A/N - Lemons ahead. Read at your own risk!


Chapter 5

Steph swam up to consciousness in a sea of coziness, snuggled tight against a warm body at her back, with a strong arm looped around her waist.

Lex, she thought to herself, feeling the tears and the smile start at the same time. Lex had cuddled her against him in the tub, too, last night, seating her in front of him and wrapping arms and legs around her in the warm-but-not-too-hot water, and Steph had indulged herself in the happiness bubbling up in her soul faster than the bathtub jets.

Lex had let her drift off while he pressed little kisses to her hair and neck, all with a gentle hand glued to her belly. When the water had turned tepid, Lex had carefully helped her out of the tub and then scooped Steph up and tucked them both into his bed, not even trying to score again, but simply spooning her with a long sigh of contentment.

Steph had never felt more loved. Not that Lex was in love with her (yet), but he was showering her with such an abundance of loving care and tender devotion and - would it really be so bad, to date a super-villain? Or possibly move in with him in a few months? Sure, Batman would freak out, but if she wasn't running around as Batgirl during her pregnancy then Lex would have nothing to accidentally discover, and - she and Lex were having a baby together.

A baby.

Holy fuck.

Steph still hadn't managed to wrap her head around it. Yesterday had been a whirlwind of disbelief and panic, nerves about telling Lex and worry over his reaction, mingled with longer-term freaking out over telling her mom and the Bats.

So much emotion focused on other people, so that the reality of Stephanie Brown, Mom 2.0, had barely sunk in. Not to mention Baby 2.0. And that was just - whoa. A baby. A baby. One she'd actually hold this time, when she delivered them. One she'd nurse and rock and sing to sleep. Diapers she'd change. Little smiles she'd learn. A tiny human being was coming who was going to crowd into every nook and cranny of Steph's life.

Yesterday, Steph had been terrified and upset, feeling like she'd made the biggest mistake of her life. Not even because the baby was with Lex, but because she'd gotten pregnant in the first place. Her life was Batgirl. In the background was college and a future career, but Batgirl came first. Always, always, always.

Except. This morning? Waking up for the first time in so many years with another little traveler inside of her? One she could keep? Oh, how badly Steph had wanted to keep her first baby. That had always been the plan, until she'd started having nightmares about Cluemaster's enemies coming for her daughter. Steph had learned motherhood's most brutal lesson, the day she decided to sacrifice her own happiness for her daughter's safety.

And sure, Lex had enemies, too - but he was also rich as fuck, and Steph was Batgirl, now. Between Lex's money and Steph's skills, she was sure that she could keep this baby as safe as any kid could reasonably expect to be. This baby. Her baby. A baby.

Baby baby baby -

The sobs wrenched out of Steph's chest like an exploding soda bottle, startling Lex awake from where he was wrapped around her.

"Sweetheart?" Lex said, sounding horribly concerned, even in his confused, sleepy state. He fumbled to roll her over to face him, and Steph latched onto his bare chest, burying her face in his neck and gasping out tears that began to mingle with laughter while Lex rubbed her back and head and tried to figure out what the fuck he'd just woken up to.

"Stephanie? What's wrong, baby?" Lex asked, his concern growing.

"I'm having a baby," Steph sobbed, raising her head to look at him.

"Yes," Lex said cautiously, a sudden sadness shading his eyes, which was all wrong.

"No," Steph corrected, shaking her head vigorously from side to side. "I'm having a baby, Lex," she repeated with more emphasis. Lex's brow wrinkled in confusion, which would have been a damn funny look for Lex Luthor if it wasn't so sweetly misplaced. "I'm having a baby!" Steph sobbed out, trying to get her point across, which she was failing miserably at, judging from Lex's growing unease.

Steph hauled herself up and planted a firm kiss on Lex's mouth, although she had a little trouble latching on in-between her bawling and giggling and snuffling.

"I'm having a baby," she repeated to Lex, whose renowned genius finally decided to kick in.

"You're … happy?" Lex asked hesitantly, like he hardly dared to hope.

"So happy," Steph sobbed, dissolving into laughter again when Lex's eyes lit back up. Steph grabbed Lex's face in both of her hands and began kissing him, short but passionate kisses only broken up by hiccups and hysteria, while a flood of euphoria washed through her body.

"Sweetheart," Lex managed to utter in awe between Steph's unrelenting smooches. "I'm so glad that you're happy about it -" he tried to say as Steph shimmied her legs up to straddle him and began kissing him more fiercely.

