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"Get some rest; we'll talk later, okay?" Robin ordered.
"'m fine." She mumbled, eyelids halfway shut as she tried to look at him.
"Rocket, I'm serious." He replied. "The room is all yours, I know it must have been a long trip from Dakota."
"Robin…" She leaned against the wall. "I will rest when I find out what the Light wants."
"That's going to have to wait, go on. They're not going anywhere." He told her.
"Unfortunately." She snapped. "Fine, just make sure you wake me up." She stepped into the room, the door shutting behind her.
An empty room, save for the bed. The dark skinned teen soundlessly crawled onto the bed, hoping for dreamless sleep to overcome her.
She never expected to relive her worst memory.
"Well, well, well," A sinister voice spoke out from the darkness.
The young girl groaned, clutching her lower abdomen to keep anymore blood from spilling on the cold hard floor.
"I never really expected to see your face back here, girl." The woman sneered, looking down at the girl.
"G-go… go to… h-hell," The girl managed to spit out, glaring up at the woman.
The woman leaned down, pointing the gun at the other girl's head. "Not before you, my dear."
The girl shut her eyes tightly, expecting the end to come in seconds.
It never came.
The woman smirked. "On second thought, why let your suffering end?"
"Y-you… will pay," She growled up at her.
"Oh, Rocket," The woman feigned concern. "Have you not heard? The only one paying here is you, for being so trusting."
"W-what are you…" Her eyes widened visibly as another figure appeared behind the woman.
The boy she'd recognize anywhere and everywhere.
"Aqualad…"
"Kaldur'ahm," The woman turned to him. "Come, we have bigger things to attend to. Our little traitor has been dealt with."
"N-no…" Rocket whispered, almost inaudibly. "No, y-you're the mole?"
He didn't respond, his cold hard gaze answer enough for her.
"How could you?" She screeched. "You son of a bitch! We trusted you!" A sob escaped her shaking lips.
"Of course you trusted him," Queen Bee grinned. "He was your leader, after all. Did you honestly think that he was kidnapped? He's too good to let that happen, we all know that. It was all staged. You came here for nothing."
"W-why?" She demanded, betrayal evident in her words. "WHY?"
The woman looked down at the bloody girl. "Because it was his mission, that's why."
"We will catch you," She whispered, her eyelids drooping slightly. "I swear to God, we will. You can't hide from us."
"We don't plan too." With that said, she turned to one of the guards standing by the metallic door. "Round up some of the other men and take her somewhere she'll recover, somewhere away from here, where she won't be a bother. And make sure she's still alive, she's not useful to any of us dead."
The man nodded, running off – gun in hand – to follow her orders. "What do we do about the others, my queen? The others must have been tracking her." Kaldur asked.
"They were not." The woman smiled back at Rocket. "They could not risk exposing her."
"Are you sure?" He asked in concern.
"I am sure, Kaldur'ahm." She replied.
Rocket turned her body to face them both again, letting out a gasp of pain. It was becoming increasingly difficult for her to move. "K-kaldur…"
She didn't notice the guilt in his eyes, or the look Queen Bee gave him as she whispered to him – words that at first Raquel had not been to decipher. Only now was she realizing what was said. "Are you sure this is your choice, boy? She could die believing you are a traitor."
He nodded. "I am sure." But even as he said the words a hint of uncertainty crossed his features. "It is necessary."
"Kaldur'ahm." The woman turned to gaze once more at the girl, her chest's rise and fall decreasing in speed by each passing moment. "Go with my men, I will give you your assignment when you return. Make sure she is safe."
"But, my queen-" He objected.
"No." She cut him off, leading him to kneel down besides the girl. She placed a gentle hand on the girl's cheek, feeling the sweat rolling down the girl's skin. "You are lucky, Rocket."
The girl couldn't reply, even breathing was becoming impossible as she felt the pool of blood around her grow in size.
"You have a second chance to live, don't be so trusting next time." Without another word, the woman stood up and turned back to the Atlantean. "She is your responsibility now, Kaldur'ahm…" She didn't remember the rest.
He nodded, his reply lost in a memory better forgotten… but now, now that she was back with him; she remembered his exact words. "Whatever it takes, I will give my life to protect hers."
"Rocket?" A panicked voice asked. "Rocket, please! We know you're still in there somewhere, please open your eyes!"
"It's no use, she's lost a lot of blood." The Boy Wonder's voice whispered. "It'll take a while before she's up and talking again."
"Who could have done this to her?" The other voice asked.
