Eeeeeeee Here we go. This won't be as long as my other multi-chaptered things - it's only a three shot, but, y'know, it's something. The chapters are probably gonna be really short - lord knows this one is - but I'm trying my best. (Of course the next thing I write is Spitfire. I can't stay awaaaaay.)

Title: The Mind is a Strange Thing

Characters/Pairings: Artemis, Wally, Wally/Artemis

Summary: He was in Artemis's mind! But- But he couldn't be! That was scientifically impossible! This had to be fake, couldn't be real. Of course he wasn't watching Artemis's memories - scientists didn't even know for sure where the memories are stored in the brain yet! Everything could be explained by science, and this couldn't, so it had to be some sort of trick.

Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice, or any of it's characters.

'M'gann, what are we doing here again?'

Wally leaned against a large tree, crossing his arms and scowling. He was in his black stealth costume, since they were in a forest at night, so bright yellow would look just a bit strange to anyone passing by - not that anyone was. The place was completely deserted, minus him, M'gann and Artemis. Robin was busy helping Batman, Kaldur was helping to take care of Orin and Mera's baby and Connor was doing an individual mission. So, it was only the three of them.

'Didn't you listen?' Artemis answered instead from beside him, sending him a look that clearly said that he was an idiot, which he was not. He had listened, but it seemed pointless. Really, civilians's minds being attacked? The only villain he could think of that could do that was Psimon, and he wouldn't waste time on civilians.

He sent her a glare. 'Of course I listened! What do you think I am, an idiot?' He retorted, and the look that appeared on the archer's face was smug.

'Do you really want me to answer that?'

'Ugh, what I meant,' Wally glared at her and she seemed to get even more pleased with herself, which made his temper flare. He tried his best to control it. 'was that the story was obviously fake. Psimon isn't going to waste his time attacking civilians. He isn't going to gain anything!'

'You might be right...' Came M'gann's worried voice in reply. She was looking around the rest of the forest to see if she could spot anything, leaving Wally and Artemis alone. Wally had protested, saying that Artemis could check out the forest and him and M'gann could have some 'quality time' (he had said this in such a suggestive tone that Artemis had to smack him on the back of the head), but M'gann had said that it would be easier for her to do it since she could fly. Damn human limitations. 'Maybe we should just go ba-'

Jesus christ, his head hurt.

Wally cried out, clutching his head as he felt a burning sensation tear through it, vaguely aware of M'gann and Artemis's cry's echoing through his head, before cutting off abruptly. His mind felt like someone was ripping it open and hitting things. He fell to his knees, eyes wide. He stopped screaming and let out a continuous stream of gasps. He heard a thump and out of the corner of his eye, saw Artemis falling to the ground, unconscious. He squeezed his eyes shut and fell down beside her, so that her head was just touching his shoulder. He breathed in and smelt the strange combination of pine and lavender (really, what shampoo did she use?) and then everything went black.

~0~0~0~

When Wally opened his eyes, he couldn't feel the ground under his feet.

He slowly realized that that was because there was no ground. He was floating in the middle of never ending darkness, in his civilian clothing, for some reason. His head was still hurting and he tried to put a hand to his temple but felt nothing. He frowned with confusion and tried to look for anything in the darkness that wasn't himself. Just as he was doing this, there was a blinding green light. He tried to cover his eyes, but, once again, he couldn't, so just squinted as the green slowly died down. Once it was safe for him to open his eyes properly again, he realized what - or who - he was looking at.

He was looking at himself.

He frowned with confusion. He watched himself walk into the kitchen in civilian clothes. The Wally he was watching (to make it easier, lets just call him 'screen-Wally') walked up to M'gann, who was pulling out a tray of cookies that didn't actually seem half bad. Screen-Wally grinned and took one, despite the fact that they were probably hot. "They look great, Megalicious." He said, taking a bite and winking at the Martian. Just then, the Wally watching noticed Artemis sitting at the island, scowling at him.

'God, can't he see that she's not interested? Idiot.'

Wally's eyes widened. That sounded like Artemis's thoughts through the mental link, but it was louder and seemed to echo through... wherever he was. So... was he still linked to her? But, by the looks of it, that's what he had been thinking while sitting at the island, watching him flirting with M'gann. His widened even more as he realized where he was.

He was in Artemis's mind!

But- But he couldn't be! That was scientifically impossible! This had to be fake, couldn't be real. Of course he wasn't watching Artemis's memories - scientists didn't even know for sure where the memories are stored in the brain yet! Everything could be explained by science, and this couldn't, so it had to be some sort of trick.

But he knew it wasn't.

There was another green explosion of light and suddenly he was in the Bio-ship, the night sky visible through the large window. He remembered this. It was one of those rare moments were him and Artemis weren't at each other's throats, and were actually laughing together as the rest of the team just talked among themselves. He didn't remember what they were laughing about. He just remembered he felt frighteningly happy.

