At Wayne Manor
"Don't your grandparents feed you?" Jason demanded, as Bart practically cleaned out their fridge.
"I have a high metabolism." He said after swallowing.
"That doesn't mean you clean out our fridge. Now Alfred has to go to the store again." Tim said as he watched his teammate clean out their fridge. June sighed and face palmed.
"Bart..."
"Yes?"
"You know I love you but you have to control the metabolism just a tiny bit." June said as she looked at her boyfriend. Bart smiled his bad poker face smile. Boy he knew he was going to be in
trouble.
June smiled slightly at his face, laughing lightly, "Chill, Bart."
Bart grinned back sheepishly.
"Hey, did you know Steph and Matt are dating!" She suddenly remembered.
"What? Really?"
"Yeah, she keeps sneaking off to the cave to see him. Practically lives there!" June laughed. "She's even back to Spoiler."
"Hm, I think it suits her." Bart said, "After all, you're Phoenix."
"Yeah but I kinda want to see her as Batgirl some day." June said with a smile.
"Speaking of Batgirl... where has Barbra been these days?" Dick asked as he took a sip of his coffee.
"I think she is on vacation with her father." Bruce said. They haven't seen Babs in a few weeks. They were really starting to worry.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes I got a call from her a couple days ago. She said she will be back in about 3-4 days." Bruce explained.
The others nodded. "I wondered why the bat signal wasn't going up." June said.
"Well, with Commissioner Gordon on vacation, the second in command is Bullock." Bruce chuckled.
"That crabby, fat guy who eats weight to many donuts still doesn't trust Batman, even after all these years." June smiled, leaning into Bart's shoulder.
"Are you serious?" June nodded.
"Yeah for some reason he can't trust batman." June said. Bart gave Bruce a weird look. He can't blame him, sometimes batman looked like you can't trust him at all.
"I don't blame him." Jason said. Bruce glared at his eldest son.
"What?" Jason asked innocently.
"His hate for Bats only grew when he took in Dick." June added.
"Wow," Bart said, slightly surprised.
"So, Bart, how did you become Impulse?" Tim asked.
"Well, the super speed comes with genetics, you know. Dad and Aunt Dawn were the Tornado Twins, you know. When they became superheroes, secret ID's were totally a retro thing. That's why I didn't choose Impulse 'till I came here!" Bart explained.
"So in your time you just went by Bart?" Tim asked. Bart nodded.
"Sort of, it's complicated." Bart said. Tim just looked confused. Alfred then walked into the kitchen and saw the empty fridge. He quickly turned to Bart.
"Master Bart! Did you clean out the fridge?" Alfred asked in an upset tone. Bart nodded slowly as Alfred sighed.
"I guess shopping for food is at the top of the list." He said. Alfred grabbed his cell phone and put it in his pocket.
"I shall be at the store. If you need me please call." He said as e walked to the door and left.
Bart looked sheepish.
"Don't let him fool you. Al just loves shopping." June laughed.
"Sorry," he said sheepishly.
June kissed his cheek, giggling.
"But I'm serious. Alfred usually tries to find a way to go shopping." June said. Bart looked at her with a weird look.
"It's true like if he wants to go buy a certain food and we have enough, he'll just feed it to the dog or throw it away." Dick said. Bart wasn't sure he believed them. Who would enjoy food shopping?
Bart suddenly realized something. "You have a dog?"
June whistled twice, and a large bark came from the hall. A huge Great Dane bounded into he room, leaping into June's lap.
"Meet Ace, also known as the Bat hound." June scratched the dog's ears, cooing at him adorably.
"Bat hound?" Bart questioned as he scratched the back of aces ear.
"Yeah Bat hound."
"Do you put a bat mask on him or something?" Bart asked as he looked up. Dick and Jason nodded.
"We put a cape on him too." Tim added. A cowl and cape on a dog? Boy he sure does feel bad for Ace.
June seemed to read his mind. "He likes being the Bat hound. Right Ace?" she cooed, hugging the dog happily. he barked in reply, licking her cheek. June giggled in response.
"Sometimes I swear she's younger than thirteen." Jason said.
"Maybe she's still nine." Tim said. Dick and Jason both nodded in agreement. It's true. June tends to act like she's still nine while everyone else acts their age or older.
"I don't think that's normal." Jason commented.
Bart grinned, "I like it," He kissed June's cheek again, making her face blossom.
