Hey, Dawn here! I know I should be working on YJL and WtJ but I have a good reason! You see, I actually have been working on both but they both seem a little... dry? So I'm working with that and found the prompt for this on the YJ Anon Meme on Livejournal. Both of my works in progress are being written so sit back and relax while reading this one :)

The prompt: So I want a rewrite of those end scenes (if not the whole episode) with a more realistic approach to the situation. Someone needs to panic over Kaldur and Robin, and someone needs to give Robin CPR. Kid Flash needs to show more reaction towards his best friend's near-death experience. Also, it doesn't make sense that they're all perfectly fine immediately afterwards, so work something out for that too, okay?
I know I said realistic, but a touch of KF/Robin doesn't hurt anyone, right? But I'm good with gen too!

Disclaimer: Anything you recognize, I don't own.

Warnings: Near death and cursing.


"I surrender," The words echoed strangely and sounded wrong coming from her mouth. Artemis didn't like giving up, even if it was just pretend like it was then. "Stop the clock."

Her eyes flickered to Kaldur, and her heart leapt into her throat. Was he…? Was M'gann…? Kaldur rolled over and looked at her with disbelief and Artemis was momentarily relieved that he was still awake until she realized how much effort it must have taken. The archer gulped and her eyes find Robin, who was so still (this is the first time she hasn't seen him moving and it was oh so wrong) and her breath caught when she couldn't tell if his chest was moving. She wanted to rush over there and check but she knew she had to go through with her plan. Wait just a minute, Robin…

Finally, her eyes roamed to Wally and Conner, who were chin deep in water and it was rising fast. Artemis forced herself to look away and back at the Reds. Focus, Crock. Artemis held her bow out in front of her and continued walking towards the robots. As soon as she got close, she stared into their red eyes. The male robot (Red Hurricane? Red Water?) held out his hand and Artemis smirked.

Suddenly, she jumped, kicking Red Hurricane in the chest. The female one (Artemis decided to call her Lady Red- and god she sounded like Robin did- does) blasted a stream of fire at her. Artemis kicked her in the face to avoid the flame; using her as a leverage point to flip backwards and simultaneously drew her metal arrow. She strung it quickly and shot it at the EMP emitter.

She held her breathe as the water completely encompassed Wally and Conner, hoping it would work. Her heart stuttered as Kaldur collapsed again and the arrow hit bull's eye, right under the transmitter. Artemis almost fainted with relief as the thing flared to life. The two robots fell and the water started to recede. The flame prison dissipated and cool air and moisture returned to Kaldur and M'gann.

"Kaldur? How's M'gann?" Conner called out, looking up towards his girlfriend and his teammate. Kaldur pushed himself up and looked down at his Martian friend.

"She breathes. I believe she will recover," Kaldur informed them his chest heaving.

"Are you okay, Kal?" Artemis asked, her eyes wide with worry trying to calm her raring emotions. Kaldur nodded though he laid back down, trying to reclaim his breath.

"Robin?" Wally cut in, "Is Robin okay?" Artemis' heart stopped.

"Robin!" She exclaimed as she turned around and fell to her knees beside her fallen comrade. The archer placed one hand on his chest as her other hand fumbled around for a pulse. The rest of her team waited with baited breath.

"He's-He's not breathing!" Artemis cried out, her hand clenching the fabric on the Boy Wonder's chest. Horror filled her up, Robin, her little brother Robin, wasn't breathing! He couldn't be dead!

"What?" Wally called out, his voice filled with fear. Artemis' training kicked in and soon she was pumping away at Robin's chest.

"It's not working!" She cried out, as she swooped down on the boy. She felt like she was defiling him as she pinched his nose and blew hard into his mouth but she knew it was the only way she could possibly save him. This process was repeated several times over and Artemis was beginning to become frantic until finally, Robin sputtered up water. Artemis turned his head to the side so that he wouldn't choke on it as it left his lungs.

The Boy Wonder glanced around the room and looked at her before giving her a shaky grin, "Way to get traught." He coughed once again and started wheezing.

