Wally waited for Artemis to wake up. The doctors even set up a bed for him beside her. But whatever anyone did he wouldn't take his eyes off her until she woke up. He couldn't if he wanted to. All he saw were the machines hooked up to her and the bloody bandage around her midsection.

The worst part was, he blamed himself. He thought he should've seen Sportsmaster about to strike and at least take the spear for her. Hell, as soon as he saw her hanging upside down he should've jumped into action. Not even caring if Aqualad gave an order to help. He just should've been there to help.

Hours must have passed before anything remotely interesting happened. Occasionally Rob would bring him food and chat with him for a while. Then he would leave again and show up again later. What really peaked his interest was when Zatanna walked in. Wally thought she was off in her room or doing something with the rest of the Team. In all truth she's been staying in the hallway the entire time, Robin also bringing her food.

Zatanna's eyes looked red and puffy from continuous tears streaming down her face. "Hey," she said and pulled up a chair next to him.

"Hi. I thought you were with the Team, not that I object to you being here or anything," Wally spouted out, trying to cover his own ass from saying something completely moronic.

"I was, they're all still out in the hall. They've been taking shifts for sleeping and getting food. Along with most of the Justice League too," Zatanna deadpanned.

"Everyone really cares, huh?"

"Of course. It's a horrible day when a hero dies or even came as close as Artemis did." A whole new barrage of tears started streaming down Zatanna's face.

Wally didn't know what to do with a crying girl. He carefully patted her on the back. "It'll be all right. She'll be all right. She has to be."

Zatanna wiped her eyes and cheeks, looking at Wally. "You really care, don't you?"

"Yeah! Of Course I do. How can I just be okay with losing a teammate?"

"I didn't mean that. I meant that you care for her as more than a teammate."

"Well, yeah, we're all friends on the Team."

"Damn it Wally. Are you that ignorant? I mean do you like her as more than a friend?"

"I-I guess. I mean I can't imagine life without her. All her comebacks at me and the petty arguments we get into. I would miss that, I would miss her." Wally wiped at his eyes in case any tears decided to slip out against his will. He cleared his throat and attempted a more manly answer, "Not to mention somebody needs to cover my ass on the missions."

"Nice save, Wally," Zatanna said sarcastically. She turned her head to look at Artemis and sucked in a breath at the sight that awaited her. She saw a huge red-tinged bandage around her stomach and tubes and machines keeping her alive. It was unbearable. "I should've been able to prevent this."

Wally went wide eyed at the young girl. "Zatanna, you did nothing wrong. Nobody knew the spear was going to explode. If anything, you saved her really. Otherwise the spear would've exploded inside her and there wouldn't have been a chance."

Zatanna launched up from her seat. "If I had saved her than she wouldn't be in the Med Bay hooked up to all these machines that are barely keeping her alive!" She yelled at the top of her lungs, although sounding hoarse from all the crying.

Robin busted into the room along with the rest of the Team, expecting Zatanna's hands to be around Wally's throat. If there had been time, bets would've been placed on how long Wally would last against Zatanna.

Kaldur approached the young girl and put a hand on her shoulder. "Maybe it will be best if we all get some sleep. We do not need to blame ourselves for this, any of us." Zatanna ran out of the room with even newer tears streaming down her face. "M'gann, if you would please calm her down."

Megan nodded and flew out of the room, retracing the path Zatanna took.

Robin took the seat Zatanna was in and placed himself next to Wally. The rest of the Team took his lead, creating a half circle enveloping the end of the bed. Then it was a waiting game. Occasionally one would depart and bring back a tray of food for everyone. Other times somebody would nod off in their chairs and start snoring. Eventually Megan and Zatanna returned and added to the ring around Artemis's bed.

The only thing that kept everyone sane was the constant beeping that showed a constant heart rate for Artemis. If it missed a beep or it accelerated or decelerated the entire group of teenagers would snap to attention and hold their breath until it went back to normal.

Once in a while an adult would come in to check on everyone, whether it be a doctor or a League member. The said adult would ask if everyone was alright, if they needed anything. When the teenagers all monotonously said no they would leave with their heads hung.

Superboy kept his attention on listening to everyone outside the hallway. One time he heard, "It's like they're all catatonic. Until Artemis wakes up they won't behave like themselves." Another time he heard, "They won't even leave the room unless it's for food, how are they to be expected to attend school and go on missions?"

People kept coming and going from the hallway. Leaving multiple get well gifts there; flowers, cards, balloons, stuffed animals, the list goes on. Green Arrow even brought a new set of arrows for a surprise since Artemis lost all of hers when she was flipped, and it would take quite a while for the teen to get the arrows back on her own.

