A/N: Thank you everyone for the wonderful reviews, they made me smile. This chapter is a bit slow, but is setting up events in the next chapter, which I am almost done with and should have up tonight or tomorrow. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Young Justice. Otherwise there would be much more spitfire scenes:)
Friends?
Surprise, after staring at a bare blue wall for an hour, you might get a little bored. Artemis began to braid and unbraid her hair only to do the same thing again. It had taken exactly five minutes to take out her clothes and put them in the drawers, to hang up her Alice in Wonderland poster and put her copy of the book on the desk, Place a picture of her, Dinah, and Ollie on her nightstand, and to put the picture of her mom, sister, and her in the drawer of the night stand. She is a light traveler and has never believed in keeping many keepsakes.
Finally deciding to just keep her hair in her basic ponytail, she got up and walked out of her room. She locked the door behind her and made her way to the elevator. The hallway was completely empty; it was like a ghost town. She tapped her foot impatiently as she waited for the elevator.
When it arrived, she got in and rode it up to the deck. She walked through the lobby, a little less crowded now that it was one in the afternoon, and headed out to explore. She knew that somewhere there had to be an archery range. Both Ollie, her, and Roy all shared a love of it, and she knew that Ollie could not own a cruise ship without an archery range.
Artemis walked along the deck, running her hand along the rail. She stared at the people below on the docks, they were so tiny. For once in her life, Artemis felt superior to someone as she stared at the tiny people below.
"Artemis!" Artemis spun around when she heard her name called. A girl with red hair was running towards her. She didn't know who it was, but she recognized the guy next to her. Baywatch. Great.
"Hey, isn't that Artemis?" Megan asks Wally. Wally spins around, and sure enough the blonde girl was staring over the railing to the docks below. Her blonde hair swished back and forth from the wind.
"I guess so. Let's go around the other way to the ice cream parlor." Wally says grabbing Megan's arm to pull her away. Megan pushed him away.
"Wally, we need to apologize. That was mean earlier."
"She was rude to me first!" Wally exclaims.
"She's probably scared, new environment and all." Megan says.
"Doubt it."
"Wally, we are talking to her and that is final." Megan says fixing Wally with one of her rare glares, making him feel bad. Megan rarely gets mad at anyone, and she was getting mad at him.
"Fine." Wally said quietly. Megan smiled.
"Artemis!" Megan shouted. Artemis spun around, looking confused as we approached her. When she spotted me, she did not look happy. Great.
"Hi, I'm Megan Morse." The girl with the red hair said. She stuck out her hand. Artemis shakes her hand.
"I see you already know my name." Artemis said crossing her arms across her chest.
"Yeah...about earlier. I'm really sorry." Megan said, looking really apologetic.
"It's not your fault, you weren't the one to call me a charity case." Artemis said, glaring at Baywatch, who had been staring at his feet.
"About that, Wally here has something to say." Megan says, elbowing Wally.
"Ow! Really Megan?" Wally asks, rubbing his arm.
"Your real name is Wally? What kind of name is that?" Artemis asks.
"It's short for Wallace." Wally says. The two of them were locked into a staring match.
"So Artemis, what do you think of the boat?" Megan asks, cutting in before the two get into an all out fight.
"It's big." Artemis says.
"No shit." Wally replies. Artemis narrows her eyes at him.
"You got a problem Wallace?" Artemis asks.
"Yeah, I don't get why your here? Can you just like leave?" Wally asks. Megan gasps besides him, but Artemis just laughs.
"You wish Baywatch, I'm here to stay. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to continue my search for the archery range. It was nice meeting you Megan." Artemis said to the girl. She then turned to Wally. "Baywatch. "
With a swish of her hair, Artemis walked away from the two of them. She could not believe that guy Wally. Megan seemed nice though, if only everyone was like her.
Wally sighed, Megan was giving him the silent treatment. She hadn't said a word to him when they got their ice cream, and she still hasn't said a thing to him. Wally and his friends were all hanging out on the basketball court.
Wally took a shot, it hit the backboard and then landed right into the hands of Connor. He looked over at me, confused, before passing the ball out to Zatanna and Dick. Connor walked over to him.
"Hey, Megan told me about what happened with Artemis." Connor starts.
"Of course she did."
"She's actually mad at you, and you know she doesn't usually get angry." Connor says. Wally looked at his feet.
"Yeah." Wally looked around the court. He spotted Kaldur taking a shot and Zatanna and Dick running to get the rebound. He also spotted Raquel reading on a bench, but no Megan. "Where is she?"
