Family Drama

Notes: So, a new Young Justice Prompt story. Uh... hopefully. Not much Young Justice in this one yet. I hope you enjoy! Please remember to let me know what you think through reviews/comments.

The Prompt:

Catwoman and Batman were doing their usually flirty-fight thing, which culminated in a one night stand, and for a while after Batman didn't see her (maybe he went on a ~spiritual journey~ or something). What he doesn't know is that Selina ended up pregnant, and Selina never told him because they don't know each other's identities, she's not sure who the father is (Selina Kyle the civilian was probably dating someone else), or she didn't think that they were really in a relationship. Or maybe a whole slew of reasons, relationships are complicated.

Anyway, Selina decides the child will be safer/happier if it has a normal life and gives it up for adoption. Maybe she does like Stephanie Brown and doesn't even find out the gender of the baby, because she's afraid of getting attached. The child ends up being a baby boy who's adopted by a very happy and loving couple...John and Mary Grayson, who raise him as their own and never told him that he was adopted.

I want to see a story where someone finds out and what comes after. Do they tell the others? How do they find out? How do the rest of the superheroes react? What happens then? How do they all feel about it? Does it even change anything?

Family drama FTW!

Chapter 1

She didn't know what to do. This wasn't planned. What had been planned was to have a little fun with Batman as Catwoman. And such fun they had. But, she hadn't expected this.

The little baby looked up at her with bright blue eyes; she wondered if those eyes would stay or change as someone had told her babies' eyes would do. Her baby? No, he couldn't be her baby.

What was she supposed to do?

"Are you okay dear?" the woman from the other bed asked. She had kind eyes and dark hair. Selina had heard some of the staff whisper about her; calling her names like 'circus trash' and other things. Selina thought she was a lovely woman and wondered why she was here.

"I can't keep him," Selina realised. Yes, that was the real reason for the ache in her chest. It wasn't uncertainty of the future, it was the knowledge that she couldn't take this pure and innocent creature to live with her in Gotham.

She couldn't keep him.

The other woman slowly and painstakingly climbed out of bed, totted over to sit on Selina's bed and wrap her arms around her. At any other time, Selina would have rejected the comfort but her hormones were still out of whack and there was something comforting about this woman.

The woman's name was Mary Grayson. Selina had hurt when she discovered that Mary was there because she lost her child. She had started bleeding on the road and made it to the hospital in time to save her life but not the life of her child.

A woman who shouldn't have a child but did and a woman who should have a child but didn't. They made quite the pair.

But, it was exactly that thought that gave Selina hope for the first time since she held the positive pregnancy test in her hands.

The circus left town, Mary and John Grayson cuddling their new baby, Richard.

Selina watched them go and then walked back to Gotham; the overjoyed and sobbing face of Mary Grayson in her mind. Yeah, she had done the right thing.

Selina tracked down the circus whenever she could. She watched Mary's son grow and the happy family on the ropes with pride. It was always unnerving whenever the circus was in Gotham. She worried about what would happen if Batman ever found out. Surely he wouldn't break up a happy family just because the child was biologically his?

To her horror and everlasting sadness, she found she didn't have to worry about that. On Richard's eighth birthday, the day the Flying Graysons performed in Gotham, Mary and John Grayson fell to their deaths.

Selina's heart broke. It ached for her friend, a woman she really had only known once but carried a part of her heart, and it ached for the wailing child who lost everything. Selina surged through the crowd, in a misguided urge to comfort the poor child; impossible, what could she possibly do to make this better?

She stopped when she saw that Bruce Wayne was already there. Bruce Wayne, the billionaire playboy of Gotham! But, Bruce placed his jacket around the child's shoulders and was standing like a protective guardian.

Selina blinked. He looked almost like… but that was impossible. She sighed and shook her head. The child was being watched over so there was no need for her to be there.

She checked in a week later and found that the child was being cared for. He might not have been as happy as before but the people who raised him, his parents, had died so it was understandable.

A month later he seemed a bit cheerier. A few more months after that, he started laughing again. It was a familiar laugh, the one Batman's new partner possessed.

A few years later, Catwoman tried not to flinch as the Batman came swooshing down onto the roof behind her. Usually, he was as silent as the night. It was obvious that he wanted her to hear him.

"You knew," he growled.

