A/N:

Hello! Sorry for that dry(ish) spell, I went to visit my family in another state for the past two weeks and was pretty busy. Plus, for some reason, I found this prompt didn't come as easily as others; maybe it's because it's AUish, I dunno. I didn't want to get stuck in a rut so I finally finished it. Hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: Don't own Teen Titans or Mar'i or anything else cool.

It was 6:23 AM in the Grayson household on Christmas morning. Soft gray light had begun to filter in through the windows of the quiet house as snow fell gently outside, completing the serene picture.

"MOMMY! DADDY! CHRISTMAS!"

Dick Grayson groaned and rolled over in bed. "Kory, your daughter is awake."

His wife shifted underneath the sheets next to him, grabbing a handful of covers and pulling them over her red mane of bedhead. "Why is she my daughter whenever she is disruptive?"

A purple-clad blur suddenly streaked through the room and landed in the rumpled sheets between the couple, actually causing them to bounce a few centimeters in the air.

"Because," Dick answered sleepily, "she gets that from you."

The dark-haired little girl in the bed scrambled into a sitting position and began shaking her parents, alternating sides every few seconds. "Mooo-oooom," she whined, bouncing up and down on the mattress from the force of her shoves, "it's Christmas! C'mon, get up get up get up!" She switched and began vigorously shaking her father's shoulder. "Daddy, get up!"

"Daddy's still sleeping, Mar'i," he replied, eyes still closed despite her jostling.

Kory realized she wasn't going to get any more sleep and pushed herself up into a sitting position, yawning and stretching. Turning to Mar'i, she smiled affectionately and stroked her long, dark hair. "Perhaps Daddy requires a little more help waking up," she suggested, eyes sparkling mischievously.

Mar'i twisted around to look at her mother, then grinned (she looked so much like Dick when she smiled, Kory thought warmly) and floated over her father. Grabbing his wrists in her own tiny hands, she pulled backwards in an attempt to literally get him up. "Wake upppp!" she demanded, her inherited superhuman strength from her mother aiding her in swiftly pulling Dick into a sitting position.

He blinked blearily as his daughter beamed at him. "Merry Christmas, Daddy!" the six-year-old exclaimed, throwing her arms around his neck in a hug.

Dick smiled and hugged her back tightly. "Merry Christmas, sweetheart," he yawned, raising a fist to cover his mouth.

She pulled back and looked excited. "Can we open presents now?" she asked eagerly, looking to her mother.

"Go find Silkie and wait for us by the tree, I will wake your father," Kory told her, as Dick had flopped backwards into bed, eyes shut again. Kory wasn't surprised; he had been up until almost three in the morning wrapping the last of Mar'i's presents and arranging them under the tree, his obsessive attention to detail not having changed much since their Teen Titan years.

Mar'i nodded and zipped out of the room, in search of the now-elderly larva.

Kory watched her leave and then turned to her husband, who had rolled onto his stomach and was quickly falling back asleep. She reached out and shook his shoulder much more gently than their daughter had. "Richard? Richard, awaken please," she insisted softly.

No response.

She tried again. "If you get up, I will give you your first gift from me," she murmured, leaning down and brushing a kiss against his cheek, then moving along to his jawbone.

He made a noise of acknowledgement but did not move.

His wife pouted, sat up, and crossed her arms. "Fine," she said, lifting off the bed and floating towards the door. "Perhaps I shall find someone else to bestow such a gift upon."

Dick shifted and blinked open his eyes. "Aw, Kory, come on," he called. After seconds of silence passed, he propped himself up on his elbow and tried to peer down the stretch of hallway he could see from the bed. "Kor?"

He listened hard and heard muted voices speaking in Tamaranian. He recognized the word for father, something about the two of them…?

There was a giggle and suddenly the two Tamaranians flew into the room again at top speed and dive-bombed the bed, causing Dick to fly four feet in the air with a yell of panic. He returned to the mattress with a loud thump, landing on his stomach between the two laughing girls. Silkie waddled in behind them, gurgling and attempting to climb into the bed also.

