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I was afraid to turn around. I was so tired. I don't think I had it in me to fight right now if I had to. After all we had been through today.

Alex saw I was nervous.

"Vanessa, it's okay. Turn around."

I looked up at him in his bed. He pleaded with me with his light green eyes. I saw he was still not at full capacity. So, though it was against my better judgement, I turned around.

I was met by a dark mantle and piercing eyes.

He swiftly walked over to the monitors hooked up to my brother.

I looked at Alex's face. He was speechless.

"You're healing faster than expected. You're lucky your sister cares about you so much," Batman commented as he glanced.

"Did he know about my healing powers?"

"He should be out within the day or so. When he first arrived, we speculated at least a week."

Alex and I looked at each other. He gave me a small scowl. He hated when I used my powers on him. But I didn't care. If there was anything I could do to keep him alive, I was gonna do it.

"You two will be staying here. There is a room for you down the hall. Someone will show you there later.

"We are currently looking into those who held you captive. Until then, you will stay here. The Team will protect you if anything happens."

Batman turned to leave.

"Thank you," Alex spilled out.

Batman stopped in his tracks. He turned and gave a small smile.

I turned to Alex after Batman had stepped out.

"You're such a fanboy."

He laid down, a goofy grin plastered on his face.

We started talking. I explained to him what had happened since we had escaped. I did most of the talking. I could tell, though I had helped stabilize him, he still had to recover on his own. He had worse cuts and bruises than I did. He was exhausted, no matter how much he tried to hide it from me. He had a large bruise on his face from the explosion, and cuts covering his arms from the makeshift raft of the scrapped ship.

I felt bad for him. He had done a lot to protect me while we were prisoners, and this was his reward. And though I had healed him some, I still couldn't do much to help him.

In the middle of our conversation, the two females from what I assumed were part of the Team Batman had been talking about, walked in.. It was our rescuer, Artemis, I think they said her name was, and the Martian.

I felt Alex tense up as he noticed her walking in. He had hadn't seen her since we came in since he was unconscious and immediately placed in the infirmary. I felt my face scowl.

"We just thought we'd come in to check on you guys," said Artemis.

"We're fine," I answered shortly.

I think she noticed, but she didn't comment on it.

"Artemis and I felt bad about our first impression. We thought we come and give an official welcome, and get to know each other a little better, especially since you'll be living here," M'gann said cheerfully.

"Who told you that?" I asked defensively.

"Well Batman gave us the information before he came and talked to you. We'll make sure that nothing happens to you as your protectors."

"We can take care of ourselves. We have up to this point. And we definitely don't need help from the likes of you," I glared.

From the way she shrunk back, I could tell she had been hurt a little.

"Thank you," my brother quickly intervened, "We appreciate it."

The Martian perked up a little, but I could tell she was still unsure of what to say next.

Artemis spoke up, trying to break the interchange between us.

"Why don't we introduce ourselves? I think you know who we are. Why don't you guys tell us about yourselves."

I looked back at Alex. He took a slight glance at the Martian before he preceded. He clearly didn't want me to make a mess out of things. We both hated Martians, but Alex has always been better at concealing emotions than I have.

"I'm Alex. That's my sister Vanessa. I'm twelve, she's nine."

"Anything else you care to tell us? Like any hobbies, our activities that you guys like? Maybe we could do them together so you guys can have some entertainment while you're here, " M'gann said.

"Not that we want to tell you," I snapped.

"Well, were gonna let you two rest and get accustomed to this place. We'll be in the front if you need anything. Maybe you can meet the rest of us later. But, you know, whenever you guys are ready."

They got up and left.

Compelled to lighten the atmosphere, my brother said, "We'll have to take you up on that offer," hoping they would disregard all I had said.

Artemis nodded as she left.

Alex sat up, and gave me a dirty look after they disappeared from sight.

"I know you hate Martians, but you can't bite the hand that feeds you."

I couldn't believe him.

"You hate Martians too. I can't understand how you were so calm."

"Yes, I do hate Martians, but I also recognize that if she is helping us, I can't shrug that off. You may think we don't need any help, but if Artemis hadn't found us earlier, we would have died."

"I would have found a way."

"Vanessa, let's just take this as far as it will go. We need their help. Otherwise, we would have been still out there not knowing what to do with ourselves, and definitely would have been captured again. Now, which would you rather be with, a Martian that's out to kill us or one that's part of a team devoted to good. We need to do our best to make sure we don't need to mess this up. So can you please just deal with the lesser of two evils?"

"Fine."

I knew this was gonna be hard. But the way Alex had pleaded with me, and after all he had done for me, I at least owed him this one. But I definitely wasn't looking forward to it.