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Day 1: Lian

It took two dozen security guards to force two hundred raging fans from Studio C after the panel.

Artemis and Wally still hadn't spoken when the doors were finally slammed closed and everyone but the team was gone.

Artemis had crossed her arms at some point and was refusing to look at Wally.

"So, where's Kaldur?" she commented lightly. She had hoped that this remark would help ease the tension from the room, that and she truly had no idea where the boy was.

"He couldn't come today he has-" Dick began but Wally abruptly cut him off.

"So?" Wally yelled at Artemis desperately.

"So…what?" Artemis asked her scowl deepening as she glared at the boy.

"So, do you love me or not?" Wally demanded.

"That isn't fair Wally!" Artemis yelled back at him, "Do you think that just because you say something like that in front of all of those people that I have to say yes?"

Wally rubbed the back of his neck, the sudden embarrassment over what he had done hitting him like tidal wave and turning his face a splotchy shade of red, "Well…yeah," he admitted.

"Well, it doesn't," Artemis spat, turning to Dick, "I'm going for a walk."

Before Dick could protest Zatanna's hand was on his shoulder and she was shaking her head.

Artemis got up from her chair and stomped out of the studio, slamming the door behind her.

"Three…Two…One…"Dick counted under his breath.

"Artemis, wait!" Wally shouted, running after the girl.

Dick smirked and then followed Zatanna behind the stage, "Now, where's that food they bought? I'm starving."

"Artemis!" Wally called, running down the hall, "Artemis! Arty!"

Suddenly Artemis appeared beside him and slapped a hand across his mouth.

"Shut up!" she whispered harshly, "Do you want to be swarmed by fangirls?"

Wally shook his head and eventually Artemis lowered her hand from his lips. Her fingers had lingered there too long and both of them knew this as she stared down at the carpet menacingly.

"It wasn't fair of you to put me on the spot like that," she growled, her hands curling in to fists.

"I know, I'm sorry," Wally said quickly, bracing himself to be punched, "But…"

"But what?" Artemis spat when he was taking too long to answer, "But what, Wally?"

"But don't you feel the same? About me, I mean," Wally said slowly, refusing to look her in the eye, "It can't just be me feeling these things."

Artemis sighed, running her hands down her long ponytail. Lately she'd been considering cutting it. It was getting way too long and while she had liked the length at first it was becoming a nuisance. The only two things stopping her were Dick, who would probably murder her if she cut her hair, and Wally, whose hands massaging the tangles out of the thick blonde strands were the only things keeping her lengthy hair from becoming entirely useless.

She sighed and looked up at Wally remorsefully, "Wally, I-"

"Thank God," a familiar voice exclaimed and the pair turned to see Roy running towards them carrying Lian in his hands as if she were a sack of potatoes and not a baby. Before Artemis could process what was happening Roy shoved Lian in to her arms and shouted something that sounded like, "Watch her," before he sped off in the opposite direction and disappeared in to the crowd.

"What the-" Wally started but Artemis shushed him.

"Don't swear in front of the baby," she insisted, holding Lian against her chest.

The little girl was dozing, her almond shaped eyes fluttering closed ever so slowly.

"Awty," she girl drawled in her daydreams.

"Yes, its Auntie Arty. Go to sleep now honey," Artemis said softly before pulling her phone out of her pocket. She tossed it to Wally watching in amusement as he fumbled to catch it.

"Hey, what-"

"Just call Speedy, over there, and ask him what the hel- heck is going on," Artemis commanded, shifting Lian in her arms.

Wally nodded absentmindedly, scrolled down Artemis' contacts and called the older boy, hoping that he had a good explanation for cutting Artemis off before she could tell Wally that she loved him.

"You what?" Wally yelled in to the phone.

"I left the stove on while making Lian's breakfast this morning. I'll be back within the hour, just watch her until then," Roy said slowly, as if to make sure that the younger boy could understand him.

"Are you serious?" Wally said, "You left the stove on? No wonder Jade needed a break; she's the one doing all of the work!"

Roy swore and mumbled something on the other line to which Wally replied, "What did you say?"

"Nothing, just watch her. Bye," Roy said before ending the conversation.

"So?" Artemis said after Wally snapped the phone shut in frustration.

"He left the stove on," Wally said bitterly.

