Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters or the story. This is me just geeking.
A/N: wow, I'm surprised I got reviews so fast! Now I'm so shy haha… Thanks guys really.
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Thud. Sounds echoed through the base repeatedly. Thud. Most of the team was at their homes. Thud. The exceptions of course being Megan and Superboy. Thud. Thud. Though Wally decided to chill here, for the day. School was over and he was fixing to let out some steam. Seated on the floor and back against the wall, he repeatedly tossed a ball to the ground, watching it bounce off the wall and back into his hand.
A frown was planted on his face as he kept the cycle going, tossing the ball, watching it thud, then catching it, and starting all over again. "Stupid Artemis…" He murmured to himself. "I… I totally let her win! Yeah, that's it… I felt bad because she was a girl!" He tossed the ball harder and caught it. "…Augh… who am I kidding… She has impressive skills… She toasted me and I was stupid enough to challenge her in front of the whole team…"
Wally started tossing the ball faster and much harder. "I bet she was so smug with herself… That jerk. She was toying with me the whole time and didn't take it seriously!" Thud thud thud, the ball is hitting faster and Wally starts to stand. "She loves to get me angry… that's why she's always picking on me! Saying stupid stuff and making comments… Like she's perfect, she's just… Just…. Red arrows wannabe replacement!"
Wally is standing and using his super speed to constantly throw the ball at the wall, hard and fast. Suddenly the doors of the training room open and catch him off guard as he glances its way, the ball now hitting him smack in the face making him stumble back in pain. "G'OFF!" He holds his red and burning cheek, the ball must have heated up from the constant friction. Childish laughs are heard in the doorway, it's none other than Robin.
Wally glances at the boy and is automatically embarrassed. "What… what the heck are you here for!" He says trying to play off his blunder.
"I decided to stop by since I heard you were here. By the way, nice face bruise." He snickered. Wally waved it off.
"Tch."
"So," Robin asks, walking beside his red headed friend, "what brings you here? The way you stormed out of this room yesterday made me think you'd never step foot in here again."
The speedster glanced away angrily and walked over to pick up the ball, letting Robin know he touched a nerve. "Sorry…" Robin said rubbing the back of his neck, "I didn't know you were still sore about it."
"I'm not sore about anything!" Wally says almost too loud, "I just… Don't like talking about it is all."
Robin flinched and held his hands up, "okay okay, yeesh…." At the thirteen year old's reaction Wally realized that he'd snapped on him and felt bad instantly. "…I'm... Sorry…" He rubs the back of his neck and looks down, "I don't know what's been wrong lately."
"If I tell you what I think is wrong you promise not to snap at me?" Robins says smirking a bit. Wally rolls his eyes at the boy. Robin continues, "it's obvious it's because Artemis beat you yesterday."
"She did not beat me!" Wally immediately protests out of sheer embarrassment.
"Dude, you were going at her like she kicked your puppy or something. There is no way you let it happen." Robin narrowed his eyes behind his sun glasses a bit. Wally watched the boy defiantly before frowning and admitting defeat. He looked away and hung his head.
"I feel so insignificant for it… You have no idea how bad it sucks to have lost to her… like that." Wally scowled at the ball in his hand and tossed it. Robin watched.
"It's not a big deal… You've lost to women before. Remember Black Canary?"
"That's not the same!" Wally hung his head and ran a hand through his hair, resting it on the back of his head. "Artemis makes me… She just… She drives me crazy!"
Robin smirked as he watched the ginger, giving the 'here we go' look. "She freaking shows up thinking she can take Speed—err Red arrows place, then acts like she's miss perfection. Then when I barely let my guard down around her she uses it against me and embarrasses me! She's like a block of ice, cold and hard! That monster has no emotions! It's only once in a while I get the miracle chance to say something that effects her and she acts like I'm the biggest jerk in the world for it!"
Wally lifts his head and kicks at the ball on the ground, "It freaking sucks!" There is a long pause while Robin watched the ball fly then bounce around the other side of the room. He looks over at the troubled speedster and smirks, "You know what I think the problem is? You're just afraid of her."
