Moon-chan: Hey everyone, I know that this was longer in the wait than I had originally planned, but here it is. I hope to have the next one and the new chapter of A.G. into the Future up by the end of next week. Any who I don't own the song "Mine" it belongs to Taylor Swift. Young Justice belongs to DC comics. Here it is…
Mine
Artemis was the new girl in town, something that had happened a lot since she was a child. This time though she planned to stay longer than six months. She planned to put down roots in this little California town. Rolling her shoulders as she moved her things into the small apartment that she had bought, she thought about the fact that she hadn't seen anyone that had said a friendly thing to her all day. The blonde looked around the one room apartment with some fear; she had never really been on her own before. Sure she had lived almost on her own since she was nine when her sister ran away and when her mother died, but she had always had her father…though come to think of it that wasn't much, he wasn't a good father in any term of the word. Lawrence Crock was a criminal and had forced his little girl to learn everything about the "family" trade from a very young age. That was why her sister left, to get a life of her own, but Artemis couldn't have done the same.
She went into a small café across the street from her apartment which was down the street from Stanford after getting all her things into her little residence. Sitting down she watched as a cute, but cocky red head took orders from the other tables around her. Sighing she thought about the fact that she had not only gotten away from her abusive father, but her ex- boyfriend who was just as bad if not worse than her father in the way that he treated her. Sometimes she shrunk into herself without realizing it, and she hated showing any weakness. She was strong an iron forged in fire, but she doubted that she would find anyone that would love her the way that she needed to be loved ever.
The red head, Wally, as he was called, watched the blonde with interest. She was pretty, but she seemed to be guarded as though someone had hurt her before that moment. He went to school down the street working toward his degree in Criminal Science. He hadn't had a girlfriend since high school, and she wasn't the type to keep in touch once he left the tiny town that he had grown up in. He noted that she just sat there looking out the window so he walked up to her and decided to talk to her a bit. "Hi, I'm Wally," he said calmly or as calmly as he could given how many energy drinks he had consumed to get through an all night study session.
Artemis looked up startled slightly, but it didn't show on her face. "Uh, Hello," she replied her voice taking on its fake bored tone that fooled most people.
"Well are you going to tell me your name?" Wally asked his expression showing his amusement. He had learned to read people well from his time in class. That and he had done the same sort of thing when he was young hiding how he felt. He hadn't had the best childhood, either.
Do you remember we were sitting there by the water?
You put your arm around me for the first time
you made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
you are the best thing that's ever been mine
Pretty soon the two were seeing each other everywhere from time to time he saw her at the beach her long blonde hair pooling behind her as she gazed out to sea. He walked up to her, taking a seat and just waited for her to talk. It didn't take long considering the fact that she noted his presence from the moment that she had caught the scent of his cologne. "Sometimes I wonder why you even talk to me Wally," she stated with not a trace of emotion in her voice.
"I see, so that's what you're so worried about," the red head said as he leaned closer to Artemis. "I like a challenge, and you're the one that I can't get out of my head. So, I suppose that it's your fault that I like be around you so much." Blinking the blonde looked at Wally with surprise and she saw the soft look in his eyes as he smiled at her. "I know what it means to feel like the whole world is on your shoulders," he whispered putting an arm around her. "Lean on me when it gets to be too much." Then he kissed her on the forehead as they continued to sit next to each other watching the sun set into its watery grave.
Soon after that evening watching the sky together on the beach Wally and Artemis started dating though she never brought up the fact that she was raised by an abusive bastard that trained her to be a weapon. Wally just somehow sensed it in her, the dangerous vibe he would feel when they got into an argument. Was something that he could feel and something that only he was immune to, all his friends were terrified of the blonde who had the right hook of a trained MMA athlete, it was no wonder he felt so close to her. She was his rebel and he loved her for it though he had yet to tell her.
