Second Floor Common Room, Saturday Evening

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Tony'd ordered a batch of pizzas and soda and brought out his Jackie Chan movies. He popped Drunken Master into the DVD player and sat down on the couch. Then got up again and found a couple of bottles of juice in the kitchen. Non-caffeinated stuff might be good for tonight. Dinah could get a little nuts with that in her system.

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah had finally gotten Sean to sleep, and was now checking in on Sin and Lena, who were supposed to be here with Tony.

Aaaand there was the guy she'd been making out with in the park last night. You know, the boyfriend?

"Hey," she said cautiously, smiling at Sin sacked out in her chair... and Lena who was twirling. Hoo boy.

[weldedtomyspine]

"Hey," Jaime grinned. "Met your cute little sister," he nodded over at Sin as he shifted to make space beside him. The chair he was in was really only big enough for a person and a half, but... Dinah could squeeze in, right?

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Completely! Especially as tired as Dinah was. Snuggling would be good. She sat down next to him, pretty darn close, and then grinned at Sin. "Yeah, she's pretty awesome, hunh?" She rubbed her face. "Did anyone, uh. Tell you about all... this?"

[weldedtomyspine]

"Tony mentioned kids?" Jaime shrugged (which totally set him up to wrap an arm around her shoulders). "Which is weird, but... Fandom."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Last year was worse," Dinah said, leaning into him, and letting her head rest on his shoulder. "There were four of them. And two of them just would not get along." She looked over at Lena, then hesitantly said, "Lena was here then." Just in case, you know. He hadn't figured out who her mom was yet.

[weldedtomyspine]

"Oh, yeah?" Sometimes Jaime was a biiiit slow. "Who does she belong to?" He looked around the room like it would just jump out at him.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah turned bright screaming red, and then steadily said, "Uh. Me. And Priestly."

Which, with the fake piercings and the hair and the tattoos, was probably pretty believable. "We kinda think we got drunk over taxes or something."

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime stiffened in shock. Then glanced over at the little girl (who was very hyper for no reason he could discern).

And grinned.

"Should have guessed. She's kind of super-adorable, after all."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah relaxed in huge relief, and smiled a little giddily. "Isn't she awesome?" she whispered. "She can do cartwheels and back-handsprings already." She looked over at Lena, a little resigned. "Probably in my room tonight, if she doesn't calm down."

[weldedtomyspine]

"I bet Priestly's pretty good with her, too." Amusing as well, he bet. Because... well, it was Priestly.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Yup. They do food things and art things together, and then he colors her hair." Dinah snuggled closer, and said lightly, "Did anyone show up calling you 'daddy'?"

[weldedtomyspine]

"No." And Jaime sounded incredibly grateful about that.

"Probably better that way. For my sanity."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

And wow, would that have been awkward, if another little person had been calling her Mommy, the morning after Prom, and Jaime had been the Daddy person.

"Probably," Dinah admitted. "I was kind of frazzled to death by Monday, last time. And I think Roy's going to have an aneuryism pretty soon."

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime raised an eyebrow. "Wait... you've got more than just these two?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Just one more. Sean. He's four. And sacked out on my bed." Dinah bit her lip, still finding this embarrassing, when she hadn't done anything with either Priestly or Roy. And when there was no kidlet with the one guy she had. "Roy. Who's kinda... brain-melted about it. Plus his own little girl with someone else."

[weldedtomyspine]

"Wow... it's a regular soap opera around here," Jaime chuckled. He didn't sound like he minded.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you have no idea. Lian's totally confused. I'm her Aunt Dinah, and some other Dinah used to date her Grampa Oliver, and now I'm supposed to be Sean's Mommy, and his daddy is her daddy, and..." She facepalmed, then peeked through her fingers. "I think the island is trying to break my brain. And you're not... bugged, by any of this?"

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime turned to look at her for a moment. "Should I be?" he asked easily.

In their line of work, weird went with the territory. It's not like you could let yourself get too worked up over it.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"No," Dinah said definitely. "But I'm really, really glad you're not. Some people might be." It had made things weird with Arthur for a while, and Leto had been smug, and it had meant meeting Simon, which was nice, but still really odd for both of them. About the only person things hadn't changed with had been Priestly.

[weldedtomyspine]

"Good, because I'm not." He tightened his arm across her shoulders for a moment. "It's actually kinda cute. Well, if you survive with your sanity intact."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Always an iffy proposition." Dinah hugged him harder, relieved, and said, "I may need to be freaking out afterward. Either because I'll miss them or because some other weird issue comes up. It did last year."

[weldedtomyspine]

"Oh?" He wasn't going to press her, but what kind of boyfriend would he be if he weren't there if she needed to talk?

And if he weren't curious...

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah paused, and said, "I hadn't even met Malcolm's dad before. That was weird. And Leto and I... were not going to happen. Ever." She was quiet. "But the worst was the world with Arthur as a dad to my kid. Stuck in New GOtham. Because Merlin was ... gone." She was quiet a minute. Looking down at her hands. "And I miss him and wish I could see him, but I'm glad Gawain isn't here, because maybe, maybe that means... things work out okay for them."

[weldedtomyspine]

Jaime frowned. He hadn't really thought that much about where the kids came from.

"Oh. I... see what you mean." His voice was soft.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Yeah." Dinah cleared her throat. "And maybe they'll never happen, you know? I mean. They can't all happen. And maybe they just happen to some Other Dinah, the same way I'm not Roy's Dinah who dated his dad." She was quiet, then looked over at Sin. "But maybe they will."