Raven's eyes flew open.

"Hi, Mommy!" Charlotte waved.

Raven relaxed. "You're up."

"Uh huh. I got Bas."

"Charlotte, I've told you to stop picking him up." Raven sat up.

"I didn't. I let the crib down and he crawled out."

Raven's lips thinned. Of course the little girl found a loophole. Raven sighed. "Let's wake your father up."

Charlotte grinned and hopped over to the green man. "Wake up, Daddy!"

Sebastian threw himself atop him. He made sounds beyond his pacifier.

Changeling snored on.

Charlotte stood on his back and began jumping. She made sure not to step on her little brother. "Daddy, wake up! Wake up, Daddy! It's Christmas!"

She accidentally stepped on his head and he couldn't breathe for a few seconds. That woke him up. He raised his head and looked around blearily. "What-? What's going on?!"

"It's Christmas, Daddy!" She landed on her knees and wrapped her arms around his neck.

"Aw yeah!" His voice was gravelly from sleep. "You gotta get off me, Charlie."

She slid from his back and folded her legs under herself.

"What's on my back?"

"Bas!" She giggled.

Raven dragged the baby off him. "You can get up now."

Changeling rolled over and poked his daughter in her cheek. He blew a raspberry.

She giggled and fell over. "No, Daddy! We have to go open presents!"

"Alright. Are we going with our usual plan? We wake up Uncle Wally and Aunt Jinx and have them wake up Chris and his parents while we wake up everybody else?"

"Yes!"

Changeling booped her nose then pinched Sebastian's cheek. Both children squealed. Changeling sat up and threw the covers off. "Let's do this!"

They all got off the bed and Raven threw on a robe before they all left. They went down the hall and hooked a right.

Changeling banged on Jinx's door. "Wake up, Jinxie!"

After a full minute of him calling out embarrassing nicknames and banging on her door, she finally answered. "What?!"

"It's Christmas." His eyebrows wiggled before he went to Kid Flash's door.

Her fingertips began sparking…

Sebastian threw himself forward and Raven had a hard time holding him. She realized he wanted Jinx so she handed him over.

Jinx smiled and took him. "Your daddy is about to get killed."

"Why do you do this to me?!" Kid Flash answered his door.

"It's Christmas, bro!" Changeling did jazz hands.

Kid Flash broke out in an infectious grin. "Yes! It's going to be so awesome!"

Changeling high-fived him. "Go wake up the Graysons! We'll handle Terra and the Stones!"

Kid Flash snickered. "I love when you say that."

Jinx returned Sebastian to Raven and whistled. Kid Flash noticed and sped over to her and began kissing her cheeks. "Get away from me."

"No. I like you too much." He nuzzled her.

"You better."

"Look at them." Changeling wrapped an arm around Raven and set his chin on her shoulder. "It's not as fun when they're not fighting."

"Bean stalk!" Jinx glared.

"Fighting each other!"

Raven shook her head. "Let's just go get Terra."

"Yay!" Charlotte pulled on Sebastian's leg for Raven to put him down then when she did, the little girl pulled her baby brother over to the blonde's door and banged like her father. "Aunt Tara! You gotta wake up! It's Christmas! Daddy'll open all your presents!"

Changeling laughed. "That's my girl!"

Jinx and Kid Flash laughed before going to awaken the Grayson family.

Terra opened her door with a yawn. "What's going on, guys?"

Changeling did a dance and ended up on one knee with wide outstretched arms. "It's Christmas!"

Terra shook her head before remembering that she liked Christmas. "Oh yay!"

He got up. "You go upstairs with the others. We'll get everyone else."

Terra hugged the kids before racing off to the elevator.

"Does this mean we're waking everyone?" Raven wanted to know.

"Oh yeah!" Changeling grinned.

"They're going to want to strangle you."

He felt his neck. "Hmm."

#happyholidays

Changeling ran into the common room. "Nana's going to kill me!"

"You woke her up." Cyborg had no sympathy. "That's always dangerous."

"She wasn't like this last year!"

"I was already awake last year!" Shirley grumped and she walked in stiffly.

Raven wore a small smile. "Get him, Nana."

"I was having such a peaceful sleep, too." Clark was crabby himself. It was one of the first nights he'd had without a screaming baby waking him up.

