Here's a two-shot, as I work on the new chapter of Sleepless. Thank God that I managed to recover what I had wrote. The new chapter should be up within the next two weeks.

Enjoy

Thiên thần

Angel

"Wait, where's Wally?!"

"Artemis, he wanted me to tell you..."

"No, no."

"He loved you."

"You look good."

"Really? Cause I feel like a fraud."

"Well, don't. You're honoring Wally's memory by becoming Kid Flash."

"So, you suited up, but as Tigress?"

"Artemis was Wally's partner. I need some space. Time to see how Tigress works out."

"As a hero?"

"As a blonde."

Palo Alto
December 5, 2016
04:17 am

Artemis awoke in the middle of the night, seeing the empty space she'd grown used to. Sighing, the archer stretched her limbs in the bed she once shared with Wally.

Wally.

Everyone had been surprised when she declined various League and Team members offers to let her stay with them after Wally's... Demise. But the archer, still holding on to the small, nearly impossible hope that he would miraculously come back to them, figured their apartment in Palo Alto would be the first place he'd go to look for her.

Her stomach growling, she got up and trudged her way towards the kitchen, a loyal Brucely following his two-legged mother. Flipping on the light, she nearly jumped out of her skin when she saw Nightwing, dressed in civies, sitting at her kitchen table.

"Dick, you dick! It's four am! What are you doing in my house?!" She snapped.

"Figured I'd come check on you & your... Predicament." He said, shrugging.

"I'm pregnant, not dying. You ass fuck." Artemis growled at him, her hands instinctively going to her swollen stomach.

"I know that Artemis. So how's my Godbaby doing in there?" He asked, removing his sunglasses.

"Conner and M'gann's Godbaby is doing fine." She corrected, rolling her eyes.

Dick sighed, frowning.

Wally had been his best friend. Losing him had been the worst day of his life since losing his parents. And he was very aware of the fact that, even though she would never say it to him, Artemis blamed him.

She blamed him for everything that had happened to them since March. She blamed him for convincing her to go undercover, for Wally going back into his Kid Flash costume...

And she labeled him as the reason why her unborn son or daughter would never get to meet or be loved by their Father.

She grabbed a yogurt from the fridge & a spoon from the drawer, before sitting in the seat across from Dick, one hand on her stomach as she ate her snack.

She remember the day she found out she was pregnant clearly. August 8th, 2016- six years to the day that she had met Wally in the Cave. She remembered feeling her heart shatter for the second time in less then two months, as she had stared at the positive test resting on the bathroom counter.

She quit the Team, for the second and final time, less then two hours later.

Mary and Rudy were the first people she had told, two days later. All three of them spent the next hour crying. Wally's parents had been secretly relieved that even though their only child was gone, they'd soon have a precious and perfect grandchild to love, so a part of him would get to live on.

"Artemis, I know you blame me for-"

"Don't," she interrupted, "Do not make this a woe is me bullshit visit." She growled.

"So unless you have a legit reason for visiting me in the middle of the fucking night, I suggest you get out of my house and stay out." She snarled, slamming her first on the table, the noise causing Brucely to whine.

"Artemis, I'm-"

"I said get out!" Artemis snapped, throwing the empty yogurt container at his head.

Sighing, he stood up, glanced at her with a look of heart break, before leaving her apartment.

Artemis groaned, placing her hand on her protruding gut, where her and Wally's precious thiên thần was kicking her, and waddled towards the empty yogurt container, before tossing it in the trash.

"Baby, why do you like to attack your mama's ribs." She hissed, before collapsing on the couch & flipping on the television, unable to fall back to sleep.
Brucely wasted no time in jumping on the couch, resting his head on her lap in hopes of comforting her.

Watchtower
December 13, 2016
14:16pm

Barry stood in the grotto, looking up at Wally's memorial. It'd been almost seven months since his nephew had died saving the world.

"I still haven't gotten used to you not being around anymore, Kid. No one has, really." He sighed, his head dropping down to the plaque at the base of his memorial.

