Brothers

Ch 6 Pt. 3

Jr's POV

Officer Cox comes back to my car, handing my license as well as my ticket. "Ok kid. Watch your speed next time or stay off my streets."

"Yes sir." I roll my eyes as he walks away. I scoff thinking about how thinks these are his streets. "Dad's gonna kill me," I say to myself as I look at the ticket.

I turn my car on and head to Jason's restaurant. I just hope the food hasn't gotten cold yet.

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Dick's POV

It's almost the end of the movie when Dad texts me.

Dad: Hey Kid. Change of plans. I'll be home tonight or tomorrow morning.

Dick: Cool.

Dad: When you see your brother could you tell him. I've been trying to reach him all day but he isn't replying. Is everything alright with him?

Dick: He just went to go get us food. I'll tell him when he comes back.

Dad: Okay. I'll see you when I get home.

"Who was that," Babs asks me. I look at the tv screen to see the credits begin to roll.

"Just my Dad," I tell her. "He's coming back home tonight."

"Don't you wonder what he was doing in Australia? Was he their for Batman business or Bruce Wayne business?"

I laugh as I see the excitement written all over her face. "Probably both."

"What villain could possibly be in Australia," She asks. "Maybe it's Queen Bee. Or the Joker. Maybe it's Lex Luthor. If it was the Riddler that would be so annoying. And what if it's Penguin." She makes a disgusted face but then begins to name of more villains that come to the top of her head. With every answer she gets more and more excited. I guess she just finds the life of crime very exciting.

"Babs," I say trying to get her out of her trance. She continues to think up the many various things that could be some great evil plan that my dad is trying to stop.

"Babs," I try again. She still doesn't answer me. I snap my fingers in her face to get her to stop talking.

"What," She asks.

I laugh. "He's there for Lex Luthor."

"Oh," She says looking down. "You could have told me that earlier before I went on my rant."

"You didn't give me a chance."

Junior walks in carrying bags of food. "Okay. I have two chicken teriyakis and some udon for Babsy here." He gives us our styrofoam plates and some plastic forks.

"What took you so long," I asked him. I can see his body tense. His eyes wonder to his food not giving me any eye contact.

"I was talking to Jason," he says. "Not that it's any of your business." I can tell that he's lying through his teeth but I don't feel like arguing with him right now.

"Whatever," I say rolling my eyes. Babs gives me a look as Junior takes his food out of the bag and hops onto the couch opposite of the one me and Babs sit on.

"So," he says digging into his food. "What we watching?"

"Nothing at the moment," Babs hurriedly says before I can engage with another snarky remark. She gives me a quick glance from the side of her eyes. "We have to pick another movie but let's pick something on Netflix."

"Cool," he says biting in an eggroll and smirking at me.

I don't want him to watch anything with his us. He's been a jerk all day.

"Dad called asking about you?"

"I know," he tells me with his mouth full. I talked to him on my way back. I scowl at the tv. I was hoping he would leave but I guess not.

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TIME SKIP......

Junior had headed up to his room after watching 3 episodes of PSYCH with me and Babs. After hacking the batcave, my phone now alerts me to when people enter the batcave and how many and sometimes who. My phone alerts me that dad arrived but with two other people. I look over to see Babs asleep on the couch. I quietly leave the room and go the cave.

I go through the vents and watch my dad pull over his mask as some woman follows him angrily. He turns around and glares menacingly at her.

"What do you want Talia?" 

"My son," she says. She has a accent. Arabic?

"Your son. Your son!?" Dad yells at her. His face is redder than I've ever seen it.

"He's always been my son. I gave birth to him, didn't I?"

"But did you raise him? Do you even love him? Were you there when he had nightmares? What about the times he was kidnapped? When he had to deal with bullies? What about giving him to complete strangers than his actual father? What about completely making he believe he was someone he wasn't Talia? What about leaving him almost completely alone in the world? Were you his mother any of those times?!"

My breath is hitched. That sounds like me. That's not possible. Mary Grayson was my mother. Bruce is my father but we only found that out after doing a blood test. But her being my mother is impossible. Mary was mother. Mary will always be my mother.

"Richard is my son," Talia says poking Dad in the chest. My eyes start to water. My breath is a bit shaky and at this point, I don't know what to do.

"Mother," someone says coming out of the shadows. Thomas? What the hell is he doing here? He's supposed to be at G.U. "I do not think Father is ready for you to be here and I on the other hand, don't want you here."

Talia scowls at Dad but when she looks at Thomas the scowls fades into something. Most likely sadness. She walks over to Thomas and cups his face in her hand. He's taller than her and he looks at her with such discontent even though that's his mother. "Never forget that you're my son Damian. An al Ghul." 

She turns to my dad. "We will speak about this later. I will meet my son," Talia tells him. "Whether you like it or not."

Talia leaves through the zeta tubes as Dad glared at her back as she walked away from him.

"Go get some sleep," he tells Thomas. "It's midnight." Thomas nods at him and go to the elevator. Dad sighs and closes his eyes in exhaustion as he sits down at his computer. He mumbles something under his breath that I can't understand.

Though, what I do understand is that my life just got even more complicated than it needed to be.