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DICK'S POV
Being benched sucks we’re all adults, Bruce shouldn’t be able to ground us. We didn’t even do something that bad.

Sure Tim blew up that warehouse but it was necessary for the mission, I don’t think B had a good reason for benching Jason.

“Nightwing, Red Robin, Red Hood come here!” Bruce yells all the way from the batcave.

“I’ve got a mission for you,” he starts “the league has informed me that a meteorite has landed on a farm outside of gotham. I need you three to get it.”

Jason does not seem pleased about being bossed around.

“Why can’t you do it?” Tim asked.

“I’m busy with all those files you gave me.” “Just do it……. please.” Bruce replied “If you get it done I will un-ground you guys”

We agreed so now we’re off to move this stupid rock.

“Right, remember the procedure before touching anything. we run a test to make sure it’s safe to touch” I reminded them.

“Booo let’s just get it over with, B should be happy I even agreed.” Jason complained.

JASON'S POV
We arrived at the farm to move some stupid rock for B.

Dicks being a nag about procedure, no one’s got time for that.

“Right RR take that damn sample.”

Tim grabbed the test tube and went to break off a piece.

“For something that’s supposed to be a normal meteorite it seems to be glowing a lot.”

“shut up Tim and get that fucking sample.”

When Tim chipped off a sample the rock started glowing brighter and brighter.

“Is it supposed to do that?” I asked, but before anyone could answer the meteorite exploded.

The air was sucked from my lungs, the others didn’t look any better.

The last thing I saw before passing out was Tim’s old robin costume.

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TIM’S POV

What on earth is going on? I swear a minute ago I was writing a report about the Riddler and now I’m in the middle of nowhere with what looks like Dick Grayson when he was Robin and oh yippee Jason’s ghost is here too. 

I should really get some sleep. Then out of nowhere imaginary Dick lunges at me and ghost Jason screaming “THIEVES!”

But ghost Jason jumped out of the way before imaginary Dick got him (didn’t really need to since he’s a ghost and Dick is imaginary but whatever I won’t judge) so I got the full force of this imaginary gremlin lunging at me and you know what that didn’t feel imaginary and yep okay that punch was definitely not imaginary.

Then ghost Jason pulled fake Dick, I mean if he’s not imaginary he has to be a fake right? 

WAIT HOLD ON HOW THE DUCK DID A GHOST PULL THIS KID OFF ME?! ANYTHING HE TOUCHES HE GOES THROUGH IT NORMALLY!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GHOST JASON IS BECOMING MORE SOLID!!!! 

I pointed at ex-ghost Jason and yelled (totally didn’t scream) “GHOST” and that was all I managed to get out before everything went black

JASON’S POV

I don’t know what's going on right now cause one second I was staring in awe at well I’m not exactly sure what it was but it looked JUST LIKE Dick Grayson AKA THE FIRST ROBIN AND MY HERO!!!! 

But then he was lunging at me and screaming “THIEVES” I don’t know who else he was talking about since I’m only one person but that doesn’t matter because he looks so annoyed!

I jump out of the way right before he can get me, then I turn to see what’s happening because I was sure he was going to lunge at me again but instead he’s punching some other kid (who is also wearing a Robin costume for some reason by the looks of it. The costume had trousers though which made me kinda jealous because why couldn’t I get trousers?) 

I decided to pull this Dick lookalike off the other kid because he didn’t seem to be doing anything and was just laying there while he got punched. Before the Dick look alike could do anything there was another voice from behind us and the Dick lookalike and I both turned to see what it was. 

The other guy was just staring at us with wide eyes looking a bit terrified but I couldn’t really tell why until I saw who was behind us, when I saw Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman and Flash behind us as well as another rando wearing a Robin outfit. I didn’t blame the guy for looking terrified.

If I was in his place I would be as well. Or that’s what I assumed he was terrified of but I might have been wrong because suddenly the guy who was previously frozen in fear screamed “GHOST”

When I spun around to see what was happening he was pointing right at me! Then the guy passed out so I don’t really know what’s happening.

DICK’S POV

One second I was standing very nicely, very well behaved behind Batman while he talked to Ivy about… ummm… alright so I don't know what he was talking to her about but I was definitely being perfectly well behaved and was following all the rules. I was 100% not poking the different plants around me, I would never do that. 

But yeah anyways one second I was standing obediently behind Batman as he talked to Ivy and the next I was in the middle of a field with two older kids who were wearing MY uniform but for some reason one of them had trousers on instead of shorts, but that doesn’t matter because they were wearing MY UNIFORM!

I lunged at them both but the shorts wearing thief jumps out the way at the last minute so i just grab the trouser wearing thief, throw him to the ground and start punching him but then the short wearing thief drags me off the trouser wearing one and right before I’m about to punch him there's a voice behind us. 

I turn to see Batman and a bunch of other adults there as well as ANOTHER UNIFORM THIEF!! THE FUCK?! WHY IS EVERYONE STEALING MY UNIFORM!!!! AND WHY DOES THIS ONE ALSO HAVE TROUSERS????!!!! THE ACTUAL FUCK?! FIRST THEY TAKE MY UNIFORM THEN THEY ADD TROUSERS??????!!!!!!!

Alright I’m cool, I’m calm and I am collected!! There’s three uniform thieves, number 1 (possibly my favourite because he kept the uniform the same) the shorts wearing thief, number 2 the oldest looking trouser wearing thief and number 3 I’m going to call him trouser wearing thief because I don’t know if he looks younger or older than the shorts wearing thief. 

Right as I open my mouth to ask Batman what’s going on and who all these people are a few things stop me; 1) Batman is in a different uniform than earlier, 2) Literally every adult and the trouser wearing thief are looking at me and the other two thieves in shock.

EVEN BATMAN LOOKED SHOCKED!! I’VE NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE!!, 3) and this might be the more important point, the oldest looking trouser thief suddenly screams “GHOST” when I snap my head around to look for this ‘ghost’ the dude is pointing at the shorts wearing thief and then the oldest looking trouser wearing thief passes out. 

So okay maybe I wasn’t standing behind Batman like a well behaved, obedient child and maybe I should start listening to Batman when he tells me to stop touching Ivy's plants as I have clearly touched some sort of venomous plant, and it is making me hallucinate. It’s really the only explanation. 

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BRUCE’S POV

After sending his kids on a mission Bruce went to take a nap to make up on missed sleep. 2 hours later Bruce woke up feeling like he’d slept a century. “Alfred, how long was I out for?” he asked.

“Just about 2 hours master Bruce” Alfred replied. “Though I think you should check up on the boys, the sample came through roughly one and a half hours ago but no word from them.”

“Good idea, thank you Alfred.” Bruce walked over to the batcomputer and opened the sample analysation.

“Wonder woman, Superman, Flash I need you to report. There has been a meteorite landing at the outskirts of gotham, I have sent my team over but they have not reported back. I need you to check in, be careful the sample is very odd. I will meet you there.”

Upon arrival Bruce found a very strange sight. He had arrived at the same time as his teammates. The smoke made it rather hard to see, from what he could tell it seemed like a small caped child fighting a taller kid with a third child standing by. The smallest child was scrambling and yelling “THIEF!’” when Damian joined me at my side.

Suddenly the oldest child, who just got pounded by the youngest kid, went pale. He screamed “GHOST!” before passing out.

The third cape wearing child looked as confused as Bruce felt. After the smoke cleared more Bruce noticed the children were wearing different old Robin costumes. This confused Bruce even more, who were these children? And where were his sons?

“Why aren’t those 2 wearing trousers?” Flash blurted out.

“Excuse you!” the smallest child blurted out. “It’s an essential part of the robin costume!”

“No it’s not” Damian very unhelpfully added.

“Who are you?” the second trouserless ‘Robin’ asked. “What are you wearing B? Who are these people? Where are we? Weren’t we on patrol?”

“Jason?” Bruce asks. “Erm yeah way to blow the whole secret identity thing. IS THAT WONDER WOMAN!? Oh wowzers I have always wanted to meet you miss!”

“He seems oddly happy to be here.” Flash murmurs. “Och! you didn’t have to hit me! I’m just stating the obvious.”

“What is the last thing you remember….Jason?” Superman asks.

“Well me and B were on patrol just like every night and then I appeared here. Do you know why Dick is here, I mean I’m ecstatic to meet him but isn’t he supposed to be like 20 years old why is he so tiny?”

The smallest Robin, apparently Dick Greyson, was still bouncing around, switching between climbing Bruce and poking an unconscious Tim drake.

“How old are you Jason?” Clark continued.

“You don’t know? Batman told you right? I was right there when he introduced me just a couple months ago?”

The league exchanged a couple confused glances. “I’m twelve do you actually not remember? Did you hit your head? Now that I think about it everyone but you are wearing odd things, what happened?”

“Dick could you come here?” Bruce asks. “How old are you? What were you doing before you came here?”

Dick cartwheeled over looking guilty. “I’m 9, did you already forget? Wow what a fucking wonderful ward you are.”

“This is serious Dick we need you to pay attention, I believe you three were transported here from the past.”

“So I’m not hallucinating? I thought that that was one of Ivy’s plants…which I was definitely 100% totally allowed to touch. You were talking to her before I came here.”

“Thank you Dick. This is Jason.” “Hellooooo it’s so nice to meet you!” Jason exclaimed.

“He stole my damn costume.” Dick replied grumpily

“He is your successor, Jason took over the Robin mantle after you grew up.” Bruce tried. “Please don’t be upset at the other 2 either. Why don’t you go sit in the batmobile, it’s over there I will be over with the others in a minute.”

Dick disappeared and Bruce went to check on Tim who had just woken up. “How are you doing kid?” He asked, knowing Tim was not in a condition to answer.

Tim let out a groan that sounded like “fine” so Bruce started explaining the situation to him, quiet enough so that Jason wouldn’t hear.

“You have been transported to the future, so has Jason and Dick. You are not seeing ghosts, I believe you all have just become Robin. The third one is Daimian, he’s my son, he is the current robin.” Bruce picked up Tim and carried him over to the batmobile.

“Jason you coming with? We’re going home!”

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After arriving at the batcave Alfred was about as un phased as ever. He made sure to get all the kids their favourite dishes ready for dinner.

“Right, all your rooms should be where you left them. If you want to go up that's alright I will go find you some clothes that fit” Bruce said.

Dick was very pleased to find that all the chandeliers were still reinforced. He still wasn't chuffed about three children stealing his brand but it'll have to do.

Dick had no problem finding his room, he did not expect it to be so changed. He does not agree with the interior choices his future self made and decided to write a hard worded letter to let future Greyson know exactly how he felt.

Hello myself. What the fuck were you thinking altering my fucking room I spend so much time on that it's so ugly. You dickhead quit being robin?!?! You're a cunt.

Several hallways over Tim was pacing his room. He was less worried about the furniture choices of his future self. Tim was still processing the fact that his older brother and his dead brother were now small. He isn't entirely convinced that small Jason isn't a ghost yet. Bruce knocked on the door and Tim let him in.

“Here I think this should fit. This was yours right? I can't remember. If it's needed we'll get you some clothes in the morning; I need some for Dick anyway.”

Jason was baffled to find his room super similar to how he designed it not even a month ago. Was his future self so childish? How old did the emo robin say he was? Twenty something?

“Hey Jason it's me, can I come in?” He opened the door for Bruce.

“You probably have a couple questions. Your future self moved rooms to a different wing it's under construction now though. I got you some of Damian's clothes you're the same size. I will go digging for your own tomorrow if you want to.”

Jason accepted the clothes, he was glad to be back in trousers. He couldn't believe the other 2 did get trousers. He made a point to ask Bruce about it.

Damian did not know Todd looked that much like his father when he was younger. He was quite sure he saw his father escape his room with some of his clothes before he could go to change. Damian was starting to question if he really was the only blood son. That could be the only explanation for Todd looking like a clone of himself, right? No, it couldn’t be. He made a point to investigate it, but that had to wait. He couldn’t be late for dinner.

“Hello master Damian” Alfred said. “I have made you your favourite, I imagine it’s rather difficult for you dealing with this whole ordeal.”

“I’m fine Alfred, thank you.” Cassandra, Stephanie and Duke walked in just as dinner was going to start.

“Woah tiny Tim!” Steph exclaimed.

“Why are there 2 Damians? What happened?” Duke asked.

“ That’s Todd.” Damian said.

“Jason, Dick and Tim went on a mission. They found a suspicious meteorite, they’re all the ages they were when they just became robin. They don’t remember anything that happened to their older selves.” Bruce said. Everyone got what he meant: don’t tell Jason about his death.

“Can we please do something about Jason and Dami?” Steph asked. “Don’t call me that!” “I can’t tell them apart,” Stephanie continued.
“It’s not that bad.” Cass chimed in “Jason is deathly pale compared to Damian.”

After dinner Damian went out to visit bat-cow in the barn. Much to his dismay Jason followed him rattling his head off with questions.
“We have a cow now, that's so cool!”

“Yeah yeah we also have a dog and Goliath” Arriving at the barn bat-cow was very pleased to see Damian. He noticed Alfred the cat had decided to join them as well.

“B let you get a cat?!” Jason yelled. “I have been begging him since I moved in but he won't let me. Selina is taking care of a stray I claimed but Bruce doesn't want her in the house.”

