"Those ropes were quite tight…" Zatanna rubs her wrist. They were just waking up after their last sex session. Dick was spooning her.
"Well now you know how I feel every time that I'm in-" Zee playfully smacks his hands to make him stop. She turns around to be face to face with her love, her hands were on his chest, his hands on her waist and their legs intertwined.
"Hey, you"
"Hey, back at you. Are you okay?" Zatanna couldn't help but to laugh at his question.
"Are you really asking that after what you did to me last night?" She nuzzles her nose with his. "I'm okay better than okay. I can still feel your…aster. Nothing that a little of cream won't help…and I better use my gloves today before my dad asks any question" Dick move himself to lie on his back and brought Zee with him so she was lying on top of him.
"How are you feeling about your dad moving out?" It has been a week since Zatara announced that he wasn't going to keep living with Chalant.
"If I'm being 100% honest? Better than expected" Dick rubs circles in her back. "I mean it has been a little over a year since I got him back and we have done so many things together to make up for the lost time but…there are a lot more things to do but I get him" Zee takes a deep breath.
"After he got back his life…he came to live with us while he's doing therapy with Canary and having a blast with Pocus, Mary and John; he-"
"And with you Zee. He face lights up every time he sees you" She smiled before kissing his chest.
"He needs time to himself and he's going back to Shadow Crest, is the best he can do. He wants to be back where he lived…be back to where he had my mom. I really think is the best for him" Dick smiles proudly. "And he's visiting us a lot… so there's that"
"No one can stay away from you, Zee, and the twins. They got your natural charm"
"Plus yours. Those kids are going to be people and problem magnet" They both laugh.
"Let's have a shower before Mary and John wakes up and you dad arrives" Dick was about to move but was stopped by the magician.
"Wait! Let's stay like this a little bit longer…" She buries herself deeper in his arms and nuzzles his chest.
"Huh?"
"Moments like this makes me wonder why didn't we leave the life sooner…" She takes a big sniff of his scent.
"Why's that?"
"Usually, you'll be gone by this time to either go to the precinct or a Team's mission or just some mission but now…I get to wake up in your arms" She keeps nuzzling his chest. "But…"
"But…?" He laughs when she squirms and keeps trying to get her body as close as possible to his.
"I just want to get closer to you! Like it's not fair…" She keeps moving not stop rubbing his body with hers.
"A believe there's no human way to get closer, Zee"
"But there has to be a way…" She whines as she holds him tighter.
"Who'd have thought that the Mistress of Magic, The Queen of Sass is such a cuddler…" Grayson teases his wife.
"The same people that wouldn thought that of Playboy Dick Grayson…"
"Okay but A. I'm not a Playboy and B. You are the Queen of sass"
"Do you want me to stop cuddling you?"
"Would you do it if I say yes?"
"Noup" The couple allows themselves to cuddle for some more time before the twins called for their attention.
A Couple of Months Later.
"Richard John Grayson! What's the meaning of this?!" Zatanna calls for her husband's attention as she finds a half eaten cookie under the couch and another one between the twins' toys.
"What? The cookies? How did they ended up there?" Dick was confused as of why Zee was mad and yelling at him. Grayson was playing with Mary, John and Pocus on the playpen.
"That's what I am asking…"
"And how would I know?" The magician intensifies her glare as she cross her arms.
"Dick. I know that Mary and John are super adorable and cute but we agreed to not give them so many cookies…"
"But Zee-"
"I'm not done. We agreed to be a united front. I don't want to play back cop, good cop with them…"
"But Zee-"
"We have to take care of their diet and not to spoil them too much"
"But Zee. I didn't give them the cookies" Zee arched her eyebrow incredulous.
"Then how?"
"Maybe they got it themselves…maybe it was Pocus" Zatanna is baffled.
"Dick. Baby. You are a softy and I love you for it. I know that it's hard for you to say no to them or to me but you need set boundaries…" Z cups his face.
"But Zee I didn't give them the cookies" Once again, Zee frowned.
"Fine. If you don't want to admit then that's okay. But I'm not going to be the strict bad mom because you don't have the pants to face our babies!" After that, Zee marched to her and Dick's room to fold their clothes.
A couple of hours later, Zatanna, was feeding Pocus while the twins were trapped in their playpen. Meanwhile, Dick, was resting on the garden on the hammock that he just put between two trees. Zatanna has been waiting for Dick to apologize and to admit what he did but instead she realized that Dick was angry for the way she treated him. She feel bad about it but they need to be a united front and be on the same page.
