Wally's POV
If Blair's reaction to me was anything to go by, would now be the right time to introduce her to my parents? I talked to Dick about her, he seemed pretty convinced she'd be fine, I mean he does know her better than me. I'm upset I missed so much, I missed my little girl growing up. I missed her as a child and got stuck with a nearly adult kid, who seemed twice her age. I missed her first words, her first swim, her first trip to the principal's office, teaching her to prank, her first dance, her first date. I missed out on seeing the experiences that made my little girl the strong young woman I'd met yesterday.
Apparently hardly anyone had known about her, but the news was spreading, I knew his would happen as soon as uncle B got told. I'd had an angry phone call from Ollie for getting the young ex-archer pregnant and then got a lecture about how he'd tried to find her to no avail, there was other stuff too, but I'd kind of tuned it out.
Megan called and offered to have us over to the Kent farm for dinner, at least she'd been helpful catching me up on most of our friends' lives, I'd forgotten how much she talked.
I braced myself for the stubborn girl I'd encountered yesterday, it made sense I mean if she was mine and Artemis' kid stubborn would be hardwired into her DNA.
It was nearing lunch and Artemis and Blair would be here any minute and my mom was freaking out, she was shouting at me to set the table like I was some kid. I'd stopped her from inviting the whole clan, I think Blair would freak if she saw everyone, Barry, Bart, Iris, Dawn Don, Jay, Joan my parents; Artemis was shocked when she met everyone.
The doorbell rang, I ran to get it before my parents. It was Artemis and Blair, I smiled as they stood on the doorstep. She was taller than Artemis, by about an inch or two, she was about two or three inches shorter than me that put her at 5ft 9/5ft 10. She was tall I had no clue where she got it from but she was. Her hair was long and fell to her waist in a mass of waves, it had a dark red colour and my emerald eyes.
I could see Artemis in her too, the same nose, skin tone, cheekbones and lips. It was amazing, I'd never realized what being a parent was like. I couldn't get over the fact that Artemis and I made her.
High five us!
Although I'd missed a lot of her life, I still wanted to know her.
"So Blair, tell us about yourself?" My dad asks as he passes down the salad, lunch had just started.
"Well not much to tell really, I go to school, I go to work, I hang out with friends, do my hobbies, you know normal stuff."
"What kind of stuff?"
"um… Well I do a lot of sport, changes with the season. I snowboard and Ice skate in the winter. And in summer I do a lot of extreme sports, Adornovica is in the valley in between the mountains and literally all stuff we do is classed as extreme sports over here, but back home it's just normal for us."
"Sounds fun, so what are the extreme sports you do in the summer?"
"Oh you know the usual, climbing, abseiling, parkour, mountain boarding, zip lining. At work we have this high wire course, that I do not recommend doing whilst in eight in heels or drunk or both. Unless you're me and have some kind of 'death wish' as my boyfriend puts it." She responds casually as if it's nothing. Drinking? Boyfriends? Parkour? Why the hell would Artemis let her do any of this stuff knowingly.
"Boyfriend?" My mom asks.
"Yeah, Nik, I've known him forever, we're literally together all the time .I mean, we do work together, so it makes sense but he's just…. Amazing. I think that's probably the best way to describe him." She says awkwardly glancing at the silver ring on her finger, rambling a little, sorry I guess that's an inherited thing too.
"Wait isn't Nik that guy I met yesterday?"
"Yeah." She says looking confused as I became slightly furious he was what 23-24? What the hell is my daughter doing with someone 7-8 years her senior? Obviously my face did nothing to disguise my emotion as I felt Artemis put a reassuring hand on mine.
"What?" she asks confused.
"He's like 7 years older than you." I say
Blair's POV
"Oh please, It's not that big of a gap, its only 4 years, 3 and ¾ if we're getting technical. Stop making a big deal out of it."
He just looked flummoxed I'd used my diplomatic, world peace, stop international crisis voice. A second later he went back to his food with a shrug. When is it ever that easy?
My grandparents just sat there confused, they obviously didn't know what to expect from me. An awkward silence lapped around the room.
"So who wants dessert?" My grandma asks.
It was a unanimous yes that was chorused out from the 4 of us the question was directed.
