The news took overcome Wally West and he was at yet another loss for words. If the sixteen years away in an unknown place wasn't enough news to handle a son certainly was. It was almost in slow motion that this new information went through his head.

"I... I have a son?"

"Wally…." Artemis began. The entire room seemed to back off to give them their space. Jai looked over at Artemis, he was already taller than her. He was looking to his mother for something…. maybe a thing to say. What exactly do you say to your dad when you meet him for the first time?

Mary looked at her Wally still smiling and teary-eyed. She couldn't imagine what was going on in his head or what it was like. She just knew she wanted to be there for him and never let him out of her sight again. Barry on the other hand was not about to watch this obviously very shell-shocking moment. The blonde speedster looked to Paula, who nodding and her wheeled her out. Both nodding a goodbye.

"Right after you disappeared…" Artemis continued trying to maintain eye-contact but failing miserably.

"Well we thought you were dead" Dick interjected, Artemis nodded and went on. "I found out I was pregnant." She wasn't really sure of what else to say. But she did. She found out a few weeks after his "funeral". It was emotional, to say the least, carrying twins whose father she believed to be dead.

"Artemis...I am so sorry I wasn't there to support you. Oh my god…" He ran a hand through his hair looking away from Jai for the first time. He couldn't get over the way he looked. He looked like...well...his son. His and Artemis' son. Handsome as fuck. He thought. Probably intelligent and witty and strong-willed. And those eyes….those striking grey eyes.

Suddenly, a loud bang and yell and then the double-doors to lab room the group occupied, swung open with full force. Standing there was none other than Damian Wayne. His face blank with darting hints of irritated impatience. Wally looked at him half-terrified, half-confused and Dick just rolled his eyes.

"Where is West." He demanded.

Dick snickered. "Um…?" Wally asked looking over at his friend.

"Wally, I'd like introduce you to Damian Wayne. My brother and Bruce's youngest.

Wally looked the boy up and down. Jai stared at Damian. They had never really got along and Jai knew Damian liked his sister (he wasn't exactly shipping it).

"I said wheres West." Damian repeated, deadpanning staring at Dick.

"right here?" Wally asked, confused.

"ttt. Not you. Iris." His attention only briefly going to Wally.

"My aunt Iris? what?" Wally was still so confused…

"You haven't told him?" Damian was

That was it. "Okay what the hell is this kid talking about!?" Wally demanded. Jai stepped away to the other side of Dick, somewhat afraid of the next bomb that was about to be dropped.

"I had twins." Artemis said

"Iris?" Damian said quietly. He had blown the popsicle stand that was Wally West's room and went on to search for Irey by himself. He stood over her bed. The doctors and scientists had left her alone to rest in peace.

The young speedster's eyes fluttered open and she squinted when she was greeted by the bright lights. For a moment, she thought she was dead.

"Damian?" She asked, recognizing the voice but was still pretty out of it. She wouldn't be surprised if it was someone else, but Iris kinda hoped it was him.

"How did it go? Are you alright?" He asked maintaining a softer voice.

"I don't know? Is my dad alive and in our dimension?" she asked curiously.

"Yes actually."

"Then good. I'm good." She smiled a little to herself rolling over onto her stomach and groaning into the pillow.

"Um?"

She turned her head on its side so she could speak properly. "Sorry. Interdimensional rescue missions are apparently exhausting."

Damian chuckled. Even in her state, she maintained her quirky attitude. Rolling over to her side completely, twisting up all the cords and monitoring devices, she didn't seem to care. Irey looked at him curiously with green eyes.

"Why are you here? Where's everyone else?"

"What? Is my presence not satisfying?"

"No. I just didn't think you'd-"

"Want to come? pff. Of course I did." Damian said looking away. This took Irey by surprise. "And everyone is sitting with your father. Fools. You did all the work."

"hey, they haven't seen him in like sixteen years. You can't blame them, they can see me whenever." She rolled back onto her back looking at the ceiling.

"Still. You could have died."

"He could have too."

Damian didn't want to debate any longer. "Did it hurt?"

"... like hell. It was like I got struck by lightning forty times and then electrocuted and then got my chest rolled over by a truck." She laughed at herself.

"Do you want me to get your mother?"