"She went to talk to Artemis."
"Of course she did." Wally states.
"Stop being a jerk." Connor says, before walking away to rejoin the basketball game. As always, he was a man of few words and got right to the point. Wally stood there for a second before running to rejoin his friends. He would deal with that stuff later, now was the time to destroy Dick at basketball.
Artemis pulled the bow back, and released the arrow. It soared right into the center of the target. Bulls-eye. It was her tenth bulls-eye in a row. For the first time that day, Artemis geniunly smiled. She put the bow down and then walked over to the bench and grabbed a sip of water.
She was the only one in the range. It was right below the deck, in a large room. According to the sign in front of the door, they offered lessons every morning of the cruise, and then free range shooting in the afternoon. Cool, at least now she knows she'll have some place to escape too.
She got up and walked back over to her target, grabbing the arrows out of it and walked back over to her bow. Smiling, she notched an arrow and concentrated. She eyed the center of the target, pulled the string taunt, and...
"Artemis!" Artemis released the arrow, startled, it went a little wide, hitting to the left of the center. Artemis spun around, to see a smiling Megan.
"Hi Artemis. I brought a peace offering." Megan says, holding up a bag of cookies. "I made them yesterday, but I had some left over."
"Thanks Megan." Artemis says, putting down the bow and accepting the bag of cookies. She pulled one out, not realizing how hungry she had gotten. She took a bite. "These are really good, thanks Megan."
"No problem. I came to apologize for Wally."
"Again." Artemis states blandly.
"Yeah..." Megan said trailing off.
"Megan, I can handle Wally, you don't need to keep apologizing for him being a jerk. I've dealt with worst then the likes of him."
"Oh." Megan says, taking a seat on the bench. Artemis leans up against the wall.
"Really, thanks for the cookies though. I was starving. Where do you get food on this boat anyway?" Artemis asks. Megan smiles.
"Third floor of the ship is the dining room. But there is an ice cream station and pizza station on the deck for those people who don't want to have a formal sit down lunch, but everyone has a sit down dinner in the dining hall."
"What about breakfast?"
"There is usually a buffet on the deck near the stern of the boat."
"Stern?" Artemis asks. Megan laughs.
"Sea talk, its the word for the back of the boat. Bow is front, port is left, and starboard is right." Megan explains.
"Why don't they just use front, back, left, and right?" Artemis asks.
"I don't know, those are just the words they use." Megan says shrugging. "I doubt even my Uncle John knows and he has been working with boats for years."
Artemis just nods. The two of them continue to talk for a little while. Artemis had to admit to herself, it was nice. She had never really had girlfriends before, or really friends. Cameron and her sister were probably her only friends when she was little and then it was Oliver and Dinah.
A boy walked into the archery range in a little while later. He was super tall, really muscular, and had black hair. Artemis' first thought was that he was quite hot. He barely even glance at her though as he approached Megan.
"Hey Megan, we need you." The boy says.
"Hey Connor, this is Artemis." Megan says. Connor looks over at her. They both nod at each other. "Artemis, this is my boyfriend Connor."
"Hey."
"Hi."
"Great! You two know each other now." Megan says clapping. "What do you need me for?" Megan asks, looking up at her tall boyfriend.
"We need a ref. Kaldur and Zatanna finally convinced Raquel to play, and we need you to referee again."
"Basketball? And why do you need me, just ask somebody."
"Because you're impartial."
"And by impartial, you mean I favor you and your team." Megan replies. Connor gives her a mischievous grin.
"Now, I never said that..." He trails off. Megan stands up and kisses his cheek. "Go ahead, I'll be there in a second." Connor leaves the range, and Megan turns to Artemis.
"You want to come?" Megan asks.
"Um..." Artemis trails off.
"You don't even need to know how to play basketball. I don't understand the game at all. I was just so bad and they didn't want to tell me to sit on the bench, so they made me the ref. I really just run around and shout at them to stop before they get into fights." Megan explains smiling.
"Maybe another time." Artemis says.
"How about tonight? After dinner we all hang out on the starboard deck. Which side is that?" Megan asks, teasing.
"Right." Artemis answers, smiling.
"Good? So what do you say? Please?" Megan asks. Artemis stared at her feet for a moment, deciding. She figured she would be forced to spend time with them eventually, might as well get it over with.
"Sure."
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I am going to try to update this as much as possible, but school is going to be crazy for the next few weeks so I can't promise a certain schedule or anything. Please bare with me, I really like writing this story, and I hope you all enjoy reading it.