Kid Flash
Wallace Rudolph West
November 11, 1994
June 20, 2016

"Artemis and the baby are doing great. Me and Bart check in on her every other week and she visits your parents and me and your Aunt Iris twice a month. She's decided to have the gender be a surprise until birth. I think it's easier for her that way. Bart knows what it's gonna be, obviously. But he's respecting Artemis's wish to not know and is keeping quiet. Not entirely sure what she's gonna name the baby, either. Hell, I don't even know if she's picked any names out. But she's got another fifteen weeks before she delivers. So if she doesn't have a name picked out she still has time to decide." Barry smiled, trying to think of happier thoughts, even though he knew he was failing.

"Don and Dawn are crawling now. Iris cried the first time it happened." He chuckled.

"We really do miss you, Wally." Barry sighed, placing his hand on the plaque before leaving.

Palo Alto
December 31, 2016
11:50pm

Artemis sat on the couch, eating a fruit salad as her and her deceased lover's growing offspring moved around, as if playing inside of her.

"It's almost me and your Daddy's anniversary, thiên thần." She cooed, running her hand along the top of her stomach.

"He would've loved you so much- even more then I do, shockingly. And I'm so sorry you won't get to have him as you grow up. It's all mommy's fault. Mommy and Daddy had something great, and she was selfish and had to go back to do what made us meet in the first place, and in the end, not only did she lose your Daddy, but everyone else who loved him did too." Artemis sighed.

"And of course Mommy is sitting here, blaming Daddy's best friend for it all. If it wasn't for him, none of this would've ever happened & you'd be hearing your Dad talk to you instead of hearing me tell you stories about him & why you won't ever get to hear him tell you them himself."

Brucely whined, wagging his tail. Artemis smiled at the full grown pit bull, petting him as she gave him a kiss on top of his head, earning a smile from the gentle giant.

"You miss him too, don't you boy?" She said, scratching his back as Brucely let out a playful yip.

Artemis placed her now empty bowl on the coffee table and sighed, before glancing at one of the pictures of her & Wally on end table. It was after her Gotham Academy graduation. Artemis didn't even have time to take off her cap before the speedster had thrown his arms around her and kissed her cheek, huge smiles on both their faces. Rudy had saw that as the perfect opportunity to take a picture of the young couple.

The expectant mother sighed, looking at the clock on her phone.

12:00 am

"Happy anniversary, Baywatch." She frowned, fighting back tears, as she got up and went to bed, Brucely following behind her.

Gotham City
Janauary 13, 2017
2:18pm

Paula couldn't help but smile as she watched her youngest daughter's stomach move where her baby kicked her.

"How are you feeling?" Paula asked, as Artemis drank the hot chocolate she made for her and her mom.

"Good. I still miss Wally, but it's been getting a bit... Easier." She sighed, setting the empty cup down on the coffee table.

"I'm glad I'm getting to see your body grow and change. I didn't even know Jade had become a mother until Lian was six months old." Paula sighed.

"I didn't know she was pregnant either until she showed up at me & Wally's place in labor." Artemis sighed, remembering the day Lian had been born.

It had been three in the morning and Wally and Artemis had been fast asleep when they heard a bounding on their front door. Wally had groaned, tossing the covers off of him.

"I swear if it's Dick I'm pushing him down the stairs." He snapped, before stomping towards the front door.

He had thrown it open and was taken aback by what he saw. Cheshire, clad in civies, hunched over in pain as her hand clutched her basketball sized stomach.

"Umm... Artemis! You need to come see this! NOW!" Wally hollered, moving out of Jade's way so she could step inside.

The two of them could hear Artemis swear in Vietnemese, before walking to their living room.

"What could it possi- who the fuck did this to you?!" She had shrieked, seeing her heavily pregnant- and obvious in labor- older sister.

"The husband I left seven months ago!" Jade snapped, clutching the sleeve of Wally's shirt.

"You got married?" Artemis cried. "To who?"

"Arrow Jr." Jade scoffed, as Artemis ran to her sister.

"Roy? You married ROY?!" Wally yelped, as Artemis helped Jade in her time of need.

"Con...tractions are- ooh!- three minutes... apart." Jade rasped, her head resting on her baby sister's shoulders.

"You show up out of the blue, after not bothering to send a text saying HI for over a year- and you show up in labor to our apartment instead of going to a hospital? Are you kidding me?! I knew your childhoods were fucked up! Didn't think it was that bad though!" Wally snapped.

