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Spitting Image Chapter 10
Tears flooded put of Abby's emerald eyes as she raced eastward, away from that horrid place.
"Mom's dead, she's dead, she's dead." Was all that raced through the girl's mind as the memory played over and over again in her head. The teen was falling apart as her world came crashing down. With her mom gone she was completely and utterly alone, there was no one else she could turn to. Her legs carried her faster than ever before as she ran to the place she could no longer call home. The world was a dark menacing blur as she raced through the sweltering June night to Gotham. She just wanted to go home, but now she had no home. Instead Abby found herself coming to a stop at the only other place that would ever give her some comfort; the park. It was the same park her mother took her to when she was little. Another sob racked the speedster's fragile frame with the thought of her mother. There was a familiar sound of gravel crunching under her feet as she walked over to the large twin oaks she used to sit under. The teen looked down and saw her mother's blood spattered across her shirt mixed with her own. Finally her knees gave in and she curled up under the large oak and let the tears fall. The haunting memory of her mother's demise played over and over again in her head. Abby ignored the pleading growls coming from her empty stomach as she rocked herself back and fourth in a fetal position. She was paralyzed by grief and the only thing she could do was cry.
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Wally froze as he saw Artemis jump in the line of fire, blood erupted from her side as the bullet tore into her stomach. He turned to the source of the bullet; Sportsmaster's mask was dotted with the archer's blood from earlier and evil maliciously reflected in his brown soulless eyes. Once he got back on his feet, the speedster charged at the villain only to be intercepted by Nightwing swinging down out of nowhere knocking the assassin to the ground.
"GO HELP HER, I GOT THIS!" the acrobat shouted while throwing punches at the masked villain.
The Flash ran over to the fallen archer, there was a strong smell of blood in the air and the speedster filled with dread and regret. When he got to her side and felt the non-existent pulse he had a flashback from the failed simulation that happened almost twenty years ago.
"Nonononononononononono, don't die on me Arty, not again. Please I'm so sorry. Don't die." He begged. At that moment Wally realized he still loved her, she was still his spitfire even after everything she did he just couldn't lose her again. He pulled her in close putting pressure on the wound. His heart jumped into his throat when he felt her pulsed flutter. She was still alive, barley, but that was enough for Wally.
"Please Artemis, Don't die. Not again." He wailed as he pushed harder on the gaping hole remaining completely focused on the blonde.
"C'mon Arty, hold on just a little bit longer." He pleaded the dying archer. The Flash's crimson uniform was soaked with her blood turning it a sickly shade of dark red.
"Don't you dare die on me. You-no we have a daughter to take care of. She needs you." He said. Tears brimmed his emerald green eyes as he stared at his dying spitfire. Wally felt a hand on his shoulder (1) and looked up to see Canary handing him her jacket to press on the wound. Flash took it and did so.
"We need to get her to a hospital she's going to need a blood transfusion." Wally said while pressing the fabric into Artemis's side.
The fight was winding down, all of the lackeys were down and most of the assassins were too. The only remaining fight was between Sportsmaster and Nightwing.
"Where's the girl?" Dinah asked worried.
Wally bent his head down in sorrow," I-I don't know, she ran off."
Dinah gaped at the speedster in shock, he let the kid run away? Wally looked over to canary and knew what she was thinking
"She needs help now." There was an edge in his voice. Then the older woman took action
'"We need to get her back to the cave she needs surgery now." She ordered
"Ok, But can't we just zeta to the watchtower."
"No, we can't risk it in her condition, we'll zeta to Med Bay, you need to run to the cave." Dinah commanded
Wally picked up Artemis bridal style and held her close as he ran to the cave.
When he arrived at Mt. Justice Dinah was waiting there with a gurney and a medical team. The speedster genteelly placed her down and kissed her forehead lightly before letting them wheel her off. Wally took a second to catch his breath and prayed that she would pull through. Now he had to go find her-no their daughter and with that thought the speedster set off. He had no clue where to look, but he had to find Abby. Wally headed to Gotham to start his search. After running around the polluted city it least ten times the speedster decided he needed help. He pulled out his phone in the secret compartment in his costume and checked the time: it was 4 am in Gotham so it would be 2am in Central. Good thing Barry was a light sleeper. Wally held the phone to his ear and impatiently waited (while still running).
Ring, ring, ring…
"Hello? Wally? What do you need?" slurred a groggy voice on the other line.
"Uncle B I need your help." Wally said trying not to panic.
"Wally, what kind of help, like bailing you out of jail help or…"
"No, like coming out of retirement help. This is no time for jokes Uncle B." Wally interrupted.
Barry was up now with his nephew's comment, even in life threatening situations Wally always made jokes. Something was very wrong.
"Wally, what's going on?" Barry asked
"I can't tell you over the phone. So unretire yourself and get to Gotham as soon as you can." Wally said and hung up before his uncle could respond.
Immediately the former Flash got out of bed and changed into his old uniform in a blink of an eye, kissed his wife goodbye and headed out to Gotha to see whatever the hell was wrong with his distraught nephew.
Barry ran all over Gotham looking for Wally, still having no clue to what was going on. Finally he caught sight of the current scarlet speedster and ran into step with him.
"Ok, What's going on?" Barry asked (in speed gibberish)
Wally let out a deep sigh and started telling the long and complicated story to his uncle.
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Barry Allen was shell-shocked, he was not expecting this.
"So let me get this straight. 16 years ago you and Artemis 'hooked up'."
"Yep." Wally said blushing slightly.
"And she had a…."
"Uh-huh."
"And you just found out you're a…"
"Yeah…."
