Dolls
Requested by mrdbznarutofan
Bad ideas always seemed popular to Wally. This one was, definitely a terrible idea, but what the heck! Though the outcome was not what Wally or Artemis or Zantanna were suspecting.
Friday, a week before spring break for Wally, and just in time for finals. A classmate had bragged on how he hypnotized his sibling into doing all of his chores, which Wally thought was a great idea for a prank. A prank, that led him to Zantanna's room at about five pm, on a Saturday, begging her to help him hypnotize Artemis for the ultimate prank.
"And why would I help you?" Her voice sinister, as she looked down at her nails. "Last time I checked you didn't believe in magic, besides she is my best friend." He was about to sputter out a response but she beat him to the punch. "Fine, I'll help you. Only because I am feeling nice today." Inwardly smirking as she came up with a devious plan. A plan that would set the speedster and archer up on a somewhat date, or at least she would try.
"So can you get her to, I don't know? Um."
"You have no idea what you want to hypnotize her to do?" Seriously? And she was supposed to help him?
"Maybe make her do something she will regret?"
"Easy, especially I am already regretting helping you."
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"I'm so bored! Sometimes this place has nothing to do." Artemis was lying upside down on the large green couch, in the Mt. Justice entertainment center.
"I have an idea." And thus, Zantanna's plan would push into motion. Sitting right side up Artemis gave an inquiring look.
"What?"
"All you have to do is lie down on the couch and close your eyes." A cheshire grin threatened to perch itself on Zantanna's face.
"Um, okay?" Artemis got into position and Zantanna started to chant her spell.
"ekop a htiw,yllaW yb dellortnoc eb lliw ehs sekaw ehs nehw dna,simetrA ezitonpyH." With the curse placed Artemis drifted into unconsciousness. "retsac lleps eht I htiw yllaW ecalpeR."
"Did you do it yet?" The one and only Kid Flash entered the room, his mouth stuffed with rocky road ice-cream, whip cream, and a disgusting amount of caramel chocolate sauce. Gulping down the mess in his mouth he looked at the couch with Artemis lying in a deep sleep.
"What do you think?"
"So do I need to pay you or…?" His words trailed off not knowing how to finish his sentence (more like the author didn't feel like finishing it).
"No, nothing at all, just watching this play out will be payment enough." Her smirk looked threatening, especially with the glint of mischief in her eye.
"Um, okay?"
Artemis woke up with a jolt. She was dazed and her memory was blurry. Walking over to the calendar on the wall that Megan insisted they have she saw that she had slept through three days, three days! Luckily Gotham Academy was on spring break or her head would be on a silver platter.
"What the hell happened?" She could remember tiny snippets like that time in Bialya, but nothing more. When Artemis was in her rush to the calendar she didn't notice two bodies on the floor near the quite uncomfortable green couch. She did discover them though, when she almost tripped over one. "Jesus christ!" The red head stirred in his sleep practically undisturbed by the kick. The other body belonging to a raven haired magician woke up entirely, her crystal blue eyes round at the sight of Artemis.
"Wally, hey Wally, wake up! Wally wake up! WALLY WAKE UP!" Zantanna yelled in Wally's ear. Making him fully jumping awake.
"I'm up! I'm up okay?" Rubbing his green eyes to fully awake, he still had no idea that Artemis was awake. "What do you want Zantanna I was having the best dream." All Zantanna could do was point at Artemis who was watching them both from the comfortable couch (not the uncomfortable one, there are two). "Oh. So Arty, mornin', when'd you get up?" She ignored him and looked towards Zantanna.
"Could someone fill me in? I know I haven't been asleep for three days straight, what happened?" The speedster and magician looked at each other and then back towards Artemis, Wally rubbed the back of his neck nervously, while Zantanna just smiled.
"Told you she wouldn't remember, especially since I released the spell. No need to worry flashy." He gave her a glare that could rival ones that Artemis had given him. "You aren't going to find out what happened Artemis, it's safer that way. For all three of us."
"That is so unfair!"
"Not if you know what happened."
"Which you don't."
"I need to know! I can't keep wracking my brain to see memories that are barely there! If I know the whole truth then I can piece together everything."
"Or we could keep you in the dark forever, and you forget everything that happened. I have to get to school, but you and Zee can work out a deal, if she's up to it. Bye Zee, later Arty." He zoomed off quickly, and Zeta'd to Central City right on time for school.
"He seems to be taking this a lot better than I thought he might. He formed a full sentence without messing up, while addressing you. Great progress really." Her gaze was anywhere but Artemis' face which was probably on glare mode.
"So you aren't going to help me."
"Of course not, Wally and I agreed that we wouldn't tell you for your and our embarrassment sake." Artemis learned to use all of her resources, her sight, hearing, previous knowledge, and none of that was working for her, her memory was jacked up, all she could gather from her sight was a tired Zantanna, and Zantanna's voice didn't waver with anything, nor did it imply anything besides if they all knew, they would all be embarrassed.
"Fine I give up."
It took a week before Artemis finally broke down and asked Robin to show her the security tapes from those three days.
"There's nothing there Artemis, those three days last week have been completely erased, wish I could help recover them but that would take days."
"Don't you guys keep backups or copies or something?" Robin slapped his head in a duh motion.
"Hello Robin!" Artemis and Robin both cringed after he said those words. "I really need to stop hanging around Miss Martian. Besides that I can get you the full tapes from around the cave by the end of the week, at the latest."
