OK so what if Dick had a twin sister? And what if that twin grew up to be not only Batman's partner but Bruce's wife? This is the story of how Ariana Grayson went from being Bruce's ward to being the love of his life.
Chapter 1
Dick looked over at his sister as their ringmaster Pop Haly announced their parent's routine. The two Grayson kids stood on the platform high above the big top floor grinning as they watched their parents start their performance. Ari frowned something in her chest tightened in foreboding and the memory of an argument filled her.
"Listen old man you pass though state lines and I got me some stuff that needs to go through state lines. You get my drift?" The unknown mans voice was oily and cold it scared her.
"I'm not going to allow you to use my circus as a smuggling ring we're good honest people here." Pop Haly usually so nice and even tempered was furious as he argued with the gangster. Ari had leaned closer to Dick and exchanged fearful looks.
As the man walked away Ari and Dick could hear him mutter.
"Aint nobody say no to Tony Zucco, too bad your acrobats could have a little accident tonight." Ari and Dick tensed their worry had been palpable.
Ari pulled herself back to the present as her mother and father began to swing on the trapeze, when nothing seemed to go wrong in the first few minutes she tried to relax but the feeling of foreboding wouldn't leave. Suddenly Ari and Dick heard a wrenching snap and the trapeze broke just as their mother reached the platform where her kids sat watching.
"MOM…MOM GRAB MY HAND!" Ari shouted lunging off the platform as her brother grabbed the back of her costume. Mary shook her head retracting her hand quickly as her husband reached for her other one. Together the older acrobats began to fall Ari wanted to use her gifts but was ordered not to by her doomed parents. There was a stunned silence that amplified the sickening thuds of her parent's bodies. Dick and Ari didn't move for a full heart beat then they leapt for two hanging wires and swung their way to the ground. Their mother and fathers hands were still joined in the sure Grayson grip they were famous for. Ari was the first to drop to her knees heaving sobs tearing at her chest. Dick reached down his hands shaking as he wrapped his arms around Ari's shoulders and knelt behind her. The two of them sat stunned their parents were…. Dead.