So this is the last chapter of Runaway Arrow. I would like to thank everyone who read this story, followed this story and Favoritedthis story because it really does make me feel really good knowing that people out there like my stories. So thank you everyone, I hope you really enjoyed this story and I would love to read what everyone thinks in the reviews so if you want to let me know then please write me a review or private message me. Now without further ado I present to you the final chapter of Runaway Arrow.
One year later…
Artemis POV:
One year ago today I woke up in hospital after trying to kill myself, with my best friend by my side. One year ago today my best friend became my boyfriend. One year ago today I began a new chapter of my life, I had the chance to start again, to make my life better. and that's what I did. I started again with a new view on life.
I couldn't have done it without Dick. There were times when I was so close to relapsing but he was there, and he helped me through it. He came with me to Doctor appointments, weekly meetings with the justice league and when I asked he would come with me to therapy sessions. I think that my therapy sessions really helped Dick understand more of what I was feeling and I think they also helped him with the guilt he was feeling. Dick even booked a few personal sessions for himself at one point and it was obvious that he really benefited from them.
It's 3:45 in the morning when I hear an annoying buzzing sound that pulls me from my slumber. I look over and see that my phone screen is lit up with a picture of Dick and I on my first day at Gotham Academy.
'We'll laugh about this someday.' I sleepily smile at the memory before I reach over and answer my phone.
"Dick it's almost four in the morning, what on earth could you possibly need at this hour."
"I just wanted to tell you that i'm so happy that you're alive. It was at this exact time last year that you woke up in the hospital and I am just so grateful that you're here today to share this moment with." Dick said. I was speechless. I didn't know what to say. He caught me completely off guard.
I felt myself smiling and a tear ran down my face, 'what the hell did I do to deserve this amazing, wonderful, loving and caring person in my life?' I think to myself.
"Dick I-"
"Go down to the beach, I need to show you something." DIkc says, cutting me off. I'm about to say goodbye when he hangs up. I frown a little, 'what is the boy wonder up to this time?' I ask myself before pushing myself up and out of bed. I walk over to my closet and pull out a long dressing gown and a pair of slippers. I exit my room and walk down the hall until i'm in the kitchen at the cave. I walk over to the back door leading out onto the beach and quietly unlock it before opening it and stepping outside. I see light off in the distance so I begin to walk over to it.
I walk over the hill and see Dick, standing next to a candle lit table with a bunch of roses in his hands.
"Dick, what is all this?" I ask as i'm walking over to him. I can smell the salt water from the ocean and I take a deep breath in, I love the beach.
"Well when you woke up in the hospital after we officially became a couple we got ice cream and ate it together and you jokingly said 'it was or first date.' so I decided to recreate our 'first date' at this exact time and completed with the best ice cream I've ever tasted." Dick said and a huge smile spread across my face, lighting up my eyes.
This is one of the sweetest things anyone has ever done for me. I run over and throw my arms around his neck before leaning in and pressing our lips together in a deep, passionate kiss. Dick wraps his arms around my waist and pulls me closer, if that's even possible. We stay there kissing and in each others arms just like last year in the hospital as I think to myself, 'this is the boy who made life worth living again, this is the boy who opened up a new chapter in my life.' and I will forever be grateful to have had the chance to restart my life and spend it with Dick.
So that's it everyone, sorry that this update was so short and that it's the last chapter. I was considering juts leaving it a the last chapter but I thought I would add something in the end. I know it's not the best ending to a story but hey at least I got here and completed the story.
Thank you for reading, please let me know what you thought of the story and please check out my other stories as well. Feel free to private message me if you are ever upset or feeling depressed or feel like self harming because I would love to help you get through it and I would love to try and help anyone who needs it.
Thank you to everyone who read this story I really hoped you enjoyed it and had fun reading it. Look out for a oneshot that leads on from this story and tells the story of how Dick and Artemis ended up in the future, do they stay together or do they go their separate ways? Do they get injured fighting crime, do they get married? All questions that can be answered in the oneshot.
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