12-14-14
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By the way, this story occurs exactly one year into the time skip.
On the first day of Christmas
My boyfriend gave to me...
—O—
Mount Justice
December 14, 20:54
Recognized: Artemis B06
Artemis waited a moment for the familiar fuzzy feeling of her atoms coming back together. Blinking the spots out of her eyes, she stepped into the Cave's zeta room, intent on talking to Kaldur about the new Atlantean team members before the team debriefing in fifteen minutes.
And that's when she noticed it.
She froze in her tracks, staring in shock at the thing before her. Okay, that had definitely not been in the zeta room yesterday. Sitting in a pot in the middle of the room was...a pear tree. And sitting in said pear tree was a very familiar, fully-costumed bird.
"Robin?" she asked in confusion.
The Boy Wonder glanced up from his wrist computer, an expression of pure boredom on his face. "'Sup."
Artemis blinked a couple times to make sure she wasn't hallucinating, but the object remained where it was. She slowly stepped forward, reaching out to touch the bark and half-expecting her hand to pass through it like a hologram. Her hand met the rough bark, her skin tingling against the uneven surface.
Nope. Definitely real. But it didn't look like a pear tree... She studied the pattern of the bark, the hanging fruit, and the somewhat scattered foliage. The pears proved to have been tied onto the tree by strings. Well, that made more sense. But it still didn't explain one thing...
She turned her attention to the tree's occupant, frowning at the 15-year-old. "What are you doing in a pear tree?"
Robin shrugged, turning his attention back to the glowing holographic screen. He gestured vaguely downward. "There's a note or something for you."
It was then that Artemis noticed the paper card taped to the rim of the blue pottery pot. She hesitated a moment, deciding whether she really wanted to know what this was about. Deciding to risk it, she carefully reached down and plucked the note from the rim. She raised an eyebrow at the untidy scrawl in the center of the page:
To my beloved Artemis: A Robin in a pear tree.
"Hey, Rob," Artemis said, holding the note up for the boy to see. "What is this?"
Robin gave the paper a cursory glance. He snorted in derision, scowling lightly. "It's a surprise. Something about the twelve days of Christmas."
Artemis blinked. "Do I really want to know?"
The teen considered this. "No," he said finally. "No, you probably don't."
—O—
...A Robin in a pear tree
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