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"No, Wally, no!" Artemis snapped at the red-head, and as to your question, why were they up at three o clock in the morning, in the Cave? Well, mission alert. You never ignore mission alerts.

Until you find out your mission is babysitting two baby Bats, well, they're birds, but part of the Batfamily, and they acted like Bats. And Wally had just suggested something stupid even for him. Hide-and-go-seek. With Bats.

'And they say blonds are dumb,' Artemis grimaced, fingering her yellow hair. She then turned back to the two boys in front of her.

"Alright, you guys are going to bed." She growled.

"No, you're not my boss, blondie."

"Can you read me TWO bedtime stories?"

"But I wanna' get a snack!"

You can guess who said what.

"Yes, I am, yes, and I wasn't even talking to you!" The archer pinched her nose then sighed, sweeping an outrageously adorable Robin into her arms.

He looked at her through his mask, but the lenses betrayed his eyes were wide. "TWO?" He raised two stubby toddler fingers. "Weally?"

"Yeah, sure, Baby Bird."

"Yay! Thank you, Tinkerbell!" He hugged her then pulled back, his mouth making an excited "O". "Do I get to choose?"

"Uh… sure."

"Can we read… Fox in Sox, really FAST?"

Artemis was about to answer, but she looked back decisively at the speedster and the brat- ehem, she meant bat to issue a couple sharp directions. "Get a snack, don't leave the mountain, don't make a mess, and don't, I repeat don't play hide and seek!"

The two stared at her, then at each other. "I GET THE CHIPS!" Wally screamed, racing out.

"DO NOT LET HIM HAVE SUGER!" Artemis screamed, and the Bat looked at her.

"You talking to me or him?"

"Both!"

"MWAHAHAHAHAHA! I get the fun-dip, Kid Dork!" He raced out of the room, leaving Artemis to look back at Robin, who, to her surprise, was snoring peacefully, cuddled up close to her.

"Aww…" she couldn't help herself. She made her way to Rob's room and sighed when she realized she didn't have the codes (yes, his was the only bedroom with codes). She looked around and found that there was nowhere to put the slumbering bat-toddler. Great.

She slipped into her own room, decorated with arrows and other interesting weaponry, and slipped into her closet to change from her mission clothes. She had, after all, come prepared for a mission.

She set up a floor bed made of blankets and her extra pillows and lay Robin in it, she then slunk under her own covers, trying to suppress her guilt about actually trusting KF with the Bat-Brat.

"Tinkerbell?"

"Yeah?" Artemis was surprised by the timid little voice.

"Are you scared?"

"No, are you?" She tried guessing at his motives.

"A little bit. I miss them."

"Who?"

"Mami, and Dad."

"Yeah? Why do you miss them?"

"Do you miss you're Mommy and Tati?" He ignored her question.

"What? No, I don't want to see my Dad, and my Mom's just at home." She wondered why Robin missed his parents, probably because he was three and three year-olds tend to be a little clingier than thirteen-year-olds.

"Oh." He paused for a minute, long enough that Artemis thought he was done, before his voice came back again, so soft at first she only thought it was a whisper of air. "Do you miss your Tati?"

"I just told you, I don't want to see him." She grunted, wishing Robin would let her sleep.

"No, do you wish he would've held you? And loved you? And kissed you? Do you miss a Tati?"

Artemis had tears in her eyes when she realized what he meant. She got it when he said "a Tati" instead of "your Tati". He wanted to know if she wished she had a Dad, a real one, not a cold one behind a mask who was out to kill her friends.

"Yes," she whispered. "I do." She'd never felt let herself get so emotional around a teammate, but three-year-old Rob, he was just so… innocent, honest, trusting, excepting.

She was surprised when the bed suddenly dipped to the side with new weight, and even more when she felt a tiny back against her own. "I miss my Tati to."

She leaned into his touch, there was nothing romantic in the gesture, but she remembered back when Jade hadn't been too cold hearted, it felt like a million years ago… she hadn't had this kind of touch since then. She didn't know how much she'd missed it.

"Why?" her whisper was incredibly quiet, she didn't know her voice could be so… soft. Nothing in her life was soft, it was all hard. So very, very hard.

"They're gone now."

Artemis didn't ask anything else, instead settling for a peaceful kind of rest… emotional rest, that she hadn't had for so long, she hadn't known she'd needed it so bad…

"I love you, Artemis. You remind me of… her."

"You're mom?"

"Yeah. You're angrier, but you both keep going, no matter what. You would have liked her, and she you."

"T-thanks, Rob."

He didn't answer, but he didn't need to, it was okay, they'd keep going, no matter what.

No matter what.

I know! So sad, so fluffy! I know Artemis may be OOC, but there really is something about little kids that just makes you feel so... emotionally excepted and safe. Anyway, thanks for reading and remember my poll, by guys! (:

~Universe