"You don't have to. She probably wants to talk to him you know. He kinda missed a lot."

Dick entered the room slowly peeking his head in, to make sure he wasn't interrupting something…

"Hey, Irey,... looking better already, kid." She looked down-right uncomfortable.

"Ha. You're a terrible liar."

"Your mom will be in soon. She's got some…. stuff." He said, looking from to Damian.

"You did not give a very good first-impression to Wally." He said trying to scold his brother. Dick leaned on a counter looking at Damian who was leaning against Irey's bed looking at him, arms crossed across his chest. The whole thing looked like a face off, except Dick ended up just smirking, amused with his brother.

"Does he ever give 'good' impressions? To anyone?" Irey asked giggling.

"Well…."

"She has a point, Grayson." Damian said accepting the fact his aesthetic was a total jack-ass, rich kid, who will probably try to murder you at least once before he becomes comfortable with any person he meets.

Dick rolled his eyes. "Just make out already, God." he mused.

Irey turned bright red in the cheeks and rolled over so she was on her side facing away from the two.

Dick cackled his signature cackle and Damian also appeared flustered and red.

"Make yourself useful and bring me a sandwich." Irey called covering her face with the pillow.

"Can I meet her?" Wally asked eagerly.

"She's resting now." Dr. Leslie said. She was checking his vitals, right on schedule.

"But-But That demonic-Wayne child is in there, isn't he?" Wally asked lifting his arm so his blood pressure could be taken. "Damian? Oh jeez." The doctor rolled her eyes. "Well just as I thought you'll still have your speedster metabolism. You should eat soon."

Artemis walked up closer. She hadn't left the room since he woke up. She looked exhausted.

"As for Irey, you'll see her soon don't worry. Dick says she's fine."

"Are you sure you don't wanna see her, babe?" Artemis flinched at the use of the old pet name. She hadn't heard him say it in so long. It had only played her in mind since then. Specifically, she remembered it right after he died. It was like he was a broken record playing in her head, things he always said, like "babe" and nonsense about food. It was terrifying, it was like she couldn't get him out of her head and she was supposed to be moving on and learning to live without him. And it seemed like he never left. At least for a while. The twins birth was a good distraction and of course Dick. But low and behold here HE was, sitting, living and breathing right in front of her.

"Uh. Yeah. You're right I should probably go check on her." Artemis said snapping out of thought. He was right. She should take a break...from him.

As she left Wally's room, she slowly walked down the hall. Doing this purposefully so she could process this whole ordeal. Artemis looked at her feet as she walked. A mistake. This method of focus led her to step right into Dick's strong chest, despite him calling out her name several times.

"Oh. Crap. Sorry." She said quickly, looking him briefly in the eyes.

"Artemis. Are you okay?" He looked down at her, putting hands on her shoulders as she exhaled.

"It's just a lot to take in." She mumbled. Artemis rarely spoke of her feelings. But for some reason (Stupid reason, as Artemis thought) Dick brought out her vulnerable side. He somehow got this dark, keeping-it-all-in-and-to-herself woman to open up to him.

"I know. But it's happening and we gotta deal with it…" He wrapped his arms around her, resting his chin on her and she slowly snaked her arms around him as she exhaled a great puff of air into him, taking in his familiar and oddly comforting scent.

"You should go see Irey. She's still cracking jokes, even though she claims interdimensional rescue missions are the, and I quote the hell-y-iest hell she's ever felt and that we might as well allowed nine commercial sized, sixteen-wheel trucks carrying furniture to roll over her." He couldn't hold back a chuckle repeating that to her.

Artemis smirked and let out a short laugh. "She's ridiculous sometimes…"

"Hey. None of us know what interdimensional rescue missions are like. So she could be very right." She laughed again with him.

"Yeah...you're right. I should go. She's alone?"

"Nah. Damian's in there." He pressed a kiss to her forehead. She raised an eyebrow.

"No..Are you serious? I didn't...I thought you were joking about them… you know…"

Dick laughed. "How come no one ever takes me seriously? I told you. I knew it. From the moment he saw her…."

"Dick. You just bluntly said they were going to get married and walked away."

~Flashback~

"What is that."

