Raquel: You need to be more specific on your WHAT. Please & thank you.
Black' Victor Cachat: Mhm. Originally I only planned for them to have 6, but as I was writing the story (around the time M'gann got pregnant with Victoria) another idea hit me that I couldn't let go of. So I had to include baby #7- I just had to!
NAVSO311: IreyxDamian as a couple will actually NOT happen in this story- at least not romantically. But he will be in the story later. Much later. If they have any moments together, it'll be strictly platonic. I already have Damianx_ and Ireyx_ pairings set up in my mind. Have for awhile too. Since before Irey & Melissa were even born. Hell, I hadn't even killed Dick off yet before I went "Ooh! Story idea" Sorry to disappoint you & any other IreyxDamian shippers.
(And if it's not obvious AmistadxLian won't ever happen either.)
I have decided that I will not update this story after this chapter until I get 500 reviews. As of posting this I'm at *485* so that's WAY possible!
I know you guys can do it!
I'm not sure if I have mentioned this before, but I had originally planned for Janelle to be M'gann and Conner's.
Yep.
It was just gonna be her, Lisa, & Abbie. No Mark. No unborn Victoria. No other siblings.
Hell, Garfield's daughter Savannah wasn't even apart of the original plan.
But then I decided to change it. And now she's Garfield & Raven's.
It's amazing how much a story changes in... What chapter are we on?... 37 chapters.
Also, next chapter or two, there's gonna be a time skip. I'm not sure how long, I'm thinking a year. Maybe a bit longer. Will definitely be under two years though.
Then after that, there's gonna be ANOTHER time skip, which will be about 3-5 years. Probably closer to five.
Maybe more.
Don't know for sure.
I'll let you guys know before it happens.
Anyway... Enjoy!
xxxxx
It was several hours before Janelle found herself able to stand up and walk, after giving birth to her and Bart's baby girl.
"How's she doing?" She cooed, staring at Bart as he watched Charlotte sleep in her crib.
"Perfect, just like her mom." He smiled at her.
"You feeling up to going to the Watch Tower?" He asked her.
Janelle nodded slowly, before shape shifting into a snowy white Cardinal, and flying over to Bart to rest on his shoulder. He smiled at her, before picking up their swaddled daughter in his arms. Bart then grabbed the diaper bag he and Janelle had ready weeks ago, and locked the apartment behind him as they made their way to the Zeta Tubes.
"Recognized Kid Flash B23."
The Watch Tower was mostly empty, save for the Hawks, the Lanterns and a few other heroes.
"Hey Bart. Hey Nelly. How are- Bart, who's baby is that?" Zatanna gasped, greeting the younger speedster.
"Her name is Charlie." He told her.
"Cute name. Who are her parents?" Zatanna asked again.
"Uhh... M-me a-and N-Nelly." Bart laughed nervously.
Wait, what?
"How?!" Zatanna yelped.
And with that, Janelle shape shifted from the sabretooth form the League had been used to seeing, to the human form she really looked like.
"Oh my God..." Zatanna gasped.
"Please don't tell Garfield or Raven." Bart begged.
xxxxx
The first thing Zatanna did was usher Janelle and Bart into the medbay.
"How could you keep this from the League?!" She snapped.
"We told Canary and a few others from the Team..." Janelle admitted.
"And Artemis knows." Bart added.
"Artemis knew you were pregnant?!" Zatanna yelped.
"She knows I'm part human. She doesn't know about Charlie." Janelle clarified.
"I'm so calling the Team..." Zatanna groaned, taking her com link out of her pocket.
"Guys..." She sighed, contacting the Team, Black Canary, Flash, and Batman. "You guys need to come to the Watch Tower.
xxxxx
"Unbelievable. I'm a great-grandpa!?" Barry yelped.
The entire Team, plus the few League members Zatanna called were all standing in the room, arms crossed and glaring at Bart and Janelle.
"I told you two to tell people about the baby before you gave birth. I said that months ago!" Dinah snapped, checking over Janelle.
"At least you knew she was pregnant!" Artemis hissed.
"You knew about this?! And didn't tell anyone?!" M'gann shrieked, motioning her hand towards her... Niece.
"It wasn't my business to tell!" Artemis yelped.
"I'm a great-grandpa..." Barry whined. The oldest of the three speedsters in the room was ignored.
"Enough." Batman growled.
The entire room was silent, save for the random noises Charlie was making in Bart's arms.
"Who knew that Nelly was a human?" He asked.
Dinah and Artemis raised their hands.
"Who knew that she was pregnant?" He asked.
Artemis put her hand down.
"Did anyone else know?" He asked the new parents.
"Blue Beetle... And Wonder Girl... And R-Robin..." Bart sighed.
Batman's eyes went wide, but quickly went back to normal. "You two have been on serious missions, knowing fully well the danger you were putting your daughter and her mother in. You two are here by banned from missions for the next six months. Blue Beetle, Wonder Girl, and Robin will be banned for the next six weeks. Combat training will still continue as normal." Batman told them, arms crossed.
Bart gulped, nodding.