"Wallace! Shut the fuck up & help me get her on to the table!" Artemis snarled at him.

"Why our table? We eat there!" Wally pouted.

"It's either or table or our bed." She smirked.

Wally groaned, before going to help Artemis get Jade on to their table.

"Okay Baywatch, I need you to get some clean towels from the bathroom." Artemis told him, as she helped Jade get her pants off. Wally sped off towards the bathroom, and in seconds had handed his long term girlfriend the towels, before going back to Jade to hold her hand.

"So do you know what the baby is gonna be?" He asked, making small talk.

"N-no Speedy Gonzalez." She hissed.

"Okay Jade, I need you to push." Artemis said.

"What a lovely view you have there, beautiful." Wally smirked.

"Sure is. Wanna trade spots?" Artemis retorted.

"Fuck no."

"Will you two shut the fuck up already?!" Jade cried, face scrunched up in pain as she pushed.

It took her two and a half hours, but finally- finally- tiny high pitched wails could be heard through out the apartment.

"Jade she's here!" Artemis gasped, holding up her squirming and bloody niece for her sister to see. Jade smiled lazily, as her sister placed her newborn daughter onto her flattened stomach while the newborn was being cleaned by one of the towels.

"So does she have a name?" Wally asked, rubbing the new mom's shoulders.

"Uh huh," she panted "Lian Grace Nguyen-Harper." She smiled, clutching her newborn daughter.

"You and Roy make cute kids." Wally smiled.

"Thanks. And congrats, you two. You're Godparents." Jade smirked.

"It doesn't surprise me that Jade did that." Paula said, shaking her head.

"Honestly, Jade stopped surprising me years ago." Artemis said.

Happy Harbor
February 21, 2017
09:47am

M'gann being worried about Artemis was something Conner had become used to over the last eight months since Wally's departure, and the last four since they had repaired their relationship.

What he hadn't gotten used to, was the fact that a week after they got back together, Artemis had asked them to be the Godparents to her and Wally's growing miracle.

He was both overwhelmed and underwhelmed.

"So what do you think Artemis is gonna have?" Conner asked, as M'gann poured herself a cup of coffee in their kitchen. The Martian had returned from a mission at two am and found that even though she was still beyond exhausted, she couldn't go back to sleep.

So coffee with enough cream and sugar to put a healthy adult human into a diabetic coma was about to be chugged down by said Martian.

Since the two had gotten back together (and because the Cave had been blown to smithereens) the two had decided it'd just be easier to get a small apartment together in Happy Harbor, something they'd discussed long before their break up.

The make up sex was worth it, too.

"I have no idea. I've been trying not to read the baby's mind, but sometimes it's just so..."

"Tempting?" He asked.

"Exactly." She sighed. "What about you? What do you think she's gonna have?" M'gann asked him.

"I think it's a girl. But there's also a small part of me that thinks it's a boy." He shrugged.

"Whatever the baby is, I hope it's blonde. I don't think Artemis could mentally and emotionally handle having a redhead. Not at first, anyway." M'gann sighed.

"I'm still surprised we're the godparents. I figured she'd ask Wally's parents or the Flash and his wife. Or hell, someone from the Arrow family." Conner said, drinking his own cup of coffee.

"Well the Flash has two kids that will be less then a year older then Artemis and Wally's baby, Wally's parents are almost in their sixties, her mom lives in Gotham in a not so safe neighborhood, & Roy and Jade have Lian. I guess we were the logical choice for her." M'gann shrugged.

"Or maybe she figured it'd be a way for us to be parents if something happened to her...?" Conner's suggestion had both of them frowning.

They both had been aware since the beginning of their relationship that because of their genealogy, the chances of them having a biological child- that wasn't a Cadmus creation- was extremely small.

And unless there was an intergalactic adoption agency, the chances of them being able to adopt a child were even smaller.

"Maybe." M'gann said, kissing his forehead.

Conner smirked, before picking her up and walking back to their bedroom, M'gann laughing and squealing the entire time.

Palo Alto
March 21, 2017
11:19pm

Artemis found herself, at 36 weeks pregnant, with her head in the freezer, desperate to find the gallon sized container of mint chocolate ice cream to satisfy her desperate craving.

