I don't own YJ although I wouldn't mind an army of Robins

It's been my personal experience that I've learned the most about my family while we drove across the country so I wanted to apply that idea to the Team. This isn't a fic about just the ships, I love all character interaction so almost everyone will get a chance to hang out with everyone at least that's the plan. Without further ado, enjoy!

Artemis wondered how she got herself into situations like this.

How was it that she, of all people, seemed to spend an outrageous amount of time in close proximity to Wally West? Next to him during briefings, beside him in the bioship and taking down goons with him.

Obviously not by choice; no it had to be some form of cosmic practical joke. That was the only way she could explain that out of 3 cars and 8 teammates, she had to end up in the passenger side of the small compact Wally was driving, cross country.

Mount Justice had recently been infiltrated by villans 3 times, not including the Reds incident. Apparently the whole hiding in plain sight thing didn't work the way the League had anticipated. The Team was on their way to a new HQ in the San Francisco bay.

Of course they could have taken the zeta tubes and been there in no time but, Robin and Kid-Just-Got-My-Drivers-License had wanted to drive the way there, making the argument that they had to move things from the cave too. Kaldur agreed as well, citing the old "team building" excuse.

Batman footed the bill and had them in two old compacts and a mini van. He said that a bunch of teenagers in anything nicer would become conspicuous; Artemis thought that sometimes Batman was just a little too paranoid.

She resigned herself to staring out the window the whole way. They had not said a word since they got in the car; honestly it was 5am and even for them, that was too early for arguments. Wally looked too weary to put up much of a good fight anyways.

The lull of the car and the scenery flitting by felt comforting; along with the aroma of fresh laundry and warm baking bread that seemed to have no source, but was quickly filling up the car, it probably wouldn't take long for her to fall back asleep.

Suddenly she heard the echo of the rumble strips inside the car. Wally's eyes had closed and he was swerving into the side of the road, on the noisy obstructions that had pulled her out of her almost slumber. She swiftly reached over to the steering wheel but, the fastest boy alive had managed to get them back on the road.

Artemis gave him a glare that was reserved solely for when he was being the bane of her existence. He glanced sheepishly at her, keeping his eyes very carefully on the road, avoiding her gaze. She knew she wouldn't have to speak, he would give into the glare.

"I'm sorry!" he cracked. He looked sincerely sorry for endangering her life which was a start. "Rob and I had a late night"

"Seriously? You knew we were going to be up early" Artemis gave an exasperated sigh

"It was an emergency"

"Mario Kart is not an emergency, Kid Idiot"

"Says you, Robin was going to beat my high score; I couldn't go to sleep knowing that"

"How long did you stay up" she swore sometimes it was like Wally was the 13 year old and Robin was... the smarter 13 year old.

"Uh we kind of, sort of, didn't fall asleep at all." He was giving her another sheepish grin she just shook her head partly because he was just so ridiculous, and partly because it was too early for him to look that nice smiling.

"You know he did that on purpose, he's sleeping right now; it's not like he has to drive"

"Yeah, he is the Troll Wonder but, you can't leave me like this! I'm going to fall asleep again." He was giving her puppy dog eyes that was supposed to be joking, but made her eyes stare into his deep green ones too long.

"I don't know what you want me to do" She crossed her arms and stared out the window again.

"I don't know, talk or something" he reached over when she ignored him, trying to uncross her arms. The smell of clean clothes and warm bread got a lot stronger and Artemis had to resist the urge to close her eyes and lean towards him.

Instead she pushed his hand away and started fiddling with the radio trying to find something loud enough to shut him up. She settled on some local pop station and turned it up high. They sat in mutual silence as the highway passed before them, the strands of music between them. After what seemed like the shortest 5 minutes in history

"This isn't working." Wally groaned and rest his head on the steering wheel, causing Artemis to smack aforementioned head.

"Keep your eyes on the road Sleeping Beauty" he slowly lifted his head and gave her a big albeit sleepy smile.

"You think I'm a beauty?" Artemis smacked his head again. He gave her the puppy eyes with an additional pout, and this time it worked.

"Ugh! What do you want?" sleepy Wally was wearing her thin; he was somewhere between adorable and unbearable. Which he usually was but, now it included pouting.

"I know! you could sing to me" Artemis gave him a look that let him know she was questioning his sanity. "Come on you did it for the kids, why not do it for another Kid?" She almost physically facepalmed but, managed to restrain herself.

"Wally, what do I look like a jukebox, I'm not singing" he kept staring at her with his stupid green eyes, with this stupid pleading look and it felt like she could stare at his stupid freckled face until she counted every stupid, small brown mark that crossed his nose and cheeks.

Artemis shook her head, trying to physically remove the errant thoughts from her head. She never thought that way, especially not about Wally West. She scoffed and from the the corner of her eye she could see Wally's face fall into the pout that seemed to be his trademark today. Then his eyes caught a mischievous glint in them and he straightened, looking dead at the road hands at 10 and 2.

Artemis feigned disinterest, pretending to be entertained by the scenery blurring around them. She briefly wondered if thats what the world looked like to Wally as he sped past the rest of them. She felt a shiver run down her spine as the uncomfortable echo of the rumble strips returned.

