It was a nice day. Well actually that was a lie. It wasn't day at all. Well on half the Earth it was day, but on the other side it was night. Shay really didn't know if it was night or day to her. She was in space. She wasn't even sure whose time zone the Watchtower was running on. And this particular day hadn't been that nice either. She was tired. Very tired. A long day. She didn't know what time it was. She frankly didn't care. She just wanted to go to sleep.

She walked into the bathroom which was attached to her room. If she had a God, she probably would've praised them for everyone having their own bathroom. If not she most likely would not have been able to count all the times Wally would have 'accidentally' stumbled in, through the locked door, when the sign said 'IN USE WALLY!'

She wished she could just go to sleep, but a hard day's work on Earth makes you dirty. She got into the shower, and thought automatically about how long it would take to dry her wings. She sighed.

An hour later she was finally ready for bed. Wearing her jersey, she climbed under the sheets. And closed her eyes gently.

Less than fifteen minutes later there was a knock on her door. She could have sworn it was on her head. She did the first thing that came to mind

"What!" she screamed, "WHAT!"

John proceeded in.

"Shay, what are you doing?" he chuckled, "You're supposed to be taking watch now."

"Some one else can get it, I'm too tired," she stiffly said as she tossed over so her back faced John.

"Everyone else already did there turn. Now it's yours, so get up sleepy head", he said sitting on her bed. She immediately spread her wings to block out John.

"I already did mine for today," she snarled

"No," John began, "you did yours for yesterday."

Shay sighed at the words he spoke. Apparently he knew what time it was. And now so did she since she always got stuck with the same crappy shift.

"Come on," he said putting his hand on her shoulder. "It's only three and a half hours"

"Yeah, but I get stuck with the crappiest three and a half hours!" she groaned.

"Not necessarily"

"1am to 4:30 am?" she questioned him.

"Well yeah you did but..."

"I'm got going, I'm tired and I want to sleep."

"Well," he whispered leaning close to her ear, "I can't let you do that!" And with that he immediately began bouncing on her bed.

"Stop. Stop! STOP! ALRIGHT FINE!" she screamed, "bastard"

"I love you too," he said as he pecked her on the cheek.

"I'll go, but I'm not changing!" she screamed after him as he left.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

She walked groggily down the hall. Usually she was careful not to wake anyone, but this time she certainly didn't care. She in fact, tried to make as much noise as possible. She was even going to whistle, but by the time she thought of a song she was at the control room.

"Finally," Flash sighed angrily, "You're two minutes late. Not like me the world's fastest man!" She glared at him. "I mean, this clock must be fast or something, because you have impeccable timing, by the way, love the wardrobe", he said quickly as he sprinted out of the room.

She sat in the giant chairs watching the giant monitors waiting for the time to pass, or something to happen. Neither did. Nothing was on the monitors and all the clocks in the room, (to tell world time zones of course), seemed to be going so slow they were backwards.

Everything was quiet. So quit, so tranquil, so relaxing, so peaceful so...

Poke, poke, poke.

"What!" she screamed.

"You fell asleep," said John as he leaned on the counter beside her.

"Oh you mean my shift is over!?!" she said happily.

"No, you still have three hours," he said biting into an apple he had brought

"Son of A bitch," she screamed.

John chuckled at this. Shay made a face.

"Why are you even awake now?" she asked angrily.

"Well you see," he began swallowing what apple he had bitten, "I've made it my goal to see that you make it through this shift".

"Goody," she replied dryly.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

2:00am
"Well can't I watch TV or something? This is boring," she complained leaning one arm to hold up her head.

"Nope TV and books make you more tired."

"Argh," she cried angrily, "You suck."

2:30am
"Well can we play a game? Like 'Simon Says' or 'I Spy'?" she asked impatiently

"Yeah okay," John agreed, "Lets play watch the monitors"

"You still suck"

3:00am
"You know what?" Shay queried, "If you were a good boyfriend, you'd take this shift and let me go to sleep".

"Okay," John agreed.

"Really?!" Shay sat up in her chair.

"No."

"Argh, you suck", she said angrily slouching back in her chair.

"You see I would," he moved in closer, "But you have to learn discipline."

3:30am
Shay looked over at the clocks on the wall to try and fathom what time it was in the tower.

"Ah, ah, ah," John shook his hand, "You have to watch the monitors at all times."

"Argh!" she turned back to the monitors, "Wow look everything's normal and you..."

