I think." The team looked back at the now named Donna considering.

"Wait, if she was on the team do you think the other two were at one point as well? Who else was there apart from the originals?" Virgil guessed turning to look at the more senior members of the team, he'd only ever really heard of the originals.

"There's Zatanna, Rocket, Tempest and. . . Aquagirl. I can't remember anyone else." Jamie counted on his fingers, eyebrows furrowed in concentration.

The group looked at Bart as he tapped his fingers against the table at speed. "Don't look at me, I've told you before I was never good at history." Bart held his hands adding to his whole message of 'don't ask me'. He knew the main heroes but some of the smaller time ones he'd never heard of.

"Nightwing vaguely mentioned someone called Tarantula once, but he had a troubled look on his face that makes me think she was nothing good." Mal added to the conversation, drawing the group's attention away from Bart. Karen was still deep in thought, she could swear she knew the other two.

"Wait! That's it! I think they're Lieutenant Marvel and Sergeant Marvel aka Freddy Freeman and Mary Bromfield." Karen announced loudly, thankfully though no one in the area seemed to hear.

"Why are they all meeting up? Are they planning something or teaming up or-." Garfield ranted, eyes wide and hands waving in the air.

"Gar, I think they may just be having a reunion or meeting up as friends." Karen raised an eyebrow as a smile tugged at her lips. "He still meets up with many of the Titans as well." The smile stretched across her face at the small 'Oh' she got in reply.

"If that is the case hermanos, then maybe we should leave them in peace." Jamie suggested starting to feel slightly guilty for following their former leader. He wasn't up to anything suspicious but they kept suspecting him and had followed him as he met up with friends. This was none of their business.

With nods of agreement from everyone, the teens quietly slid off their seats and started the journey back to the Hall of Justice. (None of them ever brought it up or told Nightwing, they decided he needed some privacy and anything or anyone that could put a smile, a real smile, back on his face was worth keeping the secret for).

With Nightwing

Seeing his old teammates for the first time in months brought a smile to his face. Strolling to the table and sliding into a seat he called a couple greetings before leaning back against the seat. Listening to Mary and Freddy argue, what about he didn't know nor care, brought a warm feeling to his stomach, one that he hadn't felt in some time.

Sharing a grin with Donna he interrupted the friends with a cough and raised eyebrow. "Sorry to interrupt, but I'd like to know what you've been up to lately. As nice as your arguing is I think I've heard enough of it before." He smirked as the pair froze realising he was there for the first time. Donna tried to cover a laugh at their expressions before surrendering to it.

"Hey Dick, it's great to see you. We've only heard vague rumours about what happened during the invasion but it did not sound like a fun time. Sorry we weren't around to help." Freddy broke free of his stunned expression to greet his friend with a blinding grin.

"Yeah, we were busy sorting some stuff out but I'm sure you don't want to talk about that. Hey Donna, what have you been up to lately?" Mary noticed the way his smile seemed to disappear and his shoulders sagged at the mention of the invasion and decided it would be better to move the conversation away swiftly, sending looks to her friends hoping to convey the message.

The conversation carried on moving from topic to topic, the old friends enjoying the time together. They may have left the team but it didn't mean they weren't still teammates or friends. They had invited some of the other original team members, ones that had still been there at the time anyway, but they all had other arrangements. They were still happy to meet up with Nightwing though, it had been far too long.

Eventually the topic came onto family, more specifically Dick's growing family. "Hey, Dick. I heard something about another brother, care to share?" Freddy asked leaning forward on the table, eyebrow raised. Dick's family was always an interesting topic, there were usually wild stories around the siblings.

Reluctantly he answered after seeing the girls' curious looks as well, besides they deserved to know. "Yeah, Damian. He's Bruce and Talia Al Ghul's son. Since B was away for the trial I've been looking after him, Tim, Cass and Steph, with Alfred's help of course." Hesitating he looked at the curious faces of his friends. No, they deserved to know, he was their teammate as well after all. Sighing he continued. "There's something else you should know. Jason's alive."

He stopped letting that info sink in. It didn't take long before he was being pelted with all sorts of questions ranging from how to when. "I know it sounds crazy, but yes it's true. Ra brought him back with the Lazarus pits. It drove him crazy for a while but he's getting better, I think. He's different to how he was before and he's an anti-hero now, Red Hood, but he's still Jason."

After answering a few more questions they silently decided to once again change topics to something safer, though it didn't mean the topic left their minds. They spent the time recounting old missions and pranks, thinking back on happier moments from the past (and skirting around darker, heavier topics).

The conversation once again carried on, right into the afternoon until Freddy and Mary declared they had to be going. Saying goodbye included lots of hugs and promises to see each other soon, until they were gone just leaving Donna and Dick at the café table.

"It was good to see them again." Donna stated a few minutes after the pair had vanished from sight, breaking the comfortable silence that had fallen between the pair.

"Yeah." Dick vacantly replied watching a mother and father throw a Frisbee with a little boy of about seven in the park, the giggling of the young boy as he leapt to catch it brought a sentimental smile to his face.

"It's good to see you again too." Drawing his attention to her she gave a small smile. "I know it's been hard for you lately but if you ever need help or anything, we're here. You know that right?" She carried on, not waiting for a reply. "Someone once said that your superpower is your ability to make friends with almost anyone and they were right. You have lots of friends, please if you need any of us just say. You can't do everything alone no matter how strong you are or however much you want to protect us." With that she smiled and waved goodbye before leaving the café.

Dick sat there for a few minutes in stunned silence before seeming to shake out of it and lift himself out of his seat. He walked through the park, watching the families as he made his way to the nearest zeta-beam to take him home.

Donna was right. Things had been hard lately between hero work, his siblings, school work and Wayne Tech. He had been struggling to juggle it all and quietly looked forward to being able to go back to Bludhaven as Nightwing without any other responsibilities. Don't get him wrong, he loved his siblings and teammates but they were all far too difficult to deal with sometimes, especially his brothers who always seemed to be fighting.

He'd thought with the invasion over and Bruce back things would return to normal, but everyone had seemed to get even crazier. That's why he'd left the team for a while, as well as his guilt of course. Mentally shrugging he continued his way home, for now he just had to deal with everything as it came.

Maybe he should see if Donna was right in the friends aspect. Go visit or get back in contact with friends, get away from everything for a while. He didn't know why but he had this sinking feeling in his stomach, something big was coming. He didn't known when or even what but it didn't feel like it would be anything good. Maybe it's about time he started doing some more training, get his skills back on point and chase up some old allies for whenever it was came.

He finally reached and entered the manor as he made up his mind. Yes, that's what he'd do. Until then however, he stopped as he came across his brothers fighting, he needed to be a big brother and stop his brothers fighting before they either killed each other or destroyed some priceless artefact (again). Oh, how much simpler being an only child had been. Laughing at his brothers' weird tangle of limbs that they had ended up in as they fought, he decided he wouldn't change them for the world, however much they sometimes annoyed him.

The end.

To be honest I have no idea where that went at the end, seriously no clue.

Thanks to everyone who has followed/favourite-d/ liked and commented on everything so far, you guys are great and I honestly don't say it enough. Thank you, I really appreciate it.

Enjoy your day.

Robyn out.