" She has lost a lot of blood!" Someone cried out.
" Listen, are my siblings okay?" Robin tried to ask, she tried to get up from the gurney that she had been on, but it seemed like she was just made of stone. " Did they make it out of there? Hello?!" She screamed, trying to get someone to talk to her. She did not know how she had gotten there, but she shivered a bit when no one even looked to her.
" Two bullets, one went straight through! The other one we cannot find just yet." A nurse cried out.
" Is James okay? Please tell me that he still remembers me! Tell me that he did not do anything to my siblings because of what. . . what Jordan and Grant did to them!" She cried out.
" Collapsed ribcage, lets hope that it didn't puncture anything." Someone else called out.
" Will someone answer me?!" Robin screamed before it hit her, they were not hearing her, she was not even really there.
The body that she could see, it was her. She was pale, paler that she had ever seen herself before. And thin, it looked too thin to really be alive. But she looked like an angel, her beauty was something that could only be imagined, her hair curled up and flowing from her head. But there was something that made Robin shiver as well, the blood. There was so much blood on her shirt, on her pants, coming from her mouth, hell she had even gotten blood in her hair. The doctors had tried to stop most of the bleeding, but she could still see some red liquid coming from her side. They had her hook up to a machine, one of those things that tell your their heart rate, blood pressure, and something else that Robin had never learned before. They were all really low on hers, but they were all still there for the moment. The two hole in her side, the place where all of the blood was coming out of, they were tiny but she knew that they were also deadly. She looked down to her own clothing and found she could see the holes in her own body, but she could not feel the pain of it at all. Robin was dying, she knew this, but she just kept walking along with the doctors, rushing to get her to an operation room to save her life. Robin did not cry, it seemed like she was unable to, she was calm. She could feel how cold her body was though. From her toes to her finger tips, it was like she was made of ice as she just kept stride with her body. She felt helpless, there was nothing that she could do besides keep walking to save herself. She wasn't seeing any white light, no family members telling her to come to them, just these doctors. . . these doctors and another voice from behind, someone screaming.
" No! No! Let me go with her! Please! Please, allow me to go with her! I have to make sure that she is safe! Please, just. . . just let me be with her just, just in case she. . . she dies!" James cried out, she could see the tears falling from his brown eyes as he tried to plow past the nurse.
" James!" She screamed, finally feeling the fear take over the calmness that she had had. " No! Let him come with me! I need him by my side, he. . . he will keep my calm! Please." She yelled, she could feel herself starting to breath heavy.
" Sir, you are going to have to stay here. She is in serious condition and you are not allowed past this point." A nurse said, trying to hold him back.
" James! I am going to make it through this, we are going to be fine, you, me, and the kids! But. . . but if I don't, you take care of Simon and Cecilia, you are all they have now!" She cried out, the doors shut and it seemed like as they did everything just went blank. " Just remember me! Okay? You remember me! Please!"
Ice cold, it was all that she could feel for the longest time. Robin expected to see a white light, to be welcomed into heaven by her parents, to hear them calling to her name. But the only thing that she could hear was The Sound of Silence and that pulled her out of the chill, making her open her eyes and find that it was James, singing it to her. He had his eyes closed tight, but she could still see the tears that were coming to his eyes, he was so sad. She looked around to find that she was in a hospital bed and this time, she could not see herself. She had somehow made it through. She also noticed that her room seemed to also be a flower shop, it was filled with boutiques and cards and so many things that her room seemed to be jam packed with flowers. Robin smiled, as she moved her hand, that seemed like it was covered in wires, and placed it onto James's hand, who was griping tightly to the railing of her bed.
" And whispered in the sound-" He sang as she finally touched his hand.
" Of. . . silence." She whispered to him before she noticed how much it really hurt to whisper, she wondered how much it would hurt to talk.
" Robin?!" He asked as he looked down to her, his voice cracking the whole time.
" Hey. . . Tiger." She smiled weakly as he held onto her hand.
" Guys! Someone!" James cried out.
" Hey. . . way to. . . kill the moment." Robin coughed out. " You. . . you remember me?" She asked as he just smiled lightly.
" No one could keep me from remembering that beautiful face." He whispered as he gently cupped it with his metal hand, Robin did not even flinch.
" I'm so happy. . . they didn't do. . . anything to you." Robin said with a faint smile.
" I am so sorry they did anything to you." James added and she could feel the amount of responsibility James thought that he had for what had happned to her.