"Don't say anything, moron! You were-you weren't breathing…" Artemis trailed off, her eyes tearing up before she threw her arms around the acrobat, "Don't scare us like that again, got it?" She scolded, crying into the younger boy's chest.

"Yes, ma'am," He replied with a tired grin.

"What she said!" Wally threw in, his voice filled with relief. Robin tried to sit up but ended up falling back with Artemis catching him.

"Are the others okay?" He asked, turning to throw a worried glance at M'gann (who was finally regaining consciousness) and Kaldur (who was still struggling to regain his regular breathing, but not as bad as before).

"I think you were the worst off, my friend," Kaldur told the young teen. Robin shrugged like he hadn't been dead for a whole two minutes.

"You don't look too good yourself, Kal," The Boy Wonder grinned. Kaldur gave the barest hint of a smile and pushed himself to his feet.

"Umm, should you really be doing that?" Artemis asked, her brow crinkling in worry. The Atlantean shook his head and pulled M'gann to a standing position. The two hobbled towards the stairs and Artemis groaned. Robin started struggling in her arms, wanting to join them. Artemis sighed, knowing she couldn't stop any of her extremely stubborn teammates and opted to help the youngest up.

The blonde half walked, half carried the Boy Wonder down the steps (though she was sure he wouldn't admit it later). When they got to the bottom they saw M'gann sitting on the ground leaning up against the still bound Conner and Kaldur leaning against the wall. Wally brightened up considerably when he saw Artemis set Robin on the floor.

"Robin!" Wally cried out, "You're alive!"

"Course I am," Robin grinned, leaning against Artemis' legs heavily, "A little water isn't going to hurt me." Instead of agreeing like Robin expected Wally to, the speedster became uncharacteristically serious.

"Don't say stuff like that! You were dead for like two minutes!"

"Only two minutes though," Robin rolled his eyes.

"That's a long time for a speedster, D-Robin, you know that," Wally huffed looking down. Robin's face softened and Artemis had the urge to look away.

"I'm fine, Wally, thanks for worrying though." The Boy Wonder grinned again and the speedster flushed.

"Well, Robin's doing better and so is M'gann, so what about you, Kal? You've been quiet," Wally called out to his leader. The Atlantean looked up in surprise.

"I am doing fine, I wasn't in as bad shape as M'gann and Robin," Said acrobat snorted.

"You still look like a breeze could knock you over," He snarked but instead of being offended Kaldur smiled, knowing that that was a Bat's insane way of saying 'You don't look so good, get better.'

"Well, now that that is over, how the hell do we get out of this metal prison?" Conner asked, looking up from where he had been conversing with M'gann.

"A laser?" Artemis suggested before realizing that the EMP wave was still in effect.

"Maybe I can be of some assistance, what has happened here?" A voice came from the Zeta Tubes. They turned to see Red Tornado gliding to them.

"A little visit from your family," Robin said and Artemis huffed.

"You're extremely nasty family!" She exclaimed, glaring at the robot. If Red Tornado had any eyebrows, he would've raised them.

"I was not aware I had relations," He said calmly, floating towards his fellow robots. Red began explaining where he was but Artemis was distracted by Rolly pulling itself out of the hole in the wall.

"Hey, boy," Conner sighed.

"The pulse has worn off!" Robin and Wally exclaimed together.

Red Tornado had bent down and barely brushed his finger against Lady Red's before her eyes burned red. Red Tornado turned around and immediately created three tornadoes, sucking the air out of the room before the Team could comprehend what was going on. The ones who were free grabbed at their throats, Robin collapsing first with M'gann and Kaldur soon after. Artemis' eyes went wide and her gaze met Wally's before she fell to the floor and the boy's slumping in their prison.

It could have been minutes later or it could have been hours when Artemis was shaken awake to find Superman looming over her. She sat up and glanced around the room, gripping her head.

"She's all right," Superman called out as Artemis laid her eyes on Wally and Conner, who at this point were nearly out of the metal binds. Kaldur was slowly being roused by a worried Aquaman and M'gann was leaning heavily against her uncle. Robin was surprisingly awake also, laughing softly at the look on Wally's face as the laser got closer to his person.

