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Title: Welcome to the team

Characters/Relationships: Artemis, Wally, Spitfire, the team (kinda)

Summary: AU. Artemis joined the team before Wally. Follow the two team mates as they try their best to deny their feelings for as long as they can.

Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice, or any of it's characters.

This is so not what Artemis needed.

She grumbled as she closed her locker, heavy books weighing her down as she turned to see a hall way crowded with students laughing, chatting and messing around with each other's ties. 'So much for mature rich kids.' She inwardly scoffed as she stuffed the books required for next lesson into her bag, only smirking on the outside. She hated that she had to go to the snotty school full of big headed idiots. Really, what was wrong with Gotham North? She got a good education there. She did well in classes. She had friends there. Here, she was the 'scholarship kid' to most of the student population, and they avoided talking to her. She was extremely thankful that Bette and, later on, Barbra, had talked to her. Well, she had a feeling that Barbra had only talked to her since she had been watching when some creepy freshman had taken a photo of her. Really, who does that?

She started to make her way down the corridor, swerving through the daunting mass of students. She had to use techniques she learned in stealth training to get through it without stepping on someone's foot or falling into a group of people. As she passed a group of girls, they followed her with their eyes and snicked. She caught a couple of things they said ('scholarship', 'poor', 'no idea', 'freak') and she rolled her eyes, sending the girls a glare. They giggled even harder as they moved away from her, making offensive remarks about her face.

She frowned as she slipped into her maths classroom, putting a hand to her cheek for a moment as she scanned the room for an empty seat. She didn't have an ugly face, did she? And why should it matter? She wasn't shallow - she knew that looks usually didn't mean much. She sighed quietly and shook her head. She should just stop thinking about it. She never worried about her appearance before, after all.

She saw a whole empty desk against the left wall at the back of the room and smiled. It would be nice to have a whole two person desk to herself. Especially at the back - she could draw in her book all lesson. So, she walked over to it, ignoring the snickering of two girls sharing a desk somewhere else in the room. She slipped into the seat that wasn't against the wall so that she could get a better view of the front of the room, where the teacher would stand, just in case she did decide to listen to what she was saying. She placed her bag under the table and sighed. She still had ages until class started.

She wondered what her mission would be that day. She was just thanking her lucky stars that she had a mission in the first place, actually. Every day of so far had somehow ended up with awkwardness between her and Wally. She didn't know what to think of him anymore - he makes it painfully obvious that he was sure M'gann would soon fall for his charms, then he goes and comes round her house before taking her to a cafe. Really, what was she supposed to make of that? But, then again, he had wanted to talk about M'gann, and she was sure that when he asked her to get some food, he had purely platonic intentions.

She sighed, shaking her head. She wondered when he would finally just get it on with and start dating someone else so that this stupid crush would go away. This is the most persistent one she had had since her childhood crush on Icicle Jr. - or Cameron, as she knew him. They had been childhood friends, so it was understandable. However, she had only known Wally for about four weeks. It was insane.

She sighed, trying to change the subject. She ended up on Connor and M'gann. She didn't know why, but when they had come back from their mission just under a week ago they had seemed a bit happier than usual - especially Connor. He was almost never that cheerful. It was weird. She wondered what they had gotten up to in Belle Rev.

"Okay, class!" The teacher announced as she strolled into the room, adjusting her glassed and beaming at all the students in the room, who stared back at her with bored expressions. "I understand that we have a new student here today!"

Artemis inwardly groaned.

Wally hated seeing her so scared.

As soon as her and Robin emerged from the water beside him, his eyes were trained on her. He saw her eyes scan the room, one part of him getting some sick satisfaction how her eyes lingered on him and she was so worried. He didn't want her to be here - he didn't want her and Robin to get hurt saving them. So, when he saw the fire-droid (that's what he had decided to call it, since it was easier than 'Fire throwing female looking robot that kinda looks like Red Tornado'. The other one was water-droid) aiming at the two, he shouted without thinking; "Look out!" They looked at him for a moment before they dived, a split second before the fire hit. Despite the sudden burning head thanks to how close the fire was, he let out an almost silent sigh of relief that they were safe.

