It has been three years since Wally's death, since she became numb, and since she turned all her emotions off. It was just her and saving the world, nothing else.

But there will always be an exception for quite a few things, namely Dick Grayson and her mother. They were the only people she would ever let inside, not even Ollie. But if it made her feel better, then her mentor will leave her to it and worry in the corner.

It was the first instinct of a brokenhearted person to push everyone away in the hopes of trying to mend their broken hearts by themselves. Artemis Lian Crock did that, too. She pushed everyone away, kept her mouth shut, did her thing, and she was fine by that. She was used to feeling so… numb. If that even counts as a feeling, at all.

During that time she finds it hard to connect or even talk to someone about how she feels, because in all honesty, she doesn't know how it feels. It's like her brain just stopped trying to process and translate emotional things that are happening to her. And she got used to it so easily that she has never encountered one time where she actually did feel something.

But somehow, he managed to enter her life and get away with it without so much of a scratch. He was the closest thing that made her feel some kind of emotion. But when she realized that he's been trying to do it, she shut him off quickly.

Artemis is yet to realize that he is Dick Grayson and he has his ways of trying to get himself back in people's lives without any trouble. Here's the case though, she didn't exactly feel anything when he managed to put himself back in close range to her. She just gave him a look and went back to whatever the hell she was doing.

It went on for quite some time before she finally cracked. Seeing a picture of her, Dick, and Wally together made her drop the plate on her hands that day. And she cried. For the first time, there was something. Rather than being numb, or being completely ignorant, she embraced it.

She held on to him, tighter than ever, and cried. Her head leaning on his chest, her knees down on the ground. It was a sudden wave of emotions that it felt so foreign and unwelcome to her. She was so used to the emptiness to the point where every sign of feeling or anything else is completely foreign and unknown.

That time, she felt Dick's hand on hers as he said, "If I can do it, then you can." And there was hope again.

And now, as she looked at the mirror, her grey eyes showing a kaleidoscope of emotions that she once neglected; she feels everything again. She can't believe that once, she had the impression that she's never going to love someone again after Wally West's death. But then Dick Grayson reentered her life, and she was falling again.

Sometimes, the best things in life just comes unexpectedly. No one needs to expect when it'll all come, anyway. Artemis swears that if she'd have expected something more, it wouldn't turn out this great. But she wouldn't have it any other way.

He made her see new things in life even after the death of her first love, he showed her that there is much more to life than living in numbness and in subconscious pain. He made her feel again. And right now, that's the only thing that matters to her.