I liiiiive!
haha, after what, 8 months, I finally update this fic? Aaaahh I'm so sorry I took so long, I got into other fics and started doing this that and the other, and then all of a sudden, time had passed and yeaah I won't keep giving my silly excuses!
But anyway, this turned into a nearly 1,500 word chapter, and I hope everyone enjoys it! I'll try my utmost best to keep this updated, but for now, enjoy this chapter!
==A couple of hours later
Conner casually walked around the city, hands in his pockets, once again heading back to the street where he had seen Megan earlier, and where they had settled on meeting for their date. As he approached his destination, and Megan's waiting form grew closer, as did his anxiety.
She was standing with her back to him, and Conner almost wished he could just turn around and walk away... wait, why was he all of a sudden so nervous? He was the Boy of Steel, he could do this! Conner let out a deep breath, a breath he didn't even realize he was holding in, and cleared his throat.
Megan turned around at hearing him, and smiled. She was wearing a very simple dress, decorated with flowers, and a matching green hairband keeping her hair in place. This was clearly the work of her cheerleading friends, because M'gann couldn't have gone to the apartment since this whole fiasco started, and he had to admit that they had done a good job, she looked prettier than ever.
"Hey," he greeted, giving her a timid smile, hands fiddling in his pockets. Seeing her so nicely dressed made him wish he had changed before coming here. Unlike Megan, he was still wearing what he wore in school, since the apartment was off limits for the evening. Last he heard, Wally was trying to woo Artemis while working on a project of some sort. That would certainly not end well.
"Hi! So what are we doing today?" Megan smiled, letting go of the hem of her dress that she had been fiddling with before he had arrived, shifting her weight from one foot to the other.
Conner relaxed, maybe this wasn't going to be a total disaster! "I have a couple of ideas, want to get going?" He held out his right hand to her, and after a beat, she took it, and they walked off into the city, slowly swinging their hands in silence.
==Outside the Library
"Any ideas come to mind?" Kaldur sighed, sitting on the steps leading to the library entrance, arms resting on his knees while Dick paced around behind him, typing away furiously on his wrist computer.
"I've got nothing, why didn't we see this com-wait, we have to warn Supey!" The young hacker's eyes widened, turning around to face Kaldur's back, realizing that Megan would be in danger and quite possibly left in the same state as Artemis if Conner kissed her.
Kaldur nodded, realizing the severity of the issue, and stood up. Before leaving, he looked back towards Dick and said, "I will try to contact him, and possibly find him, you stay on the line with Wally, I feel he needs the company. I will bring Conner back and we can regroup in the apartment." With a last glance, he sprinted away towards the city, off to locate the couple that was traipsing around the city, unaware.
The speedster had kept quiet until now, listening to the two talk, but now Wally's voice came through the headpiece, none too quiet, and Dick hadn't been prepared for it, startling the usually calm hacker. "That's all great and nice but Dick, what do I do with Artemis?"
"Just stay with her. Put her on the couch, and make sure her condition doesn't worsen. I'll be there in a bit." Dick settled on the steps, those that Kaldur had just vacated, and started to formulate a plan.
==The Apartment
Wally turned off the earpiece, and removed it from his ear, setting it down on the table. He looked over to the couch, where Artemis lay, keeping completely still, face up. Of course she was breathing, her chest barely moved, but he could feel the hairs on his face tickle when he put his face near her nose to check. But the lack of any other motion from her worried Wally to no end, but he decided to keep his head level, or at least, as level as he could, and went into his room to grab a blanket, hopefully a nice and thick one. Once he found it, he walked back to the couch, and extended it, shaking out any dust, before laying it over her and then adjusting it so that it covered her completely, cocooning her. Artemis didn't respond, not that he had much hope it would do anything, but he wanted his girlfriend to be comfortable at the very least.
Wally sat down on the table beside the couch, and waited, and he hoped Megan and Conner were doing better.
