Chapter 2

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"I heard you when you reached the room." Dinah informed them as they entered through her window. "Don't know why I'm still up. The kiss was you and Wally's special moment. And yet, he was so happy. We had all been waiting for you two to get together. Then he kissed you, and we could see the bond that had been forming between the two of you, without anybody's knowledge." Then she blinked and looked at Artemis. Dinah was lying in her bed, staring at the ceiling. "I'm sorry. It's not good of me to remind you of him, especially now." she apologized. "I just wish I could see him that happy again."

"You will if I have anything to say about it." Artemis muttered as she sat down on the side of her bed.

Dinah stared at her and blinked. "What?"

"I saw him." she said. "I saw Wally, and he was running so fast, but I saw the suit and the boots and his hair and the lightning symbol on his chest Dinah, and I have a melted trail of snow to prove it."

"Artemis, Wally's dead." Dinah said gently. "He died in Antarctica. He saved everybody, and he will always be remembered by us. But he's dead, and you can't change that."

"I'm not hallucinating BC." she said. "He looked right at me."

"Even if Wally was there, he was moving at super speed Felicity. You couldn't have seen him look at you. Which is just more proof that he's dead, as much as we want him back. You were grieving, and you saw a freshly shoveled sidewalk as a taxi zoomed by, or something like that."

"I can vouch for her." Roy said, where he'd been leaning on the wall. Dinah looked at him, seemingly uncomprehending. She hadn't even let herself consider for a second that it had actually happened, because that's an easy way to let the grieve flood in.

"What?" Dinah asked. Her eyes had widened, and was completely awake now.

"The melted trail. And even I could feel the leftover energy in the air, and I didn't spend nearly as much time around speedsters as any of you did."

Dinah turned back to Artemis. "You're sure it wasn't Barry."

"Dinah, I have never been more sure of something in my entire life." she told her.

"How though. He just zoomed by? Didn't even stop? Why would he do that?"

"I'm going to call the rest of your team." Roy said, and stepped out of the room with the phone.

"I don't know, maybe he couldn't slow down?" Artemis responded.

"We'll explain when you get here, just get to Dinah's apartment." came Roy's voice from the other room.

"Let's wait for the rest of your team to get here." Dinah advised. "Then we'll figure things out."

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"What are we here for?" Nightwing asked. The team was gathered in Dinah's cramped kitchen.

"I saw Wally." Artemis said, getting straight to the point. The reactions were mixed.

M'gann's hand went to her mouth, and she sunk to her knees. Aqualad and Superboy both had looks of doubt and disbelief on their faces. Nightwing remained stoic and silent though, not showing much emotion. Artemis was willing to guess his mind was whirling at one hundred miles an hour though. Wally had been his best friend. They had been so close. When he had died, Dick had left the team and went off on his own. And yet, he'd been so calm and collected the whole time. Just like now.

"Explain." Dick said quietly. You could barely hear him. "Wally is dead."

"I was walking out of the foundry, and he went right by me. Don't try to tell me differently. You could tell the blur was yellow with red where the boots and hair would be. It was also as tall as Wally would probably be by about now. The same red lightning too."

"I didn't see it, but I felt the leftover electricity in the air, and saw the melted path in the snow." Roy added.

"You're sure it was Wally." Dick said, in the same low tone.

"I have never been more sure about anything." Artemis said, looking him straight in the eyes.

"How would he even be alive?" Conner asked. "It's been years. Where has he been, and why hasn't he found you before?"

"Maybe her couldn't?" M'gann said. "He could have been trapped somewhere, or unable to find us for some reason."

"We don't know anything about what's going on right now." Roy said. "What if M'gann is right, and he was trapped somewhere? Does that mean it took him all of this time to get out? And what if he has to take another four years to do this again?"

"Can we just take a moment to be happy he's alive?" M'gann asked. "I mean, we all thought he was dead. Now that we know he's alive we're not even taking a moment to appreciate it."

"I'll appreciate it when he's back with us." Dick said.

"Why though. If he's alive, and wasn't trapped somewhere, why didn't he stop?" Connor asked.

"Maybe because Artemis was with other people?" Kaldur'ahm guessed.

"I think we all know that wouldn't stop Wally." Artemis said. "What if he couldn't stop?"

"That's a possibility." Dick said thoughtfully.

"And my idea." Roy muttered.

"Somebody should contact Mary and Rudy." Dinah said. She had been silent the whole time. "They should know."

"What do we even know?" Conner asked. "It's not like we can just go to them and say Hey! Your son's alive, but we have no clue where he's been, we can't contact him, and know literally nothing else about what's going on."

"We could ask Jay." Artemis said. "And Bart. If it's something to do with his powers, they might be able to help."

"Do we even know where they are right now?" Roy asked.

"They're living as father and son in Coast City." she responded.

"Let's go talk to them about this." Dick said, walking towards the door.

"Can we talk with them somewhere else?" Dinah asked. "My kitchen is already cramped, and Bart would raid my fridge and leave nothing for me."

"Let's use the bio ship." M'gann said. "It has room, and travels fast."

"Where is it?" Artemis asked.

"Floating above the roof, invisible. I came here in it." M'gann explained.

"Let's go then." Roy said, and they followed Dick out of the door.

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-LeiaKasta