"All I ever wanted was to have another baby and keep it," Steph declared with newfound certainty, letting her breasts swing down over Lex's chest while she cradled his head in her hands. "I've never been so happy about anything in my entire life," she swore.

Not when Tim first asked her out on a date, or the first time she put on the Robin suit, or the Batgirl suit, or the day that she realized Cass had gone from frenemy to bestie, or when Bruce had told her he'd pay for college - none of it came close.

Lex had tears in his eyes now, too, and his hands hands traveled up to Steph's waist while she wriggled against his getting-harder cock, still planting exuberant kisses into his mouth.

"I'm gonna have a baby," Steph grinned into Lex's bemused face.

"We're gonna have a baby," he gently corrected, reaching a hand up to cup Steph's cheek.

"Yeah we are," Steph whispered back, her giddiness abruptly halting into a sacred stillness. Lex. She wanted Lex. She was having a baby with Lex and - fuck it, she could have him. She could have this. A baby and Lex and marriage and a family. Visions of onesies and baby feet and little chubby cheeks dispelled all of the gnawing Bat-symbols from her mind.

Steph blinked and pictured a rosy future with Lex fussing over baby furniture and preschools and bodyguards, murmuring love messages to a swelling belly and diligently reading every pregnancy and child-rearing book he could get his hands on, with a wedding band on his finger and admiration in his eyes for one Stephanie Brown, Former Nobody who'd somehow enchanted him with her ridiculousness and charm and mutual love of modern art and -

"Please fuck me," Steph begged, to keep stupider suggestions from flying out of her mouth.

"You sure you don't want to fuck me?" Lex asked her with a lazy grin, gripping her waist with both hands and grinding her a little harder against his cock. "Seems to me that's where you were heading," he teased.

Steph bit her lip. Climbing up Lex's body and showering him with kisses had felt totally natural a few seconds ago when she was overwhelmed with emotion. And she couldn't deny that she liked being on top. But - it was Lex freaking Luthor, who'd been firmly in control and dominant the last two times they'd had sex, who adored being in charge of life in general (megalomania, anyone?) and Steph's frenzied rush of endorphins had just slammed into a quiet calm.

"Can I?" she asked a little shyly.

"Baby, you can fuck me any way you can imagine, and I'll be a happy man," Lex drawled, deliberately removing a hand from her waist and propping it behind his head. He watched her with half-lidded eyes, waiting for her to take action. Steph blushed. "Be yourself," Lex gently entreated. "Show me how you like to get off when you're on top," he begged, stroking his remaining fingers along her side.

Steph giggled and dipped her head lower, enjoying the flush of warmth that Lex's sweet invitation made blossom in her belly even as her cheeks turned redder.

"Well," she mumbled to Lex's very cushy pecs, "first I'm gonna go down on you, then, so you're super hard for my ride." Lex's breath hitched and damn, that gave her confidence. Steph peeked up at Lex's face from under her eyelashes and thrilled to discover that he was biting his lip, now, and had started breathing a little heavier.

"Good boy," Steph smirked playfully, and holy shit - Lex groaned out loud and squeezed her hip hard with the hand still lingering on it. "Yeah?" Steph smirked, feeling herself fall into the role that she occasionally loved to fill. "You like when your Mistress compliments you? That's good," she purred, stretching her body out like a lynx and prowling closer to Lex's jugular while sliding her hands up his chest to his bald head.

"If you're a good boy for Mistress, I'll give you such a nice reward," she breathed against Lex's jaw before nipping lightly at it and making Lex jump.

"Fuck," he said raggedly, his eyes wide.

"Good boy," Steph whispered, pressing a soothing kiss over where she'd bitten. She rubbed her hands over his scalp before tilting his head back, exposing his throat to her. "Such a pretty offering for your Mistress," she cooed over him, licking a stripe over his throbbing pulse. She clamped her teeth down and was about to suck a hickey onto his neck before suddenly raising questioning eyes to Lex.

"Can I?" Steph asked. Maybe Lex didn't want to be marked up, after all, and shown off in public later if he took her to a show like he'd promised. Being claimed wasn't exactly the billionaire's image, after all. But Lex was growling low in his throat.

"Please, Mistress," he rumbled, arching his neck back even farther for her. And oh, fuck. Steph inhaled on a hiss and felt her core leak.

"Good boy," she whispered, tracing her thumb against the corner of Lex's mouth and earning a shaky exhale from him. Steph dropped her lips to his jugular and sucked hard. Lex groaned under her and shifted his hips, and oh, that was making his cock harder, as she worried a bruise into his neck. "Fuck, yeah," Steph breathed out when she finally pulled back and admired her handiwork. She traced delicate fingers along the purplish edges, pressing just deep enough to make Lex hiss and squirm under her.

