Chapter 8
Wally's POV
'Hey its Artemis, I'm probably getting Blair out of a tree right now so leave a message.'
Damn it's her machine.
"Hey Arty it's me. Wally. You there? Are you coming to Dick's or what?" I say dumbly I don't know how else to reach her maybe I should take the Zeta and check on her.
"Wally, I'm sure she's fine, Blair's probably just refusing to get up." Zatanna says walking in with a hand on her slightly prominent stomach, she was pregnant it was her third kid I'd met Gio and little Izzy who is 2 and babbling constantly, she keeps tugging my hair, and screaming happily about 'red!'
Dick doesn't even try to stop her he just sits there laughing, dick. From what I'd gathered Blair knew them but didn't see them very often. That would probably change after the move, we'd see them a lot more. Now I just needed to find a house and a job. Maybe we could live on the watch tower. Nah we'd probably just stay at the house in Adornovica.
My phone rang, making me jump out of my thought train. It was Artemis's home number, "Hello?"
"Hi are you Blair's dad?"
"Yeah, I'm Wally."
"Hi this is Kate I'm one of Blair's friends, artemis didn't want to leave her, so she sent me to go get some stuff and call you from the home phone, I was going a bit stir crazy in the hospital, and she could see that I was sitting there blaming myself for what happened-"
"I'm sorry did you say hospital? " I ask interrupting her nervous rant.
"Oh yeah we were on mission and she got shot, but she's fine, she's sleeping, she had serum Q and she's fine, Artemis just wanted me to call and cancel her plans with you and Blair's aunt and uncle. "
"I'm sorry she got what now?" I shout alarmed, Zee looks over at my shout.
"Seriously it's fine, she's just needing to rest, she's on some pretty strong pain meds, and needs to have a blood transfusion, but it's not as bad as it's been before, at least she survived." She says trying to reassure me. It didn't.
"Tell Artemis I'm on my way."
"Oh no seriously you don't need to do that she's going to be fine, she just needs to sleep."
"Look, I'm her dad, I should be there, I missed a lot I don't want to miss anymore and I want to be there for Artemis."
"Sir, with all due respect I get that, it's just her hospital room is really crowded, all our team is there and so are Ric, Bree, Fin and Emilia."
"Don't you all have parents to get home to?"
"Most of us live on our own and the hospital won't kick us out, look I get it you're her blood, but we're her family too. Tell you what if there is no persuading you otherwise, I'll meet you at one of the zeta tubes once I've got some things for Artemis and Blair, and I'll give you a falcon escort to the hospital, if Artemis wants you there you can stay but if she doesn't want you there you have to leave."
"I can deal with that."
"You must be Wally, I'm Kate we spoke before, on the phone." A tall brunette says as I enter a large spherical room through a zeta.
"Hi. So you're friends with Blair?"
"Yeah, she's like my kid sister."
"How old are you?"
"19. How about you?"
"Not sure."
"How do you not know your own age?"
"I was in a pocket dimension for about 18 years, don't know if it affected my aging, but I should be 38ish I think."
"Well that's cool."
"You think."
"Yeah, I mean it gives a reason as to why Blair didn't have a dad. I'm cool but uh, you might want to run it by her brothers' first."
"Brothers?"
"Look our team is like a family, Tate and Kent are like brothers same with Fin and Ric, Bree Lacy, Emilia and I are her sisters and Nik is her boyfriend and he's extremely protective, good luck."
"Wait, how protective?"
"Like nearly kill a guy for grabbing her ass in a club in Paris."
"Good, I'm glad people were looking out for my little girl."
"Well she's stubborn you have to look out for someone as bull headed as Blair, she's kind of impulsive and rushes into combat before thinking. Yet somehow really good at politics even if she doesn't think so."
"What else is she like, we haven't really had much of a chance to talk but she seems like a good kid."
"Yeah, she's one of the best people I know, really protective, too busy looking out for other people to watch out for herself, that's how she got shot."
"Where was she shot anyway, and what's this serum Q stuff?"
"Serum Q is a healing serum, we've been working on in in collaboration with various government agencies from around the world, it's an honour to get picked to work for the program, it's funded by the UN and any country can have a part in it. The information is available upon a request and various checks have to be seen to before you can have it, justice league members and world leaders have access to it."
"So I'd have access to it."
"Maybe, depends on if you have the right clearance."
She says stopping us outside a large building. "Here we are." she says as she leads me through some doors.
I see a familiar Blonde head camped on the floor with a group of teenagers, most of them were glaring at me. "Uh….Hi?" I say awkwardly with a wave.
"Wally, what are you doing here?" Artemis asks.
"Well, Kate told me that Blair was hurt, and I wanted to make sure she was okay."
"We don't really know a lot, all we know is that she's stable, but other than that they're not telling us anything."
"It's okay." I say pulling her in for a hug.
I feel her settle into my arms, God I've missed this, I've just missed her so much.
"Alright, alright, break it up, break it up." Says a tall guy with dark brown hair and brown/green eyes, he'd been glaring at me earlier.
"Mr I want to talk to you." He says with a slight French accent, it's barely there, I wouldn't have noticed if I wasn't trained to detect subtleties.
