Hey! This is a new story that I have thought of and because I like Young Justice I decided to apply it here. :)

Critcism I can take, I'm not a china doll post your comments if you think I should continue or not.

Disclaimer: Don't own Young Justice or DC Universe

-The Missing X

The year was irrelevant to her, nothing but one thing matter to her now. She ran away at the ripe old age of 17 and never looked back. It wasn't her best decision by far, but she wasn't going to cry about it. She was tougher than that.

Around here people called her Zee, not Zatanna. They didn't know about her, her connection to the League or and hero. No one knew about it. And she intended it to stay that way.

It was risky to keep her face out in the open, but she was far away from any heroes or villains. She wasn't concerned for her safety, she was concerned for her other half's.

She never let her out of her sight, well as much as she could anyway. She was also cautions about anyone that would recognize her.

This was her life now. She was a 27-year-old journalist, Zee Arataz, working for a small, but big enough news branch. Who lived in an apartment in New York City.

To be honest she missed the hero gig, saving people, putting a smile of everyone's faces. But she hadn't given up on the whole Homo Magi thing, she could never give it up, it coursed through her veins and she was thankful that her other half hadn't gained her abilities.

Her other half: Mary-Aster Sindella Arataz: her pride and joy her daughter.

Named after her fathers parents, a flower and her own mother, she was one of the most bubbly, intelligent, playful girls Zee had encountered.

A crazy smart 10 year old that took part in after school activities her mother would not really approve of. Namely martial arts, gymnastic and as a branch off, circus arts.

Zatanna did not approve of these, she would rather prefer her daughter stay inside and not get hurt, or be recognized by anyone. But Mary had proven herself to be smart, stubborn and extremely resourceful, as she had snuck out of the house every time Zatanna forbade her to do anything.

She didn't have friends here, only acquaintances, neighbours and people she saw at work. She did how ever have one friend that knew about her and Mary.

It wasn't like she asked for someone to ruin everything, she had simply been walking to pick Mary up from gym and someone had spotted her.

To say the least she was surprised by her full name being said aloud was a total understatement. To say she was happy to see Raquel rushing over to her with an angry look on her face was an understatement.

But they had talked and come to an agreement. Raquel could visit both her and Mary, but she couldn't tell anyone, not even Kaldur, who she had gotten married to.

"Mum!" Mary shouted startling Zee out of her thoughts.

"Mary?" Zatanna shouted back, thankfully all the walls of the apartments here were sound proof.

"Hurry! I'm going to be late to the mathlete meet." The in uniform Mary said using her hands to push her raven coloured hair out of her face and into her signature ponytail at the crown of her head with a few strands framing her face, simply because they did not want to go into the ponytail or be brushed back.

"Fine, let's go." Zatanna sighed grabbing her coat and heading out the door with Mary in front of her.

"Why did you have to make me go to a catholic school?" She groaned, too many rules she thought.

"Because they have great values that you could learn to adapt to." Zatanna said sternly.

"But there are too many snobs." She bluntly said, thinking of all the people that constantly bullied her for being too good.

Zatanna sighed, this had always been a problem for Mary: not fitting in. "Mary, we can move school if you want to but this school has a really good education it can offer you, I mean look. You're 10, nearly 11 and already in the mathletes team."

"I know, I'll do it for you. Is Aunt Rocky coming to watch?" She asked curiosity getting the better of her, Aunt Rocky was the only person mum had as a friend, and she had no clue about her dad. But she couldn't admit she wasn't curious about her real dad or her mum, she knew nearly nothing about the both of them.

"She isn't today, sorry Mary, she's got business to attend to overseas." Which was Zatanna saying, League Business.

The Mathlete meet had gone well, she had added another title under her belt and she was still hunting a few more.

"Mary?"

"Yeah?" She said looking around to find her mum contemplating something in their living room.

"If you would drop one activity what would you drop?" She asked slowly, being patient and not triggering any negative responses.

"Why?" Mary said immediately on alert.

"Just wondering," Zee shrugged off, "Would you choose your sport or your academics."

"Well the answer would be I would continue with all of them. Come one mum, we just started working on more things at circus, and they are finally letting me go on the trapeze without a stupid net."

"I know, but just be careful ok? You never know what could be out there." Zatanna said trying not to tip her daughter off.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. How many times have we had this talk mum? It's always be home before sundown, be on time, don't wander off without me, always keep to the main roads, blah, blah, blah. Lighten up will you? You are so not whelmed." She said smirking slightly.

But Zatanna could only comprehend the last words she had said, whelmed? Where had that come from?

"Mary where did you hear whelmed from?" Zatanna asked her body tensed,

"Reading the dictionary at school, then some kid said that spelling was overwhelming and another person said that listening to music all day was underwhelming, so then I thought, why can't anyone just be whelmed?"

"O-ok. Just, just go to bed, you've had a long day."

"Sure, g'night mum." Mary said as she walked down the hallway to her room.

"Whelming." Zatanna whispered to herself, reliving those memories before the mess.

There it is! Post a review or PM me, I just want to hear some feedback!

Thanks

-The Missing X