The magician was done with petting Pocus and giving her water and fruit. When she turned around. She realized that the twins were no longer in their playpen. She freak out for a moment until she heard a sound coming from the kitchen. She sprinted to the source and her jaw dropped the moment she saw the twins with a chair close to the kitchen counter and, Mary and John eating cookies from the bowl that they manage to grab.
"Mary? John?" Like deers caught in the headlights, the twins started giggling after a few seconds of being stunned.
"God. I need to apologize to your dad. Come here! Enough cookies for today" The babies start crying and throwing a tantrum as soon as their mother picks them up.
"Shh. Shh. Mommy is here" Zee rocked her babies. Slowly, they were calming them. They have been playing all day with her and with her dad and after breast feed them both. She put them on their cribs to sleep. Using her magic, Z, brought her babies with her and put the cribs on the garden so they could enjoy some fresh air and so she could apologize to their dad.
"The twins are already asleep…" Dick had his eyes closed but she could tell that he wasn't sleeping, just relaxing.
"Good. Did they eat well?"
"Yeah. To be honest I don't know how I manage to make enough milk to keep up with them"
"Are you okay? Do you need me to help you to pump some milk? The cream for your nipples is on the 1st drawer of my night table…" He answered without looking at her. She felt guilty, he has been not just an amazing dad but a husband as well. He has been keeping extra cream for her nipple, heating pads and so much more since one time they run out of it and Zee was suffering from either cramps, dry nipples from the breast feeding, among other stuff.
"No. I'm fine, thank you" Slowly, she tries to get in the hammock with you.
"What are you doing?!" He was trying to sound mad but she could tell that he was loving her joining him.
"Cuddling"
"Wait! There's not enough space" He was lying, the hammock was specially for at least 4 adult persons.
"Even better. We are going to be close" Finally, Dick laughs with her. She was moving the hammock with her movement and the hammock wouldn't stop swinging. Finally, she manages to get on top of him and rested her head on his chest.
"I'm sorry. You were right. I saw Mary and John in the crime scene…I should've believe you and not talk to you the way I did" She looks at him while apologizing.
"Apology accepted. You just have to remember that our babies have circus' blood in them" She snorts.
Smack* Zatanna yelps in surprise when she feels Dick's hand on her rear.
"What was that about?" She had to bite her lip. She really loved when he would spank her.
"Nothing. You were a bad girl by blaming me…you need a correction course" She smiles before closing her eyes and burying her face deeper on his chest.
"What about we join our babies in dream land and you give the course later tonight…" He smiles before kissing the top of her head.
"I adore you, Zee" He knew that she didn't heard him as she was already lightly snoring.
A month later.
"Okay. In the count of three we are starting" Zatara tells the couple. Zatanna, Zatara and Dick were chained upside down in Chalant's garden.
"You know the rules…No magic!" Mary, John and Pocus were concentrated looking at the adults.
"As if I need magic to beat you in this baby"
"I've been training a lot with your dad. I'm better. I got this, I can feel it" Upside down, the couple smile at each other.
"As much as I enjoy seeing that you two are so in love with each other that can stop flirting even now…let's begin, shall we?" The couple nods.
"1" Dick starts the count.
"2" Zatara continues.
"3" The family tries to get away from the chains. The clear winner beat the second place for 2 full seconds while the 3rd place took yet another 5 seconds to get out. Mary and Johnny celebrates the winner with giggles.
"That's right. Your mommy is the best" Zatanna celebrates her victory.
"Nice try guys but you can beat the Queen in her turf" Zee bows.
"One day, Zee. I'm getting way better at this"
"You've really improve your technique, Piccola"
"Now my prize…"
"We are all ears…what do you want to do today?" Since Zatara left Dick and Zee's place. The family decided to implement more family activities like competitions, the winner decides the activity for the day/weekend.
"Mmm…what about we go for a swim? The spring is finally coming to an end and there's no better way to kick in the summer than with a good splash"
"Beach or Pool?" Dick asks Zatanna who got into deep thought.
"What about we go to the Manor and we do this a full family bbq?"
"That's an splendid idea my girl"
"I better call Alfred"
As soon as the Zatara-Grayson arrived to the Wayne Manor, Damian and Cass snatched the twins from their parents' grasp and got to the pool with them. Damian had their floaters ready to go but either way, the twins were trained to float in the case they'd fall into the pool.
"Be careful!" The magician barely manages to tell to her family, although, she was sure that neither Cass or Damian paid any attention to her. "Can you please join them? I trust Dami and Cass but…"
"Right away, babe" Dick peck her lips before taking his shirt off.
"You know…I never imagined you as a tattoo guy" Cassie comments as she notice the tattoo on Dick's body.
