Nightwing pov
Nightwing stood rigid as everyone crowded around artemis . after his conversation with wally he didn't talk much. To anyone he just didn't feel welcome anymore. So he stood in the shadows looking down at the picture on his phone "we'll laugh about this someday" its been five years and he wasn't laughing.
"babe its so good to have you back" Wally said emphasizing the babe. Her laugh rang out like a church bell bouncing off the caves hollow walls. "its nice to be back, but where's nightwing" his heart jumped to his throat he contemplated coming out of his shadow but he didn't instead he did what he did best and disappeared.
Artemis pov.
She was surrounded by friends. Even chalant non responsive superboy had grabbed her into a bone crushing hug. But nightwing was no where to be seen, he wasn't even at dinner. When she asked wally his face contorted with what looked like anger and said "I don't know babe just forget about it" she was confused they were best friends but now wally was acting like he didn't even exist .what the hell happened while she was gone?
After the giant feast the team threw in her return she went searching for nightwing. She concluded that he wasn't in the den, not in his normal room, not in the gym or the showers so were was he? She began to get worried about her best friends sudden disappeared, it was normal in fact it was his thing to just vanish but she found her self worried. She didn't know were he actually lived so that was out of question and wally sure as hell wouldn't tell her. So she checked the zeta tube records
5:46 Tuesday march 4th Gotham
He left five minutes after she arrived, why? He was there that son of a bitch why didn't he welcome her back like everyone else? Why was she crying at the fact that it seemed like he didn't care for her?
Artemis took the same zeta maybe if she wandered around shed find him…
-nightwing pov-
He was soaring acrossed the roof tops of gotham, trying to get a certain blonde archer out if his mind. If batman knew that he was only running on 2 hours of drugged induced sleep hed be sent back to the manor and Alfred would have his head. There was a flash below and he recognized it as a zeta tube. Who was takeing a zeta tube now it was atleast 4am? And just his luck she walks up looking up into the sky he caught a glance of a tear roll down her cheack. What was she doing here, her zeta was acrossed town? Why was she crying? He watched as her she leaned against the alley wall and slid down to sit, sobs ranking her body. He could hear whispers "why didn't he stay?" " I thought we were friends" "get traught or get dead, doesn't he remember" nightwing was shocked she missed him. Him of all people.