"He's got a brand new car
Looks like a jaguar
Its got leather seats
Its got a CD player
But I don't wanna talk about it anymore"
- Buck Rogers, Feeder
Summary: With the Young Justice team receiving a slightly older, taller guest; feelings of jealously begin to stir in Kid Flash
Wally stiffened; pressing pause on the controller he looked over his shoulder. The cause of his discomfort had been one noise. A perfectly everyday noise. But coming from her? By now, Kid Flash and Robin were staring slack jawed at the sight of Artemis - she had just giggled. In fact, both she and Megan were blushing, since when did Artemis blush? Wally's eyes narrowed; sure he'd seen her red in the face plenty of times but that was because she was more often than not yelling at him. This wasn't out of anger - she was being coy. She was flirting! The source of the female demographics' current mood was a boy, no - a guy. Man. Clad in a green light construct which served as his uniform and a green mask; with his perfectly gelled spiky black hair and the most powerful weapon in the universe to complete the look, Kyle Rayner was on leave and had come home to his native Earth.
"Oh please say it..." Megan whispered.
"I don't think I can," Kyle replied, with an apologetic smile.
"Just for us?" it was Artemis who spoke this time; batting her eyelashes she placed her hand on Kyle's rippling bicep.
Wally chocked back a grimace, what was she doing? She looked like a total idiot, no way would Rayner be interested in her. Besides, the guy was quite clearly a gym monkey; his idea of a good time would be to bench press his date. Pfft! Like he couldn't do it if he wanted to, Wally thought somewhat resentfully. By this point it looked like Rayner was about to buckle under the joint efforts of Artemis and Megan.
Blushing slightly, Kyle scratched the back of his head. "Ok, its pretty much:
In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power... Green Lantern's light!"
At that Wally couldn't hold back any longer, a snort escaped him. Artemis' head whipped round and she sent the speedster a hard stare.
"Something funny, Fleet Feet?"
"No..." Wally hunched his shoulders as he sunk into the sofa before muttering under his breath, "At least I don't need a stupid rhyme to use my powers."
"Erm, sorry man. It kind of comes with the gig," Kyle offered with a half smile.
"No, you don't have to defend yourself Kyle," Artemis piped up. "Kid Flash over there is just rude."
"Hey!" Wally exclaimed before jumping up and zipping over to her. "I'm 16."
"Well Kyle's 20." Artemis replied with a startling amount of vehemence. "And he's an artist."
"Uh... guys?" Megan tried to interject but her two teammates were too busy playing my horse is better than yours.
"I may be a sophomore in high school but I've read the contents of all the Ivy League colleges' libraries."
"Kyle's a Green Lantern, he was chosen because he shows no fear."
"Artemis?" Kyle hesitated slightly. "It was more of an accident of birth kind of thing. I happened to be there when the last Guardian of Oa was dying."
"You're still the Torch Barer right?" Artemis' rhetorical question served to brush past that minor detail. "And Wally, well he's still a sidekick."
"Nuh uh... Flash has always treated me like his partner." Kid Flash defended, as a definite tint of red coloured his cheeks. "Please Artemis, why are you even trying. Lantern's like totally too old for you anyway."
"Who said I was...?" Artemis questioned, blushing once more.
"Well," Rayner laughed nervously. "Megan, you were going to show me that bio-ship of yours?"
"Of course, please follow me." Megan smiled sweetly before ushering the Green Lantern out of the room.
"You are such a douche!" Artemis yelled when Kyle was out of earshot, shoving Wally in the chest for good measure.
"I am? Seriously what was all of that? All the giggling..." Kid Flash spat.
Artemis' eyes suddenly widened in understanding, "Is that it, are you jealous?"
"Jealous? Of him? That's so stupid," came Kid Flash's defensive reply.
Artemis tried her best to contain her laughter but it was soon bubbling up and escaping her as tears streamed down her cheeks.
"You're stupid." Wally added before jumping back onto the sofa and resuming his game with Robin. "Oh shut up..."
"Did I say anything?" the Boy Wonder held his hands up in mock surrender, his eyes twinkling behind the glasses.
A/N: So Kyle Rayner is a Green Lantern and in the comics he and Wally are good friends; despite a rocky patch towards the beginning [Wally having grown up with Hal Jordan as GL didn't take to well to Kyle]. Anyway! Slight tweaking of ages and origins but I hope you guys liked it! And let me know.