Time skip.... 5 hours.....
Artemis woke up to the sound of beeping. She slowly opened her heavy eyelids to find Dinah staring at her.
"Ah!" Artemis tried to scoot back but the pain in her stomach stopped her.
"Artemis, it's okay. Do you know who I am?" Dinah asked.
"Duh, you're Dinah King, Trainor of the team, wife of Oliver King, 'mother' of me because my mom died and you're the closest thing I have to a mother, so yeah," Artemis said.
"Well, apparently you didn't lose any of your memory."
"Why would I have lost my memory?"
"Artemis, how much do you remember?"
"I remember going with Barbara to a café, I remember being shot in the leg, pain, then nothing. I remember telling Wally I'm preg...... Wait, where's my bump?"
"Artemis, you lost the babies," Barbara said coming over to Artemis with Wally.
"Babies? No, I only had one baby," Artemis said.
"Babe, we had two babies. We lost both babies. The doctor poisoned you," Wally said.
"What kind of poison?" Dinah asked.
"We don't know," Barbara said.
"Yes, we do," Dick said walking into the room.
"What?" Wally asked.
"Methotrexate. The doctor gave Artemis Methotrexate. It is a drug that can help cure cancer but can also make a woman miscarry. The doctor overdosed in order to kill Artemis, but he didn't plan on her having two babies. The babies absorbed the poisoned, and would have killed Artemis if you had not gotten her to Dinah," Dick said.
"Methotrexate, Oh, no," Dinah muttered under her breath.
"What? What's wrong?" Artemis asked tears coming to my eyes.
"Overdosing on Methotrexate can make it almost impossible to have more children. Even if you got pregnant again, your children would have mild to severe birth defects, if you did not miscarry them before birth," Dinah said. Artemis sobbed and clung onto Wally. Wally could only hug his wife, not knowing what else to do.
Dinah ushered Barbara and Dick out. Barbara took one last glance at Artemis, feeling sorry what had happened. Then the two left to tell the team and league what had happened all in that day.
"It's okay Artemis, we'll try again," Wally said to Artemis stroking her hair.
"I don't want to try again Wally, I don't want other babies. I want these babies," Artemis said and put her hand on her empty stomach still trying to grasp that she had lost her first two children.
"It's my fault. If I had been more careful about doing 'it' with you none of this would have happened," Wally said. Artemis offered him a sad smile and laughed.
"Are you always gonna do this?" Artemis asked him wiping her tears with her sleeve.
"What?"
"Blame yourself for everything."
"What are you talking about?"
"You blamed yourself for when I went undercover."
"I should have said no."
"You blamed your self when my mom died."
"I couldn't get the medicine to her in time."
"Now your blaming yourself for my miscarriage."
"I wasn't careful enough."
"Wally..... No one knew this would happen."
"I should have gone with you to the café. I could have protected you."
"But you didn't. I can't walk on eggshells all my life. If God wants us to have kids we'll have kids."
"I love you Artemis."
"I love you too Baywatch."
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Nine Months
FanfictionWally and I got married just two months ago. Sure, we were married so we were 'Active' if you know what I mean. But would I really be after such a short period of time? And would would Wally think?
