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"Everything's gonna change for you guys. The sooner you realize that, the easier things will be for you. For you and those babies. Especially since you're thinking about keeping them."
AN: I know that according to YJ Wikia, Rocket is 15, but in this story I'm making her 17. Okay?
"I emptied out my college account." Wally said, walking into Artemis's bedroom at the Cave. Said Archer was on her laptop, looking for two bedroom, one bathroom home in a safe neighborhood that they could afford.
It had been about three days since Wally left his folks house in a fit of rage, and he had yet to come back. Ever since, they had been looking for a home for them to live at.
"How much?" Artemis asked, her stormy eyes still on the screen.
"About sixty bucks short of ten grand." He said. Artemis gasped, her dropping slightly. "Holy shit!" She cried. "I know! That's about four grand more then what I was expecting it to be!" He yelped, laying beside her, placing the envelope full of the money next to him.
Wally looked at her laptop's screen, seeing what the Mother of his unborn children was doing on her computer.
"What'cha doing?" He asked. "Looking for a place for us to live. I have checked every two bedroom place whose rent is under $550 in Central, Keystone, Star City, and Happy Harbor. I can not find shit." She groaned.
"Well, we've got about ten grand with us right now, and ten grand each in our accounts for the League. Maybe we should buy a house?" He suggested.
"Thirty grand total, minus about ten or fifthteen for furniture and food. Think we could find a house for under $15,000 or $20,000?" Artemis asked, doing the math in her head.
"Dunno. Might as well try and see." He shrugged, kissing her cheek. "So how long till the babies are here?" Wally asked. "January 23." Artemis said, looking for homes.
"Good to have you back Raquel. How was your vacation?" M'gann asked, as the Team's newest member arrived at the Cave four days later.
"Great! Uh man did I need that vacation! Hawaii's amazing! So, what'd I miss while I gone?" Raquel asked, sitting on the couch.
"I'm six weeks pregnant with twins." Artemis said, sipping on some lemonaid. Raquel gasped, her eyes growing wide as her jaw dropped.
"I'll be right back." She muttered, getting up.
"Recognized Rocket B10."
Artemis sighed, shaking her head. "Sorry Rocket wasn't okay with it." Zatanna frowned, resting her hand on Artemis's shoulder. "It's okay. I wonder when she'll be back." Artemis shrugged.
"Recognized Rocket B10 and authorized guest." The computer announced.
"Authorized guest?" M'gann asked. They all turned and watched as Raquel came back into the Cave's common room.
... With a little boy trailing quickly after her. The little boy could not have been more then sixteen months old.
And he looked just like Raquel.
"Raquel...?" Zatanna gasped. Rocket blushed, her eyes on the toddler clutching at her pant leg.
"Guys? This is Amistad Augustus Erwin. He is my son." She explained.
"You're a Momma?" M'gann asked.
"Yeah. I was barely fifthteen when he was born. You and Wally are welcome to have his old car seat and crib, and all of his old clothes if one of the babies turns out to be a little boy." Raquel told Artemis.
"Oh thank you!" Artemis cried, wrapping her arms around her newest teammate.
Artemis and Wally ended up buying a small, three bedroom, two bathroom, double wide trailer for $12,000. The mobile home was just a three and a half hour drive south from Wally's old house.
So, while his parents were on a weekend trip to Jay and Joan Garricks home two hours west from the home, Wally rented a uHual trailer and had the team help him pack up his things so they could take it to the new house.
"I want to help! What can I do?" Artemis cried. "You, are nine weeks pregnant with twins. It's your job to make sure that no one shows up while we are here." Wally informed her, earning a loud groan from his girlfriend of over six months.
So, while everyone from M'gann and Rocket to Wally and Conner packed up his clothes, books, and dresser, Artemis sat in the rocking chair on the porch, bored out of her skull.
"Hey Wally, do you think you're parents kept any of your old baby furniture?" Artemis asked through the mental link that M'gann had set up for them.
"I know they didn't keep my crib; I accidentally broke it when I was two. I'm not sure about the rest of the stuff." Wally told her.
"How did you break your crib?" Conner asked.
"Don't ask."
"I'm gonna check to see if they did keep your old crap. Now... Where would it be?" She asked, entering the house, making sure to avoid the Team as they went in and out of the house.
"Either the basement, attic, or the garage- but don't go in there alone!" Wally cried, . "I'll keep her safe." Zatanna said. The magician went downstairs to help the Archer on her search.
"Okay, so we have found Wally's old changing table, a bassinet, and a car seat Artemis interrupted Zatanna
"That looks like it was used by Baby Jesus." Artemis yawned, glancing at the... Thing Wally's parents used to put him in when ever they took their car. "So you wanna take the changing table and bassinet, and leave everything else?" Wally asked.
He didn't like Artemis sitting in the basement for very long- her or Zatanna. There were spiders there. And possibly snakes and other gross creepy crawlies.
"Yeah. Although..." Artemis trailed off.
"Although what?" Wally sighed.
"We found a few boxes of your old baby clothes. We wanna look through them!" Zatanna cried, grinning. "Oh God." He groaned. That's when he noticed, Artemis was giving him the look.
"Oh no! Not the puppy-dog pout!" He whined.
Artemis sniffled, fake tears forming in her eyes. "Fine! But you gotta be done in an hour!" He sighed, him and Robin picking up the bassinet, while Conner grabbed the changing table.
"If you hear us scream, there were spiders in the boxes!" Zatanna hollered.
"So, what do you think the babies are gonna be?" Zatanna asked, as her and Artemis divided Wally's old baby clothes into two piles: stuff they thought was so adorable they had to keep it; and stuff that should be burned to a crisp.
"Wally thinks they're gonna be a girl and a boy. I think it's either gonna be that, or two boys." Artemis explained, putting three more 3-6 month onesies and a pair of newborn jeans into the "Keep them" pile.
"Ah, you don't think you're gonna get two baby girls?" Zatanna teased.
"Nope. I have got a very big feeling in my gut that one is gonna be a little boy." Artemis explained.
"I think that "very big feeling" you have is indigestion." Zatanna commented.
"Well, we've looked through everything, might as well leave." Artemis yawned, as Zatanna helped her up. The magician grabbed the box that had the "Keep them" clothes in it, and went up the stairs with Artemis close behind her.