Olivia sat up with some difficulty. The size her belly had grown to had made a lot of things difficult to do, sitting up being one of them.

She could hear quite a commotion outside.

Suddenly, Nightwing burst into the room. He ran to her. One of his hands immediately went to her belly. "Are you ok?" he asked her.

"Not exactly," she said.

He looked concerned.

"I feel like a beached whale."

Dick chuckled and kissed her. "I happen to love this beached whale." He also kissed her belly. He had never gotten to feel his baby move before today. "I think there's a little acrobat in here..."

"Their feet feel like hooves."

Dick frowned at Olivia. "Our baby's feet do not feel like hooves!"

"Dick, there's more than one in there."

Dick looked up at her in surprise. "What...?"

She held up two fingers. "Two."

Dick kissed her belly a second time, a tear rolling down his cheek. "You're not still going to..."

"Dick, do not ask me that right now. Don't."

Roy came into the room. He coughed to announce himself.

Dick looked at Roy. He didn't bother to wipe the tear away.

"We found bombs," Roy said. "Lots of them. We need to get out of here. Now."

"What about the others?" Olivia asked as Dick quickly hoisted her into his arms.

"It turns out that someone already got them out. You were probably just left here for Dick to find," Roy said as Dick went past him on his way out of the room.

"How long do we have?" Dick asked.

"By now? Five minutes. That lady you told us about? We found her with a bullet through her brain."

"Good," Olivia said, even though Roy had clearly been talking to Dick.

"And she was stabbed through the heart. We think it was a sword."

Dick nearly froze. That sounded like Deathstroke.

Roy grabbed a few blankets that were lying around.

Olivia gave him an odd look.

"Just in case," he said with a shrug.

Dick made sure Olivia was as comfortably settled as he could get her on board the Crux, even as Roy eased the Crux away before the explosion. He even covered her with one of the blankets.

Finding Alfred waiting for them at their next destination was no surprise to Dick. Bruce had clearly made sure the efficient butler/valet was ready and waiting.

Alfred had even brought a wheelchair, saying it might be easier on Olivia.

"Dr. Thompkins has been waiting inside," Alfred said to Dick.

"The lady that was yelling?" Olivia asked.

"Um...she wasn't exactly lecturing," Dick said. "More...scolding."

"Hope you don't mind if we leave," Jason said. "I have a wife to get back to. And Roy...has Kori."

"I think Master Damian has been wanting to ask you something," Alfred informed Jason just as Damian came outside. Tim was closely behind the boy, chanting that he was a monkey's uncle.

"Todd, would you tell this MORON that I am NOT a monkey's uncle?!" Damian said.

"Monkey's uncle...monkey's uncle..." Tim chanted. Tim was sporting a black eye which matched the one Dick had received from Jason.

Roy snickered.

"Tell him!" Damian demanded of Jason. "Tell him a human cannot be a parent to a simian!"

Roy snickered again.

Jason sighed. "Replacement already knows. The douchebag is just messing with you."

"Oh, right," Tim said. "But the baby is gonna be a dog 'cause its daddy is a dirty dog."

Jason pointed at Tim. "Do you want a second black eye to match the other one?"

Tim shuffled his feet. "No..."

Dick sat in the room while Dr. Thompkins examined Olivia.

"How close together are your contractions?" Dr. Thompkins asked.

Dick frowned. "What contractions?" he asked, looking at Olivia in confusion.

"She's dilating. That means she's having contractions. I need to know how close together they are."

"I didn't know she saw even having any."

"Well she is."

"Her water didn't break," Dick mumbled.

"I know." Dr. Thompkins looked at Olivia. "How long have you been having contractions?"

"I didn't know I was having any," Olivia told her.

Dr. Thompkins sighed.

"I'm not lying!" Olivia said defensively.

"She didn't say you were," Dick said, trying to sound soothing. "Leslie, can you stop the labor?"

"If her water doesn't break before I can get some medication, it can be stopped," Leslie said.

"Then hurry. I think it's too early for them to be born," Dick told her.

"In other words, you're not ready," Olivia said.

"They're not ready," he said.

Olivia didn't care for the needle sinking into the flesh of her thigh at all, but Dick seemed relieved.

Dr. Thompkins explained that the medication might not stop the labor like they were hoping it would.

Dr. Thompkins ran several tests before determining that there was nothing wrong.

Two weeks later

"You brought home car seats?" Olivia asked Dick.

"Why not? We need something to take them home in," Dick said.

