First Fic so please be nice. Constructive criticism accepted. Will update when I know at least 1 person is reading this. I have 7 weeks left of school before the summer (insert happy dance) so updates won't be regular! Might change title later.

Enjoy! Painty Shark =)

Should I Stay?

Artemis P.O.V

As soon as my father slipped out of the window I flopped onto my bed and sighed, a big long sigh. I can't help but ask myself 'What should I do?' Do I stay with the team and risk them finding out about my heritage? Or do I leave and do my own thing? If I left that would mean I'd be leaving my mum. She's already lost one daughter she can't lose another, can she? It wouldn't be fair on her if I left her, but then if I did she wouldn't be at the mercy of my father. Okay, Artemis. If you were to leave where would you go? Another state? Another continent? Another country? Money? Home? Job? Life? Urggh! ….. I'll sleep on it….

The Next Day

*Yawn* Didn't get much sleep last night. Surprise, surprise. Hope it's not obvious. *sniff sniff* Mmmm. Bacon. Into the kitchen I go.

'Hey mum! Did you sleep well?'

'Better than you by the looks of it,' Damn. It was obvious.

'Now come on honey, have your breakfast and get ready, you've got a team bonding session today'

Great. Just great. None of them are going to trust me now that I've messed up a mission; big time.

'Thanks mum! I almost forgot... can't wait for it!…and bacon sarnies for breakfast you are amazing.'

'I know.' Her expression. She knew I was lying, but thankfully didn't say anything.

'And modest to' That got her to smile.

'Come now eat your breakfast before it gets cold!'

I ate my breakfast, drank my coffee, chatted to my mum some more and then went and had a soothing shower. God! I LOVE the smell of cinnamon; who ever invented shower gel and then made a cinnamon scented one is a genius! Okay what to wear? I know! I pulled out my: creamy yellow, flowy tank with a black outline on it of Alice, my long sleeved black cardie, black scarf, light blue denim jeans, which had a ton of rips in, and lastly a pair of black converse. I then put my hair in its signature low ponytail and as usual no make-up, I hate the stuff, it feels so heavy.

'Bye mum!' I called as I walked to the door

'Bye sweetie! Have a good day!'

'Will do! Don't strain yourself!' I replied as I shoved on my leather jacket and then proceeded to stuff my phone and keys into the pockets. 'Bye!' I called one final time as I walked out of the door and locked it.

On my way to the Zeta tube I started to feel a little sick thinking about the team, and what they're going to think of me. I then reached the zeta tube (out of order phone booth) got inside and thought 'Let the hate begin.'

The cave

Artemis B07 I hate that thing. I flinch every time it says my name. It goes against my nature to be stealthy.

I look up and around, the whole team is staring at me.

Wally P.O.V 30 Mins before Artemis arrives

I arrive at the cave and everyone is there except Artemis. Good. I hope she doesn't turn up for the session. I mean I finally say something civilised to her (as per Barry's request), I tell her she's a great archer and she doesn't need to prove herself. And what happens? She tries to prove herself! ARGGHHH!

Wally are you okay?

Hey Megan, yeah I'm fine it's just that I think that maybe we should…. you know… talk to Artemis...

Wait! I'm just going to link everyone up

…..

Everyone linked?

Yep

Yes

Ugh

Okay-M

What did you wish to talk to us about-K

Well Wally was just saying that we should talk to Artemis-M

About what exactly?- R

Well last night with her messing the mission up, big time-W

I don't want to trust her anymore-C

I'm sure she had her reasons-K

Yeah! Stay Whelmed… we've all messed up at one point-R

Definitely-M

No, not me I'm 100% perfect-W

Of course Wally. Anyway, I don't think that we should get rid Artemis just yet, but I do think that we need to have a chat with her-M

Agreed-K

Good Idea -R

Fiiiine-W

Gugh -C

"Artemis B-O7"

We all look over as she materialises. We watch as she looks up and flinches as the Zeta tube announces her arrival. She always does that. Why? She looks over at us to realise that we're staring at her.

'Hi' she sounds kinda worried. Nice.

'Well it's nice of you to show up, eh' I reply

She looks over at me her gaze hardens slightly 'Yeah it is' If anyone should be angry with anyone it should be me-us being angry at her!