At least two days, borderline three, had passed when Artemis opened her eyes. She took everything in with one glance. She saw the entire Team encircling her bed. Wally was staring at her, Robin was holding Zatanna's hand as she sobbed into his jacket. Rocket was asleep with her head on Kaldur's shoulder. Kaldur was also asleep with his head lolling off the back of his chair. Megan and Connor were sitting very close to each other, cuddled up to one another.

In another second Wally came to the full realization that Artemis had opened her eyes. His mouth dropped and he nudged Rob with his elbow, as if to check that he wasn't the only one seeing this.

Robin smirked, "We were wondering when you would wake up."

The entire group snapped to attention at Robin's words, even the ones sleeping. They all smiled warmly at Artemis, who attempted to smile back but ended up wincing noticeably. Their smiles dropped as they cautiously looked at the broken girl in front of them. All calculating what could be considered safe for them to do without Artemis having to be in pain.

The archer attempted to sit up but was quickly ushered back down by everyone. "Guys, I'm fine."

Rocket scoffed. "Have you looked at your stomach yet?"

Artemis complied and saw a huge red soaked bandage. "How the- When did- What happened?" She finally settled on her question.

Everyone's eyes went wide. "Do you seriously not remember?" Rocket asked.

She tried to recollect all the things that she last remembered from the mission in Star City. "The last thing I remember was Poison Ivy flipping me with that damn tree and then my neck and head hurting pretty badly. I blacked out for anything else. So once again, what happened?" Artemis demanded.

Kaldur did his best to look calm, but his façade was breaking at the seams. "Sportsmaster attacked you. He tried to throw a spear at your abdomen but Zatanna intercepted it just before hitting you. Nobody noticed that he had a button in his hand. When he pressed it the middle of the spear exploded, sending the front half through your stomach."

A single traitorous tear slid down Artemis's cheek. She rasped out, "Dad did this?"

Superboy snapped his eyes even wider at her. "What did you just say?"

Artemis's mouth formed a small "o". "Damn super hearing," She cursed out.

She had to give him credit, he was persistent. "Artemis, what did you say?"

'It's now or never,' she thought to herself. "I said, 'Dad did this.' Happy?"

Everyone started seeing the puzzle snap together before their eyes. Megan wearily approached the subject first. "Sportsmaster… is your dad?"

Artemis sucked in a deep breath, which was very painful, and started explaining. "Yeah, he's my dad. And Cheshire is my sister, and the ex-villainess Huntress is my mom. Now you have my family tree."

Artemis calmly waited for Conner to get pissed, Aqualad to accuse her of trying to sabatouge the entire Team, Zatanna and Megan to revoke their friendships to her, Rocket to start yelling, Robin to accuse her of something else, and for Wally to completely blow up and blame her for every little mistake the team has gone through.

None of that happened though. Robin calmly put his hand on top of hers, "But you're not your family. You never have been."

Artemis stared curiously at Robin, "So you knew this whole time?"

"Duh. I know almost everything about almost everyone on this team. My hacking skills have to be put to use somehow when we're not on missions. Imagine my surprise when I found out KF still sleeps with a teddy bear," Robin chuckled.

"Dude! You said you wouldn't tell anyone about Bear Flash!" Wally squeaked out loudly.

Artemis leaned her head to the side and stared at Wally. "You're teddy bear… is named Bear Flash? Bear-y original, Baywatch." She started laughing as much as she could without completely splitting her stitches.

"Ha-ha Arty." Kid Flash shrunk down in his seat in embarrassment.

Robin leaned over her and whispered in her ear, "It's because of the Flash bottoms the bear wears."

Artemis stuck her head in her hand and tried to control her giggling. "Nice one, Kid Idiot."

Kaldur tried to reel in the laughing teenagers. "Now, back to the original matter. Artemis, why didn't you tell us about your family?"

Her laughter was cut off immediately. "Well, put yourself in my position. Young girl trying to get on a team of heroes who didn't like her much anyways for 'stealing' some other archer's spot, suddenly spilling her secret that her whole family is evil. That wouldn't have worked in my favor."

"As Robin said before, you are not your family. You have proven your usefulness and loyalty to this Team time and time again. None of us have ever doubted you to be as bad as you are making yourself out to be." Kaldur stated calmly.

Another tear fell down Arty's face. "Is that true you guys?"

Everyone nodded, even Wally, who she thought hated her guts.