"Gar, you sure know how to make friends." Rita quipped.

He pouted. "They're mad at me, Mom. Make them stop."

Rita laughed. "You should have let them sleep."

"But it's Christmas! Everyone should see the kids open their presents!"

She cupped his chin. "Stop waking people up."

He sulked.

"Since we are up,-" Nightwing yawned. "You kids should check if Santa came."

The children cheered before tearing the room apart. They found no trace of milk and cookies but they found plenty of things in their stockings.

"Give me a drumroll, buddy!" Changeling shouted.

Cyborg smirked and patted his legs.

"It's present time! Dive in and let 'er rip!"

The kids ambushed the tree and well… let it rip. They tore into their presents and exclaimed over their gifts.

"I need caffeine…" Shirley muttered.

"You seem like such a morning person." Raven was surprised.

"Only when I'm fully awake." She grumped.

Raven kept her smile to herself. She didn't exactly greet the day with open arms either. "I can put on a kettle for tea."

"I'll help you. I can hardly keep my eyes open."

"I can help, too. These kids aren't paying us any attention." Rita stood.

Starfire floated and Nightwing had to pull her down. "My mother is making me the tea!"

He smirked but he knew how she felt. He'd soaked up attention from Shayera the day before. But he'd never admit it aloud. "Yeah, your mom is making you tea."

#happyholidays

"Are you okay, bro?" Changeling asked.

Cyborg felt terrible. "There's no snow."

"Maybe we can-? freeze water?" Kid Flash tried to come up with a solution.

"So we're going to throw blocks of ice at each other?" Jinx deadpanned.

"Not helping, Slowpoke!"

"Daddy sad?" Calvin looked up at his father.

"There's no snow, Little Man." Cyborg huffed. "Not even a smattering."

"Hmm." Calvin frowned.

"I guess we should go back inside. There's nothing to do out here."

"Wait!" Starfire pointed to the sky. "It is snowing!"

"It's not gonna stick." Cyborg wasn't holding out hope.

"I don't know." Nightwing looked at the ground. "It's getting thick."

"No way." He didn't believe it.

"Seriously, Cy." Changeling turned him around. "Look!"

Cyborg looked around, completely unimpressed until he realized the snow was already coming up to his calves. How was this possible?! It just started snowing!

"It's crazy!"

"How is this possible?!"

Bumble Bee looked down and touched Calvin's cheek. He opened his eyes and looked up at her with a hopeful expression. "Daddy happy now?"

Bumble Bee smiled as she looked at the cybernetic craftsman. "Yeah, Daddy's happy now."

He beamed. "It worked!"

"I see." She knelt down and hugged him. "How'd it feel to use your powers on purpose for the first time?"

He thought about it. "Kinda weird. But Daddy happy."

"Good boy." She kissed his cheek.

He smiled. He had a headache now but as long as his father was happy, he didn't care. "Thank you, Mommy."

#happyholidays

"I don't know if I like coming over here during the holidays." Clark sniffed. "You make me cook."

"Don't you cook for yourself anyway?" Changeling frowned.

"I try to avoid it as much as I can."

"I used to but being in other galaxies and on different planets meant I couldn't have food I was used to so I had to learn how to cook for myself." Alan shook his head.

"Star." Nightwing whispered with wide eyes.

The guys fell out laughing (even though he was serious).

"I think cooking is fine." Kid Flash shrugged.

"Yeah but you suck at it so you get to help with prep only." Cyborg took the spoon away from him.

Kid Flash sulked.

J'onn nodded. "Fret not, young one. I'm not exactly an Iron Chef."

Changeling gasped. "You know about Iron Chefs?!"

"Raven told me you and Starfire love the series so I began watching. Bobby Flay is my favorite."

"He's kick-butt, right?!" Cyborg grinned.

"No!" Changeling cried. "I could take that guy!"

"Please!" Cyborg scoffed. "It's a reason why everybody tries to beat Bobby Flay! Cuz they can't!"

"Let me go on that show! I'd wipe the floor with him!"

"He'd Robert Irvine you!"

"Excuse me? What?" Clark interjected.

