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Chapter 20

Artemis opened her eyes slowly and quickly shut them for the light hurt her eyes. Once she was sure that her eyes could handle the light the female archer opened her eyes once again. Artemis looked around to see that she was in the med bay at Mt. Justice. She also realized that she had a slight pressure on her left side. Artemis turned her head to her left to get a shock. Wally was laying his head down on the bed and was holding her left hand in his.

Why would Wally be worried about her after everything she had done to the speedster? Artemis wasn't the nicest of people to the speedster when they first met. So why would Wally be keeping a vigil over her?

"He hasn't left your side since you were brought to the Cave." Eyolf told the archer from the doorway.

"Why would he not leave me side?" Artemis asked as she looked at Wally again.

The Lycanian guardian looked at the blond archer with a smile. "Sweetie, you and Wally may say you don't like each other but I can tell you that Lyall does have feelings for you. He's just afraid to show it for fear that something would happen to you like what had happened to his parents."

Artemis looked at Eyolf for a moment before looking at Wally who was still out cold. Now that Artemis looked at the speedster she could see dark rims around his eyes. It was like he hadn't slept in days which for a speedster was dangerous.

"So you're saying that Wally really was concerned about me?" Artemis knew that her speedy teammate did care about all of his teammates.

"Yes my young hero, he was."

"But it doesn't make sense. Wally hates my guts for taking Roy's place on the team."

"Wally could never really hate anyone Artemis. He's afraid that what happened to his parents will happen to you." Eyolf told the archer who was still looking at a sleeping Wally. "Artemis, Wally is being mean to you because he cares about you."

Artemis looked down at the red head once again. Now that Eyolf had explained everything to her, the archer could sense in a way that Wally was not being mean to her to be mean, he was being mean because he cared about her.

"So all this time Kid Mouth was concerned about me and did want to see me hurt?" The female archer asked the Lycanian with a little anger in her voice. Artemis was upset thinking that Wally didn't trust her to defend herself.

Eyolf seemed to know just what Artemis was thinking. "Artemis, Wally doesn't think that you can't depend yourself. He knows you can defend yourself as he has seen you do so." The guardian told the archer who was glaring at her.

"Then why does he do what he does?"

Eyolf let out a sigh. Sometimes humans were so stupid. "Because you idiot Wally loves you. He told me himself a short time ago. He acts like he hates you to protect you." Eyolf slightly yelled at Artemis who eyes went wide at what was just said.

"Wait a minute, he really does LOVES me?!"

"Yes you moron, he does. He is afraid that if Talaos finds out that he had feelings for you that you will be a target, which I think has already happened considering the attacks that have been happening to your team." Eyold said with anger in her voice.

Artemis was getting scared of the Lycanian guardian in front of her. It was not secret that Eyold was protective of Wally and Iris especially Wally who was the heir to the throne of Lycanis and was always being hunted by his evil aunt on his mother's side of the family.

Eyolf realized that she was letting her anger get the best of her, that she was scaring Artemis as well. So Eyolf looked at Artemis with compassion in her eyes.

"Artemis, I am sorry for yelling at you but what I spoke was the truth. My prince does care for you very much and it would kill him if anything should happen to you. Believe it or not, the two of you are meant to be together whether you know it or not." Eyolf softly told the archer.

"Why would he love someone like me? I mean he does know who my parents are right?" Artemis asked the Lycanian guardian.

Eyolf looked at her charge's love interest with a smile. "Sweetie, Wally knew who you were the first time he met you as your smell was hard to miss."

"What do you mean by smell?" Artemis demanded.

"Everyone has a unique smell and yours my dear was that of someone who wanted to change the way she was raised. Artemis, just because you are the daughter of a villain and former villain and sister to an assassin does not mean that you are going to become a villain. Green Arrow saw something in you and chose to train you. Although Ollie is a bit of an idiot at times for not realizing that his adopted son was really a Methuselahian/Lycanian hybrid that would die for those he cared about. But then again Ollie really isn't the sharpest guy on the block now is he?" Eyolf told Artemis who started to smile at what she had said about Ollie.

"That is so true." Artemis told Eyolf as she remembered when she had first met the Emerald Archer when she had saved the team from A.M.A.Z.O. The green archer knew just who she was but didn't care.

"Wally has always cared about you and I know that he always will. That is who he is. Maybe you should give love a chance as you may have just found someone who will look past your unique heritage and love you no matter what." Eyolf told the archer as she left the room leaving Artemis to go over her thoughts.

Artemis looked at Wally who was still out cold despite all the yelling that had been going on. But then again Wally could sleep through a hurricane. She thought about everything that Wally had done for her. Heck he even transformed into his true Lycanian form when she was hurt by one of Nosfer's men. Maybe Wally really did care about her but was just now starting to show it.

Artemis thought about always having someone that was better than her father was to her mother and maybe just maybe she had found him. Her mother from what she knew liked Wally and that was all she needed to know. Iris liked her as well as well as Flash.

Artemis placed one of her hands on Wally's head and gently pet the speedster's head. She noticed that Wally leaned into the hand. It was then that Artemis knew that Wally really did have feelings for her and that she cared about him.

Artemis went back to sleep with her hand still petting Wally's head in comfort.

Next chapter Wally and Artemis talk about having a relationship and Paula reveals a secret about her ex-husband.

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AN: HEY EVERYONE. JUST A QUICK UPDATE TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE A NEW STORY PLANING TO COME OUT IN A FEW WEEKS. THE TEASER THAT I WILL GIVE YOU IS THAT WALLY IS NOT FULLY HUMAN BUT IS PART OF A EARTH RACE OF CREATURES.