A/N: TA-DA! I told you that I would upload the next chapter before Christmas! And what is the date today? Well in Canada, it's December 18th! (If you are confused, I mentioned my promise in my Christmas one-shot) But I think that I will never give myself a deadline EVER AGAIN. It is just way to stressful. Ok so this chapter is the longest one yet I think and don't worry if you think the beginning is confusing. Ok then, let's get down to business. I would like to give a shout out to the following reviewers, leafysummers, sexyshewolf and ForeverChocolateRoses. You guys rock!
Question of the Chapter: The question was, "If a set of female twins marry a set of male twins, will their babies look exactly the same? (Can I just state that I just started learning about genetics and reproducing three days ago) And the winning answer was from leafysummers who said "OMG. You have NO idea how many times I've wondered that. Well...I suppose if they're identical twins, then they're kids would look EXTREMELY alike, but otherwise no. If you've taken biology, you'll know about meiosis, and how four gametes form, all slightly different. So there's a 25% chance the kids would share DNA." Thank you for your answer, it was most helpful.
Disclaimer: For the seventh time, I DO NOT OWN LOSH!
The last thing Saturn Girl remembered before her subconscious awoke was the immense pain she felt when she hit the tower, after that her world went black.
'Hmm.' Saturn Girl groaned to herself 'What happened?' she asked herself. She tried to move but was soon stopped by the agonizing pain in her body.
'Ow! No trying that again.' She said. As she laid there, she soon heard a voice.
"Ok, let's see what we have here." 'BRAINY?' Saturn Girl gasped wondering where he was, 'Where are you?' She asked without receiving an answer. After a couple of seconds, the answer hit her. 'Of course!' she thought to herself, mentally face palming, 'I'm in a healing trance DUH! How could I not realize it before? It must have happened when I hit the tower.' she reasoned. She hadn't been in a healing trance since before she joined the Legion. She could still hear Brainy running tests and wished she could give him the answers, even though she knew that he would find out soon.
After a while, she heard him speak again.
"Of course. I knew I was right. Better tell the others." she heard the door close, leaving her on her own in the silence for a couple of seconds before she heard Brainy return. As well, she heard two more sets of footsteps following.
"As you see here, she's fine." She listened as the Coluan gave his analysis. "For the most part."
"What do you mean for the most part?" she recognized the voice immediately, it was Cos! She guessed that if Cosmic Boy was here then Lightning Lad must have told him, and was probably with him.
She listened to the rest of Brainy's explanation to find that he was spot on; not that she was surprised, after all, he did have a twelfth level intelligence. What was really bugging her was that the third person hadn't spoken up yet, they stayed completely silent. Saturn Girl contemplated reading their mind but quickly decided against it she made a promise to herself that she wouldn't invalid someone's mind without permission.
She tooned back into the discussion just in time to hear Cosmic Boy say good-bye to Brainy as he left the room. Soon after, she heard the mystery person finally speak.
"So what. That's it? We're just going to sit here and wait for Saturn Girl to wake up? There must be something more we can do then just stand by!" Saturn Girl recognized Lightning Lad's annoyed tone in his voice immediately, she knew that the red- head was impatient and she wished that she could wake up just to tell him that she was going to be okay, well except for the broken bones that she obtained. Even if she did wake up soon, she wouldn't be battle ready for a while.
"Lightning Lad, Brainy is doing the best he can do to help Saturn Girl make a speedy recovery. But for now, she just needs time to heal herself. There is nothing we can do." Saturn Girl knew that Cosmic Boy was trying hard to calm Lightning Lad, but once he got in one of his moods, it takes a lot to get him out.
"No! There must be something we can do! If it wasn't for me, she wouldn't be in this mess!" Saturn Girl's heart wrenched when she heard this, 'Lightning lad can't blame himself for this, if it is anyone's fault, it's mine.' She wished even more to be awake, but she wasn't going to be for awhile, even she didn't know when she would wake up. She heard the door close telling her that she was alone with one of them but she wasn't sure. She was soon surprised at the touch of hand holding hers. If she was awake, she most likely would have blushed. She realized that is was Cosmic Boy who was holding her hand when he began to speak. She was still exhausted from the events of earlier that day, so she let the voice of one of her dearest friends lull her to sleep. She still was listening but some of his words were muffled by sleep. She didn't even realize the change of hands holding hers as she fell deeply into a healing slumber.
The next day, her subconscious was entertained by Brainy talking more tests on her progress. She listened to him hum to himself while writing something down of the holopad. Her physical wounds were healing nicely but there was no change on her mental state.
After about half an hour as it seemed, Brainy left the room leaving her alone in her boredom.
It seemed like forever had passed by when she finally heard the door open; wondering who it was Saturn Girl listened carefully as the person sat down near her.
"Hey Imra." She recognized Garth's voice, though she could tell something was wrong. "listen, there is something I need to tell you, I punched Cos." Garth fell silent; Saturn Girl was both mad and disappointed at both Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy. They couldn't stop fighting for just for a little while she was in the hospital. It wasn't long before Lightning Lad broke the silence and went on. Saturn Girl listened to his side of the story and contemplated it. It was one of their classic fights of who was right and she always had to pick the winner. These kinds of arguments could go on for days. She did not envy the legionnaires who won the prize of being ref.
After talking, Lightning Lad did something that he usually doesn't do, get sentimental. He started taking about how everyone missed her; how HE missed her. She felt her heart skip a beat and was pretty sure that she would have blushed.
"But you can't hear me" She heard him mutter.
'No! I can!' Saturn Girl wanted to scream. She made an effort to show him that she could hear him; but all that it turned out to be was a twitch of her finger.
'This is useless' she thought to herself.
Lightning lad was taking in the view of the New Metropolis skyline when he heard the door swing open.
