Bat-Family Oneshots

We lost Dick

Barry couldn't believe it, the seven founding members were finally allowed inside the Cave. This was a lot to take in even for a speedster, No one has ever been allowed into the Batcave, it was overwhelming, he still couldn't believe it just hours ago they found out that the super-secretive brooding bat was, in fact, the charming good looking playboy billionaire with not one but four sons. To be honest Barry knew he shouldn't really have been so surprised after all when has the god damn bat ever done something halfway? and really looking at it now it all made perfect sense.

One thing Barry really wanted to know about was his son's, he obviously knew that they where Batman's proteges but the boys where know to be geniuses and  all come from interesting backstories plus he really wanted to get to know the eldest Richard Grayson he seemed to do and be everything in Gotham plus if he got to know the young man maybe he could introduce him to his eldest nephew as they where about the same age and Wally could do with some positive influences in his life, but really Barry was getting ahead of himself and really should be at least attempting to pay attention to this important meeting they where supposed to be having.

But he was a speedster and had the attention span of a three-year-old plus they had been sitting here for hours (Which was actually just about half an hour) and the speedster was starting to get antsy, his insides where also burning with the need to ask about the dinosaur Skeleton that seemed to be taking up a lot of the left side of the cave.  

Barry was about to snap and ask his questions when suddenly he heard voices coming closer to where they were all seated. He looked up to see a boy he recognised as Timothy Drake leading Damian Wayne and Jason Todd. In Tims's hand, he was holding what looked like a phone and was talking into it. The first thing he noticed about the boys is they all looked tense and Tim's voice was very serious. 

Barry was sort of surprised that none of the boys even looked over at the table full of adults. Instead, they walked over to the computer that took up almost a full wall. Tim sat down in the big black leather chair putting the phone down. the other two boys pulled to stools up next to him looking at the screen with serious expressions. Barry looked back at his teammates to see that they had all turned to face the two teens and one kid. 

Batman looked at them with mild interest but quickly gather the league's attention back on the meeting. Barry couldn't help it though his attention had been caught on the boys who hadn't really moved and were now talking quietly amongst themselves. Barry sighed and attempted to listen to the meeting as they were now discussing the prospect of new members. Barry always enjoyed this bit as they got to discuss new metas that are being uncovered. 

They were down to the final choices when out of the corner of Barry's eye he saw the eldest and youngest boy was pushing Tim towards the table. Barry was now intrigued it was obvious that they needed to tell their dad something. But what Barry couldn't work out was why they looked so nervous after all it could be that bad considering they had been sitting at the computer for the last hour. 

"Hey, Bruce? Sorry to interrupt but we really need to talk to you" Tim said getting everyone's attention. Bruce looked up at his son's brows furrowed in concentration "Can it wait?" he asked, They all saw Jason shake his head "I don't think so old man" Bruce nodded turning in his chair to face his three youngest sons. The other Leaguers would be lieing if they said they weren't curious to know what was important enough to interrupt a League meeting.  

"We have sort of a situation" Bruce's soft expression hardened slightly "What do you mean situation?" Tim sighed "We have lost Dick" barry looked at his teammates in confusion, like what does that even mean. "what you mean you lost Dick" Damian the youngest of the sons interrupted his brother "What Drake is trying to say is that Grayson failed to put in this months report of his undercover mission" Barry as well a some of his teammates looked slightly alarmed as well as even more confused "By how late?" Jason took over this time "By about two weeks, but we figured either he hasn't had a chance to slip away plus Dickhead is almost always late. So we desided to comm in Roy see if he had heard anything since he down that way anyways" Jason had to pause because Oliver exclaimed "Roy as in my ward?" Jason chose to ignore him "He said that the group, D was in ran out of town chancing something about three weeks ago. Asked him what he said no idea didn't bother investigating as he knew Dick was in there plus he was busy and that behaviour from the group was pretty normal" 

Bruce was silent for a moment looking at his sons and then the leaguers sitting around the table who looked confused and in aww. "Right okay, we can't do anything about it in case Dick is still undercover. plus it was supposed to be a radio silent mission and just because you told him to radio in doesn't mean that he should" the boys nodded posture relaxing a bit. 

Bruce waited for the boys to leave the room, before trying to restart the meeting but Clark stopped him "Bruce aren't you going to do something?" the man in question shook his head "No, Dick is well trained and by interfering now we could put him in danger. He is due back in another month and as I already said It was originally supposed to be a radio silenced mission" the leaguers were shocked but didn't keep trying to prie information out of him and allowed him to ease back into the meeting.