Hello everyone!
I think this will be the second to last one. Unless someone can think of something else to write. There will probably be one up about them with children when school lets me have more time to myself.
EDIT: I finally had time to edit this sorry for the earlier crappiness I just really wanted to get this out before I was writing one of my papers.
Christmas time is always that time of year where everything is festive and full of energy. Whether it being fighting with your family or enjoying the Christmas spirit or whatever holiday you're into.
Often it means Wally and Artemis' place is busier that usually, whether it be because people are hiding presents from nosy family members or people just avoiding family members in general.
The living room is now crammed with the Christmas tree Bart insists on them getting every year. Artemis usually makes him decorate it the damn thing. Wally and Steph usually join in along with some stupid Christmas playlist. Tim and Artemis usually try to huddle in a corner and play Left 4 Dead. Apparently they are two uncle scrooges in a pod.
Artemis and Wally have now, after years of dating, in the routine of spending Christmas dinner with his parents on the 24th of December and they head out super early in the morning on the 25th to spend time with her mother two towns over. Last years Christmas present was to find out Lian was actually her niece. Of course Artemis had a few choice words for abandoning an infant with a then heroin addict. Then again Jade wasn't in the greatest place at the time either.
Of course next comes the week of turkey hangovers.
Ever since they moved into their own place Wally and Artemis have always thrown a new years party. All of their friends call it the new years party you'll never forget and you'll never remember.
Wally couldn't think of a better time to propose. Artemis is probably going to smack him for doing it in front of so many people.
He had talked to her mom about it during Christmas. Even Jade had some input into the situation, which was about physical harm if he caused her any trouble. Which he took seriously because considering Jade did some usually shadier types of work.
Finding a ring was the hardest part. Seriously a kid in gradschool with crippling student loans doesn't nearly make that much. His parents were happy that he was just setting down in the first place. They were barely making enough money as it was with only one income after his father lost his job in the massive layoffs.
It was his Uncle Barry and Aunt Iris that actually volunteered some of the money. They said it was some Christmas money they hadn't exactly been giving him since he graduated high school.
Just great Christmas money for him that he'd just end up giving to Artemis.
Megan was the one that actually helped him out with picking the ring. (He realized her rocky current relationship with Fish was heading south and that the girl really needed a pick me up). He always acknowledge that she seem to have a reasonable sense of style considering the amount of magazines the woman went through on a monthly bases.
She said the one that he ended up picking himself is classy and timeless and so like Artemis that it wasn't even funny.
With that all set all that he need to do was wait until the right time to actually ask the question.
New Years.
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Of course the both of them, Wally and Artemis watched as everyone filed in. Regardless their apartment isn't exactly wheelchair made and Conner, who usually ends up with the duty of heavy lifting and something Dick and Wally is absolutely disobeyed from doing, helped Barbara up the stairs once again to Wally and Artemis middle suite in the apartment/house.
Kaldur brought a friend from the office Raquel so that he finally didn't come dateless for the millionth time. Finally after enough badgering. Raquel ended up bringing her son that for Roy showed too much interest in Lian.
Of course the new years kiss always brings about amusement. This time Jason ended up kissing Steph full on the lips before Tim and Bart could give her their customary kiss on the cheek for good luck with the school year. Tim looked positively livid, where as Bart couldn't stop laughing. Steph was so wowed by it that she actually fell over. Jason looked like the cat that finally caught the elusive mouse.
Yeah there wasn't a rivalry between Tim and Jason at all.
Smallville and Cass just ended up disappearing.
Dick and Barbara sat in a corner grinning like they were actually holding a secret.
Raquel gave a shy little peck to Kaldur as a good luck for the next coming year at the office. Wally has ten bucks on the fact they start dating some time with the next three months.
Of course once things settle down that's when Wally brings the ring out of his pocket. And he gives his usual sheepish grin.
"You're serious?" she asks.
"I'm always serious babe."
"Then yes of course you idiot."
He never did get that smack to the head.