Finally! I can't believe how long it took me to do the next chapter of this story. (Despite how it looks I did not abandon this story.) I've been working on this chapter bit by bit and I thought why not post it after today's epic episode. I'm not sure how happy I am with it but I really wanted to get this story back up and running since so many people like it.

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Chapter 2: Flour(s)

Artemis let out a breathy sigh flicking at some sprinkles on the counter before slumping forward. Groaning she stared at the massive pile of cupcakes and baked goods that had accumulated over the last couple of days. Without Wally West, the garbage disposal, around she'd been accumulating a very large amount of unnecessary, totally wasted, inventory.

Two weeks. That was how long it had been since she and Wally had last spoke, spoke being the operative word. They had seen each other, had tried to resolve things, but it had all cumulated into another shouting match between them in the middle of The Watchtower. Batman, to put it in polite terms, had been less than impressed with their behavior.

"M'gann wants to know if you can cover her for monitor duty?" requested Zatanna sticking her head in the kitchen and waving her communicator. "Apparently Superboy is taking her out on a date. Although I'd love to see what Mr. Stoic has planned he's about as creative as concrete."

Walking into the kitchen she surveyed its state of ultimate, uncharacteristic cleanliness and the mountain of uneaten Wally portion sized desserts. "I don't think you've ever been this productive while simultaneously this bored."

"I probably should cut back," said Artemis absentmindedly running her finger through the bright red frosting on the nearest cupcake, leaving a lightening bolt impression in the sweet confection.

Zatanna raised an eyebrow, "Alright pity party of one. You are going on monitor duty. You are going to take a bunch of these cupcakes and offer Wally the proverbial olive branch and by branch I mean his own weight in cake. Sexob ni sekacpuc ecalp." Instantly the cupcakes organized and arranged themselves into boxes.

"Clever trick but I'm not going. Why don't you cover for M'gann?" She narrowed her eyes suspiciously tossing the decaled cupcake expertly in the trash, "Whenever you're trying to get rid of me you and Dick do something I absolutely loathe."

"The walls needed repainting."

Artemis sent her a look. "Painting is not effective when done like a water sprinkler."

"So one minor setback-"

"Then there was my surprise birthday party."

"I had no idea the cake was going to react like that to magic."

"I was washing icing out of my hair for a week."

"And what do you do every other day?" riposted Zatanna smartly. "Look it's just one teensy weenie little favor."

"I'm suspended remember. Or as the Bat so eloquently said ''Get out.'"

"I sense a double entendre."

"You think?" smirked Artemis looking at the newly packed cupcakes. "I'm making bread."

Zatanna sighed this was the one drawback of two equally stubborn people dating. No sex equals other forms of release. Artemis appeared intent on burying her problems with baking and it wasn't that it wasn't a lucrative outlet it was just getting kind of ridiculous. Zatanna shuddered to think about what Wally was doing with his newly acquired free time.

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Shoot," sighed Artemis rifling in the cupboards collecting ingredients for what she was hoping would become cinnamon raisin bread.

"Why is this such a big deal to you? The guy cares about you. Why the drama?"

"It's the principle of the thing," muttered Artemis raising the arm with the cast and wiggling her fingers. "Injuries are part of the trade. Everyone gets hurt, even those we care about, and Wally knows this, but he needs to accept it."

"Wow that was surprisingly deep yet pointless. Talk about stating the obvious," commented Zatanna. Plucking a carton of cupcakes off the counter for her meeting with Dick later that night. It seemed like Artemis and Wally were the only couple not getting any.

"I know I'm a nosey outsider – "

"Very nosey."

"But one of you needs to take the first step to mend your relationship and it can't always be Wally even if he's an ass half the time, he's still a pretty sensitive guy."

"I know that," eked out Artemis forcefully.

"Do you see all these desserts?" asked Zatanna gesturing towards the table. "Just go to the Watchtower leave a plate out and wait to catch your prey while you're on your hot date with the monitors tonight."

