Stuck With You

By

Angelina

Day One: Afternoon

As he had promised Batman returned later that day to check in on Robin. After combing through the mountain he found Robin in a nook on the side of the mountain looking at a Vogue magazine. His eyebrow rose slightly and he had to restrain a smirk at the distasteful look gracing his son's face. He was proud of the boy for attempting to accomodate Artemis, but that didn't make the scene any less humorous.

Robin looked up as his mentor entered his nook. He quickly dropped the magazine and attempted to kick it behind him, but failed when all that happened was the magazine getting stuck to his boot.

Batman could not help the small smirk that escaped his lips. Robin glared at him. "Do you think this is funny?"

"Not at all." The serious air of Batman returned instantly and he gave his protégé the best Bat-glare that he could muster.

Robin walked away unfazed. "What do you want?"

"I came to see how you were faring."

Robin stopped walking and glanced up at his mentor. "How would you do?"

Batman continued to glare at the kid but after Robin continued to ignore him he let his face soften a miniscule amount; he had trained the kid too well.

"Exactly." Robin responded to his mentor's facial expression.

"You have a weird way of communicating. How could you get three paragraphs of dialogue out of a glare?"

Robin ignored her.

Artemis growled in response and it took all of Robin's willpower not to start arguing with the blonde archer again. They were just starting to get along; he really didn't need a full scale argument on his hands. Especially since Batman was there. Robin did not want his mentor - his father – to see how much he was struggling to deal with this situation.

"Has anyone ever told you that you over-analyze things?"

Artemis was not making this easy. He began to imagine all of the lovely ways that he could kill the archer without anyone every finding out.

"I can hear everything your thinking Boy Blunder and I dare you to finish that thought!"

Robin's face paled. "Crap."

"What was that?" Batman asked unnecessarily. He had been able to decipher the gist conversation Robin had held with Artemis simply from the kid's facial expressions.

"Nothing." Robin growled while he continued to imagine several unpleasant thoughts, hoping that the archer would see every one of them.

Batman sighed. "I want you two to talk with Miss Martian. She may be able to help you get along better."

Robin frowned at the suggestion but accepted it with a curt nod. He and Batman walked back inside the mountain together.

An hour later Robin was seated in M'gann's room while the martian pushed a plate of burnt cookies at him. Robin politely took a cookie off of the plate and bit into it, trying his best not to gag at the taste.

"You are way too polite."

"Shut up." Robin hissed quietly. M'gann looked at him with a frown.

"Great, now you made miss sunshine frown." Robin was getting very tired of the sarcastic archer. After this hell -he really couldn't find a better word to describe his experience- was over he was going to have to rethink his love of sarcasm.

"Batman has asked me to help you two try to understand each other better."

Robin nodded.

"I need you both to relax, ok?" And with that Robin could feel yet another presence in his mind, it was getting awfully crowded.

As soon as M'gann breached the barrier into Robin's –and Artemis'- mind she was hit with a wave of emotion from both of them. She had to relax herself to avoid recoiling from the force of the two dominant personalities. As M'gann felt both minds began to open up to her she was flooded with waves of emotions; anger, sarcasm, concern, hatred, friendship, but fear most of all. She took a few minutes to sort through the mess before she decided to speak with the two.

"Alright the first thing that you two need to do is to calm down." She tried to make her voice as soothing as possible. After a few minutes she could feel the intensity of the emotions lessen. "Good."

"Can we just get this over with?" Artemis was not in the mood to play peacemaker with M'gann.

"Relax Arty."

Artemis growled at the ninja.

M'gann had had enough "ENOUGH! Honestly, you two are as bad as Wally."

She could feel shame roll off of the two.

"Now whether or not you two like it you are stuck together, you need to realize that. You are in this together and you are only going to make matters worse by arguing like two-year-olds."

The martian could feel her message sink into the equally stubborn minds. She paused a minute to let their thoughts wash over her. "Hello Megan! You were getting along fairly well after the incident in the gym. Try and go back to that."

Both trapped teens glared at each other (if you can glare at each other from inside one's mind) but then nodded their heads in consent.

"Good." The irrepressible martian said as a grin dominated her features.

They spent a good while discussing different likes, dislikes, interests, and hobbies before M'gann decided that they could probably get along well enough. At least, she hoped that they could get along until her Uncle arrived to fix them.

Robin wandered off to his room feeling a little more at peace with Artemis. He changed into his pajamas, thankful that Artemis decided not to comment on his Batman boxers, and climbed into bed. He was exhausted, the day had taken an emotional toll on him and he was ready for a good night's sleep. He pulled Batbear into his arms, ignored Artemis' smirk, and curled up under the covers. He was asleep in minutes.

A/N A somewhat pointless chapter… next chapter should prove to be interesting. My space bar is deciding to only work half of the time so please ignore any run-on words that I missed.

Apologies for any OOCness

Oh and thank you to anyone who voted on my poll. I am planning to close the poll September 1, so be on the lookout for the winning series.