I've done it! i have started conecting my story with Young Justice! *dances around singing* finaly after 8 chapters there is finally a conection! any ideas that you might have or mabey things that you want to see happen in the story, just message me. ive been having writers block pretty bad and even little sugestions can help my brain start working agian. happy new year!

Chapter 9

The fact that I was miserable was a great source of enjoyment to Wally. Wally was the annoying ginger kid in my 2nd period art class at school. All he did was sit there and make stupid attempts at being funny. His jokes were awful. And he kept trying to guess why I was in such a mood. He had plopped his skinny butt down on the stool next to me so he was facing me and leaned over the table so he could prop his head up on his hand.

"Wait, wait, don't tell me-"

"I wasn't planning to," I interrupted him.

"- you dropped your ice cream cone?"

I didn't say anything, hoping that he would just get bored and go away. No such luck.

"no, no, that's not it… um… you got last at your guard competition over the week end?"

Jade, who was sitting across from me only do to our assigned seats (apparently Wally was above the rules) snapped her head up. "We got first place thank you very much. And that was with everything that happened."

I shot her a look that told her "I still remember everything that happened." She looked back at me with a conflicting look that I ignored and went back to the sketch of a dragon I was working on. Wally saw the look and decided that that was his business to meddle in.

"Oh, I see," he said with an all knowing look on his face, "You dropped your flag while you were twirling it and it caused you to loose and now Jade is mad at you."

"Excuse me?" I said slowly turning my head to fix him with a death glare.

"What did you just say?" Jade said throwing in her own death glare.

"I know for a fact that you did not just use the "T" word. I know that you didn't because that would mean that you had a wish to strung up by your little toes and hoisted up to dangle from the highest point of Wayne Tower in Gotham with cement blocks attached to your hands and then have water continually poured up your nose." I said in a deadly voice motioning with my pencil at the appropriate parts of his body as I referenced them.

"And I know that you didn't just accuse our officer of not being able to catch her shit."

"Whoa guys. It was just a joke, I didn't think you took your twirling so seriously," Wally said holding his hands up in surrender, still not noticing that he was still using the hated word.

"Would you get your soulless ginger self out of here before you need assistance moving at all? You don't know what happened this weekend. You have no clue what we went through! You don't know what it's like to be running around a building that is on fire –" I started coughing and couldn't stop. My throat still hurt from all the smoke that I had inhaled two days before. My eyes started watering as I continued the raspy coughing.

"Wait, what fire?" Wally asked totally unfazed by the fact that I was on the verge of donating a lung right there in the middle of art class.

I stopped coughing just long enough to take in a long wheezy breath before continuing my coughing fit.

"Jamie, do you need an inhaler?" Jade asked, pulling her back pack up onto the table. She sounded worried but my eyes were watering too badly to be able to see her clearly.

I nodded my head and stuck my hand out toward her as I kept coughing. She dropped her yellow inhaler into my outstretched hand. I took a pump from it and held my breath as best as I could to let the medicine do what it could before I slowly let my breath out. The medicine had stopped the violent coughing but I still had puny little coughs ever few seconds.

"Whoa, what fire are you talking about?" he still hadn't caught on that he still wasn't wanted.

"You idiot, the fire at our competition that Jamie went running around in trying to find me even though I wasn't in the building anymore. You heard about the fire at Gotham High School and the attempted kidnapping and the fight between the Ghost Twins and Tempest, right? Yeah, that whole ordeal. All the smoke that she inhaled is the cause of Jamie coughing, not to mention your freckled nose not being able to stay out of other people's business. Now go away before I start sticking sharpened pencils into every opening in your head!"

Wally got up to go back to his seat, as he walked past Jade she stuck her hand out without watching and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and pulled him down so that they were nose to nose and said "And if you ever say that we twirl again I will personally see to it that Jamie's threat is carried out." She pushed him toward his own seat and turned back around to face me. My face was red which made my scars pop out even more, my eyes were still watering and my throat burned but I had stopped coughing for the moment.

"You okay?" she asked.

I nodded and reached for my water bottle in my back pack and took a sip. After I screwed the lid back on I handed Jade back her inhaler and signed THANK YOU to her. Both of us knew enough sign language to get our point across… plus the curse words.

She gave me a look that told me she didn't trust my nod.

THROAT HURT. NO TALK, NO HURT. I signed.

OKAY… SORRY. I knew that the sorry was for everything that had happened at the competition as well as a sorry your throat hurts.