"Knew?" she purred back, playing dumb.

"Wayne's ward. Richard Grayson. His parents weren't the Graysons." Selina swallowed. When he was like this, it was easy to see how most of the criminal element in Gotham feared the Batman.

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

"So you didn't know he was your son? Yours and mine?"

"He was never ours," she said sadly. While she didn't regret her decision to give the baby up, she knew that she had missed out on something special. "He's the child of Mary and John Grayson."

"He's Bruce Wayne's ward."

Catwoman couldn't help a smirk at that.

"He's one special little Robin, isn't he?" she purred, running a finger down Batman's cheek. "I'm glad that Wayne took him in. The man is good for him, even though I didn't believe that in the beginning."

"Hmm, that explains all the parties you turned up at. Your... almost sudden fascination with the man."

"Why! I'd almost think you're jealous! Except, we're dancing around the fact that I know and you know." Each other's identity went unsaid. She didn't need to say it.

"Selina..." Bruce said in a low hum that made her whole body pay attention, "would you like to see him?"

Dick didn't really get it. Bruce had dated Selina off and on for a while and their relationship had seemed especially strong when he first arrived but, now they were pulling the 'just friends' thing.

"Really, Dick," Selina said over her coffee and the rustle of Bruce's newspaper, "we're just friends."

Dick raised a sceptical eyebrow.

"It's true," Bruce stated plainly. "Selina slept in the room across from mine."

Dick turned to confirm with Alfred. Alfred would know if Selina and Bruce really were sleeping together. Alfred had been the one to explain exactly why Bruce and his 'woman friends' would have sleepovers that he couldn't join; also, ew. He had no interest after Alfred explained it.

Alfred nodded in confirmation. Selina and Bruce did sleep separately.

That didn't mean they weren't dating though.

"Really, you've turned him into such a suspicious little boy," Selina scolded Bruce, playfully.

Dick pretended not to see the twitch of a smile across Bruce's lips. It was bad enough they did this as Batman and Catwoman, now they had to do it as Bruce and Selina AND at the breakfast table.

"Right, I'm done," he said, pushing his bowl of cornflakes away. He jumped off his chair and started towards the door.

"Where are you going, young man?" Bruce demanded to know.

"Wally was planning to visit," Dick responded. Bruce gave him the look, the 'a speedster in my house?' one. It was usually followed by a sigh and a clipped 'fine'.

"Selina was planning to take you out for some- what did you call it again?"

"Bonding time," Selina said with a smile. Dick felt a rock sink in his stomach. He really didn't want to hang out with Bruce's latest squeeze; as Wally sometimes put it. He had picked up the term from Roy who had picked it up from Oliver Queen.

He sighed. Really, Selina had seemed cool and above the 'getting close to the ward to get closer to the man' strategy.

"But, if his friend is coming over, I guess it can wait," she said and Dick breathed a sigh of relief.

He needed to make a strategy with Wally.

Wally was not very helpful.

"Come on, she's hot," he said. Dick glared at him, still managing to beat Wally's character to the ground while not even looking.

"She's Catwoman. A thief."

"Beats that Talia woman."

Dick responded with silence. Wally was right. Selina was better than Talia. But still;

"She wants to bond with me. Like that'll get her closer to Bruce or something." Dick sighed and place the controller down. His character had won anyway.

Wally was a little worried that even after five straight wins, Dick still wasn't cheering up.

"So?"

"I just, I thought Selina was better than that. Every now and then, one of Bruce's girls remembers that I exist and thinks that maybe, winning me over is the best way to win Bruce over."

Wally snorted. He knew that was not the case. Unlike Bruce, Dick didn't have to pretend to like people as part of the cover for his nightly activities. That made Dick much harder to win over, especially when he knew you were aiming at Bruce's affections.

Bats and Robins were both protective.

"Selina wasn't like that. She played with Bruce. Not me. We greet each other and she makes sure I know she's 'having fun' with Bruce but that's it. Now she's trying to get to know me."

"Why not just let her?" Wally suggested. Dick glared at him and Wally twitched back at the venom in that gaze. "Look man, maybe Bruce will catch on or she'll give up."

Dick thought about that for a moment. Then a wide smile grew on his face. Wally knew that face and what it meant. He knew before Dick opened his mouth that he was going to try and get Selina to give up.