"If she's nine again, there's no way she's dating." Bruce said, reading his newspaper and stating this without looking up.
June then glared at Bruce and continued to glare as if she could see threw the newspaper. Jason started to laugh until June turned to him and made him shut up.
"Okay, I'll stop." He said quickly and put his hands up in surrender. June quickly softened her glare and turned to Bart.
"Want to watch a movie?" Bart nodded as June tried to get up.
"Ace down." She said. Ace then got off her lap and sat on the floor. June walked over to the DVD cabinet and began to go through the DVDs.
"How about... Finding Nemo?"
Bart looked at her blankly. "Sorry, June, but most of these movies are so retro I've never heard of them before."
June shook her head. "We're watching it."
"I'll see if we have any popcorn." Dick said as he got up and walked into the kitchen. June put the movie in the DVD player and grabbed the remote. She walked back to the couch and sat back next to Bart. They then watched through the trailers until Dick came back. Once he did, he had two bowls of popcorn with him.
"Looks like we did have some popcorn left." He said as he handed June a bowl and walked over to his seat next to Jason. June then pressed play once the movie got to the menu. Then they started to watch Finding Nemo.
June began crying.
"Oh shit, I thought you took the meds!" Jason scowled.
"B-but it's Marlin's wife!" she wailed, pointing at the screen.
"Oh..."
Bart put his arm around June and comforted her the best he could.
"Come on, June, it's okay. It's just a movie..." Bart said.
"You're right." June said as she wiped away a tear. They continued to watch the movie. During the movie June ended up starting to fall asleep. Bart noticed and smiled. He kissed her forehead and turned back to the movie.
"She always cries when the characters die." Dick groaned.
"You should see her when she watches Harry Potter..." Tim grumbled.
Bart cracked a smile. "She's already watched them with me. Forced me to read them too."
"She managed to get Caitlin to read them." Dick said as he ate the rest of the popcorn in his bowl.
"Are you serious?" Bart couldn't believe it. Caitlin reading Harry Potter?
"Yes! She's already on book 4." Dick said. Bart couldn't help but laugh.
"I can't imagine Caitlin reading something like that." Bart said as he continued to laugh.
"Yeah none of us could." Jason said.
"June shouted in my ear that Dumbledore dies." Dick sighed.
Bart laughed, "She'd do something like that."
"It was hilarious, that little troll." Jason said, his voice rather prideful.
"You're just proud because she screamed in my ear." Dick said as he turned to Jason. Jason couldn't help but smirk.
"The hell I am!" Jason said as he got up and put a quarter in Alfred's swear jar.
"What's with the jar?"
"Oh we have to put a quarter in it every time we curse. It's Alfred's rule." Tim said. A swear jar? Sounds like its turned more towards June, Caitlin and Jason.
"June usually puts in twenty bucks every Monday." Dick added.
"Why?" Bart asked.
"Said something about it lasing the week." Tim cracked a grin.
"Caitlin usually puts in about thirty a week, and Jason usually puts in like fifty or so. Now that I'm thinking about it, most of that money probably comes from one of Wayne Enterprises' fortune." Dick looked at Jason pointedly.
"Oh shut up golden boy." Jason huffed. Dick rolled his eyes at his brother. He had no idea why Jason calls him that, it's just odd. Dick started to get up and looked at Bart.
"I'm heading to the mountain for a briefing. Be there in 5 minutes with June. There's a mission the team needs to go on." Dick said as Bart nodded. He watched as Dick walked to the clock and disappeared to the Batcave.
Bart shook June's slightly. "Juuuuuuuuunnnnneeee. Wakey..."
"Go. Away." She seemed to glare in her sleep. Bart took a step back. She was scary even half conscious. Note to self: Don't wake her up in the morning.
"We need to go to the mountain." Bart said as he tried to get her to sit up. June groaned and sat up. Bart stood up and grabbed June by the waist and threw her over his shoulder as lightly as he could. Then he started to walk towards the clock and entered the elevator. Once he walked into the elevator and got down to the Batcave, he put June down.
"Did you really have to throw me over your shoulder?" June asked as she looked at him. Bart nodded.
"Had to. You wouldn't get up." He said as he walked towards the zeta tubes with June. Then they zeta'd into the mountain and saw the team, including Caitlin, gathered around Nightwing.
"About time you two are here."
