Authors Note: So this is my first fanfic! I'm just a fan of YJ, so some of my material might be off- sorry about that! It's a story about Wally when Artemis was undercover. This takes place after Depths, but before Darkest... sometime around Satisfaction. The first chapter is a bit short, but they will get longer, I promise! I plan to update every Friday- it's not going to be a very long story, at least I'm not intending it to be. Please review! :)

Disclaimer: I do not own young justice... unfortunately.

Chapter 1

Shauna had never met her red-haired neighbor, only his blonde Vietnamese girlfriend- but even then they'd only exchanged a few pleasantries when they ran into each other getting the mail or pulling out the garbage.

However she did manage to learn quite a bit about them both by simply living next door.

For instance, she knew they both had morning classes. She left around seven AM Monday through Friday, and he left an hour later. Both of them were always back by twelve, though.

She knew that the left, always holding hands, to walk their dog every night at six, and usually didn't get back until eight or nine.

Sometimes she wondered where they went and what they did for all that time, but then decided she probably didn't want to know.

She also didn't know their names, which is why she found herself awkwardly tongue tied in the grocery store, after accidently bumping carts with her red haired neighbor, sending his cart smashing into a pyramid of cans, and sending them cascading to the floor.

"I'm so sorry, I wasn't look where I was going."

He smiled at her and waved his hand nonchalantly.

"It's no biggie, the employees will clean it up. Hey, you're the girl who lives next door, right?"

She nods and he extends his hand.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Wally West."

"I'm Shauna; Shauna Brown."

She shakes his hand, letting go quickly and gesturing to his overflowing cart.

"Having a party?"

He follows her hand and grins.

"Nah, I just eat a lot. You should hear my girlfriend she-"

He stops talking abruptly, his mouth forming a thin line and his skin paling.

Shauna looks at him closely, a crease forming in between her eyebrows.

"Are you all right?"

"Yeah… no…. I'm sorry. My-my girlfriend is, well… she had an accident and she's in a coma."

Shauna's mouth pops open and she hurriedly closes it.

"Oh my god… I'm so sorry, is there anything I can do?"

Wally shakes his head sadly, picking at a sticker on the handle of his shopping cart."

"Only time will tell… but I better get going, I've got to get home to feed my dog."

Shauna nods.

"Alright, well it was nice meeting you, Wally. And I'm sorry about your girlfriend… if there's ever anything I can do, you know where to find me."

Wally manages a small smile before pulling his cart away from the pile of cans and heading in the direction of the registers.

~*~11*11~*~

Wally decided to put Artemis in a coma because that way, if she came home- no when she came home- he could simply explain it by telling everyone she recovered. And if the worst happened, well not everyone in coma's come out.

Wally shuddered thinking about this as he unpacked all the groceries, pausing when he found himself holding a box of Artemis's favorite cookies.

He'd bought them out of habit.

In an instant, he had chucked them across the room, where they hit a wall and the box exploded, sending crumbs scattering in all directions, and prompting Brucely to scuttle around the floor, licking them all up.

Wally fell to the ground, holding his head between his hands and fighting back tears.

She had to be all right, Kaldur would make sure she wasn't discovered.

Kaldur.

Wally grit his teeth as a single tear rolled down his cheek.

He had suspicions that Kaldur was only pretending to be on their side… suspicions that grew every day. Sooner than later he was going to have to confront Dick about them, but right now, his only concern was for Artemis. She was hundreds of miles under the sea, pretending to be someone she's not, surrounded by people who wouldn't hesitate to kill her.

She just had to make it out all right.

Standing up slowly, Wally was on his way to retrieve the vacuum from the hall closet when he heard someone knock on his door.