Prompt: This was just something I did for my series' 1 year anniversary. Going on 2 years now. Shit, time flies, right? Haha xD
Dick - 41
Jason - 39
Kaden - 17
Kaden heaved a contented sigh as he came down the stairs, hair still damn from a nice, hot shower. He was barefoot with a pair of jeans on and a yellow Kid Flash T-shirt slung over his shoulders. He raked a hand through his damp hair as he came into the family room, pulling on the t-shirt. The entire family had come to the manor for the weekend to spend some time together; it had been months since they'd all been together like this; they tried to make time to be together, just the family, but between their work and the vigilante life, it'd been pretty rough.
"Hey guys, what'd I miss?" Kaden called, leaning against the back of the couch. His parents were sitting on the couch with some old family photo albums. Damian was sitting in his usual arm chair and Tim was talking with Bruce in the man's study while Alfred was busy dusting.
"Nothing baby bird, just a stroll down memory lane," Dick replied with a smile, leaning back to look up at his son. Kaden snorted at a picture of his papa in what looked like a Robin costume, only with green shorts and pixie boots.
"Ha, I remember this!" Dick said cheerily, pointing to the photo of him in his first Robin costume, standing in front of the Batmobile.
"Wow, you actually wore that?" Kaden scoffed, and Dick playfully shoved the teen.
"Hey, I was nine! And the idea was to look non-threatening! Y'know, so they'd underestimate me!" Kaden laughed in amusement at the idea as he reached down and flipped the page. He recognized his father on the next page; he and Bruce were in civvies, playing catch together. Bruce had his arm around Jason's shoulders and the too of them were smiling, happy.
"Aw, Jaybird! You're so adorable!" Dick cooed, kissing the man's jaw. Jason snorted, a smirk on his face as he rolled his eyes and leaned over, flipping the page. His face turned pink at a photo on the next page.
"Change the page!" Jason blurted, climbing over Dick to try and grab the photo album.
"Oh my god!" Dick said, a grin splitting his face as he held it out of Jason's reach, tossing it to Kaden.
"Now I gotta see it!" Kaden said with a grin.
"Kaden, come back here with that or you're grounded 'till you're thirty!" Jason called playfully, trying to climb over Dick and the couch after Kaden. Damian snorted at the scene, sipping his tea and rolling his eyes, but even he was curious now. He motioned Kaden over and the teen came to stand beside him, showing him the photo.
It was a picture of Jason in his Robin costume, sitting on the couch and covered in a blanket, leaning against Bruce. The man was in his Batman costume, with a smile on his face and a TV remote in hand.
"Burn it! It's a security risk!" Jason called, pointing toward the photo album.
"No way!" Dick replied, getting the upper hand; he pushed Jason playfully back against the couch, pinning him down underneath him. "I want a copy of it! You're adorable Jaybird."
Alfred chuckled behind Damian and Kaden as he looked over their shoulders at the photo.
"Ah yes, I remember that night," Alfred said fondly as he returned to his work. All eyes were on him as they waited for him to explain. He seemed to almost sense that they were waiting for him to continue.
"Master Jason had come down with a cold. Stubborn as he was, he insisted on joining Master Bruce on patrol."
"Sounds like my dad," Kaden snickered.
"As if you are one to talk, Master Kaden," Alfred said with a slight smirk, glancing at the teen over his shoulder. He turned back to the fireplace, dusting off some of the picture frames there as he continued. "As I was saying, Master Bruce sympathized, and so instead of going on patrol, he stayed with Master Jason and they watched television, until he fell asleep."
"Aaaaw, that's so adorable!" Dick cooed, earning a mock gagging noise from Jason.
"Please, I am NOT cute," Jason replied. He opened his mouth to speak again but he was cut off when Dick sealed his lips against Jason's in a deep kiss. Kaden and Damian both made mock gagging noises and Dick glanced over his shoulder and laughed at them.
Kaden took the photo album and flopped down in an arm chair opposite of his half-brother and flipped through the pages. He looked up as his parents, then at Alfred, and cleared his throat to get their attention.
"Are there, um...any of me in here?" Kaden asked. Dick pushed himself up and tugged Jason up with him. Jason slid out from underneath his husband and approached their son, gingerly taking the pohot album away from him.
