Rocks At My Window

Ages: Dick- 16 Artemis- 17

Artemis sat down on her couch and turned on the TV. She had just come back for the archery range at the mountain where she practiced every day after school. The commercial went off and Toddlers and Tiaras came back on. Artemis quickly switched the channel to ABC Family to avoid watching the idiots. She had never been a fan of reality TV.

ABC Family was still on one of their five minute long commercial breaks so she pulled out her phone. Finding herself thinking about Dick, she pulled up the last message he had sent.

D: B is gonna be gone this weekend, so no extracurriculars. Pass it on to Meg and Con.

A: You're not going to hang out w/ us today?

D: Srry. Mathlete meeting :(

A: That's fine. Later?

D: ofc :)

It seemed to come as a shock to her that it was, in fact, Friday night. There was no way the week went by so fast. If anything, it felt like a Wednesday. She hoped Dick wasn't going to be staying home all weekend. Normally when Bruce left for the weekend they hung out the whole time with Barbara or Wally. Lately, it had just been the two of them and, hanging out involved a lot less talking and a bit more kissing.

She turned her attention back to the movie. The guy was currently throwing rocks at the girl's window. Artemis laughed as the girl fell off the ivy she was climbing down. Lucky for the girl, she fell right on top of the guy. An image of Dick as Robin launching rocks are her window with a bat-slingshot suddenly flashed in her mind.

She shook her head. "I would not put that past him," she muttered to herself.

Three hours and one and a half movies later and Artemis was still on the couch. The plot lines were blurring together in her head as she drifted in and out of sleep. She had a faint vision of her and Dick riding away from a tall tower on a white horse, and then another of them getting married in a large white chapel.

She finally woke up fully as the second movie was ending. Artemis stretched as she stood up. She walked over and turned off the TV. She walked to her room still thinking about Dick. When she entered her room, she went straight to her closet.

"It is a Friday night. Why am I here home alone when I could be out on the street kicking ass?" she said out loud.

As she was putting on her costume, she heard a faint clinking on her window. She walked over and opened it. Stepping out on the fire escape, she looked down to find Robin smiling up at her.

"Are you throwing r-o-c-k-s at my w-i-n-d-o-w?" she asked him.

"Y-e-s," he replied with a cheeky grin. "Care to come d-o-w-n?"

Artemis smiled back at him and went back inside to grab her arrows. She came back out quickly and made her way down.

"R-e-a-d-y?" Robin asked.

"A-l-w-a-y-s," she said and then kissed him on the lips.

He pulled her closer and kissed her back. When they broke apart they both smiled at each other.

"Let's go kick some a-s-s," Robin said before he disappeared into the night with a cackle.

Artemis rolled her eyes before heading off in his direction.