When the team arrived, Artemis was already awake. How could she not be? They were like a herd of elephants coming down the hallway.
As soon as M'gann and Robin saw that she was up, they both ran over and hugged her. Artemis laughed.
"We were so worried about you!" M'gann said.
"Well I'm fine aren't I?"
"Only because of my awesome first aid." Robin joked.
Artemis grinned as Wally started to argue that, had he not been there, Robin wouldn't have been able to give her first aid, so technically he had been the one to save her.
"We are very glad that you are alright." Kaldur said.
He had sat next to her, ignoring the arguing boys. Superboy nodded in agreance from his spot next their leader.
"We're so sorry we sent you off alone!" M'gann said, a tear making its way down her cheek.
Robin and Wally stopped fighting, suddenly sensing that the mood had changed.
Artemis blinked.
"What? It wasn't your guys' fault! You couldn't have known anything would happen! Don't worry."
M'gann still had tears on her face, but she jumped forward again, hugging Artemis.
"Alright, alright! I'm fine!...M'gann... oww... 'Kay...can't breathe now..."
M'gann jumped back apologizing.
"I'm fine guys. Really."
The team sat with her and they continued to talk about random everyday things, avoiding the topic of Artemis' current condition. M'gann disappeared after awhile, saying something about making cookies. Conner followed after her to 'help'.
'Ya, help.' She thought sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
She didn't really mind that they were together anymore. At first she had been hurt, sure, but looking back it was mostly because Megan hadn't told her. Although a little was the fact that she had liked the kryptonian...
"So how's school going Artemis?"
She snapped out of her thoughts at Robin's question.
"Fine I guess."
"Oh ya? Meet anyone interesting?"
"Not really..."
"Come on. There has to be someone cool!"
"Well...I've been hanging out with some kids who are fun I guess. Although one's a bit of a stalker sometimes."
"Oh ya? Who? Maybe I know them?"
"No way am I telling you! You'll probably stalk them or something!"
"What? No! I would never do something like that..." Robin said cheekily. "I promise!"
"Ok, guys no offence, but I'm kinda feeling a little left out over here!"
The two looked over at Wally.
"Can't go two minutes without being the centre of attention kid diva?"
Robin cackled a little, trying to stifle it when Wally shot him a glare.
The three bickered on, while Kaldur sat in the corner watching with an amused look on his face. As he half-listened his mind began to wander. What had the leaguers been hiding from them about Artemis' injuries? Why would there be any need to hide it? He had been beginning to think the league was starting to fully trust them, but now he saw that it had been a blind hope.
Looking at his teammates now however, he could almost pretend that nothing was wrong. Artemis probably had a lot of drugs in her system so she wasn't feeling much pain, and both she and Wally were already back to their verbal war, while Robin watched from the side-line, sometimes choosing a side to put a quick quip in. M'gann and Superboy were both in the kitchen baking cookies (Although Superboy was probably just watching the static while she cooked...), and he could smell them from here. It was like a normal day at the cave.
Then he would remember the events of the days before and that fantasy would come crashing down. He would remember how helpless he had felt as he listened to Wally's desperate pleas for them to hurry up, and the cold that had enveloped him when he saw Artemis, covered in blood lying in the ship.
"Right, Kal?"
Auqalad snapped out of his thoughts, looking up. Robin was looking at him expectantly.
"Pardon?"
"I said, we should have a team day when Artemis is better. You know, where we all go out together, in our civvies, and do something fun."
"Like go for pizza!"
"Is that all that's ever on your mind Kid glutton?"
Wally spluttered indignantly.
"Hello! Super speed metabolism!"
"I think that's a great idea. It could be a good team building experience."
"Cookies!"
M'gann and Conner entered the room, each carrying a tray.
The team glanced warily at the cookies, remembering her last attempt at cookies...who puts tomatoes in them?
"I followed a recipe this time." Megan said, pouting, "Their chocolate chip."
Wally grabbed one and shoved it in his mouth. Probably to try and get on Megan's good side, Artemis thought.
Wally blinked in surprise before grabbing another.
"It's delicious!"
The rest of the team looked at him suspiciously before each grabbing one.
"Miss M! You've gotten a lot better!" Robin said through a full mouth.
"Geez! You've been holding out on us." Artemis said, grinning at her.
The team continued to talk, everything from the newest TV show to the bumblebees to their now upcoming team day, as Robin had dubbed it.
Eventually there was a silence as everyone was lost in thought.
"Artemis... I know you're still injured and you probably need to rest soon, but I do still need to ask you a few questions about what happened."
Artemis winced a little. She knew this was coming.
"Would you prefer just I ask you the questions?" Kaldur said.
"No, its fine."
He nodded.
"Well... I was trying to get back to the bioship, but on the way I...tripped," It was best to leave Jade out for now she though, "And I took a minute to get back up. By the time I did Teekl was at the other end of the street. I started running but hey, I'm no Baywatch. The stupid cat caught up with me and attacked me... I fell and then everything went fuzzy and I blacked out."
Kaldur nodded. "Nothing else strange happened? Nothing at all?"
Artemis shook her head.
A/N: Hey guys! I'm sorry.. This took forever for me to update. And thanks to nightwing-girl for reminding me about it in her review! Reviews do seriously push me to write more. I have a bad memory so I always forget to update, but when I look in my email and see I have a review I'm always like "AH! I NEED TO UPDATE." So thank you very much for the reviews everyone!
IN OTHER NEWS: Young justice ended =(I really loved the ending episode though. It was really exciting AND it left the series open for them to come back and pick it up again. WHICH (Incase you haven't heard) is a possibility. The YJ people met with some important person about getting another season. Now don't get your hopes up too much but they are trying to get the show back! I'm really hoping that it works and YJ comes back =(
LAST PART OF THIS A/N: just so everyone knows (Dunno if I stated it before or not) no one knows about Artemis' family, or M'gann being a white Martians or anything in this story. Just so you know. Also (Semi-spoiler) the bad guy working with Klarion is going to be an OC. I'm not really a fan of OC's in stories most of the time, but I sorta need this one to make it work. It won't be much of a main character and shouldn't affect much (Like I'm not going to do any pairings or anything with it). But I would like to hear your guys' opinions on it! And if you have any ideas for it? Also do I need a beta guys?
Feel free to PM me if anyone doesn't understand something in the story or just wants to PM me about something.
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Ps. Sorry my A/N's are so long...