A/N: Thanks for the reviews everyone! Seriously, you all are great. You're reviews really do help me thrive to continue writing.
Another important heads up, I think this story will be longer than three chapters. Possibly five chapters? I wanted to add more onto this one but I didn't have enough time and I just wanted to upload it as it is. But still, this fic won't be very long.
Warning: This chapter is rated at the brink of M for Mature, but I think it's okay for 16 and up or PG-13 or whatever. But still, just a warning!
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All I Want And More
II
Artemis sat outside in the dark of early morning, though, it still felt as like it was night time. But since it was actually two hours past midnight, it was technically morning. The rest of the team had gone to their tents about an hour ago, but Artemis wasn't tired. She instead sat and stared at the fire that slowly died; it was, for the most part, hot glowing coals – but the warmth was still there.
The archer tried to listen to any night bird calls but she heard none, in fact, she hadn't heard any night sounds at all. There wasn't even any popping or sizzling coming from the fire; she couldn't even smell the smoke! It was as if all of her senses were dead except for her eyes. But this soon proved to be wrong as her ears finally began working as she heard a sound behind her. When she whipped her head around she saw Wally; immediately, her heart began to flutter and yearn for him to come closer to her.
The speedster wore his simple pajamas of just grey sweat pants and a navy blue t-shirt. He yawned as he came outside and rubbed the back of his neck. He then seemed to spot the blonde sitting alone by the fire and he grinned at her as though she was the best thing he'd seen all week.
"Can't sleep?" he asked.
"I haven't even tried honestly," Artemis responded. "I take it you can't though?"
"Not too well," he answered as he came over and sat right next to her on the large tree trunk.
When the team had claimed this spot as their secret camp site, Superboy had set out to find some fallen tree trunks and, with ease, set them down around their hand-made fire pit of rocks. The tree trunks served as benches for the team to sit on.
The tree trunk was not what was on Artemis' mind, however. Instead she was focused on how the side of Wally's thigh was touching hers as they sat next to each other. He caught her eyes looking at him before she even realized she was staring at him, herself.
"What?" he laughed the word out.
"Wally…I-" she started to say but she stopped as his lips connected with her own. Yes.
Artemis cupped the sides of his face in yearning for more of the kiss – like she never wanted it to end. He pulled her closer to him by her back ever so gently yet with enough force. Artemis then knew that her sense of smell was not dead either; Wally's scent – his ever so incredible scent- went into her nostrils. She never thought anyone could smell so good. Their tongues were once again in an uneven waltz with each other. Both his scent and taste combined made her feel as though she were in paradise.
She was pressed against Wally's muscular chest as he pulled her in closer with his muscular arms, in which she willingly went along. The archer then, hardly even thinking, started lifting his shirt off of his arms. He went along with it, stripping his shirt with ease and throwing it on the ground.
Artemis ran her hands along his chest with force, feeling his smooth, tan, muscular chest. She let out a small groan at just the image of his chest. He broke from their kiss when she began to remove her shirt as well; when her only top left was her bra, Wally began planting soft kisses starting from her collar bone and up her neck. It felt so good that she smiled in satisfaction.
Artemis then attacked his mouth again and straddled onto his lap. She began pulling down his sweatpants, feeling the soft boxers underneath. When he kicked them off, obliging to her silent command, she began to feel all around on his hips and ass with her tan hands, which were only partially callused from many years of using her arrows. As she straddled onto him harder, she could feel the bulge in his crotch and that only made her attack his mouth more. Wally groaned quietly in response; the sound was beautiful to her, she wanted to hear it more.
After she, herself, had taken off her own pajama pants, she then began the process of removing his boxers. Almost there…Artemis looked into Wally's face and she grinned at him and he grinned at her in response.
"Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey!" Wally then said with a wide grin.
Artemis' eyes grew wide, completely caught off guard. "Wh-what?" That voice didn't belong to Wally, it definitely belonged to…Dick?
"Time to wake up!" a female voice then came out of his mouth that sounded a lot like Zatanna.
Artemis' opened her eyes suddenly to see a face. But it wasn't Wally's, it was Raquel's.
"It's okay! She's alive!" Raquel called to the two that were at the entrance of the tent; when they left she said, "Dang girl, you've been sleeping all day!" she commented as Artemis sat up and rubbed her face with both hands.
