Mr. Green

Summary: Wally decides to read whatever Artemis is reading. She happens to be reading John Green books.

Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice nor do I own Looking for Alaska by John Green.

Author's Note: For people who haven't read John Green books, I hope you don't mind spoilers.


"Pfft."

Wally's in the kitchen and he hears someone behind him, in the living room. He turns around to look and sees it's Artemis with her legs on top of the couch with a book in her face, silently reading.

"Oh my God," she says. Okay, not so silently.

Wally gets curious and walks into the living room and sits down on the chair beside the couch. "Whatcha' got there?"

At first, he thinks she doesn't hear him because she doesn't answer. He lets out a cough and tries again a little louder this time. "WHATCH – "

"I heard what you said, Kid Idiot," she tells him. He waits for her to tell him what she's reading. For a few seconds, it was kind of just awkward silence and then finally she looks up from the book, revealing only her eyes. "John Green. Looking for Alaska."

He smiles a bit and runs off.

She rolls her eyes, as usual. Idiot.


Looking for Artemis

You see, Wallace West is not just fast on the ground. He's fast with the books, too. And that's how he was able to catch up to the page Artemis was on. (He wouldn't admit this but he remembered the page she was on and took it to heart.)

Upon reading it, he finally understood what she "oh my God"-ed about. It was about…that. Wally didn't expect Artemis to react that way to a subject like that because he thought she'd be cool with it. Not that he thought of her thinking of things like that. Of course not.

"I don't get it. It's just a blo – "

"You don't have to say it," she said. "I know what it is. And besides, it wasn't like I was super shocked about it. Why do you care so much about how I react, anyway?"

He wasn't so sure what to say, really.

"Uh…I don't know. I just thought you wouldn't be like that to, uh, topics like that," he says as he scratches the back of his neck sheepishly.

She rolls her eyes for the nth time that day. "It's not like it's a touchy matter, is it?" She looks at him, smirking with one eyebrow raised.

Wally sputters and is at a loss for words for a while. Play it cool, Wallman.

"WHAT? NO. Not at all. You can tell I've been given those plenty of times!"

He mentally facepalms himself. Real smooth.

"Oh, I see," she says, sarcastically. She can tell that he was supposed to waggle his eyebrows at her but she knows that he doesn't because even for him, that was really stupid.

She just sighs and turns around because their whole conversation was bound to end that way from the very beginning. Should've seen this one coming, Arty.

She can hear him slap his forehead a number of times before he comes to his senses again.

"WAIT!" She turns around and crosses her arms under her chest. "I – uh – That didn't come out right."

"No, duh," she says, rolling her eyes once more. "Have you even finished the book?"

His eyes dart around for awhile because no. He hasn't finished reading the book. Honestly, he only stopped reading at that particular page that he saw Artemis reading.

"Er, no. Not done with it. Yet."

"Well, maybe you should actually finish it before you start asking me about blowjobs," she says, oh-so casually.

Wally winces at "blowjob" because truthfully, it is a touchy subject to him. (Touchy for Artemis, too but she won't tell him that.)

"Yeah. Yeah, maybe you're right," he says and dashes off into his room to finish it.

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The next morning, Wally speeds into the living room, book in his hand.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"

Artemis is startled at the sound of Wally. She sips hot chocolate from her mug and raises an eyebrow at him as if to say, "What now?"

"Wh – how – whaaa – WHY? Why is she dead? She can't be dead, right? This isn't actually the end of the book. There must be a sequel, yes?"

Artemis kind of smiles into her mug. "Nope."

NOPE? What does she mean, "Nope"?

Wally looks frantic and decides to raid the fridge before going back to their conversation. He gets a bowl and fills it up with milk and cereal. He runs back into the living room and decides to plop (!) down beside Artemis.

She turns to him the moment he decides to shout in her ears again, "NOPE?!"

She's about to stand up but he grabs her free arm before she can go back to her peaceful room. "So you're telling me that Alaska, the most perfect girl ever, is dead?" Wally looks at her with pleading eyes, like he's asking her to write a book about how Alaska isn't really dead and that whole part of her death was a joke. But Artemis can't do that.

"1.) She's not real. 2.) Dude, get over it. It's not a real story," she said with something that sounded a wee bit like jealousy. You just said so yourself, Arty. SHE'S NOT REAL.

Wally mutters a little bit too loud that Artemis can still hear what he says while he walks away. "She was still perfect."

Artemis shakes her head and goes back into her room to read a new book.