" It was. . . bound to. . . happen. Don't feel . . . like this is. . . your fault. It's not." She whispered as she tried to move in to give him a kiss but winced back into her bed because of her side, making James feel a little more sorrow.
" She's awake!" Cecelia screamed at the top of her lungs before she ran over to the side of the bed, jumping up and down to get a peak of her sister. " Robin!" She yelled.
" Hey Celie." Robin whispered, she could not seem to be able to speak any higher than a faint whisper.
" Oh my god! She wasn't lying! Guys!" Pepper screamed as she entered the room.
" I don't lie." Celie pouted as Robin just smiled to the girl who had placed their teddy bear into bed wit her.
" Party." Robin muttered.
" Doctor! Someone!" Pepper cried out from the door.
" Ahh. . . common Pep!" Robin said, though she felt like no one could hear her.
" Robin, I thought that I would never see you again. That. . . that you were. . ." Robin just smiled up to him.
" Nah. . . you. . . you still gotta deal with me. For the rest of time." Robin whispered to him, making him finally smile.
" And me!" Cecilia said as she crawled over the bar and sat at the foot of the bed.
" So you. . . you forgive me for everything that I have done to you in the past?" James asked, genually shocked.
" I can't . . . fake it, I love you, for. . . some foolish reason. Yes. . . of course I forgive you." Robin said as James smiled a bright smile before he gave her a kiss on the head.
" I love you." He whispered.
" Robin, you are my favorite superhero." Cecilia shouted out, making Robin jump for a moment.
" Aww." Was all Robin could get out before a doctor finally rushed in, followed by about five other people.
" There's our girl!" Sam said with a smile. " See, I told you that she would be awake and well within a few days!"
" You got me." Steve said, rolling his eyes.
" Crap. . . if I would have known. . . I was going to have . . . this much company I would have. . . done my. . . hair." Robin said, making James chuckle. She figured he was going to laugh at all of her jokes for at least a month.
" A collapsed ribcage which collapsed your left lung, a punctured kidney, and sever blood loss. Miss Blake, you are a fighter." The Doctor said before checking all of her vitals. " How are you feeling?"
" Like. . . like I got shot. . . twice. . . and then. . . someone cut off my. . . windpipe." Robin tried to get out loudly, still holding onto James's hand for dear life. " I will. . . be able to talk. . . normally again. . . eventually. . . right?" She questioned as the doctor just smiled and nodded to her.
" Yes. . . well the pain will subside, we did not want to give you too many drugs because we worried that it may send you into a coma. We will get you some painkillers soon enough. Try not to talk too much, though I know that it can be difficult with this bunch of people." The doctor said with a wink as he left the room, leaving her starring at everyone that she knew that she could trust.
" You're all over the news." Simon finally broke the silence. " They are calling you the latest Avenger."
" For good reasons. I mean hell, you did take out almost an entire Hydra building on your own." Pepper added.
" Hey! She did have some help!" Sam cut in with a smile. " But she did take two for the team as well."
" We're a team?" Robin said with a smile.
" You know it, you gotta put up with me and Steve for now on." Sam said with a smile.
" Yeah and the two of us as well." Tony said sweetly.
" I am so sorry." Pepper added, making Robin chuckle before she winced in pain.
" No. . . laughing." She said as everyone else started to chuckle.
" You're my favorite Avenger, Robin." Cecilia said as she hugged her sisters leg.
" Mine too." Simon said with a faint smile.
" Mine three." James whispered as he rubbed on her hand.
" I'm glad that they. . . didn't do anything to you. . . you and the kids. . . were all I could think about." Robin whispered to James, making him smile.
" I'm so sorry this all happened to you and the kids because of me." James apologized.
" Shut up. It would have happened at. . . at some point. Hydra. . . Jordan. . . Ward. . .they would've come. . . for me." Robin winced as the pain went into overtime, gripping onto James's hand tightly.
" Where are those painkillers?!" Pepper called out the door.
" Man. . . being shot sucks." Robin said as James just chuckled.
James told her that half of the flowers had come from Pepper and Tony, Steve and Sam, or Cecilia, Simon, and himself. The other half, her brand new fans. They did not know the whole story of what had happened, but from what they knew was that she had taken out a large chunk of Hydra to get back her siblings, taking to shots to the gut for it. They had all heard that she was in critical condition and the outcome was looking grim and they flooded her room with flowers, cards, and even gifts. They had sent teddy bears for Cecilia and gift cards for Simon, anything to keep them entertained while they would have to wait for Robin to get through her surgeries, which she found out that she had gone through two separate ones. She also learned that they had already brought some of her flowers back to her apartment because they did not have enough room in her hospital room for all of them, yeah, she was starting to have a fanclub.
