A/N: Thanks for the reviews and I hope you enjoy this chapter. Also this week's episode Terrors made me want a long break of no SuperMartian; I think that's what they're called. But I enjoyed a new episode.
I don't own Young Justice but I love it anyways.
I was searching through the closet in my room looking for the box of family photos. Ollie wanted some new pictures of Jesse to put up. She always calls him Grandpa and luckily he doesn't seem to mind. In a way he was the closest thing I actually had to a dad, I wouldn't be where I am today without him. I was feeling for boxes on the top shelf in my closet. The phone rang causing me to lose my focus making a small box hit my head. I grabbed the house phone and saw that Robin or should I say Nightwing was calling.
"Hello." I said answering the phone. "Hold on a second, I'll go get Wally." I told him before he could reply to my greeting.
"Why do you think I need to talk to Wally? I could have called to talk to you."
"Yeah right, I've been excluded from your two's boy club."
"Well maybe if you went back to superheroing I would call you more. Plus I know whenever I think Wally is wrong I could still talk to you and we could both make fun of him." He explained.
"I still do hero work sometimes it's just I have a lot of things on my plate. Trust me if I were you with all the time in the world I would do it more often." I told him. I was walking over to give Wally the phone picking up the box that fell along the way. I walked over to the living room and saw Jesse and Wally watching TV together, I handed him the phone. "It's for you." I told him. He automatically figured out who I was talking about and grabbed the phone and walked off to the kitchen to talk in private. I looked at the box and wondered what it is. It looked so familiar but I can't pinpoint where I got it from. It looked handmade so maybe I got it as gift; it's a white box with white laced edges. I sat down on the couch next to Jesse still wondering where this box was from. Wally walked over to the couch again. He smiled when we he saw this box.
"Oh it's the box we used to write that list in our silly premarital therapy session." I just nodded. I remembered this box now Megan gave it to me as a pre wedding present. We had a write a list about the five greatest moments in our relationship. I can't believe I forgot about it, I remember it bothering me for weeks wondering what was on Wally's list and which moment meant more to him than the others. "Weren't we supposed to read them six years ago right after we got married?"
"Well do you want to read them now?" I asked.
"You can read it now if you want. I have to help Robin with something. The moment I'm coming back I'm going to read your list" He told me. He gave Jesse and me a quick kiss on the cheek and ran off. Jesse leaned over and looked at the box.
"Can I read them?" She asked.
"They're private. Plus I think it's supposed to stay secret between mommy and daddy."
"That's not fair; I never keep secrets from you two. I always tell you everything that happens at school." She said. I wouldn't consider the thing she tells me secrets but maybe for a six year old they are. She gave me that puppy look but, I have to resist her adorable little face.
"I'm sorry maybe next time." I told her. I opened the box and found two folded pieces of paper. I picked up the sheet of paper that had Wally written on the back. I unfolded it noticing his handwriting and noticing that his list started at number 5.
Number 5: The first time you actually showed that you care about me.
I saw Robin walking out of Wally's room. I decided this would be the best time to go check up on him. When I walked into his room it was almost everything I imagined it would be, it was a huge mess and had the smell of old food. His eyes were still focused on the TV when I walked into his room. There was a chair next to his bed probably from when the others were still in here. I decided to sit on it and watch Wally for a couple of seconds. He seemed to be fine now. His focus broke from the TV and then went to me.
"Hey," I said.
"Hey Artemis," He said. "For a moment I thought you weren't going to visit me." He told me.
"I'm full of surprises." I told him. He smiled like he usually does and made me smile knowing that he was okay. "You seem to be fine." I pointed out.
"Were you worried about me?"
"Maybe I was. Why does it matter to you if I was?"
"It would prove that you actually like me."
"I was only worried because if you died I would have no one to pick on anymore."
"So you admit that you need me around."
"No I don't. I don't understand why I try to be nice to you sometimes?" I said getting up.
"Because you know that you like me." He said replying to rhetorical question.
"I hate you." I said walking out the room slamming the door.
Number 4: Our first kiss.
Wally and I were locked into some room. It's more of a chute considering the small space and that open space about 30 feet above us. Wally and I sat across from each other not talking to each other. I removed my hand from my side and noticed it stopped bleeding, which meant that we've been here for a while.
"Why didn't you tell me you were bleeding?" Wally asked still looking up into the open space.
"I didn't think it was that big of a deal. I thought the team would have been here by now." He looked at me this time.
"For someone who acts so serious all the time that was an awfully naive thing to do." He said snapping at me.
"It isn't naïve. Unlike you for the past thirty minutes I have been keeping up with the optimism that the team you helped create would save us." It was weird it's like Wally and I traded places I was the optimistic one while he was the Debby downer. "What's with you today anyways?"
"We've been here for hours if they were coming today they would have been here by now."
