The phone rang as Wally held it to his ear; his fingers thrumming on the table so fast all Jinx heard was one drawn out drum beat. She jumped when he bolted straight up in his seat. "Aunt Iris! Is Uncle Barry home?" There was a pause and Jinx could just hear the sound of talking through the phone. She felt like she was going to be sick...again. "Great! Yep, I'll be right over." He hung up his phone and put it on the table. There was a flash of movement and next thing Jinx knew, Wally was standing there as Kid Flash, his street clothes replaced by his uniform.
"I take it he's home?" Jinx urged herself not to run straight into the bathroom and vomit.
"Yep. You sure you don't wanna come with?" He looked at her with concern; her usually gray pallor had a greenish tinge to it.
Jinx shook her head, "I'm not sure I'm up for more disapproving hero faces." She kept remembering the look his uncle gave her when Wally had brought her to a family dinner at the Allen household. Just the thought of it brought the bile rising up in her throat.
"Well, okay. I'll be back, quick as a flash," he kissed her on the forehead as she rolled her eyes. She closed her eyes against the onslaught of wind that came as he rushed out the door.
Sighing she glanced towards her stomach, "I wonder if it's genetic." Superspeed was one thing she wasn't sure she could ever get used to.
Wally reveled in the wind that dragged through his hair as he ran. It wasn't far from Keystone to Central, but even a short run cooled his nerves enough that the thought of telling the people who raised him he had knocked up his ex-villainess girlfriend wasn't making him sick to his stomach anymore. That is, until he saw their house on the horizon. He hasn't been aware that his run had slowed until a car passed him easily. Sighing and shaking away his feeling of dread, Wally sped back to his normal pace, the red and yellow blur startling the driver of the car that had passed him. He didn't bother to knock and instead just ran inside. They knew he was coming. He passed through the doorway and barreled straight into his uncle's waiting arms.
"Wally!" He hugged his uncle back, unsure if he'd ever get used to being as tall as him, "getting a little big to be Kid Flash aren't you?" Barry held him at arm's length, taking in his red hair and azure eyes.
Wally chuckled, "Yeah, I guess I'm not really a kid anymore."
"Wally," he turned and saw the smiling face if his Aunt Iris, "I missed you," she wrapped her arms around his waist in a hug.
"I missed you both too," it hadn't been that long since they'd seen each other, but they had always been a close family.
"Where's your girlfriend?" Barry raised an eyebrow as Wally pulled off his mask and sat on the couch.
"She's sick," Wally felt his butterflies come back as they sat down on the chairs in the room, giving him their full attention.
"Aw, that's too bad, I really enjoyed talking to her last time," he knew Iris was being genuine when she said that. They had gotten along at that dinner. It made him wish he could've convinced Jinx to come along.
"That's actually what I wanted to talk to you guys about," Wally looked at them both, blue eyes shining with worry.
"Did you guys break up?" Barry leaned forward in his chair and Wally knew he was thinking about how he was going to tell the League they no longer had to worry about his ward led astray.
"No," Wally took a deep, shuddering breath. It was now or never, "Jinx is pregnant."
There was silence in the room, punctuated only by the whoosh of air at one point. Wally looked up from the floor to see their reactions. Iris was sitting in stunned silence and Barry was...gone. Wally's jaw dropped, "Aunt Iris, where's Uncle Barry?"
"What?" Iris looked over at the now empty chair, "Shit. Wally I'd get home if I were you."
"He wouldn't do that would he?" Her raised eyebrow was all the answer he needed to get him pulling on his mask and rushing out the door.
Jinx stepped out of the bathroom and groaned. She saw a flash of red out of the corner of her eye and assumed it was her favorite speedster, "I feel terrible and it's all your fault," She collapsed on the couch, pink hair cascading over the edge of the cushions.
"Takes two to tango darling," she heard the unmistakable click of a shotgun being cocked and sat up on her elbows, pink eyes wide as she stared down the barrel of a shotgun. She glanced past and saw the red cowl of the Flash behind the weapon.
"Uh, Mr. Allen?"
"Have you ever heard of a shotgun wedding, Jinx?"
"Um, of course, but isn't it usually the father of the girl pointing the shotgun at the guy that got her pregnant?"
"Well, not in this circumstance. You're gonna make an honest man out of my nephew. My great nephew or niece isn't being born out of wedlock. Plus I don't want you running back to the villain life and taking that baby with you, so I'd start thinking of wedding plans if I were you sweetheart."
"Uncle Barry, stop!" Wally screeched to a halt in between Jinx and his uncle, his boots leaving skid marks on the apartment floor.
"I'm just making sure she does the right thing by you, Wally," Barry lowered the gun, but kept his eyes trained on Jinx, following every movement she made.
"What? She's the one who's pregnant here!" Wally looked at his uncle like he was crazy.
"I know, and I'm not letting that baby get taken into the villain life," he glared at the sorceress.
"Uncle Barry, we will get married, and the baby will be raised with two hero parents. Where did you even get a gun anyway?"
"Took it off some no good thug on the way," Barry seemed to relax, "I'll let Bruce know. You were always his favorite sidekick besides Robin, I'm sure he'd love to host your wedding at Wayne Manor." Barry disappeared before either of them could respond. Jinx just ran to the bathroom and puked, her fear coming out of her body just like everything else had been lately.
"Well, looks like we're getting married," Jinx looked up to see Wally leaning against the door jamb, a smirk on his face.
Jinx rolled her eyes, "ugh, and I thought the H.I.V.E. five were a crazy family."