Darkness {Young Justice}

Chapter 12

Darkness head footsteps coming through the hallways. 'What's going on?' She thought. 'No one is suppose to be out there? The director's footsteps weren't silent, but they're not that loud. The counselor's footsteps are more gentle than the one I am hearing.' She coughed up more blood without making too much noise. She could tell from the footsteps that it was a boy maybe around the same age as her or older.

She closed her eyes again to try to forget where she was. If it's time for another beating then she was ready. The door knob was turning and the door opened. She heard someone gasp and run towards her. Whoever they were released Darkness from the chains and before she fell to the ground arms pulled her close. She tried to open her eyes, but it was too hard. She thought, 'It must be the blood loss. It's already taking effect.'

"Darkness..." Jaime said shaking her lightly. "Come on... If you could hear me make a noise or move." She tried to move, but she couldn't move anything. It felt like her arms weighed a ton so she decided to make a noise instead. She groaned softly and he carried her bridal style. "Don't worry I'll get you some help." He began to walk back to Nightwing with Darkness in his arms in a hurry. When he made it to the door he opened it and saw Nightwing reviewing the files. When Nightwing heard the door close he turned towards Jaime and saw the condition of Darkness. Dried blood was on her suit, bruises on her arms and a busted lip.

"Where did you find her?" Nightwing asked running towards them.

"The room was filled with blood, most of it was hers but there was more dried blood on the walls." Jaime said to him.

"What do you think Dark Storm endured?" Nightwing asked.

"I don't know I never found him." Jaime said.

"We'll leave and I'll give the files back to the Counselor." Nightwing said to Jaime and Jaime nodded. Nightwing left the room to try to find the Counselor and he saw the same girl with two other people across the hall.

"We need to prepare." One of the girls said. Her hair was black in a updo hairstyle. She didn't look very tall, but that can be due from the distance between them. The other girl has short pink hair and looked taller than the girl with black hair. Nightwing walked towards them and when the girl that gave him the files heard his footsteps she and her teammates stopped talking about their new mission they had just gotten.

"Sorry to interrupt, but can you give this to the Counselor? I can't seem to find her." Nightwing asked. The black haired girl nodded and she took the files from Nightwing and left with her friends. He went back to the room and they left with an injured Darkness.

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"How did it go?" The Director asked.

"They left and gave the files to Agent Black Bird." The Counselor said.

"So tomorrow we'll move Dark Storm and Darkness." The Director said.

"Right we'll get three trucks and five of our best agents to make sure that the transfer is complete." The Counselor said.

"Good work Counselor." The Director said.

"Thank you Director." The Counselor said leaving the room to set the transfer up.

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"Put her down slowly." Nightwing said as he started the ship. Jaime walked towards the medical bed and slowly put her down as Nightwing had said. He stayed by her side holding her hand as she was sleeping.

'How can anyone do this?' Jaime thought as he watched her sleep. Her hand was cold, the blood drying on her skin and the bruises were beginning to turn purple or green on her pale skin.

'When she wakes up we'll ask her questions to what is going on.' The scarab said to Jaime.

'What if she doesn't want to talk?' Jaime thought.

'Then we'll have Megan explore her mind or we take things into your hands.' The scarab said.

'We are not hurting her.' Jaime thought strongly. He didn't want to cause her more pain then she already was. 'And Megan can't go inside her head remember.'

'It was just a suggestion. No need to take it personally.' The scarab said to Jaime. The scarab just want to get the answers need figure out what was happening. He hated being clueless to the things happening to Jaime or whoever had carried him before Jaime. He would never admit it out loud, but he did care for Jaime he just never shows it. Even though he's not suppose to have emotions because he's a machine. Somehow he really did care.

'We're still not doing it. She's already in a lot of pain.' Jaime thought to the scarab. 

'Well what do you suggest we do to get information we need?' The scarab asked him. The scarab want Jaime to enlighten him with his brilliant idea.

'We just need to gain her trust. That's all, no hurting her or invading her privacy, even though we really can't do that.'  Jaime thought.

'That's your plan? It's not exciting! It's plain!' The scarab said.

'But it works.' Jaime thought. 

The scarab sighed as he already knew Jaime was right. It was the best option, but it was time consuming. Till the scarab thought of something. 'What if the answers to the questions we have are really dangerous and we need to stop the Director and Counselor quickly?'

'Then she'll probably tell us right away. We are the good guys after all.' Jaime thought.

'But we gave her to her captures .' The scarab argued. 'What if she doesn't trust you anymore. She did experience all of the pain after we left.'

'Then I'll have to apologize to her for making the mistake to trust the Director and handing her over to them. Then I'll try to gain her trust.' Jaime thought.

'I hope you're right.' The scarab thought. 'And we better hope that it's not urgent.'

'I hope I'm right too!' Jaime thought. 'And that you're wrong.'