Hey! I decided to do a Young Justice Fanfic for a change! I know it's different from all my other fics but I decided to do something else! My favourite ship in YJ is Traught so I decided to do a traught fic! Btw Robin is 14 and Artemis is 15. Rated T because of swearing and other things- you have been warned! Ok, here is the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice or any if the characters- * cries in corner*
Get Traught Or Get Dead. Chapter 1
Artemis' P.O.V
[Mount Justice Saturday 12thJuly 8:00 AM]
'Artemis B. 07'
I walked into the cave; it was a hot sunny morning and I decided to do some training before going back home or going to the beach with Megan. I went into the kitchen to get a drink and I spotted her making some ice-cream (that Martian can make anything I swear!), I said hello and went to get a glass from the cupboard.
"Hey, Artemis! Do you want any ice-cream?"
"Maybe after training, how are you coping with the hot weather?" I asked while filling my glass up with water and ice cubes.
"I'm all right at the moment but if I stay outside for too long I will become ill."
"Oh, I was looking forward to have some fun at the beach!"
"I think I can cope with that!"Megan laughed.
"Ok. See you later!"
"Bye!" Meagan waved cheerily and returned to making her ice-cream. I walked to the training room and spotted Robin doing some gymnastics on the uneven bars. I watched in awe as he glided through the air and caught the higher bar and started twisting and turning. Wow. He is good. I mean I know he was brought up in a circus and everything, but still! Wow! I saw him let go of the top bar after doing a really complicated routine and attempt to grab the lower bar. Key word: attempt. He reached for the bar but missed by a centimetre. A centimetre. He fell on his back and grunted in pain before I rushed up to him full of concern.
"ROBIN! Robin! Please say something. Robin!" I was kneeling beside him, shaking him trying to get him to move but he wasn't moving at all. I was getting more and more worried as the seconds ticked by; him still not moving. I was about to call for help when he started moving again.
"Robin! Rob are you okay?" I said, relieved.
"Mmm... Yep... I'm fine..."
"No you're not. You're grimacing and wincing whenever you move!"
"Then why did you ask?" He winced again, trying to sit up. I pushed him back down and said,
"I asked because it's polite and you're my friend and I wanted to see if you were okay. Now you have to rest."
"On a gym mat?"
"Hm... Wait a sec." I stood up and held my hand out to him. He took it and I pulled him up with much effort- he is much heavier than he looks. He winced again and I put his arm around my shoulders so he could lean on me for support. I heaved him up to the bench where all his stuff was and sat him down. I sat down next to him panting after all the heavy lifting. Robin looked at me with a confused look.
"What?" I asked.
"Why are you panting?"
"You are much heavier than you look!"
"Are you calling me fat?" He asked pulling an offended face.
"N-no! I-in fact I-I'm calling you the exact opposite!"
"So you think I look like a twig?"
"Yes! No! Wait what? Argh! You're confusing me!"
"Ha-ha, don't worry I'm only playing with you. Plus, you look cute when you're confused!" I blushed at this remark and turned away so he wouldn't see me.
"Ugh I can never get that ending right." He said, stretching his back.
"So you've tried it before?"
"Yeah and every time it ends like that. I need more practice."
"How long have you been here?"
"Since six."
"Whoa! Dude, you do not need more practice if you've been here since six! It must be in your technique or something."
"But what? I mean, I was born and raised in the circus and I have done this routine perfectly once before. But I haven't been able to get it right ever since! It's just so annoying!"
"Ok, what was different that time you did it to this time?" (A/N I don't know if that made any sense or not ;P)
"Nothing apart from the fact that I was in the circus when I did it and I was younger."
"I don't know what to do then. I'm sorry I can't help you."
"It's alright. I was nice of you to try anyway." Then we just sat there in silence. It wasn't awkward but it wasn't comfortable either. We just sat there. In silence.
"Well I'm gonna do some training/tanning." We said at the same time. I looked at Robin confused. Tanning?
"You? Robin, the Boy Wonder? Trained by the Batman. Is going to give up on training to do some tanning?"
