Someone started to shake her body mercilessly, causing her to wake up. Artemis was about to pulverize whoever woke her up, until she saw that it was Wally. "What do you want Kid Mouth?" I asked.
"What do I want?" He started, "Artemis you have been screaming Bloody Mary for the past ten minutes. Are you having nightmares again?"
"No!" Artemis replied angrily, "It's none of your business anyway!"
"Of course it's my business! We're a couple, that makes all of your problems my business!" He countered.
"Well maybe we shouldn't be then!" Artemis said. Once the words left her mouth she instantly regretted them. The look on Wally's face told her enough, it was too late to go back now. His expression turned from confused to sad then angry.
"You know what?" Wally started, "I don't even know why I came here!"
"Yeah, you would have been better off leaving me to die. I just can't deal with this right now, so we're done," Artemis quietly answered.
Wally looked at her in shock and disgust as he stormed off and slammed the door behind himself. At that, being alone again, she started to ball her eyes out. Her and Wally had been getting closer and closer lately, so much so that she didn't want to go back to living without him. The only other person that she is close to is Zatanna, and she might side with Wally because of her relationship with Dick. On top of all of that her mom is in prison, her dad's gone, and she has no idea where her sister went. Artemis had always wondered what people meant by hitting rock bottom, but now she understood.
As if things couldn't get any worse, the doctor came into her room and explained that they needed to discuss how she was going to pay for the hospital bills. It hadn't even occurred to her that she had to pay for staying here, she had been to caught up with her other problems to even think about bills. Now that they were on her mind though, she had no idea how she was going to pay for them. Did she have a job to pay for it? Nope. Was there any relatives that could pay the bills? Nope, they were all dead, missing, or in jail.
Luckily though, right on cue, Bruce Wayne walked in to save the day. "Doctor…"
"Doctor Smith," The doctor responded.
"Alright, Doctor Smith, I will be covering the cost of the hospital bills for Ms. Crock." Bruce said.
With that, the doctor smiled and shut the door when he left to give the two of us privacy.
"So… You're actually going to pay for my bills?" Artemis questioned.
"Well," Bruce started, "Being a billionaire does come with it's privileges I guess." At that he cracked a smile and she couldn't help but return the smile herself. "I also heard that you needed somewhere to stay for a while, is that true?"
At that her smile vanished as she squeaked, "Y-yes."
"Alright then, you can stay at the mansion. I'm going to talk with the doctor and let him know that you'll be leaving. Can you have all of your belongings ready by then?" Bruce requested.
"Yeah, I didn't exactly bring anything else with me so I'm ready now." Artemis uttered.
"Well then, I guess you can wait in the car while I sort everything out. Let Alfred know that I'll only be a few minutes." Bruce remarked.
Artemis nodded her head and made her way to the exit. She couldn't wait to smell the fresh air outside, she felt like she had been trapped in the hospital for far too long. What she didn't expect when she opened the car door was Dick Grayson. "Fuck," she complained loudly, "Why are you here?!" She couldn't even comprehend how stupid she had been. How did she not remember that Dick lived at the mansion?
"Hold on a second, let me get this straight, are you asking me why I'm in my own limo?" Dick asked.
Artemis decided that the best thing to do was leave, but at that moment Bruce showed up.
"All ready to go?" He asked.
"Yep." She replied.
Within ten minutes they had arrived at the mansion. Artemis found the first room that was to her liking and shut herself in it. By the time her head hit the pillow she was fast asleep.