"Please don't tell Garfield and Raven." He begged them.
"It's not our business to tell." Conner told them.
"B-but-" M'gann protested.
"It's not. our. business." Conner told her sternly. M'gann sighed. She hated hiding something like this from Gar, but she knew her husband was right.
"Recognized Superboy C02."
"Oh noooo!" Bart groaned at the sound of the Zeta Tube announcing Mark's arrival. He and Janelle watched the door with fear until Mark entered the room.
"Why is everyone in-" he stopped mid sentence when he saw the tiny bundle in Bart's arms.
"Bartholomew Wallace, Jai and Lisa are gonna kick your ass." Mark growled, crossing his arms.
"Bartholomew Wallace?" Wally cried, him and Barry's eyes widening.
"Don't be rude!" Artemis hissed, elbowing him in the ribs.
"H-hey Mark." Janelle chuckled nervously, scratching the back of her head.
"Save it." Mark growled.
"But-"
"Janelle Rose Logan, I said save it." Mark sighed.
"How mad are Jai and Momma gonna be?"
"Momma?" Barry questioned.
"Lisa and Jai raised him, remember, since a few years before he showed up here." Wally reminded him.
"No, they'd been his legal guardians since he was 10. They had been taking care of him since he was barely a toddler." Mark corrected.
Everyone who knew the story was shocked. How much had Bart lied to them about...?
"Toddler? But they started taking care of me after Dad died when I was like three or four... Cuz mom fell into a depression and wasn't in a right state of mind to watch me anymore. And then she died so I went to live with Jai and Lisa permanently" Bart said, sounding genuinely confused.
"Your mom stopped taking care of you long before your Dad died, Bart." Mark sighed, frowning.
"Recognized Flash C03. Recognized Shadow C04."
"I didn't tell you any of that!" Mark snapped.
Lisa entered the room- as her true form- with a gasp. Her adopted son and her baby cousin... Were parents? Bart looked as if he was about to faint, his eyes full of fear.
"Whoa..." Jai muttered, eyes wide.
"Boy or girl?" Lisa asked.
"A little girl." Bart told her.
"What's her name?" Lisa asked, that being the only question no one else had asked them.
"Charlotte Dawn West-Allen." Janelle said.
"Let me hold her." Lisa ordered.
"Oh k-kay." Bart muttered, as his adoptive mother took his first born out of his arms and into her own.
Lisa stared at the newborn with awe. Sure, she and Jai did have three biological granddaughter, but neither of them hadn't gotten the chance to lay eyes on any of them.
Charlotte, however, was here. In her arms, with Bart and Janelle there to love and cherish her.
"You know, besides the hair color, she looks just like you did when you were born Bart." Lisa smiled.
Bart just grinned widely.
"C-Can I hold her...?" Barry asked, walking towards Lisa. The future hero nodded, before handing the sleeping Charlie over to an awestruck Barry.
"Iris is gonna flip out when she meets you." He smiled, cradling her in his arms.
"So Barry, how does it feel being a great grandpa before 40?" Wally teased.
"Freaking amazing kid." Barry laughed.
"Now that we've established that she's adorable, we need to be serious." Jai sighed.
"You," he said, turning to Janelle. "Need to tell your parents who you really are. Now there's no need to go into details. But you need to tell them you're their daughter." He said.
"Do I have to?" She groaned.
"Yes." Every adult in the room chorused.
"I put them on six month probation for hiding their... Situation. No missions, only combat training." Batman told Lisa, Jai and Mark.
"That's how long you have to tell them. Your six months of no missions isn't allowed to end until they know." Lisa told them.
"Yes mama." Bart sighed.
xxxxx
It always marveled Zatanna and Artemis how much Giovanna and Irey were like them when it came to how close they were.
When together, the two toddlers were inseparable. They would always braid eachother's hair (both girls always observed their moms when they would braid their and their younger twin's hairs and enjoyed practicing on eachother) as they sat near the entrance to the Grotto.
The Grotto was where Wally had found them. But they weren't doing eachother's hair.
They were visiting Dick.
"Hi Da-dee." Irey grinned, looking up at Wally.
"Hi Princess." Wally smiled. "What are you two doing?"
"Visiting Gia's da-dee." Irey said softly.
"Unca Wah-we, what was da-dee like?" Gia asked softly, her bright blue eyes looking up at him. She looks just like him... Wally thought sadly.
"Well..." He sighed, sitting down Indian style in front of the girls and Dick's holographic memorial.
"Your Daddy was an amazing person. He loved all his friends as if like they were his family. He loved playing pranks on everyone and butchering the English language."
Over the next twenty minutes, Wally rambled on and on to the almost three year old pair of best friends about the youngest's fallen father. He told them almost every (G-rated) story about Dick that he could remember.
"Unca Wah-we?" Gia asked, as he finished up his latest story.
"Yes Gia?"
"Would Da-dee have loved me, Joh-ne, and Mar-we?" She questioned, her voice going so soft that Wally barely heard her question.
