Spitfire One-Shot Collection

Need To Hold On To You❎-By RedSpazz-

AN: I'm back baby! And with good news too! Everything has been transferred to our joint account! Now things just need to be heavily edited and then we can start reposting! But, until then, we will continue to update on this profile.

I realize that I seem to rely heavily on the 'since the failed training exercise' kind of theme for my stories. So I promise this is the last one for a while. After this I will use some more original ideas. Promise!

This could be read as a stand-alone but I like to think of it as the Epilogue to, "Teasing,Training, and Tattoos".

"Artemis!" Wally screamed as he watched her get vaporized, for the fifth night in a row.

He shot up drenched in sweat and with a heaving chest as he tried to catch his breath. He didn't know why he kept having these nightmares, 'it was just a training exercise, not that big of a deal.'  He kept telling himself.

Who was he kidding though, it felt so real. Too real.

After staring at the ceiling for a few minutes and counting down from 10 to steady his breathing he got out of bed and headed out towards the training room. Lifting some weights and doing some running always got his mind off of these things.

The team had been staying at the cave for the past couple of weeks so Canary could 'monitor' their mental health after the meltdown of a training exercise. In reality she was just being an overbearing mother hen who didn't think their 'non-hero' parents could handle this kind of thing. And really, she was right. They would just freak out after finding out their kids got trapped in comas.

As he got closer to the training room he could see that the lights were on already.

'huh, maybe it's Dick. He's always up late.'

Just in case it wasn't though, Wally slid the door open as quietly as he could and took a peak inside expecting to see Dick on the acrobatic rings.

What he didn't expect to see was Artemis sitting on the benches staring off into space with a dead look in her eyes. As he looked a little closer he could see her hands trembling slightly as they gripped her water bottle. She looked on the verge of a breakdown, something Wally could definitely relate to at the moment.

Deciding to take a leap of faith, and risk getting reamed out, he stepped forward and into her line of sight as he softly asked,

"Couldn't sleep?"

She jumped a little, slightly startled, and swung her head to the side to look at him, her loose hair whipping behind her with the motion.

Artemis stared for a moment trying to gather her thoughts before clearing her throat slightly as she nodded her head.

"Uh, yeah. Thought I would come train myself into tiredness. You? Midnight snack?"

Wally blushed a little at the fact that she thought all he could think about was food at every waking moment. While that was only half true, he took the light conversation as a sign she wasn't going to yell and scream at him , and made his way over to the bench to sit next to her.

"Actually, food is the last thing on my mind right now. I probably wouldn't be able to keep much down anyway. Not after a dream like that..."

Wally mumbled the last bit but Artemis still heard him and glanced up at him to find he was already looking at her with understanding in his eyes.

She could tell he knew something was bugging her, but she could also tell that he wasn't going to ask her outright. He was letting her make the first move.