==Happy Harbor Park
Megan giggled, watching the ducks on the lake eat the crumbs of bread while she stood on the edge, looking at the small animals curiously. Conner meanwhile, was sitting on a bench a further way back, wondering how he would get Megan to kiss him.
Just then, Megan turned back to face him, and enthusiastically waved at him. Conner waved back, albeit more timidly. She then walked back towards the bench he was occupying, and sat beside him, hands on her lap.
He looked over at her while she looked around the park, and the moment he saw her eyes heading in his direction, he quickly looked away. However, his attempts at subtlety were wasted on Megan, who saw that he had been looking at her, and smiled, scooting her body closer to his. That got Conner to look at her again, and their gazes crossed, and they quickly looked away, blushing, and in Conner's case, also rubbing the back of his head.
Conner took a deep breath, he had to figure out some way to get them to kiss. In his pocket, his comm link gave a silent bleep, notifying that someone was attempting to communicate with him, but Conner took no note of it, or of the other three previous attempts. His thoughts were on Megan, and how their heads were inching together, eyes closing…
==Outside the Park
Kaldur sighed, having had no luck in contacting Conner. On the bright side, each comm link came equipped with a GPS tracking device, and Kaldur was currently using that to find him. He had been led to the local park, and sprinted over to where the dot was placed on the device, braking to a stop a few feet away, having seen his target.
Conner and Megan were locked into a deep embrace, kissing. Kaldur was frozen, what was he supposed to do? Time seemed to slow down as he decided to approach them, and then chaos started. Megan started to convulse, much in the same manner that Wally had described that had happened to Artemis. Conner stiffened, sitting back, still holding her, not sure what to do.
Kaldur looked around the park and saw that there were only a few people around them, but they weren't paying attention, thankfully engrossed in a flock of swans that had just landed on the water, so the couple wasn't drawing any attention. He ran closer to Conner, who was still not sure what was happening, and then, Megan went still. "Megan? Megan? M'gann!" Conner frantically screamed, grabbing her by the shoulders and shaking her, not too forcefully, but still making her head loll back and forth, but he still did not get any response from the Martian.
Kaldur gently put his hand on Conner's shoulder, getting the other boy to jump up, having clearly been distracted and not noticed the Atlantean approach. "She is fine, my friend, but it seems we have a small problem on our hands." Kaldur then proceeded to explain to Conner what had happened.
==At the apartment
Dick opened the door to their rooms, and saw a sight that made him sigh in worry. Wally West, his best friend, always the ball of energy and enthusiasm, was sitting on the coffee table, his head drooping. "She'll be fine." It sounded cliché and empty, but he wanted to offer that comforting line to try and cheer him up.
Wally however, didn't buy that. His response was barely audible, but Dick's trained ears heard him clearly. "You don't know that."
Dick sighed once more and walked up to his friend, laying a hand on his shoulder, and smiling when the older boy looked up at him. "We will. I've got a plan that will expose Mr. Ford, and then we can see if we can reroute the machine's wires to undo the mess."
Wally offered a small smile in return, and a few minutes later, Kaldur came in, followed by Conner carrying an unconscious Megan in his arms. He settled the Martian on the other couch, and she too was covered with a blanket.
Once the boys were done and had settled in, Dick explained his plan, one that would end this madness once and for all.
Oooooh I'm notorious for leaving things at inconvenient places huh? But no matter, this fic has some two or so chapters left to it!
At least you guys know that Artemis and Megan are fiiiine, or are they? Hmmm...
I'm still not entirely sure if I want to continue this fic, since I have so many other fics to write! So many ideas, sooo little time huh?
I guess what I'll do is wait and see in the end whether people are interested in a sequel [with a shorter title too XD] and take it from there!
For now, I'd love to see a review, and I'm going to update Broken Puppet next! Because that poor fic hasn't been touched in 9 months.
Hezpeller
