My other story may not be complete but it is in my head-don't ask, it's enemy territory. I wanted the explore how it affected BW and his relationships with his team so I wrote these one shots.

1—Artemis

She didn't know what she was doing, but she was doing it before she tried to think twice. The dreams were scaring her and swallowing her whole and she needed some sort of release, she had turned to anger of course. It was her natural reaction but this time she was angry at herself and it was only a vicious circle. It froze her to the spot with fear, rendering her useless and in battle, she couldn't have that. The last she wanted was for the nightmares to become real and so she took the opportunity the second Boy Wonder was in the mountain to grab his hand as she walked past him and drag the tired teenager after her.

"Did you break the training program again?" He spluttered in surprise as he regained his composure and donned that annoying smirk that made her shudder.

"No, I need to talk to you." She snapped and dragged him into the soundproof room Canary used.

No, she couldn't talk to Canary, she'd tell Batman and he'd…wait so why was he telling Batman's own protégé? Without an answer for herself, she fazed back in reality to remind herself that there was a high chance the ebony team-mate could relate and understand. It was just something behind the childish and immature behaviour that told her he was old; it was the kind of old that came from growing up too damn fast in Gotham.

"Er, Artemis?" He waved his hand in front of her face, breaking her from her internal argument.

"Sit down and listen to what I have to say."

"Okay, can I say first? Wally did it not me."

"What?"

"I don't know. What did I do? What did he do?"

"Okay shut up, sit down and listen."

"Sure thing." He fell into one of the two chairs and looked expectantly to the blonde archer.

"I need to rant, to vent, I need someone to listen." She said simply since she had no other way to put it.

He shifted in his seat; for a second Artemis thought he would leave but he leant forwards with his elbows on his knees and the smirk faded to a comforting smile. "I'm honoured you chose me as your confidant. Go ahead."

She took a breath and swallowed, "I'm having these nightmares, where I lose everything, everyone dies and it's my fault. There are always different scenarios and yet it's always the same in that I freeze. I have a chance to save them all but I stop, I get scared and I just can't move. During the day, when I remember the dream, I'm overcome by the same feeling again and I'm frozen to the spot with fear. My nerves are fraying and I know that'll it will happen in a mission and I'll let the team down, more than that I'll be letting my friends down. I'll put them in so much danger and then my fears will come true."

He nodded slowly, considering it and Artemis almost screamed at him until he spoke. "It's normal."

"Which bit?"

"To be afraid of losing those we love. You try and separate yourselves from everyone else so you don't have to endure the loss. However, you cannot avoid loving your own mother and there is a mutual trust in the team that no one wants to break. The nightmares are normal but it's when you over think them and let the guilt consume you when they begin to plague your life. I totally understand, I lost my parents and blamed myself for years. I had seen the murder, I should've known something was up, I should have warned them and so on. I was only eight and I let everything weigh me down. I spoke to no one, I suppressed every feeling and that hurt a lot when it became too much. I didn't have anyone to call a weakness but I had a soft spot for those like me.

"I never wanted another kid to end as screwed up as I did. Part of me died and I found I couldn't feel anything because I had denied myself to feel that guilt and pain and bottled it up inside of me instead. When I started to struggle I turned to self-harm finding that feeling pain eased everything. Living on the street, suffering alone, was the worst thing but I thought I deserved it because I knew I had killed my parents. I had lost them because I hadn't down anything. After a few years of that emptiness there was nothing of me left. I wasn't living for myself and I had no one else to live for. I had no idea why I hadn't just killed myself.

"The answer was that I was helping. Every man I saved was someone's father and every woman was someone's mother. Not only had I saved that one person but I had spared all those that loved them from the grief and pain I endured. Slowly, Batman drilled it into my head that I needed help. I joined this team and made friends. Before I had no one but now I have all of you and the league to call family. Artemis, you are my reason to live. I reach out to you just like you feel secure enough to reach out to me and we help each other.

"I'm saying this; don't think of it like if you screw up then you lose your mother because it's not like that. Just be glad when you go home tonight that she is happy and you are safe. And you go to bed satisfied that in this team you made a difference if not saved a life. Don't live each second in fear of the inevitable; enjoy your mothers cooking, her cheesy mom jokes that you just have to roll your eyes at. At the end of it all Artemis, yeah things are difficult but would you have it any other way?"

"No." She said, tears coming to her eyes, she jumped over to where he sat and gripped him in a massive hug as tears ran down her face. "Thank you so much Bee, for listening and making me see I was just being stupid."

He didn't argue, knowing that there was no point but the rare kind smile told Artemis what he wanted to say. She wasn't being stupid, she was just being human.

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