Damian was very annoyed at tiny Todd following him around. “Isn't it your bedtime?” Damian snarled.

“Well yes, aren't you my age?” Jason said, already turning back to the house.

“It seems like it, yes. I don't have a bedtime, father doesn't dare.” Damian snapped.

“Do you want to go with me? I'm going to raid the library before I go to bed .” Jason asked.

Damian and Jason walked off towards the manor. “By the way I want that jumper back when father gets you clothes.”

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DICK’S POV
The next day I woke up at 05:45 and decided to take a look around the ugly room that was apparently mine. How my older self managed to make the room this ugly I’ll never know, or maybe I will, considering this is my future… but that’s not important, what is important is the photos around my room.

The first one I noticed is a photo of what looks like a teen version of myself, how very handsome I am as a teen, with a bunch of other teenagers with me and surprisingly everyone in the photo looked like a prodigy of at least one of the league members, there was a red head boy in a yellow flash uniform, a blonde girls with what looks like some version of a green arrow uniform, a girl who looks like Diana's younger sister, an absolutely GORGEOUS girl with curly red hair, green eyes and orange skin.

I wonder who these people are, I don't recognise them but they seem interesting to say the least. The next photo I notice is one of a slightly older teen me, maybe even in my 20s, and what looks like an older version of that Jason kid, well I think his name was Jason or was that the other one? Anyways the other robin that was wearing shorts, by the looks of it we were going skiing, oh as there's writing on it too it says “taking lilwing skiing for 1st time”.

The third photo was of me and Selina, surprisingly I didn't look much older than I am now in this photo, the fourth photo is pretty much the same as the third one except that both myself and Selina are older in it and “lilwing” from the second photo was in it too, it must have been taken at the same time as the first one because we all had winter clothes on and myself and “lilwing” had the same clothes as in the second photo. Oh. My. Fucking. God. Does this mean Selina went to a ski resort with us?

JASON'S POV
I woke up at about 6:30 and decided to have a quick look around my room. I found a photo album hidden under one of my pillows last night which is weird because I don't have a photo album and if I did I would keep it on my desk. I decided to take a look through it because…well because why not?

The first thing I notice is that there's a title page for this section. I'm going to assume there's different sections in the album. Anyway the first section is titled “Me and Gramps” and is full of photos of me and Alfred cooking and some photos of the food after we finished it, the oldest I look in any of the photos would be about 16 I think.

Then after that section there's “Me and B” there's a few page with photos of me and Bruce where again it looks like photos stop at about the same age, the next section “Me and Dickie” has loads of photos of me and Dick.

Then there's the section “Me, Bats and Nightwing” with photos of us in the batcave and cutouts from newspapers, the last section is “Me and Mama (+some of Dickie)” and this section is full of photos of myself and Selina!

There's some photos of us as robin and Catwoman, some of us in the manor, at a gala, and then there's photos of us in winter clothes with snow in the background and some of the photos have Dick in them as well, there's one where the three of us are in what looks like a ski lift, a photo of me and Dick getting our skis on, a few photos of us all around a campfire, us having a snowball fight and the last photo in the section is of me and Dick hugging Selina on the ground all with massive grins on our faces.

I flip the page and there is a single photo there with a caption “Mama and Dad” and the photo was clearly taken while at the ski resort (assuming it's a ski resort we were at) of Selina and Bruce kissing next to the fireplace at night. They look good together, Bruce looks less tense and they both look happier. Suddenly I hear Dick's voice from over my shoulder, I swear he's got some sort of superpower to be able to appear and disappear without anyone knowing,

“THEY KISSED?!” He may be sneaky but he's not quite at all.

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JASON’S POV
“Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Dick! Someone will hear you!”
“Well jeez calm the fuck down Jason! You could have just asked nicely” Wow what a sassy little 9 year old he was.

“Sorry, what are you doing here anyway? I thought you would still be in your room.” I said while being very confused because unlike me and Tim, Dick genuinely doesn’t know any of us so why would he come find me?

“I found a photo of older versions of us in my room. We were apparently going skiing because you had never been before, that's what it said on the photo at least. I came here because I was going to ask if you had found anything similar but apparently you found something WAY BETTER!!” Dick was practically jumping up and down with excitement and the only thing I can think is that DICK SHIPS THEM TOO?!?!?! and well it would be rude not to ask. Right? Right?
“Are you telling me that you ship them as well?”

“Of course I do! They’re perfect for each other, they’re just too bloody dumb and blind to see it.” I can’t help but laugh at this because I never would have guessed that THE Dick Grayson, the first robin, my hero and my inspiration would also think Selina and Bruce are perfect for each other.

“Oh you have to see this section in the photo album! It’s got so many photos of me, you and Selina and it’s literally titled ‘Me and Mama’ that means they get together at some point right? If I’m calling her mama and we all go on holiday together to a ski resort and I mean obviously they get together because they’re kissing.” I’m kind of glad Dick interrupted me there because I don’t know what I was going to say next.

“Well yeah dumbass of course they’re together if she’s on a holiday with us and is kissing him but it also means they must be together for a while because she wouldn’t be there if they’ve only been together for a little while right?” It’s kind of scary how much this 9 year old thinks like an adult.

ALFRED’S POV
I went to get Tim, Jason and Dick at 07:30 so they could come down to eat breakfast with the rest of the family before Duke and Damian would have to leave to get the last of their things for returning to school this year. Come to think of it, the boys may benefit from going to school while Bruce tries to sort this all out, I’ll have to remember to mention it to him closer to the time of school starting up again.

I go to get Tim first as his room is the first I walk past. I knock on his door and say “Master Timothy? It is time for family breakfast downstairs, please make your way to the dining room.”

There’s a grunt of acknowledgement from inside the room and I can hear some movement so I decide to move on to Jason’s room, skipping Dick’s on the way to it as Dick was always an early riser and would likely not take long to get up. As I am about to knock on Jason’s door I hear both Jason and Dick’s voices from inside the room.

Strange as that is, I learnt long ago not to question anything that happens in our weird yet wonderful family. Even when it’s three of the boys being de-aged to when the first arrived with us, sometimes I question how I ended up here, but for now I need to get those boys downstairs for breakfast and then try to find some clothes for them so that Damian will stop being grumpy about them borrowing his clothes. Honestly it’s not even been a day and he’s in such a grump about it.

I knock on Jason’s door slightly more forcefully than I did with Tim’s door and say through the door “Master Jason it is time for you to go downstairs for family breakfast.”

He responds with slight hesitation
“We…I mean I’ll be right down” and I can hear Dick’s slightly panicked voice from inside the room attempting to whisper to him

“Now he’s gonna know we were up to something!”
I give a small and quiet chuckle before saying

“If you see master Dick on your way down will you please inform him to join the family in the dining room for breakfast? I went to his room before yours but he was not there unsurprisingly, he always got up very early” and with that I walked away and went downstairs to start putting the food on the table, not bothering to stop by Dick’s room on my way.

Although I do give Tim’s door another knock against it to make sure he’s up. As the three of the de-aged boys and the rest of the family come into the dining room for breakfast I can’t help but wonder what those two were talking about that they didn’t want me to know about.

TIM’S POV
As I enter the dining room I hear a voice shout “DICK NO!” and then I feel someone tackle me from behind, no prize for guessing who, I quickly roll over and all I can see is this feral 9 year old version of the sweetheart Richard ‘Dick’ Grayson over the top of me ready to either strangle me or punch me.

Right before ghost boy… I mean Jason tackles him off me telling him “Dick you can’t keep trying to kill him! Leave him alone and let’s go get some breakfast, the faster we do that the faster we can go back to planning.”

Even though I really want to know what they’re planning I don’t want to spend a single second more than I have to around a little kid who wants to kill me and what I’m still not convinced isn’t a ghost so I sprint the rest of the way to the dining room before they can say or do anything else.

When I sprint into the room I get a few weird looks from everyone else in the room but I just give an awkward smile and go to the nearest seat without saying a word. When Dick and Jason enter the room Dick immediately goes to sit in a chair next to Bruce and Jason sits in the seat next to him, suddenly someone sits next to me and I turn to see Damian who looks as angry as what Dick clearly is.

Yippee the family is full of crazy people with anger issues. Oh well I’ll eat my food then go to the batcave and train.

NOBODY’S POV
The next few days continue with Dick and Jason meeting early in the morning to plot how to get Bruce and Selina together, Alfred going to get them to go down to breakfast and finding Dick and Jason in each other's rooms (usually Jason’s room) clearly up to something, Dick attacking Tim everytime he sees him although as the days go by he started attacking him less and less, Damian being annoyed what seems to be everyone and everything and all of them training in the batcave.

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A couple days have passed since his sons became children. They seemed to be settling in alright, Dick is no longer trying to strangle Tim at every chance he gets. It's time to start working on finding a cure, Bruce decided.

He started up the bat- computer and started looking at potential matches for the sample. If that stupid rock hadn't disappeared after his kids touched it his job would have been a lot easier.

He hypothesizes that repeated contact might bring them back to their original ages. As much as he enjoyed having his babies back they cannot remain like this, they have lives to get back to. After several minutes of comparing the sample to the League's database he had found a match.

Unfortunately for him this stupid type of rock could only be found hundreds of lightyears away. It would be a long trip, several months if he was unlucky. Bruce started making arrangements for the kids leaving Alfred with that many children would be cruel. Just then Tim walked into the cave.

“Hello, could you get your siblings for me? We need to have a meeting.” He asked. Without saying anything Tim turned back around and went to get the others.
“Glad to see you three are settling in well.” Bruce started “Steph put Dick down.” She grumbled as she took a small Grayson off her shoulders. “I have found a way we might be able to send you back to your original timeline, however it will be a long trip. I will be away for what could be several months. I'm not leaving Alfred alone with four troublemakers.”

Bruce looked over at Stephanie shoving Jason the spare trousers of Damian's robin costume. “Five troublemakers-”

“I don't even live here!” Steph protested.

“So I have asked the justice league for assistance. They're going to take turns taking care of you lot. Duke Cassandra, I trust you are old enough to stay here with Alfred?”

“Father are you actually going to leave me with your justice dweebs?! I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself!” Damian protested

“I know you are, I want you to keep an eye on the others. Being in the future and all.” Bruce explained. With that he walked off to pack for the trip.

After Bruce walked off the children stayed behind but Alfred followed him. “Have you thought this through, sir?” He said, sounding upset, although you could never really tell with him. “Is it really such a good idea leaving those kids? They got here just after you took them in. I don’t think it is good for young Dick to have another parent leave him.”

“I know.” Bruce replied. “I am the only person who can get this mission done in time. I have to. I will make some more arrangements.”

“Might I recommend enrolling them in school, sir? The rhythm should be good for them, we don’t know when they will be able to go back. We should make sure their lives stay as normal as they can.” Alfred suggested. Bruce huffed in agreement.

“I will call the school, they took in Damian no problem. I will tell them they’re temporary fosters. I will make sure they place Jason with Damian, he won’t like it but Jay needs it.”

Back at the bat-computer Steph, Cass and duke are giving the kids a rundown of the current justice league. Damian went off to who knows where. “Okay i think that is everyone who could be the one to take care of you.” Duke finished his presentation. “Any questions?”

“Oh me!” Jason put his hand up. “How is Miss Ivy doing? And Miss Quinn?”

“I’m not too sure” Steph answered. “We don’t fight them anymore! Harley went to rehab but they aren’t exactly… erm not villains anymore.”

Dick let out a sad sigh. “Oh but they are on relatively good terms with Bruce now though!” Duke quickly added. They seemed content enough with that answer.

Cass invited them to join her training, Tim Dick and Jason joined her. Dick was very pleased to see the gymnastics equipment has expanded. They even added trapezes which he had bugged Bruce about. Tim was very concentrated on the moves Cass was teaching him. While Dick was flying around showing his ‘new’ brother his favorite moves. Jason tries his best to imitate them but barely gets close, even with Dick’s instructions.

Back at the cave Bruce is giving Duke and Steph new patrol schedules. Demanding to not let the young Dick, Jason and Tim join them, preferably also not Damian if they can help it. Explaining his plans for what to do if it does happen, and how to keep them at bay. Barbra listening in over coms. He also explains the details on who’s taking care of the kids sending them that schedule.

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After Bruce thinks he’s done packing he goes to find Damian. He did a lap around the cave, no Dami. He peeked his head into the gymnasium, all his robins but no Damian. Finally he found Damian in his painting room. He was working on what seemed to be a family portrait. On the wall behind his easel hung a corkboard, stools were littered with tubes of paint and jars. Looking closer at the corkboard Bruce saw it was covered: sketches, paint samples, wallpaper cuttings, photos of vases and family members from all angles and a red string and notes connecting them all. It was clear this was a project he was passionate about, and had been working on for quite some time.

“Wow this is beautiful…” was all Bruce could manage. He was in awe at the project his son had been working on.
“What do you need, father?” Damian said, snapping Bruce out of his thoughts.

“Right, I wanted to talk to you. See how you are holding up. Do you want to go down to the sitting room?” He answered, leading Damian out of his atelier.
“Okay, how are you feeling?” Bruce started after the 2 of them sat down.

“I am fine, father” Damian seemed annoyed to have been pulled from his project. Bruce knew his son was not fine but decided not to pry.

