Artemis POV

I walked into school the next day with Wally by my side. We had dropped by my house so I could change. I wore a navy sweater, light wash jeans and Jordan Grape 5s. I wore lip gloss and my hair was in a pony.

"Are you okay?" Zatanna asked worriedly when we had gotten to my locker. I nodded.

"I'm fine. I stayed at Wally's place last night" I said.

Zatanna stopped and smiled.

"Ohh" she said while wiggling her eyebrows.

"And holding hands ohh" she said.

I looked down at our hands and saw that what she said was true. I blushed deeply. "I-it's nothing-"

"Hey Zee" Dick said and pecked her on the lips.

"And you two I see?" Wally said.

They said nothing but continued to flirt with each other. It was extremely cute.

"Hey Megan" Conner said.

"Hey Conner" Megan replied with a smile.

"You look nice today" Conner commented.

Megan slightly blushes and opened her mouth to say something but Dick spoke.

"Please just get together already. You guys obviously like each other!" Dick blurted out.

I started walking away. I didn't feel like dealing with love when my love life was such a flop.

"Artemis can I talk to you?" Wally asked.

I stopped and nodded. "Yeah sure-"

"Is this him?" a voice bellowed.

I turned around to see my dad.

"It's Wally. You saw him this morning!" I exclaimed.

My dad scratched his neck after thinking.

"Right. Nice boy. Now where is Jordan?" he asked getting darker with every word in the sentence. I grabbed his hand and Wally followed until we were at a different hallway.

"What are you going to do to him?" Wally asked excitedly.

"Hurt him for doing what he almost did to my daughter!" dad said.

"Can I come and watch?" Wally asked.

"Wally!" I yelled hitting him.

"Dad I don't need you to do anything. Please don't do anything" I begged.

"Alright...Wally can you watch my daughter and make sure that Jordan doesn't go near her?" he asked calmly.

"Ok" Wally answered.

"Am I going to have a say in this?" I asked in disbelief.

"It's going to be fine" Wally said grabbing my hand.

After School...

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Wally had been very overprotective of me. I knew he had to keep my dad's word and all but still. It was crazy. I walked through hallways trying to get to the football field as fast as I could.

"Yeah and he would never leave me alone. It was annoying and sweet at the same time" I said.

I was talking to Zatanna on the phone.

"See? Being overprotective? He's totally into you. And you know Dick told me something's that I probably shouldn't know..." she said.

I rolled my eyes.

"I doubt he-"

I was smashed into a wall and my phone dropped disconnecting the call.

Wally POV

My phone rang.

"Wally? Is Artemis with you?" she asked sounding a little freaked.

"No...why?" I asked.

Oh shit.

"I was just talking to her and the line got cut off. Wally go find her!" she yelled.

"Okay. Okay" I said hanging up and running towards the school.

So now I was slightly panicking.

Artemis POV

Why is all this bad stuff happening to me? I started to softly weep.

"Shut up before someone hears you!" he growled.

"H-how are you here? Y-you're suspended!" I stuttered.

"If you hadn't noticed the school doesn't have the best security guards" he said.

"W-why are you doing this to me? I have never done anything to you!" I yelled.

He smirked and opened his mouth.

"Get away from her!"

I turned to see Wally. And let me say never had I ever been happy to see him ever. "Wally!" I exclaimed through my tears.

I saw fear flash through Jordan's eyes before he smirked again. Jordan stepped back and slowly walked over to Wally.

"I wouldn't do anything if I were you…" Jordan said deviously.

Wally scoffed. "Really? And what are you going to do?" he said.

"W-Wally be careful…" I said.

"Don't worry if he tries anything I could just give him another black eye" Wally replied haughtily.

"Trust me nothing is going to happen to me this time" Jordan said.

Then Jordan pulled out a fucking gun.

Now this was going too far. This cannot be happening. I closed my eyes. Maybe this was a dream a long awful dream that was not going to end well.

"Artemis go now" Wally commanded.

"But-"

"Just go!" he yelled.

I hesitated. I slowly opened my eyes and saw the Jordan had the gun pointed to Wally. Fresh tears started to kick in. I saw the look in his eyes.

Fear.

He was scared and I didn't want to leave him like that. Especially when this was all my fault. I couldn't.

"Please" he whispered softly.

With that I ran. I ran as fast as my nerdy legs could take me.

I opened the doors of the exit and ran right in the middle of the football field. I probably looked like the crazy one. I was balling, and huffing and frantically looking around.

The boys were still in the middle of practice but Dick saw me and yelled.

"Artemis get out the way!" Dick yelled.

"No! Wally is in the school w-w-with Jordan and Jordan h-has a gun!" I said panicking.

"Someone go in there now!" I yelled.

My throat was hurting, my heart was pounding out of my chest and I had a massive head ache.

The coach stopped practice and approached me.

"What are you talking about Miss Crock?" he asked.

There were the sounded of guns shots.

I panicked.

"Alright someone call the police now!" coach bellowed.

"Artemis come with me and show me were the are now!" the coach commanded.

And soon we were running back into the school with half of the football team trailing behind us. We arrived back at the scene and what I saw made me gasp.

Wally was on the floor surrounded by a pool of blood.

Blood.

There was blood everywhere.

I ran over to him already sobbing again.

"Wally what the hell happened?" I asked trying not to choke between my sobs.

"I…I was trying to protect you" he whispered.

I had no words.

I should've been the one to get shot. Not Wally.

Wally.

There was a commotion and I turned to see the ambulance rushing over to Wally. They pulled me away and attended to Wally.

Through all this I couldn't help but think this was all my fault.

...I'm so sorry! 1. Taking forever to update 2. Making the chapter like this...