Is everyone ready? Kaldur asked through their mind link

Ready up front came Artemis's reply, she and Roy were positioned at the front of their habitat with arrows ready, ready to take out the first of any guards.

Dome will go down on your order Aqualad Nightwing confirmed.

Quickly making one last visual scan to ensure that everyone was ready Aqualad decided that it was now or never, and ordered Nightwing to disable the dome.

Once it was down they all began running, Kid Flash obviously going slower than his capability in order to watch the backs of his friends.

The first two guards who appeared looked very much like the groups initial handler, in fact Artemis could've sworn he was one of them. She and Red Arrow each shot an arrow at the guards, both arrows released a quick harden foam upon contact and soon the two guards were immobile.

They didn't get to the alarm, hopefully that means we'll have it easy Nightwing commented through the link as they ran.

No offence but do we ever have things easy? Connor asked and just then five more guards appeared, each of them firing some sort of blaster gun.

Nope and it doesn't look like today will be the exception Nightwing said as they tried to dodge the blasts.

Each of the guards began firing off the blasters as the group advanced through the zoo. The archer's fired their arrows, Aqualad deflected blasts with his water swords, Cheshire did the same with her Sais, and so on. They were all holding their own and were nearly halfway to the door when suddenly Artemis's shout was heard throughout the zoo.

It all happened so fast, Red Arrow and Artemis were at the head of the pack and the next thing they knew Artemis was down. Roy stopped to look back when he heard her shout and then ran back. The blond archer was collapsed on the ground, her eyes wide with a mixture of fear and pain, and her whole body was shaking furiously.

"TIGRESS IS DOWN!" He shouted as he stood over her, firing off his arrows in all directions.

Within an instant Wally was at her side and trying to get her up but it was no use.

"Artemis!" He exclaimed

"I'm fine, I just can't move" she insisted, sure that the others could tell she was lying. It was true that she couldn't move, apart from shaking, but she was far from fine. Every single part of her body hurt with an intense stinging sensation and she actually found herself wishing that it would all go numb.

Kid Flash get Tigress to the bioship, we'll be right behind you M'gann's voice telepathically rang in everyone's heads.

Already on it he responded and it was true, he had lifted Artemis into his arms before M'gann even said anything. He sped off at his top speed, keeping an extra tight grip on Artemis since her arms wouldn't listen to her when she tried to hold onto him.

Artemis wouldn't admit it but she was scared, she had been hit with a lot of strange weapons and concoctions of chemicals throughout her life, and normally she was afraid of the one's which took hours to take effect, but this was different. This was something from another world, something Nightwing or Black Canary or pretty much anyone on earth might not be able to fix.

"Hang on Artemis, it's going to be ok" Wally assured her as they reached the bioship and he placed her on the long table off to the side which they used for situations exactly like this.

For a moment Artemis was able to ignore the pain because Wally, who just yesterday she had believed to be dead, was sitting right beside her, holding her hand, and gazing worriedly into her eyes. For a moment she was able to rejoice in the true miracle of him being here with her.

But that only lasted for a moment.

It was then that her head began to pound with a powerful migraine and her eyelids grew heavy, she fought to keep herself conscious and tried to focus on the seemingly far away voice of her boyfriend as he begged her to hang in there. But she just couldn't, and the last thing she saw was the blurred faces of her boyfriend and sister looking down at her in concern.

When the rest of the team made it to the ship M'gann was forced to take off before the ramp was fully retracted because the guards were so close, but they all heard Wally.

"Artemis come on, the others are here! Just hang in there for a little longer, we're moving! We'll be home in no time!" He said to her in a pleading tone, he was holding her hand in both of his up to his heart, as if he could transfer part of his own life force by doing so.

Cheshire wasted no time and practically threw her mask off as she rushed over to stand beside Wally and get a look at her sister, whose eyes closed just as she got there. Instead of panicking she checked for a pulse, and was beyond relieved when she found one.

"Ok, she's alive for now" Jade announced as she let out a breath

"For now?!" Wally nearly snapped

"She'll be fine!" Jade snapped back

"How can you be sure?" Wally demanded, his hand still holding tight to Artemis's even as he flung his arms around.

"Enough!" Nightwing shouted, cutting Jade off before she could even speak. "Don't even pretend I don't know you two have talked on civil terms. You're both on the same page, at least when it comes to Artemis, so calm down and stop letting your fear get the best of you. Artemis is a strong girl, I've seen her survive way worse than a stun gun, she'll be alright." Nightwing assured. Wally and Jade exchanged apologetic glances with each other, and silently agreed that Nightwing was right about their outbursts being rooted in fear.

"How can you be sure?" Wally questioned his best friend, his voice much more even and calm.