"ZEE!" But the cupcake she'd used as ammunition splattered halfheartedly against the door that Zatanna had just escaped through and Artemis turned to grip the counter, her body tense and unsatisfied. Looking around the kitchen and patting her flour dusted hands on her apron she begrudgingly decided a change of scenery might be a good idea. Besides the bread needed time to rise.

"I thought you were kicked out of the Watchtower," joked Rocket leaning back in the chair adjacent to Artemis's, cracking her knuckles. "Though this in itself is torture." It wasn't so bad to be on monitor duty with Raquel she had a sense of humor plus similar to Artemis her abilities stemmed from physical objects which made her more relatable for the archer. It became a little annoying to always be surrounded by super humans and other species. Plus as one of the few married League members she actually was an ideal person to go to for relationship advice, although that was not the reason Artemis had chosen to sit beside her. Not at all.

Artemis shrugged kicking her feet up on the metal console trying to ignore the twisting in her stomach as she thought of the poorly concealed box of cupcakes under her chair. Why had she brought them?

"How's Amistad?"

"Rambunctious." Chuckled Raquel. "Kind of like your monster. For the first couple of days after you both got kicked off The Watchtower he was hanging around here hoping to met you. Batman nearly castrated him." Artemis rolled her eyes, but couldn't help the smile that settled on her face. "Still not talking to Wally, huh?"

"What makes you say that?" uttered Artemis clenching her fingers.

"Because if you were he'd be here chowing down on those cupcakes and driving us crazy. Although his ass in that spandex, mmmm, nice view."

Artemis snorted leaning her head back so her ponytail tumbled over the top of the chair. "You know what's amazing?" Raquel raised an eyebrow. "I'm in space. SPACE. In one of the most technologically advanced feats of human conception and all I can think about is my dumbass boyfriend."

"Ah l'amour," smirked Raquel leaning forward resting her chin on her hands. "So the question is why are you still here? I mean a full moon is beautiful but you have one of the best ones as a booty call." Did she mention she appreciated Rocket's sense of humor?

"My dough is still rising."

"That is quite possibly the worst excuse I've ever heard." Artemis chose to ignore the comment opening the book she had brought with her.

"Fine, fine," conceded Rocket shaking her head. "How long till the cast comes off? It must be a pain to try and use your bow."

"Yeah. It really is. I've been using my crossbow to try and reduce the pressure on my arm."

"Makes sense." Rocket smirked, "Your book is upside down by the way."

Artemis snapping the book closed. It was a fruitless effort. She was here for one reason only. "Love stinks."

"It might but at least at the end of the day you know where you stand and you know that there is someone there waiting for you whether you've had a great day or a terrible one. They're there and they care." Rocket patted her shoulder. "You two make more sense together then apart."

"That's what I'm afraid of."

"I can handle the monitors. Go find your man." Artemis tried to keep up an indifferent front but her facade broke a little at the prospect of seeing Wally. She had lost her mind. It was official.

Recognized Flash 0-4.

Raquel whistled as Wally materialized in the zeta beam. "That's fate." Artemis wasn't even aware she was gleefully gawking until the Flash turned toward her the slits in his mask widening with surprise before the red wearing hero turned tail and ran right back into the beam. She just sat there. Staring in disbelief as Wally disappeared back into the beam.

He was running toast.

Artemis was fully prepared to storm past Wally's form as he stood in front of the steps of her bakery looking around forlornly. She was not in the mood to deal with livid green eyes and saucy comments. But as quickly as she turned around to go find a cafe to sit in till the moron gave up a breeze brushed past her and Wally was now standing directly in front of her. She should have known she couldn't outrun him. Grimacing she glared at him taking a deliberate step forward because there was no way in hell she was backing down.

"Hey Arty..." he mumbled looking at the ground scuffing his shoe against the cement. If she wasn't so pissed off at him she might have told him looked adorable acting like a nervous preschooler giving his crush a Valentine but she wasn't in the mood to be handing out compliments to her irksome boyfriend.

"What?" she snapped, "Haven't you met your quota for stupid yet?" His eyes flashed momentarily but he reined in his anger. Good. She liked it when she dominated the relationship. "Last I saw, you were running away from me."