"What?! Golden boy got a tattoo?! I need to see this!" Todd screams as he runs to see his brother's ink.
"Yeah. We got this for Valentine's…" They look up close and see that Dick has his tattoo on his left pec. It wasn't a big one.
"Zee 20/05
Mary 16/12
Johnny 16/12"
Tim reads aloud.
"So you got their birthday…huh?" Jason scoffs. He was expecting a skull in flames, something that would ruin his good boy image but Grayson found a way to get a tattoo and keep looking like the golden child.
"Yup. And they are next to my heart where they belong"
"Wait! You said we? Did Zatanna got one as well?" Zee nodded and smiled before pulling her short a little down, showing that she had her tattoo on her left hip and just like Grayson, she had her kids and partner's birthday.
"Whose idea was this?" Artemis exclaims. Just like Red Hood, she was expecting something more hardcore.
"Zee's. For a long time, she's been tempted to get one"
"And we almost got one when we were in our World Tour…but we couldn't decide what to do"
"I wanted to put her beautiful face on my back" Grayson jokes.
"But I told him that I'd left him if he did that" She hugs his arm.
"But then I read something called Push Present"
"What's that?" Bruce joins the conversation as he analyzes the couple's tattoo.
"It's a present that a husband gets for his wife when she gives birth to their children and he told me what I'd like to have as a late present and we start looking for common stuff"
"Yeah. People usually gives chocolates if it's a boy or flowers if it's a girl bu-"
"Scoff* Lame. Being pregnant sounds like such a drag just to get chocolates or-" Steph stops herself when she sees her brother's face.
"You gave her that too, right?" Happily, the magician nods and Dick glares at her.
"Sorry but continue with your story" Stephanie rubs her arm.
"We run into a blog of married people and there were a person that suggested getting their child's birth date and their partner and we like it so we did it"
"But isn't that Zatanna's handwriting?" Everyone turned around and looked surprised at Cass. The ex-assassin was getting better at speaking and was doing it more often and thanks in great part to Bruce, Barbara and Steph.
"Yeah. It is…and she has my handwriting. It's a way of making it even more personal and well…we used magic ink"
"The ink is going to help us scare low level demons and such"
"Jezz. Zatanna. You finally mark Dick as yours…"
"Please. I did that long ago" She kisses his cheek.
"We can fill another pool twice the size of this with all your drool…" Stephanie comes closer to Grayson, who was watching his wife getting a tan.
"Hey! It's my wife. I can watch as much as I want…in fact! I should be encourage"
"Dick. I don't think is humanly possible to make you look at Zatanna mora than you already do…if it weren't for these cuties you wouldn't be able to look away from her…"
"But don't worry, you are not the only one…" The blonde nudges Grayson to make him look to Tim and Jason. Jason was pouring some soda on Tim's cup but the cup was already full and neither of them were aware of that because their eyes were fixed on the Amazons. Artemis was helping her younger sister with some sunscreen on her back.
"And let's not talk about your founder" The duo moves their gaze towards Bruce who was shamelessly staring at Talia's ass as she was lying on her stomach.
"We love our beaus! Sue us for it"
"Master Dick. I believe that I teach you better than staring at a lady that way…at least on public" Alfred teases the 1st Robin before doing the same with Jayson and Tim, plus making them clean their mess and finally he went to the Bat himself.
"And you should put a better example, Master Bruce. Aren't you suppose to be discreet?" Bruce was about to retort but noticed that everyone was looking at him.
"Hmmmp"
"Baby!" Zatanna calls for her husband.
"Yeah?"
"Can you bring the twins? I need to put them more sunscreen. I don't want them getting sunburns" Dick nodded before moving to where the babies were playing with Damian and Cass.
"Cries*" Mary and John make a tantrum for being interrupted in the peace in the pool playing with their family as their dad picks them up from the floaters.
"C'mon. Don't be like that…we are going with mommy and after that you can keep playing" The twins keep moving and fighting their dad.
"Mary and John. Don't be like that with your dad. We are just taking care of you" The twins calm themselves as soon as the spotted their mom and reached their little arms towards her. Daddy was the bad guy.
"Alright. Let's put some cream. We need to protect and take care of these chubby cheeks" Carefully, the magician put sunscreen on the pair.
"Dick? Did you put some of it yourself?"
"Yeah. Of course I did" He lied and she knew it.
"Come over here. I'm not repeating the whole Cancun problem all over again. You are a dad, now. You should lead with the example" In a stern voice, Zatanna scolded her man. Meanwhile, the babies were places over one towel.