"Suck, I know"

4:00am
"Well how come we can't talk?" she asked

"Because it might wake up the others, and I really shouldn't be here. I should be in my bed. This is a one person job."

"But..." she began

"Shhhhh!"

4:28am
"There I'm done I'm going. I don't care if J'onn isn't here for the next shift, I'm done mine, I'm going to bed."

"Well even if J'onn were here, you still wouldn't be able to go. You have two minutes left." John stated.

"Oh come on, what kinda freak attacks at 4:28am?" she asked

Just then the alarm went off.

"Oh come on!"

"See you weren't watching"

"I'm gonna hurt you"

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

It was now 1pm. The Justice League had just returned from saving the world again from seven different magical forces. All that is except for Superman, who came in a minute after the rest of the league. He quickly pushed them out of the way.

"Clark?" Diana asked, "What in the name of Hera is the matter"

Shay rolled her eyes and whispered to John, "She always adds Hera at the end of every frickin' sentence. Observe"

"I had lunch with the world heads today. We decided on Mexican food, and you know Mexican food. Spicy going down and Spicier coming out,"

"Son of a Hera," stated Diana

"See," said Shay. But this was also another time that if she had a God she would praise it for letting them have separate bathrooms again.

"Man," said Wally. "He's gonna be in there for awhile."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Shay and John were walking back to there rooms.

"So what are you going to do now?" he inquired.

"What do you think," she said while she yawned, "I'm going to bed."

John chuckled, "Aren't you the exciting one."

"You know what? If you weren't so good looking you'd be dead right now."

"Was that a compliment, or a threat?" he asked.

"Which ever one you take it as. What are you going to do now?"

"I don't know," he said as they reached her room, "Maybe wait for an invitation?"

She chuckled.

"See I made you laugh it's the least you could do." He whined

"Fine, Mr. Stewart, would you like to come in?"

"No," he said seriously, and then started to laugh

"You know what you do," she said with her arms crossed.

"Yep," he said smiling as he opened the door, "After you."

Shay laughed and walked in, with John following her.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

In the kitchen Wally, Diana and J'onn, were sitting at the table. Diana was just fiddling her fingers waiting for someone to ask her what she wanted to eat. She was after all a Princess. The biggest Princess anyone had ever seen. Wally was looking for some sugar intake speeding around the kitchen. Opening and closing cupboards, the fridges, the freezers (Hey they have to have more then one). He sighed finding no source of sugar to quench his thirst. J'onn was simply reading an encyclopedia to learn more about humans. Everyone kept telling him he knew enough already but he wouldn't listen

"Ah, interesting," J'onn explained as he closed the book, "Now if there was only an encyclopedia on Thanagarians, Kryptonians, and Amazons"

"If you want to ask me something just do it yourself," replied the princess looking at her nails. "Speaking of which, aren't you even going to ask me?"

"Ask you what?" inquired Wally

"What I want for..." but she was interrupted

"Hey look Oreos!" Screamed Wally, "Finally sugar fits are a bitch."

J'onn quickly looked up. He was horrified to see that Flash had put his hand in the bag and was slowly taking one of his precious Oreos up to his mouth. J'onn went insane

"NOOOOOOOOO!" he screamed as he lunged across the room and tackled Wally, "Those are my Oreos. GET YOUR HANDS OFF"

Flash who was officially freaked out agreed, "Okay, okay here", he said sliding them across the floor. They hit Diana's boot.

"Ou Oreos sound good about now" and picked up the bag and left. J'onn's alien eyes began to fill with tears.

"My Oreos," he sobbed, "my precious Oreos. She'll never give them back. She steals everything, and eats everything. But not my Oreos."

"Easy there big guy," said Wally, "We'll juts go grocery shopping and buy more"

"Excellent", said J'onn who almost looked evil.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Diana passed Bruce in the hall. He looked at the Oreos and knew immediately that she had taken them from J'onn. He wondered why most of the League thought she was stuck up. Also why he found her attractive. All these things to wonder.

"Can I have an Oreo?" he asked politely.

"NO! Get your own bastard" she said as she walked away.

God, he'd never been more turned on.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

John opened his eyes. Shay's head was rested on his chest. She was still sleeping. What had it been? He thought. Five or Six hours, that's the most sleep he'd had all week long. He didn't want to be ungrateful, being in the Justice League had some major perks. Heck one of them was relaxed on his chest. But other times it had its downfalls. He started to lay out Shay's hair. Why had he gotten up?

