CHAPTER 7
Patroling


The team was having last five minutes before the sweet sound of a school bell. It was their last lesson plus it was Friday. Luke was trying so hard not to fall asleep for the whole day. He decided to look around the class to stop thinking about comfy bed. He was surprised to see Artemis staring at Peter with a smile. He lightly punched Sam who was asleep next to him to ask if he missed something yesterday.

"Sam, wake up."

"What do you want?"

"Why is Artemis staring at Peter."

Sam chuckled.

"Artemis staring at Peter, nice joke Luke."

"I'm not joking, look."

Sam opened his eyes and he couldn't believe what he saw.

"The hell, I dibsed on her, Parker."

"Dibsed? Are you kiddin' me?"

"What?!"

"Did you really think that you can just dibs on a girl, like a thing." Luke said frowning at his teammate.

"It's not like that... can she stop looking at him like that."

Luke smirked.

"Looks like webhead's Parker charm kicked in."

"More like nerd charm..."

"RING"

"Ok class, remember about your homework. I will check it! That especially for you Mr. Alexander."

The class laughed and walked out of the classroom.

"So what's today, a French guy jumping like a frog or tomato who can throw a bus at you or guy who has a starfish mask?" Artemis asked walking between Sam and Ava.

"I think-"

"PARKER!"

"Crazy ex with anger issues." Ava finished.

Peter sighed and turn around to face his now ex-girlfriend.

"What do you want Liz?"

"Oh, I can see that you invited missy to your little gang." Liz said frowning.

"I can see your gamma radiation is smaller now. How much makeup do you have right now to cover that green face of yours?" Artemis asked.

"I will get you for this you bitch."

"I'm so scared that I can shit myself right now."

Peter started laughing at Artemis' remark.

"What?! You really think this was funny?!"

"Yeah."

Liz jaw dropped at his answer.

"You're a bigger asshole than I thought you are." With that, Liz walked away.

After that Peter turned to Artemis.

"And to answer your question: She needs to get that off her face with a shovel."

Artemis smirked at him before turning around and walk to her locker to grab her stuff.

New York City

Fury sent the team to patrol the city. Luke was with Danny, Ava with Sam and Peter with Artemis. They were patrolling for an hour now, they had only one more left.

"Soooo," Artemis started to break an awkward silence between them.

"Did you, um, start to plan that prank on Sam?"

"Yeah, it's nearly done. I just need to add a couple of things and Sam will be doomed..."

"... and speaking of begging doomed, do you think that this Red Arrow and your ex-team are going to show up on every mission now. Like last time."

"I don't know. It could be one-time incident because Luthor was there."

"So, every time that bald guy will be our 'target' they'll show up?"

"Probably."

"Are you ok with that?"

"No, but I can handle it." Black Arrow said smiling at Spiderman.

"Happy to hear that."

Thirty minutes flew away like a wind. Black Arrow and Spiderman didn't see any criminal for the whole patrol. It was strange for Spiderman, usually, you can catch the criminal at every street anytime.

"Maybe others catch all of them or we just aren't in the right place." Black Arrow said staring at Spiderman who was messing with his communicator.

"Maybe or all the scums are planning something big. I don't like it... You're shivering."

"Well, it is a little bit cold here."

Spiderman stopped messing with his tech and went to Black Arrow. He made a blanket made of a web.

"Here. It'll warm you for now." He said warping web blanket around Black Arrow who was just two inches away.

"Thanks..."

"Don't mention it..."

Peter could move but he didn't want to. He was standing there staring at her, and he didn't know why. That made Artemis blush but she didn't move too.

"Umm, I've got something on my nose?" She asked.

Peter woke up from his trance and he moved away, not saying a word.

"Ok, that was strange..." Artemis whispered.