Far Away

09. Understandings

Dick wasn't sure of what to do.

Jason and Damian were having a fight. Well, it can't be really called a fight. It was just Damian yelling at Jason and Jason trying to reason with Damian. The one who ticked off the bomb was Tim.

While they were enjoying watching animals in the zoo, Jason had gone to get them some eatables and came back with hot-dogs.

Tim simply decided to mess around and told Damian that hot-dogs were made of dog-meat.
That led to Damian shouting at Jason for ever deciding to feed on something like that and demanding to take down the whole food court that sold something made of animal meat. Poor Jason had no idea about how to convince his brother, who just happens to be an animal lover.

"You really gonna sit back and watch?" Dick asked Tim as he bit into his food.

"Yep" Tim smiled evilly.

"Tim! Tell the brat you were lying!" Jason yelled at his brother who was silently enjoying the show.

"Why would I? It is the truth" Tim smirked.

Jason glared at Tim and he laughed.

"C'mon, Tim" Dick smiled and shook his head. "Dami! Hot-dogs aren't made of dog-meat. If it was, you think I would eat it? Anyone would eat it?"

Damian gave it a thought and decided Dick was right. He threw one last stone at Jason and walked back to where Dick and Tim were.

"Hey! What was that for?"

"For not being as reasonable as Grayson"

Jason scowled at that. He walked to his brothers and gave Tim a whack on the back of his head.

•••

"I want it" Damian crossed his arms and looked up at Dick. If he could plead with puppy-eyes, he would. But No. He was the Son of Batman.

"No, Dami. You can't take a polar bear home. Also, if you do take it with you, it won't be able to go with you through the portal to Our world. Damian hated to admit the fact that Dick was right. He unwillingly walked away with his brothers.

•••

At some point,when Dick saw elephants, memories from the circus came rushing back in and he refused to leave their side. Dick stayed with the elephants as Jason, Damian and Tim went on exploring further. Not long after that, Jason went near the bats and started claiming that they were the worst. He accused them of things. Damian and Tim watched in annoyance as he continued to blabber infront the bats as if they were his mentor himself.

That left Damian and Tim to wander all by themselves.

They stopped infront of the squirrels and watched in silence. It was awkward at first with Tim keeping a safe distance from Damian, afraid that the boy would just feed him to the squirrels or something. The silence followed until Damian spoke.

"I never thought you cared about animals, Drake"

Tim wondered if Damian was really talking to him.

"How are you so sure I do?"

"You watch them with great affection"

"Fair enough. But who doesn't love animals, Damian?" Tim asked, still keeping his distance. He had a feeling that this is all a trap.

"Todd doesn't" Damian said with a slight frown.

Tim scoffed at that. "Who told you so?"

"I assumed so. He does not seem to like them. He watches them with utter annoyance. Also, he eats something prepared with dog-meat. I know Grayson lied to stop me from fighting "