"Yes sweetie. He would've loved you just as much as I love Irey, Melissa, & Jai." Wally told her, gasping softly when she through her arms around him.
xxxxx
It had been several months since Lisa's return, and her and Jai were no closer to finding their younger two children then they were the day she came back.
And the emotional stress of it all was killing Lisa.
'Jaiyden where could they be?! We've looked everywhere!' Lisa sobbed mentally.
'I don't... I don't know...' He frowned, wrapping his arms around her.
While on the outside she may have seemed calm & emotionless, on the inside she was crying and had been for the better part of the last hour. And Jai was struggling to calm her down.
'Lisa Marie. Baby, we'll find Iris and Patrick. I promise.' Jai cooed, kissing her forehead.
"Warning. Security breach. Warning. Security breach." The Zeta tube announced over the Speakers, alerting the few League and Team members that were in the Watch Tower.
"What the hell is going on?" Bart said, racing towards Jai & Lisa.
"Watch your mouth." Lisa scolded him, as the Zeta tubes glowed with life.
The three heroes were taken aback by the slim figure that managed to hack their way into the Zeta Tubes and into the Watch Tower. But it wasn't Alessandra, the woman who attacked Abbie and killed La'Gaan.
This woman had shorty choppy red hair, pale skin, and wore a similar get up to Sportsmaster's costume.
"Oh my God-" Jai gasped.
"Hi big brother." The figure mused. Even behind the hockey mask, they could tell she was smirking.
"I believe these two are yours." She said, motioning to the five year old little boy and the eleven year old little girl peaking out from behind her legs.
"Patrick?!"
"Iris!?"
"Mama!"
"Daddy!"
They both squealed, the little girl running for Jai and the boy running for Lisa. The children were scooped into their parents arms, both Lisa and Jai sobbing and kissing them all over. Bart smiled at the reunited family, before turning his attention to his cousin.
"I hear you're a Dad now, Barty. Congrats." She chuckled, exiting through the Zeta tubes without so much as a goodbye.
xxxxx
The birth of Charlotte had caused the future heroes to enter a state of absolute panic.
"We have to tell him the truth!' Lian cried.
"And risk him hating us?!" Lisa yelped.
"Better for him to learn it from us then someone else." Jai sighed.
"He's right." Abbie reminded her older sister, Mark nodding in agreement.
"Question is, who's going to be the one to tell him?" Mark asked, arms crossed.
"Tell who what?"
The five adults gasped and jumped at the sound of Bart's voice. They all turned and saw the younger speedster enter the room.
"Hello Bart. Where's Nelly?" Lisa asked, her voice wavering slightly.
"At home with Charlie. What were you guys talking about?" He asked.
'I'll tell him...' Lisa sighed mentally. She walked over to her adoptive son, placing her hand on his shoulder.
"Bart, before I tell you this, please understand that we did this to protect you." She told him.
"Okaaay...?" He trailed off, raising an eyebrow.
'Meloni wasn't your biological mother...' She sighed.
She told him this over the mental link. She did not want or need for someone from this time to overhear them.
'W-what?' Bart gasped.
'Your Dad, as much as he loved her, made a mistake. He slept with another woman. And she got pregnant.' Lisa explained to him.
'With me?'
'With you. Meloni eventually forgave your Dad for his adultery and remained married to him. But your mother... She was young, nearly seven years younger then him. Barely an adult. She wasn't ready to be a mom, nor did she want to be a mom. But your Dad and Meloni wanted you. So, when you were born, Zatanna cast a spell to take away any meta abilities you would've inherited from her. Don named you, and he and Meloni raised you as their own until he died. After he died, it became obvious that Meloni didn't want to raise her late husband's... Love child by herself. So she neglected you. You'd go days without eating, weeks without being bathed. You almost died. When me and Jai found out how she was treating you- we were furious. You were three when we took you home with us. Of course, Meloni didn't care. Told us if we wanted you, we could have you. Don was the one who wanted you, not her. She died a year later.' Lisa sighed, her and the rest of the adults frowning.
'W-why are you telling me all of this now?' He stuttered, eyes widening.
'Because there's a chance that Charlotte inherited the powers Zatanna prevented you from knowing you even had. It would've raised alarms for you and Nelly. We believed it would've been better if we told you sooner, rather then you finding out later.' Jai explained.
'We're so sorry we didn't tell you all of this sooner. We didn't want you to spend your adolescence knowing you had two mother's that didn't want you. One was bad enough.' Lisa gasped, frowning.
The last thing she wanted was for Bart to hate her and Jai for keeping that secret from him.
'Who... Who's my real mom?' He asked.
Lisa sighed sadly, turning her head to look at her husband, siblings, and sister-in-law, before answering Bart's question.
'Alessandra.'
Bart sunk to his knees, and cried into Lisa's stomach.
xxxxx
Conner hated having to go to another planet, especially with M'gann due to deliver Victoria in just one short month.
But Kal-El needed his help.
So while he was gone for a week, Artemis and Zatanna had promised to check in on M'gann and the kids in case Victoria decided to show up while he was gone.
