Small beeps filled the medical room on the ship. Wally sat with Artemis, watching her face for any sign of waking up. She was breathing, but her blood was still soaking through the bandages. Where was the team? They should be here by now. He knew Klarion was hard but there was no need for them to fight him anymore. They had the amulet so they could just escape from him and get to the ship. So why weren't they here yet?
'Wait, the amulet?'
Suddenly Wally remembered the whole reason for this mission. Glancing back at Artemis he headed outside the ship. He hadn't seen it on her, so maybe she had dropped it in the alleyway. He glanced around before his eyes fell on the pool of blood from earlier. He didn't want to look but... his couldn't seem to tear his eyes away from it. He walked towards it and bent down next to it, looking to see if the amulet was nearby. Nothing. Glancing at his hands, he saw that they were still covered in her blood. He wanted it off. He wanted it off now. It was just a reminder of how he had failed to help his teammate. He jogged back to the bioship and again into the medical room, where he walked over to a small sink. He watched as the water ran red and the blood stained the sink. After he finished he looked down at himself. His costume was covered in blood as well. He looked like someone out of a horror movie. Unfortunately, he knew there was nothing he could do about it.
'There's nothing I can do at all...' He thought miserably.
He sat down next to Artemis' bed again, glancing at her chest every once in awhile to make sure it was still rising and falling. She was so quite. It was strange being around her without a sound filling the air. Normally they would have been arguing about something right now. He missed it. Sure it would be nice to have a civil conversation with her every once in awhile, but their arguments where their way of... well being them. Neither of them actually took any of the arguments to heart. It wasn't really about who was right and who was wrong...well most of the time. By now, the arguments had just become routine. It was their way of showing that they cared. A lot.
'Wait, a lot? By that I mean like the rest of the team...Of course. I care about the whole team a lot...'
Wally had been so lost in his thoughts he hadn't realized he was now holding Artemis' hand again. Earlier he had been so caught up, so when he had done it he barely noticed. It had seemed natural. But now he quickly let go, his face turning bright red. Artemis would probably have smacked him for that. For a second he was glad no one else was here to see that. But then he remembered that he would give anything for one of the others to be here with them and know what to do. He looked at Artemis' face. She was pale. So pale. It wasn't right. She was normally a beautiful tanned colour, and the light of the bioship made her look almost like a ghost. It was just the light right?
'Of course.' He thought, 'She's going to be fine. Everything is going to be fine.'
But of course, the universe loved to prove him wrong. Suddenly Artemis let out a whimper and started shaking. And by shaking, he meant a lot. She was having a seizure!
"Artemis! Artemis, wake up!"
What was he supposed to do? How did you deal with seizures?
"Wally! Wally, can you hear me?"
"M'gann! Where are you guys?!"
"We're on our way. Do you have Artemis with you? Klarion got the amulet and we don't know where she is!"
"We're both on the bioship, but she's in really bad condition and I don't know what to do! She's shaking and...And... I don't know what to do!"
"We're almost there Wally! Just hold on!"
"We have to hurry!" M'gaan said, "It's worse than we thought."
Kaldur, Robin and Superboy, picked up their pace, trying to keep up with Miss Martian, who was flying above them.
Soon they rounded the corner into the alley. Superboy froze for a second. Having enhanced senses, he could smell the metallic blood from the entrance. The others didn't seem to notice that he had stopped until they got closer and could smell the scent. The however, didn't pause and Superboy was now next to them again. M'gann opened the ship and they all entered.
"Miss Martian, start the bioship and set our course for the cave. Robin, you help Wally with Artemis, and I'll contact Red Tornado to tell him to have the medical room at the cave ready so that she can be better treated there."
With that, the team flew into action. Miss Martian had the ship flying within moments. Robin darted to the medical room. He was expecting it to be bad of course, but when he entered, Artemis was on the bed covered in blood and convulsing. That was defiantly worse than he expected. He immediately pushed Wally out of the way and went to work. He knew Wally wasn't very good with this kind of thing and he would only get in the way.
"Go find the others and have Kal help you with your foot." Robin said as he worked.
Wally looked like he was about to protest, but after a glare he from the bat in the room, he reluctantly left. Robin sighed and turned back to Artemis. He had hidden his panic well from Wally, but it was smouldering inside him. She was still convulsing, although less so then she had been at first, and every once in a while she would let out a scared whimper. What was going on? A cut, no matter how deep, shouldn't be causing these types of things. What was going on?
A/N: Hey! I'm back! Sorry I haven't updated in so long... volleyball season started and along with horseback riding and homework it sort of took up all my time. But I'm back! And it's almost Christmas holidays, which means more updates! At least for the first half... the second half I'm going on vacation and I seriously doubt my mom will let me take my computer... Random moment here: Has anyone seen the new Rise of the Guardians? If not, see it. It's seriously super amazing!
ANYWAYS, I can't believe this story has 30 reviews! That makes me unbelievably extremely undeniably positively ecstatically happy! I wanted to apologize for how short my chapters are... I try to make them at least 1000 words each time. Well anyways, please review! They make me so extremely happy!