Wally suddenly shot back up in his chair, remembering one little tidbit that he was put in charge of telling Artemis. "Hey Arty?" He began cautiously.

"Yes Wally?" She asked, deciding to play along for now.

"Um, you know that you have to heal and everything, right?"

"Yeah… Where is this going Baywatch?"

"Well, um, you aren't going to be able to participate in being a hero for a few weeks because of healing," Wally finished quickly, waiting for her to start yelling.

And yell she would. "That is so unfair! A few weeks could mean a month! For a month I have to do nothing but lie around and heal! What kind of bullshit is that!" At the volume she was getting at, it wouldn't be a surprise if the entire mountain heard her.

Batman quickly walked in. "That 'bullshit' is necessary for you to even be able to get near a bow again in your lifetime."

Artemis turned on Batman, not even caring that he was, you know, Batman. "You can't do that! You can't seriously expect me to do nothing while everyone else goes out on missions and does everything that makes a difference! I will not sit around doing nothing! I will not be forced to follow along with this shit!"

Robin turned to his loudmouthed friend and motioned for her to shut up multiple times. Nobody talked to Bats that way, at least if they wanted to keep their major appendages. The rest of the Team was staring at the spectacle before them. They knew she would be pissed, but not yell-at-Batman pissed.

"I admire your dedication to the fight, but you will follow orders to the letter about your health. We can't spare anyone getting injured in a fight when preventative measures could have been taken. The matter is decided," Bats kept his voice low to not alert the other heroes outside of the ordeal. "Do you understand?" Artemis nodded with a scowl on her face.

"Good, now get well soon." Batman dropped an envelope on her bedside table and walked out of the room.

The room was enveloped in silence for a few minutes. Artemis still had her scowl plastered to her face while everyone else stared at her wide eyed and open mouthed.

Robin spoke first. "I wouldn't believe that had happened if I didn't see it."

Then Rocket. "I know. That was either really stupid or really brave."

Next was Zatanna. "I'm going to go with stupid."

After that Kaldur. "I would say it had equal parts of both."

Artemis finally shut them up. "Quit it you guys. I made my argument, which was blatantly rejected. Now can we get on with our lives, the quicker the better."

"He did compliment you though," Robin pointed out. "He also got you a card, you should open it."

"Can I have some help? I have needles stuck in my hands and everything."

Robin reached over and grabbed the envelope, slipping his finger under the sealed flap and tearing the white paper to get to the card on the inside. He pulled out the card that had a little doodle of a bat hanging upside down on the front. Robin opened it and read aloud, "Get well soon, before everyone goes batty. Sincerely, Batman." A smile spread across everyone's face and Wally grabbed for the card.

"It does not seriously say that. There's no way Bats cracked a joke, let alone one about bats." Wally's words fell silent as he read the inside of the card. "Holy shit. Bats cracked a joke about bats. Did you guys know he had a sense of humor?"

Robin plucked the card from Wally's hands and set it back on the bedside table. "He does have a sense of humor, but we wouldn't know because only Wally makes jokes when Batman is around. So no laughing is done."

Everyone gave a quick giggle as more people started coming through the doors. First was Ms. Crock and Jade. Artemis tensed up when she saw Jade. How the hell did she get past Batman and all the other superheroes flooding into the room? Before she could wonder any longer people were grabbing tables and putting flowers and stuffed animals on them while others were tying balloons to chair and table legs. All the cards went into a pile on the bedside table.

Artemis was dumbstruck by how generous everyone was.

Green Arrow was quickly pushing his way to the front of the crowd around her. In his hands was a new quiver fully packed with arrows and little green bows tied to the shafts of each one. "Hey kiddo, I thought you might need new ones for when they finally let you shoot again. I even got you a new kind. Besides the regular, explosive, tracking, knock out gas, net, high-density polyurethane foam, grappling hook, fire, smoke screen, impact, lasso, and adhesive arrows, I also threw in some freezing arrows. One shot and it freezes around the target. So if you shoot it at someone's hand, they suddenly have a hand frozen to a wall or something to that affect." GA carefully set the quiver down on her bedside table next to the growing pile of cards.

"Holy crap! Thanks so, so ,so much GA! I thought it would take longer than my recovery time to get all the different kinds of arrows I had back. And now I even get a new one! If I could hug you, I would."

Wally leaned to Robin and whispered, "Is this what archer's Christmas is like?"

Robin laughed, "You should've seen me when I got my first Batarrang. It was like weaponry heaven."

Wally shook his head, now everyone had to try to top Green Arrow's gift. Which wasn't likely since Arty just offered to hug someone with her own free will still in place.

