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Dick’s waking was so peaceful he almost thought it was fake. The sun was just beginning to creep onto his face and he felt a calloused hand run up his chest. “Good morning my little bird.” Slade purred into his ear, and God did his gravelly voice doing things to him. Letting out a little whine he pushed himself closer to Slade’s chest. He loved this way of waking up, usually Slade was already getting out of the shower after his early run but as Dick got further along in his pregnancy Slade liked to keep near home at all times.
“‘Morning,” Dick smiled, “Can you help me up, I gotta pee.”
“And who says romance is dead.” Slade chuckled before coming around to help Dick untangle from all the blankets and pillows that help keep him comfy throughout the night. The pain in all his joints had been getting worse over the last few months as his weight gain put more pressure on everything. As far as science had come along they still had yet to come up with something that can be safely taken in large quantities while pregnant, Dick, like most omegas knew it was all just sexism.
Once free from his cocoon Slade put his hands on both sides of Dick to help lift but also support so he didn’t just topple over the other way. He grunted with the force it took to actually sit up. “Easy kid, let me do most of the work now.” Had Slade said that back in the start of this whole shabang he would’ve smacked him, after all he didn’t need an alpha’s help. But now, Slade proved he wasn’t doing it because he thought Dick was weak but because he didn’t want him to do anything unnecessary because he loved him. It was hard to wrap his head around.
After all, Slade had left him the first month alone saying he wanted nothing to do with another child and that “Your choice, Grayson but I will not support you in this. I may be the bio father but that is not my kid.”
It had broken Dick, leaving him on the ground, sobbing. Then the anger came, he called Jason and asked him to come over. He explained everything and Jason promised he wouldn’t hesitate to shoot Slade if he entered Bludhaven or Gotham. It made chaos in the sister cities for a while, two of the deadliest killers fighting? Not good for anyone.
Dick focused on work, saving his money for maternity leave, and taking his anger out on criminals. Bruce had tried to corner him and ask what was going on but Dick was quick to make him leave. No way could he know Deathstroke the mercenary has knocked him up during one of their hottest one night stands.
Fortunately the JLA had called him halfway across the world for eight weeks during which Slade slipped in his apartment in the middle of the night to apparently watch him sleep. Which in retrospect, creepy but he admitted he couldn’t stay away, not from him, not from his kid. Dick only found out when Jason came by for a late snack raid and saw Slade nearly asleep on the couch in his living room. The fight had woken Dick and he scrambled up, grabbing the gun from under his night stand (something Bruse also didn’t know about, he only knew about his work gun that was secured in a safe).
The two Alphas rolled around on the floor like idiots for a good five minutes completely ignoring Dick asking to break up and demanding an explanation. Finally once both had tired out and laid panting Dick told them to both sit on opposite sides of the room to tell him what happened. Jason had grumbled but listened, Slade though, just sat looking at him, mouth slightly open. “Little bird, you look beautiful as ever.” Jason had snarled at that and looked ready to lunge.
“The fuck do you want Slade.” The look of hurt that went across his face when he said that felt a little good.
Slade moved to get up on his knees and took Dick’s hand in his, “Please kid, I know I messed up. Let me prove that I can do this right, right by you, right by our child.”
“Why the hell should I do that Slade? You left me here for the past three months, alone.” Jason had made an offended noise.
Slade bowed his head and tilted his head, as if Dick was an alpha that could make him submit. “I know I was wrong Dick, I was scared, and that's no excuse to have left, but let me show you. I don’t expect you to trust me but let me prove my love for you and even if you don’t want me then I’ll respect that but I want to at least try.” And try he did. First he tried to buy Dick a house, “Somewhere safer than here.”, Dick shot that down, so he went simpler. Leaving flowers, cleaning the apartment, helping him to doctors appointments, making dinner, anything to help Slade was there. Still it was many weeks before Dick allowed Slade to touch him again but golly when they did finally have sex again it was wonderful.
Slade had clawed his way back into his good graces and before he knew what was happening they were mated. The only people to be told were Wally, Jason, Roy, Barbra, and obviously Leslie. They all had their own plans to get Dick alone and make sure he wasn’t under duress, which is sweet but unnecessary. The hard part came when he started to show more and more, now at 8 months he felt like a beached whale but getting bigger was hard, mentally and physically. He fought so hard to push his naturally soft body into something better trying to keep up constantly with not just alpha but meta alphas that to see it all go down the drain was devastating.
The person who surprisingly helped most with that was Conner, who had only taken one look at him and figured out what was happening, apparently knowing before even Dick did. He and Conner had spared a lot as kids so when he asked and Dick broke down in tears having to say no Conner took him to his room and just hugged him. Reassuring him that while things were changing he would always see him the same, the rough and tumble kid from Gotham who landed the super boy on his ass more times than he could count.
Slowly his pool of supporters had grown, Conner didn’t have to say it for Dick to know he had to tell his other siblings. He wasn’t sure how long Conner could keep Tim from finding out once he knew, even if he never said Dick knew Tim would sniff out something being hidden by his boyfriend. So he brought over Tim and Damien and told them straight up.
And thank God he sent Slade out for food or Damien may have tried to stab him. There were many questions and concerns but then came the relief of knowing he had more people behind him and this baby, even if they didn’t fully trust Slade yet.