"Damian this is Irey." Dick gave the 10-year-old a little shove towards the other child that stood before him. She was smaller than him by a few inches and she had these sparkling green eyes with red hair in the most perkiest pigtails he'd ever seen. And he didn't know pigtails could be perky.

"Hi! I'm Iris Paula West but don't actually call me that you can call me Irey do people call you Damian I'd call you Dami if I had to give you a nickname my nickname is Impulse but that's not like a real nick name nick name its my superhero name that's right me I'm a superhero I'm not a super hero yet though because I'm too young so that sad but yeah SUPER because I have special powers like the Flash have you heard of the Flash he's pretty famous and my uncle but not like uncle-uncle more like great uncle because he's so great and nice and fast and he says I'm pretty fast so I take that as a very nice compliment ooOOOoo maybe you've heard of my mommy she's not fast like me but she's fast with her bow and her crossbow-"

"Irey! Remember what we talked about? Yes, it is very exciting to meet new people but when you talk reaaaallly fast, people cannot understand you." Artemis said slowly as she stood behind her giving her a tap on the shoulder.

"OH, I am sorry." she said as slowly as she could muster, yet she still smiled brightly looking at this new boy presented before her.

He looked at her blankly but now that he could understand the words flying out of her mouth, he looked slightly less confused.

"Damian what do we say?" Dick prompted.

"F-... Nice to meet you." He deadpanned. Dick beamed like a proud papa and walked over to stand beside Artemis and they watched them exchange few more words, Irey obviously a bit more ecstatic about this new friend.

"They're totally gonna get married someday."

One Week Later….

Artemis, Jai, Irey were now joined by Wally outside their home in the outskirts of Gotham. It was a smaller 2 story house, of course taken care of by the Wayne's. 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, a large living room, a kitchen, a dining room and office space for Artemis...It was their space. That now seemed to have a stranger in it. Wally was quiet the whole way home. Leaving the rest not wanting to say anything either. When they arrived, Wally looked up at this place. It was so...ordinary. It was a part of their everyday lives that he had just missed. He was still bandaged up quite a bit and so was Irey. But thankfully he was given the all clear to go "home". He wasn't even sure he knew what that was.

The last home he had was an apartment shared with Artemis in California. Now it was a suburban house in New England by a city with two kids AND Artemis.

They hadn't exactly gotten around to talking about their relationship. They had just agreed he could come home with them and to talk about it later for the sake of getting to know his kids. To him it seemed more like avoiding it for the sake of getting to know his kids.

So far Jai was rather distant. And Irey was hesitant but obviously very interested in getting to know him, and to talk to him. She just didn't know how to approach him.

Artemis unlocked the house and led Wally in, followed by the twins. Jai went straight to the stairs putting his head down and trying to go up them as quickly and quickly as he could. Artemis cleared her throat, stopping him.

"I had your schoolwork that you missed dropped off." She held out a small stack of papers and notes out to him. Jai narrowed his eyes. "What about Iris? Does she just get out of it?"

"UM. Did you just poop dad out of your chest?" Irey interjected.

Artemis closed her eyes and sighed at her daughter's comments. Wally perked up when someone referred to him as "dad" and he felt the need to sit down.

Irey was then handed a pile of school work and she groaned, Jai smirked and went upstairs, satisfied, Irey followed suit and little less happy than he.

"So…" Wally said as him and Artemis remained at the bottom of the stairs.

"So…" Artemis echoed.

"What do we do now?" Wally looked at her lovingly like he was about to kiss her or something crazy.

"Dick and I are together." Artemis blurted out.

"Wait what?!"

"What's up Bats?"

"Huh?"

"It's Batman on my comm link it sounds important" She said quickly to him to avoid whatever was to come next. "Sorry what?" She asked and then listened closely. Wally couldn't hear and as usual, Artemis' face was hard to read as to what was going on.

"Okay...okay...Are you-Shit. Seriously? Okay, okay I got it." She tapped the hidden device in her ear. She looked urgent, like something needed to be done.

"What is it?" Wally asked curiously. Artemis paced back and forth for a while, obviously thinking.

"Iris! Jai! Come down here" She called.

"Artemis. What happened?"

She leaned over to whisper quietly. "Apparently there were a few consequences to freeing you from the Speed Force."