He always thinks about her beautiful long blond hair, and her amazing grey eyes and how they used to look at him with so much love and happiness. But that's all gone now. Artemis joined the shadows again and this time he doesn't think she's coming back. Seven months ago Sports Master killed Artemis's mum and put her sister in the hospital, she didn't want to go but the only way to protect her family was to join them. No matter how hard the Justice League tried they couldn't find the shadows.

At the moment Dick is sitting in his math class staring at his blank test sheet not even registering what's going on around him as the class leaves the room. Artemis wasn't just his team-mate or girlfriend, she was his best friend. The day she left was his birthday. He was at home finishing some homework before the big party that Bruce organised started and she was out on a last-minute mission with the team. It was a simple gather information and report back mission, but when she saw Sports Master she snapped. Wally called him and told him what happened that night, Dick locked himself in the room that he built-in the back of his closet where all his computers were for two months, trying to find them but he didn't find anything.

He hasn't slept properly since then and his team-mates, teachers and Bruce were all starting to get very worried. Bruce took him to see Black canary but all he did was stare at the picture of Artemis and himself on her first day at Gotham Academy, and thought 'we'll laugh about this someday.' Only if he ever saw her again.

He didn't perform properly when the team went on missions or at school. Eventually he was asked to take some time off from the team and hasn't been training for six weeks.

Someone tapped Dick on the shoulder; it was his math teacher Mr Renaldo. "Are you all right Richard? You didn't touch your test, I would've expected you to be the first one finished." Dick shook his head and said, "I'm just a little under the weather, but I'll manage. If you like I can stay in at lunch and take the test or after school."

"It's all right Mr Grayson you are required in the headmasters office at lunch today." Dick was a little surprised, he has never been asked to Headmaster William's office before unless it was to congratulate him or talk about him speaking at the assembly, and he knew it wasn't either of those things. "Am I in trouble?" He asked packing up his things. Mr Renaldo shook his head and said "No. It's just a quick talk. Now you need to get to your next class young man before you're late." He said with a smile and showed him to the door.

Artemis was sitting in the cafeteria at the shadows base. She's been sitting at the same table for the past two hours staring at her sandwich. Seven months ago she actually had food that looked edible and didn't look like someone already ate it. She almost fell asleep but she kept remembering the night her mother died and woke up again. "Are you going to eat that?" she looked up and saw her father standing next to Icicle Junior and Black Spider. "No I like my food made fresh,not regurgitated."

"Well maybe you can go complain to your friends while you're visiting." Artemis's head shot up and she saw her father smirking at her. "What do you mean while I'm visiting?"

"you know exactly what I mean. know hurry up you leave tonight."

"come in." Headmaster Williams replied. dick opened the door and said "um I was told that you wanted to see me." The headmaster looked up and got out of his chair. "Yes I did please have a seat Mr Grayson." Dick took a seat and looked around the office. It hadn't changed since the last time he was there. "Thank you for coming Richard. I'm quite worried about you. You used to be the top of almost all your classes until miss Crock moved to Star City,does this falling out have to do with her moving?" Dick looked at his hands, he felt a sharp stabbing pain in his chest when he heard her last name.

"Um, what do you mean by falling out?" He knew exactly what the headmaster meant he just wanted to stay away from the Artemis subject. "You know exactly what I mean Mr Grayson. I can tell you haven't had a good nights sleep in months, you haven't been focussing in class and homework and assignments have come in late. That's what I mean by falling out Richard and I suggest you see someone about this otherwise you will be asked to leave the academy so you can focus on your own well-being. Now that was all for today Mr Grayson you may leave." The headmaster got out of his chair and opened the door waiting for Dick to leave. He managed to pick his jaw up of the ground and walked out of the room.

After school at Wayne Manor:

Dick Walked into the house and saw Bruce sitting at the table. Dick waved and was about to go upstairs when Bruce said "School called today. I spoke to headmaster Williams he said you weren't focussing in class and that your homework and assignments have come in late, that is if you handed them in at all. Get dressed we're going to the cave." Dick knew better than to argue with Bruce so he did as he was told. After both of them were changed they went into the Bat-cave and used the zeta tube to get to the cave.

Mount Justice:

"Batman A01 and Robin B01." The computer announced as they entered the cave. They walked further into the cave and saw everyone in the lounge room. "I'll be back in a minute." Batman said to him and left the room. He walked into the room to all his friends who all looked shocked to see him. "Hey guys, how's it going?"

"Robin it's good to see you." Aqua Lad said and got up to shake his hand. Megan got up and said "We were beginning to worry,are you hungry?" Robin shook his head and said "I'm fine Megan." Kid Flash got up and sped over to his friend "Are you back permanently or just for a while?" Robin shrugged and said "I didn't even know I was coming here this afternoon Batman just wanted me to come."
" Robin." he turned around and saw Batman and Black Canary. He waved goodbye to his friends and followed them to the other room where they had therapy sessions

"How are you Robin?" Black Canary asked, Robin sat down in one of the chairs and said "No better then last time. Why am I here?" Batman sighed and said "Robin you need to do something about this you can't keep living like this." Robin stood up and walked toward the door when Bruce said "I know she was important to you but there are millions of other girls out there, this is ruining you life your future. Don't you care about that?" Robin turned around and shouted "No. I don't care about my future our my life, they're not important to me unless Artemis is in it. You may think I'm being dramatic but you know nothing about what love is because all you have is one night stands with random chicks you pick up at functions and parties. Maybe one day you'll find out what it feels like." Batman and Black Canary stood there jaws dropped as he walked out of the room. When he saw his friends they all looked shocked das well. He typed in the coordinates for Gotham and stepped into the zeta tube.

They got out of the chopper and Artemis looked around. They landed on top of an abandoned ware house on the outskirts of Gotham. "Home." she said to herself ,"You're talking to yourself babe." Icicle Junior said "Of course I talk to myself, I need to talk to someone intelligent instead of you losers." That got him to shut up.