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WARNING EXTREME CHILD ABUSE AHEAD PLEASE SKIP IF IT WILL TRIGGER YOU! The words 'safe to read now' is your stop.

Four Weeks time skip

Galene lost all point and reference to time after that day. All she knew was that it was sometime in winter and she was freezing. Sal kept her in the broom closet only bringing her out to beat her, mostly with his fist and feet. But when he was drunk he would whip her either with his belt or a whip made of broken glass shards and pieces of sharp metal. With the exception of That Night. When a vicious cold front came through Sal moved her to her old room and proceed to break both of her ankles and opened the window. Now all she could feel now was pain and coldness. All that she was thankful for was that Sal never could touch her in a sexual way. Apparently, he was gay and found the idea of touching girls except to beat them repulsive. The door slammed from somewhere inside the apartment. Heavy stomps resonated throughout the house. Galene felt her heart stop. Sal was angrier than he was ever before. She closed her eyes to prepare herself for the pain. He slammed the door to her room and glared at her.

"You disgusting freak! Here you go and get me fired from my job. I'm going to make you pay for that!" Sal smelled of liquor again, that was never good. He was a lot crueler drunk than he was sober. He then brought out a carving knife and lifted up the formerly white, now a rustic-brown, thin tank top that covered Galene stuffing it in her mouth, then wrapping the lower half of her face including the mouth with nearly an entire roll of gorilla duct tape. At the first drag of the knife, Galene felt like screaming, the pain was worse than anything that she has ever faced. After what felt like hours of torture Sal stopped and looked straight into her eyes. And grinned, "You know I just remembered how much you love swimming freak. So you know what I going to make sure you will never have that ability again. Galene eyes widened with fear and she tried to beg him to stop.

*What is he going to do that he hasn't already done? I just hope….* Galene screamed as a sharp pain radiates from her midback. Tears streamed down her face as a bright red liquid pooled around her. Some was a dark brown from pass blood spilled. But this was a lot more than she was used to. So as a last-ditch effort to save her life she dropped the mental barriers and called out for M'gann.

/Megan, M'gann…. Help me….please help…./

M'gann was worried, and she wasn't the only one. Everyone on the team was. Ever since Galene's mental connection cut off the entire team was worried about their newest member. She was just about to make another batch of cookies when she felt pain all over the body. She screamed out causing everyone to run to her.

"Miss Martin are you alright?" Aqualad was right in front of her and when she was about to tell him something, she stopped as she heard in her mind,

/Megan, M'gann…. Help me….please help…./ With that, the pain was gone as quick as it came.

"It's Seastar! She is asking for help!"

"Do you know where she is?" Zatanna asked worriedly

"No. She didn't…" M'gann was saying when Robin stopped her

"She currently in the apartment buildings off Main St, top floor. We will need to take the bioship. It will be a lot quicker." Everyone stopped and stared at him. "What? I saw her about four weeks ago and bugged her just in case. Looks like my bat paranoia actually paid off." The entire group just nodded in an agreement; then ran toward the bioship. M'gann popped in the driver seat and took off, she was pushing as fast as she could for the area. But to the occupants it could have been going one mile per hour, it was not fast enough. When they had arrived at the apartment complex, top floor, they were on guard. They were going in the only open window on the floor.

/That's odd. It is in the middle of December. Who in there right mind would have a window opened?/ Artemis questioned.

/Whatever. It works out for us because it is the closest window to the tracker./ Robin commented. As he went in first, the rest of the team waited for the all clear when Robin very nearly screamed in the earpieces as well as the mental connection.

