So I was listening to "Open Arms" by Journey and thought I could make a story out of it out of it! Oh and in case you don't know the song I posted the lyrics!

Also this takes place right after the episode fail safe! This is what should

have happened :)

Lying beside you, here in the dark

Feeling your heart beat with mine

Softly you whisper, you're so sincere

How could our love be so blind

We sailed on together

We drifted apart

And here you are by my side

So now I come to you, with open arms

Nothing to hide, believe what I say

So here I am with open arms

Hoping you'll see what your love means to me

Open arms

Living without you, living alone

This empty house seems so cold

Wanting to hold you, wanting you near

How much I wanted you home

But now that you've come back

Turned night into day

I need you to stay.

(chorus)

All rights to journey and dc comics :)

Artemis pov

It is all my fault. I was stupid and died! I should have hit both of those

guns! Instead, I was stupid and missed one!

Stupid! I was so stupid! I just stood there and aimed at it! I should have

dodged it! Of course I didn't though, and I ended up getting zapped with an

alien laser that hurts like heck!

Of course, my stupidness didn't end there! M'gann was so shocked at my death,

that she made us all forget that we were actually in a training exercise. She

accidentally made us believe that I had actually died! She even made my

subconscious think that I had actually died, so I slipped into a coma in real

life.

After we finally woke up, we had the truth explained to us. I let it all sink

in. I couldn't help but think that this was all my fault!

Wally pov

You know how they say "you never know what you got till it's gone?" Well, it's

true. When that laser ripped right through Artemis, it felt like someone

dropped a nuclear bomb right in my chest. So much pressure, I had to release it

somehow! I had screamed out her name, hoping just saying her name could bring

her back. Aqualad had ordered us back on the bioship.

There I let out mixed emotions. Anger, sadness, and the thought of revenge

were just a few that had ran through my mind. Aqualad told us that we would have

time to grieve later. He told us that we had to save the world , and not let

Artemis's sacrifice be in vain.

He decided to take the bioship to the hall of justice. There we helped

defeat two alien ships, and saved some military men's lives. We entered the hall

and M'gann went and wept by her uncle's statue. All the sudden she lifted the

statue and found Martian Manhunter under it.

That's when I had a spark of hope! Maybe everyone had just been zetaed

somewhere else. I told robin to come with me as we went to the bioship. I had

him check the gun we revived from the ship we attacked at the fortress of

solitude. It had zeta waves all around it.

I told rob that this meant that Artemis was still alive! Everyone else too!

He gave me a look that said don't get your hopes up, but I couldn't help it!

Artemis was alive and that was all I cared about.

It was like as soon as I thought about hope, the world had to take it away! We

were attacked by more aliens, making Aqualad sacrifice himself for the team.

Robin took over as leader and made a plan to search the mother ship.

Superboy sacrificed himself as decoy and Rob and I searched the ship. We were

almost killed when M'gann and Martian Manhunter saved us. That's when Rob told

me that Artemis wasn't alive!

I just gave up right there. When that bomb blew up and killed me, I thought

how Kent Nelson was happy to die. He was so happy, because he knew he we going to see his little spitfire again. That was exactly what I was going to do.

light and approached it. I entered it and found myself lying on a table. I sat

up and rubbed my head. I saw Artemis and almost ran up and hugged her, but she

would probably think I was crazy. Plus I was wondering how everyone was still

alive. That's when they explained what happened. It had all been a training

exercise gone wrong. Artemis hadn't actually died. But my feelings didn't change

about her at all. Who knew that she would have to die before I finally figured

it out.

After about twenty more minutes, I got up and went to my room. I had a

feeling someone was following me. "What Dick?" I asked, knowing who would follow me.

"Do you want to talk about it?" he asked me. On the inside I wanted to tell him

everything, but on the outside I just shook my head and went to my room.

Today was a Friday so I could spend the night here and not have to worry

about missing school. I just drifted off to sleep thinking about Artemis. At

about 12:00 someone knocked on my door .

Artemis pov

After twenty minutes of justice therapy, Wally left. I wonder what his problem

is. We all experienced the same thing. Robin followed him out and black canary

dismissed us. She told us we would continue one on one in the morning. She told

us not to leave Mt. Justice.

I decided to head toward my room, when robin caught me in the hall.

"What's Wally's problem?" I asked Robin. "I think your death affected him

the most out of all of us, even M'gann," Robin said and I looked at him like he

was crazy.

"What do you mean? He hates my guts! He thinks I stole Red Arrows place on the team," I said wondering why Wally would care about

me. He hated me didn't he?

"Artemis, Wally went nuts when you died. He said that all the aliens would

die. He grieved longer than M'gann. Then he thought that the beam might have

been zeta waves. He said that " Artemis is still alive, and the others too! He

kept saying your name. It was like he was using the thought of you to hold on to

his sanity," Robin told me.

I felt a bomb go off in my heart. Does Wally like me? Should I go talk to

him? I thanked Robin and headed to my room. I sat there and thought for a few

hours.

Should I go talk to him? What would I say to him? Why hasn't he talked to me

at all? I looked over at my clock. It read 11:57. Well, Artemis, man up and go

talk to him.

I walked to his door and hesitated. I took a deep breath and knocked.