When Worlds Collide

50) Let Him COOOOOOK!

A/N: tis very short and I did not edit it lmao, my B

-Dick POV-

Bruce and the brothers, excluding Nico, sat at the table and waited for the others. They had all offered to help in the kitchen, but Nico had just shooed them out.

"Do you know how much longer it'll be?" Jason asked with a groan. "I'm starving."

"Todd, you used to live on the streets. I highly doubt you are hungrier now than you were then."

"Shut up, Gremlin," Jason said with an eye roll as the door leading to the kitchen opened and the 3 demigods came out with plates in their hands.

"I feel like I work at a fancy restaurant," Annabeth said with a laugh as they all passed out the plates before sitting down with their own.

Bruce smiled and looked to Nico, "It looks amazing. What is it?"

"Cacio e Pepe," Nico said with a small smile. "My Nonno used to make it, I think."

Everyone began to eat, after the demigods sacrificed some of their food, and the room was silent— everyone was too busy enjoying the food to even speak.

"You need to cook more often," Jason said definitively. "Like, a lot more often."

Nico blushed as Dick spoke up. "I agree. Alfred is amazing, but I need more of this in my life."

Reyna smiled proudly at Nico. "He made the pasta noodles from scratch."

The family looked at him in surprise. "What? You were only in the kitchen for like half an hour, how did you have time?" Tim asked in surprise.

Nico shrugged. "It's not that hard. It was a lot of muscle memory."

Reyna nodded. "Annabeth and I did basically nothing. He was in the zone."

Nico smiled. "I enjoy cooking. I remember stuff," he said quietly, knowing that understood what he was referencing.

"That makes sense. Muscles memory can trigger actual memories to return," Damian said with a nod. "I read a study on it after Father's incident."

Annabeth raised an eyebrow. "Incident?"

The brothers all glanced at each other before Dick rubbed the back of his neck with a nervous smile. "Oh it was nothing, just some minor memory lapses."

Bruce raised an eyebrow at his son before shaking his head and looking back to the girls. "I had severe amnesia and didn't remember anything about my life since before I became Batman— meaning I didn't know I had any children or that I was a vigilante."

"It wasn't that big of a deal," Tim tried to say.

"You all left Gotham because I didn't know who you were and then there was a city wide melt down. You all nearly died."

Jason scoffed. "You make it seem so dramatic."

Bruce pinch the bridge of his nose. "You were all put in cages after trying to train a child army of civilians. Then, Dick was targeted by the Talons, only for Damian to take his place. Dick ended up joining the Talons because Damian had a bomb in his head, and then there was a very public fight between the Talons, the police, you all, and the child army."

Damian shrugged. "Water under the bridge."

The two girls sat there for a moment, processing what they just heard, before they began to laugh.

"Oh Gods, you guys are the perfect family for Nico," Annabeth said between laughs. "You're crazy matches our crazy so well."

Bruce smiled. "We are infinitely glad to have found him. Not just anyone can deal with all our problems."

Nico blushed slightly, but smiled. "Same goes for you. Most mortals don't deal with our world well."

"I'm still a little mad about finding out none of us are related to any gods," Jason said with a sigh. "It would have been so cool."

Nico shook his head with a chuckle. "Maybe in the next life."

Tim smirked. "I don't plan to trying for rebirth once I get down there. I want some RnR."

Dick nodded. "Yeah, I think Elysium sounds way more fun than rebirth."

The rest of the group nodded in agreement and Dick watched at Nico smiled. His eyes were sad, but the look was still genuine. He remembered how Nico told them that Bianca had tried for rebirth without telling him and instantly understood the look. The demigod was realizing that they would have an afterlife together. 

A/N: did not edit this at all, so hopefully its fine lmao. Im still in Florida and have been busy all day 

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