'Morning Artemis!' I could hear the false cheerfulness in Megan's voice, and seemed that Artemis could as well.

'Hey Megan,… soooo why are we all being so awkward?' She seems a bit off today. Great! Maybe she let that fortress of a guard down! Hopefully we'll get real answers!

'Well, we were discussing the events of last night,' Artemis stiffens at the mention of last night; she seems more alert then seconds before.

'And we thought that we should talk to you. You know just get some answers to the mix up of last night.' Rob is smiling at her, probably trying to get her relax. It didn't work. Cool. She's panicking, cue the smirk!

Artemis P.O.V

Oh no. No. No. NO! Oh My Fucking God! What am I supposed to say? What are they going to ask? Wally's smirking…. Oh God! He can tell I'm panicking! Calm down! Calm down! Indifference is the key... maybe?

'Why did you try to go it alone?' Conner, always so forward. When is he going to learn to be subtle?

Right Artemis. Just be your 'normal' charming self. Give answers that answer the question but are very unhelpful. GO!

'Well I have this amazing ability called independence. So I took this ability of mine and applied it to the mission.' and to top it off sound condescending.

'Okaaay. So what made you decide to use this "ability" of yours?' Nice one Rob but unfortunately not good enough.

'My brain. If you don't know what a brain is Google it' Time for my smirk!

'Oh my, actual, god! Can't you just answer the question like a normal person!' Yes! Blown the Kid Idiot's temper!

'Define normal' was my brilliant reply.

'ME!' Hah! Rob and Kaldur are shaking their heads, probably anticipating my reply.

I looked Wally up and down in a way so that everyone could tell I was.

'Errr. Yeah. No. If you are normal then I don't really think I want normal.' Sniggering in my head I turn to leave, smirk still present on my face, when I feel a kick to my back. Okay Arty maybe you went too far. I turned to look at a very angry Wally.

Wally P.O.V

She turned to walk away, smirk evident on her face, and my anger towards her just took over my mind. I aim a hard kick at her back which sent her stumbling forward a little. She turned round slowly annoyance dominating her features. I immediately regretted my decision to attack her once I felt a fist connect with my face with a force. It was at this point that the rest of the team decided to vacate the area, not wanting to be involved in the fight.

3rd Person P.O.V

They fought for about five minutes. Kicks met their targets, faces were bruised, punches blocked, arm twisted, heads slammed against walls and floors. That was until the Zeta tube announced the arrival of three leaguers, that went unnoticed by the brawling pair.

Green Arrow 08, Black Canary 13, Batman 02.

The three leaguers waited a moment for the two sidekicks to notice their arrival, until they realised that they were too absorbed in their fight to recognise that they had arrived. GA raced over to Artemis to pull her off of Wally- whose head was being violently slammed onto the ground. She thrashed about for a moment, then a slow look of realisation crossed her face and she stopped. BC then ran over to Wally to stop him from attacking Artemis whilst she was restrained. As all of this happened the team slowly came back into the room to see that the league had got their message, and Batman just looked at the tired, dishevelled, pair.

Wally's hair was the tiniest bit messy and any injuries he had were slowly beginning to heal because of his increased healing ability. His clothes were ripped in places and had a spot of blood here and there that would stain. Now Artemis was a whole different story. Artemis's hair had long since fallen out of its ponytail, it became knotted and matted with blood in some places and not all of it was hers. Her face had some scrapes and cut but there was one deep gash across her cheek that should be seen to. Her cardigan had fallen off, her jeans had more rips in than it had to begin with and her top had massive blood stains.

Wally P.O.V

I stopped struggling against BC and started to relax enough for her to loosen her hold on me. I looked over at Artemis who was looking at the floor, eyes drooping from fatigue. She had a massive gash on her cheek and I immediately felt bad but then remembered that she had hurt me to.

I then looked around and saw the team looking at us with disappointedly. Then I noticed Batman lurking behind them, steely expression tainted with a hint of disappointment too.

'Well. What have you got to say for yourselves? We don't attack our own, it makes for an unstable team that doesn't function well under pressure.' Batman inquired

Silence followed for around 10 seconds until Artemis started to speak and everyone's heads snapped towards her.

