Someone is always watching

Chapter 07

Monday night, Gotham rooftops 

"All I'm saying is that you two should talk it out, or spar it out! I'm just looking out for you little D'" 

"It's Robin, we're in the field. We should focus on the task at hand Nightwing."

Nightwing sighed as he followed his youngest brother, swinging from rooftop to rooftop with the grace of a former acrobat. Whenever he went out on patrol with Damian as Nightwing he let him take the lead, he knew how it was with Bruce and he felt like Damian needed to feel in control of his own actions. But it killed him when he saw Jason and Tim getting closer and Damian and Jason drifting further apart. His relationship with Jason wasn't always easy, before and after his death, but they were both trying, well as much as Jason could, but Dick decided to never give up on his Little Wing, he had another chance to be the best big brother he could to Jason, he sure as hell wasn't going to screw it up, and he was going to make sure all four of them were getting along. 

"So as I was saying, just call him, or break into his safe house. I think you could take him, I mean if you were to use your small size to your advantage." this ought to make Damian talk or insult Dick at least. They landed on their target rooftop, Damian turned around and faced Dick.

"I'll have you know that my height is perfectly normal for my age. And of course I could take him. I could take any one of you. I am the blood son of the Bat and heir to the mantle, I was trained by the league of assassins, I am the best Robin."  and that is why Tim and Jason called him a brat. Weirdly enough Dick thought it was cute, but knew better than to utter the words. 

"Yes, okay, no one is denying any of that, but come on, just talk to him or just go hug him when you see him, that would scare the living stuff out of him." Dick tried his best not to swear in front of Damian.

"Would you just leave it already. This is neither the place nor the time." 

"I agree." spoke the Batman from behind them, just appearing out of thin air. "What do we got?"

"You know? After all these years, I never get tired of you just appearing and disappearing." Nightwing said with smile in his voice and turning to face his old mentor, "But nothing yet, we've been here for less than a few minutes."

"She is not alone. Someone is sleeping next to her in the bed, it seems to be a woman. The apartment seems fine, she's a really neat person, nothing is out of place." stated Robin, removing the binoculars and handing them to Nightwing. "If you were focused on the job you would have noticed. But instead you are distracted by my nonexistent relationship with Todd." 

"hm" grunted the Bat. 

"Yeah the girl is blonde, she's in her file." said Nightwing trying to remember the name.

"That's her friend Trish Somers, she checks out." replied Batman, "report back every hour. Spoiler will be taking over when your patrol time is over." and he disappeared not waiting for Damian's protests. 

"Father has clearly lost his mind, an incompetent fool like Brown could ruin the mission." 

"Hey D, do you even know what this mission is?" Dick was genuinely asking, he was there during the briefing, he knew they had to watch her, but he also knew they had a lot of other cases to work on. He didn't want to question Bruce in front of everyone, and Bruce knew that so he kept avoiding one on ones with Dick. 

"Do you not listen when father speaks Grayson?" Damian snapped, using names in the field, he was clearly upset that Bruce hadn't told them everything. Dick knew the boy better than the boy knew himself, so he knew better than to push it. "Our job tonight is to watch her, so let us do so."