There are days when Dick wakes up happy. The sun shines, birds begin chirping, and more recently, he finds Damian sound asleep in his crib across the room, and the kids cuddled up against him on his lovely, soft, king-sized bed (he had convinced himself long ago that if he was only going to have 3 hours of sleep each day, then they were damn well going to be the best 3 hours he could get).

However, today was not going to be one of those days. Which was ironic, because today was supposed to be the happiest day of his life. He was going to make the kids his.

He was finally going to get the adoption papers officiated.

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Dick woke up to a dark room and a snoring Jason sleeping across his stomach with Tim curled up beside him. While the latter was cute, he was getting sick of waking up to Jason sleeping somewhere he originally wasn't. Whether it be under the bed, on the couch or on a totally different spot of the bed than Dick tucked him into.

With a groan, Dick managed to push the boy off his chest, and watched as the younger boy rolled to the other side of the bed, arms hanging off the edge and his drool covered face mushed into the mattress. He considered getting up and moving him to a more comfortable position before deciding he was much too tired to deal with that.

Curling up underneath his blankets again, Dick allowed himself to relax and began his descent back to sleep- only to be woken up when the doorbell rang.

With a curse, Dick managed his way out of bed, only tripping on the carpet twice before making his way to the living room, only to see that his guest had already let himself into his house… and his food.

"Wally!"

"Dick!"

The two friends laughed at each other before hugging and Dick couldn't help but revel in the feeling of seeing one of his closest buds again.

Wally and him had joined the Teen Titans at around the same time, with Wally only being two weeks senior to Dick. The gangly teenager had actually been the person to recruit Dick as a Titan and had since, held a position in his life as a brother. They had been together through everything, from training to life and death situations to just plain teenage drama.

Wally had been there when Dick was inaugurated as the Titan's leaders and had been one of the people who cheered the loudest. Dick had been there when Wally eventually chose to make the switch from the Teen Titans to Young Justice and faced the discrimination of many of the Titans for transferring from a free-lance group to a Justice League operated one. Similarly, Wally had been there for him when he stepped down from leader and transferred to Bludhaven as a non-allied vigilante.

And now Wally was here, supporting him as he started a new family.

"Dude! It's been so long since we've hung out!" Wally exclaimed as he leaned back from the hug and smacked Dick's back. Dick chuckled and lightly punched in the direction of Wally's shoulder only to hit air and find the ginger grinning behind him.

"Yeah, it has been, especially if you can dodge my punches now. When did that happen?" Dick asked, aiming another punch at his friend only to be dodged again.

"Well, you know, I heard fatherhood weighs down on most vigilantes. Makes them slow. And weak." Wally teased from his new corner of the room.

"Don't let Roy hear you say that." Dick said grinning as he charged at Wally in a less exuberant version of the flying drop kick.

"Pshh… I was talking about you, Papa bear. Besides, he can't handle all this." Wally said, flexing his muscles jokingly before using his superspeed to dodge the kick and run to another side of the room. His feet, however, didn't take him far, half way across the room he tripped on the carpet, falling flat on his face.

Dick couldn't help but laugh, even as he walked over to help Wally up. It was too reminiscent of their teenage years, the whole running in before thinking. Nice to see some things never change.

"Yeah, all that." Dick teased, lifting Wally off the floor with ease. The ginger-head grinned sheepishly, arms behind his head before his whole demeanor seemed drop.

"Speaking of Roy… Have you heard from him recently?" Dick looked down at the floor, biting his lip then emitting a sigh and shaking his head

"No, the last time was after the custody case. You know how he gets when he's upset, and well, losing Lian to Jade has him more upset than ever. He was trying so hard to quit for her."

Green eyes became hard at that, and Dick could already feel the argument about to come from the older boy. Wally and Roy had never particularly liked each other as teens. They had been too different. Wally never understood Roy's bitterness and plain disregard of the Justice League while Roy had never understood Wally's hero-worship of them.

Arguments between the two of them usually left them bruised and battered physically and emotionally as they unknowingly pushing at each other's sore spots. Of course, Dick was the only one who knew about the emotional part. Being the only person close to both had given him a new perspective into their relationship and made him hesitant to defend either of them.

For the most part though, they ignored each other for the team's and Dick's sake. Which was why it was so disconcerting to see Wally concerned about Roy.

"Yeah, well, maybe if he hadn't gotten himself addicted to the stuff he would still have her. Honestly, it's his own fault."

"It wasn't completely his fault, and you know that Wally." Dick grits out, he so badly wants to defend Roy but he knows better than to in front of Wally. An argument over Roy was just bound to leave Wally and him even more estranged than they had been after his move to Bludhaven and honestly Dick missed Wally, it had been so long since he had seen one of his friends in real life. The move to Bludhaven hadn't been easy and left him practically estranged from all his friends but Kori.

"Listen, I don't want to argue about that. What do you want with Roy?" Dick spit out, trying to maintain a pleasant air. The ginger blinked at him, surprised at the quick subject change, before his whole posture seemed to sag. A hand reached into his back pocket and pulled out a golden embossed envelope which was handed over to Dick. Curious, Dick ripped it open without the least care only to stop and gape when he read the header.

"You are cordially invited to the wedding of Wally West and Artemis Crock?" He read out loud, a grin slowly creeping across his face. "Dude! You proposed! You didn't even tell me!" He shouted, punching Wally on the arm as his grin threatened to split his face.

"Yeah, well, it's been hard to get in touch with you recently." Wally sheepishly smiled, rubbing his shoulder.

"That's why I've been looking for Roy, Artemis really wants him there for her wedding. Something about being the older brother she never had. I, personally, don't care much for the guy, but for her I'll do anything." Wally straightened up suddenly looking serious.

"Anyways, dude, I didn't just come here to babysit your kids, I wanted to ask you something."

Dick watched expectantly, his eyebrow drifting further up his forehead as Wally fidgeted.

"I wanted to ask… if you'd like to be my Best Man."

"Oh, is that it!" Dick laughed. "Of course, Walls! If you hadn't asked I would've been a little insulted, honestly." The two laughed together at that because honestly neither could imagine their wedding without the other, not after all the years of fighting together.

"You're the only person I ever thought to ask." Wally reassured, grinning. Dick smiled back.

"Daddy?" A soft voice came from behind him. Dick turned around to see a sleepy Tim clutching the door pane while rubbing his eyes.

"Timmy, what are you doing up?" Dick asked the child as he walked over to pick him up.

"I heawd voices, and you wewe gone. I got scared." Tim pouted at Dick. Turning slightly in his father's arms, Tim caught sight of Wally. The older man waved at him as Tim squinted suspiciously.

"Who's that?"

"Ahhhh…. Well, that's my friend Wally, he's going to babysit you guys today while I go out for a while."

Tim bursts into wails before he could even finish his sentence.

AN: so i basically forgot about this story. sorry. I'm sorry about the horrible quality too. Review plz!