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Demon Babies...

Damian walked around the Manor tiredly as he rubbed the back of the wailing baby, Ingram wasn't having a good night. Raven was literally exhausted into a fever and chills, his wife had never looked so poor in health; even after some of the attacks they had been through. So, in concern for his wife he had insisted that she take the next few days off, with Kori, and just rest at one of those spas women always liked. Now he had four children under the age of five in his care.

How The Hell Raven Handled This He Did Not Know! But he avowed to never belittle or berate his wife's wondrous parenting abilities as he paced the nursery with a howling Ingram, while trying not to trip on the twins toys, and with Casimir trailing after him holding Huckleberry Fin in hand as Damian called Dick for help. Dick, or Maya, or Tim; hell even Jason would do at the moment because Jason had that magic with kids that always had kids doing what he told them to do.

"Papa!" Cas whined.

"Papa is on the phone," he said softly to Cas and those large lilac eyes filled with tears. Damian admitted surrender now as he tossed the phone aside, knelt down with a screaming Ingo and picked up the book.

"AH! That Mine!" one of the twins shouted which had the other screaming, then there was a crash. Damian reluctantly set Ingram in the crib before darting out of the nursery to find the two troublemakers sitting in the remains of a Ming Dynasty vase. Tears were blooming in those mismatched eyes as the two dark heads, with violet undertones turned to him.

"Papa!" they both wailed, Damian just scooped them up, tossing Raynor over his shoulder as Jason always did which produced a giggle from the sniffling toddler before he kissed Fawke's head and walked them into the nursery.

"Alright, bed time!" he sighed in defeat and wondered for the thousandth time how father had managed to make handling them easy. Wrangling Cas for bed apparently involved bribery of Huckleberry Fin being read, which finally enticed his eldest to his 'big boy bed'.

Damian settled with Ingram on his chest as the baby had cried himself to sleep, opened the book and had three sets of eyes on him as he started to read where Raven had marked the finishing point. Six eyes started drooping as his own felt heavy reading.

How Raven did this daily when he was on patrol he did not know but Damian was never taking his wife for granted again! Raven was clearly a saint, and he would worship her thoroughly when she returned, and he'd possibly get a vasectomy. These four were more of a handful than their cousins. And that was saying something as all Bats were handful.

Slow his own eyes were closing as his hand fell limp with his book.

He didn't remember nodding off as his head fell to the side.

Jason ran over the rooftops, lightly, as he leapt over the gaps. He twisted as he intercepted a fist and smiled before he twisted around to slam the back of his leg into the Assassin before he knocked him off balance then caught the other. Throwing his weight into the fight he twisted the other man's arm behind his back for it to break viciously before he knocked the other into his fallen comrade. Leaping away he twisted back, flipping through the air as his hand caught the ledge of the building and he swung himself upwards to slam his knees into the other on comer.

She stood before him, her boots polished, and his eyes flicked up to her as he stood.

"Talia," he greeted the shorter woman. Her predatory green eyes flicked towards him.

"You have not lost your touch, Jason," she observed.

"What do you want?"

"My child."

"Well, talk to B," he suggested.

"You will get him back for me," she stated.

"Ya-No. Leave me out of it Talia, and the next time you send your cronies after me I'll send them back in body bags," he waved her off before leaping down to the street where he melted into the crowd as he slid his domino mask into his pocket. Jason glanced at the time, he was running late, but he figured if he jogged he'd get there in time.

He had agreed, with great reluctance to take Lian, Terry, Helena and Mar'i for the weekend so B, Selina, Tim, and family could go to Dick's rehearsal wedding. Roy had a function with the Queens, which was why Jay had Lian with the rest the brats, and Raven was his back up because the Maid of Honor had finals she couldn't miss. Stephanie and Cass were at the rehearsal wedding because Stephanie had finished her finals before Raven had. Damian was also staying behind because he had a school thing before the break for the wedding, then Jay was driving the rest of them up to Vermont for the wedding.

His phone rang and he picked it up. "Yeah, I'm almost to the station, I got a bit side tracked."

"Really Jay! I got a plane to catch!" Roy snapped.

"Cool your tits I'm walking in the building now." he snapped. Roy and Lian were at their meeting spot with Ace who was wagging his tail as Jason approached and Lian squealed in delight then.

"Heyya kiddo," Jason smiled at the grinning baby who grabbed for him and Jason smoothly slid her onto his hip from Roy's grasp as he took their designated diaper bag and the leash.

"Kay, you have all the shit, I have a plane, I'll see you guys in Vermont for the wedding," Roy said.

"Don't kill Queen!" Jason called after his best friend.

"Trying not to!" Roy shouted back as he disappeared into the crowd. Jason smiled a bit as Lian patted his cheek.

"Ready to go pretty girl?" he asked as they walked.

"Jay!"

"Yeah, yeah, I got you, heel Ace," he ordered.

