Kaldur has been hovering by the team, his mother, and his queen for hours since his memory attack. He needed a way out. While the Team and League were in the meeting room, Kaldur got dressed into his black jeans and blue hoodie and went into the kitchen. He walked into the room quietly before he purposely knocked over several pots, pans, and plates, which made a loud crash and shattering noise.

Then he painfully ran to hide behind a corner. The Team and League heard the noise and went to investigate the problem. Kaldur was able to get to the zeta beam and get back to his home city. Before anyone could even figure out what happened, Kaldur was already gone. With his beamer in his pocket, Kaldur walked around his neighborhood until he walked by an old church. He has never seen the inside of a church before. He walked into the empty church and was amazed to see the beautiful stain glass windows, the long wooden pews with a knee rest, and the alter. Kaldur walked down the aisle and stood there in front of the alter. He was so focused on the cross and the statues in the back of the altar that he did not hear the priest come into the room.

"Hello." The priest greeted.

Kaldur jumped slightly and grabbed the beamer from his pocket. He calmed down when he saw the priest.

"Hello." Kaldur replied in shocked.

"May I help you?" The priest asked.

He was a surprisingly fit white man, for a priest. He had short brown hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a pair of light brown khakis and a blue button down shirt which was tucked in. Kaldur was surprised by his calm, nice demeanor.

"I do not mean to intrude." Kaldur apologized.

"It is fine. All people are welcomed here." The priest explained. "Are you alright? You look nervous." The priest asked.

"I am just so-. I am sorry for looking flustered." Kaldur apologized again.

"Have a seat child." The priest said as he patted the spot next to him on the pew.

Kaldur cautiously sat next to him. He still kept his distance and had his hands in his pocket, clutching his beamers as a precaution. You never know who you could be sitting next to you.

"So what brings you here this evening." The priest asked.

"I honestly don't know why I am here." Kaldur said unsurely.

"You seem troubled." The priest said as he sat up straighter.

"My whole life got turned on its side in only a year. I honestly do not know what to do with that." Kaldur said as tears slowly fell down from his eyes.

"Do you want to talk about it?" The priest asked as he gave Kaldur his handkerchief from his pocket.

"I have never been within the walls of this building. Let alone with any church and yet you are treating me as if I come here every day. Why?" Kaldur asked as he looked at the priest in bewilderment.

"Everyone needs someone to talk to. We don't have to talk if you don't want to." The priest explained.

"I really think that it would be nice to talk, but I do not know how much I could tell you." Kaldur admitted shakey.

"Anything you say here will not leave here. As long as you did no harm to anyone then I, by law, do not have to say a word to anyone about what you tell me. Now if you did harm someone, I will try to talk you into telling the police, Okay?" The priest explained in a soothing tone.

"I guess- I guess you could say that it started when I was enlisted into the military. I was only 8 maybe even 9 years of age." Kaldur started with a thick swallow.

"You were young when you enlisted. Is that even legal?" The priest asked in a calm yet shocked tone.

"I am not from the United States." Kaldur stated.

"You are an immigrant? Where are you from originally?" The priest asked curiously.

"Um. You would not believe me if I told you." Kaldur said with a small chuckle.

"Try me." The priest challenged.

"I am from Atlantis." Kaldur said bluntly.

The priest just looked at him in shock. The priest smiled lightly at him causing his eyes to slightly widen.

"You're right I wouldn't believe you. But strangely I do believe you." The priest said slightly surprised. "Please continue." The priest said.

"Um. My friend Garth and I saved my king from death and we had an opportunity to come here to the surface as his protege." Kaldur explained.

"Let me guess this next part. He said no due to a girl which I am going to guess that you loved as well while you said yes. How close am I?" The priest guessed.

"Very. We got into an argument over me going." Kaldur explained as the memory of that argument.

Flash Back

"Kaldur you are insane!" Garth shouted to him.

"This is my life Gahhrth. You said no why should I say no as well?" Kaldur asked angrily.

"The surface will corrupt you that is why I said no!" Garth shouted back.