"Are you guys okay?" Robin asked, and he sounded way too formal for the expression on his face, and Wally just wanted to shake him and stress that Kaldur and M'gann were dying, but he couldn't. So he opened his mouth to respond but Connor said what he was thinking before he could - well, part of it.

"Forget us - help M'gann!" He ordered and Wally frowned. What about Kaldur? The guy was in danger too.

"And Kaldur." He muttered, but no one heard him.

"Aqualad! Is she... ?" She cried, and Wally's heart broke at the panic, the desperation for her best friend in her voice and he just wanted to hug her, but, once again, he was held back by that damn rock stuff that was holding him so freaking tightly that his body was going numb.

"She is unconscious." Kaldur called back and brief relief crossed over all of their faces that she wasn't in a more permanent state. "I fear she - we - cannot survive much longer."

Before anyone could respond, and everyone could tell that Connor was going to respond by the fury on his face, the fire-droid flew up above them and fire was sent towards Robin and Artemis and Wally couldn't believe how fast it was coming and how they weren't diving and they weren't safe and it was going to hit them and - and -

And they dived.

Then he saw them emerging on the stairs and they had no where to go, water-droid below them and fire-droid on the top step. He held his breath and watched as Artemis attacked. She was almost out of arrows. God, if she didn't get out of this alive he was going to kill her. One of Robin's disk things (he had asked Dick what they were once but his explanation was so convoluted that he just settled for 'disk things') hit directly beside his head and he let out a small noise of surprise, temporarily distracting him from the fight.

When he looked back, they were gone.

Artemis peered through the hole in the metal, eyes wide, as the water thing lifted Robin and held him in the air. She couldn't believe it. They had failed. The plan wouldn't work. She was the only one left. She backed away and leaned against the back of the access tunnel, her expression turning to one of panic. She curled up and dug her face in to her knees, muttering; "No, no, no, no, no... "

She thought of Wally, Connor and Robin drowning. She thought about Kaldur and M'gann dying. She thought of loosing her team and shook her head, the movement so small you could barely tell if she moved at all.

She would not cry.

Sure, her team mates were going to die if she didn't do anything.

Sure, the mountain had been taken over by two of Red Tornado's siblings.

Sure, was being a coward and sitting in the small, circular tunnel feeling bad for herself.

But she would not cry.

Artemis didn't cry. She was strong. She was trained to deal with tragedies, trained to brush it off and act like it never happened, to stay strong and to not depend on others to win. She had carefully constructed metaphorical walls to hide her feelings, or weaknesses, as her father had called them. She stayed cool and calm, saving her grief or disappointment until the job was done.

So why was she curling up, hiding and doing nothing?

She was useless. She couldn't save her team. She couldn't save anyone. This threat was too much for her, too much even for they rest of the team, so how could she defeat it? How could she do a thing when the four with super powered heroes and the Boy Wonder couldn't? She was just what her Dad said she was - a disappointment. A disappointment to Kaldur, for not being as level headed and calm as he always managed to be. To Robin, for not staying traught. To M'gann, for not being a kind enough Earth sister. To Connor, for forgetting to help him understand the jokes in the film 'Scott Pilgrim Vs The World'. And Wally. Did she even need to say? She was the worst friend to him, getting so jealous when she could just enjoy laughing together at him over bad films or how amazingly clueless Connor could be sometimes.

She sat up and frowned. She could still learn to control her temper. She could still stay traught on missions. She could still be kinder to M'gann and make up for her sometimes short temper. She could still explain to Connor what Scott meant by 'Could this not be a one night stand? Because I didn't even get any'. She could still put her jealously behind her.

She just had to save them.

"I surrender... I die with the others." She muttered to herself, her voice sounding too hopeless for her liking. She did some calculations in her head, thought of what she had seen when she had glanced at the blue prints on Robins small screen thing. She thought of the robot's weaknesses and the plan they had before. Her face hardened and she got onto her knees, the weakness slowly leaving her voice. "But if I find a way out... out of the Cave... out of the mountain... I can get help. Call the league." She told herself, crawling forward, her tone turning hopeful. She cried out, though, as she suddenly fell and landed on the floor with a thud.

