46. Weeping Angels

"No, I can't take you too!"

"You said we would come back to life."

"Artemis-"

"Shut...up! Together..." She grabbed his hands and put them on her waist. "Or not at all."

"What are you two doing?!" Zatanna screamed in terror as they rest of the team climbed on to the top of the roof.

Wally and Artemis were both in their civvies and on top of the edge of the building, their arms wrapped around each other. Nightwing, Kaldur, Robin, Superboy, Miss Martian, everyone from the Team all stared in horror as their friend, their family, stood near the edge of the building as the couple stared into each others eyes. Beast Boy was the one to notice the Statue of Liberty standing behind them, the angel's teeth sharp and ready to attack once it was given the opening. He tapped his sister's arm to pull her attention away from Wally and Artemis so she could see how dire their situation was. Miss Martian gasped.

"Nightwing," her voice shook.

Nightwing turned around and his eyes widen behind his mask. He quickly turned back to his two best friends. "Don't do this, there might be another way you guys!"

"Yeah, but what if there isn't? What if this is the only way?" Wally asked. The wind that blew across the roof felt cold and deafening to his ears, but his eyes never left his wife's. Years of being in the hero business, so many missions and close calls; there were times when he felt like his heart was about to stop or he wanted to regurgitate his food, but this was the first time that he felt nothing. As long as Artemis was with him, he was fine.

During the years, things settling down after the Reach and Light's invasion, Wally and Artemis got back in their uniform. After Barry retiring and Bart being too young Wally had to take up the mantle in becoming the Flash, and Artemis was not about to let him be alone in the hero business. She would rather have him near her than away from her, they had enough of that in their youth. So many years have passed and they settled in quite nicely with their hero job and their normal job. It could get a little handful, but they could still manage. So many things have changed and didn't change at the same time. Bart still stayed here in the present, M'gann and La'gann are still going out, Conner and Wendy were now engaged after finding a 'cure' for his aging problem, Nightwing and Kaldur still lacked some trust in the League and Team but still managed, and Wally and Artemis getting married.

"Artemis, do you even know what you're doing?" Miss Martian stepped forward.

"Changing the future," Artemis answered, her eyes never leaving Wally's.

"How do you know it's going to work?!" Impulse screamed, fearing for his cousin's and cousin-in-law's life. "You don't know if the paradox will work, you could just die without knowing it!"

"It's going to work! I know it's going to work!" Artemis yelled.

"How do you know?!" Miss Martian screamed.

"Neptune's beard! This is crazy, get down from there!" Lagoon Boy snapped at them, eying the Statue of Liberty warily.

"You guys don't understand," Wally said, drawing in her closer to him.

"What don't we understand? What makes you think we don't understand at all?!" Superboy stepped forward.

"Because it's marriage." Artemis calmly answered before the two pushed each other off the roof. Everyone screamed their name out, some were too stunned to do or say anything.

Nightwing, Superboy, and Kaldur ran over to the edge, screaming after them and watch them fall. Superboy and Nightwing were both ready to jump when Zatanna stopped them.

"Wait! Guys, look!" Everyone started to look around. Their surroundings were starting to shimmer in bright light and slowly starting to disappear. "It's working! It's the paradox and it's working!"

The wind felt strangely silent as they fell. Their eyes never left one another, they embraced as they fell to the Earth. It was a strange feeling, usually when they fell it was either with their own power or friends that helped them stop the fall, but no one was rescuing them because this was the only the rescue everyone and themselves. Wally didn't want to think about a life where he couldn't meet Artemis until his last dying breath; it killed Artemis to know that Wally spent his time alone without her, just waiting for her and hoping that she will come again with her Wally. It scared and hurt her when the withered, tired, and old Wally reached out for her, calling to her and just how sad and relieved he looked when his eyes landed on her. They will not allow that to happen.

The darkness around them disappeared in a blink of an eye, Wally's and Artemis's eyes snapped open and gasped for air. The two sat up and looked around, they were in the cemetery, and they were confused. Did it work?

"You guys did it!"

They turned around to see their friends all running towards them with relief that they were fine and joy that everything turned out okay. As Artemis was getting up she tackled to the ground by Zatanna, Miss Martian, Batgirl, and Bumblebee. The women were in near tear when they reached where the couple were while the men all looked relieved and expressed their own way of how relieved they were that Wally and Artemis were okay.

"Don't ever do that to me again!" Zatanna slapped Artemis's arm.

"Sorry," she smile sheepishly.

"C'mon guys, it's finally over and we're all tired, let's go back to the bio-ship and go home." Nightwing instructed.

Everyone started to walk back to the bio-ship; Wally noticed something that made him stop in his track. Wally stared at the gravestone in front of him, confused.

"Hey...hey Artemis, come here!"

"What is it?"

"This gravestone...it has my full name on it, but no date." He pointed at the stone.

"What?" Artemis frowned and walked over to him. "That's not possible."

"No, seriously, read it here-"

Wally vanished before her eyes. Behind him was a Weeping Angel. She screamed.

"NOOO!"

Nightwing, Zatanna, and Superboy who yet to aboard the bio-ship turned around and paled, they saw a single Weeping Angel, a stunned Artemis, and no Wally.

"What the hell? I thought the paradox killed them all!" Superboy glared at the Angel while he stood behind Artemis.