I KNOW. I SORRY TOO. THANKY YOU AGAIN.

Jade looked confused and signed FOR WHAT?

FOR WHAT YOU SAY TO STUPID.

WHO?

W-A-L-L-Y I finger spelled.

OH. YOU'RE WELCOME. FUNNY.

I smiled. I could hold a grudge like nobody's business, but when it's your best friend, it's the hardest thing ever. We just got along to well for it to work any other way.

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I made it through the rest of the day only needing to use Jade's inhaler once more. Unfortunately that was in my Astronomy class. Astronomy is the most pointless class ever. We do nothing. If you feel like sitting there and texting the whole class the teacher doesn't care. The most educational thing we have done is watch Blue's Clues to learn the order of the planets from the song they sing, watch Dora for some reason that had nothing to do with astronomy and then we finally graduated up to where we were mature enough to watch the Magic School Bus. La dee freaken da.

I don't know what got me started coughing but I couldn't stop. And I don't talk to anyone in that class because they all annoy me to no end, so I had no one to ask if they had an inhaler and if I could use it. I texted Jade while I tried to smother my coughs "t ylla tg irity." We had come up with a code that we would occasionally text each other in to let the other know that it was important. She would figure out the decoder word because it always referenced something major from earlier in the day. The class room I was in was right above the one Jade was in so I knew it wouldn't be long till she was here. My phone vibrated. When I opened the message it said "hzxtyr."

I kept trying to smother my coughs but it wasn't working. People who had never noticed the scar faced girl sitting in the corner of the front row were turning to look at me. I hate being noticed. My throat felt like it was trying to explode and was on fire all at the same time. I couldn't risk taking a drink of water for fear that I would end up shooting it out of my nose. There was a knock on the locked door. My teacher got up from her desk to open the door. I saw Jade standing there with the inhaler in hand.

"Jamie needs this," she said holding up the yellow inhaler.

"Who?" my teacher asked.

Jade gave her a "really?" look and pushed the door open the rest of the way and walked over to me. She set the inhaler on my desk "Hang on to that, but don't use it to often." I gave her a thumbs up as I took another puff of medicine. THANK YOU AGAIN.

SURE.

0~0~0~0

The Ghost Twins sat at the kitchen table of the apartment they lived in with their heads bowed as Haunt stood towering over them.

"Congratulations, you two have proved to me that I have been much too lenient on you. You have taken advantage of my kind and thoughtful nature. You have been sneaking around and listening in on my plans. And now, I have to start all over again because little Ms. Marie is being watched so a couple of fools don't come and attempt to yet again kidnap her." Haunt started walking around the table and stopped behind Lily Byrd, the girl Ghost. "Did you think you were ready? Did you think that you didn't need to be assigned a mission; that you could just pick and choose what you do?" Then he walked behind Luke Byrd, Lily's twin brother," That you didn't need me?"

"That's not what we thought!" Lily said trying to defend them.

Haunt's head snapped up and he narrowed his eyes at her. "What did you say?"

Lily ducked her head back down with her hands in her lap. "Hey, back off Lily," Luke said putting one hand on Lily's shoulder and slipping what looked like a pocket watch into her hands.

"Sit your pasty butt back into that that chair, Boy!" Haunt yelled. Luke sat back down, holding on to the end of the chain of the pocket watch. The pocket watch was a contraption they had made where the chain retracted inside of it.

"I am sick of you kids ruining everything!"

The Ghosts looked at each other and nodded. They sprang up and, with the chain between them, clothes lined Haunt. They ran behind him, wrapping the chain around his neck and Lily ducked under the chain and they both yanked on the ends they were holding down to the ground, pulling Haunt onto his back and smacking his head onto the ground. The fall knocked him out. Luke let go of his end of the chain and it retracted back into the pocket watch in Lily's hand. He walked over to the unconscious Haunt and stood over him.

"We quit," Luke lifted up his foot and stomped on Haunts nose with a sickening crunch. Blood spurted out of his nose and ran down his face, dripping onto the floor around him.

the thing with the teacher asking "who?" has happened before. and it wasnt even at the begining of the year. huzzah for being invisible. and in case you are wondering about the code thing, the key is "inhaler". you write the key word with no repeating letters then continue the alphabet starting from the last letter of the key, making sure none of the letters repeat then you match it up with the normal ABC's and tada! you have a code. if you've read Bitterblue than you know what im talking about. (BTW i do not own bitterblue or young justice... you know the drill.)