A/N: here I am, doing another one shot instead of working on YJU or Halo: Invasion.

Genetics

Artemis was pleased to discover the Cave was empty. Robin and Batman had met her at the zeta booth in Gotham, offering to bring her along on one of their missions. She had declined it, not in the mood to deal with their crazies. Shadows she had no problem with. Green Arrow had only a couple serious enemies, one of them being Merlyn, some evil archer even Roy hadn't faced. Something about personal feuds, if she understood Canary right. She couldn't go to Atlantis and there was no way she was going to visit Kid Flash down in Central. The Rouges there would probably call her his boyfriend, something she didn't need, given Wally's most recent taunts.

Before she could call out for Megan or Connor, she found a note in the kitchen. Connor and I are going to a party with friends. We'll be back tomorrow. Lucky them, she thought.

"Looks like I have the Cave to myself." She smiled, pulling out her homework and walked over to the couch. Her father had worked her through a process of going after the toughest and hardest first, a trait that had carried on to her homework habits. Best thing he gave me. She pulled out her biology stuff, opening up the textbook.

"You've got to be kidding me." She stared down at the book, unsure of what she was even doing. It was asking her to make Punnett squares, something she hadn't paid attention to. Instead I had been thinking about the stupid things I told Kid Idiot while in Bialya. He's never going to let go of that 'ninja boyfriend' comment. Hell! It's even a real movie. Maybe I should make him watch it. Considering the idea, Artemis shook her head. Naw, he'll get attached to it. But maybe he'll finally leave Megan alone.

"One," she read aloud. "Make a Punnett square of your parents hair color and mark off the box representing your genes." She stared at the paper for a moment, trying to see if she could remember anything. "Fuck."

"Recognized, Kid Flash, B-03." Artemis looked over towards the zeta tubes; she had barely heard the computer announce the arrival of Wally. She pulled her stuff closer and leaned over, hoping he wouldn't notice her sitting there, working on science. Last thing she needed was to have Kid Idiot get on her case about science. His blabbering about it in the Tower of Fate had been more than enough for her.

Wally zoomed into the kitchen, obviously preparing to empty the fridge. Isn't like he does that enough. Artemis continued thinking until she heard the crumbling of food wrappers and pastries stop. She held her breath, hoping he'd either continue eating or walk away and leave.

"You could always ask for help, Arty. Robin told me you were coming here to work on biology." Artemis sighed and dropped her pencil. Rubbing her temples, she looked back at Wally.

"Fine. Help me, Kid Flash." Artemis watched as he tried to suppress a smirk before zooming over, almost sending her papers everywhere. He looked down at the first problem.

"I can't believe you're having trouble with this."

"I was…distracted, in class. Distracted, by my thoughts."

"Thoughts about your ninja boyfriend?" I looked over at Wally and glared. He started laughing, walking around to sit on my other side.

"You almost got it. I was thinking back about how stupid of a thing it was to say."

"Sure, Arty." He grabbed the table she was using and pulled it closer. "First off, we need the square." Wally drew a grid with four boxes. "One of them has to be two small b's, given that blonde is a recessive trait." He looked over. "So parent hair color?"

"Black and blonde." She watched as Wally looked down at the paper for a second before looking up.

"Blonde I believe, but black? That's impossible. You should have black hair, not blonde. Unless your parent with black hair has a recessive gene, which means that there's European ancestry."

"My mother is full Vietnamese. No European there," Artemis said, glaring.

"She can't be fully Vietnamese," Wally said. He scribbled down two small b's for her father and a large b and a smaller one for her mother. "To have the recessive gene, one of her parents had to have a European ancestor, likely Dutch, given they're more likely to carry the gene compared to the French." He rubbed his face. "I think."

Artemis watched on, hoping he'd finish the box. Instead, he held the pencil out for her. "Really?" He nodded. Groaning, she filled in the boxes, guessing that two would have a large b and a small b while the other two would have two small b's. Wally looked it over and smiled.

"Wasn't that hard, right?" Artemis glanced over.

"Don't test your luck, Wally." She paused. "Why are you helping me?"

"You know that you have to be passing all classes, right?" Artemis nodded. "Apparently according to Robin you aren't doing that well in biology and as much as you rile me up, you're still part of this team and I'd hate to be the one on the sidelines, especially because of something as stupid as failing a class. I would call it easy, but you'd just smack me." Artemis smacked the back of his head.

"That's for being a smart ass, Wally." Artemis leaned in and hugged him. "That's for helping me. Ninja boyfriend."

He stared at her for a moment before shaking his head. "We'll talk about that later. Let's see what the next one is. 'Number two. Make another Punnett square. This time, use your parent's eye color.'" Wally stared at the paper. "This is the same question. You'll have to settle for blue instead of the stormy grey your eyes are."

"So you know what color my eyes are." Wally cringed as Artemis laughed. "Maybe I should call you 'creeper boyfriend' instead."

