Robin:

When Kid Flash called for me and Conner to go help him, I had no idea what to expect.

What could be going on for Kid Flash to sound so panic stricken? Conner and I ran to the med area and burst into the room. Artemis was struggling with Wally, her hand and wrist dripping blood.

"What's wrong KF?" I asked, trying to access the situation.

"Help me hold down Artemis!" Wally told me. Conner grabbed her around the waist and Wally grabbed the hand that was bleeding.

"What happened?" I demanded.

"She's cutting herself!" Wally told me, his eyes full of disbelief.

"Artemis?" I was astonished, "Why?" I tried to force the disappointment out of my voice.

She didn't answer me. Wally had some gauze and disinfectant in his hand. He was attempting to disinfect the cut on her hand. She's going to need stitches, I thought. I took the gauze from him and started to wrap up her wrist. Artemis had been so strong. What got her to start cutting? Why was she cutting? Why didn't she tell us? So many questions ran through my head, but right now I new that I needed to take care of Artemis before I started asking her to many questions. I started with the basic ones.

"How long have you been cutting?" I asked her gently, trying to get a better look at her wrist and arm. She didn't answer me. I saw her other wrist and the cuts on the back of that one. I grabbed her right wrist and gently brushed my gloved hand over the scars. "Have you been cutting anywhere else?" She still didn't answer me. "Will we need to do a strip search?"

I didn't want to have to do that to her, but I had to know. I had to know what she was doing, how bad the damage was, before I could start to come up with a way to fix it. She started to violently fight against Conner's grip, but he held fast. She finally stopped fighting and let out a angry, dry sob.

"Wally, go get M'Gann and notify Aqualad about what is happening," I told Kid Flash. While he was gone I finished wrapping up Artemis's wrist and started on her hands. Soon Wally was back.

I could hear Aqualad's feet on the ground and Artemis let out another, although quieter, sob.

"What is going on?" Aqualad asked.

"Artemis seems to be cutting herself. We need M'gann to check the rest of her body to see if she's cutting else where," I told the Atlantian.

"Artemis?" Aqualad looked at her. Artemis wouldn't look up. She tried to get free from Conner again, but it didn't work.

M'gann came forward and took Artemis' uninjured hand. She looked at Conner assuredly and he released his hold on Artemis. M'Gann led Artemis behind one of the curtained areas in the med area. The only thing we boys could do now was wait. The look on Kaulder's face was that of, shock possibly? As if he couldn't believe what was happening. Wally wore a matching frown.

M'Gann came out and i took a step forward to ask about Artemis's injuries. But she shook her head and asked Wally to go get some pajamas from Artemis's room. Wally left and was back in just a few seconds.

"Her room is trashed," Wally whispered to Conner, Kaulder, and I.

M'gann brought Artemis the sweat pants and loose t-shirt. She spent a little bit longer behind the curtain, probably helping Artemis get dressed. Finally she threw the curtain back and we approached.

"She has scars on the back of both wrists it seems and cuts up and down her legs," M'gann told us, looking at Artemis oddly.

Artemis sat down on the bed and pulled her knees to her chest. She wouldn't look any of us in the eye.

"Can I talk to her alone?" Wally asked us.

I looked to Kaulder and then at the rest of the team. Aqualad nodded and we all left.

"She's going to need stitches," I told Kaulder.

"We will deal with that after Kid Flash has talked to her and she has calmed down.

"I feel so useless!" M'Gann suddenly said. I could only nod.

Afterwards I didn't pay much attention to what was going on. I barely even paid attention when the rest of the team asked me a question. I let my subconscious answer.

I didn't notice it. I was the protege of BATMAN! He knows EVERYTHING! He probably even knew about Artemis's cutting. But I didn't know. Why didn't I know? She's not only my teammate, but my friend. We live in the same city, we go to the same school, not that she knows that. I should have seen it!

This was my fault. Wait! I shouldn't see this that way. She hid it from us so well. Just because I didn't notice didn't necessarily mean it was my fault. Besides, the rest of the team would probably be thinking along that line.

"We need to help her," Kaulder said.

"But how?" M'Gann asked, un-shed tears glinting in her eyes.

"Maybe with time we will find out," Kaulder said.

I nodded again.

Kid Flash:

I sat there and held the crying Artemis in my arms. Usually if one of my friends were sad, I'd try to cheer them up with a joke, but I couldn't think of any to help Artemis's situation.

"Shhh," I told her, rubbing her back.

When I thought she wasn't paying attention, I kissed the side of her head. She just kept on crying. I started rocking myself back and forth, rocking Artemis with me. She started calming down a little.