"Yup. And you? Artemis Crock, Green Arrow's Protégé? The sassy Huntress' daughter, is going to give up the sun for training?"
"Yup. You got a problem with that?"
"Yes, I do actually. You are going to come with me to the beach right now. Or I'll show Wally a video of you singing in your room to One Direction*shivers*- you seriously have bad taste in music especially after you said to us you hate boy bands."
"Hey! That's unfair! I was ill and on medication-you know I would never do that now!"
"Well, I recorded it and unless you want Wally to post it all over YouTube and facebook and instagram and all the other social networking sites he has- you are coming to the beach right now."
"That's blackmail."
"I know- I'm using it." I thought for a minute. There was no way I was going to get out of this unless...
"I know! If you spar with me and I win you will train and you will not go to the beach until I've finished my training but if you win I have to go to the beach with you. Fair?"
"Hmm... Ok. But you're looking for quite a challenge-I'm very hard to beat! Are you sure you want to go ahead with your wonderful idea? " I know I've put myself up for quite a challenge. No one has ever beaten Robin apart from Batman (duh), Black Canary and Aqualad once. But I can't back out now; plus I was the one who set this up so I have to.
"You bet."I said with more confidence than I had. We headed over to the sparring mat and got into our starting positions.
"You ready?" I nodded.
"Go!" I ran towards him aiming to tackle him to the ground but he dodged with ease, letting me fall to the ground in the process. He pounced on top of me and held my arms to the floor so I couldn't escape. He grinned that shit-eating grin and started to laugh.
"Giving up already Arty?"
"No way!" I wrapped my legs around his waist and flipped him over onto his back. He yelled in pain when I remembered he had hurt his back before.
"OH MY GOD I AM SOOO SORRY! Are you ok? I completely forgot! I am so stupid for doing this but then you're stupid for agreeing to it but then I'm stupid because if I didn't mention the idea you wouldn't have said yes but then again wh-"
"ARTEMIS!" Robin cut me off of my rant.
"WHAT?" I shouted back.
"You seem distraught."
"Well of course I'm distraught- I just hurt my best guy friend and I feel really bad and- wait- what if I've damaged you really badly? Like internally or something? Huh! What if you can't do gymnastics ever again! I would've ruined your life! Both lives- Hero and normal! OH MY GOD! I would've ruined your whole past as well I-"
"ARTEMIS SHUT UP!GET TRAUGHT ALREADY!" I felt a little taken aback from Robin's outburst but he carried on,
"Ok, one: I didn't know I was your best guy friend, two: don't feel bad, three: no offence or anything but I don't think you would be strong enough to damage me really badly or internally let alone damage me so bad that I would never be able to do gymnastics again, four: If you did hurt me that bad yes, you would have ruined my life, but only one not the other and five: How can you ruin my past- it's the past?" Robin took a deep breath as he said that in one breath- he can hold his breath for ages!(training with batman probably). It took me a while to let what he had just said sink in.
"Ok, one: You are my best guy friend apart from one guy but he is in my normal life and Kaldur is too old ,Connor is just Connor and Wally is well... Wally. Two: tough, I feel bad, three: no offence taken, four: what life are you talking about- normal or hero? And five: You used to live in the circus and the circus is practically all about gymnastics- well your act was anyway." I took a deep breath, I hadn't said that in one go but it was still tiring.
"One: Who's your other best guy friend, two: well you shouldn't, three: good, four: hero-isn't it obvious? Five: You still can't ruin someone's past and six: Can we stop this number thing now please? It's annoying me." I took in what he just said; I agree this number thing is annoying me.
"One: You're a detective figure it out, two: I would say tough I feel bad again but it would last forever, three: no comment, four: Yes it is obvious but I don't know anything about your normal life, five: I guess, six: YES PLEASE! And seven: can we get back to sparring now?" Phew this is tiring.
