Chapter 7
Blair's POV
"{Crap! Kate duck!}"
"{Red be careful.}" She shouts as a bullet buzzes past me.
"{I gotta get that memory chip.}" I say moving forward with care, I was being shot at, I ran forward dodging bullets, and I needed to get that hard drive. I surged forward, I took down one of the shooters, and grabbed the hard drive from the usb port of the computer, I shoved it into my pocket before turning.
Then I felt a hot pain in my side, I tripped forward falling through glass before the world went black.
17 hours earlier
I was running late for work! I jumped down the hatch from my room, and kept running pulling on my left boot.
"Hi mom, bye mom!" I shout sprinting onward through the back door. I didn't stop until I hit security at the gates of the compound.
"{Hi Tony.}"
"{Hey Red, late again?}"
"{Yep.}"
"{Go on through.}" He says as I continue sprinting shouting a thanks behind me.
I get to the mission room slightly out of breath, the cold had made my lungs burn, Kent handed me an iced coffee as I came into the room, I wheezed a thank you.
"{Right now that everyone is here.}" The general says pointedly.
The general goes through a briefing on an infiltration mission, we have to enter a secure luthorcorp compound, we'd discovered the origin of the assassins hire, we had infiltrators in the league of shadows, and they sent us the information.
But for it to be valid we had to get proof and that meant breaking and entering, which meant my squad was needed. We were the perfect ops team. Well almost perfect, we were missing a person but we'd learned to function without her. We still felt like we were missing a limb at times, but just as amputees learn to live life without a limb we had to learn to work as a team whilst missing a member.
The first mission after we lost Amara was awful, we thought we'd be fine. We weren't, Kate was nearly shot, Tate nearly fell out of the sky, we were sloppy in our team work, we weren't talking in our minds seeing as we'd lost our telepath, we weren't acting as a team we were acting like a bunch of morons strung together at the last minute.
We'd lost our way, people wondered if we'd find it again, after 6 months we did.
We were back and better than ever, we'd learned to communicate without actually communicating, we wouldn't be whole again, but the wound wasn't gaping. But seeing that guy in the hockey mask had hit us all, we were all pissed, looking for revenge, I knew that Tate wouldn't hesitate to kill him, neither would Kent or Kate or Nik, nor would I, I'd never thought I'd admit to wanting to kill someone, but for that guy, I'd make the exception.
I was snapped back from my thoughts by a loud voice shouting my name, "Blair!"
"Huh?"
"{Come on, suit up.}"Tate tells me.
"{oh yeah right, coming.}"
"{You okay Red?}" He asks
"{yeah, just got 2 hours sleep is all, And you know my dad reappearing, and meeting all this family I never had, and Amara's killer making an appearance, and the attack on the palace and life.}"
"{You'll be okay, you always are kiddo.}" He says giving me a hug, over the last 3 years he'd become like my brother, he was protective of me, between Ric, Fin and him it was a small miracle that I had a boyfriend.
"{Thanks Tate. Now what's this I hear about you and Kate having a new year's kiss?}"
"{Wha- how did y- bu- uh um.}" He stumbles going red in the face.
I laugh evilly, "{You know I'm a spy, right? My job is to have eyes and ears everywhere.}"
"{Shut up, go get changed.}"
I saunter off turning around and sticking my tongue out at him.
I walk past the memorial plaque the long list of names spread out down the corridor, lives lost in duty for the sake of the country, I'd known few, losing people was a part of life, it appeared to be a big part of a falcons life. Out of habit I brush my fingers along Amara's name. I don't remember when I started doing that, I just did.
After suiting up I made my way to the bridge. My mind was spinning, I had so many thought rushing through my head, I didn't want to deal with them and I couldn't wait to get into the action, I needed to work, my head needed to focus.
I sat by the zeta on a bike waiting for my team, we would be splitting up in pairs over America. Some of us would be breaking into secure factories, offices and any building owned by luthorcorp. The queen had notified the president and we had the go ahead to do this, any information we gathered had to be shared with the governments all over the world.
Kate walks in, "{Hey girlie, you know we're together for the mission.}"She says walking over and sitting on the bike next to me.
I laugh, "{Oh by the way what exactly is our part of the mission, I may have spaced in the briefing.}"
She laughs at my admission, "{You're the best. So what's this I hear about you moving to America?}"
"{Well that's true, but I'll come back all the time, and I'll be working still but I think it'll mostly be just missions here and there, but if you need me I'll come home in a heartbeat.}"
"{Good to know, because if you left me alone with these losers, I'd kill you.}"She tell me seriously
I laugh, I knew life would be weird when these guys weren't a 2 minute run from my house. I was doing the right thing though, my mom put her life on hold for me and now I was returning the favour.