“We got the kids their own clothes, Alfred will do the washing and you will have your clothes back tomorrow. Is that alright for you?” Bruce asked. Damian nodded in response but remained quiet.
“I made the temporary patrol arrangements, you’ll be with Orphan while I’m gone. alright? The young robins won’t be going out, don’t worry. Here’s the schedule on who’s babysitting when they will be coming to the manor. Maybe except for Clark, he has Jonathan to take care of as well. I have signed them up at your school, I know I’m sorry you probably won’t like it. They have to maintain a somewhat normal rhythm while they’re here. Jason is in your class, take good care of him. I have told the school they’re temporarily in our care.” Then Bruce stopped as he realised he was rambling.

“That’s alright father, thank you,” Damian said coldly. “May I leave now?”

Damian was angry. At his ‘brothers’? No not really, they didn't ask for this. Angry at his father. Angry at his mother for leaving him here. Angry at his father leaving him here. Angry at him not trusting him. Angry at his father for cooing him.

Damian walked off to his room, not really caring if his father was done or not. He wanted to leave, he didn't want to see his father any longer. He marched up the stairs to the family wing. Making his way through its long corridors, opening his door and slumping down on his bed.

Damian didn't like feeling like this, it was very childish. He wasn't childish, yet he couldn't help it. He decided to grab a book to calm himself down, so he picked up the book Todd had recommended to him.
There was a knock at the door, how much time had passed Damian couldn't tell. “Come in!” He yelled when he realised the visitor wouldn't barge in.

It was tiny Todd. “Hello, here's your jumper back. Oh and the other stuff I borrowed. I washed it for you.” He said timidly

“Did Pennyworth wash it for you?” Damian asked, not looking up from his book.

“No… I washed it myself. Hope that's alright.” Jason answered, placing the stack of clothes on the corner of Damian's bed.

“Is that hamlet?” Jason asked quietly, barely audible. Damian nodded. Just then Todd produced a copy of the same book out of his, seemingly bottomless, pockets.

“I love Shakespeare!” He said with stars in his eyes. Damian patted the bed next to him, gesturing for Jason to join him. Jason climbed on the bed next to Damian, uncomfortably close he must admit. Damian decided not to be too upset about it, he doubted tiny Todd has had anyone his age to talk to, well probably ever.

They couldn't tell for how long they've been reading and talking together when suddenly Dick barged in.

“Bruce is making me change my name!” He screamed

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After Damian stormed out on Bruce he had to take a moment to calm himself down. It was difficult, his son was so closed off. Damian has lived with them for a couple months now and Bruce has yet to have a proper conversation with him. After taking a couple of deep breaths he decided to check up on Tim.

Bruce found him in the gymnasium training, from the looks of it he's been at it for a while. Bruce grabbed his equipment and joined Tim in his training.

“Me and Alfred are finishing up the final arrangements for my departure. I need your opinion.” Bruce said, picking up a bowstaff.

“What do you need me for?” Tim asked, still concerned on his punching bag. He still had trouble getting used to future Bruce, he had changed a lot since he last saw him.

“The league members will come over to the manor to help Alfred. We need to make sure you lot keep an as normal as possible routine. I'm going to enroll you into school. Can you help me with the applications?” Bruce got straight to the point.

“Yeah sure,” Tim responded, taking off his boxing gloves. They walked out of the gym over to the bat-computer.

“We need a coverup story, they won't like it but you guys need cover-up identities.” Bruce said, opening up the application forms.

“Yeah, we need a good story. Especially assuming our current predicament should be temporary.” Tim thought aloud, pacing circles around the computer.
“Barry said you three pass as biological brothers. That's probably our best excuse, we do need to change your names.” Bruce started rambling.

“Right, we definitely do look alike. We'll need a shared last name as well. Wayne won't do it. What about you telling them you're fostering us after our parents passed away? Maybe tell them a relative from abroad is going to adopt us, that'll take care of the temporary part.” Tim stopped pacing, now sitting on the chair’s armrest.

“Tim, you're a genius!” Bruce exclaimed. “I'll try to keep your names similar, it's easier for Dick.”

Bruce started filling in the forms, keeping the surnames blank. Tim's form now reads Tobias,___, 14, no allergies etc.

Then they started out filling Jason's form. Jayden, ___, 12, etc.

Finally Dick's, Robert, ___, 9, etc.

“Thank you for your help Tim, you should rest up now. You've been training for quite a while.” Bruce said while sending Alfred a message.

“You're welcome, dad- I mean Bruce! You're welcome Bruce.” And with that Tim sprinted towards the showers.

Bruce was confused for a moment, Tim never called him dad. He did sometimes, but not like this. This might've been Tiny Tim's first time. Then Bruce saw Alfred had responded. “Young Dick is running around testing the chandeliers. Young sir Jason has entered master Damian's room.”

Bruce sent back a “thank you!”
He found Dick upside down the entrance chandelier. Dick swiftly jumped down and landed in Bruce's arms, giving him a mischievous smile. “Thank you for reassuring them B!”

Together they walked and talked about the arrangements. Dick could never sit still, Bruce found this was the best way to keep his focus. Bruce talked for several minutes before Dick interrupted.

“Wait! I don't want to be that imposter’s brother,” Dick pouted “he ruined my wonderful costume, I don't like him.”

“You'll have to, it's the only viable option.” Bruce responded. “Tim is nice, believe me.”

“That Tom is a thief!” Dick started to get more and more upset. They were now strolling through the various ballrooms. Dick had stopped skipping, taking 4 steps for every step Bruce took.

As they were walking up to the family wing Bruce decided to continue about their coverup identities. “We gave you different names, it would be too obvious otherwise.”

That seemed to be Dick's breaking point. He burst through the nearest doors, which just so happen to be Damian's room. “Bruce is making me change my name!” He exclaimed

Damian and Jason, who had been reading, looked up in confusion. Looking at Dick and then to Bruce who stood in the doorway behind him.

“Dick please,” Bruce pleaded, “it's only for school. We don't want to raise suspicion.”

Now having Damian's and Jason's full attention, as well as Tim's who had come up to see what the commotion was about. Bruce explained his plan and his reasoning, with help from Tim they were able to convince Dick.

“We haven't got surnames yet though.” Tim finished

“I want to be Kyle!” Dick yelled.

“Like Catwoman?” Tim asked.

Dick nodded aggressively, “I want mama's last name as well.” Jason said

“Well then I want Kent!” Tim argues, getting them nowhere further.

“Then I want Troy, like Miss Diana!” Jason continued “though I do prefer Selina's.”

“You should be Allan's with how stupid you are.” Damian remarked, managing to insult 5 people at the same time.

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“Oh are we putting the babies up for adoption?” Steph peeked her head through the door, “then I want Dick!” She yelled, then looking at Cass

“Oh and Cass wants Tim, he's well behaved.” She added, eagerly looking at Bruce for a reaction.

“Wait, we're getting rid of the small robins?” Duke walked in looking sad. “They were just starting to grow on me.”

When had Damian's room become a family gathering? He didn't know, but he was not pleased about it. His bed now had 6 people on it, Duke having taken a seat at his desk chair he had pushed closer to the bed. The only one that was missing had been Pennyworth, although Alfred the cat had joined them about an hour ago. He was taking a nap on the bed Damian had put on his desk for him.

Titus had walked in after Father and Drake, he’d positioned himself across Damian’s and Todd’s laps on the bed. Pennyworth was most likely finishing up the packing for fathers space mission. It shouldn’t be long before he’d go and leave him with his justice babysitters.

“No one's adopting anyone, and we're not getting rid of them. We're working on cover-up identities.” Bruce tried de-escalating.

“Oh I'll help, I'm good at this!” Steph said, almost dragging Bruce to the batcave. She was up to something Damian knew. He didn't know what but he knew it was something.

Tim was very unsure about this whole school thing, he had only ever been homeschooled. Then almost like he had read his mind Duke offered to teach him and Jason about secondary school. That was an offer he couldn't pass down. so he and Jason followed Duke to his room to get a crash course on school.

Duke seemed to have a presentation ready about almost anything. He had pulled up some chairs out of nowhere for Tim and Jason to join him at his desk. Duke was a wonderful teacher, Tim was almost sad they wouldn’t be going to his school, he would’ve liked to see him in the breaks.

“Wait, why do you and Damian go to different schools?” Jason asked, genuinely curious. Duke explained to them about Thalia’s insistence for Damian to not attend a public school.
“I already went to this school before Bruce took me in, he didn’t want to take me away from my friends so he kept me at this school.” he explained.

After they finished the explanation Tim stayed in Duke’s room to chat. Jason however went to find Alfred to help him with some chores, he didn’t have to but he wanted it.
Cass could tell Damian did not enjoy the family gathering in his room. She decided to take Dick, who was now exploring Damian's wardrobe, with her.

“Dick do you want to play Wii sports?” she asked. Dick already halfway down the hall to the room where they kept the gaming consoles.

“I want to rest, thank you.” Damian answered the question that didn't need to be asked. And with that Cass went to follow Dick.

“Wow there’s so many new games! Do we still have the tennis game? It’s my favorite!” Dick said, starting up the console. They played 10 games of tennis, all of which Cass lost. She won’t tell him she let him win. After Dick got bored with tennis Cass showed him some of the games that came out in his future.

Dick took a liking to Reyman and they played that for an hour or so. After that Dick got distracted and ran off, he was chasing the dogs. Dick was really enjoying the future, slowly making more peace with the other boys for stealing his costume.

Back at the cave Steph and Bruce were going through lists and records of last names they could use. Bruce finally decided to ask Steph about why she was acting strange.
“We know about Damian's painting, it's going to be a gift for Dick’s birthday. We want to give him as much time as possible to work on it.” She replied with complete seriousness
“Duke took Tim and Jay, Cass is entertaining Dick-” she paused pointing at the screen, “there that one should do it.” Bruce agreed finally completing the enrollment paperwork
And thus Tobias, Jayden and Robert De Caters were born. Almost immediately after they submitted the applications Bruce got a phone call from the schools.

After a thorough interrogation, thank Alfred they came up with such detailed backstories, Bruce managed to make sure the boys could start the next day. It really came in handy being the largest donator to every school in Gotham.

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Bruce had been putting it off for several hours, but he couldn’t dodge it any longer. He didn’t want to leave, not really. But he had to. Bruce could’ve left for several hours now, he kept himself busy with reorganising his equipment. He had been purposefully difficult with making the arrangements with the league. Finally he had agreed to John Steward to come with. He didn’t like green lanterns but he knew that the mission would be faster with him there.

“Dad, do you really have to leave?” Jason walked into the cave. Bruce would’ve melted right then and there, it’s been years since he called him dad. He had almost forgotten that Jason ever did. Leaving his sons alone like this was the hardest decision, but he knew it was necessary. As adorable as they were, they didn’t know what exactly happened. Bruce didn’t trust anyone else with such an important mission he had to do it himself.
After reassuring Jason the others started coming into the cave. They were going to accompany him to the watchtower from where Bruce would depart. Damian was still determined to come with, Bruce made sure to tell Clark about it and he would do a headcount before leaving.

All of them were loaded into the ship, Alfred happy to have a moment of peace. Damian immediately claimed the seat next to Bruce, the rest of the kids huddled in the back. Not having enough seats Dick was placed on Duke’s lap, making sure all of them had their seatbelts on before taking off.

The watchtower was everything Dick could’ve dreamed of. He still had difficulty understanding how his adoptive father could have so many superhero friends. Dick only knew him arguing with Superman and he had just met Diana. The second they landed Dick jumped off his shared seat, can’t believe Bruce would build something that didn’t fit all his kids. Although from what he gathered he seemed to gain a child every month.

Meeting so many superheroes after being able to meet his personal heroes! Tim felt like he was dreaming. He still jumped every time he saw Jason, even though he wasn’t he still felt like he saw a ghost. Tim knew of the watchtower but he had never been allowed to see it before.

The watchtower was the coolest thing Jason has ever seen. They toured the plethora of meeting rooms, which were boring. The cafeteria was fun Jason was surprised about the amount of food. One of the green lanterns, which he didn’t know, gave them each a candy bar! The control room had more gadgets and computers than the batcave. Tim was absolutely ecstatic with getting a tour of all the tech, the rest moved on to one of the training rooms. Bruce had called the specific one a glorified playground but Dick and Jason had the time of their lives with all the equipment. Duke joined them on the obstacle course as the rest watched them complete it with ease, Dick finishing it the fastest obviously.

Damian was still pissed at his father for not letting him come with on the mission. He considered sneaking on the ship but he knew Clark would find out. His father had left all of the members on babysitting duty for the first day and unfortunately he was included in that.

Damian had left the tour, he’s been to the watchtower already. He couldn’t stand his now young brothers bouncing with excitement over every little thing. He decided he would break into his fathers quarters to sketch there. It was a good thing he decided to stuff his sketchbook into his utility belt before leaving.

After tiring out the kids and finishing the tour they ended up in Bruce’s room. They found Damian at the desk finishing up his drawing. Dick threw himself at Damian who grunted in response, letting his brother hug him. Jon notified them they were ready for takeoff. Bruce reluctantly herded his kids to the entrance of the spaceship. His heart broke when Dick would not let go of the goodbye hug. Damian as expected protested and insisted he’d come with. Making sure he counted his kids for the third time Jon closed the door and started takeoff.