"Do you wanna talk about it?" I asked her.

"I don't know," She told me. She started scratching at her wrist.

"Don't mess with that," I told her. "You may need stitches."

She didn't say anything.

"You're gonna be okay, Beautiful," I told her, rubbing her shoulder.

I looked down at her and saw her half smile.

Suddenly I heard stomping outside of the door and it burst open.

"Artemis, I need to talk to you," I looked over and saw Green Arrow glaring at the crying girl in my arms. She tensed up.

"Right now might not be a good time," I tried to tell him, holding Artemis holding her closer to me.

"I need to talk to her right now," He responded and stomped away.

'He's my uncle," She said, but she didn't sound to convincing, "I guess I should follow him." She pulled away.

She sounded sad.

"You don't need too," I told her, immediately.

"I don't have a choice," She said. She wrapped her arms around her and followed her uncle out of the room.

Robin entered soon after she left. "I saw Green Arrow," He told me.

"He wanted to talk to Artemis," I told him. "But how did he find out so soon? She just barely told us."

Robin was quiet. "I think Aqualad told him," He confessed.

I got angry. "Why would he do that?! She doesn't need to get a lecture so soon after what just happened."

"You're angry," Robin observed, smirking a little.

"Hell yeah I am!" I said, glaring at him.

"But why?" He asked me.

"What do you mean?"

"Remember Biaylia?"

"Yes?"

"And how you two were really close before you remembered?"

I was quiet for a while. "Yeah, so?"

"And then when we had that false mission not to long ago?" He asked me.

"What are you trying to get at?" I finally demanded.

"You like her!" He said, smiling.

I sighed. "Maybe I do," I told him.

"That's good," He told me.

"What?" I asked, confused.

"She's going through a hard time right now. She needs someone to be there for her. And if you like her, you would be perfect."

"How would I be perfect?" I asked him.

"You would be kind and gentle to her. You would be there for her through think and thin. She needs someone to be beside her. She's going to have a rough couple of weeks," he told me.

"What if she doesn't want me to be with her through this 'thick and thin'?" I asked him.

"I think she will," He told me.

"How can you be so sure?" I asked him, raising my eyebrow.

"I'm Batman's partner and son. I know everything," He laughed.

I sighed. "Whatever."

I got up and left to find Artemis. Then I stopped. It had occurred to me that she may have hidden knives in her room and that was why it was trashed. She must have been so desperate to find it that she tore her room apart looking for it. Before ditching the idea and going to the med area for he scalpel.

I went to her room and looked at the mess. I didn't know when she would be back. Robin stopped beside me.

"What are you doing?" He asked me.

"Artemis might have hidden knives in her room. We need to find them and get rid of them so she doesn't start hurting herself again," I told him.

"I never thought of that. Good work KF," He told me.

"We may need to clean her room at wherever she lives in case she has knives there too. But I don't know where she lives," I told him.

"You take care of her room here. I'll deal with the rest," Robin told me.

I looked at him. "Okay, I trust you," I finally told him.

He disappeared and I entered Artemis's room. I started cleaning it up. I went through her drawers and checked under her bed and between her covers. I found at least two. I didn't know how many more she might have, but I decided to leave it at that.

I heard running and crying. I knew it was Artemis. She burst into her room.

"What are you doing?" She demanded, tears streaming down her face.

I held up the two knives. "I'm trying to make sure you don't start hurting yourself again."

"Give me those!" She shouted and lunged at me.

I side stepped her. "No. You're going to thank me later. Right now, we need to look at your wrist and hand."

"Why?" She asked.

"I think you're going to need stitches. Now we can either do it the easy way where you don't fight me and it's over nice and easy, or we can do it the hard way where we will inevitably need to knock you out. What do you want?" I asked her.

She just turned away from me and curled up on the ground.

"Artemis," I said, kneeling down beside her. "I care about you. I don't want you to hurt yourself anymore. Please, let me help you," I pleaded with her.

She just looked at me and held out her arms. I took that as a sign of cooperation and picked her up bridal style. She wrapped her arms around my neck and I slowly walked back to the med area.

I prayed to whatever form of God that was listening that I would be able to help Artemis.

AN:

Well, I think that went rather well, don't you? I've realized that I'm probably gonna be able to write this better from Artemis's point of view since I've dealt with cutting myself, but maybe from one of the others' point of view since I also had a friend or two that was cutting. I don't really know what will happen yet. I just know that I will probably be doing more of this from Artemis's point then the others, though I'll try to do some of Wally too. I just love this couple. And thank you too Loresign for giving me so many good ideas. And thank you to anyone else who is reading it:)

3 LynDea