Hi! I'm writing some sweet, but sad and depressing stuff...again. *Nervous laugh* This is Artemis kind of looking back on the years after Wally "ceased". Oh, gosh...I'm writing an author's note and I feel like I'm going to cry. I miss Wally and this is me trying to vent out some of my emotions towards that. Please R&R!

Disclaimer: I wouldn't have written this if I owned YJ because Wally wouldn't have "died" (I refuse to accept that)!

You were supposed to be there.

I looked for you, but you were nowhere to be found.

All I saw was the white, barren landscape that stretched on for miles and miles.

Why did you always have to be so darn heroic?

I guess that that was one of the things I loved about you.

But now...

You're gone.

I'm alone.

You know, I hated you at first:

You and your big mouth,

You and your stupid infatuation with a certain female martian,

You and your irresistibly charming smiles.

You hated me, too, it seemed.

Nothing I did was good enough for you.

Yet that changed with a few simple words:

"You've got nothing to prove. At least not to me, ok?"

That's when I knew you cared.

And that's when I realized I felt the same way.

Secrets had always held me back.

I had grown up in an environment full of distrust and lies.

But you hadn't cared.

You hadn't backed away in horror when you found out about my family.

You hadn't abandoned me when you heard about my past.

No, you had held my hand to give me courage even when we were strangers.

You had carried me across the desert just to keep me safe.

You hadn't run away.

You never let go.

Remember that New Year's Eve?

We had been fighting for our lives.

But I had felt safe.

When Kaldur had opened the air hatch you had wrapped your arms around me so you wouldn't fly out into space...

...really...really...tightly...

But I hadn't minded.

Even when the wind was pulling us towards the black void and the room was losing oxygen,

We were both still alive.

That's all that mattered.

I swore never to fall in love a long time ago.

I had never seen it last.

All I had seen was bitterness, betrayal, and a dash of something around absolutely unreachable bliss.

Of course, that was before I had met you.

You changed me, somehow.

I tried, believe me.

I really did.

But I couldn't help it.

I fell in love.

I blame your laughter or your dumb jokes.

Hey, you were an idiot...

...But you were MY idiot.

I will forever love you for that.

You helped me find a heaven on earth.

Thank you, Wally West.

You saved me.

Note: I'm sorry if you read this earlier. My computer was acting up and caused all the key commands to appear in the story.