Artemis rested her forehead against Wally's shoulder with a quiet sigh. "I asked Superman and he says that, yes, I am pregnant." She said quietly. "From what little I know about child growth, I think she's probably seven weeks along. It happened some weeks before you…disappeared."

Wally gave her a gentle squeeze, "We'll get through it Artemis. We will," He said in a reassuring tone. "We will get through it together."

Artemis looked up at Wally, her eyes sad and downcast. "But I'm not ready to have a child, Wally. Are you? Are you really ready to have a child?"

Wally stayed silent and he just hugged Artemis again. How could he possibly know? How could any who were whisked into this situation? He wasn't ready, hell no. He was only twenty-one, Artemis a whopping twenty. "I can't believe I'm saying this but maybe we should talk to Jade."

Artemis pulled back from the hug abruptly, looking at Wally in surprise. "Jade?" A smile slowly grew on her face and she laughed lightly. "She'd love to talk about kids with us," She said sarcastically. And then some realities began to pop up in her mind. "Oh God, what about my mom-your mom? Have you gone back to see them Wally?"

Wally rubbed the back of his neck, suddenly very uncomfortable.

"Wally!" She chided. "You have to go see your parents!"

He looked around at the group that suddenly looked at them. He smirked shyly; turning his back to them and pulling Artemis away from the group meeting they seemed to be having on the command deck. "I will, Artemis." Once they were a good distance away he stopped and leaned against the wall. "But what am I going to say to them? Hey I'm alive and we're going to have a baby? I don't really think that'll go over to well."

Artemis frowned, putting her hands on her hips. "Well not in that order or all at once. But you have to go to them. They're heart broken and mourning the loss of their son. You're back Wally! You can't keep hiding up here forever; you have to come back to Earth. To me." She said, looking down at the ground. "You've been ignoring everything since you came back Wally… I want to talk to you but you just, shut off."

Wally sighed, shoving his hands in his pockets. "It's not that easy Artemis. I…It wasn't…I just can't yet." He frowned, looking down at the ground. "It's not even easy to think about."

"Wally—" Artemis said, reaching out to him.

He sidestepped her reach, his mood suddenly changing into annoyance. "I'm going to go check on Irey and, and probably go to my room after. I'll talk to you later." He said, walking off abruptly.

Artemis followed him with her eyes, near tears. "Wally… I need you now more than ever," She breathed.

Kaldur walked silently over to the area Artemis stood. "Artemis?" He asked kindly, worried about his friend. "Are you okay?"

Artemis took a deep breath, blinking quickly to hide the tears and turned to face Kaldur. "I'm okay. Just…worried." Kaldur nodded, understanding more than she said. "He's troubled-I'm troubled. We've been unable to talk since he came back," She rambled. "What if—"

"It has only been a few days Artemis," Kaldur interrupted. "You must give him time for everything that has happened to him sink in. There was no pause of time for him to come back to reality when he learned of the news of having a daughter. Everything has been pushed on him and he is trying to wade through it as best as he can."

"So am I," She breathed. Her brows furrowed in sadness. "Is he really? Or is he just distracting himself to further put off the truth?"

Kaldur tilted his head ever so slightly but did not answer her questions. "Many of us are going to get food in the cafeteria, join us?"

Artemis looked back in the direction Wally went. After a moment she sighed, turning back to Kaldur and nodding. They walked to the cafeteria silently, finding their friends sitting at one of the long tables eating. Artemis grabbed a tray, filling it lightly as she wasn't that hungry and sat next to M'gann. Kaldur sat across from her next to Superboy.

"How are you feeling?" M'gann asked, smiling softly at her as she could feel exactly what it was her friend was feeling. "Is Wally coming to eat?"

Superboy nudged M'ganns foot under the table, directing a quick nod at Artemis. Even though she could read people clearly, she didn't always have…tact. M'gann gave Superboy a quick 'what?' and then turned back to Artemis.

"I don't know," Artemis sighed. She moved some peas around with her fork, her appetite suddenly gone.