Wally sighed raising a hand from behind his back to rub awkwardly at his neck. "Yeah…but it was only because I was nervous." Artemis narrowed her eyes.

"Nervous?" she scoffed. "You don't even know the definition of embarrassment and you were nervous?" That was true. During the course of their relationship Wally had done some pretty outrageous things that had made her blush as red as his hair but left him moderately unfazed. She honestly wondered sometimes what was going through his head when he pulled those stunts. But Artemis hadn't realized how hurt she had been when Wally had run away from her on the Watchtower. She could admit that their little "spat" had been partially her fault but watching him run that had hurt. Deep.

"I just want you to be naked!" He sputtered. Artemis's eyes widened and she wondered how Wally managed to make even something so perverse announced loudly in the middle of the street sound somehow endearing. She must be just as insane as him.

"Too soon?" He questioned. "I thought so too. So I ran. I didn't trust myself to stand on the Watchtower and not ravish you in front everyone. So, sorry."

"Wally…"

"I brought you flours." Artemis quirked an eyebrow as Wally pulled a box full of paper bags from behind his back.

"Thanks, I think…"

"No, look closer they're flours." Artemis peered more carefully at the peculiar bags and was shocked to find each one sloppily labeled. There was rice flour, potato flour, barley flour, cake flour, self-rising flour – some she hadn't even heard of. Artemis couldn't help it she laughed heartily. Bending over around the middle, gripping her sides trying to stop the bubbling spring. It was like her body was remembering what it felt like not to be alone and she craved it. There was nothing more she needed.

"That is so corny!"

"I have corn flour," he chirped pointing to an arbitrary bag, grinning at his foolish little joke. "I can't take all the credit I stole the idea from a movie. It's practically our love story angry baker and dashing genius."

"I knew you couldn't be that creative," said Artemis sarcastically touching the bags delicately. "Stealing ideas from movies though, pretty unoriginal."

"I've had a lot of free time on my hands," he admitted jostling the box as he attempted to place a hand on her waist. She swatted it away. "Am I back in your good graces m'lady?"

"Would you like to come in?" asked Artemis unlocking the door to the bakery. She could see his Flash uniform peeking out between the gaps in his incorrectly buttoned shirt and Artemis realized just how quickly he had raced here after his blunder in space.

The redhead frowned. "That wasn't an answer."

"We'll talk inside flasher." She pointed towards his shirt and he hastily closed his jacket smiling gratefully. The last thing either of them needed was a scandal where they had to explain to the whole League how his identity got out.

"Ah," moaned Wally once they were inside as he sniffed the air dramatically. "I've missed this place." He pinched the ether as if all the scents and flavors were palpable between his fingers. Artemis shook her head at his antics quickly crossing into the kitchen so she could check on her bread dough, naturally Wally followed behind.

"Wow," whistled Wally in awe as he stared at the mountain of cupcakes. "Where have you been all my life!" She had missed his frivolous actions and appreciation, there weren't many people who appreciated the food the way Wally did.

"Quit drooling Wally," stated Artemis continuing her work.

"You aren't seriously going to let me just stand here staring are you." She knew his eyes roaming over her and the cupcakes, trying to decide which he should attack first.

"Are those red velvet cupcakes? Sadist."

Wiping her hands on a cloth she leaned against the counter. "You're not seriously whimpering are you?" Wally was seated at the table hands frantically occupied with tapping his thighs as his face moved closer and closer to the delectable confections but his eyes remained fixed on her. Drinking her in. He looked like a wolf stalking their prey. The "flours" placed on the table forgotten.

"Please! This is torture." Artemis quirked an eyebrow.

"Wally I already know you've stolen three, there's icing on your lips. Superspeed is cheating." She shrugged finally giving in as she slid into the chair across from him. "I have too many. Go for it."

It wasn't until after the fifteenth that Wally stopped eating and just started scrutinizing her again in his infuriating personal way that made her feel stripped bare and awkward like a teenage girl. It also ignited a fire in the pit of her stomach that fluttered and grew larger with each passing second.