"One: ok, two: true, three: ..., four: I guess, five: no comment, six: THANKYOU! And seven: yes." He then flipped me on my back and laughed again. Fuck, that laugh is annoying me. He was pinning me down on my arms and legs; I didn't know what to do. I couldn't use my arms and legs so I thought: 'Why not use my head?' So that's what I did. I head butted his chest (since that was the only place I could get him as he is like an inch taller than me- my mum is quite short- and he needed to move up to get me pinned down properly) and flipped him on his back again- a bit more carefully this time but still hard enough so he couldn't escape.
"You're getting better at this." Robin stated as I pinned him down to the floor. I struggled to keep him there as he is much stronger than me. He kneed me in the belly and I let my guard down for a moment but that was long enough for him to flip me over and sit on top of me. I gave up . I couldn't get out of this.
"Aw. Given up 'mis?"
"No. I'm just having a long rest and I might just go to the beach with you during that long rest." I hate admitting defeat. It's a sign of weakness.
"Ok. Fair enough." He let me go and helped me up. I dusted off the invisible dust and straightened out the creases in my uniform. I wandered to the bench where I left my water and drank some relieved to have some water in my system. I sat down to rest and breathed heavily.
"So, you coming?"
"I don't really have a choice do I?"
"Nope."
"Ok, I'll meet you and the others at the beach in half an hour."
"You really take that long to get ready?"
"I'm a girl I'm supposed to take that long- if not longer."
"Fine, meet you out there in half an hour." I nodded and set off to my room to get ready to go to the beach. To be honest I didn't actually mind missing training today but I need to look like I'm committed so I'll do some training after.
Robin's P.O.V
[Happy Harbour Beach Saturday 12thJuly 9:30AM]
I finally got Artemis to agree to come to the beach with us. Sort of. I enjoyed the spar we had even though she was quite easy to beat. She's getting better but she still needs some training - maybe I'll talk to Black Canary about private sessions with her. Even though Artemis would never agree, people call me very persuasive.
I walked down to the beach in my black swimming trunks- Not Speedos (even though I'm sure I look very sexy in them I'm not sure short and tight is my thing; long and tight yeah- since I wear leggings- but short and tight NO WAY!). Connor, Megan, Kaldur and Wally were already there but Artemis still wasn't. Seriously why did girls take so long to get ready? All you need to do is get undressed, get dressed again bring a towel and some other beach stuff, put on sun-cream and voila! You're done!
"Arty still not out here?"
"No, she's still complaining about the bikini I picked for her!" Laughed Megan.
"What was it?"
"Well you can see now!" Megan said pointing to the steps from the mountain to the beach. On them was Artemis scowling and wearing a bright pink bikini. Its straps went around her neck and it had luminous green polka dots on it. I snorted at the look on Artemis' face- It was a mix between anger, embarrassment and she looked very annoyed. The bikini itself was okay but Artemis didn't seem to be too pleased with it. She plodded down the steps and went straight to Megan.
"Do you know how lucky you are?"
"I'm sorry you left your swimming stuff at home!" While the two girls were arguing Wally was staring at Artemis in unmentioned places, Connor was smiling (Megan must be rubbing off on him) and Kaldur was laughing. I joined in the laughter as well and Artemis glared at us- she then saw Wally staring at her, walked up to him and slapped him around the face- hard. So hard that he fell of his beach chair and had a massive red hand mark on the side of his face- he was going to get a bruise for sure.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?"
"FOR LOOKING AT ME IN CERTAIN PLACES!" I laughed harder and fell on the floor. Artemis came up to me, the next minute I'm being shouted at by a very angry Artemis.
"STOP LAUGHING! THIS IS YOUR ENTIRE FAULT!"
"How is it my fault?" I questioned still trying to recover from my laughing fit.
"YOU BLACKMAILED ME TO COME OUT HERE!"
"But you were the one who came up with the idea of the sparring though." I reminded her ,smirking. She huffed and stormed off to another beach chair.
"You look cute when you're mad!" I called after her. She went even redder and turned away again. I chuckled and stood up to play some beach volley ball with the others.
We had just gotten into the game when Artemis decided to join us.