"Dick, I don't even know what I want anymore. Could you at least try not to make my mind up for me?"

Dick rubbed her belly. "We need to be ready. We have a month before your due date."

"Dick..."

"I told you, I want them."

Olivia smacked his arm. "My water just broke!"

Dick looked down. "Oh..."

Olivia pushed as hard as she could. It hurt. A lot. If it was this hard to push out one baby, how would she be able to push out a second one?

Dick kept his arm around her, supporting his back. He'd been a bundle of nerves ever since Olivia's water broke.

"It's a girl!" Leslie announced when the second baby had slid out.

Dick felt some of the tension vanish. "Is she ok?" he asked.

"She's perfect."

Olivia laid her head on Dick's shoulder tiredly. She hoped the other baby would just stay in a while longer. They did have separate sacs after all...

A nurse took the baby to be cleaned and weighed as Dr. Thompkins checked on Olivia's condition.

"It looks like it'll be a little while before the other baby comes. We'll be monitoring you closely though."

Olivia was tired. She wanted to sleep. "Am I going to be allowed to get a nap?"

Dr. Thompkins chuckled. "If the baby lets you, you can."

Three hours later, Olivia found herself pushing out the other baby. Again, Dick kept his arm around her.

"And...It's another girl!" Leslie announced. "She's perfectly healthy," she added before Dick could ask.

Dick was positively elated to have two daughters. He was beaming as he kissed Olivia. There were tears on his cheeks. "The offer still stands," he whispered.

"Dick..." she said. "Now?"

"I love you. I'm going to ask as many times as I need to."

"Not right now, Dick. I'm tired from pushing your children out of me."

"I brought the ring," he told her. "I found it in your kitchen after you ran away."

"Dick, I didn't run away. They took me."

Dick's eyes widened a little. "Then...you didn't leave me?"

"In the end, I couldn't," she said as he searched his eyes.

"Then... Is this a yes?" he asked.

"Consider it a maybe," Olivia told him as a nurse brought the first baby back into the room.

Dick didn't have to try to talk Olivia into keeping the babies now. As soon as she saw them, she fell in love.

He wanted to name one of the babies Shaina, and Olivia let him name her. She named the other baby Alaia, a name rather ironically suggested by Damian when Bruce brought him to visit the day before they left the hospital.

"I didn't mean it seriously..." Damian muttered.

Dick chuckled. "Sure, you didn't mean it."

"I didn't Damian insisted.

"It's ok," Dick said. "I promise not to tell anyone you have a soft spot for your little nieces."

"I do not have a soft spot!" the boy said, even as he looked at the babies curiously. "Yuck. That one just defecated its diaper," Damian said, wrinkling his nose.

"She's a baby," Bruce said. "She can't control that."

"I know that, Father!" Damian snarled. He still looked at the babies curiously, even as Dick took one of the babies to change her.

"Monkey's uncle," Tim said to Damian with a smirk a few days later.

"They are not simians!" Damian shouted as he launched himself at Tim.

Dick sighed. Shaina and Alaia were going to think their uncles were insane. On the plus side though... Damian was protective of them.

"Ow! Get off me, Demon Child!" Tim shouted. "I was only teasing you!"

Bruce sighed and yanked the boy off his adopted brother. "Enough! Stop attacking your brother." He then looked at Tim, who had a fresh black eye. "And you, stop teasing Damian."

Jason took one of the babies. "Here's something you're gonna learn sooner or later, your Uncles Tim and Damian are asswipes."

Dick plucked Shaina away from Jason. "Don't you listen to your Uncle Jason."

Jason then took Alaia. "And your Daddy has numerous kids around the United States because he's a whore."

"What?!" Dick said. "Jason, you don't say stuff like that to them!"

"But it's true."

"It is not!"

"Come on... We all know that crazy lady collected your sperm."

Damian left the room, grabbing Alaia from Jason.

"That doesn't make me a whore, Jason!"

"Really?" Jason said as he began to name off former girlfriends and conquests.

Dick blushed. "Stop that!"

"There was a certain Tameranean..." Jason trailed off.

"Jason," Bruce said warningly.

Damian came back in and took Shaina.

"That boy is kind of attached..." Dick murmured. He gave Jason a hard stare. Sometimes, his brother could be a real douche.

"I'm going to marry Stephanie Brown," Tim said, partly to ease the tension in the room.

Jason laughed and patted Tim's shoulder. "You've been saying this for how long now?"

"I'm serious," Tim said. "I just still need to ask her."