Artemis had learned one thing over the past two days.

Never open the window over the small fire escape connected to their room. She had done it once when their room got stuffy and Megan had given her a huge lecture because apparently the guys who lived above them got a kick from fucking up people's day.

Which they had done by dropping the stink bomb onto the fire escape and making the girl's room smell like a fart chamber times a hundred. There was a lot of gagging involved.

After that Megan called it the "Window of Fucking ups" because opening it would fuck up your day and if you opened it you were fucking up and she thought it was so clever.

It wasn't.

Artemis met the fart-bomb culprit two days later on the first day of classes. It was six in the morning and woe-be-her, she had a seven o'clock class. Anyways, she was sorting through the fridge on the first floor trying to find something edible that wasn't ramen or moldy (she failed) when a fairly attractive guy came into the kitchen and pulled open one of the pantries.

She couldn't help but look at him. He had a mop of messy black hair, a rather innocent face (despite the mischievous glint in his eye) and a wiry frame.

"hey." He said smiling a little. He still looked half asleep.

"hey." She said.

They worked in silence after that because she wasn't one to make pointless conversation (unless the guy was really, REALLY unbelievably hot like Wally's Room mate hot.)

Somehow the guy managed to snag one of those tiny boxes of cereal. "Where did you find that?" Artemis asked and he shrugged. "Fuck." She said. "Looks like I'm going to starve for my first day of classes."

He looked a little guilty before pulling out two bowls (where from, Artemis didn't know, she thought all the bowls were dirty and/or broken) and offering the second one to Artemis. "Can't have you starving." he said grinning.

She couldn't help but grin back, she grabbed the bowl and plopped down at one of the tables. The guy sat across from her.

"Thanks." She offered shoving as much cereal as she could into her mouth.

"No problem." He said earnestly. "Can't have one of my fellow students starving during class."

Artemis nodded and smiled gratefully. "My thoughts exactly." After a beat she added, "My name's Artemis."

"Pretty name." He said. "Which room do you live in?"

Artemis looked at him displeased. "Shouldn't you be offering me your name?" She asked, "After all I do need to know the name of my knight in shining armor."

He snorted. "Richard Grayson." He said, "My friends call me Char."

Artemis resisted making a joke about Ella Enchanted and instead nodded. "22A." She said and he started cackling like crazy. Her head snapped up and she looked alarmed. "What?"

He stifled his laughter and managed to gasp out, "You're one of the girls that live beneath me?" He laughed harder and her mouth formed an 'o'. He was the guy that had dropped the stink bomb?

"You made my apartment smell like farts." She grumbled and he laughed harder. She crossed her arms and gave him a hard look. "We had to buy like twenty things of febreeze. You totally owe me."

He raised his eyebrow and managed to choke out in a serious (giggle-free) voice, "The cereal wasn't enough?"

She shook her head. "Please, Febreeze is so fucking expensive. You owe us like a million dollars." Artemis sighed dramatically and Char grinned.

"I'll get on that." He promised in the most insincere way and Artemis raised her eyebrow.

"Liar." She said and Char laughed again.

Her first day of school was remarkably boring. It was just school.

The only entertaining part of the day was when she met up with Char and Megan for a picnic and Megan had dragged Conner along which meant (of course) Wally was coming as well.

Wally was about half an hour late but no one blamed him because his Organic Science teacher Mr. Brown was known to be a complete hard ass and would keep his students behind for ridiculously large amounts of time (Wally complained about this to anyone and everyone who would listen so everyone in their dorm knew about it.)

When he did show up, they were all kind of lounging around and his eyes lit up when he saw them. "Dick!" He crowed and all of their heads shot to them.

"What did you say to me?" Conner asked dangerously, his head snapping up. Conner wasn't exactly the most friendly person and though he and Wally were close, Artemis guessed that that was his version of politely giving Wally a chance to explain himself. With anyone else he would probably just beat the shit out of them and ask questions later.

Wally waved him off. "Not you." He laughed. "Him." He pointed at Char who held up his fist, Wally bumped it easily and settled down in between Char and Conner.

"Dick?" Artemis asked.

Wally rolled his shoulders casually and Char gave him a warning look but Wally missed it. "Yeah, that's what all of his friends call him."

She choked and Char (or Dick?) looked exasperated. "I thought they called him Char."

Wally snorted. "As in Ella Enchanted." Artemis fought a smile, not because he was funny but because she could barely imagine huge, muscular Wally watching Ella Enchanted. "nah, me and Dickie go way back and everyone used to call him Dick."

"Dickie and I." Megs corrected and Wally gave her a sappy smile.

"Right sorry." He breathed obviously smitten. "Dickie and I. Thanks sugar."

Char looked like he wanted to spontaneously combust, Megan was blushing like crazy, Conner looked like he was planning to strangle his room mate, and Artemis thought she might puke.

Did he just try and flirt with Megs?

"So." Conner said sounding strangled.

"So." Megan agreed in a light voice as if she was in shock.

"Your name's really Dick?" Artemis said and Dick threw his hands in the air.

"That's all you people get." He cried looking exasperated and Artemis laughed, leaned into him and gave him a friendly slug.

"I think it suits you." She said. "Char was a little too Ella Enchanted for me."

"For gods sakes you could have been called anything Dick and you chose 'Char'?" Wally said and Dick grumbled something about how Wally should go away and die which Wally laughed about for almost twenty minutes.

No one called him Char for the rest of the picnic.

The next morning a box of cereal sat outside her front door.

1/105 apology boxes -Dick.

Artemis snorted, grabbed the box and slammed her front door shut.