Okay, considering last chapters a/ns were long and rambly, I'm going to be pretty brief this time haha. This is essentially Artemis making the decision to become a hero, and the reasons I think that she'd have to do that.
Protector
Artemis sat on her bed, in the tiny apartment that she shared with her newly released mother, and stared out the window to the dark, smoggy sky. She had promised her mother that she would never go into the life that her father and planned for her, the one that her sister had chosen, and that she would try in school and get a normal job like a normal girl would. But, the idea that she would be just like every other teenaged girl is this forsaken city was not one she enjoyed.
Ever since her mother had given her a way out from her fathers 'training' she had wondered what it would be like if things were different. What if someone had been there to catch her mom when she fell off that rooftop? What if someone had saved her from her father years ago? Would she be happier? More fulfilled in life? Or would everything be the same, feeling completely lost and guilty all the time because she had been powerless to stop anything that had happened to her family.
She could hear the TV in the living room faintly, as her mother started to watch the news like she always did at this time of night, and as she listened to the muffled reporter describe the Dynamic Duo's latest escapade Artemis made her decision. If no one had been that person for her, maybe she could be for someone else.
Grabbing her bow and quiver and pulling up the hood of her jacket to obscure her face, Artemis climbed out her window and slipped into the shadows, a whispered apology to her mother fading in the breeze.
I think this is my longest one yet! I hope you all enjoyed it, and hopefully this time I won't leave such a long break between my updates!