Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice. I hate that I don't, but it's true.

Note: Also, this story was written after "Downtime." this story takes place in the slight future, anything I say about the "past" is probably going to be wrong, but for the sake of fanfiction, I hope you bare with me.

Oh, She's Nobody

chapter one: Hunters Instinct

Artemis liked to think that she could easily, and (more importantly) quickly change to fit her environment. She was a survivor and that's what she did best. She changed no matter what life threw at her.

When the time came, she changed her body into a toned fighting machine. She changed her way of thinking to use said fighting machine. She could even change her whole personality to survive when not using said fighting machine.

And when that got too complicated, she changed to figure a way out of that life.

Recognized. Artemis. B07.

But she didn't think she could ever change enough to get used to that. In all her 15 years of living, she was trained to never announce an entrance. But there went that blasted computer, she had to always fight the urge not to cringe every time she heard it announce her presence to the entire cave.

She was quiet and stealthy always, a loud and obnoxious entrance would get you killed. Speaking of loud and obnoxious entrances:

Recognized. Robin. B01. Kid Flash. B-

"Thank science it's Friday!" Wally sang/yelled even before he and the boy wonder fully materialized through the "door."

Artemis itched to throw something at him, but decided to take the high road and quickly turned down the hall. She heard the martian happily greet the boys and conversation afterward, but she tuned them out.

Just because her "uncle" made her report to the cave that day, didn't mean she had to like being there. She was having a rough day, and socializing with teammates wasn't going to help.

"Good morning, Artemis," came the calm and soothing voice that only Kaldur could produce.

The blonde markswoman froze mid-step then sighed. Her "leader" always managed to sneak up on her. At first she thought he did it to taunt her, but she learned that that was how he was naturally. It annoyed her to no end. Normally, she would have a polite conversation with the Atlantean, but she wasn't in the mood to pretend she had tact today.

"Morning." she stated blandly and was about walk away, but Kaldur looked so... clam, she couldn't help but feel off to leave with just that, "So, looks like snow..."

"Yes, again... Are you well?" he replied sounding like he deeply cared for her answer.

"Well enough," she shrugged, "I'm going to work out for a bit. I'll be in the gym when we– I mean, IF we get a mission."

Just like that she was able to walk past him and go on her merry way. Kaldur let her leave him, though she could feel his calm stare at her back. One look from the Atlantean and she calmly believed almost everything he said, and she hated him for that. Every time he asked her a personal question, he always seemed like he genuinely wanted to know. Because of that she felt like she couldn't outright lie to him. If something said "trust me" she knew it couldn't be trusted. She was sure he was doing some Atlantean voo doo magic on her, but couldn't figure out what it was.

Though, she had to admit. If they had they met differently, Artemis felt as though she would like Kaldur. He was the most observant and reasonable one of the team, though she could scarcely remember ever having a particularly deep or non-work related conversation with the Atlantean.

Not that she cared of course.

Artemis didn't care that she's been working with these people for nearly half a year and she didn't feel like they trusted her completely. It didn't bother her at all that Conner and Robin always seemed to watch her every move as if waiting for her to screw up. She didn't care about learning her leader's interests. Why should she care about Megan's reasons for her to be her "earth sister?" And she definitely didn't care that Wally acted friendly, carefree, and intelligent around everyone, but her.

"I am perfectly apathetic," she reassured herself as she jumped onto the treadmill. Listen to her talk to herself! She needed to work off this funk. Thinking on it now, her morning hadn't even been that bad, but something felt off. She furrowed her brow as she upped the speed and elevation.

Artemis had great instincts, that was what made her an excellent hunter. So she hated waking up with a... wrong feeling in her stomach, the one that told her something bad was going to happen because they were usually always right. This one felt particularly bad and she had to do something to get her mind off it or else she'd drive herself crazy.

"What are you doing?" a gruff voice asked, knocking her out of her thoughts and nearly off the treadmill. She tried to glare at him, but it was hard since the glare-ee was just so damn pretty! Conner looked as though he was searching for what to say next(as he often did around everyone), then just came out with it, "You're arms aren't doing anything, shouldn't you be holding something?"

"You're right, I should. Since you're so concerned, would you like to give me something to hold on to?" she implied with a flirtatious glint her eye and a mischievous smile. She felt no joy out of the flustered look on his face like she normally would. The foreboding feeling was so strong that even her daily flirt with Superboy couldn't distract her. She sighed wistfully then continued, "But you're right. Be useful and fetch some weights for me?"