'Firstly I would like to apologise to the team for my actions yesterday, secondly for not being able to confide in you about my reasons for why I did what I did and thirdly, Wally, I'm sorry for attacking you' She said this with a quiet, breathless, voice and then look at me, eyes wide with guilt. I replied by fixing her with a cold, hard, glare. She looked back to Batman.

'Thank you Artemis' Kaldur, always the peace keeper.

'GA take Artemis to the med bay to sort out that gash. Artemis once you have been seen to I would like you to go to your quarters and stay there till I've come to see you. And get some rest' He said the last little bit softer but not too soft. GA then proceeded to assist Artemis in getting to the med bay.

Once they had left the room Batman turned to me gave me a disappointed look and said he was going to call The Flash and sent me to my room to wallow... in... in... whatever I'm feeling right now.

Artemis P.O.V

GA cleaned up my gash and put stitches in, it was pretty deep. He lectured me on my actions, which I only half listened to. I then went to my room, to have a shower and washed my hair. No one has seen my room at the cave. I swipe my ID card and quickly duck into my room. The floor is coved in this deep brown carpet which had a dark, olive green, fluffy rug on and the walls are a shade of magnolia. I painted an Alice In Wonderland theme on my walls; I did this on a day when they all went on a mission that I wasn't needed for. The ceiling was pained a really dark blue and on top of that I had painted a massive Cheshire Cat. All the furniture in my room was chosen around the theme of the walls and ceiling. My bed had dark mahogany frame with black and dark green sheets. I went and had my shower. Afterwards I put on a pair on black pyjama shorts and a dark, dark red tank, not forgetting my black and green bed socks. I felt all warm and fuzzy. Then I went over to my bed, jumped under the covers and almost instantly fell asleep, and man did I need it.

Wally P.O.V

Uncle Barry came to the cave and had a massive go at me and then started to be a bit sympathetic , then complained about the state of my room . The walls were alternating yellow and red, my carpet is white, actually, correction it was white it's not anymore it's covered in food stains and food. Anyway the ceiling is white ,and is still white, the walls are covered in Flash and Kid Flash memorabilia. My bed was covered in the Flash logo. After Barry finished criticising my Beautiful room, I grabbed some of my science text books and chucked them on my bed. I then sought out my laptop and a pad and a pen amongst the clothes- and not all were clean-books and pizza boxes that littered my floor. When I found them I walked over to my bed and prepared to do revision till 4pm, when I was allowed out of my room.

Time Skip To 4:03PM

Yes! Finally I cant wait to get out of this stuffy room! I race to the door, fling it open and use my super speed to get to the lounge. Everyone is there except Artemis.

'Heeeeeey'

Everyone turned to greet me I jumped onto the sofa next to rob to see that he was writing notes.

'Sooo Rob whatcha doin'?'

'We're listing reasons as to why we want to get Batsy to take Artemis off the team'

'Cool so what ya got so far?'

'She's violent, Anti-social, Doesn't work well as a team, Secretive, hard to trust, stubborn. That's just the start.'

'Awesome. Sooooo can I help?'

'Sure!'

'Well I was thinking…'

Artemis P.O.V 4:07PM

I looked over at the time to see that it had gone 4PM so I could come out now. I finished the little bit of the painting I'd been doing. It was an Alice in wonderland inspired piece I'd been working on for a couple of weeks. It was an A1 size canvas and once it was finished I was planning on hanging it up with the others in my room here at MT. Justice. I shoved a pair of slipper boots on and popped a cardigan on then made my way to main area.

As I got there I could hear Rob and Wally talking:

'We're listing reasons as to why we want to get Batsy to take Artemis off the team' What?!

'Cool so what ya got so far?'

'She's violent, Anti-social, Doesn't work well as a team, Secretive, hard to trust, stubborn. That's just the start.' Is that really what they think of me?

'Awesome. Sooooo can I help?'

'Sure!'

'Well I was thinking…'

I headed back to my room not wanting to hear anymore. I got to my room and got back in bed slippers and all. And all that was running through my head was one thought.

Vietnam. I'll go to Vietnam.

2,656 Words, 7 pages. It's longer than I thought it would and it also took longer than I thought it would! Anyway feel free to review, favourite and follow also like I said at the top once I know someone is reading this I'll update!