A/N: So my eyes keep tearing up, I've full out sobbed several times, and I think my life is over. Why? Because Wally West is...Dead (Crying again). I just...I just...I still can't really comprehend this. I just...If the show was to get a third season, I am almost ninety-five percent sure he would come back. He would just...He would have too. As much as I think the producers of Young Justice are completely TROLLS right now, I don't think they are that big of trolls. I'm sure they would have brought them back somehow.

The real troll is Cartoon Network for canceling. They cancelled the wonderful amazing show that is (was) Young Justice. They are the reason we will never know if they truly defeated the Light, if Wally comes back, if Bart's future is better, if Dick ever joins the team again. Maybe somehow it could come back. I really wish it would.

For now though, Wally is dead and I can't stop crying. This is just a little one-shot where I could express my sadness. I listened to sad songs the whole time I wrote it. This is especially inspired by Been a Long Day by Rosi Golan. I'll try updating S.S. Justice soon.

Disclaimer: Young Justice belongs to a bunch of trolls.

"It's been a long day, and I just want to hide away."

-Rosi Golan

She was trying to pull herself together. After the realization first hit her, all she could do was cry. And cry. And cry. Wally was not the only one to die that day, part of her had too. Her life had stopped, her world no longer turning. There was no more point.

What hurt the most was that she had just gotten him back. He had carried her through the door of their apartment after the Summit and then twelve hours later, he was dead. Gone. Just like that.

Eventually, Kaldur had pulled her out of the snow and carried her onto the ship. She had screamed and tried to thrash out of his arms, begging to leave her there. Maybe he would come back, maybe he was just lost. Maybe.

Sometime during the ride back to the Watchtower, she had finally stopped crying. An ice had settled over her body. She felt cold, like the Arctic. The excited announcement of the return of the Leaguers from Rimbor didn't even affect her. She changed into civvies and left, not wanting to celebrate when half of her was gone forever.

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She barely remembered the funeral. She remembered that she had gotten up to say something, but had ended up just standing at the podium, sobbing, trying to get out some funny story about her and Wally and their life together in Palo Alto. Dick had eventually walked up to the podium and led her outside of the church. Kaldur, Conner, Zatanna, Raquel, and Megan soon joined her.

After a day spent alone in their apartment, she finally began to pull herself together, knowing that Wally would want her to keep going on. She suited up as Tigress, not even attempting to touch the green Artemis costume. She could never wear that again, that Artemis had been the girl that first greeted Wally when he showed up in the cave with sun block on his nose and a towel around his neck.

She walked through the tower, giving soft greetings to people as she passed back. In reality, she just no longer felt it. She was numb to everything. She found her way out into the grotto and for just a second, she thought she saw Wally. Her heart swelled and she wanted to smile, laugh, and cry all at the same time. But then she realized that it was just Bart, and she just wanted to cry all over again.

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One month after the day Wally died, Artemis was going through his things, packing them into boxes along with her stuff. She had been staying at the Watchtower as much as possible, not wanting to go home to the apartment that they had shared together. Eventually she decided to just sell the apartment and buy one in Star City so she could be close to Roy and Ollie. The two of them had been helping her a lot.

She dropped a picture, the glass in the frame shattering. She pulled out the picture of all eight of them at the cave. Wally had picked up Artemis at the very last second, so she was looking with confusion at Wally, who was beaming. Dick was laughing his head off while Zatanna just rolled her eyes. Kaldur and Raquel were both shaking their head at the other's antics and Conner and Megan were obliviously looking into each other's eyes.

Artemis picked up the glass, throwing it into a garbage bag and then carefully folded the picture into her pocket. The picture reminded her of happier times. The mountain was still there home, Dick hadn't disappeared, and Wally wasn't dead.

The last thing for Artemis to tackle was Wally's nightstand. The boy had kept all kinds of souvenirs from their lives together at college in there and she hadn't been ready until then. She took a deep breath and opened up the drawer. Unfortunately the first thing she had seen was a small black box. Artemis slid down onto the floor, holding the box in her hand. She flipped it open and inside was a beautiful diamond ring.

Her composure came crashing down right then. He was going to propose. They were going to get married and have a family. She was going to be a mom and a wife. They were going to be together forever.

Great heaping sobs racked through her body. She wept for hours, staring at the box in her hand, a promise of a future that they would never have now.

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Artemis didn't feel anything; she just laid on the floor staring at the box in front of her. She pictured two little kids. A girl with red hair and gray eyes and a boy with green eyes and blonde hair. Their children. She didn't eat, or sleep, just stared. She knew she was supposed to be moving into her new apartment and Oliver was probably waiting for her, but she just stared at the ring.

"Wally." She said quietly. "I miss you. Wally, come back. Why did you just have to be the hero? Why did you always have to be the hero?"

She heard knocking on her door, but she ignored it. She heard knocking again, and she ignored it again. She didn't know how long she had been there, but she knew it had been a while. She heard a door open and Bart sped into the bedroom.

"Artemis?" He shouted, before he saw the heap on the floor. "Artemis." He said quietly going over to her.

"He was going to propose. We were going to be together forever." She said quietly as he approached. He spotted the box, and gulped.

"Artemis, I'm so sorry." He said gently. The girl began to cry all over again. He rested a hand on her shoulder, not knowing what to do. He just sat there as a broken girl cried about the future that she deserved to have.

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They were watching her. She knew they were taking turns keeping an eye on her. Bart had called Roy who had come and picked her up and carried her to Oliver's. She stayed there for a few days, staring at the ring. She wouldn't let anyone take the box away from her.

The others had set up her new apartment for her while she was out of it. Slowly she came to again, but she felt hollow, even hollower then before. Every now and then she would see a fleeing image of Wally, smiling at her or chasing after two kids that will never exist.

She moved into the apartment, started going on missions again, and tried to continue on. But every night, somebody would stop by to check on her. She was thankful for the consideration, but it didn't make up for anything.

One night while Zatanna was visiting the two of them were flipping through the stations, looking for something to watch. Something suddenly caught her eye.

"Zee, stop." She says with such force that Zatanna almost dropped the remote.

On screen there was a ninja girl staring Longley at a boy.

"I'm sorry, but my father would make me kill you."

"But I love you."

"I love you too."

Artemis' eyes welled up, but she shushed Zatanna when she tried to ask what was wrong. They watched the movie, and in the end the ninja girl ended up with her ninja boyfriend. Artemis began to cry again. Zatanna put a comforting arm around her.

"That should have been me. That was supposed to be us. He...he was my ninja boyfriend. And now he's gone."

A/N: Okay, I'm crying again. There go my emotions. I'm sorry if Artemis seemed out of character, that's just how I feel right now. I'm crying again. This sucks.

Wally West will live on in the hearts of fans everywhere. Spitfire will never die because we can still write stories for them. We can give them a happy ending. I promise this is the one story that I will write where they will not get a happy ending. They deserved one after all the shit they went through. It is up to us now whether Spitfire lives or dies.