James had stayed by her side the whole time, whenever he was allowed to be there, he was right at her side. Everyone agreed, James was not seen doing anything besides holding onto her hand, they doubted he had eaten since she had gotten into the hospital, they doubted that he had left her side the whole time. Simon told her that James and Cecilia had sung all of the songs that she had sung to the two of them, each and every one of them, over and over again, hoping that it would somehow bring her comfort and bring her back to them. And it had. When she finally did hear it, she was drawn to it, it was something that she had known, something that took the cold away. She never told them about what she had happen to her, with her seeing herself, she would not tell James about it for years, that was something she just could not bare to think about. They kept her in the hospital bed for that felt like a lifetime, and she allowed it, until Saturday came around. May 17h, the day that Cecilia had been born. She made sure that Pepper did not cancel anything, though Tony had made the place of the party a little bit bigger of a place with much more security, seemed like he was not going to risk losing his newest favorite worker again.
Robin cried, though it hurt, she sobbed because she had lost her best friend. Not because he was dead, but because she had lost him to Hydra. That everyone that she had ever trusted and loved, turned out to be Hydra. Her siblings, she had put in danger in so many ways. But Jordan. . . she would have never expected for her best friend to be that way. He never once gave any signs that he was. Even when they promised one another when they heard about the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D that they were not Hydra, he did not even flinch when he pinky promised her that he was not Hydra. Jordan had been there through it all and to find out that he was the one that made the call for the Winter Solider to take out her parents, but made sure that Robin was out. The way that he had tried to keep her from James, the way that he had always been there to protect her. It showed that he had cared for Robin, but his love to Hydra had been the thing that in the end had taken his life. . . and had nearly taken Robin's as well. Every time that she would think about something, Jordan would somehow come into the conversation and Robin would break down once again. Hell, even being betrayed by Grant hurt a bit because they were all S.H.I.E.L.D, even if Robin had not been official S.H.I.E.L.D, she felt a bond to them that they had betrayed in so many ways. He had told Jordan to shoot her, even after everything that they had went through. She still did not know how to make Cecilia or Simon understand that the people that they had trusted for so long, the man that Cecilia had called Uncle Jordan, those people were bad guys. Robin felt sick every time that she thought of Jordan's name. Yet, every time that Robin would break down, James would crawl into her hospital bed with her, sit behind her and gently rub her back, kiss her neck, and try and help her through it, humming The Sound of Silence the whole time.
No one thought that it was a good idea for her to leave the hospital, even James tried to get her to stay there for a few more days, but she refused. She could speak, though sometimes she still got a little winded if she talked for too long. Robin could walk and talk, it was really one of the only things that she needed to be able to do to get to a little kids party. Cecilia had told Robin that all of her class was going to show up to this party, most of them wanted to meet the hero's that Cecilia had promised that others wanted to meet what others were calling the newest Avenger. Robin was not going to allow this thing to be canceled, though it took her a half hour to get into some normal clothes – mostly thanks to James –, she was going to make sure that they were there and that they looked like superheros too. Robin loved dressing up, even if it was going to take hours just to get on another shirt and pull her hair up, she was going to do it and make sure that Simon, Ceilia, and James also looked like hero's, even if that killed her. Which at the time it was taking her to get to the hospital, she thought that it may. As they checked out and got out front of the hospital she noticed that there were people around and they were all looking for a picture with her. She scooted her way back to the lobby desk.
" Do you think that someone could come pick us up at the emergency room exit?" Robin asked as the women just nodded and smiled to her, she had been seeing the swarm of people since the day that Robin had gotten in there. She understood fully. " Thank you. I have a party to get to, but don't tell my doctor. They'll bed rest me." Robin said with a wink as James helped her walk towards the emergency section of the hospital.
" If you keep going the way that you are, I am going to bed rest you." He mumbled as he very gently wrapped his arm around her waist to keep her walking upright, she was able to walk but he still worried constantly over her.
" If you keep talking like that you may just get me in bed rest." Robin winked to the man who only chuckled to her.
Hey everyone. So some of you were wondering why Jordan was Hydra. . . Well I let my Jordan choose whether he wanted to be a good guy or a bad guy. The answer I got was "bad guy, duh." Just a little heads up! Enjoy.