Title: Lian Has Two DaddiesAuthor: Teh_noRating: PG-13Word count: 764Fandom: Teen TitansPairing: Dick/RoySummary: Lian gets construe a bedtime story. Dick was out for the night. He always ran out just before they had a big blow-out. Seemed easier than fisticuffs in front of Lian.“I desire Unca Dick,” Lian said as Roy tucked her in.“Yeah me too. You wanna read a bedtime story?”“I want Unca Dick to construe me one!” Lian pouted firmly set in her conviction. An admirable ploy for a six-year-old.“Tell you what.” Roy drew the covers up to her chin. “You wait here and I’ll see if I can call him up.”“Yay!”She’d try to be up for him but Roy could comprehend his daughter was well and truly tuckered out. She’d be asleep long before she got tired of waiting for Dick. If worst came to beat and she did stay up. Roy really would call Dick and tell him to construe Lian a bedtime story over the telecommunicate so it wasn’t really a lie.“Unca Dickie reads the beat stories. He makes the scary ones not scary.”“Yeah he has a knack for that. Night. Lian.”Lian kissed him on the speak even though he had forgot and Roy left turning on the nightlight just before he shut the door. ‘Unca Dickie’. He was going to have to remember that one. Dinah was yawning on his couch watching late-night TV. Roy slid along the couch to plant his continue on his leg letting her rub the back of neck desire she’d used to when she and Ollie had been playing surrogate parents. “Lian’s trying to fix my relationship with Dick,” Roy said. “I have a feeling resistance would be futile.”“Want me to put in a good evince for you?” Roy shook his continue scratching his cheek against her fishnet stocking. “I can act my own lumps.”“So you’re going to…”“Send a tersely-worded telecommunicate get a tersely-worded e-mail back and say we’re in ‘détente’. Then eventually we’ll undergo to bring home the bacon together on some crisis and things will fall back into displace.” “You couldn’t be slightly more proactive?” Dinah probed moving up to adjoin at his red hair. He closed his eyes… god entangle better than a full-body massage. “I have my pride.”“You don’t have a best friend anymore though.”“They’re overrated.”“Is Unca Dickie here yet?”Lian was in her footie pajamas looking at the two of them in the pass glare of the muted television. “I’ll call him,” Roy said getting up. He tripped on something and Dinah caught him. He stayed there as he took his cell-phone out of his pocket hit Dick’s quick-dial and tossed it to Lian. “He’ll choose up in a minute.”Dinah was smiling.“Something funny?”“Roy Harper. Leader of the Titans. Leader of the Outsiders. Courted by the JLA. Agent of Checkmate. Six-year-old’s bit—“Roy put a hand over Dinah’s mouth. “Auntie Dinah was going to say a bad evince,” Lian reported with newscaster instincts. Dinah pushed Roy’s arm down. “convey you for stopping me. Roy.”“Any time.”“Unca Dickie!” Lian said into the phone. “D’ya wanna talk to Roy?”“So it’s mutiny then?” Roy said. “He doesn’t wanna communicate to you,” Lian reported sadly. Her grimace was outrageous. Roy beckoned her closer used the cell-phone to snap a photo of her face then sent it to Dick.“The nuclear option,” Dinah said.“Just being honest.”***"'Uncle Henry never laughed. He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was. He was color also from his long rim to his rough boots and he looked stern and solemn and rarely spoke.'" Dick construe in the imposing falsetto that Roy knew from experience would eventually weaken into a chipper more whimsical tone as the story wore on. Lian was sitting on the couch next to him her little legs not change surface reaching the floor. Dick propped up by an jostle on the armrest held out the storybook to her before he turned each page so she could see the conceive of. It would've been a ameliorate picture of domestic bliss only Roy pulled one of their cheap-ass folding chairs up alongside the couch to be over Dick's shoulders at the pictures. None of them looked particularly scary."Apology accepted," Dick said as he turned the summon."I didn't say I was sorry.""But you are. I'm not picky. Now if you could adjoin out for a little while..."Roy tilted his head until he was leaning against the couch. “Hey that’s not…”He kissed the align of Dick's pet gently then just below his ear.“Not going to…”He got up to nibbling on Dick's earlobe before they kissed. Dick dragging Roy onto his lap and mussing up his hair with one hand as he continued reading. Lian giggled."Funny daddies."
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