Chapter 26 Zany Family of Heroes

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This was originally prompted by the great Lillianna Rider. :p

This is officially the last chapter...of season 1! Be expecting a new season, rebooting with the letter a, very soon. It will still be in this story, so it won't be too hard to find.

In this chapter, a few...erm...interesting things are found out...but half of you already guessed one of them.

I do not own Young Justice.

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It had become fairly frank that Wally wasn't sticking to the oath he had made while still shaken in a hospital bed. Though he had made major changes; he now had a rather bushy moustache, and had found a new job- he still hadn't stuck to his word. It was obvious, when he came home with poorly hidden gashes and cuts, or when he didn't come home at all, that something was going on. Artemis furrowed her brow as she once again held her iPhone in her hands. Her knuckles were becoming white as she grasped the device in anger. She was contemplating calling Wally; forcing him to come home, and probably arguing with him for a good few hours. She was also, interestingly enough, feeling bad about the whole situation. Ultimately, it wasn't because her husband was still saving people from a random mugging here and there, nor was it because she was terrified for him...it was because she herself was doing the very thing she had quite simply stated she had stopped.

Artemis carefully placed her phone onto the black-marble counter. She un-bandaged her swollen hands, and grimaced at the cuts across them. They were emitting pus- but at least they were healing. She groaned and found a substitute for antibiotics, while wrapping the wound once more. She knew it wasn't healthy, what she was doing, but she felt she needed it. Not the antibiotics, of course, but the lifestyle. She knew she was only hurting herself, and she knew she needed to stop, but the thrill seeker jumping around inside her had caused her to forget how much was actually at stake.

The blonde strutted to the living room. Jai was in his play-pen, throwing colourful blocks at the walls and chewing them. He was absent-mindedly chatting to himself, though the words were impossible to make out. Artemis casually watched him for a few minutes, smiling to herself, before walking over to the four-seater couch by the pen, and removing the a scarlet plump cushion. She tutted to herself as she removed a hand-held radio from the furniture, which she normally hid during the day. She had the frequency set to pick up police-urgencies, and if even the smallest robbery stammered through the speakers, she would throw on her mask and spandex, and rush to the scene wielding her bow.

For the moment, Artemis kept to the shadows- shooting her arrows from the darkness. Some media reporters speculated she was Green Arrow, or Arrowette- but both were fairly impossible ideas. The two enjoyed been in the spotlight. Other journalists suggested she was an android, perhaps not even of the earth. Bloggers thought she might be the ghost of some long forgotten hero, a few thought she was a man...others didn't even think she was real, and it was all a publicity stunt. Artemis was already aware Batman had caught on; Iris had said something about it one Thursday at the dinner table. Artemis half-thanked God that Wally had once again not come home on time, and hadn't heard their daughters rambles; "A new archer! Really skilled, the team say! There are photos too! Apparently, she wears a mask that has a tigers face on it!" Artemis and Wally had kept the 'dark-months' hidden from their daughter, the months that Artemis had played dead while working undercover by the alias of Tigress. Iris probably had no idea that such a mission even existed, not many people did.

Artemis snapped herself out of her daze, and got to work making dinner for the family. She knew Iris would be home at any moment, almost certainly bringing a friend home. If her day was going to plan, Wally would come home about half an hour after Iris. Artemis rolled her eyes; her day never went to plan. At best, Wally would tip-toe in at midnight with a slash under his eye and a leg missing. For a moment, Artemis compared Wally before and after he had promised not to stop crime. It seemed he had been doing more saving the day then he had done when he was actually Flash's sidekick. Artemis sighed and sniffed, stirring the noodles in the pot before her.

She heard the click of the door, and Iris rushed in giggling. She embraced her mother, introduced a boy by the name of 'Billy-James' from next door, and rushed up to her room, almost exposing her powers as she did so. Iris had become far better at concealing what she could do, but it didn't help that speed was now automatic with any running she did, and her accelerated growth wasn't making things easier either. Before long, the shrieks and laughter of Billy and Iris could be heard from a mile away, and when Wally rushed into the house an hour later, he even had that fact to comment on.

