Land of the Free and Home of the Wayne

Chapter 6: Land of the Free and Home of the Tea Bag

Dick stood behind Damian reading over his shoulder. "That was quite the show in there, Mar'i is trying to defuse the situation but everyone thinks you and this Lila girl are together," Dick said looking over the younger. "Go fix everything in there and I'll give this to Bruce and he'll find Jon in no time."

Damian walked back into the museum to see Mar'i screaming at Lila about ho who one in their right mind would believe her bullshit.

"Enough, everyone go to the next room," Damian said holding Mar'i's shoulder with one hand and shooing the students with the other.

"Damian, she's a liar she was telling everyone that you two are da..." Mar'i was cut off by Damian.

"I know Grayson Spawn but we have to wait for Jon to be present to expose her otherwise it won't be as fun," Damian said trying to make it sound more entertaining to the thirteen-year-old ball of energy.

"Where is he, I wanna crush this girl!" Mar'i said cracking her knuckles.

"Taken by Catwoman, father will bring him back tonight," Damian said leading the girl into his father's room. There were fights with Joker, Mr. Freeze, Bane, Poison Ivy, Catwoman and others on display.

Some students were already wandering over to the gift shop. Most had Batman or a generic Robin and the girls had a Batgirl. Damian took notice of Chloe who held up her Red Hood like he was the sun, Adrien who grabbed a Superboy and held it close to him, and Marinette who grabbed a Robin with a katana, a Nightstar, and a Superboy. Adrien walked over to the two with his Superboy resting on his shoulders.

"Where's Jon?" Adrien asked and Damian went to speak but Mar'i cut in.

"He wasn't feeling very well so dad took him back to the manor but Alfred should be here to pick us all up in around ten minutes so we can all go back and have dinner soon," Mar'i said looking at the students who were now eating their packed lunches outside. Adrien shrugged before walking over to Marinette to show her his cool little Superboy. They talked about something that looked serious and Marinette just nodded and Adrien smiled before walking away.

The teens all made it back to the manor and Chloe walked next to Marinette playing with the little guns on her Red Hood.

"I think it's cool that we got to meet them, what about you?" Chloe asked and the door to their room was flung shut as the two went over to their beds.

"It's ok, but did you see those bad guys, what if one of us gets hurt?" Marinette asked getting up to lock the door to their bedroom.

"Coming from Paris' own superheroine that's rich, you saved Superboy yesterday. What do you think Red Hood would think of Queen Bee?" Chloe said going to grab her miraculous.

"I think we should keep Paris' heroes out of Gotham so we don't raise suspicion cause you saw what they said about the Bats in the museum, they're a family of detectives who don't like other heroes that are unapproved in their city," Marinette said sighing.

"Didn't you tell Adrien that he could go save that little crush of his?" Chloe asked and Marinette just laughed.

"Batman will never have to know about that one," Marinette said and Mar'i stood up from outside the guest bedroom. She couldn't believe her ears, not only did Jon have a potential boyfriend but the girl in that room saved Jon from becoming a puddle of Superboy on the pavement the previous day.

"Yeah, Batman will never have to know," Mar'i said to herself walking back to her room thinking of all the things she could do with this information.

Across Gotham, Jon sat in a chair with a cat perched on his lap purring softly.

"Aw, I think she likes you," Selina said setting down a cup of tea.

"Cool, I like her too, isn't that right?" Jon asked the cat rubbing their noses together and Jon held the cat in one arm and went to grab his cup of tea but the window behind him shattered and a teen in a black cat costume stood behind him.

"Jon right?" the cat boy asked and Jon nodded. "Cool, I'm here to save you," Chat pulled Jon in by his waist and jumped out the window forcing Jon to hold onto Chat tightly. They landed a few rooftops away.

"Who are you?" Jon asked looking up at his "savior" who kept one arm wrapped around his waist and the other held onto a baton, Jon kept his hands near Chat's collarbones trying to stay away from the stranger until he knew more about him or at least had a name.

"My damsels in distress call me Chat Noir," Chat said winking. "Normally damsels at least say thanks," Chat looked down at Jon slightly confused as to why the younger wasn't saying thank you.

"Well, good thing I'm not your average damsel then," Jon said smiling a little and pressing a kiss onto Chat's cheek before walking over to the entrance of the building they were standing on. "Maybe I'll see you around Cat Boy!" Jon called out opening the door and just before it shut chat got a hold of himself.

"It's Chat Noir!" he called out and the door shut. "Best. Save. Ever." Chat jumped off the roof making it back to the Manor quickly and without anyone else noticing him. The students were making their way down to the dinning room for dinner and Jon walked in and sat down next to Damian and Mar'i sat across from them and the three had a wordless conversation.

How was tea?

Good got interrupted tho.

You mean you got saved too early.

Yup.

That sucks.

Yup.

After dinner, Mar'i pulled Damian and Jon toward her room away from the students.

"I have to tell you something," Mar'i said looking down.

"What is it Grayson Spawn?" Damian asked and Mar'i took a deep breath and sighed.

"I'm honestly ashamed for waiting this long to tell you but I have a crush, on a girl and we've been talking for a few months and she lives in Paris," Mar'i said and the boys just looked at her as if she was going to add to that.

"Was that supposed to be surprising?" Damian asked.

"Oh, is she in the class?" Jon asked.

"No but she's friends with Adrien and Marinette and a few others her name is Kagami," Mar'i said and Damian shrugged seemingly ok with it.

"Cool, can we meet her soon?" Jon asked and Damian just slapped him on the arm.

"She didn't say girlfriend Kent, cool your jets," Damian said and the three walked into Mar'i's room.

"We talk every Saturday night so you missed it but next time I'll be sure to tell you guys," Mar'i said laughing but then her face turned serious. "She told me to stay away from Lila and that she's been causing her friends a lot of trouble," Mar'i added sitting down.

"We've got a plan if you wanna join?" Jon asked smiling at Damian.

"Absolutely."