Prompt Post - Part Six [CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS]
THIS PART IS NOW CLOSED. YOU CAN CONTINUE POSTING FILLS, BUT PLEASE PROMPT ALL NEW THINGS HERE.
I am so sorry for the delay, guys. Life has been hectic lately (exams, haha) and I lost track.
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Eleven that night and finally she gives in, slinks through the base and past her teammates and eventually to the medical facilities.
Batman’s position as looming gargoyle seems to have been usurped by Superboy. Conner. He blinks at her in surprise, and she feels only a tiny bit terrible when she realizes those heartstopping crystal blue eyes-- aren’t doing anything for her.
If he’s not going to say anything, she isn’t. She picks her way past him to the chair at the bedside, sits down, and opens her book again. Resolutely not focusing on Wally, but... if she lifts her eyes over the edge, she can watch him breathe. It’s comforting.
“Will you be here a while?” Conner asks, only a few minutes in.
Artemis glances over, nods. “Not going anywhere.”
“Good,” he says, pushes off the wall, and heads out. She stares after him for a long moment, wonders if he’s been talking to Robin. Maybe she’s overthinking. She probably is, in point of fact.
She puts it from her mind and reads her book. And if sometimes she reads the same paragraph several times over, well, it’s a good book.
When she realizes someone is staring at her she closes her mouth on a shriek and drops the book like a dead rat. “How long have you been awake?” she hisses.
Treacherous bloodpumping organ won’t stop pounding.
The smirk is pale imitation of his usual grin, and his eyes are half-open at best, but he’s unmistakably himself. “How long’ve you been there?” he asks.
“I don’t know,” she says, defensive. “A while.”
“A bit less than a while, then.”
“And you’ve just been watching me read?”
“Not like I have anything better to do.”
She stares at him. He stares back.
“I was almost starting to worry,” he says conversationally. “Everyone else had come by. Even Sp-- Red Arrow found out and dropped in.”
“You missed me.” Artemis tries to put as much sarcastic spin on that as she can. It wobbles dangerously, and she realizes she’s just glad to hear his voice again.
Damn, but she’s gone over him. And she will never, never say it.
“’course I did,” Wally says. “You’re...” Words fail him. “You’re you.”
She is, inexplicably, flattered. “Irreplaceable,” she quips.
They banter gently a while longer, but her mind is a thousand miles away. She nearly lost this. Lost him. And even if he’s okay now, she is not okay with the fact that this happened in the first place.
She’ll be better next time. They all will. Or, better yet, there won’t even be a next time.
And Artemis quietly sets the idea of patricide to simmer on a back burner. It won’t be her first choice. But nothing like this is ever going to happen again.
No matter what she has to do.
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(Are you looking forward to next week's episode as much as I am? If the description on Wikipedia is anything to go by, we might be getting a bit of that very bromance.)
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This line is what made me determined to comment, even before I read the rest. Because this is a fantastic description.
Actually, this is a fantastic fill. The best parts were where you let some things hang unsaid, like in Artemis' short dialogue with Superboy. I also really loved the end.
*bookmarks*
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ANYWAY!
Writer anon you deserve lots of internet hugs and cookies.
How does one send and internet chiffon cake?
I like the subtleness to the spitfire feelings.
Yay! *organizing incoherent ramblings*
Patricide- love the use of this word. (And higher vocabulary in general)
I like the way you describe things.
You're great at being so vivid while being sparse with words.
I love the way you just GET how the characters would react to the situation.
Seconding other commenters.
Also:
here's a secret
You're awesome!
How awesome?
*Stretches out arms to fullest extent.*
This awesome.
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The person who figures out how to send physical objects through the internet will be a billionaire in days, I swear~ :)
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Have you filled any other prompts? I'd love to read more by you!
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I am eying up a couple of other prompts, but haven't produced anything else yet.
That said, it is incredibly flattering that you asked in the first place -- I would personally rank that as some of the highest praise a writer can get, honestly -- so thank you. :)
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