Well well well, look who's back from the dead. And still refuses to acknowledge that this show was cancelled.

Artemis wasn't one for cooking. Her talent pretty much topped out at burning pasta, which she wasn't planning on doing again anytime soon. It took a lot of explaining to the firemen last week that that is what actually happened. So tonight she was working on something much safer: re-heating take out. Friday was Wally's late night advanced Chemistry class and Artemis knew him well enough to know that the more food ready when he got home the better. She was putting in the extra effort because she was worried about the speedster. He had been unusually quiet since the failed intervention with Roy a few nights ago.

Artemis was reading at the kitchen table, four steaming plates of Chinese in front of her and one last one spinning around in the microwave. She would like to say that the whirring of the microwave drowned out the sound of her sister coming in the window, but Jade had been sneaking up on her since they were children.

"Hey sis."

Artemis jumped at the voice behind her and almost dropped her book in a pile of chow mien. She whirled around in her chair and glared.

"Jade! What do you think y-is that a baby?" Artemis's rant was cut off at the sight of the blanket wrapped blob in a sling on her sister's chest. Jade nodded and the younger girl leapt out of her chair.

"Jesus, what are you doing with a baby? Jade I swear if you stole it I will-!" She gestured wildly as Jade interrupted her.

"Her name is Lian." With uncharacteristic gentleness, Jade pulled the top of the blanket down and revealed a tiny smiling face with a mop of red hair. The microwave dinged and Artemis's mouth fell open. Even surrounded by the usual round baby features, there was no mistaking the dark slanted eyes that looked up at her.

"Oh my god." Artemis reached behind her and grasped the back of her chair. "She's yours." Smiling, Jade brushed her fingers against the little cheek, earning a giggle from her daughter. Artemis stared between her sister and what was apparently her niece. Whatever else she had to say vanished as the child reached her arms towards her and cooed.

"Do you want to hold her?" Jade scooped her daughter out of the pouch and held her out. After a second's hesitation, Artemis took the child into her arms. Lian squirmed a little before settling into the crook of her arm.

"How old is she?" The archer said in a quiet voice, staring as the baby yawned and blinked.

"Almost ten months." Walking over to the table, Jade took off the sling and put it down next to a plate of chicken. She also slid a pack off her back and put it on a chair.

Artemis turned around and watched as her sister grabbed a piece of chicken and put it in her mouth.

"Have you spoken to Roy?" She asked quickly. "Wally and some others met up with him a few nights ago. He's...he's really messed up." Jade grimaced and nodded.

"Yes, we saw him." Artemis almost asked who 'we' were, but realized Jade meant her daughter, who was falling asleep in her arms. "Actually we were there when your speedster and his friends talked to him." She waved one hand before Artemis could ask. "No, they didn't see us. I wondered if they could beat some sense into him without me. But they couldn't so I talked to him." Jade pulled out a chair with her foot and sat down. "His obsession with finding the real Roy is..." She sighed. "It's killing him." Artemis approached her sister, adjusting the sleeping Lian in her arms. "I need to get him back on track."

Artemis's relationship with her sister had never been the best, but they had gotten closer in the past years and she could read between the lines of the older girl's statement. Both her and Jade had frankly crippling trust issues due to less than perfect parenting and she understood how much Roy meant to Jade, even if she would never say it. He had been the one to help Jade out of her life as Cheshire and now it was her turn to save him. After a long pause, Jade shook her head slightly and stood up.

"And I need to start by getting him back in shape." Jade put her hands on her hips and smiled. "And that's where you come in." Artemis opened her mouth to answer but at that moment the front door opened.

"Is that Chinese food I smell?" Wally's voice rang out from the front room. "Cause I could eat a whole- Cheshire?" The speedster froze in the entrance to the kitchen, one hand raised to the scarf around his neck.

"I don't think I'd make a good meal, West." Jade didn't bother turning her head to look at the boy.

"Yeah, too much of a fight to be worth it." He lowered his hand and took a step towards Artemis. "What is she doing here Ar-is that a baby?" Wally cut off his own sentence again. The blond nodded.

"She is Jade's." She tried to continue but Wally turned back to Jade.

"You stole a baby?"

Jade finally looked in his direction and threw her arms up in the air. "Why does everyone think I stole a baby?" Wally shrugged and Jade continued. "She's my daughter!"

"Ohhh..." Wally approached Artemis and looked at the child sleeping in her arms. "Oh." His voice softened and he reached out one hand, lightly stroking the tuff of red hair. "Roy." He looked up at Jade. "Roy is a father." A smile tugged at the corners of Jade's mouth.

"Biologically, yes, but he needs to clean up his act before he can be a real parent." She smiled for real now, gazing at her child. There was a moment of silence before she looked back up. "And that is what I am going to go do."

"Huh?" Both Artemis and Wally raised an eyebrow at her.

"I'm going to go clean up my clone." She turned on her heel and walked towards the kitchen window. "Thanks by the way." She waved her hand before hoping up on the window sill.

"For what?" The couple said in sync again.

Jade looked over her shoulder and smirked.

"Babysitting." And she was gone.

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