Richard moved and sat down next to Artemis. "You should probably eat at least a little," He said. He didn't exactly mean for her sake and Artemis caught it right away, looking up and glaring at Richard. He held a slight look of surprise, "Artemis… Look, we all here know," He said gesturing to the Team that sat at the table. "And we'll have your back one hundred percent."

"One hundred percent!" Zatanna yelled down the way.

"Heck yeah, Chica!" Jaime yelled, waving to her.

"Why wouldn't we?" Bart asks, looking around at the Team.

Mal laughed lightly, "We never wouldn't not have your back Artemis. We're more than a team, hell, we're family."

"Agreed," Kaldur says. "The Team has become a family, and you are a part of that family Artemis. We will all show our support in different ways, but no matter, you have our support." He looked at Richard, "Though he's a ladies man, he sure does not know how to talk to one with child." He smirked, making fun of him.

Artemis laughed at all of them, her mood brightening thanks to them. Slowly it died down though. Someone had finally said something along the lines of her bearing a child. She was carrying a child inside of her, one whom, as a grown girl, was in the Watchtower right now…

"I'm sorry," Richard laughs, bringing her back into reality. "It's new to me. I lived with a bunch of guys growing up," He said, something dawning on him.

A couple of the girls laughed down the table at him, Artemis unable to stop the smirk. "Only guys, huh?" She asked.

Nightwing turned red, shaking his hands, "No, no, not what you're all thinking. God no! Of course there were girls that came over."

"Oh really?" Cassie asked. "And how many would that be?"

And then the conversations bubbled all around the table, talking and making stories up of Richard's love life. It was quite entertaining and everyone was laughing and giving their opinion on some of the falsified ideas thrown out their by some of younger teammates. All in all it was a rather good dinner, one they hadn't had in a long time. Though not all were there and who walked in next, completely stopped the conversations.

"Hey…" Irey said, waving shyly to the group. She wore some regular clothes, a pair of blue jeans with a red flash t-shirt and white hoodie over it and a pair of black sneakers on her feet. She moved her weight from foot to foot for a moment, looking around at the Team, unsure what to do as it had gone from happy and laughing to utterly awkward and weird in two seconds.

"Team," Superman said, his voice slightly scolding them. He flew in to the cafeteria, crossing his arms and glaring at them. Flash followed on his heels, zooming in and within a second he already had a seat and three trays in front of him. Black Canary came into the cafeteria with Rocket and Green Lantern, all of whom were chatting and smiling.

Irey quickly ran to the food, deliberately taking her time to dish up.

The conversation began to grow again after receiving an angry glare from Superman. Wally came in, quietly walking into the cafeteria, rubbing the back of his neck. Artemis looked up at him, desperately trying to make eye contact with him. 'Wally', she thought sadly. She looked back down at her tray. She moved her peas around her tray again when a tray clattered on the floor by the food.

Irey had dropped the tray full of food and she stared down at her hands in surprise when her body seemed to vibrate out of sight and then come back into sight again.

Members of the Team quickly stood up, surprised by the crash and by her disappearing act. Bart was quick, running to her side in seconds. He grabbed her hand and then it went completely through it. "What's going on?" He asked.

The disappearing act stopped momentarily and Irey looked over at Artemis and then at Wally. Her eyes drifted back towards Bart, "Decisions are happening." She said quietly, though she was certain everyone in the cafeteria could hear her, as it was dead quiet.

Chapter 8! You guys have been great and I love all the love I'm getting for the story, thank you!

Honestly, I'm not sure that I like the chapter that much but the ending and beginning, I did like. I think it's the fluff in the middle that I'm like, ehn... Things are definitely going to start to heat up though. Her troubles have just begun. And there are going to be more future parts, possibly whole chapters to them and you'll see the actions of the past affecting the future :) Ah, so fun!

And If there's something or someone who you'd like to see, tell me and I'll try and put him/her in there. There's so many that it's kind of hard to get everyone when you're focused on a few.

Tell me what you all think!

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