The Right Side of Wrong

Big Pasta Dinner: Part 2

Veronica's POV:

We rush into Damian's room and shut the door behind us.

Shaun: "Cool! A big boy bed!"

Shaun bounces on the bed while the three of us discuss what just happened.

Harley: "I cannot believe Bruce thinks I offed Alfred."

Ivy: "Honey, look at me. I totally believe you, but, you know, it wouldn't be the first time you've killed someone without realizing."

Harley: "With Nightwing, I was sleepwalking, ok? I was wide awake for this."

Shaun hops off the bed and approaches us.

Shaun: "I know who killed Alfred. And who gave you that knife."

Harley: "What? How?"

Shaun: "Sharks have perfect night vision."

Me: "So, who did it?"

Shaun: "Couldn't see their face. All I could see was a big skull."

Harley & I flinch at Shaun's revelation. A big skull, like the one Harley & I keep seeing in our nightmares, possibly the same one! 

Harley & I: "A skull?"

Ivy: *gasps* "Oh, shit. Like the ones from your pee-pee nightmares?"

Shaun: "All my nightmares are about how my mom took one of my brothers, and now we never see them anymore."

Me: "Ok, when this is done, you should start seeing me, Auntie Harley, or both of us as therapists. But right now, we gotta figure out how to catch that skull."

Harley: "Ugh! I cannot concentrate in this pigsty!"

Harley starts cleaning the room. While straightening a picture of Talia on the wall, it falls off, revealing a secret tunnel hidden behind it.

Harley: "Huh?"

Shaun: *gasps* "Secret tunnel! Secret tunnel!"

Ivy: "What the hell?"

Shaun excitedly rushes into and through the tunnel, and we follow him so he doesn't get lost.

Shaun: "Look how my voice echoes!"

Ivy: "Shaun? Shut it."

Harley: "Yeah."

Me: "Oh, come on. When we were Shaun's age, you and I would've had a blast through this thing. Playing hide and seek, tag, freeze tag, screaming our heads off to hear the echoes."

Shaun: "Awesome!"

Me: *chuckles* "Hell, if I lived here, my kids and I would have a blast here, too."

Harley: "I know, but people are huntin' me down, remember? There must be secret exits all over the penthouse."

Shaun: "I'm so glad you adopted me!"

Ivy: "We did not adopt you."

Shaun: "My dad's boring. You're always fun."

Harley: "Ugh, not anymore."

Ivy: "What do you mean by that?"

Harley: "Nothing! Nothing. It's just, y'know, you're always off at work. And I'm always home in the shower mastering my singing."