"One of them must have survived." Nightwing grimly replied. "It could be weak but keep your eyes on it."

"Wally..." Artemis weakly said. "Where's Wally?"

Superboy slowly approached forward, keeping an eye on the Angel and peered at the gravestone Wally was in front of a few seconds ago. His breath caught in his throat as he saw Wally's name and his age. The Boy of Steel started to shake, turning towards her best friend with a ghostly look.

"I'm sorry, Artemis, I'm so...so sorry," Superboy whispered.

A beat of silence felt like an eternity, Artemis stared at him and she shook her head. "No...we can get him back, right? With Zatanna's magic, that's possible right? Or with Dr. Fate. One more paradox-"

"Will rip London apart-"

"No, that's not true...I don't believe you," I can't believe you.

"I'm sorry, but it's true." Zatanna hated herself right now. She hated herself so much right now for saying this to her best friend. Why did things have to become this way? Wasn't it over? The Weeping Angels dead and they could have gone home, happy, but one...one blasted Angel had to survive and rip it all away. She was a powerful magician, right? Couldn't she do something? But deep within her mind, she knows she can't.

"Artemis."

Nightwing's voice snapped Zatanna back to reality. Artemis was walking closer to her, walking pass her and to the Angel.

"Artemis? ...Artemis what are you doing?" Zatanna's throat felt dry. Nightwing felt cold and couldn't move. Superboy felt helpless.

"That gravestone, on that gravestone there could be one more name, right?"

"Wha-what are you talking about? Come back to the bio-ship," Nightwing grabbed Artemis's wrist. "We'll figure something out." But she pulled away from his grasp.

"The-the Angel, would it send me back to the same time, with him?" Artemis chocked back on her sob, keeping a steady eye on the statue.

"I don't know, nobody knows, Artemis, get back here!" Nightwing pleaded.

"But it's my best shot, yeah?" Artemis stepped forward.

"No!" Superboy shouted.

"Superboy, shut up!" There was one chance where she could be reunited with Wally and Zatanna was not going to stop her best friend, even if it meant losing her. She ignored Nightwing's and Superboy's shocked look, she didn't care as long as Artemis was happy with her life; spending it with him. "Yes, yes it is!"

"Well then, I just have to blink."

"No!" Nightwing and Superboy tried to step forward, but Zatanna stopped them. This was a difficult choice, but it had to be done. She didn't want Artemis to be alone, wondering what what happened to Wally, how he died, if he ever re-married to someone. She didn't want to see how Artemis would react and she wasn't going to take that chance. Zatanna stared at the two superheroes with a steady, yet, sad look in her eyes.

"It will be fine, I know it will. I-I'll be with him like I should be. Me and Wally, together." The trembling in her body stopped and she reached behind. "Zatanna," the magician stepped forward and took her best friend's hand.

"Stop it, just stop it!" Nightwing snapped at them, but they ignored him.

"You take good care of my mom, she's going to need it, and...tell her and the others that I'm sorry."

"Artemis! You heard what Zatanna said, if you go with this plan you won't be able to come back, we will never be able to see each other again!" Nightwing urged his best friend, trying to change her mind, and wondering why Zatanna was doing this.

"It'll be okay, I'll be with him." The tears started to fall from her face. What a mess, she didn't want to leave like this, to not disappear with a crying face, but she can't help it. She let the tears fall. The memories of the old Team, their first meeting, their bonding, the missions, and the new members. All the memories of her life comes rushing back. She never got to say 'I love you' to her mother. She started to wish that she was a better daughter to her and listened to her, to not snap at her or get angry. She wanted fight less with her sister and Roy, she wanted to play one more time with Lian her sweet little niece. To say thank you to Batman, Dinah and Ollie for helping her out and letting her join the team. Everything she never got to or regret came rushing back, she can't do anything about it, Wally was waiting for her.

"Artemis," Nightwing urged his body to move, but his they were still bind by the magic spell. "Please, come back with us, come back to the bio-ship. C'mon, Artemis, please!"

"...Idiot family," said Artemis, a proper word for them, her family. They were all her family. She turned around and said her final word. "Goodbye!"

She disappeared after that.

"...Why?" After a beat of silence, Nightwing spoke again. "Why would you do that?!"

"Because," Zatanna swallowed down the lump in her throat. "I would rather have them be together than separate and be alone, don't you agree? Wally lived without Artemis once and died just after seeing her...I don't want him to go through that again. As long as their together, there's nothing to worry about, right?"

"Zee-"

"She's not just your friend! She's mine too!" Zatanna finally let her tears fall. "She was everyone's sister."

So...here I am...writing this...I'M SO SORRY! BUT I COULDN'T HELP IT! I FINALLY FINISHED WATCHING THE SEVENTH SEASON OF DOCTOR WHO AND THIS JUST...UGH! I NEEDED TO GET ALL OF THIS FEELING OUT OF ME, IT WOULD HAVE EATEN ME AWAY...I'm sorry, I'm so sorry! ;A;
Yeah, their in London, I wanted them to be on a different continent for this one. I hope nobody was OOC for this chapter, because I really like this...a lot.

I'm thinking about writing a part two because it feels like just a cliffhanger to me and this is the longest chapter I've written for this story. This is based off of Doctor Who's seventh season of the last episode 'Angels take Manhattan'. I hope you guys don't mind, but it really inspired me. Thank and please, REVIEW~! (~O3O)~