June yawned. Bart rolled his eyes, still giving his signature grin. "Sorry, your sister refused to get up."
"Caitlin, what are you doing here?" June asked sternly.
"Relax, kid, I'm not going on a mission. I'm being like your tech person," Caitlin grinned at her.
"Tech person? But isn't that Mal's job?" June asked as she looked at her brother.
"Since Mal became Guardian, Caitlin volunteered to be the tech person since she can't go on any missions." Nightwing explained. June looked like she understood that.
"Anyways on with the mission briefing. There has been numerous break ins at different companies." Nightwing explained.
"Such as?"
"Wayne Enterprises, Queen Industries, Kord Enterprises." Nightwing listed off.
June cocked an eyebrow. "Am I the only one who realized that all those companies are in allegiance with the League? It's not easy to find out. Bruce, Oliver, and the owner of Kord Enterprises cover their tracks really well."
"Which is exactly why we're sending the team to investigate. We have our suspicions that whoever is breaking in, knows- at the very least- Batman and Green Arrow's secret identities." Nightwing said.
"Well, it's not like Ollie hides his distinctive goatee." a voice said.
Everyone turned around and saw a familiar blonde.
Tigress glared at the shocked faces. "What?"
"Artemis!" M'gann said in a happy tone. She flew over to her best friend and hugged her. Artemis hugged M'gann back.
"What are you doing here?" M'gann asked once she pulled away from the hug.
"Just came to keep Caitlin company." Artemis said with a smile.
"Well it's great to see you." M'gann said. Artemis smiled and walked over to Caitlin.
"So I hear your pregnant now." Caitlin said with a smirk.
"Yeah I am. Which is why I'm not going on the mission with you guys." Artemis said. Nightwing put his hand on her shoulder.
"It's quite alright." He said.
"Wait, what are you doing here anyways?" June asked Nightwing.
"Kaldur is sort of... On his day off." he worded, "Said something about heading to Atlantis to hear Garth and Mera shout at him for being an idiot..."
June laughed. "Figures."
Nightwing scratched the back of his head.
"Yeah..anyways we need to find out who is breaking in and what they are looking for." Nightwing continued.
"When should we leave?" Bee asked.
"In about a few minutes. So you guys should get ready to depart. I'm going to be coming along." Nightwing said as the team nodded. Everyone left to go get ready for the mission, except Jaime, Artemis, Nightwing and Caitlin.
"So Artemis.."
"Yeah Cay?"
"I guess we're pregnant buddies now."
"What..."
Caitlin laughed. "Sorry, June dared me to tell you that."
"The little troll is too much like her two oldest brothers." Artemis said.
There was a soft cackle that echoed down the hall.
"And there's the troll now." Caitlin said.
"Speak of the devil." Nightwing said with a smile. Jaime laughed and wrapped his arm around his girlfriend.
"So all I have to do is the tech stuff?"
"Yeah pretty much. Let me show you." Nightwing said as he brought up the holo-screen. He began to show Caitlin what to do as Jaime and Artemis watched. After he was done showing her, the team showed up in their uniforms.
"You guys ready?" Nightwing asked. Everyone nodded. They all left to get on the bioship except Jaime. Jaime grabbed Caitlin by the waist and kissed her.
"I'll see you when I get back." He said as he armored up.
"Alright." Caitlin said. She gave him a smile as he got on the bioship and left. Caitlin and Artemis then walked over to the holo-screen and began to work.
"So... About the pregnancy thing..." Caitlin said. Surprisingly, Artemis began to cry. Caitlin immediately looked alarmed.
"I-I was planning on telling Wally after the mission..." she whispered, tears in her eyes, "B-but I couldn't... Wally died without knowing I was pregnant with his kid!"
Caitlin hugged the older girl comfortingly, "I'm sure that of he was here, he wouldn't want you moping around because of him. You have to focus on the fact that you're going to have a son or daughter, who may very well look like Wally."
Artemis wiped away her tears and looked at the younger girl and smiled.
"You're right Caitlin. I shouldn't be moping around. He would be so happy.." She said with a small smile. Caitlin gave her a smile in return.
"See? That's what I'm talking about. You should be telling stories about Wally to your child." Caitlin said. Artemis looked at her and brought her into another hug. They hugged for a couple more minutes until Artemis pulled away.
"Are you ok?"
"Yeah I'm good now...I think." The older girl said with a chuckle.