Looking back the last thing Bruce saw was Jason clinging to Diana’s leg. Damian had scooped up Dick, more for his own comfort than for Dicks. Tim was clutching Clarks cape, Cass had found him a rubix cube which he was holding in the other.

Clark, Diana, Barry and Hal would be taking the kids home. Alfred had a large meal waiting for them, after dinner they wrestled Dick into bed. Sending Jason with Diana to read a story together. Damian insisted he could do it himself but Clark went in later to tuck him in. After getting Dick asleep they found Tim asleep in the batcave. Barry scooped him up and put him in his room. After that they said goodbye to Alfred and went home themselves.

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DICK’S POV
I don’t want to go to school! It’s so stupid!! Why should I be forced to sit in a classroom with 25 other kids for hours without being able to move around except for an hour during lunch?! It’s so fucking dumb, nobody with a brain would want to go to school.

I can’t believe that asshole Bruce is making me go to school. I mean I could just do it all at the manor, it’s not like it’s that difficult. I mean what absolute mother fucking shit head decided school should be a thing?! Everyone should be homeschooled. I don’t think it would be that difficult to homeschool us since Bruce is like ridiculously richy rich so…

WAS THAT IVY?! Oh yeah right Ivy is a good guy now… she could homeschool me couldn’t she? I mean I know she’s super smart and she’s weird and decided to go to school for longer than she had to, which makes her as crazy as Harley in my opinion.

If I wait until Damian, Jason and Tobias drop me off at school and then go to their schools then I can sneak out without anyone noticing and I can get Ivy to homeschool me. Maybe I’ll even start understanding science…yeah not likely.

TIM’S POV
I can’t be bothered going to school, it’s such a waste of time, why do I need to spend my life going to school to ‘learn’ things when half the stuff they teach is useless, I’m already intelligent enough to be the only person to work out who Batman is so personally I think I don’t need school.

Maybe after we drop Dick, now Robert, off at his school and me, Damian and Jason, now Jayden, get to our school I could ditch, it would be possible since they’ll be going to the same class as each other and I won’t be near them all day.

Yeah I can totally ditch them and if I can find Harley again then I could get her to ‘teach’ me, that way da… I mean Bruce can’t say that I didn’t spend the day getting an education. Yep, that's my plan now!

JASON’S POV
OMGOMGOMG I CAN’T WAIT TO GO TO SCHOOL WITH MY BROTHER!!!!!!!! I’M SO EXCITED, IT’S GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!!! Damian is such a cool brother to have and I can’t wait to be in class with him.
We’re apparently reading a book and analysing it in our first lesson today which should be lots of fun. I hope I can sit next to Damian today and that his friends don’t mind me tagging along with them all day.

DAMIAN’S POV
I still do not understand why father insists on sending these three to school. Especially not the fact that he is sending two of them to my school, they’re only going to be here for a little while.
They could go to a public school or just stay at the manor so I don’t have to see them all day. I also do not understand why it had to be my school; they could have been sent to Duke’s school instead.

Whatever, I will put up with having Todd in my class but I refuse to interact with Drake in school. I should not be forced to interact with any of them but I will for father.

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NOBODY'S POV

They dropped off Dick at his school first, Alfred walked him to his classroom and he would not let go of the hug until Dick started to push him away.

“Alfie, stop you're embarrassing me” Dick said, muffled by his granddad's shoulder. Although he was complaining he wasn't too upset. Dick wasn't planning on staying at school anyway.

He took a couple of deep breaths, just like his parents had taught him before performances. The boy knocked on his classroom door, slowly entering when given permission.

“Class I would like to introduce to you our temporary student. His name is Robert.” His teacher, miss something said. The class chimed back “Nice to meet you Robert!”

Right, he had to hide who he was. He'd almost forgotten through the excitement, it made things a lot less fun. Dick decided to take the first chance he got to sneak out.

If he remembered correctly Poison Ivy had a lab? Secret layer? nearby. If he can find it Dick could definitely convince Ivy to teach him cool plant magic instead. She had a doctorate after all.

After Alfred came back he got back into the car to drive the others to their schools. He didn't join them as he stopped at Gotham academy, Damian had insisted he didn't. Alfred did make him promise to walk Tim to his class before he and Jason went to theirs. After they got out Alfred drove off to drop Duke off at his school on the other side of town.

Tim could barely keep track of Damian within the crowd, they were weaving through groups of children to get to his classroom. Another factor that made keeping track of his brothers more difficult were the school uniforms. He could barely tell anyone apart within the sea of white blouses and black coats.

When they finally arrived at the right classroom Damian gave him a quick nod before dragging the last brother away with him.

Tim was the first to arrive for class. He quietly introduced himself before getting pointed to his assigned seat. He didn't plan to stick around much, school was useless to him, he knew all the stuff already.

Between classes he was planning on sneaking out to find Harley Quinn. No one would miss him anyway. When snooping at the bat-computer last night he found that Harley was working on something nearby, Tim had some questions for her.

He wasn't planning to stop whatever she was doing; it didn't seem very sinister. No, he was planning on asking her about her education as a psychologist. Tim had recently found an interest in her occupation after an encounter with her back in his own time.

The school uniform was suffocating, Jason could not figure out the tie by himself. He couldn't understand how Damian did this every day. Finding the classroom in this chaos was terrible, he was so glad to have his brother there to guide him.

When they got to the correct room Damian quickly brushed past him. The class was already half full, the other students looked intimidating they were all so posh. Jason shuffled over to the teacher's desk to introduce himself.

“Do you need something Damian?” The teacher, Mr English, clearly fixated on whatever he was doing.

“I'm Jayden sir, I am new.” He said quickly. Glancing over at Damian in the back of the class, his brother looked fuming for them being confused.

“Ah sorry my bad,” Mr English said, taking a better look at him. He held out his hand and smiled warmly. “Nice to meet you Jayden. You're the temporary student right?.”

Jason nodded, the teacher handed him a book and pointed at the back row. “There's a free seat back there next to Damian.” Jason looked unsure, he remembered how his brother had told him to keep his distance during class.

“Don't worry he doesn't bite.” the teacher noticed his hesitation. Jason walked over and sat down next to Damian, whispering an apology. He opened the book he got and started reading the notes that the teacher provided to catch him up.

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It was recess, Dick's plan was ready to be set into action. When entering the school this morning he had already noticed several escape routes, for a primary school in Gotham the security was lackluster.

Dick hadn't made the effort to get to know any of his classmates, it should make it easier to slip out. The supervising teachers were distracted, this was his chance.

Dick slipped through the fence and bolted into the nearest alleyway. Making sure not to be spotted he made his way to poison Ivy's laboratory and slipped through an open window.

Noise was coming from the room at the far end of the hallway that he had entered into. Dick knocked on the door not wanting to startle Ivy while she was working.

The door cautiously opened and Ivy stuck her head out. “What the- oh my come in, what happened to you?”

Dick skipped into what looked like a study and made himself comfortable on an empty chair. “Hello Miss Poison Ivy!” Dick beamed, “I'm from the past! Will you help me with my project?”

If she had to be honest, a kid claiming to be the first robin from the past hadn't been the strangest thing she had seen. “Sure kid,” Ivy said “do you know why you're in the future?”

“Not really,” Dick had started bouncing around. “My brothers are like this too. Did you know I have brothers? It's so cool! Apparently big me touched some stupid magic rock, B is in space to fix it.”

“That's good to know,” Ivy said “yes, I did know you had brothers. So does Alfred know you're here?” Dick nodded though she wasn't so sure he was telling the truth.

“I wanna make an obstacle course out of plants!” Dick started rambling. After 5 minutes of explaining ideas Ivy agreed to help and took him to the greenhouse that was behind the building.

Damian’s friends had come in and sat down on the table across from them. They started catching up what happened over the weekend, it pained Damian how much he had to lie.

Class was almost starting and the last students were arriving. Jason was quietly reading though the material the teacher had given him; practically glowing with enthusiasm.

“Oi Wayne kid, who's the quiet one? Dad got sick if you already?” Some kid from the class started pestering him. Damian hadn't bothered to learn his name; all he knew was that the kid came from a wealthy family.

“My dad's fine, thank you.” Damian was not bothered with such childish bullying. “He's an emergency foster. Or did you forget my father actually cared about his children?”

The kid scoffed but moved on, unfortunately he had decided to annoy Jason instead. “So you're the new Wayne pet aye?”

Jason didn't reply. That just seemed to annoy the kid even further. “Bet you he liked his so called ‘blood son’ so much he needed an ugly clone. He'll just dump it back wherever it came from when he gets sick of it.”

It took all of his willpower for Damian not to pounce on this pathetic excuse of a person. “I know it might be hard for you to believe but some people do genuinely love their children. I know your parents only had one for the job security.”

That seemed to shut the kid up, just in time for the lesson to start. Damian leaned closer to his brother and asked him if he was okay

Jason just nodded, clearly not okay. He perked up when their teacher started to talk about Jane Austin. Damian made a note to pull him aside after class.

After the teacher was done talking they had to work in groups. Damian decided to introduce tiny Todd to his friends, that would cheer him up a bit.

“It's lovely to meet you Jayden.” One of them said and they chatted for a bit. Jason seemed to be opening up and his friends adored him

“And you're sure you 2 are not secretly twins or something?” Damian scoffed, he can't believe even his friends thought they were related.

“I'm pretty sure we aren't,” Jason replied. “I think I would remember having a twin.” This earned him an annoyed glance from his brother.

Jason of course was from the past so there was no way they could be twins, although he had started doubting if they really weren't related.

Jason knew his parents although he had looked nothing like them. His father was barely around but from the pictures he found from older Jason he still had no resemblance to Willis.

Jason looked even less like his mother, it would've hurt more if he did if he were honest. The English teacher had looked exactly like his mother did on her good days; Jason had to keep reminding himself it wasn't her. She had died… well now it must be at least ten years ago. And people don't just simply come back from being dead.

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Class was over which meant that it was time to execute the plan. Tim walked with his classmates out the room but instead of following them to the second room he snuck out through a side door.

Tim quickly made his way out the school grounds, evading all the security cameras. He was sure no one in his class would notice, they didn’t even know him. Finding Harley’s place was easy, avoiding being seen was the hardest part.

This part of Gotham wasn’t all that dangerous but he would certainly get busted if he was spotted by an adult. When he got to Harley’s apartment Tim made sure to hide all indicators he was wearing a school uniform, that would’ve definitely gotten him sent back.
He knocked on the apartment door and after a couple seconds Harley peeked through the window and then excitedly opened the door.

“Tiny Tim! Woah! What are you doing here?” Harley beamed and ushered him inside. “What’s going on dear, I wanna hear everything.”

Tim sat down and received a cup of tea. “Me, Dick and Jason have been brought here from the past. Bruce is in space to fix it, apparently our older selves touched some sort of stupid magic rock. I was bored so I came here.” He specifically left out the part where he snuck out of school to come here.

“Sounds rough kid,” Harley smirked, clearly up to something. “Well if you’re bored do you want to help me surprise Ivy?”

Tim nodded along as she went through her plan. After they’d finished the tea it was time to set the plan in motion

Harley would take them both to Ivy’s lab and while she was busy and distracted Tim would sneak into the greenhouse and put googly eyes on all of the plants.
On the way to the laboratorium they made a pit stop to buy the googly eyes with the adhesive backing. And it was time to set the plan in motion.

Tim hid on the roof and waited till he heard Harley and Ivy chatting before sneaking into the greenhouse. Tim opened the bag and started putting eyes on the nearest plant when he noticed another person in the room.

“What are you doing here!?” Dick whispered way too loudly as he stepped into view. Tim quickly shushed him and pointed to the bag of googly eyes.

Dick understood and grabbed the other bag that Tim handed him. “I snuck out of school, I suppose you did the same thing? Harley is distracting Ivy, we need to be quick.” Tim explained as quietly as he could.

The two of them finished as quickly as they could and hid in the toolshed after Harley’s signal. The door opened and Ivy walked in Harley followed close behind.

Ivy paused, looking at what had happened before bursting out in laughter. Harley joined in and was laughing almost harder than her wife, the sight of Frank proudly showing off his newly acquired eyes was hilarious.

“When did you get Dick to do this, I swear he was with me the entire time?” Ivy asked after pinking away a tear of joy. “Dick?”

Before Harley could finish her sentence Dick and Tim jumped out of the toolshed. “Awhhhhhhhh Dick you’re so adorable I missed my little fledgling!” Harley exclaimed Ivy having to physically stop her from pinching Dick’s cheeks.

The four of them spend the rest of the day chatting. Ivy gave the kids a lengthy tour of the lab explaining lots of things about all the individual plants. When it was nearing lunchtime they went back to the apartment, making sure the kids would be back at school before the end of the day.

Tim and Dick had made a silent deal not to mention that they were supposed to be at school. It was nearing 2pm so Tim promised his aunties, as he had decided to call them, he would keep an eye out for his brother.

Dick arrived at his school first, just in time to join his class who was playing outside. Pretending he had been there the entire day was surprisingly easy, this of course only worked in Dicks favour.

Tim made his way over to his school and slipped into his last class, no one noticed he hadn’t been there, perfect.

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Damian said goodbye to his friends, they would be picked up by their parents. Damian took Jason to find Tim at his last classroom. He wondered who was scheduled to pick them up, if it was that sad excuse for a green lantern, Hal he might just lose it.