"Ha ha. You can do two on your own. 'Three. Draw your parents.' Are they serious?" He looked over and saw that Artemis was pale. "I'm guessing you don't want to talk about your parents." He sighed. "As much as I'd like to see how great your parents look, we can move on."

"No." Artemis stood up. "I'll draw them for you." Wally watched as she started scratching out lines on the paper. He walked away, letting her draw alone. She finished her mom first. Her hand paused, tempted to draw the 'Huntress' lines she had worn during her days in the field. Before her incident with dad.

Wally returned right before she finished her dad. "I see the resemblance now. You have your father's eye and hair color along with his nose, but everything else from your mother." She glanced up at him, noticing he was staring hard, as if he was thinking. "Something about your dad looks familiar. I see some resemblance to Green Arrow, but he looks like someone we've seen in the field. Which makes no sense."

Artemis watched him think, nervous. She couldn't imagine how he'd react if he figured out Sportsmaster was her father. Megan had told her about their encounter with her father at Santa Prisca, on their first official mission and she had hid her emotions well from the Martian. Luckily never to the point of too well.

"I think I know who your dad is," Wally said, clipping Artemis' think time short. He rushed off and was back in twenty seconds with a cut out of something. She watched as Kid Flash laid it down over her father's face: it was his mask.

"Sportsmaster," Wally said, keeping quiet. "That doesn't make any sense. If you're Sportsmaster's daughter, then why are you on this team? Heck, why aren't you dead?" He never looked over at Artemis. He shook his head. "It can't be him. Sure, they look very similar, but there's no way. No way…"

Artemis was shocked by the look in Wally's eyes. He was searching, yet there were traces of pain. Betrayal.

"It isn't true, right? I mean, if it is, then Bialya makes more sense now."

"Oh, because us flirting didn't." Artemis covered her mouth, shocked by what she had said.

"Maybe you flirting is weird," Wally began. Before he can continue, Artemis jumped up to her feet and smacked him.

"And here I just thought you were an immature idiot!"

"I don't know about the immature part, but…hey, you never answered my question."

"About what?"

"Sportsmaster being your father." They stared each other down until the computer announced the arrival of Kaldur. Artemis started for the zeta tube chamber, hoping to use Kaldur to ditch Wally for a little bit. I'll have to circle around for my homework. Shouldn't be too hard. I am almost as ninja as Robin.

"Artemis, wait!" She paused, unsure of why Wally was trying to get her attention. While she was angry, of all times.

"What do you want, Kid Nosy."

"I'm, uh, sorry." He looked down at his feet. "Even if he is your father, it doesn't matter to me." Wally looked up, taking in a deep breath. "You've proven your place on this team. Especially during that scuffle last week with Cheshire." Artemis took a step back when the speedster's eyes got wide. "Is she?"

"Yes. Maybe you could come over and meet my mother." Artemis looked over her shoulder. No Kaldur yet. "I'm sure she has some stories about our mentors. There's a great one about my mother and a younger Talia al Ghul breaking into the Batcave, hoping to get Bats laid."

"Did it work?"

"Yes it did." They turned to find Batman standing nearby. "I visit young Damian whenever I can. Ra's has gotten upset on multiple occasions when a lucky Shadow reports me slipping out after a visit." He turned to walk away. "I need to debrief Kaldur. He helped Red Arrow protect Lex Luthor of all people from your family." One step and he glanced back. "It seems the Crock girls have a thing for gingers."

"Something you need to tell me about, Arty?"

"Stuff it, Kid Idiot." With a huff, she stormed out. Maybe some shooting will calm me down. I should have that Kid Flash poster in my room back home. I'm sure Wally wouldn't mind.


Artemis shot for two hours and then there was a full hour of combat drills with the Team and Black Canary. Wally had been grinning about something the entire time and she couldn't figure it out. At first she thought it was about him helping her with her homework, but that had been confirmed when Robin made a comment about her actually doing her homework herself. When training ended, she followed the others to the kitchen, but split off to check her homework first.

It was where she had left it, finished. Wally had mimicked her handwriting down to the 't'. The answers he had written out read just like how she would've done it. When she got to the last page, she found a couple drawings. Reading the prompt, she blanched.

"Draw your ideal husband/wife. Complete a Punnett square for both eye color and hair color and then draw one possible child." Below was a sketch of Wally with his usual smirk. There was no name, but he had drawn a reindeer with lines coming off of its nose. Wallace Rudolph West? Ha. Smiling, Artemis erased the animal drawing and replaced it with Wally's full name.

Then she looked at the second drawing. It was a young girl, around seven or eight. Her hair was labeled as being strawberry blonde and her eyes were green. Wally had given her wavy hair, zero freckles, and eyes closer to being European than Asian.

Beneath were a couple comments. "Didn't know what you want to name her, so I left that alone. Also, make sure to ask Dick Grayson about that time I painted his mentor's work vehicle pink." Right before Artemis could stash the homework, she spotted one last message from Wally.

"It doesn't matter who your dad and sister are. We're your family now."

A/N: Well, that was fun. Also, would you like to see a second part?