Raven lounged on her hotel bed contemplating if she should or should not call her husband to see if he was handling everything alright. Her empathy read only exhaustion and frustration from him, and she completely understood that.

Cas was the easy baby, oh she'd preach that to her dying days. Casimir was the EASY child.

Raynor and Fawke, mischievous, but sweethearts and innocent with their father's boundless energy. Energy she supposed was because Bats were naturally boundless with energy, and if she didn't happen to know the Bats were human she'd have thought them demons in disguise; and that was coming from her.

Then there was Ingram. Ingram was her most difficult, clingy baby and he was colicky to the point of clingy which the others simply were not. It was rather maddening, and endearing. Ingo was a mama's boy, and she knew it.

Raven bit her lip as she sat up and hesitantly she reached for the phone then pulled away.

No. No, she would Not be THAT wife who had no faith in her husband taking care of THEIR children.

She loved Damian, she had loved him since she was fifteen. He was an eternal pain in her ass, but she loved the infuriating, angry Robin and watched him grow into a compassionate young Nightwing and now was becoming a confident Batman. She loved him, she loved him more than life itself. Sighing she laid back down on her bed and stared at the ceiling.

It wouldn't be cheating if she just slipped over there to check in and make sure the house hadn't been burned to the ground, would it?

Her husband could not cook, and if it were not for Jason then she had no doubts they'd have starved. She knew that her brother-in-law had left the fridge full of left overs before he had left on his weekend… actually she didn't know what Jason was doing in his down time, he didn't share what it was he was up to. Tim and Stephanie were in New York for a business conference. Mar'i was on a Titan's mission in deep space. Dick was off on his own mission with B. Maya had the LoA to run. Jon didn't know about their children yet; and that had been a bit of a terrible headache argument between her and Damian. And Selina was out with the Sirens.

Raven bit her lips as she sat up and thought about just peeking in to check on her husband and children.

She should just to make sure they were alright.

No. No, she was not that woman! She would enjoy her weekend and return home and put out whatever fires had happened in her absence. Hopefully no one would be raising hell or something.

But she would enjoy her husband's thoughtful gift of a weekend off.

She could do that for him.

Raven walked into the Manor, with a portal because she was too tired to even attempt to be a normal Gothamite, and use the public transportation. She had had a hell of a day, studying at last minute. Only for Artemis to interrupt her with the insistence of shopping for a wedding gift for Dick and Kori because Artemis was Jason's plus one for the wedding.

Raven would have gone with Jay except she had agreed, that as the maid of honor she should be paired with a groomsman for the weekend. She was with Wally for the weekend of the wedding, and that was fine with her because Wally was falling for someone else.

Something slammed into her knees and sent her stumbling down the stairs with a squeak. She slammed into someone on her way down and they crashed in a tangle of familiar limbs at the bottom of the stairs.

"Sunshine!" he groaned.

"Jay!" Terry screamed as the near three year old ran down the stairs with the nimble abilities of a Bat.

"Sorry," she mumbled as she sat up, straddling his stomach catching Terry before he tripped and floated him around to be hugged by her.

"What is it with you and running into me Queen?" Jason asked.

"I wasn't paying attention, I was looking for my book so I could go study, my final is Monday," she said.

"True. Kay, now get off," Jason ordered as they heard the other hellions coming and a dog bark.

"Where's Damian?"

"He said he'd be back tonight, I agreed with B to take him patrolling, though I think it's a bad idea."

"Alright, and Cat?"

"She and Kori collaborated on a list for you and the three hellions." Jason said pulling it from his pocket and handing it to her as they stood. Raven looked it over.

"I can handle this," she decided.

"Good," Jason nodded.

"Your date asked me to help her buy a wedding dress and gift for Dick and Kori," Raven announced setting to toddler down as they walked. Terry immediately squealed as he hugged Jason's ankle like a lead weight. Helena appeared holding onto a flying, flaming Mar'i with Lian holding onto Ace.

"Hey girls, we're going to have fun tonight!" Raven smiled as she levitated the girls, who squealed in delight.

"What did you help her buy them?" Jason asked.

"I talked her off of weapons and she agreed to giving them a waffle iron," Raven shrugged. "It's the only thing not check off their registry!"

"Why do they need a waffle iron!? They're moving into the Manor which has everything?" then he arched his brow as his eyes narrowed on her. "It's for you."

"No, I swear, I'll give you the registry," she defended her lie valiantly.

"You suck at lying, little bird," Jason stated blandly.

"Fine, it's for me, but the Sirens don't have one and I'm a broke college student," she stated.

"You are a devious demon."

"Queen of Hell, not Heaven."

"True shit."

This is a continuation of the Hopes for a Bastard Series!

A Special Thank You chromium7sky, who has graciously allowed me to use her Batlings for this multiverse collision story!

That's all for now folks!

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