A/N: God-fucking-damn it! Why is this chapter also at a cemetery? *sigh* Don't worry, guys, the next one after this takes place... somewhere else, so please hang in there, the angst will end soon. Also, bit of a warning, I cried massive tears while writing the end. I was literally a gross ball of tears and snot, holding my dog, trying to finish the chapter. This is what Lian Harper does to you.

Disclaimer: See chapter 1, because the ownership still hasn't changed.

"Roy Harper," her eerie voice made him jump slightly as she turned to him, "you are next. What would you like to view?"

Roy looked around at everybody and then looked at the floor he said, "One of the saddest moments of my life, just so I know that everything else will be better." He said leaning towards the screen, preparing himself for the worst.

"A sad moment," Artemis asked looking at him, "why not your happiest moment?"

Roy looked at her with an odd expression, "Because then I know nothing would ever amount to that moment, except for that moment."

He looked at Essence and nodded in a yes-this-is-what-I-want way. The TV glowed the eerie blue and the moment began.

Roy Harper walked up the street of a surprisingly sunny Star City towards a flower shop which would be his first destination. He walked into the small shop, called the Shorewood Florist, and the person sitting at the counter looked up from her book. That is to say, the young girl sitting on the desk. When she saw Roy her face lit up.

"Uncle Roy!" The girl jumped off the counter, her blonde hair bouncing as she did so, her green eyes smiling with the rest of her.

Ollie looked at the girl on the screen and the young, blonde archer next to him. The resemblance was uncanny; this little girl had to be at least related to Artemis.

"Are you going to visit Lian? Can I go with you to visit my mommy? Daddy hasn't taken me in a while." Her eyes showing a sad hopefulness that Roy didn't like.

She hopped off the counter and he picked her up. "Of course you can come with, but first do you know where Dinah keeps the daisies?"

"Going to see Lian?" A third voice entered the room as Dinah walked in carrying in a bouquet of freshly cut daisies.

Roy smiled and reached for the bundle, "Thanks, Di, and, yeah, I am."

The small girl piped up, "And I'm going with to visit my mom!"

Dinah smiled sadly and pulled another flower from a vase next to her, "Well, then, how about you take this for her?" She held the flower out to the girl. "This is a primrose. It's what your mom had with her when she married your dad, and what he brought her when she was in the hospital after having you."

The small girl reached for the flower and grinned, "Thank you, Aunt Dinah!"

Dinah reached out and ruffled the girl's hair, "You're welcome, Hayden."

"Hayden," Artemis whispered to herself. "I wanted to name my daughter, if I had one, Hayden."

Ollie spooked her out of her thoughts by saying, "What was that, kiddo?"

Artemis felt the eyes of the room on her, "N-nothing, Ol-Uncle Ollie."

Hayden turned around in the grip Roy had on her and pointed to the door. "Come on, Uncle Roy! We need to go now!"

Roy laughed but it didn't meet his eyes, "Alright, Hay-bay, we're going. See you later, Dinah." Roy said waving to his almost mother as he and Hayden exited the store.

"Roy," Dinah called out the door and the red head turned around.

"Yeah?"

"Don't let her stay too long, okay?" Dinah said nodding Hayden.

Roy nodded, "Sure thing."

When they arrived at their destination they were able to walk right in. After all, cemeteries don't close the gates until after dusk.

"A cemetery, you took a young girl to visit her mother in a cemetery?" Wally looked at Roy, who was looking at the rest of the Arrow family.

"What's up?" Wally asked when nobody else would.

Ollie cleared his throat, slightly pale, "We… We came to the conclusion that Hayden is Artemis's daughter. They look exactly alike, apart from the eyes, and-"

"-And," Artemis continued, "I have always wanted to have a daughter and name her Hayden."

Wally slowly put two and two together, a bit slower than everyone else in the room, and paled.

"No, Artemis, you can't mean that…" M'Gann spoke up for the first time, tears in her eyes.

Artemis looked at the ground, "Yup, in Roy's future, I'm dead." She turned towards the boy she had replaced, "You must be happy about that."

Roy looked away, not believing that she could think that he wanted her dead, but Dinah took the conversation to a different tone.

"Maybe, if we continued watching, we could find out why this has all happened."

Everyone silently agreed.

Roy walked with Hayden, who he had put down and now was holding hands with, to a section of headstones under a tree.

"The Queen section of the cemetery," Ollie muttered.

Hayden looked up at Roy, her eyes silently asking a question, he nodded and she ran off the rest of the way, dropping in front of a newer headstone.