"Great, just great. Thanks by the way."
"No problem." Artemis walked out of Robin's room and headed towards the individual training area. The team hadn't been on a mission for a while and GA hadn't come to take out on a mission for a week, so she needed to train, she needed to get even better, she needed to release all of her anger and stress out. Her only outlet for that was shooting arrows. The bulls eye was abused and ripped apart from her expertly shot arrows. Imagining Wally's head and shooting between his vibrant green eyes had always been a great way to get her evil desires out too. Until the real one was standing in front of her of course.
"Hey! Watch it Blondie, I'm running here!" He was holding her arrow that had been launched right at his face. "Be careful where you shoot, take your arrow, we really only need one on the souvenir shelf."
She finally had them, she finally had the tapes that would tell her everything.
"Did you do it yet?" She saw Wally skid into the room where Zantanna had placed the spell on Artemis.
"What do you think?" Zantanna gestured towards Artemis lying on the couch.
"So do I need to pay you or…?"
"No, nothing at all, just watching this play out will be payment enough." The mischievous glint in her eye was evident even through a camera lens. "Do you want to try it out, I promise she will do anything you say."
"Sure, I guess, okay, um, Artemis get up." She got up, "Artemis walk over to Zantanna." She walked over to Zantanna. What is Zantanna doing? The video screen showed her that Zantanna was whispering commands underneath her breath, just so Wally wouldn't notice.
"You didn't think this through did you?" Zantanna's snarky comment made Wally blush. Why? How the heck am I supposed to know what goes through Kid Dork's head?
"I thought I would figure it out." He bowed his head and his blush grew almost as red as his hair.
"No, you have an idea don't you? I knew it! I knew it!"
"Knew what? That ArtemisisthemostamazingpersonintheworldandIwanttokissher? How could you possibly know that?" Wait, hold up, rewind, slowdown!
"Knew what? That Artemis is the most amazing person in the world and I want to kiss her? How could you possibly know that?"
"Well, you can make her kiss you, or you can kiss her and make her kiss back."
"No, I wouldn't do that, that, that sounds like taking control of her on a different level, that's, that's just wrong."
"Fine suit yourself." Soon after that Wally zoomed to the kitchen and didn't return to the common room until he had rocky road ice cream. He placed Artemis on the couch so she looked like she was sleeping and zoomed to the Zeta Tubes. Zantanna left to her room with a devious grin. End of day 1.
"If Wally isn't going to do it I guess I'll have to do it. Not like this wasn't my plan all along of course." She looked down at Artemis. "And thankfully you can't hear me, or find out. I'm only doing this to help you two." She lifted her arms up as if conducting an orchestra. "mih ssik neht, tnemugra na evah dna yllaW dnif simetrA." The hypnotized Artemis didn't have to walk far to find her target, since he was going into the room to see if Zantanna had released Artemis' mind.
"Hey Zantanna, did you release her from the spell or can I still control her?" He couldn't see Artemis, she must've left the room.
"I ended the spell don't worry."
"Baywatch." And in comes still hypnotized Artemis.
"Arty."
"Don't call me 'Arty'."
"What too casual for you? Oh my! I'm so sorry, you are a goddess after all!" His voice dripped of sarcasm.
"Your sarcasm needs a little work, maybe you should, I don't know ask someone for pointers, your responses aren't quite quick enough. Ironic considering you are the 'fastest boy alive'."
"Snippy."
"Says the person that snips corners when they run."
"Well at least I didn't-" he was cut off by Artemis' lips crashing onto his. The kiss sent shivers down Wally's spine, he gave into the kiss making it even more rough. She broke the kiss , and as he was about to go back in she slumped to ground.
"Now that was perfect, I wish you would've done that yesterday, but I had to take actions into my own hands. dnammoc ym rednu won si yllaW. tsum eh rebmemer ton yam ehs hguohT." Zantanna giggled, thinking of everything she could make them do. She spent the rest of the day doing just that, pulling pranks, making them kiss, stuff like that. End of day two.
On the last day Zantanna got tired of playing with them. She made them sleep through the day, while she did whatever a teenage magician does on a regular day. Thus, we are back to the beginning of our adventure.
"That little." Artemis got up from where she was to track down the raven haired girl. When she did, oh was she going to get it.
"Hey Arte-" Zantanna said cheerfully as if the events she caused never happened.
"WHAT THE HELL! YOU CAN'T JUST PLAY WITH PEOPLE LIKE THEY ARE DOLLS!"
"I wanted to have some fun."
"Your definition of having fun is twisted. Making Wally and me make out over and over again, while playing pranks on other people. And by the by we had no control over our bodies, Wally was right that is wrong."
"Well at least now you two can be together."
"Fat chance." Both girls head's turned at what Wally said, as he opened the fridge to find something to eat. "Like I would want to date her."
"You said you wanted to kiss her though?"
"So? I did doesn't mean I want to be her boyfriend." He grabbed a large spoon and a gallon of his favorite ice cream and walked out.
"Great conversation, as if I wasn't even here."
A/N: Hi! Just an apology, I'm very good at writing arguments and kissing scenes. Luckily I got this out on time though. Thank you to mrdbznarutofan for suggesting this and coping with my terrible writing. Hopefully all of you know how to contact me if you have a request, or a comment, or just plain old good advice, or criticism I'm not judgy.