Grimmy: ANOTHER UPDATE FOLKS! Seven hundred words of it. Most importantly I'd like to dedicate this chapter to amethystaquamarine34azure for giving me the sweetest review I've ever received. Oh, I'm pretty sure I mentioned this somewhere but I tend to update my profile regularly, in regards to what fics I'll be updating and what I'm currently working on. So yeah, if you ever want to know the status of the next chapter of this I'd advise you to look there.


Ah, vacation.

She certainly deserved one, that was certain. Things hadn't been too nice in the hero world recently and she'd forgotten just how much fun, or rather relaxing, it was to get away from it all. She smiled as she stretched her legs out as far as she could and curled her toes. Sure, it wasn't some sort of beach day and she wasn't exactly tearing it up on some snow slopes but this was just as good. It would probably be better if she wasn't going to end up going broke.

She grinned as she pushed down on the gas pedal as the light turned yellow, projecting her virtual car to take off with a speed boost when the light finally turned green. A few moments later she was passing yet another checkpoint, still in the lead much to the dismay of the small boy who was in the seat next to her. She glanced over at the kid, grinning even harder when she noticed his angry pouting and obvious frustration.

The buzzer sounded, signaling the end of the race and the boy got up angrily, so fast in fact that he almost hit his head on the roof over the game chair. Artemis laughed lightly and stuck her hand in her pocket, counting out how many tokens she had left. A lot more than she thought. Her nose crinkled a little as she shrugged and pulled a small handful out of her pocket just as Megan sat down in the seat next to her.

Of course, the Martian girl was all smiles as she eagerly inserted one of her tokens in the machine and Artemis couldn't help but to smile back as she took on the obvious challenge. Not that she really expected a real challenge. She'd been kicking ass at that game all day and it did help that Megan looked a little confused about how to use the breaks and gas.

So it was more than a little surprising when Megan took an early lead.

"It's really nice of them to let us all come out to the arcade today. I've always wanted to go to one."

Artemis leaned forward, pushing down on the gas pedal as hard as she could, taking risky turns and jumps as she tried to catch up. She poked her tongue out the side of her mouth and her eyebrows furrowed in concentration. Finally, they were side by side. "Yeah, they're a lot of fun. Best thing to do when it's cold out. Not to mention the pizza is just-" she paused to jerk her steering wheel to the left, then right, nearly succeeding in running Megan off the road.

Megan laughed in triumph as she rammed the back left tail of Artemis' car on a particularly sharp in turn, spinning it out of control and eventually off the road. And seconds later she passed the finish line.

"Aww," Artemis said as she slid down in her chair, sulking a bit.

"Is something wrong?" Megan asked shortly after the screen returned to the high scores list. She opened the box in her lap and pulled out a slice of pizza, handing it to Artemis before grabbing her own. Covered in Parmesan cheese. Oh God. Artemis could hug her.

"Nothing now that I have this!" The blonde teenager took a large bite out of it and almost swallowed it whole in joy. She wasn't sure if it was a teenage thing or something but she loved pizza. She glanced back at Megan, taking in her new human appearance. Instead of just changing her skin color from the normal green she'd also given her nose a slight upwards tilt and her eyes seemed a little larger. Artemis was reminded of one of those innocent church girls.

Megan smiled at her, taking a small bite out of her pizza and placed a hand on Artemis' leg. "Woah, it's just the first date here kiddo-"

"Artemis. I don't mean about the game. Is everything... uh, alright?" Megan nervously took a few bites out of her pizza before continuing, mouth slightly full. "With Wally I mean." Another bite of pizza and Artemis shot her an odd look. "You guys just seem all weird now is all."

Artemis shrugged and forced more pizza in her mouth. It didn't taste so good anymore... Well, it did, just not as good. Finally she had to swallow and answer Megan, she had that hopeful look on her face after all. "It's not, it wasn't..." She huffed and glared at her lap, not really sure why she was about to do what she was about to do. She huffed again and leaned over to whisper something in Megan's ear.

"YOU GUYS KI-"

Artemis really loved that pizza and instantly regretted shoving it in Megan's mouth.

Grimmy: So, there will be more on Arty and Megan bonding in a future chapter and of course they will be discussing this. Not much happened here but this was a set up for the reeeeal convo, oh yes.

Also, I want to make this clear because I'd hate for anyone to ever get the wrong impression. I WOULD NEVER ABANDON A FIC BECAUSE OF REVIEWS! If anything it would be because I got bored with the fandom and I'd decided to move on. And seeing as how the road of YJ completion is far away I don't think I'll be getting sick of this anytime soon. So yeah, no more thinking that I'm going to abandon this if you don't review. I love to write but the whole point of me posting here is for the feedback. Hence my love for concrits~

You guys know I love you all dearly and without the support I really wouldn't have a reason to come on here other than to read.