They found Tim on the second floor waiting outside his classroom. As they were walking back Jason started ranting to him about their day: about the book they read during english, about the mean bully Damian stood up to, about their math teacher who looked like a villain who’d escaped arkham and about their art class, how skilled Damian was.

Damian just silently led them to the parking lot and checked his phone. Alfred had left a message where the car was parked and which they should look for. They arrived at the spot and quickly found the vehicle.
It was Selina Kyle who was picking them up. Damian sneered as nice as she was; he couldn’t understand why his siblings liked her so much. Dick was already in the back seat of the car waving happily to them.

“Mama!” Jason smiled from ear to ear.

“It’s so good to see you kitten!” Selina replied, patting the front seat.

They all got in, Jason got the shotgun seat. Selina asked them all about their days and had gotten them all their favorite doughnut on the way to pick up Duke.
Selina had memorised all of their orders; she had only asked the recently de-aged brothers if their preferences had stayed the same.

Duke was very happy so see them, even happier to see they brought food. He had patrol soon, they’d get home he would quickly make a start on his homework and head out. He would come back just for supper and after that it was Damians and Steph's turn for patrol.
They would finish up early as per Alfred’s request for Damian to go to bed somewhat early. Cass would go out with steph after that.

When they arrive at Wayne manor Selina lets them all out and gives those who accept it a hug. Jason and Dick basically melt into their hugs, Duke gets a quick side hug before he rushes off to do his homework. Damian refuses the hug.

“I’m sorry kittens, I cannot stay long.” Selina says, genuinely upset about it. “I have obligations to attend to Hal and Barry will be with you until you go to bed.”

Damian scoffs at that. Before he could leave Selina asks for a quick group photo of the four of them; Damian reluctantly agrees. Selina lines them all up and takes a couple photos, some with her included.

After that she sadly says goodbye and promises to be back soon, she has a babysitting shift in a couple days anyways.

The boys wave off Selina and then all go their separate ways: Damian to his room to do homework, Jason to the library to read, Tim to the batcave to do more snooping and Dick is off to figure out if his hide and seek spots have been messed with.

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DICK’S POV
I know that everything has been explained and that it’s been a week or so since this all happened but I still don’t trust anyone here fully. Especially not the justice league.

I’ve been sat up on the top of this bookshelf for an hour and a half now and the only person who knows I’m up here is that Jason kid. He seems alright, annoyingly happy all the time and so is his refusal to swear. Like come on dude nothing is going to happen if you just say Fuck instead of Fiddlesticks.

He’s sitting in a beanbag reading some book right now and I’m just watching because there isn’t anything to swing off of here and I don’t know where anyone else is right now.

That’s when suddenly the door opens and in walks Tom? I think his name was Tom. He doesn’t seem to care that Jason is in the room and he hasn’t spotted me up here, he goes over to the table and takes out what I’m going to assume is the report of the meteorite explosion incident. (the League has started calling whatever happened to us that)

Then about 26 minutes later the door opens again and Damian walks in with Flash and Green Lantern behind him asking him questions about something that seems to be annoying that Damian kid, I decide that it’s not that interesting and go back to scanning the room. You know in case something to swing on has suddenly appeared.

But then I hear Flash say Selina’s name but he was talking too fast for me to hear the rest of it properly so I go to move closer to them so i can listen properly but I hear Green Lantern say “Come on kid!! You’re the one with the most up to date info!! What’s going on with the Bat and Selina?!”

Damian looks like he’s ready to punch both the adults asking him questions but instead just glares at them more. I decide this is a good moment to reveal myself so I jump down (scaring Flash, Green Lantern and Toby?) and say

“Well well well you ask a very good question there!” Green Lantern and Flash both stare at me like I have three heads. “You ask us what’s going on with B and Selina, well I too would like to know what is fully going on with them because I have been Robin for 8 months now and let me tell you! They are in love with each other even if they don’t know it yet themselves, EVERYONE in Gotham who has seen them together can see it!”

As I’m saying this Jason puts down his book and comes over then once I’m done saying this he starts talking “Yeah they dated for a while before I became Robin”

“FUCK YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!” sorry but that’s the best news I’ve heard all day.

He glances at me with a small smile before continuing “ummmm anyways they broke up a few months before I became Robin but they definitely still hoo…” for some reason he pauses here and glances at me but I can’t figure out why “...hang out together and they 100% love each other and are just too scared of commitment to be together. Which is weird because apparently B just keeps adopting more and more kids.”

Flash and Green Lanterns faces light up like they just won the lottery when he says this. Then out of nowhere Tyler? yells “OH COME ON HE’S NEVER GOING TO END UP WITH SELINA!!”

We all turn to stare at him in confusion (except Damian) then he continues with “She is a known criminal. Sure he goes on a date with her every now and then, and even then he’s never the one to ask her out, but there is no way he would ever settle down with a criminal. He would however settle down with someone… more like him, except that they would have to be more compassionate, more outgoing, someone more like… Superman” and with that he walks out of the room leaving the rest of us staring at the door after it closes.

“Father would never date Superman. He is waiting for Mother to leave the League of Assassins, which will never happen, so that they can get married.” and then Damian leaves the room as well. Just as Jason and I both open our mouths to say something someone else walks through the door to the room.

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Dick looked up to see who had come in, it was Cass! He liked her, Dick found her presence comforting though he couldn’t tell why. Dick was supposed to be her older brother but Cass had adjusted well, she quite enjoyed having him as her baby brother.

Cass invited them to join her with training and Dick happily accepted. Just because he was banned from patrol didn’t mean he couldn’t train. Jason declined the offer, he had promised Alfred he would help with supper and he would start on that soon.

Cass suggested they try some gymnastics and Dick was ecstatic! When they finished warming up Cass admitted she wasn’t that good at gymnastics but Dick wouldn’t believe her. He had seen her moves when all of them had trained together, there was no way she wasn’t any good.

“I could teach you a few moves if you want.” Dick suggested.

Cass agreed, older Dick had taught her lots already she was curious what he wanted to show her. To her surprise Dick moved toward the trapeze, maybe it was her fault for assuming but he was definitely still anxious around it last time they were down here. He had to overcome his fear somehow she guessed.

Tim had found a nice and quiet room to do his homework in. Although he had skipped most of his classes he was still assigned work from the 2 classes he had attended so he decided to get it over with. Tim was certain he wouldn’t be able to sneak out again and the last thing he wanted was to be berated by Alfred.

He settled in and started on his maths homework. Just when Tim had gotten a good focus someone had the nerve to storm in. Now he was never going to figure out this equation!

Damian hadn’t expected anyone to be in one of the million studies, of course he chose the one that had tiny Drake in it. “My apologies didn’t mean to startle you.”

“You’re good, need anything?” Tim asked

“No, just hiding from Flash. He’s still trying to get information on father’s love life.” Tim didn’t reply, he did however pull out the second chair. Damian sat down, he had been planning to work though his homework before dinner so he supposed he could do it here.

The two of them worked pretty much in silence, both of them finishing the work very quickly. They then started working on some case files, gathering information and making sure the formatting was up to par. Tim was very helpful and efficient in gathering information Damian appreciated the help.

Jason walked into the kitchen, exactly the time he had promised to. He washed his hands and received instructions from Alfred to cut up the vegetables, they were making curry so they had to be pretty small.
Alfred looked over at the boy, he was working with such concentration yet he never stopped smiling.

God he had missed this, nowadays Jason would barely visit it was getting better but he seldom joined the family dinners. It made Alfred so happy to be cooking together again, the last time had been… well a month before his death, before they lost their cheerful boy.

Jason noticed his opa staring at him, he shot him a big grin showing off the perfectly cut vegetables. Alfred put them in the pot, thanking him for helping and complementing his precision. The curry was almost ready, it just needed to cook for a bit now. Jason pulled Alfred into a hug.

“Thank you for letting me help opa.” he smiled and started working on clearing the dishes. Alfred stood frozen, he had missed his boy so much. He knew that his grandson had returned, he lost his spark sure but that was still the same kid.

When the rice was almost finished Jason started setting the table in the dining room. Alfred called everyone for supper, Duke had returned from patrol. Hal and Barry would be eating with them so they had a full table.

Supper was filled with jokes and snarky remarks, Alfred wouldn’t have it any other way. After they finished everyone went their respective ways, Hal and Barry off to their duties as well. Diana would be on call if anything happened, this proved not to be needed. It was a quiet night in Gotham; they only encountered the usual muggings and petty theft.

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Damian rolled over for the twentieth time since Alfred sent him to get rest. He had just finished patrol with Brown when he had been abruptly sent to bed. There was a soft knock on his door, Damian called the late night guests in.

“I'm sorry it's late, I heard you were still awake.” the young boy whispered. Normally Damian would be the one to enter Dick's room like this. Now he was the big brother. It felt weird, it has been ever since they'd found his big brothers from the past where their big counterparts should have been.

Damian sat up and patted the bed next to him. “Would you like to tell me what's bothering you?” He tried to remember what Dick had always done to help him, now it was his turn to return the favour.

“The future is weird,” Dick confessed after sitting down next to his, now older, brother. “I have all these photos in my room of people I don't know. They seem nice and big me looks happy with them.” He paused looking slightly embarrassed

“It feels so weird having people know me and I don't know who they are… I'm sorry I know I'm supposed to be your big brother-” before Dick could finish apologising Damian had pulled him into a hug.

“Don’t ever apologise for that.” Damian said, pulling the blankets so it would cover both of them. “You're young, as long as you're here I would love to be your big brother. Would you like me to tell you about your friends from when you're older?”

Dick stopped sniffing and nodded excitedly. Damian tucked Alfred the cat back in and they headed down to Dick's room. Damian took his brother's hidden photo book from under the bed. It was hidden very poorly, he suspected that older Dick didn't actually want to hide it.

Damian handed tiny Dick the book and climbed onto the bed next to him. He started by showing the kid pictures of them both, carefully skipping the ones where Dick was filling in as batman. It was not the time to discuss that.

After looking at recent family photos Damian flipped to the ones with the titans. Dick was mesmerized by all the stories Damian told him. Asking particularly many questions about Kori, Damian decided not to mention that detail when telling the others.

They looked at photos and shared stories till the sun rose. Damian was extra careful not to include the sad times but did show photos from Drake as Robin, avoiding any questions about Jason.

By the time Dick finally fell asleep the sun was already up. Damian carefully got up and tucked him in. He walked to the dining room where the others had gathered for breakfast. Damian told them about their night and not to disturb Dick. After getting a judgemental look from Alfred he promised to get some sleep after breakfast.

Dick woke up alone, he swore his, now big, brother was with him when he fell asleep. Before he was fully awake he was startled by the sound of something falling. It was the photo book, he had kicked it off the bed. Dick got up and closed the book, placing it on the desk. Then he decided he was hungry and went to the kitchen to find something.

Alfred had just finished up cleaning from breakfast when Dick walked in. “Good morning young master.” Alfred greeted him. “We have saved you some pancakes, are you hungry?” Dick shot him a guilty look. Alfred put the plate down on the kitchen island and filled a glass with orange juice. Halfway through his plate of pancakes Dick happily greeted Jason, who had just walked in.

He seemed to ask Alfred something about chores, Dick didn't pay them much mind. After he had finished eating Jason took his plate and started washing up. Dick decided to head back to his room, to get ready for the day.

He took a shower and brushed his teeth. He had trouble finding where Alfie had put the clothes that fit him. When he had instinctively opened the closet he had only found the clothes that big him wore. Dick had found a change of clothes on his desk chair.

After getting dressed Dick decided to take another look through the photo book on his desk. He found some that Damian had not shown him at night, some of big him, he assumed, trying on the bat suit with Damian in his new and improved robin suit.

When he was flipping through the pages a picture fell out. Dick picked it up, it was a photograph of himself when he looked around 20 and Jason just a couple years older than he was now. Dick moved to put it back when he noticed some writing on the back of the photo.

“I miss you more every day littlewing. You were taken too soon.”

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What.

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Dick was very confused, how could Jason die when he saw pictures of older him. His thoughts were racing, was there other stuff Dami hadn't shown him. Why would he lie to him. And most importantly how could Jason be dead if he had very clearly seen photos of big him. It does explain why Tom? Toby was acting like he'd seen a ghost. He was Robin after Jason.

Dick needed answers. After his legs stopped shaking he went down to find them. At first he considered talking to Jay himself, then Dick remembered he wouldn't know either. And Dick didn't want to scare his brother with this information. He could ask brother Dami, although he was the one that kept it a secret to him earlier. Tim? Yes! That was if his name was Tim, Dick probably shouldn't ask him either

That's it he'll ask Bruce! Wait, his dad was in space. Dick sighed, he missed dad a lot even though he knew he was doing something important. Dick didn't want to ask whoever was supposed to be babysitting today, they wouldn't know either.

After contemplating for a while Dick decided to find Alfred, he knows everything. Still sniffing Dick got up and left his room.

It didn't take long for him to find Alfred, he was hoovering in the hallway. Upon seeing Dick's red face he immediately turned the hoover off.

“Hey master Dick what is bothering you?” Alfie asked. Dick didn't respond, he just tackled his grandpa into a hug, breaking down sobbing once again.

Alfred picked Dick up and carried him over to the nearest sofa. Putting the kid on his lap. “Is, is it true Jason, erm, died?” Dick asked through sobs.

