A/N: thanks for reading!
Ash and Dani sat at the front bus, because there was no one else except the driver, talking about a math test when something caught the tomboy's attention. She turned around in her seat and pressed her nose up against the glass, only to see a car collide with the bus, sending both her and Dani flying backwards as the rolled once, then twice, landing on its roof. Ash's head was pounding as her vision spun. She could hear Dani's voice, but it seemed so distant.
"Ash? Ash? Ashlynn, can you hear me? Dammit, Ashlynn, say something!" Ash sat up, the left side of her head feeling warm. She put a hand up to her left temple and recoiled when something warm began flowing steadily but slowly through her fingers. Pulling her hand away, she saw blood soaking the sleeve of her sweatshirt. How come it doesn't hurt?
"God damn," Ash muttered, looking around to see if anyone to see if the bus driver was okay. She saw him crawling out through the window, the old bastard! She wanted to yell at him for not seeing if his passengers were safe and sound but felt Dani pulling her across the ceiling of the bus and towards the doors. Dani looked fine: just disheveled. The tomboy assessed the cheerleader as the blonde struggled to open the doors, but managed to without help.
"What happened?" Ash asked, feeling as if she wanted to vomit. Concussion?
"Let's go see," Dani said, stepping out of the overturned bus and turning to help her friend out. That was when Ash saw the blood trickling down into her friend's hair. Oddly enough, she was more concerned with her friend than she was for herself.
"Get your head checked," Ash mumbled as she managed to crawl out and was suddenly looking at the several heroes a little older than her handcuffing some weird dude who had a giant claw-like hand. There was a green girl, a girl dressed in green, a guy in red and yellow...
"Get your own head checked," Dani retorted as siren's filled the girl's ears. Ash saw that a crumpled car had slammed into the bus. So a weird litlte dude that was basically Captain Hook could do that?
"No, you're bleeding," her friend insisted.
"I know," the other sighed, seeing that there was no need to run. Upon seeing the bus driver, who looked fine, the cheerleader, who did charity work and did fund raisers for schools and orphanages, flipped the guy off.
Ash began laughing, clutching her sides as she plopped down next to her. She would have done the same if a certain boy clad in blue and black kneeled next to her with concern all over his face.
"You okay?" he asked her. The green girl came over to them, frowning.
"I'm fine," Ash said. Pointing to the other girl, she said, "she needs a doctor. Her head is bleeding."
"I thought you called me crazy," Dani grinned, "you're head is bleeding too."
Ash tried to stand up, but she just fell on broken glass. Gritting her teeth, she waved the green girl's hands away. "I've gotten way worse," she explained, "skateboarding can give you some nasty scrapes."
"Do you even know who we are?" the boy in red and yellow asked.
Dani squinted at them. "Nope, boys and girls in capes and costumes and masks don't ring a bell." Turning to Ash, she asked, "should it?"
Ash shrugged. A dull throbbing was being felt in her temple, and Ash frowned. "God damn," she mumbled, touching her hand to her head again, and, once again, recoiled as more blood ran down her arm. She didn't like the feeling of wet sleeves. "I..."
"Ashlynn! Danika!" the girls looked up to see both their mothers rushing towards them. Ash's mother, Tori, clad in black leather and combat boots, and Dani's, Helena, in a lawyer's dress suit. Both mother's ran to their daughters and hugged them tightly.
"You stupid girl," Tori chided, ignoring the blood on her expensive jacket, "what did I tell you about riding buses?"
Ash thought a moment. She shrugged. "I feel sleepy, Mom."
"We'll get you to a hospital," Tori promised, worried. Turning to Nightwing, she asked, "well you help her to ambulance?"
Ash felt herself being supported by someone much taller than her and frowned when she realized who was helping her.
Dani's mom was muttering something in a language no one really knew. "I'm fine," Dani kept telling the woman, "I'm fine!"
Ash sat down on the bench and frowned when Nightwing stayed put. "I got blood on you," she said, holding her head in her hands, wanting to vomit very badly.
"So?"
She shrugged.
"Dad," she said suddenly, "where is Dad?"
Tori stormed up to her daughter, fuming. "He's too damn busy to make it here! Ashlynn, do you know what that bastard said to me? He said as long as you're not dead or going to be dead you'll be fine! The nerve of that man! He must be in one of those meetings, or with Celeste."
"Come on," an EMT urged Ash, "we need to get you and your friend moving!"
Ash was laid down on the stretcher and felt her vision clouding.
All she could hear were distant shouts and all she could think was:
When Dad gets here, I am going to kill him.
A/N: Thank you for reading, hope you like Ash so far! :)