Flash forward and we're taking on the world together
And there's a drawer of my things at your place
You learn my secrets and you figure out why I'm guarded
You said we'll never make my parents' mistakes
But we got bills to pay
We got nothing figured out
When it was hard to take
Yes, yes, this is what I thought about
Artemis told him on their second anniversary about how she grew up and it was then that he understood why she never once returned his very vocal professions of love. She felt that everything ended and that sooner or later whatever they had would too. She wouldn't tell him out loud that she cared more than she could say. When she told him he pulled her into his arms and put her head under his chin. "We won't end up like them Arty. I love you," he whispered into her hair, placing a light kiss on top the golden locks.
They had a lot of trouble financially pretty soon after that and they had no plan at all. When she thought that he wasn't looking at her or wasn't paying attention which ever her mind thought at that point in time, she thought about all the ways that their relationship could fall apart, it wasn't that she wanted it to end. No it had more to do with the fact that she was a pessimist, and she had a problem letting things just come as they are. Wally somehow knew when these bouts of melancholy were going on because not even a moment into her musings he would pull her into a heart melting kiss that would make her unable to think straight much less allow her to follow her saddening train of thought.
Do you remember we were sitting there by the water?
You put your arm around me for the first time
you made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
you are the best thing that's ever been mine
She smiled more lately because of him even her sister who she hadn't actually seen in person for years commented on her happy tone one day on the phone. Artemis unwittingly smiled as Wally walked in the door. Her heart slowly allowing her to let people in, the barriers that she had built as a child to protect herself to crumble into dust. She smiled when she got a card on Valentine's Day that asked her to be his. She looked at him and the only word that came to her was Mine.
Do you remember all the city lights on the water?
You saw me start to believe for the first time
you made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
you are the best thing that's ever been mine
It was on one of their dates that she started to actually believe that this could work, that they could work. Her guard was down when it happened because she honestly thought that it was safe, that she was safe.
Oh oh ohh
And I remember that fight, 2:30 a.m.
As everything was slipping right out of our hands
And I ran out crying and you followed me out into the streets
Braced myself for the goodbye
'Cause that's all I've ever known
And you took me by surprise
You said I'll ever leave you alone
It was one of those days that everything that could go wrong did. He was mad she was upset and early in the morning when he got in from where ever he had been. They started yelling at each other, then when he said something along the lines of giving up. When the words echoed through her ears she ran out the door tears streaming down her face. Her heart was already breaking even though she had never told him those three little words that would change everything for her, but it hurt none the less. She braced for him to tell her to get the hell out of his life, it was the only thing that she knew. She never expected him to chase after her the way that he did as soon as he realized what he had said. He pulled her still sobbing frame into his arms, holding her tightly.
"Artemis, I'm not letting you go. Damn it! I love you and I'm not letting you run off on me," he growled just before he pulled her face up so that he could place a gentle, but intense kiss on her lips as her eyes gazed at him in shock.
You said
I remember how we felt sitting by the water
And every time I look at you, it's like the first time
I fell in love with a careless man's careful daughter
She is the best thing that's ever been mine
On their wedding day he pulled her into his arms as he said his vows, careless to what the people in the crowd thought of what he was doing. "I remember the first time that I saw you, that day at the café. I kept thinking that you were the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen. I fell in love with the sarcasitic jaded girl and she's the best thing that has ever been mine," he said just barely loud enough for the rest of the people in the chapel to be able to hear him.
Artemis said the three words for the first time that day to him and the smile that broke across his face was one that rivaled the sun.
(Hold on, make it last)
(Hold on, never turn back)
You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter
You are the best thing that's ever been mine
(Yes, yes), Do you believe it?
(Yes, yes), We're gonna make it now
(Yes, yes) and I can see it
I can see it now
They were happy, and Artemis never let a moment pass where she didn't let him know in some small way that she loved him. It was still hard for her to say the words, but each time it became little easier. They lived life the same way that they loved each other, with all their hearts.
Fin.
Moon-chan: Just an FYI creative license used this is AU incase anyone was wondering. Also the lyrics were put in for reference, so that the story doesn't confuse anyone. R&R