Soon the whole of Titan and You Justice were in one it, then Diana, then Canary, and a couple other people who Dick trusted to keep this from Bruce. He planned on basically hiding it till the baby was born, stupidly hopeful sure but it was working. It was easy enough to keep their distance, only talking over phone or facetime. Damien and Wally came to visit often, already fighting over “best uncle”.
They had even painted the nursery in their new house competitively and still thinking back to it was funny. Wally did the base work while Damien showed his art skill in painting the small cute details of the forest theme. Artemis had to drag Wally home and Damien stayed over sticking his tongue out at him.
Conner helped Slade break down and rebuild walls while Tim put in hella safety features throughout the house. Dick had never been so thankful to just lay down while others did all the work. “morning sickness” was a lie, it was an “all the time sickness”.
As that passed though the new issue of his baby getting bigger was that it sat on his bladder and when he had to pee it was happening then and there. The first time it happened Dick locked himself in the bathroom while Slade simply sat outside the door to reassure him that it was nothing he thought was gross and he already cleaned everything up and was ready for him whenever.
Now even as Slade helped him limp into the bathroom he smiled. All the pain and misery and low key trauma that came from being pregnant seemed like nothing. He had his mate, his family, and soon his baby. After taking care of himself Slade once more allowed him to lean on him while heading to the couch in the living room. Never had Dick been more glad they chose the house with the master bedroom being on the main floor.
Promising to stay there as Slade made breakfast Dick began to scroll through the tv looking for anything that wouldn’t make him sick or cry. That was quickly interrupted by the doorbell though. “Don’t you dare get that Dick!” Slade yelled from the kitchen.
“It’s probably just Wally, he can help me back!” Dick soothed, groaning to get up off the couch with massive effort. If Leslie hadn't told them multiple times he would assume he was carrying twins with how big he was, the doctor told him it was just a really big baby. That honestly made Dick more scared, it was gonna be like pushing out a watermelon at this point, and he still had a month to go.
It took a bit of heavy breathing but he slowly got to the door, not thinking to even check the cameras. They were at the top of the very tall hill with a strong security system no simple robber would get past. So imagine the fear that ran through his body when he opened it to only reveal no one but Bruce Wayne standing with an angry face, especially when he grabbed Dick and pulled him close. Not in a hug way but in a way he had been grabbed when being kidnapped as a young Dick kid.
He tried yelling but Bruce was quick to clamp a hand over his mouth. Stamping his foot down backwards he managed to catch his leg with a good force and biting his hand. “Slade!” He barely got out before yelping once they both nearly went down.
“Let him go Wayne or I swear I will put you in an early grave.” Slade snarled wrapping his hand around Dick’s.
“You think you can kidnap and impregnate my son and get away with it Wilson? I will have your fucking head.” The smell of two upset alphas was nauseating on a normal day but now it was even worse.
Between the two having equally tight grips his weak wrists were probably already bruised, “Ow Bruce stop that hurts!” But neither of them were budging. Finally he had enough and pulled as hard as he could and managed to get his wrist free and fall into Slade’s arms, “What the fuck are you doing here and how did you find out?” He demanded.
“I'm here to save you Dick, I know this isn’t you and I found Tim’s laptop and saw your messages.” Dick felt his face heat in rage, the only way Tim left his laptop was if he was asleep which meant Bruce went through his stuff when he was most vulnerable, he was for sure telling Tim and he wondered how long it would take for him to go to Conner’s.
“First, that is a huge invasion of privacy, second, this is me, yes Slade is the father but he is not forcing me into this, I chose this. This is the whole reason I didn’t want to tell you!” Dick huffed, his heart was beating at an alarming rate.
Slade, hearing that, rubbed at his chest trying to calm him. “Easy love, take a few deep breaths now.” It wasn’t really working though, he was so freaked out at that moment he couldn’t calm down. Suddenly there was a blur of red and Wally was there. He was confused till he remembered Slade kept panic buttons everywhere and probably called him as soon as he realized something was wrong.
“Leave Wayne, I’m serious.” All three alphas were puffed up and staring each other down, Dick had been pushed behind them into the doorway.
“I will be back and I will take you down Slade, and Wally I’m very disappointed in you for believing this.” With a dramatic turn Bruce stalked back to his car. Wally and Slade shared a nod and his alpha ushered him inside while he’s sure Wally watched to make sure Bruce was gone.
Slade picked him up bridal style bringing him to their bedroom, and Dick’s nest. “Slade,” He whimpered, hiding his face in his shirt.
Slade just purred reassuringly, “It’s alright little bird, he’s gone, don't you worry your pretty head over him again. He won’t go anywhere near you, I promise.” Dick just sniffled and Slade grabbed tissues off the nightstand, helping him clean up a bit. “I’ll call Leslie and she can come do a home check up, how does that sound?” Dick nodded letting out a breath of relief. Due to their professions Leslie warned that too much stress this close to his due date could send him into labor early, despite being a pretty big baby and with Slade’s meta genes, still not something they want.
As the adrenaline crashed Dick felt his eyes begin to struggle to keep awake, it was only ten in the morning and he already was ready for a nap. “Don’t fight it Dickie, sleep, I’ll take care of everything.”
Watching Dick fall asleep Slade carefully got him into a more comfy and safe position. Once he was sure his omega was out he slipped into the living room, with Wally sitting on the couch, Slade pulled out his phone and called the first person he could think of, it took only two rings, “Todd, we need you here now.”