The entire Team, apart from Wally, set down homemade cards they had written while they were waiting. Those made him feel like a complete asshole for not making one. That's when Robin pulled a second one out with a flash symbol on the front. Robin gave Wally a pen and told him to sign it. The speedster put his speed into action and quickly wrote a short paragraph and signed his name.

Everyone besides the Team left the room saying to return later and to get well soon. The entire Med Bay was filled with assorted gifts. Artemis quickly made a mental reminder to write thank you notes to everyone while she had nothing else to do.

"Can you guys help me read the cards?" Artemis asked gently.

The large pile was quickly divvied up between the seven teenagers as they opened the cards and read them aloud.

Rocket called out. "From Canary. GA got you a quiver full of arrows, I don't know what he was thinking. They're going to make you want to shoot. Get well soon, Black Canary. P.S. When you get back into training you're going to wish you stayed in the Med Bay." Everyone laughed at the message from their combat teacher.

Conner started reading out loud. "From the Flash. Hope you get better in a flash, and that Wally doesn't give you too much trouble. Just tell Batsy if he's getting in the way of your healing time. Sincerely, Flash."

Then Megan took her turn. "This one doesn't say who it's from, hmm. Oh well, the inside says, 'I see-'" Megan suddenly stopped and her green skin turned paler.

"What does it say Megs?" Artemis asked worriedly at her friend's condition.

M'gann covered her mouth, "I can't read it." She passed the card to Robin.

The Boy Wonder adjusted his sunglasses and began reading. "I see you're still alive, to bad my javelin didn't do the job." Everyone's stomach's twisted. Robin forced himself to keep reading. "Those heroes you look up to won't be able to protect you forever. Love, Daddy."

Artemis turned as pale as she was from when she lost most of the blood in her body. "He- He's threatening me."

Robin grabbed his phone in his pocket and pulled it out, dialing in a number. Someone finally picked up on the other end. "Batman. Listen, get back down to the Med Bay, now." Pause. "No, Artemis is fine, kind of. It's about her dad. Just get down here and I'll explain everything." Pause. He flipped his phone shut and went back to staring at the card with the monstrous message inside.

Within minutes Batman was charging through the doors of the Med Bay with Martian Manhunter and Black Canary right on his heels.

Robin held out the card to Bats and he took it immediately. Reading it over with Canary and Martian Manhunter reading it over his shoulders.

Canary cringed back when she finished reading and Manhunter turned still as a statue. Batman's eyes narrowed and it looked like he was trying to use heat vision on the card.

Batman's voice boomed through the room, "Artemis, you do know who this is from right?"

She nodded. "Sportsmaster, my dad." She spat out the words like poison.

Canary walked up to Artemis and held her hand. "We won't let him touch you again. Let alone get near you."

"What about when I'm finally able to go on missions again? He's going to be there and he's set on me being dead."

Canary turned to Bats, "I can assume this just became a League priority. Nobody threatens our own like this without consequences."

Batman gave a solid nod. "An additional League member will be posted in the Mountain at all times, besides Red Tornado who already resides here as a Den Mother."

Artemis's hand was squeezed a little tighter by Canary, "You're going to be alright."

Kaldur respectfully interjected, "I'm sorry, but Artemis is one of our own. The Team's, not the League's. I mean no disrespect, but I believe all of us can agree that we wish to bring Sportsmaster to justice instead of the League."

Everyone nodded, not even hesitating.

"Alright," Batman agreed, "But, and I warn you now. If this spins out of your control the League will step in. Also, an addition member of the League will still be posted at the Mountain as a precautionary measure."

"I will take the first spot." Canary volunteered. "I am sure GA will take the second."

Artemis was feeling better already. She had always thought of Canary and GA like her aunt and uncle, just extended family. Kinda like the Team.

"The matter is settled then. Canary you may stay here at the Mountain until the next person comes to relieve you." Batman left with Martian Manhunter.

Artemis cleared her throat. "Guys, can you please leave me alone for a little while, I just want to get some sleep. I'll be fine."

Canary motioned the others out of the room. "I'll be right outside if you need anything."

"Thanks Canary." Artemis pulled a painful smile onto her face as she shut the door.

With that Artemis started crying and didn't stop until she actually fell asleep.

A/N: Yup, Arty isn't dead…. Yet! Just kidding! Any-who, thanks for the reactions on the first chapter, continue reviewing, please, so I know I'm heading in the right direction with this! I couldn't leave you hanging with just that first part anyways, hope you liked it.