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A/N: You guys don't like me anymore do you? I only got one review from my anonymous reviewer, and everyone else ignored me! Please feed my mind with anything about my story that you have on yours. And to anyone whose story I have reviewed in the past, I'm sorry I haven't been reviewing. My computer is being a pig-head and won't let me submit a review. I might be able to review this weekend at my dad's but I'm not sure if I can after that.

Chapter Four: Guilt

The Titans stood around not being able to sit still, the only noise in the house came from the ticking of the clock Aqualad paced back and forth the other Titans watched him starting to get annoyed.

"Would you stop it!" Speedy shouted getting up from his position leaning against the wall. Aqualad didn't say anything but glared at him; Speedy knew Aqualad blamed him for Athana getting hurt. He trusted him, he thought Speedy could protect Athana from anything that could have happened, then again no one expected lightening to hit the Tower while they were up there. Speedy looked away from him and back at the infirmary door. He felt horrible that Athana had been hurt this bad when all he got was a broken leg. He stood up on his crutches and walked down the hall, the other Titans didn't stop him, they knew how he felt; but that still did help Aqualad's anger at him.

Bumblebee walked out into the hall, she didn't ask where Speedy was; she didn't want him to see Athana in the condition she was in. Aqualad looked at her immediately, she nodded, "She's out cold, but she's stable. You can see her if you want." Aqualad was hesitant but soon walked into the room. He looked at her face on the verge of tears; there were bruises and cuts all over it. Her hair was tangled and he could see her arm was broken and he could see a bandage around her ankle.

"Her ankle wasn't hurt in the explosion, the cut on it looked old," Bumblebee said walking up behind him, "I put medicine on it but it looked infected. I don't know where it came from."

"It doesn't matter," he said quietly, "As long as she turns out ok." Bumblebee put her hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry, she will," she said.

Speedy walked through town on his crutches, his bow slung over his shoulder. The Titans probably thought he was in his room; he didn't care if they were worried, not right now at least. He sighed looking ahead into the night sky; how could he let her get hurt? He was right there, if he had gone out from under the awning he could have protected her, but he only cared about his hair getting wet. It was completely his fault.

An old man helped him get one of his crutches out from a mud puddle from where it was stuck. He thanked him coldly and continued to walk down the wet street. The rain had stopped since he left the Tower but puddles remained on the streets.

"I'd give anything for it to be me on the bed instead of her," he mumbled. He turned around as he heard something move behind him.

"I can make that happen," he heard a voice say he turned around to see Sage; "You let the girl get hurt didn't you? She should be the walking around here on those crutches not you. You should be in that bed."

"How do you know about her?" Speedy shouted, "And how did you get out of jail?"

"That's not important," Sage said, "And as much as I love to talk to you, aren't you going to try and fight me? Or are you afraid you'd get hurt? You're hair is already soaking."

"I'm not afraid of anything," Speedy said getting his box ready. He tried to shoot the arrow but when he did he fell to the side making the arrow shoot past Sage with much room to spare.

"Really," Sage said not bothering to attack him back, "You looked pretty nervous while you were waiting to hear about her."

"Stay away from her!" Speedy shouted standing up.

"Well that would be hard, she's a very fascinating person," Sage said calmly, "There's so much to her life, so many secrets." He smiled as Speedy tried once again to hit him, "I have to go, you look tired." Before he could get up Sage was gone. He felt a hand on his shoulder and he spun around.

"Speedy, are you ok? We've been looking all over for you," he saw Bumblebee behind him.

"I'm fine," he said coldly.

"Well I think you should know that Athana's going to be ok," she said.

"She wouldn't be hurt at allif it weren't for me," he mumbled.

"Speedy it wasn't you're fault, no one expected for it to happen," she said, "Now come on let's get back to the tower." They started off, she picked up her communicator, "I found him guys, he's alright," she looked at him, "What were you thinking, just walking out like that? Not only did you worry us to death, but you could have been hurt, I don't think you can fight on those crutches."

"Thank you mom," he said, "And I know I can't."

"What?" she asked looking at him.

"Sage is out of prison," he said, "Don't ask me how. He seems to know a lot about Athana."

"I want to know how he got out so quickly," she said, "It's been just a little over a week."

"Like I said, don't ask me," he said, "He didn't even bother to attack me, and he still got away."

"Relax," Bumblebee said, "There's no way you could have fought on those crutches. We'll get him, now come on."

Speedy looked at Athana, the guilt he felt rising, "I'm so stupid."

"Yeah you are," he heard someone say; he turned around to see Aqualad.

"Look I already know you blame me," he said, "And I feel guilty enough, so if you could just lay off."

"I didn't come in here to blame you for this," he said, "I came to see if you were alright."

"Oh yeah, I'm fine," he said looking back at her, "She only been out of it for about two days."

"Speedy, if I can relax, you should be able to," Aqualad said, "It wasn't you're fault."

"You guys keep saying that," he said, "It's going to take some time for me to get over this, even after she wakes up. If she does."

"She will don't worry," Aqualad said going towards the door; he turned around before leaving, "and don't worry about Sage either, he can't hurt her as long as she's with us."

"I know he won't," he said as Aqualad closed the door, leaving him alone with Athana. He set down his crutches and sat down next to her bed, "I won't let her get hurt again." He yawned, and looking at her fell asleep.

When Speedy woke up the next day he could see someone had placed a blanket on him, he looked over to his side and saw that one of his crutches was missing. He picked up the crutch that was left and turned around to see Athana in the door way, she could barely walk and still looked pretty bad but she was ok and that's all that mattered to him. She smiled at him and walked over to him on the crutch and sat on the bed giving him the crutch back.

"You're ok," he said quietly looking at her.

"I woke up soon after you fell asleep," she said, "I was out of it for awhile but I think I'm better now, still weak, but better."

"I'm just glad you're ok," Speedy said, "I'm so sorry I let you get hurt."

Athana looked at him concerned, "That wasn't you're fault," she said, "You couldn't have done anything about it."

"So I've heard," he said, "But that doesn't make me feel any better. This just hasn't been a good week for me, you got hurt and I let Sage get away."

"Sage got out of prison?" she asked alarmed. Speedy nodded not saying anything. He kept forgetting that Athana missed that, and while the other Titans were out looking for Sage, he was constantly making sure that Athana was ok. He promised himself he wouldn't let anything else happen to her, and so far he hadn't.

"I'm going to be fine; I'm not one to give up that easily," she said, "I'm a strong girl." She smiled, Speedy looked up at her, and even seeing her bruised and cut face, he could help smiling; she was ok.

A/N: Well another chapter, I would have had Athana out for the next chapter but I needed for her to be awake, so alive she is. Now I'm not sure but I think there may be a problem with Fan fiction's reviewing system because I couldn't review on my dad's computer either, so if you can't review signed in you can always be anonymous, using you penname so I know who you are of course.