Hello to all! This is my first Young Justice fanfic. I usually stick to Star Wars, but this plot bunny was nibbling at me so badly that I couldn't sleep! I hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think!

- íslesnka

It was a warm August evening at Happy Harbor and the Team, including Zatanna, were showered, fed and winding down after a long day of training. The seven teens sat lounging in the common area flipping through channels and enjoying idle conversation. Since the school year hadn't begun yet, most of the teens had taken up residence at their rooms in the Cave for the summer. They liked to joke that it was almost like a summer camp, but way more badass. In any case, Conner and Megan were excited to have the constant company of their friends other than just the weekend nights.

"Z, I'm still having a hard time believing your dad let you come back to the Cave after what we got into last time," mentioned Robin offhand. "I've never seen Giovani so disappointed with us. How were you able to make him so... 'appointed' with you again?" Robin smirked at the butchered word as Wally groaned and Artemis rolled her eyes behind the book she was reading.

Zatanna laughed. "I got straight A's this whole year and dad was so 'appointed' that he said he'd take me on a trip as a reward. But he was summoned by the Lords of Order this morning for something important so he's letting me stay here for the week while he's away."

"Nice," said Robin. "Well, we're glad to have you."

"Good job getting straight A's!" exclaimed Megan happily from where she sat on the floor giving Wolf a rigorously enjoyable belly rub. "But I'm confused, I thought the letter 'A' is always straight? ... Oh duh, Megan!" She face-palmed. "The lower case 'a' is curved!"

Artemis quickly snapped her book shut and stepped in to explain before anyone could make fun of the Martian too badly. "Straight A's is an expression for getting the highest grade possible in all your classes at school, Meg. It's the grades that meganerds like Robin always get."

Robin blushed beneath his dark glasses. "Batman would be pissed at me if I didn't," he explained modestly.

"I get straight A's too," complained Wally.

"Ha!" laughed Artemis to his face, putting her book aside and engaging in the banter that always ensued when the two of them were in the same room or both with in range of Megan's telepathy. "I'm sure, seeing as you're a walking science experiment, that you slay math and science. But P.E.? Ten bucks says you get picked last for every team."

"Do not!" countered Wally. "I can do other sports besides run you know!"

"Ooo, like what?" replied Artemis with fake enthusiasm. "We all know how good of a swimmer you are," she said alluding to the time that Wally almost drowned when Cheshire knocked him out and threw him into the pool at Happy Harbor High.

"Hey!" whined Wally in an attempt to defend his aquatic prowess. "That was one time and it was only because you let Cheshire sneak past our perimeter and kick my face in!"

"Ok, you two, that is enough. Can you please try to along for a few hours? We all need some relaxation and peace if we are to perform at our highest level during training tomorrow," interjected Kaldur before the verbal match came to shouts and physical blows.

"(S)he started it!" the speedster and archer said accusing each other in unison.

When peace and comfortable silence resumed, the team refocused their attention back to the television. The team except for the Boy Wonder.

Robin was far far way, lost in thought and zoning out everything and everyone in the room except for the black-haired, blue-eyed goddess sitting across from him. Straight A's, he thought sighing and stealing a look of admiration at the young witch. She's a woman after my own computer-hacking heart. She felt his gaze across the room and smiled back at him confidently, but with a slight blush on her pale cheeks creeping toward each ear.

Wally noticed the small exchange between his best friend and the female newcomer. He elbowed Robin in the side and gave him a bawdy wink but Robin merely rolled his eyes and shook his head.

When a commercial break came on, Zatanna opened a new subject for discussion. "So Megan, Artemis, who's room can I stay in? I sometimes do magic in my sleep but nothing too disruptive."

"Oh! Do stay with me!" said Megan. "My room has two big comfy beds!"

"Feel free to share my room too," added Artemis. "I only have one bed but it's a king size and my rooms not as draughty as Miss M's. Whatever floats your boat, Z."

"Eh hem, I think my man here already made plans for Zatanna tonight, guys," said Wally grinning from ear to ear and clapping Robin on the back with a thud.

"Dude, would you just shut it!" said Robin shrugging out of Wally's embrace and deftly back flipping onto the back of the large green couch. "I'm not a horn dog like you!"

"Being a ladies' man doesn't make me horn dog! Plus, who's in this room shirt just happens to get ripped in all the right places every time we go on a mission? Not mine!" argued Wally gesturing toward Conner.

Conner blinked at him. "Wait" he said glancing sheepishly down at his black cotton t-shirt. "Does that really always happen?" he asked sullenly. He looked to Robin for some support.

"Sorry dude, but yeah" conceded Robin quietly and sympathetically from where he was lounging on the back of the sofa.

"You see!" began Wally. "After Kaldur, I'm practically the team gentleman and" –

At that moment, Kaldur stood up and was about to pacify the banter yet again but the teens were heralded on the Cave's intercom.

"Attention Team, report to the briefing room, immediately." It was Red Tornado's monotonous robotic voice who did the summoning.

"Sweet!" Said KF forgetting his latest claim to chivalrous traits. With gust of air, he bolted down the hallway to his room and back again in his uniform. "Finally some action!" In a blur of orange hair and yellow neoprene, he was gone.

The other's filed out of the common room to change too.