"We're going to be ok. We're always ok; you know we're not as fast as you so they're going to take a while to find us. Let's be honest we don't even know where we are."
"Well we'll see whose right." He said. I moved so I could sit beside him.
"Well if you honestly think we're not going to make it out of here, then tell me all those things you never got to tell me."
"Like what?" He said.
"Anything."
"Well I would never tell you this but another reason why I'm mad is because I couldn't save you." He told me.
"You've saved me before."
"Yeah but I couldn't save you when it really mattered."
"It's ok Wally I'm not mad at you for not getting me out of here. Plus I wouldn't want you to save me anyways." Why am I being so nice to him? I don't ever really care if Wally's feelings are hurt partly because most of the time it's my fault but I always wanted him to toughen up. Seeing him like this isn't the Wally I know.
"I'm shocked we've been together alone for this long without killing each other."
"You think you surprised about that the part that's freaking me out is the fact we seemed to trade places. So I never got it why don't you believe in magic?"
"I got tired of everyone telling me that just the way it is. So science gave me the chance to change things and understand why things happen the way they do." He told me.
"That makes sense. I always imagined it was a magic trick that went wrong and it just traumatized you for life." He laughed at that. It made me smile hearing his laugh and seeing that light in his green eyes. Oh my god the blood loss has made me delirious. I enjoy seeing him happy. I don't enjoy that I laugh at his pain and sadness. "Let me think of another one. Your first kiss who and how was it?"
"I have to think about it."
"Oh do you? I hardly believe you've kissed many girls."
"I'm Kid Flash the woman can't resist me." I rolled my eyes. "It was in the sixth grade with Hayley Martin. We kissed because we felt like we were the only two people who never kissed anyone before so we decided to kiss each other to get it over with. After the kiss we hardly ever talked to each other again."
"How romantic." I said sarcastically.
"Okay Miss Romance how was your first kiss?"
"Well I didn't have a very romantic first kiss either. I was the last day of school but I can't seem to remember the grade but it was with Daniel Cooper. As I said the last day of school and since most of the school decided not to show up. Me and my friends played a game of truth and dare. I obviously picked dare. So I accepted it and kissed him. Daniel and I were never friends to being with and so after the kiss we stayed that way."
"Well now we know that our bad first kisses, is what we have in common." We laughed at how silly that was but when we stopped laughing that's when things got awkward. We just were looking at each other anticipating something. I felt nervous for some reason but in a way where I wanted to keep going. I leaned in closer to him and Wally didn't seem to mind. He actually seemed to lean in even closer, so our noses were touching.
"What are we doing?"
"Well I was about to kiss you." He whispered. I should pull away but I don't want to. My eyes were focused on his green ones. I got tired of the anticipation and I pressed me lips against his. I actually was enjoying this it was in a way how I imagined what my first kiss you feel like. Definitely not the place I would imagine but the feeling for sure. It felt right like we should have done this a long time ago. My heart was beating out my chest and my stomach was turning, and that feeling this way was good. I pulled away wanting to see his reaction, but he didn't give me the opportunity by pressing his lips against mine this time. "What does this mean?" He asked in between kisses. What does this mean sure it feels good but is there more than that.
"Well-," I started saying but I heard a wall fall witch meant Superboy was here.
Number 3: The first time we had sex.
Wally had me pinned against my door. "You know no my mom won't be home for a while and this will be a chance for both of us to be alone we each other without any interruptions." I said heavily suggesting something making sure Wally got the point I was trying to make this time. "You do know what I mean don't you?"
"Just because I didn't pick up your signals one time doesn't mean I will never get one of them again."
"Right, so do you want to come inside Mr. West?" I asked.
"I would love to Ms. Crock." He said. I unlocked the door and let him inside. We went straight to my bedroom. I knew I wanted to do this especially all the almost happenings we had just wanted me to get it done even more. We were making out on my bed and Wally seemed to want it more than I did. Everything was going according to plan. We had the right protection measures and the clothes were rapidly disappearing, but there nothing we could to protect the emotional side of things. Right when it was about to happen the effect of what we're doing hit me and I could tell it him.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" He asked.
"Yeah. Are you still sure you want to do this?" I asked.
"Yes." He said quickly. "But Artemis I want you to know that-," He started.
"That?"
"You never looked more beautiful to me." He said. I could tell that wasn't what he was originally going to say but it made me blush anyway.
"You look beautiful to me too." I teased a little. I kissed him this time giving him the encouragement to continue.
I woke up with Wally next to me sleeping. Crap we weren't supposed to fall asleep afterwards. Wait what time is it? I looked over at my clock and saw that it was only 4 o'clock and my moment won't be home for another two hours. I heard the front door shut and I heard footsteps walk into the living room which is not good. I quickly through on whatever clothes I could find and put them on, I walked out the room and shut the door locking it for safety measure. I went into the living room.
