CHAPTER 2
Memories-Alice
Star City wasn't the safest place in the world but still, it was safer than Gotham. People knew that walking near weird and dark places was not the best idea but they were doing that anyway. Even when it's day, you can't be hundred per cent sure that you're safe. Especially when you're rich and everyone wants to kill you. The old business man was going to his meeting. He found a couple of letters with treats in his house. He didn't know what was coming to him.
Merlyn was on the edge of a small building, watching his target through the binoculars. The business man stopped when his case with some papers fell on the ground. Merlyn smiled and took his bow and arrows.
"Another easy job..."
He aims his arrow at the old man's head. When he was about to shoot his arrow a smoke appeared. Choking Merlyn jumped out of the smoke and looked at the building in front of him.
"And here I thought that he would stay in that smoke a little longer..." A girl in a red and yellow costume said. She had long blonde hair that was covering her left eye.
"Speedy, you need to concentrate." Green Arrow said shooting her arrow with sleeping gas at Merlyn.
Merlyn shoots his arrow destroying one that was flying towards him.
"Do you two really don't have anything else to do?!" A villain shouted.
Speedy and Green Arrow were running towards their opponent.
"Sorry that I don't have lots of homework in summer." Speedy said shooting her arrow at next building.
She landed on the same building that Marlyn was. She hides and was waiting for a signal.
"You two don't have any chances wit-*sniff* wh..what-" Merlyn fell on his knees when he felt weak.
"Speedy now!"
Speedy jumped out of her cover and shoot her glue arrow to imprison Merlyn.
"Guess we can call it a day. Let's go home and see who is going to clean the dishes today." Green Arrow said.
"Of course not us! We caught Merlyn, Clock King and..one, two... and ten thugs. Dad and Jess are cleaning the dishes today." Speedy said aiming her arrow to get down.
"Do you need a hand with going down baby?"
Ten-year-old Alice had a shooting training with her mom. Today she was going to learn how to use her trick arrows on the field. Spiderman and Spidergirl were there as well.
"Ok honey don't be scared. All you need to do is shoot your arrow at the building but you need to aim a little lower so you could slide using your bow and land on the rooftop." Green Arrow said making sure that her daughter knows what she needs to do.
"But what if I fall just like Jessy?" Alice said looking at her mom with puppy eyes.
"Don't worry I will catch you."
"Daddy said the same thing to me and he didn't catch me!" Jessy screamed.
"Hey! I caught you... the second time but I still caught you!" Spiderman said.
"Babe, you're not helping!" Green Arrow screamed at her husband.
While Artemis and Peter were arguing Alice jumped on the edge of the building and shot her arrow but it was a higher than it should be so she couldn't slide down. She didn't notice it and placed her bow on the string and jumped. She was stuck in the middle of her way.
"MOMMY!" Alice cried as she was losing her grip.
When Ga and Spiderman turned they saw their daughter was stuck.
"MY GOD ALICE!" Artemis shouted running to the edge.
"DON'T WORRY SWEETY DADDY'S COMING!" Spiderman shouted.
Alice couldn't hold on any longer and she let go of her bow.
"AAAHHH!"
"ALICE!"
Spiderman jumped after Alice and caught her. After that, he shoots his web and swings to the rest of his family.
"Why all three of you need to give me a heart attack?!" Spiderman said trying to put Alice down on the ground but she was holding onto his arm for a dear life.
"Alice, you're safe now. You can let go."
Alice didn't say anything, she just tightened her grip around her dad's hand.
"NO!"
"Alice let go."
"NO!"
"Come on baby you need to try again."
"NEVER!"
"Gee what you would do in my place. And for the record, I was just ten years old for God's sake!" Speedy said sliding down and landed next to beta beam.
"Ok holder it's time to go home."
Palo Alto
Jessy was lying on the couch and watching TV with her dad. Thirty-six-year-old Peter Parker was ordering food on his phone.
"Your mother and sister are going to have lots of dishes."
Jessy laughed.
"Good."
In that moment Artemis and Alice came back home.
"What took you two so long? Did criminals in Star City have got a day off?" Peter said with a smile standing up.
Alice jumped and sat on her sister's stomach.
"OUCH GET OFF ME YOU HIPPO!"
Alice smiled evilly and lied her back on the couch.
"I rather be a hippo then loooossseeeeerrrr like you and dad." Alice said.
"You're a hippo loser." Jessy said grabbing a pillow and hitting Alice.
While girls were fighting on the couch Peter walked up to his wife and hugged her.
"So how was your day?" He said kissing her forehead.
"It was ok Alice and I stopped twelve criminals. How about you and Jessy?"
"Well, we stopped Juggernaut, Electro and...I should order less food."
Artemis laughed.
"Changing the subject did you chose what you want to do on your birthday tomorrow?"
"Well, we could go to an amusement park with girls. And after these two go to sleep we could do some other things maybe we even could..."
"Artemis, you remember what happened when you were pregnant with girls...I almost lost you and our kids. Tony said that it will happen if you're pregnant again... and it could be even worst. You can die..." Peter said laying his forehead on her's.
Artemis sighed. Peter was right.
"Besides we've got two lovely devils."
They looked at Jessy and Alice who were still fighting on the couch.
"You remember when the stole your web shooters?"
"How could I forget."
Artemis and Zatanna were in the kitchen talking about Zatanna's four-year-old son Ethan. Artemis made cookies and placed them on the table where she and Zatanna were talking.
"Why didn't you bring Ethan? And where's Dick?"
"I left them in the house. After Dick took the mental of Batman he is hardly home and I don't want Ethan to ask me WHO is his dad."
"Poor Grayson."
In the entrance to the kitchen six-years-old, Jessy and Alice were watching what two women were doing in the kitchen.
"Alright, the plan is simple. You distract mom and aunt Zee while I use dad's toys to steal cookies." Jessy said.
Alice nodded and went to the kitchen with her teddy.
"Hi, mommy. Hi, aunte Zatanna." Alice said.
Two women turned their attention to a Little girl.
"Hi, sweety. How are you?"
While Alice was making a distraction Jessy was on the ceiling aiming at the jar full of cookies.
"And where's your sister?" Zatanna asked.
"She's...um ...she's in our room... drawing."
Alice was scared for a second that two adults would discover her lie but they even didn't make any face.
"My God. She looks just like you." Zatanna said to Artemis.
"Jessy too." She continues.
In that moment Peter came to the room and saw Jessy who shot the web at the jar of cookies. He started to laugh.
"What?" Artemis asked her husband.
"Look hahaha at yo-haha right."
Artemis looked at her right and saw Jessy stealing the cookies.
"Uuummmm... Hi, mommy."
"I thought that I'm gonna die laughing back there." Peter said still looking at his daughters.
Artemis lied her head on Peter's shoulder warping her arms around his torso.
"Yeah, me too."
"I love you."
"I love you too."
"Hey, what about us here!"
Alice and Jessy jumped and hugged their parents.
"What were you guys talking about?" Jessica asked.
"Nothing... you cookie thief."