A/N: I have no excuse for this lateness. None at all. Other than writer's block, I suppose, but it still doesn't make amends with the fact that this is months late. This story is now AU after Secrets, but I might still throw in the occasional canon item. May I just say that I love that this couple can now be canon? Because I would like to. Also, why did DC have to skip over Jason? I mean, there was that slight reference to him, but I don't think that five years is enough time for everything to have happened... I'll let you guys read now.

Disclaimer: Same as every chapter, move along to the story now…

Conner looked up at Essence and spoke, "I want to see a good moment as well, something with my family." He then looked over at Superman and thought more, "That is if I have one."

Essence turned a dial once more and the blue turned into a warm light.

Sun gleamed through a curtain covered window as an alarm clock blared its heinous sound waking the inhabitants of a previously silent room. A long, muscled arm reached out and hit a button bringing silence to the room once more.

The body the arm was connected to snuggled deeper into the comforter on the bed as another arm wrapped around him and pulled his head to face them.

A young blonde woman smiled at the older Conner and he grinned back leaning in to kiss her.

M'gann stiffened slightly at this scene, why was Conner with someone who wasn't her. She looked at the clone next to her and heard he was thinking the same thing.

The woman leaned in towards him and sighed, "Ava will be awake soon, and we should probably get up ourselves."

Conner groaned, pulled the woman closer to him and closed his eyes again, "Ava's a big girl; she can make breakfast herself."

The woman laughed and sat up pulling away from Conner, "Nice try, but I'm not letting our four year old work a kitchen herself." She got out of the bed and made her way to a door.

Conner pouted and got out of the bed glaring half-heartedly at the woman who grinned back at him and made her way out of the bedroom.

"Whipped," Wally coughed grinning at the half-Kryptonian.

When Conner finally made his way out of the bedroom and into a medium-sized kitchen a sight made him smile.

The blonde woman was mixing a batter in a large bowl as a small girl sat on the counter in front of her. The girl's blonde hair shined in the early morning sunlight streaming in from the window on the other side of the room. The young girl jumped down off the counter and ran to Conner who picked her up.

"Daddy!" the little girl yelled as Conner spun her around before settling her on his hip.

"Ava!" Conner said in the same tone making her laugh.

"Mommy's making waffles!" Ava said pointing to where the blonde woman was walking over to a waffle iron.

Conner grinned, "How many times have you made waffles in the last week, Cassie? Don't you think we should have something else?"

Ava shook her head sending strands of blonde hair everywhere. Cassie turned around and smiled, "Hey, blame Stephanie, she's the one who fed her when we were on that League mission."

Conner looked at Ava and back at Cassie, "That's the last time we let any member of the Batfamily baby sit."

Dick laughed, "You let somebody from Gotham baby sit your daughter? Do you have a death wish for her?" Bruce glared at his ward half-heartedly.

Conner scowled, he highly doubted he would let any harm come to that girl.

Cassie poured batter into the iron and closed the lid turning back to her husband and daughter, "Tim wasn't half bad when he baby sat her."

Conner laughed setting Ava down in a chair at the table, "No, but then he let Bart help him. Those two together just ask for trouble…" he said shaking his head. "It was almost like when Roy asked Dick and Wally to watch Lian!"

Dick and Wally half glared at Conner, they highly doubted they would be bad babysitters, especially to the daughter of their best friend. Especially since they knew how much Roy had cared for his daughter before she had been killed.

Cassie began setting the table, shaking her head at her husband, "Dick would never let any harm come to any child he was set to look after and Wally… Well, at least he now knows how to deal with children." She finished laughing.

Wally smiled in remembrance of the twins he would have in, if Aunt Iris was correct, about two years. The thought of being a teenage father scared him, but he knew that he would have help when, if, it came to that.

The waffle maker dinged and Cassie made to go get it when Conner picked her up and set her down away from the maker.

"No-." Cassie reached out, but Conner only lightly slapped her hand away.

"I can get it, Cass, I'm not completely incompetent when it comes to food like Ma thinks." He said smiling at an old joke.

Clark looked at the Conner in the room and just stared. When would he meet Ma? She and Pa were the two people he most certainly did not want to find out about Conner. Well, them and Lois.

He opened the waffle maker, picked up the single waffle and put it on a plate about to put it on the table when a great white dog jumped to reach the food.

Conner did a sort of dance with the dog jumping and soon floating into the air to avoid him. "No-ack!- down, bad, Krypto."

Conner looked at the screen in shock. He…he was able to fly in the future? When would he get that power?

Ava laughed, "Silly, Daddy, Krypto can fly, too!" Conner didn't join in the laughter as Cassie pulled Krypto away and put him in the backyard and set the plate down on the table.

He pointed at the waffle then at Krypto, "You better eat every bite. I had to fight for my life to put in front of you."

That made Ava laugh even harder.

After the eating had finished Conner was helping Cassie load the dishes into the dishwasher. They had been working in silence until Cassie spoke,

"You know, Clark told me Chris was playing with the younger kids a couple days ago."

Conner smiled, "Oh? And what were they playing?"

Cassie looked disappointed and whispered, "Death of Superboy."

Everybody's eyes widened. Forget how, why would you play that?

Conner snorted and Cassie turned and smacked him with a plate that broke on impact.

Conner looked at the remains of the plate and back at his wife and looked away, "Wrong reaction I'm assuming.

Cassie shook her head in disbelief, "They were reenacting your death! Doesn't that upset you at all?"

The room had become deadly silent, the atmosphere was somber. How was Conner so calm about this.

Conner pulled her into his arms and smiled, "You know what Wally told me?"

Cassie shook her head.

"Oh, God, did Baywatch give some rare wisdom?" Artemis cracked, noticing that Wally was pointedly looking anywhere but the screen, much like most of the room. The crack, she noticed, put a small smile on his face.

"He told me about one time the entire Flash family was gathered for some event, God bless the wives, and Bart made a joke about his death. Wally was mortified."

"Well I would hope so, poor man returned from wherever the damned speed force dropped him to find the cousin he had shipped off to be trained by someone else was dead. Along with Barry still dead, it was just enough for him to almost lose it.

"Not that you'd know this," she glared a bit, "after all, you were to busy pushing daisies."

"Just because one has died doesn't mean it has to be this big black area of avoidance, Cass."

Cassie looked at Conner and said, "If you're telling me that I should just remember everything about seeing you bloody in that crater, holding you as you died, as a joke you a sorely mistaken."

Everybody flinched. They most certainly didn't want to think about that. What they wanted to hear, however, was when it would happen, who would cause it, and how was he alive again?

Cassie sighed and curtly said, "You saved the world, Conner, you're back, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt to remember."

She shoved the plate at him for him to dry. He looked at her retreating figure and put a hand down to rest on Krypto's head.

"Flowers or armor this time, boy?"

The scene faded and a note appeared on the table.

"Well, at least the first part was happy." Conner said looking at the note, wondering how to they would change the world this time.

A/N: I hate this chapter. But at least I'm done with it and can move on. I can't wait to get to Bruce so that I can go all Batfeels all over this thing.

See you guys (hopefully) soon!

~Sela