"I'll come out to help you." My mom offers, "Try not to kill each other in the next 5 minutes." She says departing the room after kissing my dad on the cheek.
Traitor, I'm now left on my own in a room with two complete strangers who want to know everything about me, I'm a spy I don't like having people attention. I like flying under the radar and infiltrating top secret bases.
"So Blair, you mentioned earlier, you've a job, what is it?"
"Oh, I'm a falcon."
"You're a what? What's that?" he asks curiosity sparking in his eyes.
"Basically its Adornovica's military, I'm the youngest falcon ever. I'm on a team with some of the most incredible people ever, they're all my closest friends, besides Ric, but he's not allowed to be on the same team as me, we graduated at different times, you can only be on a team with people you graduate with."
"So basically you're taking after your parents, and going into the ass kicking business, as it were."
"'Bout sums it up yeah." I say with a nod.
He chuckles, my grandparents seemed pretty cool, my grandpa didn't look that old he was late fifties at most. The doorbell rings, and my dad gets up to get it leaving me alone with my grandpa.
"So, do like to pull pranks?" he asks me in a whispered tone.
"Yeah, you should hear about some of the ones that happened at base on April fools and Halloween. Why?"
"I need you to help me prank my son."
Don't ask me how or why I agreed to this, but I did. Within seconds of me agreeing Grandpa Rudy had Clingfilm that he'd been hiding from the kitchen earlier, and we were gluing it over the doorway that led from the hall to the dining room, with the two of us we got it done quickly and it was quite impressive, somehow we'd gotten it completely clear of smudges or wrinkles. Now all we had to do was wait.
We chatted in the meantime as my mom and grandma came back in the room with the plates, and sat down to wait for my dad. My mom looked at me suspiciously.
"What?" I ask with a smile.
"Are you up to something?"
"No." I respond nonchalantly, trying not to laugh.
Luckily my mom didn't have any more chances to ask questions my dad was walking back into the room.
"Argh, what the f-"as he falls through the door pulling the Clingfilm with him, with a rip.
"Wallace, language." My grandmother warns
"Flying monkey?" He says hopefully.
My grandpa holds out a hand, I high five him.
"Blair." My mom says trying to tell me off but too busy laughing.
"Gee thanks, I'm fine. Don't worry, but thank you for checking up on me."
"Son, you were just being too serious, lighten up, your still kind of young." My grandfather says
"Thanks dad, encourage the teenager to prank people."
"In fairness I've never needed much encouragement." I comment
"I second that." My mom says after my comment, still laughing her ass off.
It's nearly midnight Kansas time when we leave, which means it's nearly seven in the morning Adornovican time, lunch had turned into to dinner and I'd met Wally's grandparent like figures, Joan and Jay, they weren't his grandparents but he'd treated them as such. I'd heard about his uncle Barry and his family.
I definitely like my grandpa Rudy he was such a laugh. I guess the prank thing was inherited.
I'd met them soon, my parents hadn't wanted to overwhelm me. We'd be meeting my mom's mom next and my cousin; Lian.
I have a cousin whose name means lotus flower.
So that's a thing…. I also have two cousins whose names are said exactly the same but spelt differently that would be confusing.
And my dad seems kind of okay, bit of a weirdo, I don't know if we'll ever be as close as me and my mom, but maybe we could at least be friends. I don't know, I need sleep, I have work in two hours.
Sorry if this chapter was kind of boring(and a day late, see end of A/N for reason) I've never met long lost relatives so I don't know how well this would go down. Sorry, I have a big family on both sides and I see practically all of them over Christmas so updates will be a a bit patchy and sketchy until the new year. Please review, seriously I'm amazed at how many views this has, I won't withhold chapters or anything because that's unfair and a bit mean, I just like getting feedback for my work. If you do review I'll give you a shout out, speaking of shout outs thanks to nightwriter222 for reviewing. Seriously ducks it keeps me going.
Alright I have to go now because my grandma is shouting at my uncle, it's nearly 10 in the morning why can't she think oh dear teenager's sleeping, grrr. before I go I have to do a disclaimer, I own nothing that dc owns or that warner bros have the rights to wish I did, but I don't sorry, maybe santa ;) will get them for me. Bye ducks xoxoxox