Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice. If I did, there wouldn't be any damn reruns when new episodes should be coming out :0
Artemis watched Kid Flash pace around the small cell room with annoyance, sitting on the floor with her back to a wall. He barely glanced at her, instead looking around the room and muttering to himself.
She sighed heavily, her discontent slowly turning into resignation. "That vibrating molecule move would have really come in handy huh?" she said teasingly.
He gave her a half-hearted glare, his green eyes mirroring the submission in hers. "Even if I had food, which I don't, I still wouldn't be able to."
Wally groaned, slamming his fists against the wall. She watched him; he was easy to read since you could see all his emotions in his face. He was worried about how long they'd be there, about the rest of the team – probably about Megan. She felt an ache in her chest at the thought of it but brushed it aside, choosing to continue to study him. Behind the obvious worry was contemplation; he was trying to think of a way to escape but was failing, as seen by his frustration.
He pressed his head lightly against the cool stone of the wall, eyes shut. She shifted slightly so as to get a better angle when he opened his eyes and stared back at her.
They peered at one another for a while, searching. Artemis saw that behind the deceptively bright, cheerful green eyes were a great deal of grief and shame. She gave him a questioning glance, to which he responded with a gesture towards the wall.
"You know you're right," he said dejectedly, "if I was Flash we'd be out of here in a cinch."
She felt another pain in her chest, but this one was different. She had never seen him so depressed and it bothered her.
"Yeah well if I was Superboy I could have knocked this wall down," Artemis said, waving her hand offhandedly. He gave a look that said 'you know that's not what I mean' but she disregarded it, continuing.
"That doesn't matter since it doesn't change anything. You win some, you lose some. Now sit down and wait for the team to get us."
Wally looked at her strangely before sitting down next to her, grinning. "I never thought I'd get a pep talk from you."
She blushed lightly, embarrassed. "Don't get used to it."
They sat in silence for a while, shoulders brushing slightly. She felt her eyes drooping and fought to stay awake.
His shoulder suddenly dropped and she glanced at him. Wally was leaning down, his shoulder slouched in her direction. Even when he was pointedly avoiding her gaze she could see the blush on his cheeks. Artemis smiled to herself and rested her head gingerly on his shoulder, wondering when she got so soft.
"So why did you decide to replicate Flash's experiment?" she asked.
Kid Flash looked back her frowning, his face still somewhat red. "Why do you want to know?"
"Just curious," she answered.
He frowned at her for a second longer before staring ahead, reminiscing. "It wasn't really a decision so much as it was an accident. I met Flash and we went down to his lab where he showed me how he got his powers. Then by sheer luck I was struck by lightning and bam, I was Kid Flash."
"So it was because of luck huh?"
He huffed indignantly. "No. It was luck that I happened to be there just when the vat of chemicals was set up and lightening struck. But the science of the experiment was what gave me my powers, not supernatural forces."
At this point he was steaming mad, his chest heaving. Artemis bit her tongue to hold back a giggle.
"You really are a nerd huh?" she said with a smile, snuggling into his shoulder.
A/N: It's doesn't really look like a cliffhanger, but it is. Thank you for all the reviews and once again por favor tell me what you liked, what you didn't like. Sorry updates are so infrequent but without new episodes the well of inspiration is drying up. And I feel like I'm forgetting their characterizations. Time to re-watch!