"You're being so good for me, baby," Steph praised him, trailing wet lips across Lex's collarbone, down his pecs, over a taut nipple, grinding her hips as she went and feeling herself get wetter.

"Thank you, Mistress," Lex rasped, and shit. He was really into this, huh? Oh, he still had a Lexy smirk on his lips, and he was clearly very amused and not drifting into subspace or anything like that, but he was turned on, too - and the fact that he was not only letting Steph dominate him, but fully playing along? Damn.

Steph wouldn't have pegged Lex as playful in any aspect of his life. Although - he had certainly hammed it up with her at the gala, trolling Tim. Maybe Conner had had far more of an influence on Lex's personality than Steph had ever imagined. But also, speaking of pegging -

"Would you let me peg you sometime?" Steph asked Lex curiously, sitting up to look at him while she twisted and tugged at his nipples with both hands.

"Fuck," Lex panted. "Yes. I like anal," he admitted, biting his lip to keep back a whimper at Steph's sharp pinches. "But I've never played that way with a partner," he said. "Only toys."

"You never submitted before, either?" Steph asked him with a little smile which got broader when Lex snorted and shook his head no.

"Please," he scoffed. "I'm Lex Luthor."

"I know," Steph said softly, feeling a little of the awe return. "I can't believe you're letting me," she trailed off with a nervous smile.

"I feel different with you," Lex shrugged easily, but the look in his eyes said far more. "Do you only like to dominate, or was sex the other two times all right?" he asked her.

"Sex the other two times was mind blowingly amazing," Steph said honestly, kneading his nipples between her fingers now. "I like all kinds of sex," she grinned. "You being take charge is hot as hell, too."

"Good," Lex smiled. Neither one of them commented on the fact that technically Lex had made love to her yesterday instead of sweeping her away with fiery passion, and that it was exquisitely intimate rather than a blazing wildfire, but, well, they'd both been there. Lex had seen Steph reduced to a trembling, whimpering mess in his arms. No need to bring up how much she'd also liked slow and sweet sex - when it was with Lex.

Or to point out that maybe the reason why Steph felt the need to dominate Lex today was to recenter herself more securely in a protective haze of lust, far away from treacherous swoopy feelings of hearts and roses and soft eyes and adoring smiles and protective, tender baby daddies.

Steph smiled back, though, before bending down to lick over one of Lex's nipples. She flicked her tongue against the now quite-perky nub before dragging her tongue slow and wet against it, then biting down and sucking.

"Shit!" Lex hissed, arching his back under her. "Good," he added quickly to Steph's questioning eyes. "Very good," he groaned when Steph sucked harder. "Fuck, baby," he mumbled, tangling a hand in her hair and stroking little lines on her scalp with his thumb.

And it was such a little gesture, but it was so sweetly affectionate that Steph melted into it, her mouth relaxing into a kiss on Lex's pec. Steph looked up and gave him a sunny smile before slowly kissing her way down his abs, caressing her hands along his sides as she went.

She nosed along his crotch when she got there, inhaling Lex's delicious musk, before taking him in hand. God, Lex's cock felt good, warm and solid and pulsing with excitement the more she fondled it. Steph gripped him tight at the base and licked a long stripe up the underside of his cock, right along the vein. Lex groaned in delight, his eyes sparkling while he watched her.

"Be a good boy," Steph playfully cautioned him. "Don't come. Mistress wants to ride this cock."

"Yes, ma'am," Lex growled, throwing in a jaunty salute, which made Steph laugh out loud in delight. God, Lex Luthor being silly - and for her! Who would have thought? A terrible, wonderful fondness crept into Steph's heart and she had to give Lex a few more licks before diving all the way in because she couldn't stop smiling.

Lex was smiling too, though, looking happy and roguish and Steph suddenly remembered his confession yesterday, that he hadn't laughed once after Conner died until she asked him to troll Tim with her. How huge was it, then, that Lex was being playful and silly with her in bed? Steph didn't want to ask, but she had a feeling that Lex had never, not once, laughed during sex until Stephanie Brown, either.

A swell of empathy and a rush of compassion flowed through Steph's heart for a certain super-villain. Lex might be a mega rich, sometimes evil, always power-hungry terror to the Justice League, but - his life was hollow, Steph realized. No wonder Conner had meant so much to him. And maybe that's why it had been so much easier for Clark to dismiss his own connection to Conner. Clark had friends and a family. Lex didn't.

