Robins!

He'll Be Sorry

Alfred opened the door of the limo, and Damian stepped out, his backpack strung across his left shoulder, his white long sleeve polo wrinkled, and the knee caps of his pants with dirt stains.  His(Dick's) baseball cap was slung over his eyes so that no one could see what his face looked like.  And that's how he entered the manor.

Jason was sitting on the couch, smoking a cigarette and watching news on how yesterday night, Red Hood and Starfire had saved Sattire City from certain doom.  Jason smiled as he watched himself from the street camera.... shooting the shooters, and blocking a little girl from getting shot.

"Ah..." he sighed, feeling Damian's presence behind him he said through his cigarette,"You want something punk?"

"No, I don't want anything.  Was that last night?" Damian asked, diverting conversation tactics.

"Yeah, why?" Jason asked, puffing on his cigarette.

"Just wondering where the heck Roy is in that picture..." Damian said, looking at the street cam.

"Oh, he had to go over to clone Roy's house and babysit Lian while Jade and him went to save the world from certain doom off planet." Jason explained, ignoring Damian's cough from his cigarette smoke.

"So, while his brother/clone and his friends are away saving the world he gets to babysit?  Sounds easy." Damian asked, amused.

"Lian is actually quite the handful, I had to babysit her once.  You know, she is also your age... and she is all over the place.  She knows how to use a sai!" Jason said, rubbing his arm like she had stabbed him there.

"Why?" Damian asked, listening to Jason, interested.

"Well her mother knows how to use one.   Did I ever tell you her mother is a terrorist and her father is a superhero?" Jason added, wiggling his eyebrows.

"So what?  My mother is taking over the world and my father is the mythical creature that roams the night, who is dead right now." Damian said sarcastically, "Where's Grayson and Drake?"

"Dickie had a conference so he'll be home in about 30 minutes.  Timmy is on a date with Steph.  Against Dick's orders, so don't tell Dick that Tim went on the date." Jason said, making a finger to his lips.

"Why against Grayson's orders?  He's usually okay with it!" Damian protested, "He goes out with Gordon all the time, even when I protest!"

"It was something about Dick's gonna lose guardianship of him if he keeps going out in the middle of the night to meet her, and when he loses guardianship of Tim, he'll lose guardianship of the rest of us.  Then a few days ago Tim pulled three all-nighters, so naturally he fell asleep in class, and then the legal guardian people came to our house to investigate if Tim was living in a safe environment, and Dick punished Tim by saying no more dates with Steph!" Jason said, cackling.

"Oh..." on a normal basis, Damian would go around telling everybody what Tim was doing and getting everybody in trouble.  And that's when Jason knew something was wrong with his younger brother.

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"I'm telling you Dickie, something's wrong with him, he didn't even try to tell you that Tim went on a date!  There is something wrong with him Dick, and you need to fix it!" Jason yelled in his older/younger brother's ear.

Dick slunk his head even further into his arm, "Jace, I can't do this...."

"He's your brother Dick, and you love him more than you love anybody else, and you know it.  You don't admit it but he's your favorite, and out of all of us you guys share the strongest bond.  You would do anything for each other!  You know that!  He died protecting you!  He wasn't mad at you when you faked your death because he knew you had a good reason to do it... Dick you need to help Damian right now!" Jason yelled, mad at his brother because the minute he got home, the first thing he did was start crying.

"Jay, I'm to tired.  I just had a conference and the people at Wayne tower are trying to get me to resign.... Tim's teacher thinks I'm a bad parent, and frankly I am.  And now I have to deal with Tim and his Stephanie problem!"  Dick put his head on the desk, "Okay, I'll help Damian...."

"That's my Dickie!" Jason said, as Dick slowly stood up.

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Tim and Jason stood at the door of Damian's room, slyly peering in as Dick walked up to Damian.

"Dami?" Dick asked, pulling the cap out of his brothers face, "Something's wrong, tell me."

"I don't want to..." Damian said, pulling the cap back down.

"Dami, please just tell me will you?" Dick begged, so tired tears were streaming down his face.

"tt.... I'm being bullied...." Damian said, turning away, "Please don't think I'm weak!"

"You have got to be kidding me!  Is this like a Wayne tradition?  Is this like a Bat family tradition?" Dick said, cussing under his breath.

Damian looked at him confused, "And that means?"

"I was bullied, Jay was bullied, Babs and Betty have been bullied, Charlie has been bullied a lot, Steph has been bullied, Cass was bullied, and Tim was bullied pretty badly... who's been bullying you?" Dick asked, rubbing his brother's back in comforting circles.

"Diesel Bargus..." Damian sniffed.

Suddenly Dick's hand froze, "Do you know if he has any relation to Stevie Bargus?"

"That's his dad, why Grayson?" Damian asked, worried at his brother's angry face.

"Stevie bullied me a lot when I was 13... he was 23 in highschool because he had been held back so many times." Dick said, then turned and smiled at Damian, "Don't worry, he'll stop soon enough."

Dick left the room and Tim and Jason followed in his wake, "How is this going to get better?"

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"So Damian walks to school on this route correct?" Tim said, plugging a bunch of coordinates into the giant computer.

"Yeah, I've memorized it!"Jason said, shaking his cigarette into his mouth, "That tree looks like the one we should use!"

"That's good... and Diesel is supposed to be walking around here with his pals around this time guys, so we know our job correct?" Dick said, smiling evilly.

"No one messes with Damian or they have us to mess with!" Tim said, eagerly cracking his knuckles.

"Where did you come up with this idea anyway?" Jason asked Dick, moving away from his brother before he could get his cigarette pulled out.

"It's what Wally and Roy did for me when I was 13 and I was being bullied by Bargus!" Dick said, smirking evilly.

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Damian walked along the path, head down, when suddenly he heard a voice from above him.

"HELP!!!!!!!!! Get me down from here!" 

Damian looked in disbelief at a figure who was hanging onto a tree branch with all his might by his underwear.  It was Diesel Bargus of course.

And across Diesel's chest was spray painted:

You messed with the wrong kid....