"Ric leave him alone." A smaller girl says to him, they look similar, sibling's maybe, there's 2 more that look like them another boy standing tall in the corner of the room holding back a small kid who looks about 7. She breaks forward and runs up to me, she smiles at me sweetly, then proceeds to kick me in the shin.
"Ow!" I exclaim hopping on one leg, the teenager's start to laugh, the girl tries to scold the child but fails, little demon child.
"I take it you're the siblings Kate was telling me about."
"Mm hmm but it's not Blair I want to talk to you about, let's go for a walk."
"And what if I don't feel like walking?"
"Then I'll have you arrested and we can talk in a more official capacity."
"How would you get me arrested?"
"I'm the prince of this country."
I'm gobsmacked, crap, I think I may have just caused another international incident, Uncle B was gunna kill me. Wait, I'm a fully grown man now, damn I was going to have to go to Batman on my own. Just the thought terrified me.
"Wally, don't worry I won't let you face batman alone." Artemis says seeing the look on my face.
Clearly the relief I felt showed on my face making some other people in the room laugh.
"We'll be outside, come and get us if anything changes." The boy says.
"How much snow do you get here?" I ask as we stand outside in the snow covered grounds.
"A lot, let's skip the pleasantries and let's get down to business." To defeat the Huns, I mentally add.
"What business is that?" I ask uncertainly. Oh God, he's going to have me killed, I'm going to be dead in some mountain somewhere.
"Look, over the years I've practically lived with Blair and Artemis, I've seen them every day of my life, Blair's my best friend and Artemis has been like a mother to my siblings and I. My parents love all of us but they are busy people and we see them once a day if we're lucky, we get them all day on rare special occasions.
Over the years we watched Artemis heal so slowly over her loss of you, now you're back and you want to take my best friend and my surrogate mother away, Blair's going along with it because she's one of those selfless do it for everyone else types. If you hurt Artemis again, I will send a whole team of mercenaries and myself after you, I don't care if it wasn't your fault be careful, because I don't think Artemis could deal with losing you again. Blair has accepted you into her life, anything you do will affect her, so don't get killed, or hurt either of them."
"I understand. I would never intentionally do anything to hurt her, I love her and Blair."
"Yes, but you and Blair are more alike than you realize, you both would do anything for those you love, and that includes making the ultimate sacrifice."
Blair's POV
I felt like I was floating on a burning boat; I wasn't in pain, I just had this slightly uncomfortable warmness stinging my side. But I felt kind of floaty, like a balloon, huh balloon that's a weird word, bal-looooooon. I could hear people moving around me, but everything just felt blurry, and light. I saw shadows, and I hears muffled words, 'he's eating a shoe? Who's eating a shoe I want to see.
I feel a pinprick on my skin, urgh who's poking my with needles. I throw my arm trying to stop them, I feel someone hold down my arm. No get off, I say going to move my arm, but it's not working, why isn't my arm working? I think as I can't move it, my brain feels all fuzzy and I'm tired, why can't I move it? What's going on?
My head feels heavy as a I wake up, and my vision clears, everything is in piecing quality, I feel quite refreshed, and hungry, where am I? The last thing I remember is the mission and- falling out of a window after getting shot. Well that explains that annoying beeping, it's one of the beepy heart machines,
'Beepy heart machines? How articulate.' Asks a voice inside my head, a very familiar voice.
'Amara?' I ask it 'you're dead' I tell it.
'Yeah, well so were you, for a few minutes at least.'
'How are you doing this? What's going on?' I ask
'Honey, you're going insane. Duh.'
'I'm not insane.'
'You're talking to a dead girl of course you are.' She tells me.
Point Amara.
'Thanks, I was always the champion.'
'Shut up, if you're so smart, how do I get food?"
'Easy climb out the window and go home.'
'Shouldn't I call a nurse or something?'
'How boring. I see life without me has made you dull and cautious, come on do something a little risky'
'I'm not boring.' I say and to prove a point I get up and open the window, I rip out the Iv needle and the heart beat reader. I slip out of the window leaving the beeping room behind me.
Ah fresh air, it's the middle of the night, no one is around, I want to go for a run, I need to run, my legs need to stretch, lord knows how long I've been cooped up like a bird.
I head for the mountains.
'I thought you were hungry and heading home.'
'Shh, I want to run leave me in peace, stupid hallucination.'
'Fine, I'll leave. I'm dead so you probably won't get to see me again. Bye' she says sulkily
'You're not real so you can't die, so shut up you're in my head so do as I say, and I can't see you only hear you.'
God I must be going mad, I mean I'm hearing my dead teammate's voice.
A/N:So is Blair going mad? find out next Saturday, oh by the way I have a polyvore account, that I share with my friend, but it's under this name, I will be starting to post my friends stories on my account seeing as she lets my put up some of my stuff on her wattpad account, anyway check there for outfits relating to the book oddly enough you know Blair's ring I got a similar one for Christmas from my parents how spooky.
I don't own anything Dc own however everything else comes from my mind, so please don't borrow without asking. Hope everyone had a great Christmas! Please review, feel free to point out any mistakes because I was slightly hung-over when I wrote this.