"And now you have a 15 year old daughter."
"…"
"And she's missing"
"Yeah." Wally deadpanned still feeling guilty.
"Well I guess a belated congratulations are in order." Barry said trying to lighten the mood a little bit.
After their brief (they talk fast) conversation was over both junior and senior scarlet speedsters split up and scoured the large city.
Wally was searching the suburbs of Gotham when he came upon a park. He had a strange feeling when he got closer. The speedster saw a patch of red hair by an oak tree and raced forward to his daughter.
Abby was nearly delusional when he got to her. Without hesitation he scooped his limp daughter into his red clad arms. She was covered in dirt and dried blood and fearfully muttering something incoherent at her rescuer.
"Shhhh. It's gonna be ok." He comforted and ran to the Gotham zeta tube.
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Flash ran into Mt Justice with his unconscious daughter in his arms. He immediately rushed the girl to Med Bay to find out what was wrong with her.
Dinah was cleaning up the infirmary in Med Bay when Wally came in and set a girl on the. Canary rushed over to the very worried hero.
"Ok, Tell me what happened." The older hero questioned while she readied an IV for the girl and drew blood.
"I don't know I found her this way." He replied anxiously waiting to see what's wrong. Moments later Zatanna burst through the door, her eyes red and puffy.
"Oh my God is she ok." The frantic magician asked worried about her 'niece'.
"She will be as soon as we get her blood sugar levels back to normal." Said Dinah as she looked over the test results. Wally let out a huge sigh of relief and collapsed in the chair next to the bed tired to the bone.
"What about Artemis?" asked the dead tired speedster. Both women visibly paled.
"She's still in surgery. It's too soon to tell if she's going to make it." Canary said guiltily.
"When will she be out?" he asked anxiousouly
"I'm not sure, but you need to go eat something or you'll end up like Abby." The speedster flinched at the use of his daughter's name, but followed the woman's orders and dragged his feet out of the room. Zatanna took his place at the girl's bedside, face plastered with worry.
"I really hope she pulls through." Murmured the magician
"We all do." Agreed Dinah.
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Barry and Oliver were sitting at the bar in the kitchen, eating silently when Wally now dressed in his spare costume because he had no civvies, came trudging in. Ollie took this as his cue to go see what his wife was doing.
"So is your kid gonna be alright?" Barry asked with great concern.
"Yeah, she just dehydrated and low on blood sugar. They hooked her to an IV and she should be awake later." Wally tried to sound hopeful.
"Well that's great. I do have one question though. Why did you call me when you have basically the whole league at your disposal?" The senior speedster wondered
Wally gave his uncle a small rueful smile. "You were the only other person available that could catch her."
"Wait, what you mean by that?" Barry asked totally confused
Wally gave Barry a pointed look and his ex-mentor put two and two together.
"Oh, so you mean she's a speedster."
"Yep." The younger man replied with a hint of pride in his voice.
Suddenly Barry's phone started buzzing, his face turned a nervous shade of white when he saw that it was his probably unhappy wife calling. He gulped and he tentatively held the phone a safe distance from his ear preparing for the worst as he answered it. Something along the lines of "Oh shit." Was bouncing through his head as he answered the dreaded phone call
"Hello?"
"BARRY ALLEN WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU, DO YOU KNOW HOW WORRIED I WAS WHEN I WOKE UP AND YOU WERE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND YOU BETTER HAVE A GOOD REASON FOR DISSAPEARING WITHOUT LEAVING A NOTE!" Yelled a very angry Iris.
Wally decided that it would be best to let Barry be while he talked to Iris so he raided the fridge and went to go find check on Abby.
"Iris calm down, I'm fine."
"CALM DOWN, YOU WANT ME TO CALM DOWN! WHEN I WAKE UP YOUR GONE, WHEN I CALL YOUR PHONE THERE'S NO ANSWER, THEN I CALL BATMAN AND HE SAYS YOU'RE IN GOTHAM FOR SOME REASON AND THAT YOU WERE HEADED TO HAPPY HARBOR AFTERWARDS. NOW I'VE DRIVEN ALMOST ALL THE WAY TO HAPPY HARBOUR. IT BETTER DAMN WELL BE THE END OF THE WORLD FOR YOU NOT TO LEAVE A GODDAMN NOTE!" She screamed irately into the phone at her wincing husband. He was going to have a word with Bruce later about talking to his wife and only giving the overimagnitive woman only bare details.
"Wait a second, you drove all the way to Happy Harbor (That damn bat)? I'm so sorry I left without telling you. I had to help Wally with something I can't tell you over the phone. How about I meet you in town and explain everything." The former Flash offered hoping he would be lucky enough to only sleep on the couch the next night.
"Fine. But you're still in trouble mister." Iris huffed angrily and hung up.
Barry gulped again and left to face his furious wife.
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Abby was still out cold when he checked on her, but he found that she was no longer the sole inhabitant of the infirmary. In the bed next to her lay a pale archer on life support, her heart monitor and breathing moved rhythmically with the machine. Though her fate was still unclear, Wally was full of relief that she made it through surgery.
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(1) Remember seconds are like minutes to speedsters
Hoped you liked it, I would of written more but my mom is making me finally get my drivers permit so I can drive when I turn sixteen (it's not like she's gonna let me drive though) so I've spend most of my day with my head stuck in the horrid DMV book and I get to spend my Friday at 'the most wonderful place on earth' taking a test (I'm 'so excited' about it, not) well thanks for reviewing. I'm also going to start posting my three new stories Little Sister, Date night and The box soon (sooner with reviews)
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