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Character(s):Location: Outside Artemis' Dorm.
Rating: PG
Open/Closed/Finished: Closed
Summary: With Robin being gone, Wally's looking for a way to distract himself. Artemis is good for that! Plus, the two have to talk about that whole denial thing.



The week had started off with such promise. Wally was feeling pretty pleased with himself. By applying his science know how and chemistry skills, his baking venture with M'gann had been a success. Granted, he baked most of the easy stuff but he was still all for giving himself a pat on the back.

Then the week took a sudden and sharp down turn. Robin was no where to be found. No matter how many times he ran around the school, he couldn't find any trace of him. He'd been here long enough now that he had an idea of what that meant. At least one of them was back home, but that didn't help with the loneliness he was feeling. Sure, he'd eventually go home and see his best friend again, but that could be months, even years! Stupid archaic technology, and stupid meddling"magic". The more he learned about magic, the more he came to hate it.

After a day or two of moping, he decided he needed some distractions. Researching the technology in this world only left him more frustrated than distracted. Fortunately, there's one activity that's always good for a distraction; annoying Artemis. After all of the showboating she did while she had his powers, he felt like showing off to her. He still had some baked good left overs. He was pretty sure even she wouldn't be able to deny they tasted good. Then he could tell how he used his smarts and speed to make them, on top of all of the other awesome things he can do with them.

That was the plan at least.

Unfortunately she wasn't there when he arrived and his mind got to thinking about Robin being gone again. When he arrived at the dorm, he had 12 lemon bars with him. Now he was down to two. He's propped against the wall, sighing to himself, and finishing off the 10th lemon bar.

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Maybe Artemis and Robin hadn't been the closest of friends, but he'd been a teammate and someone she'd trusted. Loosing that without warning really sucked. However, she reasoned that she should be used to it by now. People have always had this nasty habit of walking out of her life after all. Why should that change just because she was a hero or on another world entirely?

So Artemis dealt with her blues in her own way. Which typically meant leaving the school and running through the forest on her own. The run always cleared her head and fighting off any monsters that approached her did wonders for keeping her mind busy. Why the forest and not the training center? That was easy, she was still trying to keep most of her skill set under wraps so she couldn't really let lose in the Training Center. So she did her acrobatics and her crazy shots in the privacy of the woods that most people seemed to avoid.

It was after one such run that she came back to her room to see Wally waiting outside of her door. She'd showered elsewhere before heading back to her room so her hair was hanging in a damp mass down her back. For once it wasn't pulled back into a ponytail which just proved that Artemis had a lot of hair. Stopping a few feet away from Wally, she tilted her head a little bit looking him over skeptically.

She'd been avoiding him lately, but there was nothing to do about it when he was right there. Even then she really did feel a little bad for him. Robin was his best friend after all and losing that had to suck. Not that she'd tell him she felt sorry for him, that was the last thing she'd admit to. Well... almost the last thing. Admitting to her feelings technically had that last spot.

"What are you doing here?"