Batjokes You Complete Me

Chapter Seventeen

Normal POV

The next day after Nightwing took Lucy to Bludhaven, he had a couple of bags packed and was staying for the rest of the week at Wayne manor back in his old room. Alfred showed him to his room and Dick unpacked and changed into his normal clothes, a plain blue t-shirt and some light blue jeans.

Dick wanted to speak with Bruce but he was still passed out in bed taking advantage of all the sleep he could catch up on being stuck in his home for about 5 more days. Instead Dick decided to find the Joker to speak with him.

Joker POV

He found Joker down in the kitchen eating copious amounts of junk food and drinking expensive red wine also looking as if he had just showered with how wet his hair was dripping on his clothes. Dick's first thought was in amazement to how the Joker could eat 50 tons of chocolate and chips and other junk and still stay so skinny.

"Hey Joker," Dick called out his name walking into the room, "I need to talk with you since Bruce is still asleep."

Joker turned around looking at him with a glare, "What do you want, bird brain?"

"Lucy and Alfred both said you're making Bruce take a week away from all his work..."

"And what? Are you mad about it?" Joker snapped at him, "He agreed, it's better he's home sometimes anyway, and don't even bring up our relationship because it's personal and I don't need to be on fucking blast for having my boyfriend home for a week!"

"No, That's not what I was going to bring up actually. I more want to know how the hell you even got him to agree?... "

"What?..." Joker was confused.

"Nobody in the history of ever could get that man to take even a day off let alone a whole week. That's impressive. You must actually mean a hell of a lot to him." Dick slightly smiled.

"Oh, I'm not use to you talking so calmly with me," Joker wasn't sure how to respond, "I just needed him, badly, and so now he's here. That's all I care about."

"I'm only here because I thought Bruce would want help around here. He's not one to be caged up all the time in his home so I thought he might be driving himself crazy unless I was here to help like in the old days when I was Robin. I was his right hand man for everything." Dick said while grabbing himself a bottle of water from the fridge.

"He's been fine so far." Joker pointed out.

"Yes but, it's only been a day and a half. I just want everyone to be okay, especially the man who took me in and raised me the last 5 years of my childhood after my parents died."

Joker took time to think about the situation, but as he was thinking Bruce had walked downstairs to find them both in the kitchen.

"It's good to get to see you again, Dick." Bruce smiled and shook his hand.

"Hey Bruce!" Dick responded.

Joker watched them both walk out and realized something within himself.

He wants to break away and be himself again at some point...