"Conner, we'll be fine. Don't worry." M'gann cooed, kissing him on the lips, as his hands rested on her protruding abdomen, where their third daughter playfully kicked against his hand.
When Conner stepped away from his wife, he was greeted by Lisa and Abbie throwing their arms around his shins, and Mark looking up at him from behind M'gann's legs.
"Daddy!"
"Don't go!"
"Abbie, Lisa. Let go of my legs." Conner sighed, struggling to unwrap their arms from his legs.
"Lisa Marie. Abigail Nikkole. Let go." Conner said sternly. Knowing that Dad meant business, the five and three year old let go of his legs.
"You're gonna come back, right?" Mark mumbled.
"Yes." Conner promised, ruffling Mark's hair. He turned back towards the door, said a quick "Stay." to Wolf, and was out the door.
Later, in the middle of the night, M'gann found herself in bed, surrounded by her children, Wolf, and Arri.
And she had to pee. Badly.
'Unnngh...' She groaned.
She managed to levitate herself out of the bed without waking her children or the wolves, and floated towards the bathroom. But once her feet touched the ground, she nearly doubled over in pain.
'Oh God no! Not now, Victoria.' M'gann groaned softly, clutching the counter, causing her knuckles to turn white.
But her mental pleas to her unborn daughter were ignored when she felt the rush of liquid trickle down her thighs.
"Fuck." She cursed.
Using her powers, she levitated her cell phone off her night side table. She sat down on the floor, her back against the cabinet doors, and called Artemis.
"Hello?" Artemis asked.
"Artemis, it's me." M'gann said.
"I know that M'gann: caller ID." Artemis teased.
"My water just broke." M'gann groaned.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me. Conner hasn't even been gone twenty four hours yet! You know if he hadn't left you wouldn't be in labor." Artemis huffed.
"T-tell me about it." She sighed.
"Ok, I'll have Wally watch our kids. Do you want me to call someone to watch yours or do you wanna take them with?" Artemis asked.
"It's almost three am here. I'll just call Garfield and then have him take them to the Tower after they've eaten breakfast."
"Ok. I'll be there as soon as possible." She promised.
xxxxx
M'gann's labor with Victoria was moving painfully slow compared to her labors with Lisa and Abbie.
Twelve hours and counting, and she was barely passed four centimeters. And worst part? The League hadn't managed to contact Conner or Superman yet.
"When is she gonna come out?" M'gann groaned.
"She knows she isn't ready." Karen chuckled, helping Dinah monitor her and Victoria while Artemis kept her company.
"Any luck contacting C- ow!- Conner?" M'gann asked, gasping in pain.
"No. Him and Superman are too far to reach with the communicators." Dinah frowned.
"Girl, you're gonna have to accept the possibility that Conner is probably gonna miss the birth." Karen frowned, as Artemis held her hand.
"But don't worry. If that happens, I'll be right here with you. I'll even film it if you want, so Conner can watch it later." Artemis cooed.
"Please don't." M'gann cringed.
"And look on the bright side. You could be stuck in an elevator." Karen smirked.
"Fuck you, Karen." Artemis dead panned. Of course both heroes were joking.
"Nah, Mal does that perfectly good." Karen beamed.
"Ew." M'gann gagged.
"We all know Conner does a good job." Artemis smirked, patting M'gann's stomach, causing Karen to cackle and Dinah to roll her eyes.
"I still don't get how we've managed to make all these babies! Kryptonians and Martians can't reproduce! Neither can Kryptonians and Humans! Logically speaking, none of the kids should've ever been conceived!" M'gann cried.
"Girl! He's half human!" Karen yelped.
"And two people with human DNA can make a baby. And maybe Humans and Martians can make babies too." Artemis suggested.
"Maybe." M'gann shrugged, gasping in pain at her contractions.
"They're getting pretty close together. Let's see if you have gotten any closer to ten." Dinah said, before checking M'gann's cervix.
"Five." She frowned.
M'gann groaned loudly.
xxxxx
Eleven hours later, and M'gann was barely at seven centimeters. Irritated to the point of being homocidal, she had found herself wondering the halls of the Watch Tower, her IV drip and fetal monitor trailing behind her.
"Are you sure you should be walking around?" Mal asked, walking up to her.
"Don't know. But in all honesty, I really don't give two shits." M'gann spat.
"Now where the hell are my children?"
It was so rare for anyone to hear M'gann swear- much less twice in a row- that Mal was actually taken aback at what she had said.
"They're eating in the cafeteria." Mal told her.
M'gann nodded a thank you, before she waddled her way towards her daughters and step son. Mal, worried something would happen to her on the way there, followed after.
"I hate being pregnant. Labor sucks ass. Don't ever do this to Karen." M'gann groaned, a hand on her stomach.
She was so much bigger with Victoria then she was with Lisa or Abbie. And she hated it.
"But don't your kids make it worth it?" Mal asked her.
"Only part of the time." M'gann said honestly.
"Abbie cried non stop the first six months after she was born, and Lisa wakes us up every other morning at five am, by catapulting herself onto the bed." M'gann sighed.