"I-I have?" she asked.
"Well…actually, it's only eleven o'clock," Raquel said. "But still, everyone else is awake." Artemis did not respond as she pulled her cami strap back onto her shoulder that had slipped down in her sleep. "Wally tried to come in and wake you up but you were completely out."
This made her tired eyes grow wider as she looked at her newest team mate. She caught the expression on Artemis' face that showed…concern? Embarrassment? Both?
"You okay?" Raquel asked in concern.
"Y-yeah, I'm fine," Artemis said as she rubbed her face again. "Jus' still groggy is all."
Raquel grinned then and grabbed her hand, pulling her up. "Well get un-groggy because we have breakfast to eat, trails to hike, kayaks to row!"
Upon Artemis' arrival outside, everyone began getting their food from their self-made buffet table. Really, it was just two rickety picnic tables placed side-by-side; it was filled with scrambled eggs, omelets, mountains of bacon, bananas, granola bars, milk, orange juice, water, coffee, and biscuits. She wondered how they had managed to make all of this within a mere four hours when they only had one fire pit. And it wasn't anything special either, it's not like it was a superhero-powered fire pit or anything. She didn't ponder on it anymore though, she figured they did something not-normal to get this together so fast; her friends could be really weird at times.
Artemis yawned as she got in the buffet line. She hadn't even realized who she'd stepped beside until he started speaking to her. "Tired?"
The blonde archer looked at Wally; he wore the same thing he had on when he went to bed: a navy blue shirt with grey sweatpants. His paper plate had a mountain of food that looked as though it could feed a whole village.
Wally raised an eyebrow at her. "Is it Ignore Wally Day or something?"
"Huh?" she asked dumbly.
"I just asked if you were tired," he said, laughing as the spoke. "Obviously you are. You were seriously out of it when I went in to wake you. But you did grab my shirt when I nudged your shoulder."
Her eyes widened at this as she just about dropped her breakfast on the ground. "What?"
"Yeah," he laughed at it as though it were no big deal. "I figured you were having a fighting dream or something because you were pulling on it really hard." He then continued walking down the line. He didn't have a clue; not the slightest.
Artemis realized that her mouth had been open slightly and she closed it. They then continued past the food and started pouring their drinks.
As Wally poured his orange juice, Artemis poured milk. She then thought back to her dream and she bit her lip as she leaned back casually and brought her eyes down to his butt. It still looked so nice in just mere baggy sweat pants. Damn.
"Stop it Artemis!" she thought to herself strictly. That wasn't her goal – to compliment him on his best physical features, which was basically everything. "Stop it!" she ordered herself mentally.
"Uh, what are you doing?" Wally asked, snapping her out of her mission.
Crap. She must've not been as sneaky as she thought.
Artemis straightened up quickly and noticed that she had poured over her plastic cup a little; a small puddle of milk lay on the table cloth. "Uh," she tried to answer casually, but it turned out lame, "Noth-nothin'." Smooth.
"Were-were you just-?" Wally asked as he cocked his eyebrow at her again. "Were you just checking out my ass?"
"Uh, n-"
"My perfectly toned ass of iron?" he asked jokingly with a manly tone.
Artemis couldn't help it, a smile and laugh escaped her mouth at this. "No, I wasn't."
"Whatever you say," he said under his breath as he raised his eyebrows.
"But…just out of curiosity…" Artemis said and Wally turned to her as he was about ready to walk over to the camp fire to join the others. "What kind of underwear do you wear? And it's a survey I have to do to a summer health project so don't get all cocky on me," she warned even though it was a lie. Of course she didn't have a summer health survey.
"Normally, boxers to bed, briefs when I'm out," he answered casually as though the question weren't awkward at all. He then turned and walked away, sipping his orange juice as he walked.
Artemis' head slumped and she groaned. Perfect. Had she seen a glimpse of his boxers before she went to bed and that's why he was wearing them in her dream?
Whatever the matter, she needed to forget about the dream entirely. It never happened.
The archer straightened up and brought back her shoulders confidently as she walked over to the camp fire to join her team mates. No more checking out Wally and no more dreaming about Wally.
