Another Super?!

Recovery

This one's going to be third person.

Like I said when I did this chapter in my blue lantern story, I am not a therapist so I apologize if this seems unrealistic. Personally I think I did a better job on this one than the other one, but I can't know for sure unless some tells me.

Don't hesitate to let me know if there's something I can improve on.

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Alana gasped as she came to. Bolting upright from her position on the makeshift bed. A glance down at her legs revealed she somehow had both.

"Wha-?" She stopped as strong, familiar arms wrapped around her, startling her. "Dad?" She whispered, not wanting to believe it. But a glance up at his face had her breaking out in tears at the reality that he was here. Alive.

"What happened in there?" Batman asked, gaining her attention as he helped J'onn stand.

"The exercise... it all went wrong."

'Exercise?' Alana thought, struggling to remember how she got from Dick's house in Gotham to the Cave earlier that day. 'What is he talking about?'

Apparently she wasn't the only one as Robin asked, "'exercise'?"

"Try to remember," the Dark Knight started. "What you experienced was a training exercise. Manhunter psychically linked the seven of you within an artificial reality. You all knew this going in. What you didn't know was that it was a 'train for failure' exercise. No matter what the Team accomplished the scenario was designed to grow worse.

"Still you were aware nothing was real, including the deaths of the entire Justice League."

"I must stop you there my friend," J'onn said, interrupting Batman's explanation. "Not everyone was aware."

"What do you mean?"

J'onn steadied himself and looked straight at Alana. "For some reason, Alana was not aware that it wasn't real. From the beginning she believed the whole scenario was in fact... reality."

"But that means...," Robin trailed off, though his sentence wasn't finished, everyone was thinking the same thing: Alana had acted and reacted as if Earth was really under a deadly attack the whole time. As if her friends's lives were actually in danger.

For her part, Alana couldn't look up from the floor as she struggled to process this revelation. Because of that she missed the looks her teammates and friends were giving her: shock, pity, awe, and, in Artemis's case, horror.

J'onn continued the explanation after a few minutes. "Things started going wrong in the split second when Artemis appeared to have died. Though consciously M'gann knew it was not real, and even with Artemis once again safe in front of her, her subconscious mind could no longer make that distinction. She forgot it was only an exercise, and her subconscious took control making the rest of you forget too."

The teens all looked at their Martian friend, not judgingly, just shocked. "I-I'm so sorry."

"This isn't her fault," Conner yelled, outraged that anyone would even insinuate such a thing. "Why didn't you stop the exercise?"

"We tried," J'onn stressed. "But Alana had ridden my telepathic link to somehow develop a death-grip on the scenario that was only relinquished to M'gann's own grip."

"When Aqualad eventually fell, he should have immediately woken up with us," Batman explained. "But instead he went into a coma. As did every member of the Team after your subsequent deaths."