Once they'd brought the baby into their bed, Artemis couldn't sleep, watching her infant for the slightest discomfort. She was too terrified she would roll on top of the tiny human, or that she might miss the beginnings of a wail. Wally seemed to be having no issues though, as the baby rested in the crook of his arm.

Artemis was reading to keep herself awake, pushing against the sleep that threatened her eyelids, knowing she could sleep in a few hours when Wally would take the baby with him around the entire house, never once putting her down. She heard the tiny grunts of the beginnings of a nightmare, or a dream, or hunger- Artemis couldn't tell, she still didn't know her baby as well as she wished she did, as well as she knew she should. Her breath hitched as she felt the familiar nerves that came with trying to figure out what the newborn was going to need. Before she had even closed the book, though, she saw Wally scoop the baby towards him. His speed allowing him to quell the cries before they started and still be as gentle with her as he always was as he nuzzled his nose into the strawberry blond wisps on the top of her head. She stilled immediately, more than content at being in her daddy's arms.

At that moment Artemis felt her heart clench as a watery smile flittered across her face at the site in front of her. At her sniffle, Wally looked up and she realized he had probably been half awake the entire time. "You okay?" He didn't voice the words, and she barely heard the breath he mouthed them with.

She nodded, smiling widely, she wasn't even aware why she was crying until the words were out of her mouth, "I just love you so much right now." He gave her that smirk she'd always loved and she saw his eyes dance in the soft light of her reading lamp. She knew if the baby hadn't been snuggled deep against his chest he would have reached over and pecked her lips, so instead she reached across the distance and ran her fingers through his red locks. "We're going to be great parents," she said with a giggle in her voice, likely due to her lack of sleep. Though the next morning when she woke up with a light heart and a smile, she knew what it was. The realization that she and Wally were going to be really great parents, her own childhood be damned.