Well, that thought had wiped the smile from her face, so Steph guided the tip of Lex's cock to her mouth and went down. Only partway at first, letting her saliva slick it up so it would glide more smoothly. Lex didn't seem to mind the short strokes at all, as Steph licked around his girth and then popped her lips off of the tip again and again.

His breathing was getting heavier and his eyes more heated by the time Steph finally slid all the way down, drawing a ragged groan out of him. Two hands were suddenly tangled back up in her hair, but so lightly, not pushing down on her head at all but holding it in careful reverence, it seemed.

"Fuck," Lex grunted out when Steph swallowed, keeping him lodged in the back of her throat for a few more long moments before pulling up to breathe.

"What do you say?" Steph sassed.

"Thank you, Mistress," Lex grinned at her.

"Good boy. Keep it up," Steph bossed, promptly swallowing him all the way back down and then deep throating him in earnest, fucking his cock with long, fast thrusts as she bobbed up and down his length.

"God, thank you," Lex moaned. He got lost in pleasure and groans for a bit as Steph continued to take him, enjoying how good it felt to have his cock down her throat, stuffing her full, his salty precum coating her tongue, mixing with her saliva to create a beautifully slick journey for her mouth. And through it all, Lex's hands played so gently with her hair, fingertips tracing tender patterns that made her feel dizzier than her shortened oxygen supply.

When Lex's cock surged against the hand she had wrapped tightly around its base with an extra fullness, making it so thick that she could barely get it down her throat without choking, Steph pulled off and gave Lex a sexy smirk.

"Fantastic job, Mistress," Lex panted out. "Ten out of ten on your oral evaluation."

"Hey!" Steph pouted as she crawled up Lex's legs, dragging her pussy across his thigh so he could feel it dripping. "No fair making it sound like you're the boss of your Mistress. I asked for praise, not grades," she teased, although her giggles made her tone far less grumpy than she'd aimed for. Because honestly? Who besides Lex would say something like that? It was fucking cute, is what it was, and yet another reason to like him.

"Baby, I'm always the boss," Lex smirked. "I'm Lex Luthor."

"Yeah, Lex Luthor?" Steph smirked right back. "Well, I'm your baby mama. That makes me the boss now," she grinned as Lex grabbed a condom off the nightstand and ripped it open for her.

"I don't suppose I can really argue with that," Lex said thoughtfully as Steph rolled the condom on.

"Exactly," she nodded before straddling him, taking his cock in hand to line it up. She and Lex both moaned when she sank down on it. Steph felt her eyes roll back a little as she savored how deep inside her he was with her on top. "Fuuuck," she murmured, soft and low, shifting around a little to get him in the very best spot.

"Feels good, baby?" Lex growled out, taking ahold of her waist.

"So good," Steph mumbled, opening her eyes again to look at him. She leaned forward a little bit to plant her hands on his chest. "You can play with my boobs if you want," she offered helpfully, as they dangled in the air.

"I would be delighted," Lex laughed, keeping one hand on her waist, but moving the other to fondle a breast. Steph smiled down at him, unable to keep her face from morphing into something happy and bright instead of purely sultry.

Because Lex was amazing, ok? He kept revealing new sides of himself that Steph liked more and more, and she was feeling less and less willing to shut the door on what might be a freakin awesome future with her villainous baby daddy.

It could work out, Steph promised herself with far more idealism than honesty. So she was Batgirl. Maybe she could switch to the day shift while Lex was at work and get a nanny. She was gonna be tied to Lex no matter what, since he was so eager to co-parent, so - wouldn't it make more sense to nurture a deeper relationship with him?

Maybe she could influence Lex to be less evil. He had changed a lot for Conner, after all, cleaning up all his legal troubles and rebranding his image. Surely he'd want to do even more for his new baby, to build a legitimate legacy for them to inherit.

Surely.

Right.

Anyway, Lex was deep inside her and if Steph felt damn happy about it, and about him, and about his reactions both to her and their baby news, well, so be it. She grinned down at him and slowly pulled her dripping pussy up his cock, savoring the tease, before slamming herself back down. Lex snapped his hips up and met her with a grunt, and sparks shot up Steph's cunt.

"Fuck," she panted. "Yes. God." Lex gripped her boob a little more firmly and started stroking it with his thumb before pinching her tight nipple, and Steph moaned. "Gimme your other hand," she ordered, reaching for it. Lex twined their fingers together and Steph rose up again, meeting Lex's pounding hips when she came down, and together they fell into a rhythm.

