I Do Not Own Young Justice, I don't own anything...sadly. Enjoy =)

Trust Issues

"What part about covert do you not understand?" Batman questioned as he started to lecture the young group. Even though they knew it was coming none of them were really ready for the scolding to come from the dark knight. None of them wanted to look him dead in his masked eyes, more like none of them dared to. "I don't know why I even send you on covert missions." He continued in his monotone yet stern voice.

"Well then why don't you send us on really missions?" the minute those words escaped his mouth Wally instantly regretted it, mentally kicking himself in the ass. Why the hell did you say that out loud? He shouted at himself. Wally could feel Batman's glare burning holes through his head. He swore if looks could kill then Batman would have murdered him months ago. Everyone remained silent but kept their attention on Wally and the interaction about to happen with the dark knight himself.

"If I'm not mistaken by this briefing report, it was you who gave away their position and caused all hell to break lose." Batman stated sternly barely changing the tone in his voice.

"Can you blame me? I just watched Sportsmaster murder that professor dude in cold blood at point blank range!"

"Well you know what get used to it. You wanna get the major missions then you need to realize these villains aren't going to play nice. They aren't afraid to hurt you because you're kids, they're not afraid to kill you. Once you come to understand that then maybe you can get more Justice League level missions, but until then you will deal with the missions I give you. Is that understood?"

"Yes sir," Wally knew he was defeated and kept his head hanging low.

"Alright, this debrief is over. All of you get some food in you and get some sleep, dismissed" and with that Batman left the team to do as they please.

Wally walked over to the couch but stopped to lean against the back of it. Something wasn't right, it the pit of his stomach he knew something was missing. He looked around as he tried to figure out this unsettling feeling, it wasn't until he saw Artemis leave the kitchen and started walking to her room that he realize what it was. She was what was wrong; after Batman basically verbally destroyed him she said nothing. No comment on how he was or is an idiot, no snicker of enjoyment on seeing him piss of an original justice league member, and not even a glance to see him in total embarrassment. Some thing was definitely wrong. Then Wally thought back to their flight back to the mountain.

Flashback (in Wally's head)

Once they had gotten back to the ship M'gann went to attend Artemis' wounds as everyone else sat in their seats. To say the flight back was quite would be an understatement, it was deathly silent. M'gann was controlling the bioship, Superboy had fallen asleep, Kaldur was logging in the mission report, and Robin was trying to find out more about the reconfigured venom. None of this had surprised him; it was the fact that he didn't feel the glaring eyes of one female archer trying to shoot daggers at his head. It was weird, when ever they got in a fight during a mission they would always end up having a glaring match with each other on the flight back home, but this time was different she wasn't even looking in his direction. She seemed to be in her own little world, staring off into space lost in her own thoughts. Wally was confused, it wasn't much different than any other mission, what was causing Artemis to act out of character? Then Wally's eyes drifted down and locked on to the sight of bandages wrapped around her next and shoulder. That had to be it, sure they had argued before saying that the other one almost got them killed, usually just over exaggerating but this time she really could have died.

Wally started to feel sick, maybe it really was his fault, but come on he was trying to save her. Then he thought back to the fight and their argument afterwards. He really had hit that guy hard, any harder and he would have slit Artemis' throat for sure. Plus that question she had asked him afterwards.

"And why did you even care, you hate me remember why would care if I was gonna die."

Why did he care? She was his enemy, a replacement, and the cause for all his torment, why did he care? Well she was his teammate, he wasn't heartless, but when he went up there he was angry, furious that this guy had his hands on his Artemis. Whoa wait, HIS Artemis? Where did that come from? No it couldn't be she wasn't more than a friend to him, wait they weren't even friends why would he care about her. Unless maybe.

"Wally, hey Wally you okay?" Robin's voice quickly snapped Wally out of his deep thoughts.

"Yeah I'm fine Rob, why? What's up?" he asked puzzled to why his best friend would be asking that.

"Well I'm just checking because you've been leaning up against the couch staring at the floor in deep thought since the debrief ended."

