Artemis' P.O.V
Why did they leave me with these two? Green Arrow was just upset that Roy left and Canary was just upset because he was upset. That's not my issue. They'll calm down eventually. I hope. Okay, fine, I'll admit that I don't have much experience with this sort of thing. All the more reason for someone else to be dealing with it. Heck, even Roy would be better at handling them then I would. Oh well, I guess I need to at least try to do something about this. Wish me luck. I'll need it.
Okay, so what do I do? Umm... Picking them up worked pretty well on Ollie and Flash earlier. That might not be a bad idea to try. I can only pick them up one at a time though. Then again, that might not be the best idea, considering if one of them stops crying, the other one will keep at it, and eventually the other one will start back up again. But,if Canary is only crying because Ollie is then if I calm him down it might help her. Worth a shot.
I lifted Ollie up and held him. This is so weird. I mean, he is my, usually adult(ish), mentor, and now here he is sobbing in my arms with his girlfriend not all that far away doing the same thing. I guess he's slightly cute. That still doesn't mean I'm changing any diapers or anything like that, and if any of them try to make me (most likely Wally) they will have to learn how to live with an arrow in their knee.
The sobs start to get fewer and farther apart, so I switch my attention to Canary. She calms down much quicker than he did. Hmmm... now comes the matter of getting them into the kitchen. I pick Canary up and speed walk in the direction of the kitchen. I place her down on the floor then proceed to Gibbs-slap Wally across the back of the head* (Kaldur looked like he disapproved, but it is so worth it to see the look on Wally's face) and walk away glaring at the rest of them. They either snickered or looked relatively frightened. Its good to know that I'm at least getting through to some of their thick skulls. I walk back over to Arrow, whom at this point had started trying to explore the room, and did the same thing over again. He whimpered and tried to squirm free more than she had, but I was persistent in not letting him break free.
We eventually got back into the kitchen where we saw the team trying to feed some of our mentors while Zatanna sat on the floor playing with the ones that were waiting to be fed. The food looked disgusting, (most baby food does) but they looked so adorable trying to eat it with the food dribbling down their faces. I'm not really the first person to be considered a having an insane love of cute things, but this, this was really just too much for even a person like me to resist. I whipped out the camera which Roy gave me (something about wanting as much blackmail as possible) before he left and went in to get a couple of close ups on their faces.
The best picture I got was of Wally trying to feed Flash, who was probably the messiest of them so far. When I went in for the picture he gave me this goofy little grin that looked a lot like something Kid Flash would do. Like Uncle like Nephew I guess. I also got a pretty good picture of Kal feeding Aquaman a bottle, which was really cute. Among the other ones I got included Connor and Superman and Megan and Martian Manhunter which both turned out well. A lot of the pictures I took turned out a bit blurry, but its nothing a couple of filters can't fix.
After I got enough pictures, in my opinion at least, I decided to help out with feeding them. I picked up Ollie and moved him into one of the high chairs and put a bib around his neck. "You know Ollie," I tell him as I bring the spoon to his lips "You look better without that ridiculous gotee of yours." I giggle as he tilts his head to the side and babbles, mush running down his cheeks. I rubbed it off with with a damp towel and tried to finish feeding him. It's amazing how half of the food doesn't even stay in their mouths when they try to eat. "You're going to need a bath after this, aren't you?" I tickled him under his chin, getting a giggle in response. "Eh, I'll leave that to Roy."
"That reminds me," Zatanna said, standing up from her seat on the floor," Robin called, he said he won't be back until tomorrow. Roy called too and said he'll be back in a few hours to help some more, but he also said something about leaving earlier."
"Which brings us to the question of what are we going to do with them tonight." Kal spoke. He did have a good point. "I think I will take my king to Atlantis and see if Mera wants to visit her husband. He is probably not that fond of being on land yet either."
"I can stay in my room here and watch a couple of them," Zatanna offered, moving on to feed her dad "I need a place to watch my dad anyway. Because, no offense or anything, but I would rather watch him than have any of you guys do it. A few more wouldn't hurt."
"I guess I'll take Flash to where his wife is. She's bound to be wondering where he is by now anyway." Wally said while feeding Wonder Woman, having finished feeding Flash about 5 minutes beforehand.
"Umm... I guess I can take Green Arrow and Black Canary, if I can get Roy to help. We'll just go over to where he lives and sleep there." I say, but not without uncertainty. It's not like I have any skills with children being raised the way I was and my assumption would be Roy doesn't either. This'll be fun. Not. I untied the bib from Ollie, moved him down next to the other babies, and scooped up hawkgirl so that I could feed her.
Connor and Megan, who had been talking, added that they would stay and help Zatanna. This should be interesting.
*NCIS. Anyone? Maybe? No? Okay, well, if you got my reference you are probably pretty awesome.
Hey guys! I apologize in advance for Artemis' general OOCness in most of this and it's length being kinda short. I'm not the best at writing personalities like hers. I relate more to Robin's kind of positive smart Alec sort of personality. Anyway, I've decided that once school let's out I'm going to go on a writing schedule. The last day of school for me Is June 5th and from that point I plan on updating at least once in every 3 weeks. I'm looking forward to it. Anyways, next chapter I plan on doing something extra fluffy and cute. I might just update extra soon cause I'm excited for the next chapter. Catch you guys later!
