Based on a Tumblr AU.

Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice or any of these characters.


Artemis paced impatiently by the front door of her apartment. Her friends were in the other room setting some kind of drinking game she had never heard of. This was their night off from work and, oh god with the week they'd all had, they deserved a little fun. It was winter time in Gotham, and she and her friends worked in a dingy nightclub uptown. Her friends, of course, being Zee, Megan, Kaldur, and Raquel. It was fun at first and payed well, but after a few months the job got old fast. The past week, as mentioned before, was especially brutal on the group. For some unknown reason citizens of Gotham tended to get a little rowdy in the winter, which resulted in no less than six pathetic bar fights, two drunken idiots throwing up everywhere, eleven broken glasses, and a disgusting amount of unwanted groping from drunk old men.

So after that horrendous week Artemis and Zatanna decided to have a fun friday night to cheer themselves up. The fun little group quickly grew as, of course, Dick and Connor would want to come too.

Connor and Megan were high school sweethearts who moved to Gotham, after college, in search of better jobs. Connor worked at some kind of gym, fitting as he was basically baby hulk, don't talk to him about daddy hulk though, there were some unresolved issues with the dad who was never around. He was calm and quiet the complete opposite to the peppy, cheerful, bubbly girl that was Megan. They suited each other perfectly. It helped that Megan's uncle, John, owned a nice penthouse apartment where he let them live. Lets just say he had a good amount of money and was always traveling, so the apartment worked perfectly for the two lovebirds.

Zatanna was a pretty damn good amateur magician and was saving up to buy her own magic store. She was also the wondrously nit-picky, tidy, and clean roommate Artemis had come to was Zee's on again off again boyfriend who just always managed to pop up at the most annoying times. He was also the adopted son of billionaire Bruce Wayne, he had quite the backstory. Artemis and Dick actually got along really well and she considered him a close friend, not that she would ever share that with him.

Kaldur was probably one of the first people to become friends with Artemis at the club. He was so genuine and kind, it honestly threw her off. He was an olympic swimmer in training (from a small island no one but Kaldur could remember the name of) until a family tragedy occurred. He doesn't like to talk about it. He had a short thing with Raquel, a boisterous, loud, hardcore, fun girl from Dakota City. She started working at the club not soon after them. Even though she and Kaldur weren't together anymore they still lived together. They somehow remained great friends and, hey its expensive to live alone in Gotham.

Artemis herself had one hell of a story, too. She had grown up in an abusive family. Her father, the criminal, left after a job gone wrong ended up paralyzing her mother. Soon after, her sister, Jade, left too, leaving a nice, happy, broken, little family of two. That is until her mom died of a heart attack a year later. It had been really tough on Artemis, she was so close to her. The last time she had seen Jade was at the small memorial. She hadn't heard from her since. After that her estranged uncle Oliver took adopted her.

Ollie wasn't her uncle by blood, but he'd been her archery coach since she was little. He, and his long time girlfriend Dinah, gladly took her in. Oh ya uncle Ollie happens to be Oliver Queen, the millionaire from Star City. So, yeah, for a group of friends with so much money in the bloodlines, they seemed to be oddly low on cash.

Anyways, the group of five had unsurprisingly become seven and decided unanimously to order some pizza. Artemis was not a patient women, and she was no novice to ordering pizza either. So when the group decided on what they wanted Artemis called it in with strict instructions.

"I want your fastest delivery boy. No, not him, you know the one I'm talking about. Yeah, the ginger one. Okay, yes we will be paying in cash. Okay, Okay. Thank you, have a nice night. Okay, goodbye." With that she hung up the phone.

She paced in the same spot for what felt like hours, her hungry stomach grumbling. When finally, there was a nock at the door. She hastily opened it to see the delivery boy, in all his gorgeous glory, smirking down at her.

"Someone order a pizza?" He asked.

"Finally, this is the longest its taken you yet."

"I heard you asked for me specially."

"Oh please, you're just the only delivery person who gets to my house in any semblance of the word fast, which is the only reason I ask for you." She replied with a classic eye role.

"Please, babe, you know you can't resist me" He said with a wink.

"Yeah, the uniform really gets me going." She replies pointing to the bright orange and yellow uniform he'd been forced to wear.

"Whatever, no lady can resist the Wall-man." He shrugged.

"Oh god, is that what you call yourself? Just put the pizza on the table, you know where it is, I'll get your money."

With that he walked past her into the small apartment he'd delivered to so many times. He placed the box on the little side table near the door and waited for his favorite customer to come back. He could hear people in the other room. Male people. His thoughts started racing. Did she have a boyfriend? Oh god she totally has a boyfriend. What was said boyfriend going to do to him for flirting with her? Oh god he was gonna die.


"Hey guys pizzas are here, who has the cash?" Artemis asked walking into the noisy kitchen. Zatanna looked up at her with a slight grin.

"Is the delivery boy here? Your delivery boy?"

"Your delivery boy? Care to indulge the rest of us on this fun piece of info?" Dick asked casually.

"Not real-" Artemis said before Zatanna hurriedly interrupted her.

"He's this super good-looking pizza guy that she's totally into. Whenever she orders delivery she asks specifically for him, and he's totally into her too. It's adorable really, and hilarious. They have playful banter and everything"

"Give it a rest Zee, he's hot and all but annoying as hell. I promise you I do not want to date...uh... whatever his name actually is." She said. "Guys just give me the money before he dies from waiting this long."

"See she does care." Zatanna chirped, while collecting everyones money and handing it to the fuming blond.

"Ughh." Artemis grumbled walking towards the front door.


"Okay here's your money feel free to go now."

"Sounds like a party in there." He said. Her words apparently not registering with him.

"Yeah, its heaps of fun. So y'know, you should go now, like right now." She said basically shoving him out the door.

"Right wouldn't want to upset the boyfriend." With that she stopped dead in her tracks and laughed. Full out laughed. A hard loud boisterous laugh that made her clutch her stomach and almost cry. The gross but pure kind of laugh. The kind that is usually never seen, especially not by strangers. That kind of laugh.

"Um, no." She finally let out. "I'm definitely not dating any of the guys in here I'll tell you that much." The relieve was practically obvious as a smile plastered the boys face.

"Well in that case, my names Wally, Wally West. Would you maybe wa-" He was cut off by a guy with dark hair bursting into the room.

"Wally?" He asked, astonishment laced his voice.

"Dick?"


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