"So?" Wally asked still curious to why it was such a big deal.

"The debrief ended half and hour ago." "WHAT?" " Yeah everyone else is already in their civvies, M'gann almost has dinner ready and Artemis is about to head out." With that Artemis appeared from the kitchen in her civvies heading towards the transporter.

"Hey Artemis where are you going? Aren't you gonna stay for dinner it's basically become tradition, plus gorgeous over there has been working hard to make dinner" this was totally unlike Wally actually caring where she was going, but he was curious, things still just didn't seem right.

Artemis just continued walking to the transporter not responding back to anything he said. "Hello, earth to arty?" still no reply, no response, no nothing. Oh she is not giving me the silent treatment. Wally was starting to get pissed, Robin noticed and tried to calm him down. "hey relax KF just leave her alone" " no dude she acting like a total bitch." and with that he sped off right behind her as she started to type in her destination into the transporter. "Artemis," Wally started but still she did nothing, now he had it, " hey I'm talking to you!" Wally stated furiously as he grabbed her left shoulder to turn her around, but before he could turn her around he heard a harsh wincing sound.

"AH! Fuck!" Artemis reached for her shoulder swatting Wally's hand away in the proses. She turned around glaring at the confused speedster. "What the hell Wally!" Artemis shouted at him as she gripped her injured shoulder with one hand and pulled out her ear buds with the other. Wally hadn't noticed the ear buds and had totally forgot about her shoulder, so she wasn't ignoring me, he thought to himself. A look of terror came across his face as he realized his mistake. Well if she hadn't been ignoring him before she probably will be now. Artemis looked like she was ready to punch Wally in the face, but restrained herself from doing so as she waited for his response. "Well!"

"Um well, umm, I-I well...you see" Wally couldn't find the right words to explain. "You know what forget it, screw you Kid idiot." and with that Artemis walked into the transported but before she was gone Wally heard her shout, "by the way, way to piss off Batman, Baywatch." then she was gone.

"UGH!" Wally groaned in annoyance. "I can't stand her."

"Well in tried to warn you, you have to admit that was pretty stupid of you." robin comment from his few on the couch.

"Hey whose side are you on!" Wally questioned as he walked back over to sit with his friend. "She is such a bitch, how does she expect any of us to trust her, I mean what do we really know about her."

"Oh not this again KF."

"What are you talking about?"

"Dude it's been what, 6 months, let it go, I thought you were passed the whole replacement we don't know much about her junk."

"Well we don't."

"Oh come on she's revealed just as much info about herself as the rest of us even more."

"What are you talking about?"

"Seriously?" Robin questioned, "Well let's see we all know her really name I mean come on she doesn't really even change it when she's in superhero mode, honestly how many girls do you know who are named Artemis. We know where she lives and we know what she looks like in civvies. Which is more you can say for me."

That's when he realized he really didn't know that much about his best friend. With Batman as your mentor, you don't really have the choice in giving up anything about your secret identity. He did know what city he lived in and where he went to school, but to not much detail. When he would meet him in Gotham after school he would usually meet him a block away from his school the Gotham Academy, with Rob already dress in his normal disguise civvies.

"Well we don't k know anything about her past or her family," Wally continued on his rant, but Robin cut him off. "What do you want a full on report about her whole life?"

"Yeah!"

"Dude come on, I don't see you telling everyone about your family history and what your life is life. None of us do, why should you expect Artemis to? Why do you care so much anyway?"

And there it was that question again, why did he care so much about anything that had to do with Artemis. "I don't know dude something just got me thinking." Wally continued to drift off in thought as he stared at the last place the archer was.

Robin started to chuckle, not his creepy evil laugh that always freaked Wally out but one of realization, "I know why you care so much," Wally turned and gave him a look to continue. "You're in love with her."

"WHAT!" Wally shouted giving his best friend a look like he had to be joking.

"Nope that's it you've fallen for Artemis and don't even deny it," now Robin chuckled his evil laugh as he walked into the kitchen. Wally was too stunned to even attempt to deny the boy wonders conclusion. He couldn't be in love with Artemis could he?