Author's Note: My first attempt at the Roy/ Artemis pairing. I think they would make an amazing couple, however this kind of plays into the real pairing of Roy and Jade. It's based on the song "My Heart Can't Tell You No" by Sara Evans. Also, this takes place a few years into the future so Artemis is eighteen and Roy is twenty one. I might have an idea to make this a multi-chaptered fic, since I love this pairing so much. It might be comprised of a bunch on one-shots strung together or something with a plot. If you guys like it, please let me know what you think would be best. I know it's pretty short but if I turn this into a multi-chapter fic there will be longer chapters.

Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice.

My Heart Can't Tell You No

I don't want you to come right here no more

I beg you for mercy

You don't know how strong my weakness is

But how much it hurts me

When you say it's over with her

I want to believe it's true

So I let u in knowing tomorrow

I will wake up missing you

Wake up missing you

They stood, apart from each other, in total silence.

The blonde-haired beauty's eyes watered, tears threatening to spill over. But she wouldn't, couldn't let him see that he'd won. She couldn't even look at him.

It had always been like this, from the day that she'd met him. He pushed her buttons and she pushed right back, neither on willing to let the other see their weaknesses. Thanks to her father, a character of questionable morals at best, she was good at hiding her emotions.

He had changed everything. Had ruined that perfect control she'd developed over those useless things called emotions. Love, happiness, hope; she hadn't wanted to feel any one of those.

Until she had met him of course. He was beautiful to her. And he knew exactly how to push her buttons.

She felt the distance between them grow farther as she gritted her teeth, forcing herself to hate him for what he'd done.

Across from her, the handsome man with the auburn hair and the painfully beautiful blue eyes stared at her, guilt written all over his face. He hadn't planned for any of this to happen. He had never planned to fall in love with such a brash and initially unfeeling woman. He also hadn't planned on ever feeling like this.

If only he hadn't been so goddamn stupid. Then, everything would've been fine.

"I'm sorry."

Now, she turned to look at him, her eyes narrowed in disbelief. How dare he?

"That's not good enough," she told him.

Roy Harper blew out the breath he'd been holding in. He started towards her. "Artemis, I—"

"No."

That single word stopped him in his tracks. He'd never heard her sound that angry before. Not even when she'd find out about his relapses into his heroin addiction. Not even when Wally crashed the car Roy had bought her for her birthday.

"You don't get to do this," Artemis ground out, clenching her fist.

"Just let me explain."

"Spare me the intimate deals of your affair," Artemis sneered.

Roy held up his hands and approached the blonde archer like he would a wounded animal. "I understand that you're angry. But it was a mistake, a stupid mistake."

"This isn't something that can be fixed, Roy," Artemis snapped. "She's having your child."

"Jade doesn't want any—"

"Don't. Say. Her. Name." Artemis hissed, getting angrier by the second. "Not in my home."

"This is our home, Arty," Roy pleaded, closing the gap between them. He grasped her much smaller hand in his. "Remember?"

Artemis shook her head, yanking her hand from his. "The only thing I can think about is the fact that you and that whore probably had sex in this apartment over and over and over again in this apartment every time I went somewhere with Ollie or the team and—"

"Stop it." Roy's expression darkened. "That whore is going to be the mother of my child," Roy snapped.

"That's the problem," Artemis said, her voice cracking. "There shouldn't be a child! Not with her at least. You know what she did to me! What she planned to do to Wally and Megan and—"

"I didn't plan for this to happen! You think I wanted this?" He thundered, his temper getting the better of him.

The air stilled at this proclamation.

Roy stared at Artemis intently, hoping for a reaction other than anger or sadness, some sign to show him that he was breaking her down. He couldn't lose her now, when he needed her most of all. She'd been the one to help him get clean. Not Ollie or Dinah, or even his best friends Wally and Dick. He'd traded his heroin addiction to an addiction to her.

Artemis couldn't look at Roy. She knew that if she looked into his beautiful baby blues she'd weaken. She might even forget. But she couldn't do this to herself anymore. He had weakened her, getting closer to her than anyone else had ever been. It was a mistake, all of it, and now she was reaping what she had sewed all those years ago when she had finally given in.

Both were wondering how they had gotten here. Artemis blamed Roy. Roy blamed Roy as well.

"Artemis, please, I love—"

"Don't lie to me. Just go," she said quietly, taking a seat on a chair facing away from him.

"Come on, Arty," Roy pleaded, walking over to put a hand on her shoulder.

She shook her head and jerked her shoulder from his grasp. "I said go."

"Let's talk this out. Work it out." Roy didn't want to lose her.

"I'm done talking, Roy," Artemis sighed. "Pack up your shit and get out. I don't want to see you ever again. Don't try and talk to me, don't try to call me, and don't check up on me. Just leave."

Roy stared at the beautiful blonde facing away from him, her petite frame shaking from the effort of trying to hold back tears. He knew she would never let him see her cry.

Not now and not ever.