In Wonderland

Babe?

~July 5th~

~Earth 16~

~Artemis~

~Palo Alto~

The alarm clock read 10:30. AM."Babe, why didn't you set the alarm." I say yawning. My hair is short. Strange. I don't remember that happening."Aren't you glad I"m back?" I pause for a moment. "And do you know what happened to my hair?"

"Babe?" And then it all comes flooding back to me in a wave of memories. Wally is dead. Dead. As in forever. No redos, do overs or second chances. Not like my 3 deaths. In the artificial reality, Cape Caraneval and in whatever the Light's secret evil cave or whatever when M'gann/Deathstroke "shot" me.

I start to cry hard. I've lost so many people. Jason, Ted, Tula, Rita and now- now Wally. How am I going to live without my arrogant Baywatch. I have been without him before: before we were in love, when I was undercover with Kaldur for Black Manta and the light. When I was undercover I knew that even if I burned the world down he would hold me like I was innocent.

Is it possible to miss someone you've only lost for a day, or 14 hours. Yes, I suppose it is. I stand up and slowly walk into the hallway and I suddenly I have a flashback.

~January 1st~

~Earth 16~

~Artemis~

~Palo Alto~

"Happy anniversary, Beautiful." Wally says in barely a whisper, tucking a strand of golden hair behind my ear. I groan pulling the blanket over my head and bury myself deeper into the bed; he just laughs, pulling the blanket down just low enough so he could kiss my forehead and began to crawl out of bed.

"No." I say muffled by the blankets. He laughs some more, pulls down the blanket down to my neck and kisses me passionately.

"There that good enough for you?" He says smirking. He's obviously enjoying himself so much the last thing in the world he wants me to say is yes. And it's the last thing I would do as well.

"No." I say, sticking out my bottom lip in a pouty expression.

"I'm hungry, Babe, speedster metabolism, remember?" I exclaims, staring straight into my grayish blue eyes. I do the puppy dog face. Who knew the daughter of two assassins raised ban abusive father, and an absent sister and mother could do the puppy dog eyes so well. "I will be right back." He exclaims. Ha! The puppy dog eyes and pout lips worked! He speeds into the kitchen, then returns in under a second.

I start to giggle uncontrollably. "What's wrong?" Wally exclaims, concerned and confused.

"You have a coffee mustache." I exclaim giggling.

"You are the one person in the world who can take me laying in your bed shirtless and turn it into a coffee mustache." He replies smirking.

"And that is exactly why you are laying in our bed shirtless." I say tilting my head up like a fancy stuck up person.

"And why I love you." He finishes, kissing me the second after he finishes his sentence.

~July 5th~

~Earth 16~

~Artemis~