"Not in this one, baby bird," he said, ruffling the teen's hair. He placed it on the coffee table and grabbed another one. "That one ends with your uncle, Tim. This one starts with Damian," Jason explained, handing him another one. Kaden glanced up at Damian to see his half-brother fidget a bit nervously as he opened their album. He grinned at him and flipped through the first page.
"What's the matter, Dames, afraid I'll see something embarrassing?" Kaden teased. Damian snorted derisively, giving a dismissive hand wave.
"There's nothing in there for me to be embarrassed about, simpleton," Damian scoffed. Kaden let out a laugh as he held up the photo album for Damian to see. On one of the pages, was a picture of a young Damian, maybe ten or eleven, sound asleep in bed. Beside him, was Dick, with an arm draped over the boy's chest, also fast asleep.
Damian blushed crimson and choked on his tea. He lurched up off of the couch and attempted to grab the album out of Kaden's hands.
"Give that to me! Now!" Damian growled. Kaden laughed and tossed it to his father. Jason snatched it out of the air and took a look at the picture.
"Well, looks like someone's got a mushy center," Jason teased. Damian growled and stalked toward Jason and snatched the album from him, taking the picture out of the album.
"It needs to be destroyed."
"I think not," Alfred said smoothly, snatching the photo from Damian. Damian opened his mouth to protest, but Alfred gave him a quick look before tucking the picture into his pocket. Damian glared after the old man but huffed in annoyance as he tossed the album back to Kaden and flopped back down in his chair.
"Aw, you still have an adorable pout," Dick teased.
"Bite me, Grayson."
Kaden continued flipping through the pages while his parents and Damian argued, or teased each other; it was hard to tell the difference sometimes, especially from Damian's side. After he flipped through a few more pages, Kaden stopped when he finally came to a page with some baby pictures. He stopped at one, running a finger over it; it was him, and he could hardly believe it. A younger Jason was sitting on a couch and holding a baby in his arms. The baby had jet black locks, bright jade eyes, and a huge smile on his face.
"That was taken shortly after we brought you home," Dick said softly from behind him. Kaden looked up at his papa, his dad standing on his other side, both looking down at the picture.
"Hard to imagine its been almost seventeen years, huh Dickie?" Jason asked with a smile. Dick glanced over at him and smiled back, leaning over for a quick kiss. Kaden smiled at his parents before he looked down at the picture again. He looked at one on the opposite page; this time it was of him and his papa. Dick was holding baby Kaden up in the air, a huge smile on his face. There were more like that for the next few pages.
"That was the day our family felt whole," Alfred said softly, smiling from ear to ear, as he glanced at the photos of Kaden's first day with the family. He ruffled Kaden's hair before leaving the room to retrieve Tim and Bruce. Jason grabbed the photo album and flipped a few pages forward before handing it back to Kaden.
"There's a good memory," Jason said with a grin. The three of them were smiling happily, dressed in winter clothes and out in the snow. Kaden was sitting on his father's shoulders and Dick was kissing the man's jaw.
"I remember that. We had a huge snowball fight afterward, here at the manor," Kaden said, looking up at his father cheerily. Jason chuckled in amusement and ruffled the teen's hair.
"You've got a good memory," he replied.
"And this one will go in the albums as well," Alfred said smoothly, placing a rather expensive looking camera on top of the fireplace.
"What'd we miss?" Bruce asked.
"Just terrorizing each other over old memories and photos," Dick said honestly with a laugh. Tim grinned and playfully punched his brother's arm.]
"So I missed all the fun?"
"Not quite. Everyone gather around the sofa," Alfred called. Bruce sat down in the middle of the couch with Damian and Dick on either side of him. Kaden sat down cross legged in front of the couch, and Jason, Tim and Alfred stood behind them all.
"Everyone say 'Batman'!" Dick called.
"Batman!" Just before the camera flashed, Jason leaned down and pressed a kiss to Dick's cheek, Bruce ruffled Damian's hair, and Kaden had jumped up onto the couch, forcing himself between his papa and grandfather with his arms wrapped around their shoulders.
Notes: And on a final note, I am officially all caught up here on Fanfiction. Phew, that was a lot. Thank god it was as simple as Copy+Pasting, right? xD Also I literally just discovered that I can indeed change the position of chapters in a story...but alas, re-arranging 56 chapters into chronological order would be kind of a nightmare. Dx So it'll probably stay as is. In other news, prompts are still open, as always. Feel free to prompt away! ^^