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Tifl (طفل )- baby (Arabic)
Damian felt the cold Gotham air bite at his cheeks. Standing back in Gotham made him want to throw up. He gripped Kamilah's hand tighter, not daring to let go. They walked towards the apartment building, Bags trailing behind them. Damian looked around, he was scared that he would see one of his family members. When they got to the apartment, they were greeted by May. "Well if it isn't my favourite people" She smiled. She pulled Kamilah into a hug, which the younger girl reluctantly accepted. Then she looked over to Damian. "I'm glad you back" She said before pulling Damian into a long hug. "Glad to be back" Damian whispered into her ears. She let go of Damian and held his shoulders tightly. "God you've grown up." Damian just smiled at that.

May finished her greetings, before letting them inside. They walked into the living room, where Nicolas was playing with some of his toys. Kamilah went and hugged the boy to her chest. "Ki!" Nicolas laughed, moving in her hold to hug the girl. "I miss you" Nicolas said, hugging the girl. Nicolas looked behind her, making eye contact with Damian. "Didi!" The younger boy screeched.  He fell out of Kamilah's arms and ran to the boy. Damian picked up the boy and hugged him as well. Nicolas look up at Damian's face before freezing. He brought his tiny hand to Damian's left eye. There was a large scar through his left eye, left from the Joker when he killed Damian.

"What happened" Nico asked, eyes falling to the cut through Damian's neck. The little boy brought his hand to the J on Damian's neck. "Nothing you have to worry about" Damian answered, rubbing Nico's back. "Were you, hurt" The little boy asked again, his bright brown eyes seemed to melt Damian. "I was, but I am okay now" Damian hugged the boy a little tighter, trying to make him comfortable. Nicolas hugged Damian again, "Don't worry, Ill protect you, so nobody will be able to hurt you." Damian laughed at this, putting his hand on Nicolas' head. "I know, tifl, I trust you."

Damian put Nico down as he rushed into the kitchen to greet Evelyn, Nolan and Sam. Damian sat down on the couch, pulling out his phone. He heard May and Kamilah talking, only half-listening. He went off of his phone when Evelyn, Sam, Nolan and Nicolas came in. Nicolas was sitting on Evelyn's hip. They sat down, scattered around the living room. They all broke into useless banter, talking about life in Saudi Arabia.


When the banter died down, It was about 5 pm. They decided to go down to a small diner by May's apartment. It was a well known diner, so Damian wore a hoodie. They all sat down at a table. "Wow, this brings back memories" Sam said. Damian remembers some of the times he came here. He remembers coming here with Kamilah, when she first came to Gotham. She remembers Evelyn taking him here for his 13th birthday. He remembers coming here when he and Sam got to high or drunk to function. He remembers Nolan taking him here with some of there skating friends.

Damian lost his train of thought when the waiter walked up to there table to get there drink order. She wasn't much older than them, probably 17. The waiter kept looking at Damian like she recognized him. When she got there drink orders, she left the table. Damian shifted uncomfortably when she left. "Dude, why was she starring at you like that" Sam said holding back a laugh. Damian just shrugged, "Maybe she recognized me." Damian heard people sitting down in the table behind him, but didn't bother looking around.

The waiter came back with there drinks, handing them all over. The waiter paused to look at Damian for a moment again. "You know who you look like" The waiter smiled. Damian just looked at her confused "Who?" She smiled even brighter, "You look just like Damian Wayne." This caused Damian to pause, even the table behind them seemed to stop talking to listen to the conversation. Damian just laughed politely "I get that alot." The waiter laughed, "I mean, you must. If you take away the piercings and the scar I don't think I would have been able to tell the difference." Damian laughed at this.

When they put in the order, nobody dared to say a thing. Damian saw that Evelyn had that shit eating grin on. "Not a single word" Damian said to her. Evelyn couldn't help it "that was fucking hilarious." She burst out into laughter, everyone else following her. "You-You look like Damian" Nolan barely got out his sentence before bursting into laughter. Damian just rolled his eyes at there laughter, but had a small smile on his face.

"Sorry, sorry" Kamilah said before wiping her eyes from laughing so much. "She must be pretty smart to figure out you look like Damian Wayne" Nolan said, snorting. "You guys suck ass" Damian just said, sipping on his soda. Evelyn started to laugh again, but froze when she looked behind Damian. Kamilah noticed and turned to look behind them. She barely looked before she snapped her head around to look at Evelyn. They both looked at each other in panic. Evelyn wiped out her phone to text something to the group chat.

 Evelyn wiped out her phone to text something to the group chat

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Damian turned around a little to look. When he saw who it was he immediately turned back around. It was none other than the Wayne family. Every single one of them. Dick, Tim, Cass, Steph, Barbara, Bruce, fuck even Jason was there.

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