A/N: Things like this actually used to happen to me back in High School, and it's absolutely hilarious to watch a guy's reaction to one little word . . .
One day she would learn to stop leaving her purse on the common room table with a bunch of bored idiot boys around. Well, with one idiot boy around.
"Oooooh, what's this?" Wally exclaimed from the couch, and picked up Artemis's green purse from the coffee table. He truly could not seem to keep his hands to himself. Good thing Megan wasn't in the room.
"What does it look like, genius?" Artemis hissed hurrying over and trying – and failing – to snatch it away from him, "What, do you wanna borrow it or something? I don't think it's your color."
"Well, well, I didn't pin you for the frilly purse type, Arty," Wally said, holding it just out of her reach and flipping open the clasp with his thumb. Robin sighed from the other side of the couch and just continued to tap away at his laptop, already seeing where this was going. Superboy sat beside him, obviously confused at why Artemis was upset this time.
Artemis folded her arms over her chest and said, "Don't call me that and I'm supposed to show Megan around the mall in five minutes, so give it," she held out her hand, hoping that by mentioning Wally's crush she would make him see sense. It didn't.
Instead, he backed up at super speed to stand on the other end of the couch with Robin and Superboy. Artemis really wished she had her bow with her.
"Wally, give Artemis her things back," Kaldur sighed, exasperated, "Honestly, do I have to babysit you two?"
"I just want to know what a girl like Arty here would have stashed in a purse, that's all," Wally grinned mischievously as he reached into the bag and started rifling around.
Artemis tried to keep the smile off her face as she said, "Oh, you know, lots of stuff. Keys, wallet, make-up . . ." She paused as Wally started to pull out something long and in a paper wrapper, ". . . tampons."
Wally dropped the bag and the offending item faster than even the Flash's all time record and making a sort of strangled noise. Robin snorted, "Dude, you totally set yourself up for that one," and Artemis thought she even saw Kaldur blush out of the corner of her eye.
Only Superboy's expression didn't change as she laughed triumphantly and snatched the purse off the floor where the still pale and freaked out looking speedster had dropped it.
She was just about to walk out the door to meet Megan when she heard Superboy's voice, "I don't get it, what are tampons? Are they dangerous or something?"
Suddenly, Kaldur and Robin were nowhere to be seen and Wally was still standing there trying to figure out what just happened.
He snapped out of it instantly, though, when Artemis said, "I'll let you field that one, twinkle toes," winked and walked out. Poor boys never knew what hit 'em.
A/N: I've never had a reaction quite that bad before, but simply saying "tampons" will make the guy drop the purse about 90% of the time.
I'm not sure I can trust Artemis yet, but I hope I can because I really like her and the obvious little love/hate thing she and Kid Flash seem to have going, it's just adorable.
But thanks for reading, and hope you got a laugh out of it.