AN: Well, I've been obsessed with the Spitfire (Wally and Artemis) couple lately, so I decided to write about it. This is my first story in a long time, and it should get quite a bit farther then my others.

The start of this story takes place AFTER Wally disappears in the arctic, well mostly at least. It will mainly follow Artemis, and a little of Nightwing, as well as a character I'm going to add because I couldn't see any of the other characters besides maybe Bart doing this. But I'm spoiling too much already. Enjoy the feels in the first chapter.

*Subject to rewrites, but story wont change so reread not needed*

Chapter 1: New Years Gift

December 31, 2016, 23:56, Watchtower

Artemis sat on the couch alone, staring into the lit fireplace. She watched as the flames danced about inside the brick container. She was trying to take her focus off of the fact that it was almost New Years, the day that Wally first showed how he felt for her.

'That flame is probably hot enough to make it relatively painless,' she thought to herself.

*Recognize: B01, Nightwing*

Dick walked into the new section on the watchtower that was built after all their other bases were destroyed. It was very cozy, and not in the small way. In the main room, there was a full stainless steel kitchen with some sort of stone for the countertops. Hardwood filled that area as it lead into a dining room and had a good view of the living room. The living room had several couches, a TV over the giant fireplace and the brick fireplace itself. Just off the living room was a hallway to the various rooms where certain people lived if they had nowhere else to go. The Senior members of the Justice League built it with LOTS of input from M'gann and Superboy.

Dick looked over at Artemis who didn't seem to pay attention to the fact he was there.

"Hey Artemis," he said as he went over to sit down beside her.

She didn't look but let out a sigh as she responded, "Hey."

He looked at the side of her head and somehow knew what she was thinking.

"Don't even think about it. You know I wouldn't let you and Wally would ki.." he started as he was cut off.

She finally looked at him, tears streaming down her face. Before Wally died, he had seen her cry maybe 3 times in the years they knew each other. Now it was quite a frequent thing, understandably so too.

"HE ISN'T HERE THOUGH!" she said hoarsely. "And… and… he won't be here… ever again..."

She felt his arm go around her shoulders as he pulled her in for a hug. The blonde didn't resist at all as she cried into his, thankfully black, hoodie. After a minute or two she felt him raise his arm, probably to look at his watch. She sat back upright.

"Sorry, I'm such a mess," she said.

"I do have a gift that I can almost guarantee will make you happy, or enraged then happy," he said, keeping the last bit quiet.

She looked at him, not hiding the feelings this day used to bring to her.

"I highly doubt that, last time you did that, your bright idea was.." she started, but felt a pair of arms wrap around her from behind. The arms felt very familiar, and the scent was almost un-mistakable. The clock struck midnight.

"Happy New Years Artemis," the mysterious voice said.

The slight glimmer of hope she had was crushed by her mind as it suddenly turned to anger.

"... having M'gann turn into Wally to try and make me feel better," she finished.

Dick dodged the fist Artemis had sent his way by flipping backwards off the couch. She then grabbed the set of arms that were around her up high and threw the person over her head. She was so enraged that she didn't even care to actually look who it was.

"DICK HOW COULD YOU?!" she yelled, standing up, pointing at him. "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT AGAIN! IT ONLY MAKES THINGS WORSE! I DON'T WANT TO PRETEND HE'S STILL HERE! HE'S GONE!". She finally turned her attention to the boy on the floor.

He was wearing only a zip-up hoodie, which wasn't zipped up. His chest was covered in bandages and his foot was in a cast. The man looked exactly like Wally.

She hadn't realized she was crying again as she yelled at 'him', "And you M'gann, how could you do this again. I told you what that did to me last time. How… Why…"

"I told you to make sure I was in the room first Richard, you idiot," said a female voice from behind her.

She turned to see both M'gann and Zatanna standing there.

"Owwwww," said the red-haired man on the floor as he coughed up some blood.

Artemis was so confused.

"So… if you aren't pretending to be him… then…" the blonde started saying.

"Its really him," Dick said, "and it only took you roughly 3 second to break him again."

"Wait you… "cough," really did that Dick," Wally said from the ground. He coughed again, "I didn't think you were serious." Before he could say another word, Artemis had crashed her lips into his. The redhead wrapped an arm around her waist and neck as he kissed back with just as much ferocity.

"I just remembered I had something to do thats not in this room," said Zatanna.

"I would leave, but I'm really going to need to check Wally's injuries after that. I doubt nothing was harmed," M'gann said, who had only shown up to see the look on her face when she saw him and really didn't want to watch the 20 minute make-out of afterwards.

Dick smiled and said, "Happy New Years Artemis," as he walked out of the room.

The young couple on the ground payed no attention to him, or anyone else for that matter as they were completely in the moment.

Finally, after 5 straight minutes, Wally needed to breathe, and cough up more blood.

"What happened?" Artemis asked worryingly.

"It's a long story beautiful, one I'll tell you," cough, "after I stop hacking up blood."

"Finally! Wally lay straight and still, this will only take a second," M'gann said.

She scanned the inside of his body, a couple of the ribs moved out of place, other then that he somehow remained unscathed from the flip. She reset them, getting an, "Auuugh, shit that doesn't feel better the second time," from him.

"Ok, he's fine now, just don't rough him up too much, I don't think he want me to set his ribs a third time," the martian said.

"You got that right," he said, sitting up and holding his ribs with one arm.

Artemis helped him to his feet, then to his room where he was staying. After he got in bed she asked, "Are you comfortable?"

He responded, "Yeah, I think so. OWCH!" She connected her fist with his arm, and not lightly either.

"DON'T YOU EVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN!" she yelled as she embraced him. "I.. I didn't know what to do without you. It was like nothing in the world mattered anymore when you were gone."

He smiled, "Well babe, I'm here to stay, and I'm going into retirement, permanently. Partially because I want to try and stay out of trouble, but mostly because…" He couldn't say it.

"It doesn't matter, I love you Wally. I need you." She cried into his shoulder. 'God', she thought, 'I'm such a big bag of emotion lately.'

"Its ok Artemis, nobody blames you," he said, responding to her.

"What?" she asked, looking at him.

"Ummm… are you losing it, you just said, 'God, I'm so emotional', or something like that," he responded, giving her a worried look.

She smiled, "I kind of was losing it. For a couple months, after everything from the Reach died down, I.. didn't want to keep going knowing you were never going to be there. So… I kept taking these impossible missions that I had hoped would get me killed. But something kept me going through them. Well… more like someone," she said.

"What, you met another man…" he said. "Not, not that I wouldn'twant youto moveonbut Ididn'tthinkyouwouldactgthrwthit." It got incoherent after that so she kissed him to shut him up.

"No, I didnt meet another man. Well not in the way you're thinking of," she started. "But I'll tell you another time, when you aren't so injured. How did you get like this anyways?"

"Well… I sort of, had these injuries when I got pulled from the, place, I was in. Its hard to explain, Terry could explain it better, if he were still here."

"Terry?" she asked.

"He was the one who rescued me. Didn't seem like he had any real superpowers except his ability to open this… time hole... I guess you could call it that. I'm still not totally sure what happened myself."

She climbed into bed with him, feeling his arms wrap around her as she snuggled up to his chest and did the same.

"It doesn't matter right now. I missed you so much. Never do that to me again," she said.

"I promise," he said.

She cooed into his chest, as she was now the happiest person on or off earth.

AN: AWWW THE FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELS! Wally is back! But he seems to be nervous about something. Find out next chapter, maybe ;)

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