I died. I knew I did from the moment it stopped burning. I died on June 20 at the North Magnetic Pole. I was just trying to help Barry and Bart.

When I got to the place a woman named Franny approached me. When I asked who she was and where I was.

She looked at me and said, "Wally you know you're dead. Welcome to your own little heaven."

I stared at her with confusion. "Is anyone else here?"

Franny shook her head. "Wally this is your place, friends and family that have died will come to see you when your ready. The Big Place is somewhere else. You can go there, but that will mean leaving the living." She looked down. I guessed she could see her own friends and family. I thought about her last sentence.

"What do you mean leave the living?" I asked. Was I still partly alive?

"Wally focus on the Earth." Franny said as she fiddled with a clipboard.

I focused on the Earth as Franny said and I saw them.

I saw Barry being helped by Aqualad. Bart being helped by M'gann. As Aqualad started to say that they had won Artemis was looking around frantically, then interrupted him.

"Wait! Where's Wally?" She turned to Barry with utter confusion. Barry walked up to her.

"Artemis," He has pure grief across his face. "he wanted me to tell you,"

"No, no." Artemis' voice is barley a whisper.

"he loved you." Barry placed his hands on her shoulders. Artemis has tears running down her face. She closes her eyes and falls to the ground on her knees. She covers her face with one hand. M'gann rushes over and hugs her. She weeps as quietly as she can.

The rest of the team hangs their heads. Barry has silent tears, as does Bart. Dick moves over to Artemis and M'gann. He places a hand on Artemis' shoulder. Artemis is speaking quietly, but only little "No"'s, and the occasional "Wally" are able to understand.

After some time M'gann got Artemis to stand up and Barry and Bart offered to take her home. Barry and Bart got into the bio ship with Artemis drove the ship in silence. Artemis asked half way though the trip if instead they could go to my parents house, saying that they should go to them that Wally had... died. Barry and Bart agreed.

I stopped looking for a moment and turned to Franny.

"So I'm dead but I can watch my friends and family from here?" I asked. Franny looked at me and nodded.

"Wally," She said sternly. "you should really keep watching." She turned around and walked away.

As they got to the my parent's house, they put on the spare changes of cloths kept in the bio ship and then left it at the zetatube. Barry and Bart walked a little slower than Artemis. When they approached the house Barry and Bart stopped by the mailbox. Artemis didn't notice and continued to walk. She go to the door and knocked softly twice. My mother and father answered, which surprised Artemis because it was eleven o'clock in the night.

She didn't even get a single word out before crying. My parents quickly brought her into a hug. Artemis grasped onto my mother and father's shirts as if her life depended on it. Barry and Bart walked forward and joined in as well. When my mother invited them into the house and they all sat down she asked what had happened.

"What did Wally do?" She asked firstly. Artemis' stomach felt queasy at the mention of my name.

"He, he didn't no anything . But something terrible has happened." She had tears in her eyes. She looked at Barry and Bart for help. The two of them nodded though Barry was the first one to speck.

"Mary, Wally's dead." Barry said. He stood there for a moment.

My mother looked at him with pure shock. She shook her head.

"He wanted me to tell you two, as well as Artemis, that he loved you." He sat down and put his hands in his hands. He wept quietly. Bart did the same but just wiped his away. Artemis started crying and pressed the palms of her hands against partly her forehead and partly her temples.

My father and mother stared in disbelief.

"But, we just found out you're alive, is this just another trick?" Mary looked at all three of them going from Artemis to Barry to Bart.

My father ran his hand though his hair and had small tears starting to fall from his eyes. My mother then realized that this, in fact, was not a joke and broke into a loud sob. She buried her face into my father's chest. So they all sat there quietly crying.

I didn't know what to do. Could I like, at least help them or something. My girlfriend and family, all just crying.

For hours I sat there and watched them for hours. Artemis left first, at around midnight. I followed her to our apartment. When she got there she had to apatite and walked to the bedroom to try to sleep. She would talk to her mother in the morning. Call and say that she had to leave Stanford for some time. Maybe she could take a semester or two off. She would have to tell them that I had died. But she then realized that they didn't even know she was alive. Which she was wrong about, I told the school she was having family problems.

She didn't want to think about this now. She curled up into bed before realizing how cold it was. She didn't want to sleep her alone.

She got up and walked over to the couch were our lovable pit bull Nelson was sleeping. She picked up the small dog, he was still a puppy, and sat in his spot. She placed him on her chest and started to pet him. She started to smell a familiar scent, which just happened to be mine

Wally.

I had slept their while she has been undercover. I didn't like the coldness of the bed either. The bad part was that when I was sleeping there, it only smelt of Nelson.

She curled up under the blanket that I already had there.