"Cooled off Angstermis?" Wally questioned. He just had to ruin it didn't he? I was holding the ball as Artemis came over. She put her hand out and gestured me to give her the ball. So I gave it to her knowing exactly what she was going to do with it. She pelted it at Wally's face and it hit him right on the nose immediately giving him a nose bleed and maybe a broken nose as well. I was laughing my head off as I approached my hurt friend who was kneeling over, I could see spots of red appearing on the sand underneath his bloody, purple nose.
"H-hey are y-you ok?" I asked trying to stifle my laughter. I honestly thought I was going to explode if I didn't let it out. So I let it out. I burst out laughing as Wally looked at me really annoyed and was about to pounce on me but luckily Kaldur held him back and said,
"Let's get you cleaned up, okay?" Wally just stood up glaring at me as he and Kaldur walked back to the mountain. It was hilarious. I still couldn't stop laughing. His face though. That look was way too funny to not laugh at. It was when I looked up I realised Artemis was laughing with me; she was on the sand crying with laughter and her hair was a mess, it looked more like a lions mane than a teenagers puffball of hair. She actually looked quite hot... Wait what? What am I thinking? Artemis is my best female friend and teammate and I go to school with her but she doesn't know that- even though I'm in most of her classes. So I can't think of her in any other way. I mean yeah, I can call her pretty when she wears something smart and nice (like when she was in that dress for her first end of year prom) but I certainly, most definitely cannot call her hot! Ok, now that's cleared up I can concentrate on my current position- Half of my face in the sand and facing Artemis' face; we were a centimetre apart and she was still laughing with her eyes closed. I don't know what to do, maybe I should back away. Yeah I'll back away. I was just about to carry out my plan when she finally calmed down and opened her eyes and screamed. Loudly. Very loudly. In my face. I think I'm deaf. Black Canary would be proud.
"SERIOUSLY ARTEMIS CAN YOU NOT DO A CANARY CRY IN MY FACE!" I yelled in her face. She stopped immediately and looked at me shocked.
"What?" I questioned.
"I never expected you to be so impatient!"
"Ummm... well you did just scream really loudly in my face out of the blue and I don't really appreciate people making me deaf."
"Well I'm sorry I opened my eyes and you were right in my face- wait why were you in my face anyway? What were you going to do?" After the last question she started to back away from me.
"I don't know why we were ineach other's faces and I wasn't going to do anything."
"Ok, we were in each other's faces and really you weren't going to do anything?"
"No!" Artemis looked at me doubtfully, "What do you expect me to say- that I was going rape you or something?"
"NO! Of course not! It's just so unlike you to not do anyth-"
"HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!"
"Who was that?" I asked, Artemis shrugged, we looked over to Connor and Megan- Megan was laughing really hard and Connor was giving us a knowing look.
"What?" Artemis asked. Connor just smiled and Megan laughed harder.
"WHAT?" We both shouted.
"Y-you two l-l-look s-so c- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Megan just burst out laughing again. I was getting pissed now.
"We look so what?"
"She was meant to say you guys look really cute together." Connor said plainly.
"What?" Artemis said blushing a lot.
"You guys should be a couple."
"WHAT!?" we both shouted, "A couple?" Connor nodded and Megan just wouldn't shut up. She needs to stop laughing before Artemis unleashes her inner beast.
"No offence Arty but I would NEVER go out with you!" Artemis glared at me. Oops...
"And why is that?" She said her voice way to soft for comfort.
"It is because you are my best female friend and a teammate so I couldn't go out with you because it might ruin our friendship." I said hopefully.
"You saved yourself there Bird brain."Phew. That was close, I did not want to experience Artemis' wrath.
"Aw she's your best female friend! Hey what about me?" Megan said.
"Um... Your my best Martian friend!"
"I'm your only Martian friend."
"Yes, and that's what makes you more special. Anyway what's this about me and Artemis dating?"
"ROBIN AND ARTEMIS ARE DATING?" Uh oh...
Me: I just thought I would leave it there for you guys! Hehehe... I'm so evil. Anyway thanks for reading!
Wally: This chapter was really long...
Me: I know the next chapter will be a bit shorter- if you guys want it to be or not.
Wally: PLEASE REVIEW!
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-anonymouswriter713
Wally: AND WALLY!