Roy was confused. He didn't know how the hell he had gotten where he was. He couldn't even focus. The room seemed to sway every time he tried to move and so he decided to just lie there, in the cold floor. He tried really hard to remember what happened but the throbbing in his head wasn't helping and he felt as if he had carried a car for three days. His bones felt like glass, ready to break at any moment and he could tell he had a broken rib, what was odd though was that it wasn't hurting as much as it should be so he figured someone must've helped him. Finally he was able to move his head without getting dizzy and sat up. His vision was blurry at first but started to sharpen. The first thing he saw was the color yellow and then it was moving. He could make a blonde girl coming closer to him and she smiled a bit as she kneeled next to him, checking the wounds on his arm, the touch of her fingers sending electric shocks through his body.
He found himself staring at her. The throbbing in his head started to increase again. He tried to remember something important he needed to tell her, wait, not her, ... The team but... His mind was fuzzy when he started recalling. He felt a loose strand of blonde hair caress his arm as she came closer to inspect his wounds. He was shirt less, apparently he had been taken good care of because he was not feeling too much pain at his side at the moment. He became fond of the way she was inspecting him, carefully, like she knew what she was doing, and her eyes made him curious, like he had seen that shape of eyes, he was now enjoying the way her cheeks gave a light shade of pink when he suddenly tried to sit up and the clean sheet that was covering him fell giving her a complete view of his bare chest and stomach.
"Where am I?" he said firmly to her who abruptly looked away crossing her arms with a scoff.
"Psshh yeah, play dumb, you only passed out its not like you lost your memory" she said defensively.
He knew this girl. Artemis. The one who had replaced him as Green Arrow's prodigy. He had threatened her not to hurt his friends and when he realized she wouldn't do anything to harm them he had stopped being so mean to her but he never let his guard down. The rest of the team wasn't there, only him and her. He stayed silent for a while, staring at her and then he cleared his throat. "Um, where is everyone?"
Artemis cocked her head to the side. Surely he would've realized that they had gone after Cheshire after he barged in and literally fell at her feet. He had been left with her and Kaldur to help take care of him but the team needed help so Kaldur went over. "They went after Cheshire." she said.
His muscles tensed at the sound of the assassin's name and his eyes darted to every corner of the room in search for her, he relaxed when he found no traces of her and soon realized he was in the bioship. "What am I doing here?"
"Stop playing Roy." she answered but she searched his eyes, in case he was being sincere and couldn't remember. She found no sign that he was lying and she swallowed hard. If he had forgotten his mission how would they help him complete it?
"You were on a mission." he opened his mouth to ask what it was but she cut him off "We don't know what it is. Cheshire hurt you and you found the ship. You barged in and passed out, the team is out there right now, looking for Cheshire"
His heart fell. He understood perfectly well the situation. Without him remembering what he was doing there how would they know what to look for or what to stop? They were too far to go back and get information on the mission and by the time came back Cheshire would be gone. They would have to continue blindly until he recovered his memory.
He was still watching Artemis carefully. Suddenly a loud voice was heard outside the bioship. 'Someone came back' the injured archer thought. Wally appeared in the doorway his cheeks flushed from the cold outside. The search was useless he knew that. Wally probably used his super speed and arrived first leaving the rest of the team behind.
"Hey Artemis did Roy awake alre-" he began but was cut short because of the scene in front of him. Artemis still had her hand mindlessly on Roy's arm and he was still in a sitting position without a shirt. His eyes looked like they were about to pop out. He was feeling the awkward silence right now. He definitely wasn't thinking on punching an injured man, much less his friend, for the proximity he had on Artemis. Why would he? He didn't like her or anything. It wasn't like he owned her. Buried in the back of his mind was a passionate worry for the archer but he would deny it. The train of thought was stopped when another female redheaded floated graciously towards him, followed by her boyfriend who walked with a frown next to a frustrated Aqualad who didn't notice what was happening between the three of them at the moment. Robin hadn't arrived yet and no one noticed that he wasn't following the group either.
The group didn't notice him running off on his own. Kaldur was too busy looking for Cheshire, Conner had to knock out opponents every now and then and Megan was still a bit drowsy so when they boy wonder slipped off no one took notice of it.