"Well, in all honesty, me and Karen don't really plan on kids anytime soon- if ever. I mean, yeah, if she gets pregnant, she gets pregnant. But we're not gonna try to make a baby. You know?" Mal shrugged.
"Is that what both of you want or only one of you?" M'gann asked.
"Both. We enjoy being Uncle Mal and Aunt Karen." Mal smiled.
"That's good." She nodded.
"Mal...?" M'gann asked, looking over at him.
"Yeah?" He asked.
"I'm curious about something, and while me and Conner haven't really talked about it before, part of me thinks he wonders the same thing." M'gann said.
"Okay, what's that?"
"Why hasn't Wendy's parents tried to take Mark from us? Do they know he has powers? I mean, it's been three and a half years, and we haven't seen so much as a birthday card." M'gann murmured.
Mal sighed. "They think he died in the car crash with Wendy. I don't know how the League did it- and I don't wanna know why they did it- but they think both their daughter and grandson died on August 17th and were cremated August 18th." He told her.
"I've seen pictures of the wreck before. Out of all three involved- Wendy, Mark, and the driver that hit them- Mark was the only one to make it out ok. And he wouldn't have if he was fully human. It was a pretty nasty wreck. Both drivers were pronounced dead on scene."
M'gann was shocked. While his statement did answer a lot of questions, she was appalled that the League would do such a thing.
It was horrible.
"I've spent the last three years worried they'd try to take him from us. Now I know why they haven't." She muttered.
"You really love him, don't you?" Mal smiled.
"Of course I do! I might not be his real mom, but he's my son." She grinned.
"Now if only his youngest sister would get out!" M'gann groaned.
The two finally made it the cafeteria where Mark, Lisa, and Abbie were eating lunch with the rest of the kids, being watched over by Garfield, Artemis, and Zatanna.
"Awe, mommy hasn't had the baby yet!" Lisa groaned, seeing that her mom was still pregnant.
"Tell me about it sweetie." She sighed, ruffling her hair.
xxxxx
Fifty hours.
It had been fifty hours since M'gann's water had broken, and she was still only at eight centimeters.
She was going to castrate Conner when he came home.
"I'm so gonna kill my husband next time I see him." She growled, crossing her arms as she tried to relax in the bed.
"Don't blame you." Artemis cooed.
"Look on the bright side. You're at 8 centimeters. That's closer to 10 then the two you were at when you first arrived." Karen pointed out.
"That was two days ago!" M'gann snapped.
"Is Victoria doing okay, Dinah? There isn't anything wrong is there?" M'gann asked, as Black Canary entered her room in the Watch Tower's medbay.
"Her heartbeat is fine. She isn't showing any signs of being in distress. As far as I can tell, she's happy." Dinah told her, as she checked her cervix.
"And even better news, you're at nine centimeters. Won't be much longer." She said.
"Oh yay!" M'gann gasped, a wide grin forming across her face.
"Think you might finally get a red head?" Karen asked.
"Oh, I hope so! Mark, Lisa, and Abbie all resemble Conner. I want at least one of our kids to look like me." She said.
"Well... Not entirely like me." M'gann added, grimacing at the thought of one of her and Conner's children looking like her... True form.
Oh course, the three they had now all knew what M'gann looked like. Mark- oddly enough- had been the most fasinated with how his step mom really looked, and was jealous of his two little sisters because he could never look like that. (Her and Conner assumed it was because he was a boy, and boys tend to be into weird things like dirt and their step mom being a creepy bug-like alien from Mars.)
But just because she looked like that, did not mean she wanted one of her children to look like that- if she could help it, at least. Which was why M'gann had imbedded into Lisa and Abbie's skulls that she never wanted to see either of them look like her true form.
And she would do the same with Victoria.
"Any closer to ten?" M'gann asked, sounding hopeful.
"She just checked you, girl! Wait half an hour!" Karen cried.
"Uuugggghhhh! I hate this so damn- oww!- much! It's been two days since my water broke! By the time- ah!- 48 hours had passed after my water broke with Lisa and Abbie they were- hsss!- out and we were home! I'm this close to phase shifting my arms and taking Victoria out myself!" M'gann snarled angrily at the three fellow heroes that were keeping her company.
"If you do that can I watch?" Wally joked, standing inside the doorway.
"Wally!" Artemis scolded, glaring daggers at her long term partner.
"Babe, I was kidding!" He cried, holding his hands up in defense. "But seriously. Good news and bad news." He told them.
"What's that?" Dinah asked.
"Good news is: We managed to get ahold of Supey and Superman. Told them what happened and they're both on their way as fast as they can." Wally said, smiling.
"What's the bad news?" M'gann huffed.
"It's gonna take them three days to get here." Wally informed them, his smile turning into a frown.
"Seriously?! Knowing my luck I'll still be pregnant!"
xxxxx
Twelve hours later and M'gann was horrified.
Because sound asleep and bundled up next to her in the makeshift hospital crib were two baby girls, one with hair as bright as the sun and the other with hair as dark as Conner's.