Artemis laughed as she rocked Lian in her arms, "Seriously? That's hilarious. Wait until I tell Jade."

Wally looked up at Artemis incredulously, "You know where she is?"

Artemis nodded, "Sure. She's my sister. I texted her, like, an hour ago and asked. She says she's in the Bahamas. Want to see a picture?"

Before Wally could respond Artemis grabbed her phone from his hand and scrolled through the photos before finding one of Jade sitting on a beach with a clear, yet beautiful ocean behind her. She was wearing a black bikini and holding a glass with a frilly umbrella in it.

"She practically read my mind. That is where I was headed before Dick dragged me in to this," Artemis said, jabbing her thumb at the small grainy screen.

Wally tried very hard not to imagine Artemis lounging by the beach in a bikini, to no avail. Instead he was reduced to glancing at his (ex) girlfriend surreptitiously, knowing that if she caught him staring she would know exactly what he was thinking.

"So, what were you saying? Before Roy came," Wally asked awkwardly as Lian began to squirm in Artemis' arms.

"Awty! Awty!" the little girl thrashed, bringing her tiny fists down on Artemis' chest.

"Ugh, I think she's hungry," Artemis said, trying to calm Lian down.

"Hungry?" Wally said nervously, "What can she eat?"

Artemis looked around the convention before spotting a food stand just down the hall. The line was long but it looked like they served fruit shakes, they were probably sugary but Lian liked fruit and a little extra protein couldn't hurt either.

"Perfect," Artemis said, shoving Lian in to Wally's arms. Before the boy could protest she pointed to a bench along the wall, "Stay here and watch her. I'm going to buy her something to drink."

"But-" Wally began to protest but before he could say another word Artemis was long gone, shoving her way through the crowded convention and towards the growing line at the food stand.

Wally sighed and placed Lian down next to him on the bench. The girl was awake now and she didn't seem to like being held by him very much so he settled for placing her next to him, and staring across the room at Artemis whose long blonde hair made her incredibly conspicuous in the crowd.

"Just us, huh?" Wally said, glancing down at Lian. The little girl had flopped on to her stomach and was staring down at the ground with interest, "Well I guess this is entirely appropriate. You're just one more thing to keep Artemis and me from actually having a conversation. I swear to God, sometimes I feel like some higher power is pulling the strings of my life along to her own silly just to make everything more dramatic and suspenseful. It's like my life is a goddamn FanFiction or something."

Wally sighed running his hands through his hair, his eyes never wavering from Artemis as she finally ordered a shake from the guy at the food stand, "You want to know the worst part? I don't even know if Artemis feels the same way I do. I mean, my life can't be a FanFiction that would just be corny. So what's her excuse then? Why can't she just admit that she loves me unless- Unless she doesn't. That would just be the icing on top of this whole cruddy weekend."

Wally promptly shut up when he noticed Artemis making her way back to him. She held a shake in her right hand and tossed a granola bar to him with her left.

"Figured you'd be hungry," Artemis said as she surveyed the bench, "Wally?"

"Yes, Beautiful?" Wally said as he happily bit in to the granola bar, simply relieved to be fed after hours without food.

"Where's Lian?"

"What are you-" Wally began as he looked down next to him, but the words were cut off as he saw the empty spot where Lian had once been. He almost choked on the granola bar that he had been trying to swallow as Artemis began to purposefully scan the room.

"How could you let her get away? She's not even a year old for Christ's sake!" Artemis yelled at him as she peered behind a flower pot a few feet away.

"Hey it's not my fault!" Wally started to yell but then he caught himself, "Well, maybe it is, but how did I know she was going to crawl away? What is this, fucking Rugrats?"

Artemis sighed, dropping the shake on to the bench and grabbing Wally's arm.

"Wally, we don't have time to fight about this. She's ten months old, she can barely walk. She could be crushed if we don't find her."

Wally nodded, stifling his self-depreciating thoughts to the back of his head as he focused on finding Lian.

"This is useless," Wally said as he and Artemis reconvened ten minutes later. They had split up in order to cover more ground but they hadn't been able to find a single trace of the girl, "Maybe we should call Dick."

Artemis sighed, running her hands through her hair, a gesture of hers that Wally had come to associate with extreme stress.

"Fine," she caved, holding her phone out to Wally, "but you're calling him."