He was missing a tooth, and his hair was ruffled and his arm, not properly attached to his shoulder, was hanging by his side, but he had definitely had worse. Artemis rolled her eyes, and placed his plate of food on the table. He raised an eyebrow, slouching and taking a seat in the wooden chair that only had three legs. Artemis smirked. She had him trapped. She piled another plate of food for herself, and took a seat directly across from her husband. He stopped eating to acknowledge her presence, and continued at a fast pace until his plate was licked clean and gleaming. "Great food tonight, Babe! Thanks!" He tried to hold in a belch as he patted his stomach, and then began to rise. Artemis cleared her throat, and gestured for him to sit once more. Wally gritted his teeth, he knew this meant talking. He glanced to his left; the doors were all shut, something he had failed to notice in his hunger. He wasn't going to get out fast...so he gave up.

He ran a freckled hand over his eyes, and pushed it against his face, sighing, "Babe, I'm tired. Let's do this later, okay? Work was tough tod-"

Artemis slammed her fork down to the table, her lips a thin line, "Don't pretend, Wally. Work couldn't have been so tough that you managed to scratch your cheek to the meat, and get your shoulder taken out!" She snarled and took a deep breath, "Obviously, you think I'm stupid." Wally tried to intervene, he most likely wanted to argue that she was perfect, ect, so he could get out of the conversation. Artemis glowered at him and continued, "Obviously, you're hiding the fact that you're still doing the 'hero thing', and don't try and deny it. The people from across the block came round to say thanks for rescuing their cat from a tree..." Artemis sniggered at Wally's expression of anger, "And though you think that's a nice deed, pretty harmless, I know cats don't dislocate shoulders...I know what you've been stopping, I know what you've been doing...and I wanted to tell you, that if you really need to continue, do it..."

Wally cheered and threw his arms upwards, before kissing his wife, leaning over the table, "Thank God you understand, Arty! I just wanted to-" Artemis glared, and raised a finger, swaying it from side to side while pursing her lips, "You didn't let me finish. Wallace." She hissed his name, and kept her cold gaze on him, "If you need to continue it, then you won't be living under this roof. But before you go all arrogant- think of Jai, think of Iris...of me, and of the baby. We need you now more than ever, and you need to have a stable job, and you NEED to stay alive. If you die- that's it. I can't get a job, who'd look after the kids? I can't ask Dick of that- he has his own life, even though most of it is women." Artemis sucked in a deep breath, and raised her face to look once more at Wally, "Jai is two and five months, Iris is six, and they need a dad. If you don't do it for me, do it for them." She fluttered her eyelashes as Wally sat with a puzzled expression on his face. Artemis tried to smile, but the small curve her lips made upwards was hardly noticeable, "What do you say then, Wally?"

Wally opened his mouth, furrowed his brow, and scratched his head, "You need to pop my shoulder back in."

Artemis shut her eyes, trying to not make obvious the steam that was puffing out of her nose and ears. Wally laughed, and grimaced before looking down at the floor and twiddling his thumbs, "We only have two kids, Artemis. And you said-" A sudden realisation hit the normally bright Wallace West. His face slowly moved to look at Artemis, who had stopped fuming. The straight line that was his mouth began to curve up, up, until his features were cracking and there were tears in his eyes. He slammed his palms to the table, ignoring the crunching sound his shoulder made. He leapt upwards and yelled at the top of his voice, punching the air with a clenched fist, "I'M GONNA HAVE ANOTHER BABY!" Wally began prancing around the room, bouncing off the floor and twitching the bright red upper lip hair he had sprouted. Artemis rolled her eyes as he took her by the hands and swung her around, shouting at the top of his lungs.

The couple wore matching grins for the first time in a while. It seemed all the stupid stress that had built up had vanished. Wally was already listing what they would need for the baby's room, he was contemplating moving house, and he was already beginning to dial everyone he knew...until Artemis shuffled uncomfortably out of his grasp, grimacing, "We're going to have to double order all the stuff you've written down." She pointed at the four pages of items he had scribbled into a note pad. The words hit Wally far faster; he raised an eyebrow at a time. His smirk dissolved, and became a one sided smile, "We're having twins?"

Artemis nodded with haste, shutting her eyes. She knew how tough it was going to be, she knew all of the trouble it would cause. She didn't want Wally's happiness to go out of the window like she thought it had. She was frightened out of her skin when Wally grabbed her shoulders and pressed his face to hers, his eyes gleaming, and wearing a smile so large even Alice's Cheshire would be impressed. With the sudden motion and smirk, he moved away, and pressed his lips to her ear, whispering, trembling, but all the while ecstatic, "We're having twins."

There you go.

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