Trying, and mentally failing, not to panic, she thought back to the events only seven hours earlier that resulted in her and Conner's offspring count jumping from three to five.
"Okay M'gann, just a few more pushes and she'll be out." Dinah told her. M'gann's face was scrunched up in pain, as Artemis held her hand and Karen and Dinah awaited for Victoria to be born so they could clean her up.
M'gann spat out some phrase in her native tongue (most likely cursing Conner for putting her through this- AGAIN- and then missing the birth if the three women with her had to guess.) before she felt a release of pressure and tiny wails filled her ears.
She looked up and groaned.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me!" She sighed, eyes widening at the blonde newborn squirming in Dinah's hands, as she held Victoria up so her mother could see her.
"She looks like Kara!" Artemis cried, cackling as she off the chair she was sitting on in a fit of laughter, as Victoria was laid on top of M'gann's stomach.
"Oh hello baby. Hi sweetie. Your Daddy is gonna be so upset that you missed your birth." M'gann cooed, stroking the blonde locks that Victoria possessed as the newborn continued to scream her lungs off.
Dinah picked Victoria up off M'gann's abdomen and carried her off to be cleaned and measured.
"Karen, I need you to take care of the placenta." Dinah told her.
"Got it." Karen said, moving to sit where Dinah had been earlier. "Okay girl, let's deliver the plac- umm, that's another baby." Karen said, eyes wide.
"Excuse me?!" M'gann shrieked, causing Artemis to stop giggling from the floor.
"Damnit Karen! You've done this before." Dinah snapped, walking back towards Karen and leaving Victoria undead fled in the hospital crib. "You should know what a placenta looks li- oh dear God it is another baby!" She gasped.
"Are you fucking shitting me?!" M'gann screamed.
Fifteen minutes after they had been discovered, a second sound of angry wails filled the room, this set coming from another baby girl.
"So how does it feel to have four daughters M'gann?" Artemis asked, as Karen carried the newest little girl to be checked out, not even giving M'gann a chance to see her.
"If there's a third baby in there, it had better be a boy."
Now both girls were a few hours old. Only one of them had a first name and neither of them had middle names.
Conner was gonna freak the fuck out when he saw the younger baby girl.
"How are you feeling?" She heard her uncle ask.
M'gann looked up and saw J'onn and Gar enter the room, small smiles on both of their faces.
"Sore. But doing ok." She said, smiling back at them.
"Me and Rae were right: you and Conner did have five kids before we had two." Gar joked.
"Don't make me hurt you." His sister deadpanned.
"Does the second baby have a name?" J'onn asked, walking over to view his niece's sleeping newborn twins.
"No." M'gann sighed. "And Conner didn't tell me what middle name he had picked out for Victoria before he left."
"Well, he'll be back in two days. She can be nameless until then." Garfield shrugged, sitting in the chair next to her.
"Have the rest of the children seen them?" J'onn questioned.
"Not yet."
"Mommy!"
The three green heroes looked up and saw Mark, Lisa, and Abbie standing in the doorway.
M'gann gasped, smiling as she sat up and stretched her arms out towards her children. All three ran towards her, climbing on to the bed and being embraced by their mom.
Once the hug was finished, the three turned their attention off of M'gann and onto their newest siblings.
"Wait, I thought you and Dad said there was only one baby...?" Mark questioned.
"That's what we thought." She sighed.
"Which one is Victoria?" Lisa questioned.
"What's the other baby's name?" Abbie asked.
"The blonde is Victoria, and the second baby doesn't have a name yet. Me and your Dad will pick one out when he gets back." M'gann explained.
While Lisa and Abbie cooed in awe over their two newest sisters, Mark curled up against M'gann, his head resting on her chest and his arm slung across her stomach.
"How are you doing?" M'gann asked him, running her fingers through his hair.
She saw so much of both Conner and Wendy in Mark. He inherited Wendy's shade of pale blue eyes and her chin, but he had Conner's nose, cheeks, and ears.
"Tired mama." He mumbled, yawning. Within seconds he was snoring softly.
M'gann's eyes widened slightly. He called her mama.
"Mama? When did he start doing that?" Garfield questioned.
"That was the first time..."
xxxxx
Conner arrived two days later to the Watch Tower with Superman panicking.
"Where is she?!" He yelped, desperate to find his wife who had given birth during his absence.
'Conner.' The sound of M'gann's voice entered his mind through their link.
'M'gann? Where are you?' He panicked.
'Medbay. Listen. Something... Happened while I was delivering.' She muttered.
'Something happened? What? Are you okay? Is Victoria okay?'
'I'm fine Conner. So is Victoria... And her little sister...'
'Wait? Little si- aw shit...' He groaned.
'Yeah...' M'gann sighed.
Conner entered her recovery room less then a minute later. He power walked straight towards her, threw his arms around her much smaller frame, and kissed her on her cheek.
"I'm so sorry..." He muttered, kissing her lips. "No more off world missions if you're pregnant." He said.
"If I ever get pregnant again, you're sleeping on the couch the entire pregnancy. And the couch may or may not be outside." She said sternly.