"What?"

"So are we good?"

Artemis blinked, was that it? Their entire fight over? All the aggravation of the last few weeks gone? God, she really hated that Wallace West had the uncanny ability to get under her skin and stay there. Too bad she loved that part about him too. Letting out a breath she hadn't known she was holding Artemis leaned across the table and Wally mirrored her actions.

"I over reacted."

"So did I." Wally looked down and grabbed her hands leaning even closer. "I miss my Artemis boxers and your plate is still sitting on the counter in my apartment. I miss waking up in the morning with hair in my mouth and eating your food. I miss us." He paused. "I just want you to be safe and I know you're more then capable of taking care of yourself but I want to know about your injuries, don't just hide them. It's only fair." Artemis nodded slowly.

"I suppose I could take you on patrol with me sometimes. If you don't slow me down." They were both so close, their breathes intermingling between them, Wally's lips smudged with white chocolate icing and her body screaming at her to just jump him.

"I was serious about the naked thing." He whispered eyes fixating on her lips.

That was all the warning hovering in the air before they both simultaneously lunged across the table, fingers tangling in hair and lips mashing together with blissful pain from the force.

"The fucking table is in the way," Artemis bit out as her stomach pressed painfully against the piece of furniture from Wally's pulling.

"Fucking table," responded Wally in kind having already slammed one knee onto it knocking the teetering plate of cupcakes and other confections onto the floor.

"Ideas?" moaned Artemis as his fingers vibrated against her pulse point causing pleasurable shivers to wrack her body while the deviously dexterous digits moved downwards at a painfully slow rate.

"Break the table, move the table, or have sex on the table." Wally listed automatically between kisses. Artemis struggled to breathe deeply through her nose as she went lightheaded from Wally's ministrations. Taking a step backward in order to get a breath of air and possibly some composure, only possibly, because the man in front of her addictive in all the right ways, Artemis was startled when her foot slipped on one of the discarded cupcakes.

"Whoa!" exclaimed Artemis as she fell backwards dragging a still stubbornly affixed Wally with her. A massive cloud of white engulfed as the flours fell on top of them coating them both with artificial snow.

Wally chuckled brushing away the powdery substance from her eyes. "You look good enough to eat, babe."

"I am not amused Wally," she stated, all the flour caked to her lips billowing into the air with each word while ruined cupcakes pressed against her back. "Not amused at all."

Wally just grinned at her at least until she threw a handful of flour into his face and squirmed away, laughing. "Looking a little pale there, Wall-man."

"Oh, oh, ooh," he challenged grabbing his own handful and a semi-squashed cupcake which he bit into. She appreciated that. They both hated wasting food, although her kitchen was looking more like a war zone with every passing minute. "It's on."

"Prepare to lose."

"I don't think so," whispered a voice beside her ear as Wally skidded to a stop behind her gently blowing against the sensitive lobe before he slammed the handful of flour against her head.

Sputtering, and of all things smiling like a lovesick fool, their battle ensued until she finally managed to pin him to the ground her knees straddling either side of his waist.

"I missed you," she said honestly. "I'm sorry. I can't promise we won't fight anymore but I don't want to stop fighting with you. I want you to be there."

Wally's eyes softened and his fingers gently traced patterns on her thighs. "I died without you Artemis." Leaning forward she pressed her forehead against the rapidly beating beast fluttering against his ribcage. The pace of his heart was so fast it sounded like music to her ears. She had done this. She had made him feel this way. Only her. She was his and he was hers.

He arched against her causing Artemis to hum quietly while he drank her in albeit dirty with flushing cheeks and pouting lips. "Shower?" She queried looking heavenward.

"Shower." He easily picked her up bridal style and headed towards the stairs. "What about the mess?"

Artemis sent him a contented smile pressing kisses against his neck and chin before nibbling at his earlobe which caused his knees to buckle and him to groan heartily in the back of his throat. "That's what shop assistants are for."

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A/N: The scene mentioned is from the movie Stranger then Fiction.