She glared at Wally but, this time resolve was etched into his face; he was going to get her to sing whether she liked it or not. Artemis quickly ran through her options but, kicking the driver in the face didn't seem very practical; so she decided to give in, just this once.

"Fine!" she cried out loudly trying to be heard over the loud noise ricocheting around the car. Wally gave her a pointed look, clearly telling her to get on with it. Artemis gave him another glare for good measure and tried to catch the melody that was currently playing on the radio. It was a Florence and the Machine song that she thankfully recognized but, lyrics were never her strong suit.

"Your songs remind me of swimming which I forgot when I started to sink" she mumbled along with Florence. Wally gave her a warm smile that made her stomach turn (in a bad way of course) and finally got off the wretched safety devices on the side of the road. But now she had to continue singing and this was going to be tricky

"Sad at the bottom of the ocean, I stirred and stumbled around, Cause your songs remind me of singing but, somehow I forgot" she continued. Wally laughed getting way too much enjoyment out of this; but at least he was awake.

"Stacy can't you see you're just not the girl for me, I know it might be wrong but, I'm in love with Stacy's mom!" after a while Wally had started to sing with her and Artemis got comfortable enough to really have fun.

"Hey Artemis, you should name your daughter Stacy and then you'll be Stacy's mom and you'll have it goin on." he laughed like he had said the funniest thing ever, and Artemis laughed with him before adding

"Wallace I have always had it goin on." she sighed as she flipped her ponytail back mockingly. He smiled leaning towards her to sing to her.

"Stacy's mom has got it goin on, Stacy's mom has got it goin on" If Artemis wasn't so proud maybe she would have admitted that he made her blush, just a little.

On the road Wally found out Artemis' horrible secret; she was a little bit of a Kesha fan. Okay she knew most of the words to some of the songs. Or all of the words to a couple of her songs. Or maybe she just loved all of them.

Wally made it his personal mission to scan through all the stations trying to find Kesha songs because he loved that Artemis couldn't help but belt them out. He was about to pass by one he didn't recognize, when Artemis grabbed his arm to stop his scanning and turned the volume all the way up

"I love this one!" her voice rose in excitement. And Wally prepared himself for a show, chuckling to himself.

"My heart booms at the speed of light, but the exit signs always on my mind, always in my sight, I could say that I really want to stay but, the devil inside always wins the fight always gets his way"

Wally was mesmerized; he knew she had a pretty voice when he asked her to keep him awake; he had heard her butchering nursery rhymes to the kids in a sweet voice that somehow was still her.

But, to see her give herself entirely to singing a song she particularly liked, well that was worth a lifetime of no sleep.

"It's disgusting how I love you, god I hate it, I could kill you, cause you're messing up my name, gotta walk my talk my fame, but I just want to touch your face, it's disgusting" Artemis continued to sing eyes closed, completely comfortable; which was more than could be said for Wally.

There was something horribly familiar about this song he had never heard before and it made an uncomfortable heat spread to his face. He felt phantom warmth on the place where she had grabbed his arm, as if she was still holding him. He started to realize that they got along so well on this ride and had sung together and laughed together and now he found it impossible to look away from her relaxed face as she continued to sing the eerily prophetic lyrics.

"My mind blinks like a traffic light its green and red stop and go changing all the time and it makes me scared that I haven't loved" her voice rang out beautifully.

Wally found it painfully obvious that if she opened her eyes he'd know exactly what shade of gray they would be, and that he really liked the way they lightened as the day progressed. He liked that she managed to look so good without even the air of trying. He liked how long her golden hair was and he knew that he'd like it even more if he ever saw it down. He liked the way she smelled like freshly cut grass and the start of spring. He liked that she had given him as many nicknames as there were days in the week. He liked the way she never took any of his crap. He liked the way she could take down bad guys without any powers. He liked the look of almost perfect serenity she got when she was about to release an arrow. He liked the way it felt when he held her in Bialya. And he loved that she sang for him.

"It's disgusting how you change me from a bandit to a baby, think I might change my name if I'm gonna take this walk of shame, look at what you do to me, it's disgusting" Artemis continued completely oblivious to Wally's seemingly unravelling brain.

"Becoming manic and magic, it's so romantic I panic oh!" Wally wasn't certain if it was the car ride, the lack of sleep, or Artemis herself that seemed to cause this sudden epiphany but he was certain who he wanted to blame. The damn song.

"Hit the eject button but it must be stuck somethings up, What did you slip into my drink baby" Wally didn't know what to think anymore it's as if all of his motor functions had been put on auto pilot and his conscious mind had retreated deep inside his brain to recollect.

"It's disgusting how I love you, god I hate it, I could kill you, cause you're messing up my name, gotta walk my talk my fame, but I just want to touch your face it's disgusting" He could tell the song was close to over and he was no closer to finding a solution to his current predicament. Then he saw his savior and gave a giant sigh of relief.

The last strings of the song were fading when Artemis completely opened her eyes, just as Wally was parking the car. Artemis looked over to him momentarily confused before he gave a nod to what was in front of them.

"It's our first stop, the others will be here soon." and with that Wally rushed into the driving stop, practically at an inhuman speed.