Wally sighed taking her cell phone in his hands. It was an old flip phone that Wally wasn't even sure they sold anymore, and it was covered in stickers that said things like: 'Bite Me'. He almost told her that he had his own cell but he wasn't willing to start another fight with her, after all it was his fault that they were in this situation in the first place.

"Rob?" Wally said as his best friend answered his phone.

"Yo, KF! Where are you two?" Dick complained on the other line.

Wally sighed and then began explaining the predicament, finishing by saying, "…and Roy's gonna be here in like thirty minutes."

"Alright, got it," Dick said and then after another minute he responded, "I found her. It looks like she's hiding behind the Coca-Cola Machine in the cafeteria."

"Thanks man and- Wait, how did you find that out?" Wally said accusingly.

Wally could literally hear his friend shrugging bashfully somewhere in the con, "I just hacked in to the security cameras and fast-forwarded until I saw where Lian was at this moment. Piece of cake."

Wally sighed and flipped Artemis' phone shut, handing it to her as she stared at him expectantly.

"Well?" she asked.

"Cafeteria, follow me," he said, grabbing her hand.

She almost pulled away from him but she was too worried about Lian to do much but allow Wally to drag her across the hallway and in to the café. By the time they reached the Coca-Cola machine they found Lian curled up in to a ball behind it, asleep.

Artemis sighed, letting go of Wally as she crawled behind the machine after the toddler and picked her up. Once Lian was settled in her arms, Artemis just sat there staring at the girl until Wally hesitantly sat beside her.

"Do you remember the last time we were here?" Wally asked softly, his voice was the only thing that kept Artemis' full attention away from the sleeping girl in her arms.

"Yes," she admitted, "I had a concussion and you punched Cameron in the face for trying to kiss me. Then you carried me off rather dramatically and ended up forcing a kiss on me yourself."

Wally's mouth flopped open indignantly, "I didn't force that on you- Well, maybe I did, but you kissed me back!"

Artemis rolled her eyes, rocking Lian in her arms, "Whatever, Baywatch."

It was a few more minutes before Wally spoke again and by then Artemis was assured that Lian was fine and just physically exhausted from her enterprise.

"I- Um, you and- Ugh," Wally stuttered, twisting his hands together awkwardly, "What I mean is- Is Lian alright?"

Artemis looked up at him for the first time since they had arrived in the cafeteria and nodded her head thoughtfully, "Yes, she is. That's good for you at least; if she hadn't been I would have murdered you."

Wally didn't doubt it either.

Jesus, he thought, staring down at the sleeping toddler, this kid is going to be just as bad as Dick when she's older, maybe even worse.

"That's good- I mean, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry," Wally murmured and Artemis knew that he wasn't just apologizing for Lian. He was apologizing for arguing with her and putting her on the spot earlier and being a general jackass for the past few months.

Artemis sighed and smiled at him before reluctantly admitting, "Me too."

Suddenly Wally was just leaning down to her and she knew somewhere in the back of her mind that he was going to kiss her and she was going to let him but all she could see were his eyes and all she could hear were the hurried footsteps approaching them.

"There you two are!" Roy yelled as he towered over them. His hands were on his hips and he stared down at the two accusingly from where they were huddled behind the Coca-Cola machine. "What are you doing?"

"N-Nothing!" Wally shouted up at the older boy, but his protests were futile as his entire visage had turned as red as his hair.

Artemis sighed as she stood, balancing Lian in her arms, "Hello Roy, please take your bundle of joy and leave us alone."

Roy narrowed his eyes at the girl and shook his head, "No can do. Your mom wants me to take you home. Paula's making dinner for the four of us."

"The four of us?" Artemis groaned as she handed Lian over to Roy.

"The four of us," Roy reiterated.

"Great, just great, well," she said, turning to Wally, "See you tomorrow?"

"Yeah, see you tomorrow," Wally said as he watched Artemis follow Roy from the cafeteria.

Tomorrow is the day, he decided as Artemis' long blonde ponytail disappeared around the corner, the day I'm going to get my answer.

Suddenly Wally's phone rang and he answered hastily, hoping for some bizarre reason that it was Artemis.

"Hello?" he said.

"KF, you gonna help us clean up or not?" Dick's voice shouted from the other line.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm coming," Wally said, still rooted in place next to the Coca-Cola machine, "I'm coming."

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