"Three minutes." She heard echoing against the walls as she slowly sat up, a pain shooting up her leg, but it wasn't anything she hadn't had before. It was barely a bruise. She let out various sighs as she sat up and shook her head. "Who am I kidding? The best I can do is hide. Damn it." She muttered the last bit, standing and scanning the room. She had fallen into Wally's room. It was surprisingly tidy, since this was Wally, but she didn't really care about that at the time. Even if it wasn't messy, it was still so... him.

An array of Flash posters decorated the walls, and above one of them he had stuck a large photo of the team on the beach, that time they held a barbecue. Dinah had taken it without them knowing. M'gann was smiling at Connor with a light blush on her cheeks as she treated a burn he had gotten on his arm while cooking the sausages and Aqualad was finishing Connor's job, obviously having only just gotten out of the water, as he was only in swimming trunks. Robin was cackling as Artemis yelled at Wally, who was looking slightly scared. Artemis smiled softly at it. She had enjoyed that day.

She looked around the rest of the room. His bed sheets were scarlet with a streak of yellow. Despite herself, she scoffed. Figures half his bedroom was Flash themed. She even let out a hollow laugh when she saw a whole shelf with different Flash action figures on it. She could almost hear Wally's voice in her head; "They're not action figures! These are rare collectibles!" However, her laugh held no humor. She had to save them - some how, some way, she had to save her friends, so that she could tease him about all this later.

"One minute." Interrupted her thoughts and her eyes widened in momentary alarm. She took a seat on the edge of Wally bed and thought, thought, thought. The plan that Robin had was genius. She just had to trigger that ripple effect and everything would be okay. Her eyes narrowed. There were no arrows in her quiver, but there was another in the Cave. One with a metal tip. She sighed, knowing what she had to do.

She stood and walked to the souvenir room.

"That was really brave of you... you know, a couple of days ago."

Artemis looked up from her French homework she had decided to work on at the Cave, raising an eyebrow. She had stayed at the Cave the night before, since her, Wally and Robin had had a movie night. Well, Robin had only stayed for part of it. At some point they started watching higher ratings and had to practically throw Robin out of the room - he hadn't been happy about leaving. But, anyway, they both fell asleep on the couch at around midnight, half way through the Silent Hill film (Wally still insisted the games were better). They had woken up the next day with Artemis leaning against his shoulder and they had practically leaped away from each other, immediately awake and horrified. They hadn't spoken of it since. But, anyway, she smirked at him. "A bit of a late reaction, but... thanks."

He rubbed the back of his neck with his hand and grinned. "Though you did have me worried there - I thought you were actually going to surrender. You're a good actress." He said and she shrugged.

"I did what I had too." Wally nodded at her wisely and she almost laughed, but looked back at her homework. She was fluent in French so she had no idea why she had to take the stupid class anyway. "This is so boring! I know all of this."

Wally peered over her shoulder and made a face. "French? I hate French. You're fluent?"

She smirked at him and stood, making her way to the kitchen. "Oui, je suis. Voulez-vous quelque chose à manger?" Wally blinked after her, expression blank, save for some mild confusion. She was fluent, but it seemed he wasn't even close.

"Uh, what?"

"I'll take that as a no." She said, smirk widening as she disappeared into the kitchen. She walked to the cupboards and searched until she found the chips. She searched through the different flavors and heard Wally speaking.

"So, why were you so much more worried about M'gann than the rest of us? I was slightly offended."

She guessed he was talking to Connor. He had been pretty stressed about her. Really, Kaldur was in that fire cage too - you would have thought he'd get some concern, being the team leader and everything. She didn't hear Connor's response, but almost jumped out of her skin at how loud and sudden Wally's reaction was.

"YOU AND M'GANN ARE WHAT?"

Oui, je suis. Voulez-vous quelque chose à manger? = Yes, I am. Do you want some food?

From my knowlege, Artemis is fluent in French in the comics, so...

CC is really appreciated right now. I swear what little writing skills I had are going down the drain.