Artemis wasted no time in asking, "Is everyone alright?" Superman looked slightly surprised but he nodded.

"We're cool," Conner called out, though his eyes were fixed on M'gann's form, "Well, mostly," He allowed himself to smirk as he met Artemis' gaze and glanced back at Wally, who had a frightened look on his face.

"Kal? M'gann?" The archer asked.

"I'll be fine, just tired." M'gann responded, smiling softly.

"As am I," Kaldur agreed, "It is Robin we should worry about." Robin stopped laughing as over half the eyes in the room turned to stare at him, with Batman's being the most piercing.

"Guys, I'm fine," He tried to brush it off; "It was just a little water." The Boy Wonder used Batman's cape to pull himself up and spread his arms out as if to show he was fine. After trying to walk towards Wally (stumbling all the way) he almost collapsed as he started rubbing his chest. The speedster, who had just been broken out of the binds, blurred over to steady him.

"Because drowning is 'just a little water'." Wally snorted when Robin calmed himself, though he didn't remove his arms from around his best friend's shoulders.

Batman's eyes narrowed, "Explain." He commanded glaring at the group and Artemis realized the others must not have been awake much longer than she had. The archer wanted to answer but the Dark Knight's glare made her want to keep the information from him in fear of what he would do if he found out what happened.

It was Wally who finally answered with, "This idiot decided it would be a good idea to nearly drown."

"But I didn't drown," Robin pointed out and Wally huffed.

"Uh, actually, you kinda did. I'm pretty sure not breathing counts as drowning." The redhead reprimanded and Robin stuck his tongue out at him.

"He wasn't breathing," Batman said in a low voice, his gaze trained on his protégé.

"I'm fine!" Robin exclaimed.

"Artemis had to administrate CPR for two minutes before he finally started breathing again." Batman had gone still and the room had gone silent before suddenly, the Dark Knight swooped over and scooped up his partner.

"Hey!"

"I'm taking him to the Medical Bay in the Watchtower," Batman told his colleagues as he swept towards the Zeta Tubes. Artemis would've laughed at the sight of Robin being cradled like a little kid if the scenario wasn't so serious. A hand on her shoulder startled her out of her thoughts. She looked behind her to see Green Arrow looking at her with concern.

"Will he be okay?" Wally asked, breaking the silence. Flash sped to his nephew's side and swung an arm around his shoulder.

"I'm sure he'll be fine, kiddo, he probably just needs some rest," The Scarlet Speedster told his sidekick. Wally looked far from reassured but let it go for the moment.

"Now," Martian Manhunter cut in, "You all need your rest."

"I want to know if Robin is okay!" Wally exclaimed with Artemis nodding along with him.

"You are all tired and it's been a long day for you all, get some rest. Asphyxiation causes lethargy and you all need your rest. You shall report the full events when you wake up tomorrow and then you can check on Robin." The older Martian explained, picking up his own niece.

"He's right, you know," Green Arrow said, guiding Artemis towards to Zeta Tubes.

"But what about the Mountain? And Red Tornado?" Wally burst out and Flash ruffled his hair.

"Leave that to us," And with that, the two blurs disappeared from the Mountain. Green Arrow continued to steer Artemis towards the tubes with Aquaman and Kaldur right behind them.

"Oh, before we get ahead of ourselves," Black Canary spoke up for the first time and Artemis just then realized she was there, "Supes, Batman says Conner is going home with you." She smirked and Superman opened his mouth to protest.

"Ah, ah, ah." Green Arrow waggled his finger at his fellow Leaguer, "Batman's word is law. He is the leader, after all." The archer tossed the Kryptonian a meaningful glance before turning back towards Artemis. "Let's get you home. I'm sure your mother is worried."


Well, what dyou think? I'm thinking about making this a twoshot but... I don't know. What do you guys think? Did you like it?

Also, I wanted to tell you, I'm playing around with the idea of writing a prequel to WtJ with Dick and his journey from his parents death to meeting the JLA. It's gonna be called It's Just Us (geddit?) so keep a look out for it!

~Dawn