"Haha good." Artemis then looked at her with a smirk.
"So what about you?"
"Oh, well, Jaime fainted when I told him." Caitlin grinned.
Artemis burst into laughter. "What about your family?"
"Oh, June was at first ready to kill Jaime, but she suddenly became happy when she realized she'd be an aunt. Jason, Tim, Dick, and Bruce were all prepared to kill Jaime though."
"Maybe because you're only 17 and they want to protect you." Artemis said with a smile.
"Yeah you're right. Every time we would go on a mission, they would tell me and June to keep our distance." Caitlin explained.
"So is June still daddy's little girl?"
"Oh you don't know the half of it." Caitlin said as Artemis laughed.
'I guess something's never change.' Artemis thought with a smile. Caitlin was still Caitlin and June was definitely still daddy's little girl.
"Some things don't, but too many do." Caitlin murmured, rubbing her stomach.
Artemis smiled, and wrapped an arm around Caitlin.
"How did Jaime's parents handle it?"
"His sister was excited, his dad was calm about it and his mom freaked out a little." Caitlin explained. Artemis smiled.
"I have a feeling you're going to be a great mom." Artemis said. Caitlin gave her a smile.
"Thanks and I have a feeling you will be too."
"Thanks Cay."
"Nightwing to base." Nightwing's voice came through the communicator from the holo-screen.
"Shadow and Tigress here. What's up, Nightwing?" Caitlin asked.
"ETA five minutes." He reported. "Maintain radio silence. The team are putting their eye cameras on though. " He said.
"Alright you got it." Caitlin said as she put on radio silence and brought up a screen from one of the team members POV.
"So what do we do now?" Artemis asked. Caitlin shrugged.
"I have no idea. I guess we just wait till something happens."
"How'd Barry and Iris react?" Caitlin asked.
Artemis frowned, "Shocked. Barry fainted. Iris looked ready to cry."
Caitlin smiled sadly, "His parents?"
"The same." Artemis sighed.
"Well at least they know. Unlike mine, Ollie was about to kill Jaime and my mom was sort of happen and sort of disappointed." Caitlin explained with a smile. Artemis chuckled. Ollie would definitely try to kill Jaime since he got his 'little girl' pregnant.
"I had a feeling Ollie would want to kill Jaime." Artemis said with a smile.
"Speaking of Ollie...have you told him yet?"
"Not really. I haven't seen him in a bit." Artemis said as she looked towards the ground. Ollie was like a second father to her, so she would be nervous.
"Good luck. Wait 'till he finds out both his 'little girls' are having kids." Caitlin laughed. Artemis laughed as well as she pictured the emerald archer's face.
"I'll tell him after the mission." Artemis decided, smiling nervously. "I can't imagine what he'll say."
Caitlin straightened up and did a bad imitation of Ollie, "What? You got pregnant!? What jackass did it?! I'm gonna lodge an arrow where the sun doesn't shine!" The two burst into laughter.
"Now that was perfect!" Artemis said as she continued to laugh. All Caitlin could do was nod, there was no way she could speak since she was laughing to hard.
"Oh man that was wonderful." Caitlin managed to say after she managed to stop laughing and wiped a tear away. Artemis nodded and burst out laughing again.
"Ollie is SO going to freak." Artemis grinned. Caitlin suddenly smirked.
"So, he doesn't know yet... wanna have a little fun while we're waiting?"
Artemis looked at her warily. "Like what?"
Caitlin grinned, and picked up a phone, dialing a number and putting it on speaker.
"Oliver Queen speaking."
Artemis quickly caught on. "Hey Ollie."
"Artemis? Is that you?"
"Yes it is." Artemis said with a smirk on her face.
"What's wrong? Is everything ok?" Ollie asked sounding a little concerned. Caitlin couldn't help but start to snicker. Artemis quickly grabbed the phone.
"Yeah everything's fine Ollie." She said as she watched Caitlin sit on the floor and did her best to contain her laughter.
"Except..." Artemis trailed off.
"EXCEPT WHAT?"
"Oh nothing."
"Okay, good."
"If you consider being pregnant as 'nothing'." Artemis finished.
"WHAT!? Who did this to you?! I'll shove an arrow up where the sun doesn't shine!" Ollie ranted. Caitlin then burst out laughing.
"He said it! He said it!" She yelled while she was laughing. Artemis then started to laugh along with her.
