I wanted to write this because I'm hooked on a song called 'Partners in Crime' by Set If Off. I thought this is such a good theme song for Spitfire if they were evil so here we are. Also in this story Artemis is 11 when Jade leaves. Warning has the after math of abuse, but nothing to serious, for right now.
Disclamer: I do not own YJ or 'Partners in Crime' this also goes for all my older YJ stories.
The eleven year old girl sat on the fire escape listening to her sister argue with the only thing that kept her at the apartment. She tensed up when she heard footsteps approaching, but relaxed when she realized it was her sister.
"And that Sis is why you should come with me. It's not normal for a girl your age to tense up when someone comes near you. You're being taught that at any moment someone could harm you. It's not right."
The girl waited patiently for her sister's rant to end then spoke up. "No can do Sis. I'll only slow you down. You deserve to be free." She barely registered that her sister had sat down beside her.
"Quit talking like that."
The girl refused to reply. Her sister sighed and forced the girl to turn and look at her. The girl noticed she had a duffel bag and a smaller one next to it. Her sister tossed her the smaller one.
"Just in case you decide to leave." With that her sister jumped off the two story fire escape, and landed gracefully in a roll. The she ran off constantly looking behind her.
After about an hour siting alone the girl got up to go inside, but a red and yellow streak stopped her. The streak ran straight into the garbage cans at the end of the alley. The girl jumped down, rushing to the thing's aid. What she saw stopped her in her tracks. A red headed boy stood up. Cuts and bruises littered his skin. The girl also noticed the tear streaks on the boy's face.
"Please help."
She ran to his side.
He chuckled, but it sounded more like a choke. "Hello beautiful. Name's Wally."
She smiled at his atempt at flirting. "Hello Wally. My name is Artemis.
Five years later
Tigress snarled. "Impulse, target is getting away."
Her partner snapped into awareness and chased after the man.
They had gotten a call earlier in the day. It was a job. The job was to get information from a jewelry store owner, so they decided to kill two birds with one stone; rob it then get the information. Her partner came zooming back with the owner behind him.
"Why can't we just leave with what we have."
She sighed. "Cause we have a job to do."
He closed the distance between them and gave her a peck on the cheek. "You know I hate jobs."
She nodded. "You know what to do."
Impulse sped away with the man behind him.
After about two minutes she heard footsteps behind her. Without making noise she slipped the mini blow gun from her sleeve. She whirled around and shot a dart where she knew the fogure would be. To her surprise, nothing was there, but a cackle, that sent shivers down her spine, sounded. She looked around and noticed a shadow moving along the telephone wire above her. The figure jumped. She smiled and rolled out of the way surprising her attacker.
"You know you have been running around for months now, but no name. Come on give me something to call you."
She ignored the boy who was in front of her and tapped her earpiece. "Impulse, babe, I'm gonna need some help." She paused never taking her eyes off the boy. "Yep. Who is it? By the looks of it Boy Wonder. Ok see you in a sec."
Right on cue a crimson streak sped in, picked her up bridal style, and sped off. As a parting gesture, she gave Boy Wonder a salute.
Wally sat her down at the door of their apartment and huffed. "You weigh more than you did a year ago."
She gave him a glare, but he didn't regret the comment. "Did you get the 'job' done."
It didn't go unnoticed the way she said job. "Why yes I did beautiful."
"And what of the owner."
"GCPD with a little tip about the drug dealing."
"Wally, why can't we just do bad."
He kissed her. "Because we're not like any mercenaries out there, and we want people to know that."
"Robin B01"
He dragged his feet and sat down on the couch with a sigh.
"Team report to mission room." Batman's voice called over the intercoms.
Robin sighed and dragged his feet to the mission room.
Upon entering Batman stopped talking to Aqualad and gave him a look.
"Yeah, yeah. They got away."
Batman didn't reply until the whole team entered. He cleared his throat. "Some of you might know this, but two assains, burglars, mercenaries, or two clowns with split personalities, what ever you want to call them, have been terrorizing Gotham for the last few months. They haven't been captured yet, so now it's your job.
M'gann was the first one to speak up. "What exactly have they done."
"They have robbed multiple stores, beaten up guys to get information, turned them in to the cops. The strange thing is the people they interrogate are hardly hurt and they drug dealers."
Robin pipped up at that moment. "Strange couple they are. Oh did I mention they're a couple.
Artemis already has a name, but Wally doesn't so I'm calling him Impulse. Review please. I would love constructive criticism.