"What!" Wally glances at him wide eyed.
"Think about it, she's one of the only girls who doesn't take anyone's bull. She's intimidating and it scares you. Right when you saw her the first thing she did was tease you, that's not being mean Wally that's being outgoing."
"I'm outgoing and I don't insult people!" Wally hissed, not liking were Robin was going with this.
"But she wasn't insulting, she was teasing. And you joke around like that too." Robin eyed Wally who fell silent, "you know… If you two didn't argue so much you'd find that you guys are actually kind of alike…"
"WHAT!" Wally's eyes went saucer sized.
"Think about it! You're both too stubborn to let the other win and you both pick at each other like crazy! If I didn't know any better I'd think you two were a bickering couple." Robin started for the door, a small grin spawning on his face. Wally watched, furious at it but decided not to bother. He walked over to the ball and bent to pick it up before hearing, "I think you should try and talk to her. You know, tell her how you feel without trying to hurt her feelings."
Wally glanced over at the boy only to find he had already exited through the doors. His green eyes glanced down at the ground in deep thought. Maybe he could try and talk to her…. But how do you try and talk to a girl who hates you as much as you hate her?
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So Wally waited. He waited for the next mission. He thought over and over in his head what he would say to that girl and get her to understand how he felt. But when that day came, and they were standing far away from each other during mission debriefing… Wally's brain went dead. Every word he wanted to use, every clever sentence, everything just escaped his mind. And he didn't know what to say. So when they were side by side patrolling near a cave, what could have been an epic change of heart speech turned into an awkward silence… And an awkward silence became replaced with… Well…. bickering.
Could you ask Wally and he tell you exactly what started the argument and how it escalated in one of the worst situations in his missions history? No. His head was so full of heat when it happened that he lost all sense of understanding and logic. But it can be revealed Artemis may have said something in reference to his epic fail during their battle. And that didn't sit well with Wally. Not at all.
"You totally did lose to me! And it's your fault! Suck it up and stop moping over it!" Artemis whisper yells.
"I'm not moping and you got lucky!" Wally whisper yells back.
"Why does everything have to be an argument with you! I swear, I can't say one thing without you taking it so damn seriously!" She lowers her bow and narrows her eyes at him.
"How can't I! You do it so much I'm starting to think you're trying to piss me off!" He hisses. The two are so blindly unaware of what's going on behind the bushes in front of them. Two men setting up a trap. "It's not my fault you make it so easy! You're just begging to be made fun of sometimes!" Artemis says with her hands on her hips.
The two men position two rocket launchers in front of the arguing teens, about a mile away Robin and the group are looking over the base they've infiltrated's map. Artemis and Wally have been instructed to guard the mines opening while the team tries to see if it's safe to enter that mine opening. They discover it's the wrong entrance, but before they can tell them that through telepathic communication the two men in the bushes make the first move.
"Just shut up!" Wally finally screams. The rockets go off. The two are startled. It happened so quick. Even so quick for Wally. Kid Flash is grabbing Artemis by the hand and speeding her into the mine shaft for safety, but the deeper they go the sooner they realize they made a mistake. They fall down a hole, and it's not some simple ditch it's a long ass hole. If it weren't for Artemis's quick thinking they'd be squished flat at the bottom. She shoots a wire at one of the top rocks and holds Wally tightly, but once the wire swings them to the wall they've spun so far out of control she hit her head on the wall. It's dark and Wally can't see her blood, so stupidly he keeps calling and calling out to her, but she doesn't respond. The only thing that's holding them is Artemis's hand being tangled on her cross bow, her normal bow falling down into the darkness below. And like that, she finally shut up.
~You know at first this was intended to be more of Artemis's point of view, idk how it just morphed to Wally. I guess it's because I can relate to him more… And girls are pretty boring xD no offense Arty, you rock, I just enjoy guy thoughts more xD Reviews are LOVED! You guys make me blush e/w/e ~