"Best guess? Queen Bee." The speedster's voice growled. "Artemis must have tipped them off about her."
"Artemis wasn't the mole, KF!" The little bird snapped.
"Then who else was it?" He demanded.
"Whoever it was, we won't know anytime soon." The voice told them both.
"Zatanna, open your eyes. Why else would have betrayed us like that? Who else do you think gave them Kaldur?" The speedster demanded.
"H-he…"
"Rocket!" Zatanna yelled, running to the girl's side.
"Are you okay?" Robin asked. "Any pain?"
"No… 'm fine…" She mumbled, attempting to get up off the hospital bed.
"Hey, hey. Don't make any sudden movements." M'gann's voice told her, the martian putting a comforting hand on her arm. "You'll mess with the stitches."
"Stitches?" She groaned. "W-where am I?"
"STAAR Labs, you were moved here after we found you in some Japanese Hospital all wounded." Wally replied. "We should have never sent you in there."
"You c-couldn't have… k-known this was g-going to… happen." She managed to croak out.
"We knew there was a mole, and the mole obviously tipped them off." M'gann whispered.
"Yeah, he did." Rocket's eyes shut tightly.
"He?" Wally asked. "You know who the mole is?"
"I… I do…" She whispered, the tears forming. "I should h-have seen it… I s-should have expected… it was so obvious…"
"Who?" Robin asked.
"Kaldur!" She hissed. "He's not dead and he's not being held hostage like we thought, he's one of them. Not Artemis, or Conner, Aqualad."
"What?"
"No!"
"How?"
"This isn't possible…"
"Shut up!" Robin ordered. "We all need to find out what we're going to do now, the League doesn't know about this."
"They don't have to." Rocket spoke up.
"What are you talking about? Of course we have to!" Wally growled.
"No, she's right." Conner told them. "They'll just lock him up and tell us to stay out of it. Kaldur was one of us, he's out responsibility."
"So what do we tell them?" M'gann asked.
"What they already know." Rocket whispered. "Artemis decided to go looking for any sign that Kaldur's still alive and Kaldur… he's missing. In my time undercover, I learned nothing."
"Nothing." Robin agreed.
The others nodded, all mumbling the same word. "Nothing."
"Nothing…"
Her eyes snapped open, the memories all flooding back.
As she turned her eyes to the glass window and she noticed the sun was about to begin setting soon.
She shot up, gasping as she wipes the sweat from her forehead. It felt so real, like she was reliving it all over again.
They kept her alive, they'd made sure she didn't die.
She stood up quickly, grabbing her belt and running to the door. Once she managed to open it she stepped out and ran down the hallway.
The girl found what she was looking for immediately.
Everyone else gathered around the main room, some of them talking and the others wandering around in boredom.
"You." She hissed, her eyes landing on the atlantean.
He looked up to meet her cold gaze, his face betraying no emotion as she walked up to him and pulled him up by the front of his shirt.
"Rocket, what are you doing?" Artemis demanded, trying to pull the girl away to no avail.
Rocket pushed the atlantean against the closest wall, growling. "She kept me alive! She could have let me die but instead she saved me! Why?"
"I do not know what you are talking about."
"You and that… that witch! You kept me – made sure that – I stayed alive, why?" She yelled.
"Because." He whispered.
"Why?" She hissed.
"Because I cared about you!"
"W-what?" She whispered, her grip on him slackening.
"She knew how I felt, and unlike the others… unlike the rest of the Light's members, she saw past me and she saw past you. Do you know what she told me?" He asked, and she could feel his eyes boring into her soul.
She didn't reply, swallowing the lump on her throat.
"She said that for the time you were around, you were like a daughter to her and she did not want to kill you either. And I am glad she decided not to, because I could not have been able to bare seeing you dead. I couldn't even stand seeing you like you were then, I thought you would die."
"And you almost let it happen." She retorted.
He looked down at her. "I am sorry, it was never my intention to let any of you get killed."
"You're not forgiven."
"Rocket, please…" He began.
"We already told you, the Light is back." Artemis replied.
"That's not quite…" The atlantean was cut off by the sound of the tower's main computer coming alive.
"Titans, come in. Someone please, answer!" The girl's panicked face appeared on screen.
"Donna?" Rocket's eyes widened, seeing the girl's current state. She was beaten, and badly.
"Rocket!" The girl's eyes flew to her. "Please, you guys have to help us!"
"What happened?" Robin asked.
"It's them, they attacked." Her eyes were wide in terror. "They got her! They got Zatanna!"
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