How To Guess a Robin's Identity

Mothers Through Bond Not Blood

Hello everyone.

This is something quite a few people have been wanting - Mother figures. Catwoman, Talia Al Ghul, Wonder Woman and Black Canary. Plus an extra.

This varies in the time setting and any ships I use are Canon (sorry all non-canon fans - I don't actually ship half the canon ships so you are welcome to ignore them). I will put the rough timing next to the person.

I've recently gotten addicted to The Musketeers on BBC so I hope someone catches the reference, I highly recommend it. I love Peter Capaldi as the villain.

Anyway, as usual I own nothing and I apologise for any OOCness and spelling mistakes.

Hope you enjoy.

Robyn

1 - Catwoman (During Titan years)

It was late at night, darkness already stretched across the city but Catwoman (more commonly known as Selina Kyle) had decided she couldn't be bothered to go out for once. Too exhausted from some previous troubles. She had been retrieving something from her bedroom before returning to the lounge when she heard a window slam open followed by a few whispered words.

Waiting a second she listened in, hoping to hear anything else that would give her a hint to her home invader's identity. When she heard nothing for several minutes she grabbed a whip (which she conveniently kept near her, but still out of sight, just in case. After all, it is Gotham you never know who is going to appear in the middle of the night or even day). She silently crept forward down the corridor back to the lounge where she heard quiet footsteps. They were too quiet for someone not trained in the art of covert operations or at least trained (so not an average thug/mugger), but too loud for a professional thief or mercenary.

Selina turned the corner into the lounge where she had estimated her guest was from the footsteps, whip at the ready. She was halted in her tracks when instead of a burglar she met the guilty face of a young boy she hadn't see in a few months.

It was Robin. The first one, not the newer kid Batman had suddenly shown up with. Despite what some idiots thought, the new Boy Wonder was definitely someone else. She would have recognised Dick anywhere. He smiled at her, looking a bit sheepish for breaking into her apartment.

"Hi Selina. Sorry about breaking in but. . . I kind of need some advice and thought you might be the best person to go to." Robin ran a hand through his ebony hair as he tried to explain sheepishly.

"First, where have you been? And why did you leave? I've not seen you in months! Then a new Robin shows up and Bats refuses to say anything." Selina questions narrowing her eyes at the boy, who had appeared in full costume. When she didn't get an answer immediately she let out a sigh and moved over to the main room of her penthouse apartment. Sitting down and patting the seat beside her, he joined her. Cats circled towards them, happily settling on their laps and next to them.

"Well, Bats and I were on a normal patrol when we got news that Joker had escaped Arkham yet again, so we went after him of course. It seemed like an ordinary battle where he fights back but we eventually defeat him with only small injuries, until I made a stupid move believing him to have almost been defeated and the Joker shot me. Nothing really particularly life threatening, but it scared Bats." Robin looked down with a painful expression as if he was reliving the events he described. "Batman took him down and gave him to the Commissioner before picking me up and returning to the Bat Cave. Agent A quickly took out the bullet and stitched me up. It wasn't the worse I've had, but it came at a bad timing. Things with the team had been stressed because of recent events and he was worried and over protective, sometimes he forgets I'm not a little kid anymore. . ." Robin trailed to a stop, expression conflicted.