When she got to the fire pit, there were multiple spots for her to sit. Some of them sat on the ground while others sat on the tree trunks. Artemis spotted a spot next to Wally and strode over. Upon sitting down he brushed his muscular shoulder against her as he laughed about something Dick said.
Nothing's wrong with sitting with him though, right?
When everyone was distracted by a story that Zatanna was telling, Wally turned his head and looked at her and said in a voice so no one could hear, "When are we going to talk about what happened yesterday?"
"Soon," Artemis answered. She needed to set their relationship straight. They were team mates, and friends. Nothing more, nothing less. If there ever was anything more, they would most likely kill each other during their first week of dating.
Everyone started laughing at the end of Zatanna's story, indicating it must have had a funny plot line. Robin then said through his laughter, "Speaking of falling on top of someone, did I ever tell you about the time that Wally fell into that waitress' breasts at Friendly's?"
At this, the whole team erupted into laughter, except Artemis. The speedster grinned into the back of his hand and Artemis could hear his laughter.
"Here he was, trying to flirt with this…what was her size?" Dick asked Wally, stopping mid-sentence.
"Double D," Wally answered.
"Here he was, trying to flirt with this double d-ed waitress the whole entire dinner. When we're about to leave the restaurant, the waitress drops her pen and Wally says, 'I got it,'" Dick then does an impersonation of Wally's voice. "And as he starts walking over, he trips and his face goes straight into the woman's cleavage!"
Everyone burst into laughter again, clearly able to imagine this happening to their speedster. Wally was laughing at himself as well when he then said, "At least it cushioned my fall. Wouldn't want to hurt this pretty face." This made everyone laugh more and Artemis couldn't help it, she laughed too.
When all of their breakfast foods were thrown away, and their trash was slowly burning to ashes in the fire pit, the team changed into proper hiking clothes and packed their bags with bathing suits and towels, they set off on a hike. Since no one ever came into these parts of the woods, they didn't really have to worry about running into any one. The Young Justice team was not a bunch of loners, they just liked spending their quality time together; they were like a family.
"These trees are so tall," M'gaan commented as she looked up at them.
"They remind me of the trees from Twilight," Zatanna said. At this, Dick and Wally busted up laughing and Zatanna raised her arms in confusion. "What?"
"I could not take that movie seriously I'm sorry," Wally said and Zatanna scowled at him.
"Well Edward Cullen is quick, just like you," she said as she crossed her arms defensively.
Dick snorted in laughter at this. "Oh my gosh, he is! You would be perfect for that part KF!"
"Fine. You can be Kristin Stewart then," Wally retorted back. Dick was about to protest this when Wally said in a manly voice, "Dicka, you wish to ride on my back through the woods for no apparent reason at all?"
This made the others snort in laughter. Dick joined in with a high, feminine voice, "Why Wallward! I would looove to!"
"Hop on my back baby," Dick did so with acrobat ease and Wally said in his manly voice, "Let's ride."
The others were still laughing at this when Zatanna said, through her own laughter, "Okay, they do not sound like that first of all!" she held up a finger to prove her point as Dick dropped off of Wally's back and onto his feet again.
Artemis did not hear the second reason though as she stood with glazed eyes at the speedster. His eyes were glittering gorgeously in the sun; the rays also complimented his tanned skin and muscles when he held Dick on his back. His legs in his tan knee-length khaki shorts looked muscular as well; they were the best legs on a guy she had ever seen. His laughter rang out in her ears. Artemis then watched as he lifted his shirt slightly to wipe small beads of sweat from his face, showing off his attractive abs.
"Artemis?" the sound of Kaldur's voice beside her made her jump out of her thoughts entirely.
"Wha?" she mumbled lamely for what felt like the hundreth time that morning.
"Are you okay? You sort of fazed out," Zatanna asked.
"She fazed out looking at Wally too," Raquel then said, jamming her thumb at the speedster - he stared at her with curiosity - "your Edward impersonation must have been really believable."
This comment seemed to distract everyone from her random mental absence. Everyone started having their own conversations again as they started to continue their hike. Wally made eye contact with her once more though before Raquel dragged Artemis to walk with her.
Artemis caught herself staring at Wally again but she snapped herself out of it. "Stop it Artemis!" She sighed in frustration.
This was going to be a long day.
