Dick walked into his apartment and collapsed on the couch. He knew he shouldn't of had that much to drink but ever since he started going to that casino he had changed. tomorrow it would be five months since Wally died, things hadn't been goo for Dick after his best friend died. two months after his death Dick started going to a casino every night and either gambled away thousands of dollars or won thousands. He went to all the big places that wealthier people go to gamble thousands of dollars, not just a couple hundred like other casinos around here. Dick won about seven thousand tonight and had a few celebratory drinks, well allot more than a few Dick couldn't walk very well. He slowly stumbled to his room and fell onto the bed and quickly fell asleep.


Artemis walked got out of bed and walked into her lounge room. It was only five months after Wally had died and she hadn't been able to sleep since that night. Artemis stayed at his parents house a couple of weeks after Wally died then she left the team and now worked at a café in Gotham while finishing college. She didn't talk to anyone on the team anymore, she wanted to completely get away from that life and her friends understood that. She sometimes got calls from Zatanna and Megan sometimes even Bart, but the one person she expected to call her hadn't been in contact with anyone the day after Wally died. Artemis had wanted to call Dick for a while but thought differently about it and decided against it. But out of them all she missed Dick the most, he was her best friend all through high school and until she and Wally left the team.

She sighed and sat down on the couch, she picked up her phone and put in Dicks cell phone number. Artemis sat there for a moment her thumb over the call button but like always her thumb moved over to the end button and she put the phone down. Artemis got up and walked back to her bedroom and went back to bed. But was soon awakened by a loud sound coming form her lounge room.


"Dick, what are you doing here? I didn't think you'd be coming today." Tim said when Dick walked into the cave. Dick looked at him weird and asked, "why did you think I wouldn't be here today?" Tim stepped closer and whispered, "because today is five months since Wally died, I thought you'd be some where else." Tim,the current Robin said to his older brother. "well last time I was here so why should it be any different a month later?" Dick asked getting annoyed. "you said you were going to go to his grave." Tim finally said, but of course Dick doesn't remember saying that. Before he had a chance to say anything else his phone rang. "hello?" Dick said. "Dick can you come to Gotham?" Bruce asked on the other line. Bruce and Dick hadn't talked since the night Wally died, they had a huge fight and Dick refused to talk to him. "I told you Bruce I don't work with you anymore." Dick was about to hang up but Bruce said "Artemis is hurt." and Dick stopped. He sighed before saying "i'm on my way." and hanging up. "who was that?" Tim asked. "it was Bruce, Artemis is hurt and i'm going to Gotham." Dick said and walked over to the zeta tube's, he hadn't seen Artemis in five months but god did he miss her. She was his best friend as well as Wally, ever since the day he met her he had a crush on her, but that small crush slowly turned into something bigger and he felt really guilty for still having these feelings for his best friends girl. "reconsidered Nightwing B01." the computer announced as Nightwing left the cave.

"where is she?" Dick asked when he got to the hospital. Bruce turned around, he was standing next to Ollie and Dinah. "Dick it's good to see you." Bruce said going to shake his hand. "Where is she?" Dick asked again ignoring Bruce's hand. "She's in that room." Ollie said pointing to a door right across from them. Dick nodded and walked over to the room pushing open the door. She was just lying there. Artemis looked like she had lost allot of blood. He sat in a chair by her bed and held her hand. He looked at her with sad eyes, he really had missed her and now he doesn't know if he'll ever get to talk to her again. He didn't have any information yet, he just wanted to see her first before he got any information. It killed him to see her hurt, just like it killed him when she moved away with Wally. His best friend never knew that Dick loved Artemis, because he knew that Artemis didn't love him so he never told her or anyone else. "Dick, it's good to see you again." He looked toward the door and saw Ollie. "you too, haven't seen you or Black Canary around for a couple months." Dick said and shook his out stretched hand. "What happened to Artemis?" Dick asked the older man. "We don;t know what happened, but she has been beaten up really bad and the doctor said if we hadn't found her when we did she would've died of blood loss." Ollie said. "she should be waking up soon, we got here three hours ago and the doctor said it would only take around two hours and she should wake up if everything is alright, if she doesn't wake up soon that would cause some concern." Dick looked at Artemis, she looked so weak, she never looked weak. He hoped that everything would be OK and that she would wake up soon he hated seeing her hurt, he was always worried about her when she was on the team especially with her dad always breaking into her apartment, but then she moved away and he had to stop trying to protect her all the time, that wasn't his job anymore. But now that Wally isn't around anymore to protect her he felt like it was his turn to step up again.

He knew better then anyone that Artemis could take care of herself but seeing her now makes him feel responsible and he wants to help all he could do now was be there for her which was exactly what he was going to do.


So I know this isn't my best work but I decided to post it. Please review and let me know what you think.