"Why do you even want to go anyway?" Tula asked.

"I want an adventure. I want to wake up in the morning and jjjforward to the day. I wake up in the morning and hate it! I am tired of being beaten upon everyday for who I am!" Kaldur said angrily.

"You do not need to go to the surface for that adventure." Garth reasoned.

"You two are my friends. You are suppose to support me. And you have no right to tell me what I should and should not do! You have everything Garth, you are not tormented every day of your life. I am done with trying to please everybody but myself!" Kaldur shouted angrily as he left the room, slamming the door behind him.

End Flashback

Kaldur flinched at the sound of the door slamming in his memory.

"Are you ok?" The priest asked.

"Just remembering. Anyway, I did come to the surface and I have lived an amazing life. I have made friends and allies but I have also made enemies." Kaldur continued.

"This has something to do with your spirit. I can feel this broken energy coming off you." The priest said.

"This past year I was kidnapped and held as prisoner for a year. He broken me in so many ways, I can not begin to explain." Kaldur said as tears swelled in his already swollen eyes. "I had a flashback today, and I almost strangled my mother. God what is wrong with me?" Kaldur asked as a strangled sob escaped his mouth.

The priest wrapped his arm loosely around Kaldur's to try and bring some comfort to him. Kaldur tried to compose himself but fail miserably.

"I have never been in your shoes. I can not tell you that I understand what you are going through. All I can tell you is that you need to forgive the man who harmed you in order to be at peace." The priest explained as he tried to comfort the sobbing teen next to him.

"How can you say this? You don't know what he did to me!" Kaldur asked with a sob.

"You're right. I haven't been there. But if you don't forgive this person for what he did to you, then do it for you. If you don't it will destroy you from the inside out. You need closure for one person, and that has to be you. Do you understand where I am coming from?" The priest asked as he placed a comforting hand on top of Kaldur's hand.

"Not really." Kaldur admitted with a small chuckle.

The priest smiled when he saw Kaldur laughing.

"That's alright. Not many people do." The priest said as he too started to chuckle.

They just stayed there in silence. It was not one of those weird silences but one that was comforting. Kaldur checked his watch and was shocked to see that a whole 2 and a half hours have gone by.

"I must be going. My family will be looking for me." Kaldur said as he stood up.

"Of course. I never asked what your name is by the way." The priest said as he stood and walked him to the door.

"Kaldur. And I never asked for your name is Father," Kaldur said.

"Everyone in my parish calls me Mike or Father Mike but my real name Michelangelo." The priest said.

"I thought religious members of a church take the name after a saint." Kaldur said slightly surprised.

"Some priest decide to while others don't." Michelangelo explained.

"Will I be able to return?" Kaldur asked hopefully.

"Our doors are always open to people searching for God." Mike said.

"In Atlantis, we are polytheistic." Kaldur said slightly in fear.

"Um. Catholic means universal so I can ask this, what do you believe in?" Mike asked.

"I am honestly trying to figure that out." Kaldur admitted slightly unsure.

"I can help you figure it out." Mike said reassuringly.

"I would like that." Kaldur said with a smile.

"Now off you go. Your family might be looking you." Mike said as he hugged him loosely.

"You know, you are the only person who talked to me normally." Kaldur said as he hugged him back.

"I guess you can say I have that effect on people. I hope you came back Kaldur." Mike said with a smile.

"I hope that as well. Good bye Father Mike." Kaldur said as he walked out the door.

"Until we meet again Kaldur." Mike called out to him.

Kaldur walked down the street and went into a coffee shop. He wasn't going to get anything, he just wanted to get out of the cold. He sat down in a booth and stared out the window. He got so lost in his own world that he didn't notice the man in black sitting across the seat across from him.

"Hello my son." A deep muscular voice said in a somewhat soothing tone.

Kaldur didn't have to turn his head to know who the voice belonged to.

"Hello Manta, or should I call you David." Kaldur said coldly.

"Father would be nice." David said with a small smirk.

All Kaldur did was stare at him coldly as he received a cold stare back at him.