Electric currents from her nipple shot down to her clit, and with every descent, Lex's momentum met her gravity and banged out stars and sparks into her core, and their twisted hands were squeezing each other as tightly as their gazes were locked.

Lex was started to look undone, his face slack and ragged with pleasure under her, and Steph figured she probably looked about the same, as she rode him and shivered around the growing tremors in her cunt.

"You feel so good," Steph gasped out on a particularly powerful landing that made her clench her pussy and hold on to his cock for a moment longer to grind into it before rising up again.

"So do you, baby," Lex growled. "So pretty for me on top," he added. "Riding me like a powerful queen."

"Fuck," Steph spluttered, spasming in shocked delight, still awed every time that Lex Luthor thought anything good about her at all.

"You're incredible," Lex told her, bucking his hips up into her and refusing to let Steph lose her rhythm. "I'm so lucky to have found you," he grunted out, moving both hands to her hips. He began bouncing Steph hard on his cock, and Steph whimpered with need as her orgasm inched closer and closer.

"Please," she whined, feeling the telltale quivers start.

"Oh, sweetheart, I'm going to take such good care of you," Lex promised in a dark growl. "Now and forever," he swore, suddenly hitting a spot that made Steph scream "Don't stop." Lex tightened his grip and kept pounding her g-spot as sparks and lightning lit up every nerve in Steph's body, and suddenly she was coming, sobbing at the intensity as Lex relentlessly drove her through her orgasm.

It felt like it lasted forever, the tight clenching and powerful releases coming in waves that made her shudder and moan as sweat slipped down her back while Lex kept hitting her so perfect and right and whispering praise - God, Steph was getting drunk off his throaty encouragement.

"Don't hold back," Lex breathed up at her, "keep going, sweetheart. Take it all, that's a good girl," he rasped, watching her come with heavy-lidded eyes and smugly proud satisfaction on his face while he dragged her orgasm out and out an -

Just when Steph started to come down, Lex gave a burst of short, rapid strokes, and then he was coming, too, with a long moan. The pulsing pleasure of his cock twitching inside her snagged the last threads of Steph's waning orgasm and dragged her into another, smalller one, making her whimper and leak tears down her cheeks as Lex finished inside her but kept nursing her through her lingering waves.

"Fuck, Lex. Fuck," Steph said hoarsely when they were finally both still. She collapsed down onto his chest and Lex wrapped his arms around her soothingly, planting a kiss to the sweaty strands of hair sticking to her forehead. Their heavy breathing filled the room for a few long minutes until Lex mumbled "condom" and rolled her over so he could pull out and tie it off. He chucked it into the wastebasket next to his bed and promptly pulled Steph back into his arms, planting a warm, lingering kiss on her mouth this time.

Steph sighed into it and cuddled her face into Lex's neck afterwards, humming in soft contentment as one tight arm circled her waist and light fingers made lazy trails up and down her back. Lex gave a deeply satisfied exhale of agreement.

"That was -"

"- incredible," Steph finished for him, twisting her head to look up into his eyes.

"I've never had so much fun during sex," Lex softly admitted, still tracing lines on her back.

"I wondered," Steph replied gently.

"You are something so uniquely amazing, Stephanie Brown," Lex breathed, with that same unbelievably awed expression on his face that made Steph's reality shift and warp. "I cannot wait until the day I convince you to marry me."

"Damn, Lex!" Steph burst out, eyes going wide and then giggling. "When you want something, you want it," she snickered, fighting the blush on her cheeks and the needy pining in her heart that Lex's calmly mapped out future for them was producing.

"I know a good thing when I see it," Lex said, with far too honest a look in his eyes for Steph's waning willpower.

"Maybe I do, too," Steph mumbled, blushing a little more at Lex's smile before tucking her face back into his neck and squeezing her arms tighter around his chest.

"I can work with a maybe," Lex smirked into her ear, before pressing little nibbling kisses along its edge.

"Maybe I want you to," Steph quietly admitted, snuggling into Lex's touch. If she said it in a whisper, her Bat-conscience wouldn't hear, right?

"You don't have to worry," Lex said, resting his cheek against her temple. "We'll work everything out, sweetheart. I promise," he said with full Lex Luthor confidence.

Maybe Steph could believe him.

She definitely wanted to.


A/N - Can't promise how fast updates will happen, but I'm back to regularly working on this fic. The plan is to finish this one first, then Mourning Mother's Day, then go back to working on the REALLY long longfics, Fate is a Green-Eyed Monster and Light in the Dark.

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