Disclaimer: I'm far too poor to any of these characters
Tastes
Wally and Artemis argued about a lot of different things. Most of the things they fought over ranged in varying degrees of how inconsequential the actual topic of said argument happened to be. They fought over just about everything under the sun, but one of the topics they fought over most vehemently and most often was music. Specifically whose taste in music was better?
Now the team admittedly was a rather interesting melting pot of musical preferences. Robin was an avid connoisseur pop-punk, techno, and J-pop. Kaldur preferred to relax listening to classical and various instrumentals. Megan enjoyed the music of the early 50's and 60's, the Sinatra's and Dean Martin's among others. Superboy oddly enough seemed to gravitate towards the country and folk music, enjoying a combination of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.
Of course Wally and Artemis represented vast polar opposites of the musical spectrum. Wally was addicted to pop music. Anything bubbly, energetic, and infectious could be found on Wally's MP3 player. On several occasions the team had found Wally singing and dancing to Michael Jackson, and even a few times to Rick Astley. Artemis on the other hand was a metal head. Her iPod was like an encyclopedia of metal through the ages, Ozzy, Dio, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, the list went on through the better part of the last few decades. When passing Artemis's quarters in Mount Justice one could often feel the thick heavy thumps of bass and the intricate wails of guitars erupting even through the thick metal door.
That being said neither young hero could stand being in the presence of the other while they were enjoying their music without offering up such a stimulating query as, "How can you listen to that shit?", and then the sparks would fly. It had escalated to such a point where Aqualad had to forbid them from arguing on the subject (having given up on trying to cease all of their arguing, and instead trying to just put a stop to the more inane ones).
Thus we come to present day, Artemis wandered the halls of the base, having just finished an intense training session and was looking for something to eat. She had her iPod in hand and ear buds blaring far louder than they should have been. She entered the empty kitchen area, Megan had dragged Superboy off to see some kids movie with her, Robin was off doing whatever it was he did when in his free time, and Kaldur was off with Aquaman somewhere under the sea. That left only Wally and she hadn't seen hide or flaming hair of said annoying speedster, so she was in an especially cheerful mood as she placed her iPod on the communal speaker dock they had bought for the kitchen and let her music fill the room. Listening to the last half of "The Tides" by Darkest Hour she set about fixing a small snack.
It had been an uneventful day for the young Wally West. He'd come to Mount Justice in hopes of encountering a certain martian redhead only to discover she was absent. As fate would have it Wally found the only other two teammates in the mountain were Robin and Artemis. After some high speed searching, Wally found Dick in the sever room. He sat in the center of the room, surrounded by blue glowing cables hunched over his laptop clacking away on the keyboard. Laughing his creepy little chuckle. Wally slowly backed out of the darkened room, feeling a little dirty and not sure what he'd just walked in on exactly. Deciding to wander back towards the main part of the mountain Wally thought about what he wanted to do with his day. Though unclear as to what he wanted to do, Wally was sure he wanted to avoid the team archer. Sure they had their issues, she had replaced Roy after all, but since thw whole Bialya mission, things had been different. They still fought, oh how they fought, but it wasn't as often. Before Wally could ponder more closely on the subject, his stomach made it's presence known. Wally decided it was time for a quick snack. Slipping into superspeed he covered the rather vast distance between where he was and the small kitchen in a matter of seconds, he broke out of his super speed back into a normal walk as he neared the kitchen, the sound of loud angry music echoed through the empty stone halls. Wally let out a sigh, it would seem fate would have him spend his day bantering with Artemis, but what Wall saw as he came to the edge of the hallway left him dead in his tracks and more importantly the sight had accomplished what few others had, it left Wally speechless.
Artemis had quickly fixed herself a simple sandwich and poured herself a glass orange juice as the song changed. The keyboard gave way to smooth riff of the guitar and she immediately recognized the song, "Sinful Love" by Blue Oyster Cult. She loved the song and couldn't help but sloly start to dance around the counter. She closed her eyes and let the music wash over her, moving her body to the music, feeling the thump and roll of the bass, and the tune of the guitar running through her. As the song picked up she started to move her hips more, grinding with an invisible partner as she say with the chorus, "I love you like sin, but I won't be your pigeon."
Soon the song came to a close and she felt like she was being watched and quickly turned towards the hallway, but it was empty. She must have been wrong, she hated how creepy the mountain could get when it was empty. She didn't know how Batman and Robin could stand it, being in their famous "Batcave" all the time.
Once Wally knew he was safely out of Artemis's famous line of sight he silently decided he may have to expand his taste in music.
Author's Note: Hope you liked it, the first story I had planned for this little collection really wasn't clicking with me as I worked on it and while taking a little music break this just kinda came to me while trying to decide what to listen to. Please review, I hope to have another chapter up by the end of the week.
Peace.