"Okay." He chuckled nervously.
He stood up straight and walked over towards the sleeping newborn twins, the first thing he noticed was Victoria's blonde hair.
"Which one is the blonde?" He asked, an eyebrow raised.
"Victoria. She came out first, then about fifteen minutes later, out came her still unnamed sister." M'gann responded.
"You didn't pick a name out?"
"No. Didn't wanna do it without you." She explained.
"Ah. Figured you would since I picked out Tori's name." He said, smiling at his two newest daughters.
"Speaking of that, what is Victoria's middle name?" M'gann questioned.
Conner smirked, before turning to his wife and answering her. "Amelia."
"Awe Conner." She gasped, smiling, knowing why he had picked the name.
Because it was her middle name. He and the Team had learned it when they had been arguing over picking Conner's middle name. Once the annoyed clone had decided on his full name being Conner Austin James Kent, the Team turned their attention towards his alien girlfriend, who quickly stopped their attempts to name her when she told them she already had a middle name.
"Seriously? You have a middle name?" Wally asked, as everyone- including Conner- had been surprised that their fellow Martian had a full "Earth" name.
"Mmhmm." She nodded, looking up from her math text book that sat on top of the counter.
"Well... What is it?" Artemis asked.
"Ah'meh'li'ah." She said, her main focus on her homework.
"Girl! How do you spell that?" Raquel cried.
M'gann huffed, grabbed a clean sheet of notebook paper, and wrote her middle name down on the paper in big letters, before raising it up for the Team to see.
"Ohh...!"
"Yep. They named me after my mom, since that's her first name." She explained.
"That's sweet. My middle name is my mom's first name too." Zatanna said in awe.
"What is it in the English language? You know how M'gann translates to Megan, what does that translate to?" Dick, who was still going by Robin, asked.
"I asked Uncle J'onn that once. He said the closest translation he could find to it was Amelia." M'gann shrugged.
The Team nodded, understanding.
"So what made you decide to pick Amelia?" She asked, still smiling.
Conner shrugged, scratching the back of his head.
"Well, you said that it was your mom's first name. Then you mentioned it was also your grandma's middle name. And I figured, why the hell not- one more generation won't hurt." He said.
M'gann just continued to smile and smile at him.
"Victoria Amelia Kent. Now all we have to do is pick out a name for her little sister." She sighed.
"And unfortunately, since Bart is on 'vacation'," Conner huffed, referring to Bart's groundment from the Team. "We can't ask him what the her name is."
"I think that's a good thing, actually. Allows us to not rely on him for help when it comes to naming them." M'gann told him.
xxxxx
By the time they were a full four days old, both little girls had full names.
Victoria Amelia and Brooklyn Alexandra.
Unfortunately, since M'gann and Conner still lived in the tiny two bedroom apartment, they were trying to delay their going home until they knew what to do.
Luckily, Clark already had that planned out.
"So, I've been talking to Ma and Pa the last few months, and they finally agreed to it." He told them, as he entered the room. Both Conner and M'gann looked up in confusion, Victoria in Conner's arms and Brooke in M'gann's.
"Agreed to what...?" Conner asked slowly.
"To move off the farm and move closer to Metropolis with me and Lois. But since they didn't want to sell the farm, I made a suggestion. And they said yes." He smiled.
"What suggestion...?" M'gann questioned.
"To give it to you guys. Six bedrooms- well, five bedrooms and an attic, but it's big enough to be a bedroom- four bathrooms, and three thousand square feet. I pointed out that you needed a bigger space and all those acres would be good for your kids to get used to their powers. All you have to do is maintain the land and not let the house get destroyed." Clark explained.
"Dude, I could kiss you right now." Conner gasped.
Him and M'gann were shocked. They were getting a bigger place to live. All of their kids would get their own room (well, the older three. Victoria and Brooke would be sharing) Abbie would no longer have a reason to sleep in their bed with them.
"I was hoping you guys would be moved in before M'gann gave birth. But that happened earlier then expected, and it took me that long to convince Pa to retire." Clark said.
"Oh man, we gotta start packing." Conner sighed.
"It's not like we have much to pack." His wife reminded him.
"Oh course, it's gonna take about two weeks for Ma and Pa to get moved out- even with help. So you guys are stuck at the apartment until then." Clark grimaced.
"And Arri and Wolf can have free range of the farm during the moves." He added.
xxxxx
During the two weeks they spent packing, Conner and M'gann took Abbie, Lisa, and Mark (bless Gar and Raven for babysitting the twins while they were gone) to Lowe's to pick out the color of their rooms.
"You guys get to pick one color each. It can be any color you want. But only one and no fighting over colors. Do me and your Father make ourselves clear?" M'gann reminded them sternly.
"Yes mama." They nodded, before they all went to look for their room color, being closely looked over by M'gann and Conner.
'We gonna pick out any colors today?' He asked.
'Mmhmm. Once they're done.' M'gann said.
Mark was the first to be done.
