"Hey Walls, who's your boyfriend?!"

Wally immediately shouted back, "He was artificially grown in Star Tech Labs, I'm just bringing him along as part of his human conditioning!"

The little kids were still physically harassing Wally, who picked up 3 of them, and let the last one koala-latch onto his leg. While Wally trudged the remaining distance to the front door with his heavy cargo, they were all talking at once; Dick was able to pick up a few things they said, such as "Mom's pregnant!", "I lost a tooth!" "Wally I swallowed a bug again!" "Can't you go faster?!" "Nana is makin' garlic meatloaf and it smells BAD!" "Mindy peed her pants yesterday!"

Wally greeted his mom when he finally reached the porch; she laughed in response. Apparently she found his plight amusing.

"Fresh caramel popcorn in the kitchen, guys!" His mom addressed the toddlers. Maybe she was sympathetic after all.

As quickly as they'd mobbed Wally, the little kids ditched him, stampeding into the house and presumedly towards the kitchen. Mrs. West fondly watched them go, then turned to Wally with a reminiscent smile and said, "I remember when you were that age, just adorable. Biggest mouth and brain I'd ever seen on a child."

"Mom, come on! Not in front of him!" Wally complained, motioning towards Dick, who wore a gloating grin.

"Nice to see you dear! I've got to go help Nan, now both of you stay out of trouble, and no corrupting the little tikes!"

After she left, Wally said, "She means you."

"Pfft, as if."

Their attention was suddenly diverted to a cringing level of high pitched barking from just inside the house. Two girls and one boy ran out, all around preteen age. They were screaming, "Demon Chihuahua! Demon Chihuahua!" as they blew past them, the boy grabbing a last second high five from Wally.

The older teens had made their way over to Wally, the tallest one grabbing him in a headlock and giving him a noogie, while several others slapped him on the back or gave him a side hug, all talking at once. There were so many redheads Dick was about to make a Weasley's comment, but decided to bring it up when it was just him and Wally.

"Guess what Walls, Gramma brought Angel!"

"What?!" Wally exclaimed, rubbing his head and looking at them all in horror.

"Who's Angel?" Dick asked him.

"Who's he?" they asked Wally, regarding Dick.

"Angel is my grandmother's cat," Wally told his friend, ignoring his cousins.

Dick's eyebrows shot up at this. The legendary grandmother's cat. Wow.

"And the Demon chihuahua?"

"We call it Lester." Wally told him darkly.

"That's not it's real name though," a girl with brunette hair piped up and told Dick.

"It's part of his title, Lester the Molester," the guy who noogied Wally added.

Dick's face must have been the epitome of 'WTF', because most of the teens started laughing. Wally explained further.

"If there is anything on the ground - small child, pillow, Angel the cat - Lester will hump it."

"And it's real name?"

"Honey Boo Boo."

"Dear God."

A woman with curly, red, bobbed hair suddenly burst through the front door, tittering at all of them to visit with the rest of the family inside, "They're dying to see all of you! Oh, who's this?" she then asked, looking at Dick.

"He's conducting a social experiment and will be reporting his findings to the government, so with any luck everyone here will be investigated and they'll put Uncle Ozzie in jail," Wally smarted off,

"Oh hush you," she scolded, and finished herding them all inside.

It was an old fashioned country house, probably built around 1910 and remodeled maybe 30 years ago. Very quaint, beautiful, victorian feel to the inside. However, it did seem a bit overcrowded. Wally and him made their way through the people, and one of Wally's slightly younger cousins stuck by their side.

"So what are the stats, Donnie?" Wally asked.

"Well Irene had a baby, Ozzie's got a new gold digger, Jamie got a girlfriend, Trev is in Juvie, Carla and Steve are getting a divorce, there's 3 new engagements but I don't know exactly of who, and my mom and Aunt Sara are pregnant. Business as usual."

"And you?"

"Won the Science fair in my town, pretty sweet deal, will tell you about it later. Who's the tag along?"

"This is Rick, just a friend who didn't believe me when I told him stories of family reunions, so I brought him along to see for himself."

"Bad idea mate."

"I'm right here you know," Dick interjected as they talked as though he wasn't there. It was mildly annoying. Wally then started running a commentary about the relatives they passed; Donnie hung around with them.

"That's Aunt Carla, she's on her 3rd divorce, wouldn't that be right Donnie? Over there is Uncle Ozzie, he's sleaze, got well off by running scams, always has a gold digger 30 years younger than him on his arm. The lady talking to my mom is Donna, one time she lost a bet and had to eat a friend chicken head. My dad's parents are over there, you know them, and the guy on the floral sofa with his feet on the coffee table about to get told off, that's Randy, he has a llama farm. I have no idea who those people over by the grandfather clock are, or that lady, or him, or whoever that is either. Everyone (meaning us kids) is trying to make it to the attic, looks like most of them have made it there already. Now the cousins; a bunch of them are country kids, I like to call them hicks but last time I did that they put a snake in my tent, so I don't do that anymore. Ian's dad is American and mother is British so it's a riot, one second he'll be saying 'Well I'll be gobsmacked' in a complete British accent then he'll follow up with 'AY YO MA!', doesn't even realize why everyone ends up laughing. Donnie here lives in Albany, with his 4 sisters. Jamie is the oldest, the jerk who headlocked me earlier. And there's a dozen more but I'll just tell you their names when we see them upstairs."

Wally stopped to catch his breath, but not ever 2 seconds later Donnie gasped, hit Wally on the shoulder as a warning, then ducked out of sight. Wally whispered in horror to himself, "Nana!" grabbed Dick by the shirt sleeve and turned around, but they were blocked from the hallway and door, literally trapped until the current group finished passing through. It only took 4 seconds for them to get an opening, but suddenly an old, scratchy voice yelled, "Ah ha!" and a frail, white haired woman with a walker pointed at Wally. Or rather, the both of them.

"I knew it! Sherwin, you owe me twenty!" she continued.

"What?!" Wally exclaimed, and then Barry, who had someone ended up beside them, bent down to tell his nephew,

"Apparently a handful of people have been making bets on which grandkids are gay, and currently you are holding onto 'Rick's sleeve and with her eyesight I'm sure she sees it as you two holding hands."

"Oh come on," Wally exclaimed, mortified. He quickly let go of Dick's sleeve. "We're not a couple!"


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