/SFÂNT…LA DRACU! (HOLY… FUCK!) GUYS GET IN HERE NOW! M'GANN… SOMEBODY GET THE BIOSHIP CLOSER TO THE WINDOW AND PREPARE THE MEDBAY. IMMEDIATELY!/ The team, in confusion, climbed in the room as they looked around each of them froze as they saw a young girl with long black wavy hair. Black gorilla duct tape covered her mouth and lower face. Barely missing her nose. A brownish-red tank top looked like it was stuffed in the mouth before the duct tape was wrapped. Her entire body looked like one giant bruise, cuts, and burns. Both of her ankles looked swollen and one was leaking yellowish pus on a large cut which had pieces of white swimming in it. The left arm had the radius bone popping up between the skin. On the girl's stomach was the word FREAK deeply carved it to it, which look fresh. But the most concerning was the deep wound on the middle of her back in which her spinal cord was easily seen. In fact, her entire back was just strips of flesh, some from just the smell alone was rotting. Zatanna, Rocket, Artemis, and Kid Flash all threw up where they stood. M'gann cried out with tears streaming down her face. Soon she could not hold herself up and collapse on her knees and ankles. Her face went slack and it was obvious that she was going into shock, she just started to mouthing Galene. Robin and Aqualad were just frozen, both staring at the body, both thinking,

*What the fuck is in front of us?* Superboy stared at his friend Galene, shaking. Not in fear or disgust, but pure hatred at the one who dared to hurt one of his teammates. Especially the one who never commented on him watching snow, all she did was a smile and walked off or sat down with him and started knitting. Gently he reached down and place two fingers on the neck to check her heartbeat. His eyes widened as he felt a very slow and erratic heartbeat. He slowly reached over and picked Galene up; Carried her out to the bioship with a resolute purpose. M'gann started crying and saying "Galene" as she stared and the pool of blood. Aqualad was about to follow but looked at everyone just staring into space. So he pushed his own fear and shock away and started giving orders.

"Robin, Kid Flash, Artemis, Zatanna and I are going to find ALL of the girl's stuff. She will not be coming back here. Rocket, you and Miss Martin go help Superboy stabilize the girl… Galene right. And get her to the base. Afterward sent the Bioship back for us." Everyone snapped to attention and got to work. Rocket and M'gann basically fled at the command. Aqualad just watched around the group. Artemis started to go through the closet. Zatanna was going through the dresser on the other side. Robin was going thru the desk and bookshelf combo. Kid Flash left the room and walked around the apartment. It was disgusting. Beer bottles covered the floor as well as needles. Kid knelt down next to a splotch of dried blood. Frowning he moved on till he reaches a kitchenette. Looking around there was a ton of beer and hard alcohol bottles around as well as broken glass bottles.

*That's strange. Why have the broom and dustpan out but not clean? Especially that it is one of those new collapsible brooms and dustpan sets.* Kid looked around and eyes widened at a small closet off to the side. It had three lock and keys, and five deadbolts. *Ok who in their right mind would put SEVEN different locks on one closet…. unless….* Kid Flash body froze at the thought that wormed in his head. Slowly he walks toward the closet with trepidation. Breaking the locks and opening the door all he found was a torn bloodied jacket and inside one of the pockets was a very familiar bat/robin tracker. *That Bastard!* Kid walked back to the team and said,

"Found your tracker, Robin. It was in a broom closet, that you don't need to see."

"Why not?" Artemis asks from the closet looking through clothes that the girl might want to wear.

"Let's just say someone was waiting for the cold front to hit but didn't want the girl to stay in a regular room so they thought that a broom closet would work better." Kid Flash's eyes flashed with promises of pain. Everyone flinched at the thought of living in a broom closet.

Safe to read now!

"Guys I think that you need to see this," Artemis said with awe in her voice. Everyone walked over and looked in the closet. The back wall had moved over. About a dozen torches lit up a good size room. One wall was filled with paper clippings, most of them were about Kobra and their movements. Robin hummed an approval at the sight. On the other side of the papered wall, were two armor stands. One had a full set of greek style armor, made out of a bronze- copper material. The other had armor that everyone was familiar with. A silver breastplate with a sea green trident that was on the right breast. On where the waistline was two gun holsters with what looked like a revolver handgun with an ancient Greek inscription. There were multiple daggers holders around the armor plating. In the middle of the room was a desk that had a wooden mask stand that held the black mask with blue and gold detailing. You could see everyone's eyes hardened.