“Oh my boy,” Alfred sighed, “yeah he did. Unfortunately the Joker took him from us. However, via a miracle he made his way back to us.” Dick looked up at Alfred with sad eyes.

“I'm sorry. Erm how did he come back?” Dick asked, shifting in his grandfather's lap so he could look at him well.

“Master Jason does not like to talk about it. From what I understand he one day just woke up. We had found out he returned when he donned a new secret identity and had started combating the crime in Gotham in his own way. Jason is not completely on good terms with master Bruce yet but we are working on it.”

Dick seemed content with that answer. Though something else looked to be bothering him. “I won't tell Jay, that's why you guys didn't want to tell us right?” He asked. Alfred nodded

Dick snuggled closer to Alfred. “I miss dad.” He said, the sound muffled because he had nestled his face in his grandpa's shoulder.

Alfred patted his head. “I miss him too, he will be back soon I just know it.”

It was Barry's turn to babysit today. When he arrived the speedster had loudly announced that he had brought presents. Alfred walked with Dick down to the batcave, where the others had gathered around to greet their babysitter for the day.

Barry, who was clearly trying to win ‘favourite uncle points’ had brought presents for the eight of them. He quickly handed everyone their presents, confessing he got Wally to help pick them out.

Duke had gotten a ‘best oldest brother’ t-shirt with the instructions to enjoy it while it lasted. Steph and Cass both got a small book each of photos Barry had been secretly taking when he was with the kids. They were both very grateful for it, he had even included some from when they had first found the boys. Damian was given a set of oil paints which he gave an abrupt thank you for before leaving.Tim got a case for a camera, and directions from Duke to find said camera.

Dick and Jason both got green trousers. After a confused look Barry explained

“It’s for your Robin suits! You're banned from patrol but you will inevitably sneak out to fight crime. Can't have children running about half naked.”

Jason thanked him and went to put it away. Dick however seemed offended. “I can't do my acrobatics in trousers! I specifically designed my suit this way!” He stomped his foot.

Barry ruffled the kid's hair before explaining. “It's okay we've thought of that! Wally’s your best friend, you think he'd let me give you something you wouldn't approve of ?” Dick stared at him suspiciously. “It's made out of the same material as our suits. They account for every bit of movement and they're aerodynamic! Plus they work as armour.”

With that answer Dick seemed satisfied though he was not yet convinced about wearing trousers. “Don't knock it till you try it!” Barry shouted before speeding off to find something to eat.

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Barry had spent the morning tiring the kids out; Dick was very insistent on trying out his trousers to prove how bad they were and Tim was helping Jason with his maths homework. Where Damian was? He had no idea.

When it came to lunch time he found Jason and Duke helping Alfred in the kitchen, they were happily chatting while working. Damian had reappeared again and was now supervising Dick and Steph’s sparring match, although it looked more like a test of skill rather than an actual fight. As expected the trousers he had given Dick were unceremoniously discarded in the changing room.

After a large and chaotic lunch Barry’s babysitting shift was over and Diana would take over. They all rushed to greet her when she arrived; Barry was not jealous. What are you talking about? He gave Diana a quick report on his shift and headed home.

Jason had crawled up into his favourite chair in one of the sitting rooms, normally he’d go to the library but Diana was in there having tea with Alfred so he stayed near. He just finished a chapter when Steph came bursting in loudly complaining about her hair to Diana.
“I swear your hair is magic, mine is still tangled from patrol! how do you keep it like that?” To demonstrate she had brought a brush and started aggressively attempting to comb it through. After she felt like she made her point she slumped down onto the floor in front of Jason’s chair.

“I can try,” Jason offered quietly, “I used to brush my mom’s hair when she couldn’t.” Everyone fell quiet and Diana looked concerned. He messed up. He wanted to disappear into his chair, he had said too much, he shouldn’t have offered. They were going to send him away.

Instead Steph bounced up and gave him a hug. She gave him her brush and sat back down starting on a story about the time she had tried to dye big Tim’s hair without him knowing.

Jason slowly and gently began detangling her hair. Alfred had left to check up on the others but only more people started coming into the room; Dick had come in and started showing Diana his gymnastics on the coffee table, Cass was now sitting in front of Diana and getting her hair braided, Damian pretended to be annoyed but didn’t protest much when Tim had lured him to the other sofa. Damian was sketching and Tim sat next to him typing something on his laptop.

When Steph’s hair was free of any knots Jason started on two braids. Everyone was listening to whoever was talking at the time, they were all sharing stories. After a while Steph proposed a plan to prank Clark.

Tomorrow the kids would go to the Kent farm after school, where Clark and Lois would take care of them for the weekend. Other league members would visit and help out but they decided the kids needed a change in scenery since going out in Gotham would be too risky. Steph, Cass and Duke would stay taking care of the city in the meantime.

While Steph couldn’t be there she had the perfect idea to mess with clark. It took a lot of convincing to get Damian to agree but eventually he agreed. The plan was simple but it did require everyone’s participation, even Diana and Alfred were in.

Alfred had gotten each of the boys 2 sets of clothes that were identical; one was a black long sleeve with blue jeans and the other had a dark green jumper with black trousers. It was nothing too fancy but it was practical, he had even bought matching pyjamas. He had also made sure to bring each of them a clean robin suit.

“I am not wearing those fucking ugly trousers!” was the first thing Dick had commented when he came to deliver the boy his clothes to pack. Alfred gave the child a stern look.

“My boy, I cannot have you running around Kansas with your bare legs,” Dick just pouted at that response. “It is not safe to go out having you exposed like that, especially not in an unfamiliar future.” With that he seemed to be done arguing but Alfred knew better then to think this would be over.

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Alfred had made sure Tim had his bags packed, he had dug up the old robin suit in his current size. He sent a mental thank you to Bruce’s sentimental but for his refusal to get rid of any old suits. Looking through the bag he fished out any weapons, they were going to Kansas not war for god’s sake.

After finishing up with Tim Alfred headed over to Jason’s room. Jason had finished most of his packing by himself. They did a quick check if they had everything and made sure to take the new trousers to the costume.

Jason decided to take the one’s in Dick’s size with him, hopefully they could convince him later.
Damian was offended about his bags being checked. Alfred reminded him that Bruce still gets his luggage checked for him. Removing a ridiculous amount of weaponry earned Alfred another scoff but no further protest.

With everything in the car they were ready to go. Jason took his time giving goodbye hugs to his siblings who were staying home. Steph reminded him it was only three days but wasn’t mad about the hugs. Dick also hugged them goodbye but was bouncing from excitement.

The drive was exhausting: the boys kept bickering over nothing, Damian kept complaining about people in his personal space, Tim snores when sleeping sitting up, and worst of all Jason and Dick held the most intense game of ‘yellow car.’ When they finally arrived at Kent farm they practically spilled out the car.

Jon was super happy to see them and immediately dragged the four of them around for a tour. Clark didn’t even have s chance to see them, he took Alfred inside for tea.

After the tour they came back to the kitchen where Alfred and Clark were talking. “Ah Robin, hello." Alfred greeted them as they entered. Clark looked to the door expecting one of them at most. He was confused as to why Alfred said Robin, they had known each other’s identity for years.

The last thing Clark expected to see was all four of the boys dressed in the same clothes and identical masks. He could tell which were Dick and Tim, their heights gave it away. “Would you guys like some tea?”

The kids looked at eachother and (Tim?) answered. “Yes please.”

Clark waited for the other kids to answer but when it became clear they wouldn’t he just poured four cups.
Clark had never seen the boys act in such unison, even as adults. They looked like a hive mind.

Later they did some sparring with Jon, Clark would referee. He hoped the suits would help tell the kids apart better. He still didn’t know which one was Damian.

“Dick how many times do we have to ask you to put on those trousers?” Damian sighed. “We won’t let you fight without them.”

Dick pouted when Jason handed him the trousers. He knew he couldn’t win this fight. They would reveal the prank which they put so much effort in.

“Jeez Dami, how do you fight in a hood? this thing is terrible.” Jason complained while finicking with the suit he was wearing. Damian and Jason had switched their costumes to mess with Clark even more. Jon knew and was helping them with the prank.

They were going to have a sparring match with Jon to decide who earned the title of ‘best robin’. Bruce wouldn’t let them but he wasn’t here right now and Alfred had left.

“ROUND ONE” Clark yelled.

Dick against Jon. They held up well, Dick was very good at using his size to his advantage but in the end Jon won. One by one they fought with Jon. Damian, Tim and Jason had won their fights and would continue to round 2.

Damian was the only one who knew their opponents fighting style. Jon had become even better with his superspeed that had recently developed, Wally had trained him to use it.

The next round was the robins against each other. Dick had to sit out and was sulking. First off was Tim and Jason, which was won by Jason despite his troubles with his suit. Damian also won against Tim, who was now sent to the loser’s bench.

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Damian against Jason was an intense fight, they looked out for blood. Clark had given up on figuring out who was who.

After about five minutes both boys had abandoned their weapons and were on the ground wrestling. They were getting petty: scratching, biting and pulling hair.
The older robin had the other pinned to the ground hand in the other's hair when suddenly he froze. “You have red hair?!” the kid in the second robin’s costume suddenly exclaimed.

Clark had never been more confused in his life. Why would Damian have red hair? He knew both of the kid’s parents who neither possessed the gene.
Dick ran up to the boys who were still on the ground. “Jay! You dye your hair?” he yelled. Tim was still on the bench looking baffled.
That cleared it up a little for Clark. He couldn’t think about it much longer as he got a call. He went inside to answer it.

Jason was confused. He understood that Dick wouldn’t know but the others knew big him. Why would he keep it a secret? “You didn’t know?”
The others were too shocked to answer. Just staring with open mouths, Jason could not understand why it was such a big deal.

“Wait, does this mean Bruce is a ginger?” Dick finally said.

“Of course not. why would you say such foolish things?” Damian quickly recovered

“Well I know kids look like their parents,” Dick defended himself looking Damian up and down. “Do you have red hair too Dami?” he asked with pure innocence.

“Dick… you know I’m adopted right?” Jason asked, even more confused. Dick slowly blinked and Damian looked offended.

“You are?! I thought you were Dami’s brother.” Dick was as confused as ever. “You look so much like them though. I thought-” he didn’t finish the sentence, he looked down with red ears.

Jason hugged the boy. “Hey, it’s okay. We’re not mad. But yeah it is just a coincidence.”

Tim stood up and offered Dick his hand, together they walked back to the house. They were going to play some games with Jon. Damian and Jason followed shortly behind them.

Clark was cooking dinner, the call he had received was from Bruce. He was on the way home and had the rock, he requested not to tell the kids.

Back in the house the boys first changed into regular clothes before playing super smash bros. All four robins still had identical clothes even though their cover had been blown. Clark still couldn’t tell Damian and Jason apart easily.

“And you’re sure he is not secretly Bruce’s?” Jon asked Damian when the game was loading.

“Pretty sure yeah.” he replied.
They fought over picking characters. Five whole minutes of arguing later they could finally start the game. They played until dinner. After that they headed to bed. Damian, Jon and Tim slept in Jon’s room while Jason and Dick took the smaller guest room. Jason read to Dick, who was feeling homesick, till he fell asleep.

The next day was more calm. At breakfast none of the kids were awake yet. Clark divided some chores to keep them busy. Jason spent most of the afternoon reading in the hay shed. Dick played in the corn fields with Krypto. Tim was keeping busy with puzzles. Damian and Jon had gone off somewhere but kept out of trouble.

Jon had flown Damian to the watchtower. They had acquired a DNA sample from Jason and they were going to test it. Ever since meeting tiny Todd Damian had been confused. Todd looked similar enough to father but now he looked like him and Damian could be twins. He had to make sure Todd wasn’t secretly father's.

They got Hal Jordan’s help to access the database. They compared the DNA to everyone, no matches. Damian sighed in relief, he did not want to be related to Todd. With that settled they had to quickly head back before Kent started searching for them.

Jon and Damian came back, they quickly started gathering Damians stuff. By the time they came back it was almost time to leave. Damian put his bags in the car and headed inside for one last dinner at the kent farm.
During dinner Dick and Jason seemed to be plotting something, they were chatting in hushed voices which was never a good sign. Damian caught something about a birthday and cats? He decided to let them, it was better than arguing.

After dinner Clark drove the boys home, Jon waved them off. Similar to the drive to the farm, they were an absolute pain. All four of them argued about everything and Clark had to ban the games; ‘yellow car’ had resulted in several bruises.

When they finally arrived at the manor Alfred sent all four of them to bed. Clark stayed for a chat but left for home after an hour, he had a kid at home who was waiting.
The next morning Alfred had lots to do, Bruce should return in a couple days. He started getting the cave ready for the intensive research and started getting clothes ready for when the boys returned to their proper ages.

As Alfred was doing things around the manor he couldn't help but wonder if anyone in the family was remembering that it would be Selina’s birthday in a few days as well. He knew Bruce probably wouldn’t be here for the birthday but he remembered that before all this started Jason and Steph were going to be taking her out for a surprise lunch and then spend the rest of the day with her. Hopefully it hasn’t slipped Stephs mind with all that’s going on.

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Dick’s Pov
It’s Selina’s birthday tomorrow and I’m making her a birthday cake! I was going to ask Alfred to help but I couldn’t find him anywhere. I’m sure I’ll manage on my own. Just need to find some way to reach the counter top first.

