Twenty-three year old Wally West woke up with a groan. Stretching his limbs, he climbed out of bed, scratching his lower stomach as he did so.
It had been almost four years since the Young Justice team broke up. Of course they all still kept in contact. He knew everything about his old team. Out of the seven of them, Kaldur, Robin, and Roy were the only ones who still dead the hero work, now as Tempest, Nightwing, and Arsenal.
Zatanna was a stage magician- like her father Zatara before he joined the League- and was currently in an ON/OFF relationship with the ex Boy Wonder. (Wally wasn't sure if they were in the ON stage or not. It'd been about a week since he had talked to either of them.)
Conner and M'gann were actually expecting baby number 2- a little boy they were naming Joshua. They actually announced that they were expecting their daughter Emily the day the team ended.
And Artemis?
Wally hadn't seen her in a long time. A year, almost to the day.
When she was still around, they'd hook up a few times. But it was never anything serious. The other was always gone the next day, depending on who's house they'd done it at. But then one day, he woke up and she was gone.
And she never came back.
It killed him the first four or so months. But eventually, Wally moved on. Just like he always did. He was okay with it when his parents split. He got over it when Barry died, forcing him to take on the mantle of "The Flash".
And he moved on after Artemis disappeared.
Popping his joints as he trugged down the hallway of his condo in Keystone, he made his way straight to the kitchen. He opened the fridge, pulling out the gallon of milk, and setting it onto the table.
He then proceeded to grab the biggest bowl he had in his cabinets, and the Cocoa Puffs. Once his breakfast had been made, he moved to sit down on the couch to watch tv.
That's when he noticed it.
A medium sized white basket with a pale green blanket thrown loosely over it. He set his bowl on the coffee table, getting up to go see what the hell it was, and if their was any sign of who broke into his home.
Their was a small envelope on top of the blanket- upon feeling the material Wally discovered that it was soft, like a mixture of fleece and velvet- that Wally grabbed. He tore it open, and read what was inside, nearly falling to the ground as he skimmed through it.
Wally,
Their names are Bethany and Aubrey. They're both yours. They are better with you then with me. I love them, don't get me wrong. I just don't want them living with me.
-Artemis
He... He was a dad? No. No way in hell was this true! He pulled back the blanket, and that's when reality sunk in for him. Sleeping soundly side by side, were two baby girls, possibly no older then two or three weeks.
The one on the left was wearing a pink sleeper with a matching hat. At the end of the hat, Wally could see little tuffs of strawberry blonde hair. Her sister (Wally still wasn't sure which one was Aubrey and which one was Bethany) was wearing the exact same sleeper, except it's color was purple.
Her hair was the same shade, but it was more straighter. He watched their tummies in amazed silence as they slowly rose up and down, giving their new father a sign that the blanket hadn't suffocated either of them.
The purple one began to stir, so Wally quickly picked her up, careful to support her small head. That's when he noticed the capital A on her outfit.
So pinky was Bethany and this one was Aubrey? He just hoped that the style of their hair wasn't the only difference in their appearances. The last thing he wanted to do was mix them up- especially if Artemis ever wanted them back.
Artemis.
By the way she made her letter sound, she probably wasn't ever going to come back- at least not to take the girls from him. Her sister Jade had done a similar thing to Roy with their daughter Lian seven years ago.
When he thought of Lian, panic struck him.
It'd been two years since the little firecracker passed away, and there wasn't a day that went by when Roy- or any other Archer- cried themselves to sleep, wishing that there was more that they could've done.
That was actually when him and Artemis's hook ups began.
He gently put Aubrey down next to Beth- he already had a nickname for one. Dear God he was a Dad- and picked up his phone from the small table beside the couch.
"Hey Dick? It's me Wally. Can... Can you come over here? Like, now! There's something that you really need to see." He said.
And with that, he hung up.