"Uh...girls? Is everything ok?" Ollie asked. But Artemis and Caitlin were to busy laughing their butts off.
"Alright I'm coming to the mountain." Ollie said and then he hung up. Caitlin and Artemis spent a couple minutes laughing their butts off for no reason.
Recognized Green Arrow 08
"ALRIGHT, ARTEMIS, WHO WAS IT?!"
Artemis suddenly stopped laughing. Her eyes became downcast, and she said a simple word, "Wally."
Ollie's demeanor completely changed. "...oh." Ollie walked over to Artemis and brought her into a hug.
"Make sure you're a great mother to them okay?" He whispered. Artemis nodded with tears about to go down her cheeks.
"Caitlin get off the floor please." Ollie said as he looked down at Caitlin who was laying on her back, on the floor.
"Aw but I'm comfortable." Caitlin whined.
"Caitlin..." he said slowly.
"Ollie..." She mimicked his tone of voice, but stood up nevertheless.
"Both my little girls are pregnant..." Oliver shook his head.
Caitlin looked at him in disbelief. "Ollie... are you CRYING?"
Ollie sniffed. "No... I'm just sweating through my eyes."
"Oh Ollie.." Artemis said as she hugged him. Caitlin then hugged him too and he wrapped his arms around the girls and hugged them. He continued to sniffle away and fight back the tears. He still couldn't believe his little gels were pregnant. It felt like a minute ago he had just met Artemis and the next he met Caitlin. Where has the time gone?
"Are you done crying yet?" Caitlin asked suddenly. Olivier nodded and let them go.
"Sorry girls." Olivier said while he was wiping away some tears.
"It's fine." Artemis said as she put her hand on his shoulder and have him a smile.
Ollie suddenly realized something. "I feel so OLD!"
Artemis and Caitlin burst into laughter.
"You're gonna be a grandpa!" Caitlin exclaimed. Ollie fainted. Caitlin slowly turned to Artemis, with a confused look.
"What do we do with him?" Artemis shrugged.
"We can't move him since we are both pregnant so I guess he'll be fine there." She said. Caitlin nodded and went back to work. A couple hours later Ollie woke up and sat on the couch while Caitlin and Artemis went to the Bay Area to meet the team. When the bioship landed, and the team walked off, Jaime rushed over to Caitlin and picked her up.
"Whoa Jaime! Calm down I know you missed me but not this much." Caitlin said with a laugh.
Jaime grinned sheepishly. "Sorry, I just really missed you. still on for that fate?"
"Of course." Caitlin said as they walked down the hall. Caitlin suddenly stopped and put a hand over Jaime's mouth. He looked at her with confusion but she pointed into a bedroom. Inside, was Stephanie and Matthew making out.
"PDA!" Caitlin screamed which caused the both of them to immediately separate. They looked over to the door and saw Caitlin standing there with a smirk on her face. Matthew and Stephanie realized that get got caught and started to blush.
"Now Matthew I thought you were raised better than to make out with a girl in a closed room."
"Uh.."
"Make sure it doesn't go to far or else." Caitlin said as she walked away with Jaime. Matthew continued to blush but turned when he heard Stephanie giggle.
"You fear her more than Batman." She said.
"You would too!" Matthew groaned. Stephanie grinned, wrapping her arms around Matthew's neck and kissing him on the lips.
Matthew smiled into the kiss and wrapped his arms around her waist. They continued to kiss until they pulled away for air. When they did Stephanie looked at Matthew.
"Why do you fear her anyways?"
"Because she was Ra's top assassin and could take down an enemy in 5 minutes. If you were in my shoes at the time, you would understand." Matthew explained.
"Really?" Matthew nodded. He could remember when he had to spar with her and would back down because she was so scary.
"But in a strange way, she sort of treated me like a little brother." Matthew admitted.
"What about June?"
"What ABOUT June?"
"How do you feel about her?"
Matthew hesitated, looking uncomfortable. "Well... At first, I tried to kill her, then she saved my ass from a fiery death. She and I flirted a bit, and Bart and I sort of had a bit of a rivalry. It's kind of obvious who she chose though.."
"Ah.."
"You're not mad are you?"
"No Matthew I'm not. Just glad that she picked Bart so I can have you all to myself." Stephanie said with a flirty smile. Matthew couldn't help but smiled back at her. He sure did fall in love with her smile.