Jason’s Pov
Alfred has taken Damian to some art show and has left Duke and Tim in charge of me and Dick. Not that they’re actually watching us much.

So I’m using this time to find Dick so we can figure out what to give Selina tomorrow for her birthday and how we can give it to her since apparently none of our other siblings are going to be giving her anything, Damian gets annoyed anytime she’s even mentioned and says that she isn’t good enough for B. I love Damian but Selina is the best and she could do WAY better than Bruce!! Clearly Damian has bad taste.

Well anyways I’ve been looking all over the manor for Dick and I can’t find him anywhere. The last place I’m going to check before giving up is the dining room.

As I walk down the corridor I can hear noise coming from one of the rooms, I look into the dining room but Dick isn’t there. That's when I realise the noise is coming from the kitchen. Oh no.

This can’t be good, I know Duke and Tim are playing video games and that nobody else is at the manor right now which means it has to be Dick in the kitchen. The one room he’s banned from according to Alfred.

I push open the door to the kitchen and yep there’s Dick. Sitting on the counter. Covered in flour and eggs. The counter is covered with flour. The wall has an egg running down it. There’s eggs, flour on the floor and a bowl upside down with milk leaking out around the rim.
“Dick what did you do?!”

“I’m making mum a cake for her birthday” Dick says with a massive grin on his face. I stare at him and can’t help but think that I want to both cry and yell at him for the mess he’s made.

Right as I’m about to speak again a timer goes off and Dick jumps down from the counter, grabs a tea towel, opens the oven and pulls out the most burnt half of a cake I have ever seen. I’m going to cry.

“Dick. That’s burnt so much you could break a tooth on it!” I near yell at him.

“No it’s not! It’s just a little crispy.” He says with a pout

Just to prove to him it’s burnt I put oven gloves on, take the cake out the tin and cut part of it. It’s burnt all the way through.
“Oh… I just wanted to make mum a birthday cake” Dick mumbles as his eyes fill with tears

“Dick, I’ll help you make mama a cake if you help me tidy all this up first. Yeah?”
“Yeah alright” He sniffles slightly as he says this.

Nobody’s Pov
About an hour later Jason and Dick had successfully made an edible chocolate cake. Which Dick then completely covered in sprinkles. Jason doesn’t know how he found so many sprinkles, everytime Jason took the sprinkles away he would turn back around and Dick would have more. Every. Single. Time.

The cake looked like it was attacked by a rainbow but the boys knew their mum/mama would love it no matter what.

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Dick’s pov
“IT’S MUM’S BIRTHDAY TODAY” I yell as I run into the living room where everyone is.

“I was not aware today is your mothers birthday Richard” Damian said after turning towards me from where he was sitting petting Alfred the cat

“You didn’t know today is Selina’s birthday?” Jason asks Damian right before I’m able to ask

“Selina is not his mother”

“She is my Mum” I reply to Damian sort of confused and upset. Surely he knows that Selina is my mum. I know Bruce and her aren’t dating right now but she’s still my mum. Isn’t she? She wouldn’t stop being my mum just because her and dad stopped dating. Right?

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“No she isn’t” Damian snaps back to Dick

“YES SHE IS!” Dick yells back to Damian. As Dick yells it everyone can see some tears starting to appear in his eyes

“NO SHE IS NOT! YOUR MUM IS DEAD!” Damian stands up and shouts at Dick making everyone freeze and suck in a breath right as they were getting up to try and defuse the situation.

Dick stares at Damian trying not to burst into tears right then and there in front of the entire family with his chin wobbling as he tries to keep the sobs in. Damian stares back with slight horror showing on his face as he realises what he just said to his brother.

Tim, who was closest to them when Damian yelled that reaches out a hand towards Dick’s shoulder but Dick runs out of the room before Tim can reach him. Everyone looks at Damian with faces of Disappointment and horror.

“You are grounded. Go to your bedroom now.” Alfred, who suddenly appeared from a different room, says to Damian with a stern face and disappointment in his eyes.

Damian gives a small nod of his head before walking to his room with his head hanging low from disappointment in himself.

ALFRED’S POV
I can’t believe Damian would say that to Dick. I know he doesn’t like Miss Selina much because he wants Bruce to be with his mother but that was so far over the line. I am furious that he would use Dick’s parents against him like that. I look around at the other kids that are in the livingroom and they all seem as horrified as I feel.
“I’m going to go talk to Dick” I say to them before exiting the room to search for Dick.

I go to his room but he isn’t there. I look in his usual hiding spots but he isn’t there. I look in the batcave but he isn’t there. I even make sure to look at every chandelier but he isn’t on any of them. After looking everywhere I find Tim.

“Have you seen Dick?” I ask him

“No, we’re all looking for him right now. Jason said that they were going to go get a present for Selina but Dick still hasn’t shown up and he got really worried.” Tim answers with a panic in his voice

If none of us can find him then where could he have gone? I need to find him before something happens to him.

“Keep looking for him and if you find him then let me know immediately.”

SELINA’S POV
Today is my birthday. Today is my birthday and it’s going to be the worst one ever. How do I know this? Well for the first time since I met Bruce and Dick I’m going to be alone. Bruce isn’t on Earth and even if he was I’m not sure he would want to be with me on my birthday. Dick probably doesn’t even know that it’s my birthday today.

I’ve spent every birthday since meeting Bruce with him whether he knew it or not. First it was with him as the Bat and Cat fighting. Then after Dick arrived it was the three of us.

My first birthday after Dick arrived wasn’t much different from the ones before but then after that, when Bruce and I were something more than what we are now, it was the three of us spending the day together.
I don’t really remember what it’s like not having Dick visit me on my birthday.

When Dick first left Gotham I didn’t think he would visit me but he came back for the day and spent it with me. Even though he avoided Gotham like the plague because he didn’t want to see Bruce, he came back just for my birthday. He didn’t even know if Bruce would be with me or not.

Bruce didn’t visit on my birthday the year Jason died and I don’t blame him but Dick still visited and we spent the day together on my sofa looking at photos of Jason from our ski trip we had all gone on.

Every year since meeting him I have spent my birthday with Dick but I don’t know if I will this year.

I don’t know if he would want to spend today with me.
Would Dick even care?
Would my son care?

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DICK’S POV
I can’t believe that fucker Damian. How could he say that to me? It’s not my fault Selina is better than his mum. She just is. She’s the best mum ever. My Mama is dead but my Mum is Selina.

I run to the batcave and call auntie Harley to come get me. Then I run outside and wait just outside the gate. When she gets here I get in the car and ask her to take me to mum’s.

SELINA’S POV
I debate calling Harley and Ivy to see if they want to do anything but I don’t call for three reasons: 1) I would have to admit that I’m lonely on my birthday to them. 2) I would have to explain why I’m lonely and I’d rather die than do that. But the most important reason is 3) There’s a knock at my window

When I turn around to the window I see Dick sitting there in the rain, rubbing at his red eyes. He’s clearly been crying which makes me more worried than I already was from just seeing him outside my window in the rain

When I let him in I can hear him sniffling clearly trying not to cry.

“What happened?” I panically ask him unsure if he’s hurt or if someone else is hurt or if it’s something else entirely.

Suddenly instead of answering he throws himself at me and hugs me tightly. As my worry grows I wrap my arms around him and hug him tightly back while he buries his head in my shoulder and breaks down into tears.

“Damian said you…and that…dead” Is all I can make out of what Dick says into my shoulder between the sobs. This doesn’t help calm me in the slightest.

I know I wanted to see Dick on my birthday but this is not what I had in mind at all. All I can do is hold him tighter

“Dick sweetheart, what did Damian say?” I ask him gently after his sobbing dies down a little

“H-he-he said that you-that you aren’t my mum be-because my mum i-is dead” Dick manages to force out as tears flow from his eyes.

I can’t help but tense up a little because this little sweetheart.

This little sweetheart who has already been through so much in his life.

This absolute sweetheart who has seen both his parents die in front of him.

This sweetheart who I love so much and think of as my own is crying in my living room because his brother threw his dead parents in his face

Because his brother doesn’t like me Dick is in tears and has run away from home. I know he’s ran away because otherwise he would have come through the front door with an older member of the family.

“Dick, Look at me”
He looks up at me after a few moments

“You called me mum?” I ask him and I can see him tense up and try take a step back

“Dick, It’s alright if you did. I just need to know if you did sweetheart.” I say to him with a small smile on face. This smile grows as he nods his head slightly
“You can call me mum if you want to” I say as I pull him into my arms and hug him again

“Really?” He asks in a quiet voice

“Of course you can sweetheart. I love you so much. I’m sorry that Damian said those things to you. He doesn’t like me very much and I’m so sorry that he took his anger out on you”
“I love you too mum”

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SELINA’S POV
“Now then, I think we should get you home before Alfred calls in the Justice League” I say with a small laugh

“Okay mum” Dick smiles back at me as he says this

Once we arrive at the manor and walk through the front door the first thing that happens is Stephanie freezing in place as she sees us before yelling
“DICK’S BACK!” With that everyone comes running to the front door.

“Oh thank-YESSSSSSSSS-Of cour-I’m so glad you’r-Are you alright?” Everyone seems to speak at once
“I’m okay” Dick replies to Alfred, who had asked if he was alright, while holding my hand.

Suddenly Damian walks up in front of Dick
“I’m sorry Dick. I was in a bad mood and I got jealous that you get to see your mum and spend the day with her as a family, and that you and Jason bonded over having her as your mum and that everyone in the family sees her as their mum and that-” Damian gets cut off there when Dick tackles him in a hug.

“It’s alright” Hearing Dick say this is surprising because I know how easily he would hold a grudge at this age but then again Damian is his brother and he loves him so maybe it’s different.

BRUCE’S POV
“What’s going on?” I ask as I walk into the foyer and see the entire family including Selina standing there with Dick hugging Damian on the floor.
Everyone’s attention snaps to me

“YOU’RE BACK” All the kids yell at once with grins on their faces

“Welcome back master Bruce” Alfred says with a smile one his face

Selina stands awkwardly at the front door looking like she wants to bolt but still has a small smile on her face
Jason walks over to me and signals that he wants to whisper something to me so I lean down so he can
“You have to distract mama while we get her surprise ready” He whispers very seriously in my ear
I give a small nod to him even though I have no idea what's going on.

Jason goes up to Dick and whispers something in his ear and then they both run along the corridor to who knows where.
“Don’t leave yet Mama!” Jason shouts as they run

The rest of the family, myself and Selina go into the living room and wait for the boys to return.

Around 10 minutes later we hear Dick and Jason coming towards the living room. When they come into the room they start singing “Happy Birthday” to Selina and when I look over to her I can see tears forming in her eyes as the two boys call her Mum and Mama.

Selina blows out the candles and everyone gives a small cheer
“Did you make a wish?” Dick asks with excitement in his voice as Jason puts the sprinkle covered cake on the table

“I made a little one” She replies before she pulls both Dick and Jason into a hug

“Happy birthday Mama” Jason has the biggest grin I’ve ever seen on his face as he hugs her back

“Thank you my angel” She replies to him as tears of happiness fill her eyes and a few spill down her cheeks

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With Bruce home they decided to have a family movie night for Selina's birthday. They watched the aristocats. Alfred had provided them with lots of snacks but they made him sit down and watch with them.

Dick and Jason were cuddled to either side of their mom. Tim was at the edge of the sofa, vast asleep. Damian sat at the side of Bruce, he wouldn't admit it but he had missed his father.
Steph was asleep on Cass’ shoulder on the other sofa. Duke and Alfred were on the other half of the sofa.

When the movie ended Bruce lifted Tim up to his bed and tucked his other kids in, even the older ones. When they were all asleep Bruce went down to the cave and started working on getting the stone ready to return the children to their original ages.

“You know bats, you should really practice what you preach.” Selina wrapped her arms around Bruce's shoulders. “Alfred won't be happy. That rock won't explode if you go to bed.” She planted a quick kiss on his cheek.

Bruce sighed, he knew she was right. He stood and kissed back. He took her hand. “Will you join me?”

“Will you have me?” Selina asked.

Bruce nodded and they headed up together. They found Alfred keeping busy in the corridor with the bedrooms, he was making sure to be close in case the kids needed him. Bruce said goodnight to Alfred and when he laid down he passed out almost imminently.

Halfway through the night sniffling woke Selina up. Dick stood in the doorway with red eyes. Selina sat up and patted the bed next to her. The boy climbed into his mum's arms.

“I had a nightmare,” Dick sniffled quietly and buried his face into Selina's shoulder. She rubbed soothing circles on his back.

“Do you want to talk about it? Or just stay with us?” She whispered.

Dick mumbled a soft “stay” and climbed between Bruce and Selina. She planted a kiss on his forehead and he dozed off.

The next morning Bruce woke up to Dick slapping his face. “B wake up! Alfie has breakfast!”

He blinked a couple times and sat up. “Good morning bud.” He murmured.

“Come on kitten, let's give the old man some time to wake up.” Selina called out from the doorway holding her hand out. Dick climbed off to bed and joined her to the dining room.
When they left Bruce quickly got dressed. On the way to the dining room he checked the rooms of his kids to see if everyone was up, Steph was the only one still asleep. Bruce gently woke her up and left for breakfast.