"Dad what are you doing here?"
"I just wanted to check up on my favorite daughter but I wouldn't say my best looking one at this moment." He said commenting on my appearance.
"Did Flash Boy give you that shirt as a present?" He asked. I looked down and noticed I had his stupid shirt on but Dad didn't seem to think anything was going on so I'll go with what he said.
"Yeah I wasn't going to accept at first but I thought a free shirt is a free shirt."
"Good for a moment I was starting think you developed a crush on the speedster. Speaking of dates if you cleaned yourself up a little I bet I could get you a date with Icicle Jr."
"No thanks. Well I'm happy that you stopped by but I have some girl things I have to do." I said making sure he left my apartment. Once I finally got him to leave I realized that had forgotten Wally was still here. I went back inside my room and found Wally awake and half naked on my bed. "How much did you here?"
"All of it."
"I'm sorry but I didn't want to tell you that my dad was Sportsmaster. I was waiting for the right time because I didn't want you to hate me."
"I could never hate you Artemis. I'm disappointed that you didn't trust me enough to tell me."
"I do trust you. I never told him anything all he knows is that I'm on a team with you and that's it. Are you mad at me?" I asked. He looked agitated but let out a sigh.
"I'm not that mad. This was a day where I finally got to see the different sides of Artemis and I still like you as much as I did twenty minutes ago."
"When did you become such a charmer?"
"Well I've been practicing and it comes with the gig." He said. "Not sound like I'm bailing on you but considering what time it is in Gotham imagine what time it is in Central City."
"Oh right." I said. He was looking at me then I realized I had his shirt on. "Oh sorry." I was about to take the shirt off. "Well look away!"
"I saw you without your shirt on earlier today and you're looking at me without my shirt on so why does it matter now?"
"Because it's different and it make no sense but I would just feel better if you weren't looking.
"Fine," He said covering his eyes and looking in the opposite direction. I quickly took his shirt off and put on the one I had earlier today.
"You can look now." I said throwing his shirt over to him. He put it on and walked over to me and gave me a quick peck on the lips.
"I'll see you tomorrow Artemis."
Number 2: The day you agreed to marry to me.
I walked into Wally's apartment and noticed everything was neat and an oddly neat considering Wally is the person who lives here. Maybe something is going on; it would explain why Megan was acting so weird today. I found him in the kitchen probably eating for the fifth time today.
"What's with the cleanliness?" I asked. He seemed surprised that I was here and stopped what he was doing. He turned around to look at me.
"What are you doing here?"
"I didn't know I wasn't allowed to be here."
"I didn't mean it like that. I just didn't know you would be her this early."
"Well is there something for me to be early for?"
"No." He said. "Artemis I have a hypothetical question for you."
"Ok let me hear it."
"Well hypothetically of course. Let's just say if I were to ask you to marry me hypothetically of course what would you say hypothetically?"
"This is all hypothetical right?'
"Yes hypothetical."
"Well hypothetically I wouldn't know what to say. I would bring up that we have broken up before and how young we are. But I would bring up that I love you even when you're a humongous and I do mean humongous idiot. I would probably pick the not smart thing and say yes hypothetically."
"You would say yes?" I shrugged.
"Yeah why not, I like you and I don't have plans on marrying anyone else." I told him. "Is this why you cleaned this place? That was actually kind of sweet. So you really want to marry me?"
"Yeah I do."
"Well good luck being married to me then."
Number 1: When you told me that you loved me.
I looked at him and wondered why he came up one the roof at a bad time like this. He was different from the last time we dated. He was more mature and less cocky. I wondered what happened during those two years. I only caught glimpses of him the two years we weren't together. I felt bad for avoiding him but it was the only way both of us could get over each other but seeing that we ended getting back together anyways. Before we broke up it felt like we were living two different lives and that we couldn't find a middle to work for both of us. A big scenario of bad communication we thought the less we told each other about the problems in our own lives the more we could protect the other. Good intentions sometimes lead to horrible results. It became this whole trust issue between us and we broke up. It was different this time it felt different everything didn't feel rash we were more aware of how our decision affected each other.
"You're staring." He said.
"What are you doing up here?"
"I wanted to see if you were ok?"
"I'm fine and I got things covered up here. Are you ok?"
"Of course but I have to go back. Where are you going to go?"
"I'm probably going to catch up with Robin and figure out what to do from there."
"Well, I - I hope you take care of yourself."
"I will and I know you will take care of yourself too." He nodded in agreement walking away. He was such a big dork it was only three words. I'll just do it. "Wait," I said walking over to him. "You know I love you right?" He had a big smile on his face.
"All the girls do. I love you too Artemis." He said running back to go save the day.
"Can I read it now?" Jesse asked.
"Maybe when you're older." I told her. She pouted. "No pouting because it doesn't work when your dad does it and it won't work when you do it."
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