Chapter 1

Artemis' Pov.

Artemis lay stretched out on the couch in the cave in a pair of loose shorts and a big loose shirt. She closed her eyes and was about to fall asleep when she heard a rather loud crash. She bolted up and looked around only to find that the source of the crash was Wally. She lay back down again and closed her eyes. She decided to just ignore him instead of picking a fight. She didn't relies that Wally had noticed her or that he had an evil smirk on his face. She was wrenched from her almost sleep by Wally jumping over the back of the couch. Just missing her legs. She glared at him and he gave her a completely innocent look and turned on the TV. Artemis closed her eyes again and once again Wally wrenched her out again.

"Why are even here?"

"I moved into the cave a few days ago."

"Why?"

Artemis didn't want to tell him that she had moved out because her dad kept on visiting her at home. She hadn't talked about it with anyone. She looked at him. She looked into his emerald green eyes and sighed. It was time she told someone but why did that person have to Wally. Wally of all people!

"It's just….My dad has been visiting me recently."

The team didn't know who her dad was but she still couldn't look him in the eye.

"What did he do? Did he hurt you?"

He sounded concerned. Her eyes flickered up for a second and then they returned to the floor.

"N-No nothing like that it's just after they split he stopped coming around and I hadn't seen him since and when he started showing up it put a lot of strain on me until I had finally had enough so I moved into the cave."

Wally's Pov.

I looked at her stunned. She had opened up to me. She had let me see into her life and I was not going to take advantage. Right now she needed someone to talk to and to comfort her.

"Artemis I am so sorry."

She pulled her knees up to her chest and rested her head in-between her legs. He knew that he had to do something to make her feel better and it didn't look like she was in the mood for betting his ass. He scooted closer and put his hand on one of her knees which made her look up at him.

He took her hand and laced their fingers together. He looked into her eyes.

Just then she stood and walked away. He watched her go and for some reason he felt hurt.

Artemis' Pov.

Wally was being uncharacteristically nice and although it was sweet I just couldn't take it. I didn't mind him being there or him comforting her by holding her hand. The problem was that his eyes were full of pity and I didn't want him to look at me like that. Usually it wouldn't bother me if someone looks at me with pity in their eyes but for some reason I couldn't stand Wally looking at me with pity.

I went to my room and sat on my bed. I couldn't fall asleep Wally had made sure of that. So instead I sat there and stared at the wall. I felt numb and lifeless.

After what felt like an eternity I heard a knock on the door.

"It's open." I half whispered and half yelled.

The door opened and revelled Wally. I glanced at the clock and realized that it was midnight. I had completely drifted off.