Project Shikon

Chapter 9

Just a little note because there were a few questions about everyone's age. So here is my own little head cannon on everyone's ages at this moment.

So, in my story Bruce left for training at the age of fifteen and returned when he was twenty-two. He was Batman solo for a year and then takes in Dick. Dick was nine at the time and that would make Bruce twenty-three. Dick is Robin for six years until he and Bruce have their big fight. Dick becomes Nightwing and then forms the teen titans.

A few months later Bruce finds Jason trying to steal the tires of off the Batmobile. Jason becomes Robin at age thirteen. He dies two years later when the warehouse blows up. At this point Bruce is thirty-one, Dick is seventeen, and Jason is fifteen.

Tim found out the identity of Batman when he was nine, the robin at that time would have been Jason. After Jason died and Tim saw how brutal Batman was becoming, he became determined to become Robin. Tim became Robin at age eleven. A little over a year later Jason is revived and becomes Red Hood. Tim stays as Robin for a total of four years. At this time Bruce is thirty-five, Dick is twenty-one, Jason is nineteen (not counting the year he was dead), and Tim is fifteen.

Damian is introduced to his father when he is ten. He becomes Robin and Tim transitions into Red Robin. Tim joins the titans to get away, a bit bitter at the title of Robin being taken from him without being asked. Bruce disappeared for a year, everyone thinking he was dead. During that time Dick became Batman, Damian becoming his Robin. The two bonded fairly well during that year. After Bruce came back, he took back the mantel of Batman. Two years pass in relative normality until Jason finds Shi, and now their current ages in the story are...

Bruce = 38

Dick = 24

Jason = 22

Tim = 18

Damian = 13

Shi = 6

Now on with the story!

A few hours later the whole family was sitting in the main living room. Bruce, Tim, and Dick were sitting on the largest couch together. Bruce had been reading through some paperwork, trying to catch up with things at the company. Dick was texting Barbra while leaning on the armrest of the couch, he was telling her about the new house guest. Tim was sandwiched between the two of them. He was looking through traffic cams, trying to find the moment Shi might have encountered Jason last night. He was doing his best to track Red Hood's activity last night, but Jason knew how to avoid all the cameras in Gotham if he wanted to. The only times he could find Jason was when he was taking some people out, and those were sporadic and random throughout the city.

Jason was sitting across the room on a loveseat big enough for two. He had Shi sitting on his lap, as he had this weird irrational urge to keep her close to him. She had been very tense since the moment they had walked into the room. He was almost unconsciously petting her hair trying to calm her down like one would a nervous dog.

Damian was sitting in a large rocking chair. He had chosen a location that was closer to Jason's area than the others. He had his sketchbook in his lap and was quietly drawing something. He was doing his best to pretend he didn't want to be here.

There was an awkward silence in the air. Everyone, minus Jason and Shi, had been there for a while talking everything over. The conversation had died the moment an irritated looking Jason walked in carrying a stiff-looking Shi. So, she had obviously said yes to talk to Tim, but it looked like she was second-guessing her decision. The tense silence dragged on for a few more minutes, the only sound was Damian's moving pencil.