"Zatanna helps Artemis pack this up as well." Aqualad took Robin and Kid Flash out of the room to the main bedroom. Kid went and collapsed on the bed with his head in his hands and he elbows on his knees.

"Aqualad what is going to happen to Seastar, you know as well as I do that knife severed her spinal cord and if it wasn't for M'gann and the mental connection Sea would be dead right now." Robin looked over from the photo book that he was packing.

"I know Robin, I know."

"Are we going to make bastard who FUCKING did this pay? Or will we be forced to hand it over to the League and the authorities?" Kid bit out.

"First we will make sure that Seastar lives first. Then we will find out who hurt her, then…." He locked eyes with Kid and Robin, "We make sure that they regret hurting a member of our team. And for this, we will involve the League but they will have to understand that we are the ones that work this NOT the authorities." Everyone nodded; Robin started typing something in his gauntlet. Once the team was sure that they had gotten all of Seastar's stuff they retreated to the still there bioship.

"Let's hurry back to base to get Seastar proper medical treatment."

"Yes, sir." M'gann pushed the bioship a lot faster than she ever did before. Robin and Kid Flash focused on stabilizing Seastar, but they were worried. She was losing blood and unfortunately, Seastar never put her blood type on file.

"M'gann can't you just change yourself into her to get the blood needed?" Rocket asked.

"DO YOU THINK THAT I WOULD HAVE FUCKING DONE THAT IF I COULD!?" Megan yelled back green eyes flashing although they were red and watery. Rocket was about to yell back when Aqualad placed a hand on her shoulder and shook his head. Within minutes the bioship landed in the hanger. Kid picked up Galene and ran all the way to the med bay. He was surprised that he wasn't surprised Batman was there waiting.

"Put her on the Gurney Kid."

"M'gann can't change her blood type to match. And she also heals faster with water."

"Thank you for telling me. Get Robin and Red Tornado he just arrived."

"Yes, sir." Kid sped away nearly running into said people. "Batman wants the both of you in the med bay immediately. Bothof them nodded then started to run. Kid sighed and walked back to the Kitchen/T.V room. There he found everyone in the same position that they were in nearly an hour ago. Except for this time, you could cut the defeated air around everyone with a knife. M'gann was just looking at a group of papers in her hands.

"What are those M'gann?" M'gann was in her human form showing everyone how hopeless she felt.

"Galene and my school project that we did together. Apparently, she saved it as well as pictures of all of the cheerleading games that I could go to. Connor talking to her cousin Nico. I don't know why she would save this stuff."

"It sounds like she is making a scrapbook," Zatanna said. Entering the room with Artemis which both of them looked like they changed clothes it a sweatshirt and sweatpants.

"What is a scrapbook?"

"It is a book filled with little mementos, pictures, and other stuff. It is meant to show a part of a person's life."

"Wow, that so cool," Megan whispered in shock. Artemis looked over and found newspaper clippings of everyone on the team. Even the more reclusive members of the team (aka Superboy and Kaldur) "I can't believe that she thinks that all of us makes an impact on her life."

"You might never fully know the impact you have on another person's life." Kaldur said, "You told us that you helped her the first day of earth school for you. That act of kindness is what caused her to make a scrapbook. I'm guessing that she was making one for you to show your time in an earth school. Or maybe a scrapbook of your guys' friendship." That didn't help M'gann, and she started to cry again. Connor wrapped his arms around M'gann. Suddenly the room darkened and the temperature dropped ten degrees. From the corner, a blob slid out which change to have two forms tumbling out. M'gann gasped as the shadows revealed and moved behind the two new figures.

"WHERE IS MY COUSIN?!" The cold onyx eyes of a very pissed off Nico Di Angelo stared at M'gann and Connor.

YAY! Galene was rescued but will she survive?... next chapter will have a lot of blood and gore and a crappy medical scene, so this is your warning. Also, I started a youtube playlist that goes with the music that I added or had in mind for Galene. See you next time! Here is the link for it,
playlist?list=PLeYhq-pGxGGYhdosy9MKssQXcVvIfW1XH

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