"Robert Irvine is an Iron Chef and he had his own show, saving different restaurants around the country. He was brutally honest."

"I'd take him down, too!" Changeling was completely riled up.

"What?!"

"Guys, you get into this every time we cook." Nightwing sighed. "Can we just agree to disagree?"

"No!" Changeling was stubborn. "Pick a side!"

"Changeling,-"

"You're either with me or against me!"

Nightwing sighed heavily.

"I'm with Cy." Kid Flash said. "You cook good, C but let's be honest."

Changeling gasped.

"Don't be like that."

"Ha!" Cyborg yelled in the verdant veggie muncher's face.

Changeling growled. "Well, 'Wing?!"

"If I side with Cyborg like anyone with sense, you'll say we're all against you so I guess I choose you." Nightwing rolled his eyes.

"I'll take it!"

"What have I done?"

Clark, Alan and J'onn snickered.

"The point is moot anyway." Cyborg rolled his eye. "Dinner's ready."

Changeling made faces at him. "We'll continue this later!"

"Leave me alone, Lettuce Head!"

Changeling stuck his tongue out. "Metal Butt!"

"Guys!" Melvin jumped into the kitchen. "Is dinner ready yet?! Bas is chewing on the playpen and I think Teether is about to join him."

"You're only happy cuz that twerp came by to see you."

She balled her fists. "Stop talking about Thaddeus!"

"Don't nobody care about him." Cyborg snorted.

Changeling slapped hands with him.

"You're just mad that you can't cook!" She yelled.

Kid Flash and Nightwing fell out laughing.

"Why? Why would you hurt me that way?" Changeling put a hand to his chest.

Melvin lifted her nose. "Is dinner ready yet, Cyborg?"

Cyborg kept his mirth to himself. "Yeah, you girls can come set the table while we go get dressed."

"Thank you!" She turned on her heel. "Humph!" She ran out.

"That little devil!" Changeling was offended. "How dare she say I can't cook?!"

"Would you relax? I'm freaked out enough without you messing me up." Cyborg started loading the dishwasher to prepare for washing during dinner.

"Why are you freaked out?"

Cyborg gave him an incredulous look.

"I can't believe I forgot! You're proposing after dinner!" He hissed.

"Yeah, genius."

"Just calm down, Cyborg." Nightwing shook his head at Changeling. "It's scary at first but once you get into it and just start telling her the truth, you'll forget it's in front of other people."

"I'm only doing this because it's in front of you guys and hopefully she'll let me out of saying personal vows." Cyborg was completely serious.

"We know." Nightwing, Changeling and Kid Flash said.

"You'll do great." Alan put his hands on Cyborg's shoulders.

"Great at what?" Bumble Bee asked as the girls came into the kitchen.

"Cleaning up?" Cyborg hoped that was a good enough lie.

"The kitchen?"

"No. Getting dressed."

"Oh. I'm sure you'll do great, too."

He smiled at her. "Thanks, babe."

She winked at him.

That lifted his spirits. "Let's hit it, guys!"

#happyholidays

Cyborg patted the ring box in his pocket and waited a full minute after the last person finished their meal before getting up. "I have an announcement."

Everyone turned to look at him, his bros smiling to encourage him.

"My life wasn't smooth sailing and I never felt good enough for my father. After my mother died, I felt very alone. Then I had my accident and I thought that was it for me. My life would just be awful and I'd have to just get used to it.

Then I met four people that would change my life forever and because of them, it led me to someone I never thought I'd find.

Bee, you know it takes a lot to impress me and you really have. You're a great girlfriend and an even better mom. Because of you, I have two sons. I didn't even think I'd have children and you gave me two. I'll always love you for that.

But I love you for plenty of reasons, being the mother of my children only topping the list. You're smart and kind and understanding. You're fun and sporty and competitive. You're into music like I am and we push each other to be the best we can be.

You challenge me and I really like that because I know I couldn't be with a boring girl. And you're definitely not boring.

I feel like I'm learning more about you every day and I'm honestly okay with that because I love it all. I love you. So-" He went to her and got down on one knee and brought out the ring box. He opened it. "Will you be my wife?"

Bumble Bee stared at him for a total of two minutes before she got up and flew out.

He frowned in confusion. "What?!"