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

"Oh yeah" he explained

"Swa?" Shay questioned while still sleeping.

"Nothing," he began as he gently moved her over and jumped out of bed, "Go back to sleep."

She replied with a quiet snore. John rolled his eyes.

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

"I'm coming, I'm coming," as he opened the door. It was Wally, "What do you want?" John asked wiping his eyes.

"Me and Johnny Boy are scooting to earth for a snack run! You want anything?" Wally said loudly and obviously excitedly.

"Yeah just bring some Diet Coke. And keep it down will ya? Shay's asleep." "Oh is that why you took so long to get to the door?" Flash asked jokingly elbowing John in the rib.

"No, we just slept this time. And even if we didn't it wouldn't be any of your business."

"Yeah right"

"Now go before you wake up..."

There was an extremely high pitched scream. John's hand hit his head. "SON OF A BITCH!" screamed Shay as she barged out of her room. She was wearing a different set of PJ's. Her mauve tank top and grey pants. She didn't care who saw her. She was angry.

"Hey Feathers, you wear less and less clothes every time I see you. I don't know why, but keep it up." Said Flash pleasantly surprised.

"Wally," Shay started very calmly walking up to him, "I may not have my mace, but believe me I have other ways of dealing with you. You seem to forget I was the one who programmed all the security numbers for our rooms. Which means I can go in yours anytime." She said with a sinister smile. Wally gulped. She leaned in close to his ear, "Sleep tight," she whispered, and walked away.

"Okay John, You got some pants I can borrow?" he said still shaken. John chuckled and jogged to catch up with Shay.

The scream came from the TV room. There they found Clark face in his hands crying. Diana entered the room

"How come when he screamed no one assumed it was me", she huffed impatiently.

"Well because for one, we know that your voice can't reach high pitches," Shay shot back.

"Clark what's the matter?" asked John.

"I..It..It's...m..My virtual pet," he screamed.

"You're what," Shay said dryly.

"I got it when I was down on Earth, with the world leaders. They all pitched in to buy me one.

"Number one," started Diana, "What is a virtual pet, and number two, why did you receive one and I didn't?"

"It's this," Clark said giving the squashed device to Diana.

"Great Hera!" she said

"Thanks," Clark said back, "I use a lot of gel"

"I can't take it here anymore!" screamed Shay, "I'm taking the weekend off!"

"But I'm the leader and I say," Clark started but Shay shot him a glare, "Sure you can have the weekend off, enjoy it!" he said smiling weakly.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"I can't help but think everyone is looking at me," J'onn said paraniodly.

"Well maybe because they are!" said an agitated Flash

"But why?"

"Well maybe because you're a green alien, scantily clad, in a grocery store. Or maybe because you have two carts of Oreos!"

"YOU LEAVE THEM OUT OF THIS!"

"Sorry," said Wally reluctantly, "We just have to get GL's and Feathers' Diet Coke."

"I have a question," said J'onn

Wally sighed, "Go ahead"

"How are we to pay for all of these items?

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "I'm surprised Clark gave me this weekend off too," stated John as he was packing. Shay was sitting on his bed in cut off blue jean shorts, and a white tank top.

"Yeah well I just asked," She explained, "I can't wait to get to your apartment. Can we go to the beach as soon as we land? I got a bathing suit and all my summer clothes packed." She said excitedly moving her legs back and forth over the side of John's bed.

"Yeah we could, except its fall. The beach is cold. And you can't go down dressed like that, you'll freeze. You need to pack your winter clothes," he chuckled.

"Argh! This..."

"Sucks I know."

They walked to her room down the hall.

"Just let me put in the code," she told him.

'What 666," Diana asked as she walked by.

"No I would never dream of taking you number," Shay shot back.

They went inside her room. John sat on her bed as she packed.

"Now exactly how cold is your city?" she queried.

"Well I have three layers on."

"Oh, so Antarctica?"

"No it's warmer there" he said jokingly

Shay rolled her eyes. She closed up her suitcase.

"Are you ready?" she inquired pointing to John's ring.

He nodded, and opened the door for her.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Look lady we're from the Justice League. We've saved your butt's more times than I can count and you won't let us have free groceries?" Flash was arguing.

"Look, I've had a lot of kid punks come in here and try to scam me, but you! You should be disgusted! You're older and you should know better." She yelled at Wally.

