YAY finals are all done! I am out of school for the summer...well for the most part seeing I am taking summer session this year. Dx
This chapter is dedicated to Hezpeller who gave me a prompt! I was so excited! Anyway we're going to take a time machine to go all the way back to Wally and Artemis' first meet. I felt that since they are in there twenties Wally needed a better reason than just Roy leaving. So I made something up!
I hope you all enjoy~!
P.S. Anyone who guess who there professor is totally wins a internet cookie and a chapter.
"Mr. West I would like to introduce you to your associate TA Miss Artemis Crock." The blonde haired professor said gesturing to the girl standing in front of them.
She smiled, "Nice to meet you."
The boy turned back to his professor, "Your kidding me right Professor Carter? What happened to Roy?"
The older man scratched at the back of his head, "Mr. Harper had decided to take a leave of absence and I asked Miss Crock to fill in."
The red head sized her up, "You're serious?"
The girls smile dropped and he watched as her eyebrow started to twitch.
Professor Carter looked between the two, slapped them both on the back and smiled, "Well take the next few hours to get to know each other. Labs start next week, guidelines are on the desk. Now if you excuse me I have a bet on a football game." He strolled towards the door, waited for a moment and said, "You'll both be sharing this office. Have fun~"
And with that he disappeared into hallway.
Wally stared at the girl in front of him. She rolled her eyes and picked one of the desks in the room to set her book bag on top of.
"I don't like you," the red head pointed out as he took the desk opposite from her.
She rolled her eyes again, "Don't worry freckles the feelings mutual."
After an hour of him staring at the back of her head as she organized the office, she turned to him and said, "We should really get working on how we are going to set up the labs."
His glare seemed to be unmoving as he raised an eyebrow.
She gave a sigh and picked up her school bag, "I'm going home."
By the time lab day rolled around they had nothing planned and she just hoped that the handouts that Professor Carter said that he sent made it to the classroom.
In what she thought was early she was surprised to see here "partner", which seemed to be a very loose term at the moment, sitting on one of the counter's twiddling his thumbs.
"What are you doing here?" he snapped out.
She noticed stacks of sheets of papers, rushing over she grabbed one and began reading, "When did we get these?"
He didn't even look at her, "last week."
"Why didn't you tell me? I've been bugging the Professor for days now for these sheets."
"Well you didn't really deserve to know." He stated as students began to file into the classroom.
"Didn't deserve to know?" she said clenching her fists, "I'm supposed to be your partner! Which means we work as a team."
"So?" he asked.
She had it; I mean really how was she supposed to deal with this?
"Fine then be that way." She muttered out.
He gave a smug look.
She didn't care it was in front of everyone, but he was being a jerk, and there was one way she knew how to get rid of them.
So she gave him a nice right hook to the face and promptly told him to fuck off.
Of course the ramification of such actions wasn't the greatest, but at least she got her point across to the asshole sitting beside her as they were both being currently chewed out.
It wasn't until about a week later when a teen poked his head into their office as they were silently marking papers.
"Hey Wall-man get your ass outta here I'm hungry." The black haired boy's glance shift the room until his blue eyes settled on her.
"Why didn't you introduce me to your new partner?" he stated glaring at the red head getting out of his seat.
"Well it wasn't like it really was important." He responded.
If she could break the pen that was in her hand at the time she would have. Instead she was surprised at black haired boy's next comment.
Approaching her he said, "Sorry about him. He's an asshole. Name's Richard most people call me Robin or Rob."
"Uh…I'm Artemis." She said in shock, "How do you deal with him?"
Robin laughed, "He can be a real prick sometimes, but we've been roommates since first year."
That statement certainly surprised her since he didn't look any older than eighteen and he had to be at least a third year.
"I'm right here!" the red head snapped out.
"Yeah whatever," Rob said waving off his friend, and then turned back to her, "as an apology for dealing with him, I'll buy you some supper."
Apparently the kid was full of surprises.
"Uh…okay." She said and began to collect her things.
"You're inviting her?" her partner snapped out.
"Yeah," Rob said defiantly.
After the group was sitting comfortably at a table in at the burger shop not too far from the university Wall-man excused himself to use the washroom leaving her alone with the teen.
Rob swirled the coke in his glass and said, "I'm really sorry about him. He wasn't always like this."
"I'm sure," she said rolling her eyes in disbelief.
"No I'm serious," the kid pushed, "his last girlfriend…well she stole a couple thousand from his scholarship fund. Luckily the university found out and kicked the bitch out. He doesn't really trust women anymore."
"You mean that was him?" she nearly screamed out in shock at the memory of the drama.
"You heard?" Rob said raising an eyebrow.
"It was all over the university internet boards. They never did disclose the names of the persons involved though." She replied.
Robin sighed, "It's been over a year now and I'm just getting sick of his attitude, so can you please for me put up with him? I know if you stick with him he'll grow to like you. If not you can always just throw another nice punch and knock some sense into him."
She laughed, "Okay I'll try, but only because you asked so nicely."