34. Pain

Wally was standing in front of a glaring Dick Grayson as he was blocking his way to his house. His best friend had his arm crossed with a hard expression on his face and there was no sign of budging. Not that he would blame him.

"Please let me see her." He desperatly pleaded him.

"No," his answer was stiff and blunt. "Artemis doesn't want to see you right now, not after what you did to her."

Wally flinched at his word, the pervious and unwanted memory coming back to him.

It all happened so fast as Artemis flew out of the door with the most furious look on her face. Bags were in her hands as she stormed toward her car. She threw her bags into the back seat and got into the driver's seat. Wally quickly followed after her with a desperate and panic expression on his face.

"Artemis, wait, please let me explain!"

"Explain what exactly, Wally? What?" She hissed at him with a vicsious glare.

"I'm sorry, Artemis, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean for any of this to go this far!" He tried to reach for her hand, but she snatched it out of his reach. "I love you, Artemis."

"Well that didn't seem to stop you from chewing Linda's face off!"

"I know I messed up, I know that I slipped up but it won't happen again." He pleaded her.

"Oh, you think that's the only thing I know about, the kiss? Well guess what, you bastard, I know hell of a lot more."

Dread filled in the pit of his stomach, his green eyes widen in shock and horror. She knew, oh god, she knew.

"Yeah, that's right, you think I didn't know about your 'late night study', Mr. Secret!" She snapped. "You think I don't know what you two do in bed during the nights you 'slept over' at Barry's house? You think I don't know about your damn secret flirting as the Flash while off camera?" Dammit, tears were starting form in her eyes, but she refused to let them fall. "I know, Wally, I've known for a long time."

"Then why didn't you say anything?"

"Because for some damn reason, I trusted you," she finally let the tears fall, a stab was felt in his heart as he watched her cry. She never cried, not after her mother's death. "Because I don't know why, but I trusted you that you would come clean and stop meeting her behind my back. That you would come back to me and never lie to me again...to never kill me with all the pain you were causing me. But I guess that trust was given to you blindly."

"I didn't mean to-I don't-I...don't know what came over me." He lamely replied.

He really didn't.

Wally didn't know why he ever cheated on Artemis in the first place. Why the hell did he start to think that Linda Park was attractive in any way like his blond goddess, his partner? He didn't understand why he started to waver, why he started to meet with her during the late night to meet her and stay over her house while doing shameful things while his girlfriend knew about his late night rendevous and causing her so much pain over and over again. He just...didn't know why but he just did it.

"Artemis," he was desperate to clean his act just for. Just... "Don't leave me."

A sharp bitter laugh was all he got from her. "And what do you want me to do? Wait for you to stab me in the back? Forget it, West, it's over. We're over." And without a single glance back, he watched her go with her car, leaving him alone in their apartment.

"What you did was stupid," Dick snapped, glaring at him.

"I know," he hung his head low in shame. "How...is she doing?"

"Terrible," Dick answered, his face softening at the thought of Artemis. "She won't talk to anyone but me. She won't answer any calls from Ollie, Dinah, or the girls. She's refusing to eat anything. Artemis is like the walking dead."

Wally closed his eyes, he let out a shaky breath, and his shoulders slouched. "Artemis..."

"Dude, I don't know what came over you, but you break in a way she will be scarred for life." Dick pinched the bridge of his nose. "I like Artemis, I still do even after she quit the team and decided to leave you. I back off because you're my bro. But...after this I don't know if I can actually trust you man. Why would you do that to her, Wally? I thought you loved her."

"I do!" Wally exclaimed, cold ice fear gripping his heart. "I do still lover her."

"Then why did you do it?"

"...I ask myself that every night now."

"I think you should leave, give her time to heal and pick herself up. If she ever saw you she might lose it and break all over again."

Dick turned around and walked back into his own apartment. Before he closed the door, Wally stopped him.

"Wait, Dick, you're not going to..."

"Wally, I may still like her, hell I might even love her, but I'm not shallow enough to move in her. She's already in too much pain as it is."

The door was slammed with a loud bang.

Pain...he was feeling it too.

Yes! I'm alive and writing again! It's good to be back guys, I missed you guys so much! I'm sorry for not updating this chapter so soon, I was having a writer's block and it would not just go away. And I was writing, well, trying to anyway, write my Legend of Korra fic, but to no avail. It seems like the writing Gods hate me or something.

So, I was going through my old fics on my profile. My first fic was actually Like Mother, Like Daughter and realized...wow...I made so much progress when I first started. It was so childish and had so many flaws, I cried.

Bad Wally, how could you do that do our super, ultra, fave archer? You bastard!

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