"There you are!" Lightning Lad whirled around to see Cosmic Boy looking annoyed who was followed by Brainy. The former had a pissed-off look on his face.
"Oh hey Cos, Brainy, what brings you here?" Lightning Lad said, hoping his nervousness wouldn't show. Brainy answered before Cosmic Boy could open his mouth.
"Cosmic Boy here" Brainy stuck his thumb out to point at Cosmic Boy, "is here to yell at you for punching him in the face. While I'm here to check on Saturn Girl's progress. So if you are going to fight, please take it outside so you don't break something expensive." Brainy interjected with a cool calmness which he always possessed before then turning to Saturn Girl and began running the tests totally uninterested in what his two friends were going to do.
"Don't worry Brainy," Lightning Lad answered, "I have calmed down but Mr. Hot Head here is a different story." Lightning Lad glared at Cosmic Boy. Cosmic Boy answered Lightning Lads response with a weak laugh of disbelief.
"Excuse me? You're the one who blew up in the first place!" cosmic boy added after his laugh.
"That's because you were being a pompous jerk!" Lightning Lad retorted.
While Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad continued with their verbal duel, Braniac 5 continued with his test.
During one of his final tests, Brainy noticed something that anyone could have, and would have missed. One of the fingers on the right hand of Saturn Girl began to twitch and move. Brainy quickly rechecked all of his test results, if he was correct, she wasn't suppose to wake up for the next couple of days; and yet here she was, coming out of her healing trance.
(A/N: QUE COMMERCIAL BREAK. Oh wait... we aren't on TV. Never mind.)
"Hey guys, you might want to see this." Brainy called to Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad, but they were too involved in their argument to hear their little green friend. "Their loss." Brainy said to himself as he gave up trying to get their attention. He watched as Saturn Girl's coral pink eyes fluttered open. They were hazy for a couple of seconds before they focused on the Coluan.
"Welcome back Imra." Brainy said to Saturn Girl as a small smile spread across his usually emotionless face.
"Hey Brainy." Saturn Girl croaked her throat still dry and sore from being in her healing trance for so long. With the help of Brainy, she sat up a little; her eyes were soon drawn to the two legionnaires fighting before turning back to Brainy. He knew the look in her eyes and nodded before walking over to Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy. They didn't notice him until he gave them each a little zap from the lasers in his fingers.
"HEY!" They both shouted at the same time. Brainy didn't say anything but just stepped aside revealing their newly awaken friend who gave them a weak smile.
"Imra! You're awake!" Cosmic Boy gasped. Lightning Lad was overcome by joy, thus struck speechless. They both rushed over to Saturn Girl throwing questions at her left, right and center.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, give the girl some space." Brainy interjected pushing himself between the two causing them to back up. He handed Saturn Girl a glass with liquid in it. Saturn Girl took the glass but gave Brainy a hesitant look.
"Drink it. It will help sooth your throat." He instructed. She eyed the liquid before downing it.
"Blach! Brainy that tastes horrible!" Saturn Girl choked out making a face at the bitter taste of the drink; she cleared her throat and when she spoke again, her voice was back to normal. "But it does help. Thank you." She thanked the Coluan with a smile before turning to the boys who looked as giddy as school girls.
"O.K, one question at a time please. I'm still tired from the healing trance if you can believe it." She warned the boys before opening herself up for questioning. Cosmic Boy asked a question before Garth could even open his mouth.
"So what is a healing trance and why didn't you tell us about it earlier?" Saturn Girl gave a small sigh and thought about her answer before speaking; she knew this question was coming.
"Well, a healing trance, as Brainy told you before; when a Titanian, such as myself goes into a coma like state giving their body time to heal any physical injuries and restore their mental strength. The length of the healing trance varies on the state of the person. Their whole body is still aware of what is going on even though they look like they're in a coma, shut away from the world around them." She answered. "I haven't been in a healing trance for a while so I guess it just slipped my mind." Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad contemplated her answer for a while.
"Wait a minute; did you say that their whole body is still aware? Does that mean... ummm, that you could hear us and everything?" Lightning Lad asked as he felt his face heat up, hoping that the others wouldn't notice him blushing.
"Yes. That means I heard everything unless I was sleeping. Didn't Brainy tell you that part?" She asked.
"No. He didn't tell us that did you Brai-" Cosmic Boy was cut short by turning around to see that Braniac 5 was no longer in the room.
"That sneaky little…" Lightning Lad said under his breath. There was soon a knock on the door and Lightning Lad walked over to open it. Behind the door was one of the nurses who walked in with a smile on her face.
"I'm sorry boys, but you'll have to leave now. The patient needs some rest. She might be all right mentally, but physically, she still has two broken ribs, a sprained ankle and some cuts and bruises that need to heal." She said as she shooed them out of the room and closed the door.
"When can she leave the hospital?" Lightning Lad asked the nurse skimmed over her information on her clip board. "Well, she can be moved into sick bay at Legion HQ buy tomorrow where Braniac 5 can keep a closer watch on her." She answered, "Now you too better get going, it's almost dark and both of you look like you could get some rest." She added looking at the boys seeing 'how out of gas' they looked. The nurse walked back into Saturn Girls room before either of them could ask any more questions.
A/N: Ok before you chase after me with pitchforks and torches, THIS IS NOT THE END I will be writing an epilogue because this didn't turn out how I wanted it to but that's the way it ended up. So don't hate me. Also, I'm not sure if that's the actual definition of a healing trance because I just made it up from what I learned from the show and what others wrote healing trances in their stories. And just letting you know that I won't be uploading for a while because I have lots of school work that I need to get done ASAP so don't hate me for that either. Ok, know for the question of the chapter.
Question of the Chapter: What would happen if Pinocchio said that he was going to lie?