'Wally's actually... okay, I guess.' He heard echoing, and he allowed himself a slight smile. So she did like him... a bit, at least. That was nice to know. Sure, she was annoying as Hell, but he was her friend. It was good to know that he was her friend too. But then he got hit by a sudden wave of something... it was like that frightening happy feeling he had gotten, but it wasn't him feeling it. He thought for a moment and mused that if he could hear her thoughts and see her memories, then he probably could feel her emotions.

There was another flash, and by now he was used to it, so he didn't even flinch. He was actually curious to what the next memory would be. He was surprised, however, to find himself looking at a dingy apartment in desperate need of a paint job. In the room, there were two single beds with lilac quilts and, for some reason, and Alice In Wonderland poster decorating one of the walls. He looked back at the beds again, and on the one to his left was a small girl.

She had a blonde ponytail and was wearing denim overalls, one of the straps broken. She couldn't have been older than nine or ten. There was a deep cut on her arm that hadn't been treated well at all, since some blood stained the white tee shirt she wore. She was rubbing her shoulder and her expression was hard, far too hard for someone her age. Wally watched her curiously for a moment, before she pulled her hand away from her shoulder to reveal a scar. He had seen that scar on Artemis's shoulder once, and she said it was just one of those scars that couldn't heal. That meant that this angry young girl was Artemis.

Artemis shook her head and stood, walking out of the room. Wally seemed to float after her, and soon she was sneaking out of the apartment, out of the building and into an abandoned one. She seemed to glance around to see if anyone was there before making her way to a crate in the far corner. 'Daddy might be home soon.' Her heard her think as she reached into the crate and it was laced with fear. Wally frowned. Why was she scared of her Dad?

She pulled out a grey bow and some arrows and Wally almost rolled his eyes. 'Figures.' He thought as she started shooting at different crates. Seems that all she had were simple, metal tipped arrows. This carried on for a while and Wally almost found her gleeful expression cute. Every now and then, she would have to go around and re-collect her arrows before continuing.

"ARTEMIS!"

Artemis froze, sudden terror on her face. Immediately, she collected her arrows and shoved them in the crate she got them from, closed it and quickly got rid of any trace of fear on her face. 'Fear is a weakness.' She thought and Wally honestly had no idea how to react. Before he could work it out, there was the sound of footsteps.

"You shouldn't be here. Were you using your arrows again?"

Wally's eyes widened as he heard a gruff voice and he squeezed his eyes shut as he heard the sound of skin against skin, like someone hitting someone else, and the sound of a little girl's pain. "I told you that the bow is a useless weapon. You were told not to use them. Disobedience is not welcome in our profession. We don't stand for it. Do you understand?" Silence, then the sound of pain again. "Do you?" Wally felt her fear fill him and wanted to protect her, wanted to stop this man who he assumed was her father from hurting her, but this was in the past. He couldn't do anything.

"Y-Yes. I understand."

He opened his eyes again to another flash, but this time, there was darkness. He wondered what had happened for a moment, before a light was turned on and Artemis walked in and he realized that she was walking into the Mount Justice living room. She was in a too-big green tee shirt that reached her knees and her hair was down and messy. She yawned, and noticed screen-Wally on the sofa she same time Wally did. He was in a grey tee shirt and red flash pajama trousers. He was lying across the sofa with an arm draped across his middle, and he was snoring. Loud. Artemis snorted and the Wally watching immediately became increasingly embarrassed.

'That's actually kinda cute.' She thought and hearing this echo around him numerous times, he almost died of shock. Artemis? Thinking he was cute? Impossible! Artemis hated everything about him and was constantly pointing out how he always looked like either an idiot or an even bigger idiot, bordering on dimwitted. Artemis smiled, with surprising softness, at him before thinking 'I better just let him sleep. If only I had a camera, though.' (Wally huffed at this) and left, turning off the light after her.

As soon as the light was out there was another flash. Wally couldn't help but think that this was really repetitive. Plus, why was it green, of all colours?

Suddenly, he was seeing her lying in bed, in the tee shirt she had been in a moment ago, her face extremely confused. He mused that this was probably the same night. Almost immediately, her thoughts were bombarding him. 'Did I really think Wally looked cute? He was drooling, for God's sake! On what world, in what universe is drooling cute?! Not to mention, he is a complete jerk to me. Really, why does he have to treat me like that when he treats the rest of the time like his best friends? What did I do? He is such an idiot.'

Okay, she did have a bit of a point. He guessed he wan't exactly civil with her, but she was unfair to him too! This time, the flash took him by surprise and he squinted, but nothing came afterwards this time. When he opened his eyes, everything was black. He scanned around him for a moment, wondering if anything would happen. When nothing did, he felt like sighing. It was a bit boring.

There was a burning pain in his head again, not unlike the one he had felt before, and he lost consciousness.