"Okay," Wally said head in his hands, "Look my friend. He has green skin. He's J'onn. Okay how many people do you see with green skin here? ONE! HIM! J'ONN!"

"It's a costume," she said.

"O my Go... Did you wake up this stupid this morning lady, or did you take a stupid suppository last night. Well remove it. It's only a few groceries!"

"Five hundred dollars in Oreos?' she questioned as she raised an eyebrow.

"Why didn't you just get the no name kind" Wally whispered to J'onn.

"BLASPHEMY!" he screamed.

"Well do something, we don't get paid remember?"

"Miss can we please have our groceries?" asked J'onn

"Listen to those manners," she said, "Of course you can young man, and I love the Halloween costume. I hope I get as many trick or treaters dressed as well as you at my house tomorrow night"

"Unbelievable," sighed Wally.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"So what exactly is this Halloween?" Shay asked again. She was lying on her stomach on John's bed in his apartment. Kicking her feet back and forth behind her. Waiting while John put away his clothes in his closet.

"Little kids dress up like anything they want, and they go door to door getting free candy," he explained, "And I bought costumes and candy just incase we we're off that weekend." He added happily

"Oh joy," Shay added blankly turning over on her back, letting her head hang off the edge of the bed, "How will I ever over come this excitement"

"Oh come on. Just try it on."

****5 Minutes Later****

"I'm so not coming out"

"Shay you have to. You saw my costume."

"Oh, a marine. How didja ever dig up that costume?"

"Well it suits me, and yours suits you in my eyes."

"How sweet."

"Coming out?"

"Not a chance."

"Well than I guess you don't get any Halloween candy..."

"Fine" Shay opened the door. She was dressed all in white. She had a long billowing dress, with long billowing sleeves. Her wings were out the back, and her hair was down. She was wearing a headband with a halo attached.

"You look beautiful!"

"That's nice, where's my candy?"

"You took to long and I ate it."

"Not funny at all"

"Gonna change out of it?"

"Damn straight"

She was about to go back into the room to change out of her costume, when John grabbed her by her wrist, swung her around and kissed her, "Well maybe I can wear it for a little longer." They moved into the bedroom and closed the door.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"We're home!" Wally called as he ran back and forth between the Javelin and the Watchtower, bringing in the groceries. J'onn automatically phased through the floor when he came in bringing all his Oreos back to his room.

Diana stepped into the kitchen. She lean against the table, legs crossed examining her nails. She had lost her nail file somewhere and suspected Clark. Then again everyone suspected Clark.

"Did you buy my shampoo?" she asked not amused that there were over a hundred bags of groceries on the floor.

"CRAP!" cried Flash, "I knew I forgot something!"

"Oh you'd better pray to Hera that you didn't."

"I didn't here," he reached inside a bag and pulled out her shampoo and conditioner.

"You got the extra volume kind!?!?," Diana screamed

"Uh, yeah. That's what you asked for."

"Uh, NO! I asked for extra EXTRA volumizing shampoo!"

"Oh bite me Bambi," said Flash.

Meanwhile Bruce who had entered the room during the argument watched as Diana began to turn red with anger. He thought to himself that she was an angel from above. She walked by him. He was about to say 'hi', when she violently pushed him out of the way. Surely he would have a bruise on his chest. He would cherish it forever...

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

When John woke up, he was in the same position he had been, when he woke up in Shay's room. Her head lay on his chest. He didn't mind at all. She had told him before how much she liked to listen to his heart while falling asleep. He looked down at her. Her arm was drawn into a fist and placed just underneath her chin. Her scarlet hair fell over her face. Once again he slowly moved her aside. It was morning now, and he wanted to make breakfast for her.

**** Half an hour later****

Shay's eyes opened and adjusted to the light pouring though the window. She hadn't seen that much of it in space. She felt slightly weird. Like having a hangover, except she didn't drink last night. She walked out of John's room, wearing her pajamas and into the front room which was attached to the kitchen. She liked his apartment; it was small, but not claustrophobically small. She was to busy thinking about his apartment to notice that she was wobbly when she was stepping.

"Morning Sunshine," John said to her when he saw her, "I'm making breakfast. Well trying to, I know you don't eat bacon, or eggs, so I made you toast, and pancakes. Without eggs though, see the box, no eggs." He said with a smile from ear to ear.