"But I hate how it feels…"
"I'm sure that you know that it feels better than the burn" Zee put the cream all over his body, starting from his face and moving to his back and chest…she coop a feeling now and then. She loved his muscles.
"Ha-Ha-Ha. Show him who's the boss, Zatanna!" Jason and Tim were mocking their big brother and Steph joined the laughs.
"Tim!"
"Jay!" Cassie and Artemis calls for their respective boyfriend.
"Come here! You shouldn't mock your brother. You need protection as well" Jason was an about to argue back but stopped when he saw Tim moving towards the blonde.
"What are you doing, replacement?"
"I don't know about you but having my girlfriend's hand over my body doesn't sound bad at all…and I'm on probation with her" Cassie has been mad at her boyfriend because he hasn't been sleeping lately due to the unhealthy amours of coffee that he was drinking and his obsession with a new case.
"If you put it like that…" Jay walks to his Amazon.
"HAHAHAHA" Steph and Cass couldn't contain their laughter.
"Beloved? Come here" Wanting to join the teasing to the batboys. Talia decided to do the same with Bruce. All these months living together as a family with Damian and her father out of the League business m, has really changed Talia. She still had to work through the whole no killing but she was getting there. Damian watched the scene with a smile, his parents were in an actual healthy relationship. He looks at Zee and Dick and how they were being playful with the other and fixing their kids' swimsuits and caps. This didn't go unnoticed by Bruce who nudged Talia.
"Damian. Come here. You need to put some as well"
"What? I'm not a weakling like the rest!"
"Damian. Listen to your mother!" Damian pretended to be annoyed and mad but he was happy on the inside.
"I will never get tired of your ribs Al" Dick praises his father/grandfather figure as he enjoys the ribs.
"The secret is to wait the right amount of time before flip them and the barbecue sauce" With the help of Zatara, Alfred keeps serving more plates.
"Alfred, you are a godsend! This salad and veggies lasagna is amazing. You didn't have to do this for me…"
"You know that it's my job to make this family happy and attend every of their needs…Mrs. Grayson"
Cough*
"My apologies, Mr…I mean Mrs. Zatara Grayson" Gio nodded in approval.
"So…Cass. How's ballet going?" Tim ask to her sister.
"Don't you guys live together?" Artemis inquires.
"Yeah but we are usually too busy with well…everything and rarely have time to catch up" Tim answers as he shrugs.
"I love it so much…I'm so happy with that…" Cass took a moment to size her next words. "Mmm…thank you, dad…" That assassin couldn't help to blush herself. She and Bruce have been talking a lot about his part on her life and how she's like to call him like that.
"Nothing to thank me for…daughter" Everyone's hearts couldn't help but to melt with Bruce and Cass' interaction.
"Barbara has help me a lot with pointers and with my speaking, reading and writing lessons"
"Well…I'm glad that you are more confident to speak. You have a really beautiful voice, Cass" The magician praises her sister in law.
"Now that I think about it…where is Barbara and Kate?" Between the fun and food, Grayson didn't notice the absence of the redheads.
"Kate is with Bette and Barbara is on dinner date with Bard and Commish Gordon…" Steph was always the bay to go when you wanted gossip or any location of her fellow batbrats.
"Is Bard finally popping the question?" The blonde Amazon was curious.
"I doubt it. They hit another rough patch and they are working on it…I'm just glad that they are back on track…again" Grayson informed with a tone that would end the topic.
"What about you, old friend? How's Shadow Crest?" Bruce asks Zatara.
"It has been an adjustment but amazing. I think is what Sindella would like…we imagine to grow old together and wait for Piccola's visits with our grandchildren…and I know that my love is with me…always" Zee squeezes her father's hand.
"We should do this a monthly thing…family reunion. It feels nice"
"Getting soft in your old age…Master Bruce. Being a grandpa has really help you with your…issues" Alfred teases his son.
"Maybe…how's the normal life treating you, Zatanna, Dick?"
"Amazing. There's never a dull moment" Dick answers while nuzzling Johnny.
"Our hands are always full with either Mary and Johnny or Haly or my shows" Zee does the same as her husband with her girl.
"We are glad that we manage to find balance with the circus' schedule and the shows. Everyone has really being amazing from Z's crew to all the members of the circus"
"And aren't you boring? I mean don't you have like a lot of free time to kill?" Chalant looked at each other before laughing.
"With these two cuties? They have like infinite energy…and with Pocus following their lead"
"We are in disadvantage. We are lucky the days we manage to have a nap in the middle of the day"
"And you love that, right?"
"Like you guys have no idea"