"{So, we going out with a bang or what?}" She asks me after a few moments of silence.
"{Yeah, let's do this.}"
"{You guys really think we're going to let the pair of you near anything explosive?}" Kent asks from the doorway.
"{It's Luthorcorp, there's always something explosive there.}" Kate retorts.
"{Blair you ready for me to do the spell.}"Kent asks changing the subject
"{Spell?}"
"{You space in the mission briefing?}" he asks
Before I can reply Kate does for me "{Yup.}"
Kent mutters something under his breath and my hair changes colour to a blonde colour, it's a pretty cool spell when it changes colour it goes from the roots down, it looks so cool. My eyes are now a brown colour, it's my disguise, makes me unrecognisable, keeps my mom safe and lets me have a life. I like it.
"{Alright, I'm going to give you the cliff notes version of the briefing, you and Kate are infiltrating the main office, stick together, with Kate's shape shifting abilities and your combat skills, you should be unbeatable, stay safe. I'm with James and Nik's with Tate, we're all doing similar missions, and you have to get information from the main computer at the Luthorcorp building in metropolis. I'm getting it from his house, and Nik and Tate are infiltrating various factories.}"
"{Alright let's do this. Chop Chop.}"Kate says clapping her hands
Present time
Artemis's POV
I was making lunch when my phone rang, it was Kate.
"(ArtemisBlair'sbeenhurtshe'sonherwaytothehospitalohmygodshe'sbeenshotandshewasbleedingandshefellthoughawindowTatecaughtherandthenNikcarriedheroutand and, and-)" Kate's crying and speaking too quickly for me to hear let alone translate.
"(Kate, Kate calm down.)"
I hear shallow breathing in the other side, "(I'll meet you at the base.)" I tell her
I hear an out of breath okay as I hang up and start running. Can I not have a moment of happiness? Can I not have 2 people in my life who love me, am I just not allowed a family?
Why do I have to choose between the 2 people I love? It's not fair. I lost Wally then Gained Blair, now I'm losing Blair and gaining Wally. I just can't win can I?
The hospital is next to the Zeta tubes, it's the only thing on the Falcon base that the public are allowed in and I run to lady at the desk, she knows me thanks to Blair's reckless and bonkers antics. "(She's in the ER, you can't go in, and you have to wait with everybody else.)" She says pointing to the small crowd on the floor by the big double doors, it's her team plus Ric, Bree, Fin and Emilia, the royals are giving people food and the Falcons, still in battle suits look exhausted covered in dirt and Tate's suit is ripped.
"(What happened?)" I ask not noticing Nik on the phone.
"{I need serum Q Now!}" he shouts down the small device, he looks angry I half understand it he's speaking the language of the Falcons it's based on French and something else .
I look to Tate because I'm confused he just looked away.
"{No, I don't care Blair could die, she's flat lined, twice, She'd rather have powers and be a meta than dead and unable to do anything. Send it now!" He says hanging up.
"Nik, what's going on? What happened to Blair?"
"Blair got shot. We're handling it. They're sending serum Q over now."
"That's that magic healing stuff right?"
"Yeah, but it can activate an inactive meta gene." he says
"What's the alternative?" I ask scared
"Well, the bullet went through her liver, they're trying to keep the internal bleeding slowed until we can get the serum into her system, but she's losing a lot of blood, unless she has this she could die." He says looking down.
"What can I do?" I ask feeling a bit helpless, what can I do, nothing, I'm not a doctor.
"What we're doing, wait." They all look pale, in that instant I know why they all look so stoic and pale, this probably reminds them of when Amara died, except without the dramatic waiting room bit, they're teenagers and twenty year olds, and they should not have to go through stuff like this.
So that's what we do we wait, whilst a life hangs in the balance.
So merry Christmas everybody, this update was actually on time! My crazy family isn't down for 2 more days and I had some free time today, so I was like omg I can actually make my update on time. Alright Duckies I hope you enjoyed this chapter, wanted to leave you with a cliff hanger, sorry I'm a meanie :p I'll update soon, xoxoxoxo Merry Christmas. I own nothing that Dc or Warner brothers own, I own Blair and all her friends and all citizens of Adornovica and Adornovica.