Artemis was sure he did this with everyone, but they had one of their silent conversations again. This one said:

Did you have to ask in a bitchy way?

Yes.

The two stared at one another briefly, which was quite a feat since she was still running.

"So... Go fetch, unless..." Artemis ordered, then looked him up and down suggestively, "you want me to hold onto something else?"

"Huh? You're impossible!" Conner yelled before storming off towards the weight rack.

"You know you love it," she chuckled as he tossed the weights at her.

The archer sighed. She got him twice before lunch and still no satisfaction. Oh how she hated hunters instinct sometimes.

Artemis finished her work-out early because her instinct(stomach) told her she needed sustenance. Though the bad feeling didn't go away, she was slightly distracted by endorphins from her exercise and the amazing shower afterward. Why was it that everything was better after a good work-out?

"I have a problem-" Wally said making her rethink her previous statement. She watched as he shifted his weight nervously. Or was that how he normally was? He never sat still.

"Oh, you've more than one," she chimed in walking past him.

His stupid face looked as though he wanted to say something nasty back but instead, he said very intelligently, "You're a girl, right?"

"You've a brain, right?" she mimicked, brushing the hair out of her eyes, fresh out of the shower, she didn't bother trying to wrestle her unruly wet hair into her usual ponytail.

"Okay, I admit, that was a dumb question. What I meant to ask was: You like girl things, right?"

"Oh that's much better, totally shows that you have a brain," she replied sarcastically quickening her step to get to the kitchen. Not that the speedster had a problem keeping up, Wally grabbed his teammate's arm to stop her.

"Just listen!""What?" they yelled at the same time.

Their glaring match was broken by Artemis yanking her arm back, though she didn't walk away. After seeing the relief in Wally's eyes at her staying, she proceeded to flip her hair to her back, being sure to whip him with it on it's way there.

"Urgh! Why do you have to make it so difficult to ask you a favor?" Wally yelled ripping open a protein bar and wiping the water off his face. She rolled her eyes and dramatically turned to leave, flicking her hair at him again.

"No wait!" he yelped, running in front of her.

"Why would you ask me for a favor?" she asked though it kind of sounded like she was saying, 'you're an idiot.'

"Come with me to the mall."

"You're an idiot."

"Pleeeeeaase! I need a girls opinion on a gift, and you're a girl so..." he pleaded even though he had half a protein bar in his mouth.

"What? Megan turn you down?" she asked pretending to care while looking condescending.

"No, I just can't ask her."

"Can't is such a strong word. I believe in you," she said though it sounded like 'leave me alone, you idiot.'

"I can't, it's a gift for her!" he whined.

"Why are you getting a gif-, nope, don't care!" she cut herself off mid question.

"Her 'six month on earth' anniversary is coming up, and I want to get something to impress her," he answered anyway.

"Urgh, you're pathetic!"

"So that means you're coming?" he replied looking entirely too hopeful.

"How'd you come to that conclusion?"

"I didn't hear no!" he partially sang looking like a happy puppy. She wanted to kick him.

"Let me be clear then... No! I'm not going, and there is absolutely no way you're going to convince me to go with you, and that's that."

"You shouldn't have said that," Robin's singsong voice warned mischievously behind her.

"Ugh! When'd you get here?" she asked making sure to turn so fast, Wally got a face full of hair. He pulled it under the pretext of getting it away from him.

"You really shouldn't've. I was the one who convinced Bats to put in the jacuzzi," Wally replied proudly acting as though he still didn't have wet hair on him. She really did have a lot of it.

"Yup, KF will keep at it until you're properly conned," Robin added with his usual unusual play on syllables.

"'Conned?' You make it sound like I'm going to trick her," Wally said looking slightly hurt.

"Then she'll be properly vinced?"

"'Vinced?'"

"Yeah, latin for conquering," Robin answered like it was common knowledge, "You're going to con her then she'll be vinced–"

"When you say it like that, it's really sounds like I'm doing something bad," Wally interrupted scratching his head, "Why can't you say I'm going to convince her?"

"Because, that's too–"

"Ugh! You two are making my head hurt!" she yelled yanking her hair back, "I'm not going to be 'conned' or 'vinced,' or convinced, so let's just save us all time and breath and just leave it at that."

Artemis glared at the two of them. Robin stayed quiet, though he kept his mischievous smirk on. Wally made a show of stretching before sharing a look with his best bro. Robin's smile grew and the feeling of foreboding came crashing back in full force.

AN: well that's the first chapter. just curious, which boy would you want Artemis with?