Alfred had made pancakes, everyone's favourite toppings were there. Dick had a plate loaded with chocolate chips and sprinkles. Damian had a modest plate with some fruits. Tim had some maple syrup with his. Cass and Duke both had chocolate chips and fruits. Jason's plate was mostly fruits just like Selina's.

Bruce had his pancakes with bacon. Breakfast was filled with stories from Bruce's absence, Damian complained about the incompetence of certain league members (Hal). Steph spoke very highly of Jason's braiding skills.

“Jay, you have to do that more often! Bruce, please convince him for me when he's back to normal size.” Bruce agreed to try.

After breakfast they all headed down to the cave to work on the cure. At first they just tried touching the rock. Of course things weren't that easy with that stupid rock.

With advice from the green lanterns they decided to work the rock into an injection. Bruce ran tests to see how to work it in. He had to make sure it would work, he needed his son's to get their life back. They couldn't risk it being unsafe either. It would be horrible if they got even younger, they were lucky they were an age they actually knew Bruce.

He looked through possible cures all day but he kept having to break up fights. Selina was a big help but some fights were purely for his attention. Steph was only encouraging the chaos. Alfred had come by plenty of times for snacks or to entertain the kids.

After a full day of work they still hadn't found a cure. They were closer, sure but Bruce would need another day of work where he could actually focus to get it done. Bruce went on a quick patrol with Damian, Batman had been gone from Gotham for way too long.

Selina stayed at the manor for another night. She was able to get Bruce to bed at a reasonable time, Alfred was ever grateful for that.

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BRUCE’S POV

The next morning when I wake up Selina is curled into my side. After about ten minutes of lying in bed holding her I know I have to get up and start working on the cure. I get up and dressed as quietly as possible so that I don’t wake her up and right as I was reaching for the bedroom door

“Where you going Bruce?” I heard from Selina who had her head buried into my pillow

“I’m going to work on the cure again” I reply while walking towards her to give her a kiss on the shoulder.

“I’ll come down once I get dressed” When she says this I pause for a minute as an idea comes to me

“Why don’t you take the boys to the park today? They’re just going to be bouncing off the walls again like yesterday.” As soon as I say the first sentence she spins around and sits up in the bed.

“Are you sure Bruce? I don’t think Damian would want to go to the park with me” She tells me with a sad smile on her face.

“Selina, I know that Damian hasn’t exactly been the kindest to you since he arrived.” At this she raises both her eyebrows at my in disbelief “Okay fine he seems to hate you for some reason”

“No Bruce, he hates me because he wants you and Talia to be together. He wants his mum and dad together as his parents” Selina says firmly.

“He’s going to have to accept the fact that that won’t be happening Selina. I don’t want to be with her. I want to be with you” I say with a slight smile on my face which grows as I see her smile back at me.

“While this is a very touching moment between you two. Are we getting to go to the park or not” A voice suddenly says from the doorway of the bedroom right as I was about to give Selina a kiss.
When I turn to the door I see Tim standing in the doorway with a grin on his face.

“Yes we’re going to the park Tim” Selina answers Tim

“WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WE’RE GOING TO THE PARK!!!” Tim yells which results in cheers from what I’m assuming is Dick and Jason causing Selina and I to give a small chuckle.

SELINA’S POV

Half an hour later Tim and Jason are standing at the front door with small smiles on their faces ready to go to the park, Damian is standing next to them not as excited to go to the park with me and Dick is running around telling me to hurry up because he wants to go to the park.

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SELINA’S POV
Once we leave the manor and are walking towards the park Jason starts to walk ahead with Tim, Dick holds my hand and Damian walks slightly slower behind me and Dick.

It doesn’t take too long for us to get to the park and once we do all the boys are off in different directions
Dick runs to the monkey bars and immediately starts hanging from his legs which almost gives me a heart attack no matter how many times I’ve seen him do it.
Tim runs off towards the roundabout, zipline and climbing frame. He seems to be swapping between all three of them

Jason goes to the zipline before seemingly getting bored and joining Dick on the monkey bars
Damian went towards the bench and pulled out a sketchbook that I didn’t know he had even brought with him.

I debate going over to the bench that Damian is at but I don’t want him to feel like I’m trying to force him to spend time with me so I decide to sit on a different bench not far away from Damian where I can still see all four of the boys.

After about forty minutes all the boys are playing a game together. Except Damian isn’t there anymore. And he isn’t on the bench again either.

Just as I’m about to properly panic I see Damian at the base of a tree, Crouching down looking at something on the ground. When I walk over to see what he’s looking at and to make sure there isn’t anything wrong. I hear a quiet meow.

“Damian?” I ask softly.

“There was some other kids poking them with sticks” He says angrily but I’m pretty sure that this time the anger isn’t directed at me at all.

“Can I see them?” I want to make sure both Damian and the cats are alright. When Damian moves I get a good look at the three kittens that are curled up together on the ground.

One of them seems to have part of an ear missing
One of them is missing a lot of fur.

The last one is missing a leg but it doesn’t look like that injury was caused today.

“Go tell your brothers we’re just about to leave” I tell Damian as I gather the kittens into my jacket and call Alfred to come get the boys.

When alfred arrives to pick up the boys I tell him that I’m going to take the kittens to the vet and wait to see what happens.

“I wish to go to the vet to make sure the kittens are okay as well Alfred” Damian shocks me when he says this as I never thought he would ever voluntarily spend time with me by himself even if it’s in this situation.

“Very well, we shall see you both at home later today” Alfred says to Damian with a small smile gracing his face as he ushers the other boys into the car.

Damian and I get to the vets and they take the kittens back to care for them and to do a check on their general health.

When the vet comes out after taking care of the kittens he says “They’ll need to stay here for a few days as we monitor their health but after that if you want to adopt them then you can. If not then they’ll go to the shelter. Thank you for bringing them in”

“Do you think Father will let me adopt them?” Damian asks me as we begin our walk back to the manor.

“I’m not sure Damian but if he doesn’t then I’ll adopt them and you would be welcome to visit them at anytime” I reply to him with a smile.

He grins back at me, then he stops walking and, more shockingly then the fact that he gave me a grin, he hugs me.

Damian is hugging me.

Damian Wayne is hugging me.

I am being hugged by Damian Wayne.

I hug him back tightly because I don’t know if he’s ever going to hug me again.

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Bruce used his free morning and afternoon well. He was able to concentrate and he got to checking chemical components. He ran simulations on possible outcomes and grafted at least ten different cures.

After thorough testing and making sure they were compatible with the immune systems of his kids he had it narrowed down to three. Alfred had brought down some lunch and had to remind Bruce not to test it on himself. “Self destructive behaviour will not bring the young masters down to their original ages.”

Running even more tests Bruce finally had it down to 2 cures, one seemed more effective but it could be risky with Tim. Not having a spleen made vaccines rather dangerous.

At around 1pm Alfred went to pick up Selina and his boys. When he came back there were three boys and no Selina. “They're at the vet with some strays, they should be home in around an hour.” Alfred reassured him.

They had to wait with testing the cure, all the de-aged kids were present but he shouldn't do it without the others present. To keep busy Bruce took small blood samples from each of the kids and triple checked it would not harm them.

Dick and Tim were getting a dance taught by Cass. Jason seemed to be having a book club with Duke and Steph. They were all waiting for Selina and Damian to return.

After an hour they finally came back and headed straight to the cave where everyone had gathered. The cure was finally ready and they were sure it would work.

Tim was up first, being the oldest. “It was very nice meeting you all! It was super cool to see the future! Especially with everyone alive.” Bruce held his hand as Alfred injected the cure into his arm. Nothing happened for a good minute but then Tim passed out on the bed.

“Why is everyone staring?” Said a groggy Tim, back to the age he was supposed to be. Alfred handed him a blanket after which he laid down and immediately started snoring.

Next up was Jason. “You all were so amazing! I can't thank you enough. I loved meeting all of you!” He gave everyone a big hug, even Damian allowed it. Jason sat down on the cot next to Tim and
took Selina's hand. He too passed out not long after the injection.

Jason, now back to his twenty two year old self, muttered a “Fuck off” in his sleep and rolled to be facing away from them.
Finally it was Dick's turn. He had already started on his goodbyes while they were checking on Jason. Dick gave each of them a friendship bracelet. Bruce helped him put them on his brothers’ sleeping forms. Selina and Steph were close to crying, baby Dick was adorable.

He sat down on the last bed and clutched his blanket. Dick was out faster than the other had been, probably because of his size.

“Mum, I missed you.” Dick, back to the age he was supposed to be, grumbled while clearly fighting sleep. Selina tucked him in and gave him a quick hug before leaving.
She and Bruce went up to the kitchen to let them sleep. Damian stayed around his sleeping brothers for longer, he had to make sure they were safe. He opted to doing some casework at the computer.

After about 2 hours Dick was the first to wake up. He said something about being hungry while practically running for the kitchen. Alfred let him eat before a thorough medical examination.
When they came down to the cave the others were waking up as well. None of them seemed to have any abnormal bruising, vitals or bloodwork. Only small traces of the rock showed that anything ever happened, none of them remembered anything.

Well that’s what they say at least.

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It has been 2 days since Dick, Jason and Tim returned to their original ages. Dick was sulking about missing Selina's birthday, to make up for it they went through pictures of the weeks together. Jason had fled to his apartment, deeply embarrassed. Tim was in denial and refused to see any pictures

Dick and Selina made a whole photo book with how many they've gathered. Steph had taken a ton during the weeks Bruce was in space. It was super weird for Dick to see all these photos of things he could not remember, a couple were familiar like a dream.

On day three of hiding Jason found a copy of the photo book in his closet. He did not look at it fondly, you're imagining things. Having lost multiple weeks really tripped him up. The worst part is that all those pictures felt so familiar, like a childhood memory.

Steph had broken into his apartment on several occasions, demanding Jason do her hair. After the fifth time he finally agreed, this was his life now.

Tim was having a quiet crisis. Having been the oldest during the shenanigans he had the clearest memories. They felt like years ago but they happened just last week, it was messing with his head.

“Father, I beg you to reconsider, these kittens don't have anyone.” Damian had spent the last days trying to convince Bruce to take in the injured cats.

“Damian, we do not have space for three kittens.” Bruce pinched his nose and sighed. “You are allowed to keep the one Alfred the cat likes best and that's final.”

Damian nodded, it wasn't what he wanted but it was the best he was going to get. In an hour he would go with Selina to pick up the cats at the vet.

The kittens had healed up very well, they were stable only the wounds needed to keep clean. Selina absolutely melted at the sight of the babies. Together they lifted the kittens carefully into a carrier with loads of blankets.

“So bats wouldn't budge past one?” Selina asked while driving back to the manor. Damian hummed carefully playing with the cats, carrier secure on his lap in the passenger seat.

“Father said Alfred should pick. The others will have to go with you.” he responded.

At the manor they chose one of the sitting rooms and set up a small area for the kittens to play. Alfred, the human, came in with some wet food and drinks. In a couple minutes they were going to introduce the kittens to Alfred the cat.

Damian found Alfred napping in the theatre. He scooped up the cat into his arms which purred in content. When they reached the sitting room he put the cat down and started playing with the kittens.
Alfred came over, incredibly curious what the humans were doing. Just as Alfred reached the blankets the smallest kitten, the one that was missing a leg, came trotting over. Damian and Selina held their breaths to see how the cats would react.

The kitten kept inching closer and Alfred started smelling it. After several painstaking moments Alfred took the kitten by the scruff and cuddled with it on the sofa, that was his kitten now.

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Harley’s POV
I cannot believe that not a single one of Bruce’s kids have seen a single Tinkerbell movie. I mean come on they’re the best things EVER!! Red and I should definitely make them watch the movies tomorrow when we babysit em.

I walk outside to where Ivy is so that I can tell her of my genius

“RED I HAVE THE BESTEST IDEA FOR TOMORROW!”
“Harles there’s no need to shout I’m right here”

“Right right sorry babe. Anyways as I was saying we should totally make the boys watch all the tinkerbell movies tomorrow!” I say with a massive grin growing on my face

“I haven’t even watched the Tinkerbell movies and you want me to help you force Dick, Jason, Tim and Damian to watch all 6 movies and a short film in a day?” She replied with disbelief which just made me grin even more

“Babe if you’ve never watched them then how do you know there’s 6 movies and a short film? as I ask her this she seems to notice her mistake

“YOU’VE WATCHED ALL OF THEM HAVEN’T YOU?!” I say whilst laughing my ass off at her

“Shut up Harley” she replies with a small smile on her face either out of embarrassment or just from my antics

“So… are we gonna make the boys watch the movies or not?”

“Fine! Yes we’ll make the boys watch the movies but I swear Harley if Dick becomes obsessed like he is when he’s older then I’m telling Selina and Lois that it’s your fault”

“But Babeeeeeeeeeeee that’s mean” I respond with a pout to which Ivy starts laughing at before giving me a kiss
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Jason’s Pov
WOOOOooOOooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooOOOoOo we’re going to Harley and Ivy’s house soon and I can’t wait! It’s going to be awesome!

They said that we’re gonna have a movie day which got Dick and Tim pretty excited, Damian didn’t really seem too excited at the whole movie day idea but I’m sure it’ll be good.

I wonder what movies we’re going to be watching.