"Artemis? Artemis are you in there?" asked Paula Crock from the hallway outside Artemis's room. She and Zatanna immediately pulled apart and quickly tried to rearrange their clothes and hair.
"Yeah mom! Zatanna's here, we're… studying!"
"Okay. Let me know if you need anything!"
"Okay!"
After she had wheeled away, both of them started laughing.
"Don't you think we should at least tell your mom?" asked Zatanna.
"I thought we agreed we weren't ready to tell people yet."
"Well, yeah, but she's your mom. If Wally of all people knows, don't you think she deserves to?"
"I don't know…"
"Listen, if I still had parents that I could tell this to, I would."
Artemis looked at her with sympathy. "Damn you."
Zatanna smiled and placed a quick kiss on her lips before shooing her out of the room to go talk to Paula.
Artemis cleared her throat and her mother looked over at her.
"Um, hi mom."
Paula smiled. "Artemis, is something wrong?"
Artemis took a step back and began to turn around to go back to her room, but Zatanna ushered her back towards her mom.
"Okay, mom, look I have something to tell you and it's very important and I'm honestly not sure how you're going to react so I'm just going to come right out and say it." She said it all very quickly and Paula stared at her expectantly with kind eyes. "I'm gay."
Paula smiled. "I know, Artemis."
"What."
"I've known since you were a little girl."
"Even I haven't known that long…" she muttered to herself.
"Plus, I could hear you and your friend kissing in your room." She said grinning, returning to reading her book as Artemis gulped.
"Okay well now that that's over I'm gonna go die." She said, turning around to see Zatanna snickering.
"Oh, Artemis come here." Said Paula. She reluctantly did so and she knelt down by her mother.
"I don't care if you're gay or straight, all I care about is that you're happy. And if Zatanna makes you happy, then you have my support."
Artemis smiled as her eyes started to water. "Thanks mom." She hugged Paula before finally returning to Zatanna.
"Thank you for making me do that. I don't know why I was so nervous in the first place."
"You're welcome." Artemis then leaned over and kissed Zatanna softly, breaking it with a smile.
"This is gonna sound incredibly girly, but I never thought I could be this happy."
"Hey, I like girls." Defended Zatanna, making Artemis chuckle.
Their moment was interrupted by Zatanna's phone ringing.
"Oh, it's Robin."
Artemis looked at her skeptically. "Don't worry, he knows there's nothing between us. It's probably a mission."
She answered the phone and on the other line Robin said "Zatanna, I don't have a lot of time to explain, but the case we dropped about Killer Croc and Intergang, it's not over and it's in full swing. I'm in the sewer system right now, and I need back-up."
"Artemis and I will be there in a second." She hung up.
"What the hell was that?"
"We're about to get really dirty and really stinky."
"Oh, goody."
"tropsnarT sU oT s'niboR noitacoL!" she shouted. In the next second, the two of them were standing in the Gotham City sewers standing next to Robin.
"Oh, holy shit, that was fast. Get in your stealth tech." Zatanna cast a spell putting them in their suits as quietly as she could.
"Okay, what's going on?" asked Artemis.
"Basically if you see anyone that's not us kick the crap out of them but don't touch any of the cargo." He explained.
"Noted." She said.
"Alright, let's move out."
"Well this should be fun." Muttered Artemis as she loaded an arrow, jumping out and firing it.