POV: Kid Flash

No… Artemis… Artemis run! I wanted to shout at her but my voice couldn't work. Not until she died. "Artemis!" Megan's psychic scream had pierced into my mind, but I didn't care about the pain. It was nothing, absolutely nothing, compared to what I had just went through.

"They're dead! Every single last one of them! If it's the last thing I do!" I wanted to make them pay. I wanted to make them all pay. I wouldn't stop until those aliens were all dead. I couldn't help but remember Artemis reminding me we had a Kryptonian and a Martian on the team, and that made me grin, which made me even angrier.

I couldn't handle this. I couldn't handle the fact that Artemis is dead. But she can't be dead! She can't be! There has got to be something that proves she isn't dead. I need something… anything.

"It's giving off zeta beam radiation!" YES! Artemis has got to be alive! It's not a disintegration beam, it's a teleporter! Artemis is alive! Artemis is alive and nothing is going to convince me otherwise. Nothing.

"I've been scanning for League and Team signals since we got here. Wally, they're not here. Artemis is gone."

"No. No she has to be alive! She has to be alive!" It was hopeless. I knew it was hopeless but I needed hope. This couldn't be real. This has to all just be some sick, cruel joke. I'm probably just dreaming.

I tried to block my thoughts when Rob and I went to the reactor. We were going to die. There was no question about that. We both knew it, but there were no other options. I'll be with Artemis, and I'll be saving the world. That's all that matters. I could feel the heat from the reactor as it pulled us in. I took one last look at my best friend, and he looked at me, and we both knew that it was time. It was time to let go.

"AAAHH!" I shouted as Megan's psychic hold over all of us was broken. "AH!" I couldn't stop screaming. I gripped onto my head and looked around, so confused. What just happened? Artemis! Artemis is alive! I didn't care what was happening, but I ran over to her and hugged her. "You're alive! Thank god you're alive!" It took a second, but she hugged me back. Tears were streaming down my face, and everyone was staring at us. I didn't care, it's not like we were making out right in front of them, right? Friends hug all the time, especially if one friend just thought the other friend died right in front of them and then sacrificed his own life to be with her? That's completely normal. Right?

POV: Artemis

I had no idea what had happened. One second I was in the arctic in the training mission, the next I was waking up and Wally was screaming and hugging me, thanking god that I was alive. What in the hell just happened?

Okay, okay, training mission gone wrong, I died… I don't remember dying. Oh god… this was all my fault, wasn't it? I died, and Megan forgot that it was a training mission. Wally freaked out, Wally was so convinced that I was alive, he didn't care about anyone else. He only wanted me back. Does this mean that he does like me? I want to talk to him about it so bad, but he's in a fragile state. I hugged him back not knowing what was happening just because I wanted to be embraced with him, but aside from that, I don't think he'll want to actually talk to me for a while.

God, way to go, Artemis. You just had to go and get killed. You've ruined everything.

For the next couple of days, I tried to keep my distance from Wally, and it felt like he was doing the same thing, but I couldn't handle it anymore. I had to talk to him, and when the opportunity presented itself I took it. No one else was there, and he was in the kitchen making a bologna sandwich (he really likes bologna sandwiches doesn't he?), and I walked in.

"Wally? Can I talk to you?"