Artemis sucked in her breath as she saw the headstone, but not because it was hers…

Lian Harper
2012 – 2022

Beloved Daughter

"Hi, Lian!" Hayden said to the small headstone. "I'm here with Uncle Roy, we came to visit you and my mommy. How are you? Did whoever runs things up there let you get a dog? I know how much you wanted one."

Roy reached the top of the hill to hear that last part. He didn't need to hear the fact that he hadn't allowed his princess a dog, not when he already knew he wouldn't be able to end this visit without dropping Hayden with Dinah and heading to the nearest bar.

"Hayden," she looked up at her uncle, "how about you go talk to your mom for a bit, okay?"

Hayden smiled in a way that reminded Roy of her mother.

"Okay, Uncle Roy, but you have to come say 'hello' too; otherwise Mommy will think you don't care about her!" Hayden jumped up and ran to a headstone a few down.

Roy sighed and kneeled in front of Lian's grave, placing the flowers in front of him.. "Hey, Princess, happy birthday. How are you?"

By this point most of the women were beginning to cry and Roy looked close.

Roy didn't wait for the answer that would never come and continued, "I'm sorry I haven't visited in a while, I've been traveling a bit. Do you remember Jason? He was your Uncle Bruce's second Robin. And Kory? Well, I've been traveling with the two of them."

Dick furrowed his brows, a second Robin? What happened that caused Bruce to need another one? He thought to himself, then he remembered the previous moment and how he had grown up. Was Jason his replacement?

Roy wiped at the tears welling in his eyes as he continued, "You can't be fourteen already, you just can't. I remember," Roy looked up to keep the tears from falling, "I remember when your mom first showed you to me. I couldn't believe that I could have created something so precious, so small. Something that trusted me so easily."

Roy looked away, as if avoiding eye contact, "I saw your mom about a month ago, when I was in Bosnia with Jason and Kory, she… She said she had been to visit you a while ago and to tell you 'happy birthday' from her.

"I know that you thought your mother had abandoned you to me, but God, Lian, if you had known, just how hard it was for her to give you up…"

He sighed again, "I… I almost joined you, up there. Two weeks ago I was in Gotham, helping your Uncle Dick with Killer Croc and well… I almost gave up, figured I could finally hold you in my arms again, and… I almost left," Roy laughed humorlessly, "but you would have kicked my butt and told me that I got fat in the hospital, or something."

Despite the situation, Roy snorted. If there had been any doubt as to who the child belonged to it was wiped away by older Roy's words about his daughter.

Roy looked up at the sky, it was growing slightly darker, birds flying over head.

He looked back at the tiny marking, "Lian, honey, I wish you were here. I… I know you didn't know this, but the day after you…" Roy choked, "well, I was going to take you to the Humane Society, so that we could find a stray, maybe one that fit our personalities, and makes you wonder how you could ever think of life without…"

He was silent for quite some time after that, he didn't know how much time had passed until he looked over at Hayden only to see her leaning against Artemis's grave, the sun setting in the distance.

Roy took one last look at his daughter's grave, his voice caught in his throat, "I love you, etai yazi, don't you ever forget that. Also, keep an eye on your Aunt Artemis, because I know she'll do the same for you."

Artemis nodded jerkily , the tear streaming down her face.

He walked over to where his surrogate niece was and realized she wasn't just leaning against the headstone, she was asleep. As if she had fallen asleep with her mother singing a silent lullaby.

He carefully picked up the small girl was and turned to the grave and whispered, as to not wake Hayden, "Look after her for me, Artemis, just like you did on that day."

Artemis Crock-Rayner

1995 – 2022

Smile, breathe and go slowly

"Oh, my God," Dinah choked out. Two children whom she had come to care for wouldn't have the good future every parent wishes for their children and it hurt.

Roy was seething. Whoever did this… Killed his daughter and a woman who had a child before they had even begun to live, was going to pay.

Essence decided it would be best to continue before anybody demanded that they be able to leave, before they had to see their future sad as well. But before she could speak a note appeared on the coffee table in the middle of the room.

A/N: So, I don't know how you guys reacted, but I kind of wish that FF. net allowed .GIF usage like on tumblr so that I could just show you how I pretty much looked after writing this. I also would like to thank you all again for all of the Reviews/Story Alerts/Faves so much. I have a pretty low self-esteem, so it's hard enough to put this stuff up there, let alone think about how people will react. So when I get good reviews like I have been, well… You guys don't even know… Really, thanks.

Song for the Chapter: Lucy by Skillet
No joke, this song is perfect for the chapter.

Also, the quote at the end of Artemis's headstone is an old Vietnamese proverb about life, just so ya know... And, according to Greg Weisman, Artemis was born in 1995, so that part comes from the mouth, or keyboard, of the show creator.

See you all next time for what the letter said and Wally's moment.

Ciao!

~Sela