He handed his Dad the colored square before climbing back into the twin seats on the cart he and Lisa were placed in upon entering the store. The blue color he had picked reminded Conner and M'gann of Clark's costume.
After Mark, Lisa was next.
The bubbly five and a half year old gave her mom the bright, minty blue square before taking her seat next to her brother.
The only one left was Abbie.
"Abbie, hurry up." M'gann said towards the youngest of the three that were in the store. Abbie turned her head towards her parents, nodded, and grabbed a square before racing back towards the cart.
Her alien parents were taken aback, when she handed them the dark gray square. It was only, at the most, two or three shades lighter then black.
'We did say it could be any color.' Conner said, reminding M'gann what she had told them.
'Yes. Yes we did.' M'gann nodded, before picking Abbie up and putting her back inside the cart, before her and Conner picked out paint colors of their own.
xxxxx
Wally entered him and Artemis' condo, walked straight towards her, and gave her a hug.
"I love you." He mumbled against her neck.
"I love you too. What happened?" She asked, her arms wrapped around his waist.
"I got a promotion at work. Pay is almost doubled and I'll be one of the head scientists in the department." He said, his face still against her neck. Artemis could feel him smiling against her skin.
"That's wonderful Wally!" She beamed, before pulling away from his hug. "Now what's the catch?" She asked.
"... They want me to transfer to the S.T.A.R labs in Central City..." He said, fearful of Artemis' reaction.
"Okay. When do we move?" She said, smiling.
"Wait, you want to move?" He asked, baffled.
"Well, yeah. It would be nice to be closer to family. Besides, I'm not the biggest fan of the California school system. It's gonna be sad leaving this place, considering..."
"That Dick gave it to us." Wally sighed, frowning.
"Yeah. What did you tell your boss when he offered you the promotion?" Artemis asked.
"That I wanted to discuss it with my wife and that I would give him an answer on Monday." He answered.
"Hmm. You called me your wife even though we aren't married?" She smirked.
"Well- I- um- you see..." Wally stuttered, causing Artemis to laugh.
"Baywatch, relax. I'm just teasing. I'm in no rush to get married, and last time I was told, neither were you." Artemis cooed.
"As long as I'm with you, I don't care either way, beautiful." He grinned, earning a kiss on the lips from his long term girlfriend of twelve and a half years.
"So when do they want you in Central?" She asked him.
"By the beginning of August." He said.
"So that gives us a little less then two months to sell this place and find a new place to live. Eek." She grimaced, cringing at the thought.
"Yeah... Wanna start house hunting tomorrow? We could drop the kids off at my folk's house." Wally suggested.
"Sounds good. Let's keep the move a surprise though. At least until we find a new house."
"Works for me."
xxxxx
Two days before they were supposed to move into Ma and Pa Kent's old farm house, Conner and M'gann brought their kids to the house so they could pick out their bedrooms.
"Alright. Listen to me closely, all three of you. Upstairs there's two closed doors. Those are me and your mom's room, and Victoria and Brooke's room. The other rooms are yours to pick. There will be no fighting. First come, first serve. Now go pick your rooms." Conner told them.
They all raced up the stairs.
One of the two closed doors was at the very end of the hallway. The other was on the the right side of the hallway closest to the other closed door. Lisa chose the room across from the second closed door, wanting to be close to her Mom and Dad. Mark, wanting to be no where near where his newborn sister's slept (six months of Abbie's non stop screeching made him hate newborns) chose the room next to hers, since it was the furthest from either of the closed doors.
Leaving the final room for Abbie.
But she wasn't intrigued by the simple room with the two small windows and closet. Frowning and shaking her head, she left to explore the rest of the L shaped hallway upstairs. The shorter part of the L consisted of two bathrooms, a linen closet, and another door.
Abbie was surprised to see a flight of stairs going up when she opened the door.
Being cautious as she explored, the three year old slowly walked up the stairs, and when she made it to the top, gasped in surprise.
The room at top was small, maybe five feet by five feet. The walls were a dirty white, the floor was an oak wood color, there was a single window in the center of the far wall, and the ceiling had an open ceiling style.
As soon as she saw it, Abbie fell in love. This was going to be her room.
"Abbie? Abbie?!" Abbie's ears perked up when she heard her Dad calling for her.
"There you are." Conner said, relieved when he found his middle child standing in the middle of the attic.
"Oh, see you found the attic, huh?" He asked.
She nodded, smiling.
"Wait, you want this to be your room?" He asked, baffled.
Abbie nodded again, her smile growing bigger.
"Oh kay..." He trailed off, before picking Abbie up and carrying her back down the stairs.
Alright. I know Meloni not being Bart's mother is majorly NOT comic book cannon. But honestly, I wanted something dark about him.
Originally, I had the idea to make him be the rape child of Lisa and Don. But then I was like, uh- NO. I don't want to make any of the good guys a rapist, nor do I plan on writing any straight up rape smut scenes.
Rough sex? Yes. Rape? No. Never. You want a story like that, find a different author.
The next chapter will have a time skip of about a year. Between 9-12 months.
Also, this is the longest chapter at: 7695 words (according to my word count.)
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