Waiting a few moments for his heartbeat to return to normal, Dick rolled over onto his back and looked from one set of jade eyes to the other.

"…okay, okay, I'll get up."

Mar'i grinned and fist-pumped. "Yes!" she exclaimed, shooting back out of the room.

Dick chuckled and watched her go, then turned his head to look at his wife. "Can I still get that present?" he asked, smiling that crooked half-smile she knew so well.

She looked down at him, fighting to suppress a smile and look stern. "Perhaps," she replied, turning away and moving to get off the bed.

"Star, wait." He had sat up and gently grabbed her forearm before she could leave, but it was his use of her old nickname that truly stopped her.

Kory looked around at him, surprised at the sudden seriousness in his voice.

He was looking steadily at her, the corners of his mouth turned up in an attempt at lightness that didn't quite reach his eyes. Instead, they held a somberness that was reminiscent of much earlier in their relationship, when he would berate himself after thoughtlessly doing or saying something that hurt her.

She recognized that look and immediately reached out a hand to touch his cheek affectionately before he could say anything else, a faint distressed crinkle appearing between her eyebrows as she smiled at him. "Richard, please, it is Christmas. I was merely joking; do not do the beating of yourself."

A flicker of real amusement tugged at his lips and the crinkle between Kory's eyebrows disappeared.

Dick ran his hand through his hair and blew out a sigh, flicking his eyes at the ground and then back up to meet hers; to her satisfaction, she saw the cloudiness in them clearing. "Sorry, Kor," he murmured, taking her hand and rubbing his thumb over the back of it. "I know it's been a while since we were teenagers, but I still don't want to make the same mistakes I did when I was younger."

Kory stared at him for a few moments, her green eyes moving minutely as they searched his blue ones. She surged forward suddenly and threw her arms around his neck, kissing him hard on the mouth. Dick's eyes widened momentarily before closing as he returned the kiss, moving one hand to cup her jaw and the other to rest on her thigh.

After about ten seconds Kory pulled away with some effort, Dick trailing after her in an attempt to make the kiss last. She giggled at the somewhat-groggy expression on his face, floating out of his reach as he tried to pull her back onto the bed.

"I have given you one of your gifts, now it is your turn to give me one," she chided.

"Alright," he replied, looking up at her mischievously. Before she had time to wonder what he was thinking, Dick had sprung up from the bed and enveloped her in a tight embrace; Kory, slightly surprised but pleased, put her arms around him and returned the hug. Turning his head into her neck, he began to press his lips against various parts of it.

Kory let out a contented sigh as her husband moved his attention to her bare shoulder (even though it was winter, she still didn't feel the need to wear anything warmer than a spaghetti-strap nightgown), but something was tugging at her foggy mind. There was something she had forgotten, something waiting on her…

"Eeeeewww!"

The loudly-voiced opinion caused the couple to start and turn their attention to the doorway where their daughter stood, making a face at the PDA she had accidentally walked in on.

"I've been waiting for like an hour," the little girl complained, throwing her arms out exasperatedly. "Can we pleeeease open presents now?"

Kory quickly composed herself and took a step back from Dick, turning around to face Mar'i. "I apologize my little bumgorf; let us make haste to the tree!"

Mar'i grinned and ran back down the hallway; Kory watched her go and then turned back around to kiss Dick's cheek. "I enjoyed your gift very much," she told him with an impish smile.

"Oh, that wasn't all," he replied casually, walking over to pick up an exhausted Silkie "If you liked that, you're going to love tonight."

And with that he strolled out of the bedroom, leaving Kory suddenly feeling more impatient than Mar'i.

A/N:

So there is is. Mer. It's not my favorite I've done so far, I'm not completely satisfied with the latter half but I just wanted to finish it. I guess it was kind hard feeling out how Robin would be as a mature adult/dad; I saw him as being mellower and lighter like he is in the comics, but still having a little bit of that meticulous/serious Batman-esque streak in him since it was such a big character trait in the show. Idk I'm really tired and just wanna post this already so ya there you go! Thanks for reading!

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- Renee