"I don't think I'm that hungry John," she putting her one hand on the couch arm for balance.

"What's the matter," he asked putting down the bowl of pancake mix and walking over to her. "Shay you don't look so good," he said while placing a hand on her shoulder. "Man, you're hot, and not just sexy hot, like feverish hot."

"I think I got a cold from the climate change. It's so cold here and so warm in the Watchtower," she said leaning in and putting her head on his shoulder.

"Aw, you probably just have that six hour flu going around, and your not immune to it," he said chuckling a bit.

"This isn't funny, I feel like I'm dying," she gasped realizing the pain finally.

"Okay, then lets put you on the couch then so I can keep an eye on you while you sleep it off for the next six hours. It's what you like to do anyway."

"Not funny," she said climbing onto the couch and pulling a blanket over her.

"I'll be right back," John said running to the bathroom and bringing a waste paper basket back.

"What's that for?" Shay asked suspiciously.

"It's incase you..." before he could finish Shay grabbed that basket and vomited in it, "good job," he said patting her on her back and holding back her hair.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY WENT TO EARTH FOR THE WEEKEND!?" Flash screamed angrily, "I stayed in line for over an hour while they checked the price on their Diet Coke."

"This sucks," said Diana who was in the corner painting her nails, "its bad enough being her period, but being the only girl here sucks!"

"You're always the only girl here to me," said Bruce quietly.

"What was that you said freak?" she asked

"Nothing," he replied quietly.

The TV turned on. J'onn had entered the room and was planning on watching the TV show "Butt Ugly Martians!" like he did every time this time of day. But it was interrupted by a 'Breaking News Report,"

"Ah," J'onn screamed and changed the channel. It was the same thing on every channel, "How long is this going to last. Where are the people who stop this?"

"You IDIOT!" scream Diana, "WE are the people who stop this."

"I seems the monster that the Justice Lords lobotomized when they visited our dimension has healed and grown back its brain. It seems to want revenge on the Justice League," said Snapper Carr.

"I will KILL, PULVERISE, and EVISICRATE ALL OF THE JUSTICE LEAGUE!" screamed the monster

"Aw, he seems nice, and he's cute like a puppy! Can I keep him?" asked Clark.

"Flash phone Green Lantern, and tell him and Hawkgirl to meet us by the harbor where the monster is attacking," said Batman.

"Who died and made you in charge?" asked Diana

"Oh shut up," said Batman and walked away. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "Oh okay. Yeah she's feeling better now. Yeah, oh. Yeah, okay."

"Who was that," Shay queried as she stretched from waking up from her nap.

"It was Flash. He said that there is a monster terrorizing the harbor, and we need to go kill it. Oh and he said Bruce is on some kinda power trip to impress Diana."

"Figures," Shay said after throwing he blanket off of her and getting up

"Whoa, where do you think you're going?"

"To help you with the monster."

"You're still sick,"

"Only a little. And besides its just one monster, how much damage can it cause?"

~*~*~*~*~*~*~* They met up with the rest of the Justice League at the harbor to find that only one building remains standing. The monster was furious; apparently he didn't like being lobotomized. He was planning to kill them all, but J'onn was missing.

"Where is J'onn?"

"Oh he wouldn't leave his Oreos, we didn't think we needed him."

Superman shot his funky eye lasers at the monster which infuriated him, because it was the way he became lobotomized. He managed to keep the rest of the team down while he took care of Superman.

Soon it was only Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman left. Neither of them knew what to do, since neither of there powers worked on it.

"We have to do something. It knocked out the rest of the Justice League, and if we don't hurry it'll kill John!" Shay said panic stricken.

"And Bruce," said Diana. Shay looked at her, raising an eyebrow. "Hey it's been a while."

"Okay so what we'll do is try to get it into the lake because it probably can't swim," Shay said strategically, "Give me an end of your rope and you take the other, we'll trip it in."

"Who died and made you boss?" Diana asked stubbornly.

"EVERYONE! Now just do it!"

They did as she said and went to go trip the monster. Unfortunately it didn't work. It pulled on Diana's end of the rope and through her into the only building left standing which, then crumbled to the ground, and tied Shay up in the rope.

"Try to drown me will ya?" the monster said angrily, "well lets see how you like it!" After checking to see that the ropes were tied tightly, he through Shay into the lake. "Shay," John said weakly as he saw what happened to her.