Once the frozen treat was located, she wasted no time in grabbing a spoon & sitting down at the table to scarf the delicacy down as fast she could without getting a brain freeze.

The container was a third of the way consumed when Artemis felt a sharp pain across her torso, before a rush of liquid trickle down her thighs.

Oh God.

She stood up with caution, taking a moment to allow her brain to register with the events that were happening.

Her and Wally's baby was coming, and it was coming now. Trying to stay calm, she put the lid back on the ice cream, stuck it back into the fridge & put the spoon in the dishwasher before she proceeded to run it, washing the dirty dishes inside.

Taking deep breaths, she filled Brucley's food bowl, double checked to make sure he had plenty of water, & left the apartment, locking the door behind her as she cautiously walked down the stairs towards her car, that had been ready for the baby's arrival for over a month now.

Letting out a gasp as her second contraction hit her- seven minutes apart, she thought, taking a mental note- the moment she had closed her car door. Once the pain subsided, she started the car, and proceeded to take the fifteen minute drive to the nearest hospital.

Palo Alto
March 22, 2017
2:19am

Artemis, set up in the hospital bed and currently seven centimeters dilated, had denyed the hospital's offer to call someone for her.

She knew no one would make it in time, considering she had jumped from three to seven centimeters in just barely three hours, so she didn't bother to call anyone to be with her.

And even if that wasn't the case, the only one she wanted in the room with her was gone.

"Miss Crock, would you like an epidural?" The nurse asked, noticing Artemis's face scrunch up in pain at the contraction.

"N-no." Artemis panted, rejecting the pain medicine.

"Alright. But you let me know if you change your mind, understand?" She said, earning a nod from the ex vigilante.

Before Artemis knew it, it was time for her to push.

She let out a cry of pain, mentally swearing that if it wasn't for the fact that the Reach's technology hade beaten her to it, she would've killed Wally for doing this to her.

Between the pushes and the pain, her mind wondered to the night their previous thiên thần had been conceived.

It had been after they had arrived home from informing the League- at least the members that weren't on Rimbor- about what they had done. After she reacquainted herself with a loving Brucely, Wally wasted no time in scooping her into his arms, and taking her to their bedroom, where they made up for the last three months of being apart.

Twenty four hours later, and he was gone.

A release of pressure snapped Artemis back into reality as she heard tiny frustrated screams fill the room.

She looked up and saw a flailing newborn squirm and fight in the doctor's hands, desperately wanting to be anywhere other then the cold doctor's hands, bright blonde hair and olive skin stained red by the fluids they'd been submerged in for the last nine months. Artemis then glanced between the tiny newborn's legs and let out a breath she didn't know she had even been holding in.

Her and Wally had a son.

Palo Alto
March 22, 2017
3:45am

Jason Henry Crock (oh how Artemis had wished she could make her perfect baby boy a West, but couldn't because Wally was gone and they hadn't had time to get married and legally she couldn't give her son the name of a man who couldn't sign his birth certificate.) was nothing short of perfect to his loving mother. From his bright blonde hair, to his ten tiny toes, he couldn't have been more beautiful to Artemis.

Even though he mostly resembled her as a newborn, when she looked at him, all she saw was Wally.

"Hello my beautiful thiên thần. My little Jay-Jay." She smiled, kissing his forehead, earning a grunt from her newborn, wrapped tightly in a pale blue blanket, a white knit hat on his head to help keep him warm.

Her beautiful Jason had been born weighing seven pounds even, and was 21 inches long, at three am exactly on his Godfather's 23 (cough! seven, cough!) birthday.

Once she had marveled in the fact that he was there in her arms, she took her phone off the bedside table and proceeded to dial Mary's phone number.

"Artemis...? It's almost four am over there. Is everything ok?" Mary asked her, sounding worried.

"Mmhmm. You have a Grandson, Mary." She told the woman who would never get the chance to call the blonde her daughter-in-law.

"Are you serious? Oh God! Me and Rudy will be there in Palo Alto as soon as we possibly can!" Mary gasped, sounding excited.

Artemis smiled widely as she could hear Mary telling her husband of nearly thirty years that the grandchild they had been blessed to have was a baby boy.