"See it wasn't that bad." Megan said once they were off the plane. Artemis smiled and nodded her head in agreement. The four girls went to go find their bags before they left the airport and went to their hotel.
"Holy crap." Zatanna said when they walked into their hotel room. It was the best hotel any of them had ever stayed in. There was a huge TV against one wall and on the opposite wall was a huge black leather couch. There were two bedrooms, both with their own bathrooms. The girls smiled and split off into the two rooms. Zatanna and Artemis were sharing a room and Raquel and Megan were sharing the other one. It was around 7pm so the girls had plenty of time to get dressed up and hit the town. While Zatanna was looking for something to wear Artemis asked,
"How did you guys afford this hotel?" Zatanna smiled at her best friend and said,
"Let's just say that your uncle Ollie wanted to get you something for your birthday as well." Zatanna explained and Artemis sighed. 'Of course it was Uncle Ollie' she thought to herself. Zatanna pulled a black dress out of her bag and went into the bathroom to try it on. A few minutes she came out of the bathroom wearing a one shouldered black dress. It looked really good on Zatanna and she looked ready for a night out. She walked over to her shoe bag and pulled out a pair of simple silver high heels. Artemis smiled and pulled on her own green high heels. Artemis was wearing a tight emerald green dress that stopped just above her knee, her hair was out and was slightly wavy.
The two girls walked out of the room to find their other two best friends fighting over the TV remote. "You two can stop fighting now, we're ready to leave." Zatanna said. The two girls stood and said
"Wow you two look amazing." Zatanna and Artemis smiled and said
"So do you guys. So where should we go first?" Artemis asked and Zatanna grinned.
"We can go wherever we want. So I say we should head over to the Bellagio Hotel and Casino." Zatanna said and all the girls nodded in agreement and left the hotel room.
"We're staying where?" Barbara asked when they got off of the jet. Dick smirked and said
"We're staying at the Bellagio Hotel. It has one of the best casinos in Vegas. It's a really nice place to stay. It's where I stayed the last time I came to Vegas with Bruce. You guys are going to love it." Dick said and got into the car that was waiting for all five of them. It was 7:30pm when they arrived at the hotel. Dick, Wally and Kaldur all shared a room and Dick had gotten Barbara and Roy their own room just down the hall from theirs. They all agreed that they would meet back at Dick's room in an hour so they could all go down to the casino, in that time they all had showers and got dressed. And they were all ready to leave by 8:30pm.
They made their way down to the casino and Dick smiled once he heard the sound of the people winning just wanting to go in and start playing. After they showed their ID's they entered the Casino. Dick heard the slot machines and the peoples playing craps, the roulette wheel spinning. Wally was looking around the room and his eyes lit up when he saw a group of girls at the bar.
"Hey dude let's go." He said pointing over to the group. They were all laughing and talking and when they got there Dick heard the one of them whisper,
"Holy crap that's Richard Grayson." She had long black hair and was wearing a black dress. Dick looked her up and down making it obvious that he was checking her out.
"Evening ladies." Dick said when he reached the group. He took a seat on the stole sitting next to the dark haired one. "Well if it isn't Blud Haven's millionaire playboy, who are your friends?" Zatanna asked looking directly at Wally.
"Well you can call me Wally beautiful and this is Kaldur." Wally replied and moved to sit next to her when Dick got of the stole. "Well it's nice to meet you Wally. I'm Zatanna, that's Raquel and that's Megan." Zatanna said gesturing towards her other two friends. Raquel and Kaldur talked while Megan and Zatanna talked to Wally and Dick. But Dick stopped talking when he saw another girl walking over to their group. She had long blonde hair and she was wearing a dark emerald green dress. Dick was speechless.
"Made some friends I see." Artemis said when she got back to her group of friends. "Artemis this is Wally and those are his friends Richard and Kaldur." Zatanna explained to her best friend. She smiled and took a seat next to Megan.
"Nice to meet you." She said. "Say who wants to go play some craps?" Wally asked and stood waiting for someone to stand and follow him.
"Do you want to come Artemis?" Megan asked as Kaldur, Raquel, Zatanna and Wally began walking away.
"i'll join you guys later, I'm gonna get another drink." Artemis explained before Megan walked away. Artemis ordered her drink before she turned to the still silent Dick. No girl had ever made him speechless before and for the first time in forever he had no idea what to do.
"So do you speak or just sit there silently while your friends do all the talking?" Artemis asked and Dick smiled before saying,
"You can call me Dick, Richard is too formal." Dick said and extended his hand. Artemis shook his outstretched hand and said "Well then it's nice to meet you Dick, you can just call me Artemis." She said and took a sip of her drink. Dick nodded and asked
"So where're you from Mis?" Artemis smiled and said
"Brooklyn. I used to live in Gotham but I moved to Brooklyn a few years ago." Dick nodded and said,
"So you must've heard about me." Dick said and Artemis nodded yes.
"I've heard that you no longer live in Gotham and you're a police officer now. You used to have the reputation of being a millionaire playboy and now you're saving lives and you try and stay out of the spotlight. So now you're a millionaire life saver who is still a playboy." Artemis said and finished her drink. Dick didn't disagree even though he hated the sounds of it. It made him sound like Bruce and Dick hated that.
"So you know about me, so why don't you tell me a little more about yourself?" Artemis smirked and said "how about we go find our friends instead?" Artemis asked and stood up. Dick stood up too and asked,
"Why don't you want to tell me about yourself?"
"Because I want to remain a mystery." Artemis stated simply then went searching for her friends. For the rest of the night Artemis and Dick didn't speak very much and at around 10:00pm Dick went to go play a game of poker and no one saw him for a while. Artemis had just finished another drink when a tall redheaded man walked over to the group.
"Wally dude you should've seen how much money Dick just won." Roy said.
"Roy, where's Barbara?" Wally asked noticing she wasn't next to him. Roy ignored his question and said,
"Dick just won a quarter of a million dollars and he acted like it was nothing." Roy said and Wally's eyes widened.
"Holy Shit. Has he stopped playing now?" Wally asked and Roy shook his head no.
"Dick said he could still win more, but those guys are looking a little pissed and I think it's time for Dick to stop playing now."
A second later they heard a crash and people yelling. They walked over to where Dick had been playing poker and saw that some really drunk guy had pushed Dick and was yelling at Dick. Security was about to step in but Wally just walked over and helped Dick get up.
"Come on man let's just leave, don't want this to become physical." Wally said. Dick looked pissed plus he had been drinking so Wally knew it was time to leave. Dick got up and left without saying anything to the others.
"He just gets a little cocky and competitive and the other players don't like that. Anyway it was nice meeting all of you, wish I could stay but unfortunately I can't." Wally said to them all before turning to zatanna and saying,
"If you're ever in Bludhaven sometime look me up." He said before walking out to go find Dick, Kaldur and Roy following close behind him after they said good bye.
"I will definitely be doing that is I ever go to Bludhaven." Zatanna said and Raquel said,
"If you do get in contact ask him about his friend." The girls decided they should also go back to their room and call it a night so they left the casino and made their way back to their hotel.