"Because Artemis would never let herself be taken out so easily," he answered confidently.

The ride back was almost as silent as the ride there; Artemis's unconscious state took away anyone's ideas of celebrating Wally's rescue. Jade examined her sister once Wally worriedly exclaimed that he felt her skin was growing cold. Removing Artemis's mask and placing a hand on her forehead Jade could see what he meant, her face was cold, clammy, and sweaty. But her pulse was still strong and that told Jade all that she needed to know.

"Whatever hit her contained poison, it's trying to kill her but it's not enough." She announced

"What if it is?" Connor asked, voicing the very question Wally didn't want answered.

"It won't be. Artemis has a high tolerance for poison, we both do. Dad made sure of that." She added the last bit quietly and bitterly, but Connor didn't need his super hearing to hear it. Jade just went back to her seat as though she had said nothing

"If her pulse get's weak say something" she instructed Wally without even looking over her shoulder.

"You ok?" Roy asked when she sat down.

"Fine" she answered with a shrug and he sighed, he knew what was bothering her.

He could tell that she did know Artemis would be ok, but she was terrified that the poison would kill her and then she would never get the chance to fix things between them. He put a hand on her shoulder and she tried to shrug him off but he remained.

"Jade" he said sternly and she chuckled

"Seriously Red I'm fine" she said, her voice surprisingly honest.

Despite the honesty in her voice Roy could still see what she was hiding, most of the time Jade could pull anything straight over Roy's head, which he considered Lian to be living proof of. But every once in a while she would let her guard down, and he would look past his own nose, and then he could read her. He could see that she was scared, that she wanted him to wrap his arms around her and hold her until everything was better. But she was still conscious of her image and what other's thought of her, something they both wished she wasn't.

"Hey" he said as he removed his hand from her shoulder, prompting her to look at him "I'm here" he assured her and she gave him just the smallest of smiles

"I know," she confirmed.

When Artemis finally woke up the first thing she heard was Wally shouting

"Guys! She's coming too!" He joyfully exclaimed, even in her groggy state she rolled her eyes at him.

In that moment her senses came back to her and instantly she felt awful. She registered that she was in a room of the med bay of the watchtower, which was all she needed to know. She felt the rising bile inside of her as it touched the very base of her throat and bolted for the bathroom. She only threw up once, but the strange and almost heavy taste in her mouth told her that her 'sickness' was her body getting rid of poison, something she had done before on more than one occasion. She knelt over the toilet breathing heavily, as if waiting to be sick again. Once she felt she was safe she slowly stood up and returned to the bigger part of the room where she found Wally standing sheepishly by the door.

"No one heard me," he confessed and she rolled her eyes as she began hunting for her clothes. "Jade said that blast had poison in it" he informed her and she chuckled.

"You and my sister are on a first name basis?" She asked and Wally chuckled

"Hey you were out for almost six hours, a lot can happen." He defended with a smirk as he tossed Artemis her clothes.

"Thanks" she said with an amused glare.

"So" Wally said, his voice suddenly serious and nervous, "are you going to be Tigress from now on? I know we were leaving the life and that's still what I want but if you want to stay-" he started rambling but Artemis cut him off, almost sadly.

"Wally. I'll admit that when Nightwing asked me to go undercover I couldn't say yes fast enough; all I wanted was to go back. But the second I got there, the second I set foot on that ship, I knew I made a huge mistake." She turned to face him "I cried myself to sleep almost every night and counted down the minutes until it was all over and I could go home. The team is the best thing that ever happened to me, but I'm ready to move on with you" she assured him and Wally grinned.

He had planed to do this with the old team around, but this moment was just too perfect. By now they were face to face and he dug through his pocket as he got down on one knee, he had taken the ring out of his costume when he changed into his civies. Artemis gasped as he got down, one hand nearly flying over her mouth in surprise and Wally thought she might be sick again.

"Good because I never want to worry like that again, so Artemis, will you marry me?" He asked, he felt like what he had said was maybe the stupidest thing that could've come out of his mouth but he couldn't help it, he was so nervous! He didn't really no why he was this nervous, after all they've been together for five years, he figured if she was going to leave then she would've done it already.

The next thing Wally knew Artemis was on the ground with him and had practically crashed her lips into his own.

"Yes" she breathed when they finally pulled apart, Wally couldn't help but kiss her again.

Ok so sorry it took so long for the update! My schedule with school and work recently got really crazy and i'm still trying to find a pattern in it. Thanks so much for having patients with me and this last chapter, this was originally supposed to be a one shot but obviously that didn't happen :) Thanks so much for the kind reviews, they really have meant a lot to me! So glad people read and enjoyed this story!