The monster was about to walk away when two translucent hands went through it's head, and solidified.

"Ah!" the monster screamed and fell to the grown twitching.

"Look what happens to this team without me." Said J'onn. He then began to collect his fellow allies.

"Batman," he said pulling him off of a beam at a construction site, down the block.

"Superman," he said lifting up a giant rock and pulling him out from underneath it.

"Flash," he said unhooking Flash's pants from a sharp metal poll.

"Green Lantern," he said removing the car from on top of him, "but where are the girls?!"

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Lucky for Shay she had just begun to sink because the wind began to blow and the waves began to cover her. Before every wave cam, she held her breathe and tried to dive. She didn't know how much more she could keep this up. She was becoming more cold and tired with every passing second

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Ah you're awake John," said J'onn. They were in the Javelin parked at the harbor, "are you okay?"

"Uh, yeah...Where's Shay?"

"I was just going to ask you if you knew where either of the girl's was. I haven't been able to find them. I tried contacting them through the com- link and psychically, but neither would answer."

"YOU MEAN SHAY'S STILL IN THE LAKE!" John screamed.

"Uh, yes?"

"Go get Diana; she's probably passed out still inside the rubble over there. I'll get Shay."

"I would have to disagree; you're still in critical condition."

"I don't care, now GO!"

"You don't have to yell!" said a hurt J'onn who reluctantly went over to the rubble pile and phased through it, "I found her!" he screamed back.

"Let go of me you bastard!" screamed Diana, "I don't need your help."

"Fine."

"Wait, yeah I do. GET BACK HERE!"

"Yes your majesty!" ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

John didn't hear any of this. He was to busy flying as fast as he could to the lake. He hoped to God she was okay. He knew very well she wasn't a good swimmer when her wings weren't even tied! They got to heavy and forced her down. He dove under the water and searched frantically for her. He immediately found her sinking gradually and not moving. Without even thinking he placed a protected green bubble around her, as he often did, but not under this kind of circumstance. He flew up instantaneously and laid her on the beach. He could here the far off arguments between J'onn and Diana, but didn't bother to listen.

He laid his ear to her chest to see if she was breathing. Tears flooded his once happy eyes when he realized she was not. A piece of her ruby hair which was damp shined brightly when he moved it. He quickly laid his lips on her, giving her mouth to mouth. Her lips were so cold, as was her face. After a minute or to he started doing repetitions. He hoped with all his heart that she would wake up. He heard a small crack. He stopped for a minute but couldn't figure out what it was. He thought while he waited of the time only a few months ago when she had saved his life, after the explosion. He again, breathed into her, hoping her body would restart.

She started to cough. A gigantic wave of relief hit John. He held her in his arms as she coughed, so she would not choke on the water she had already swallowed. He sighed as her body trembled in his arms. After a minute she managed to finally ask.

"What took you so long?"

His answer was, "I had to fix my hair."

"I guess we're even now on saving each other."

"Ah no I saved you from the blast, then you saved me, and now I saved you again. You owe me now." He said as he moved her back looking into her emerald eyes. "Whatever you say," she said with a small smile.

"Come on," he said trying to help her up, "You already have a cold. Sitting here soak and wet isn't going to make you feel any better."

"I can't get up," she said hesitantly. John looked at her curiously. "My side hurts when I move. I can't get up."

"Did you hit anything on the way down?" John asked as he bent down to examine her side.

"I don't think so," she said as she winced through the pain as John touched her side.

"Sorry," he said as he placed his hand reassuringly on her side. "You cracked a rib."

"How?" she said now shivering from the cold and the pain.

"Actually, I think I might have done it," he said guiltily, "When I was giving you CPR, I heard a crack. It was probably your rib."

"You cracked my rib!?" Shay asked surprised.

"Yeah. I'm sorry Shay I didn't mean t..." he began but she interrupted him.

"You saved my life, but you cracked my rib," She said angrily between gasps "Well... I guess we're even after all," she said with a smile, "After you carry me to the plane."

John smiled and picked up Shay carefully as not to do more damage. He was relieved that she was okay. Nothing would have made him happier, he thought while walking towards the Javelin. Not even one million dollars. Not even one million Oreos? Asked a familiar voice in his head.

"No!" John said angrily, and Shay just laughed.

"You know what Shay?" he asked her softly.

"Mm, What?" she replied looking up at him wide eyed.

He stopped walking and leaned close. "You're damaged goods."