In Need
Chapter 1: Untrusted
…12 years later…
Damian Wayne entered the Bat Cave, tears running down the arrogant boy's face. He threw on his suit and headed straight into the Gotham streets. All he could remember was the argument he had with his oldest brother and newest Batman, Dick Grayson.
"Damian! You HAVE to stop killing those people!" Dick reprimanded.
"WHY? They threw their life away…it's time they see what they have done to themselves!" Damian Argued. Dick had noticed the boy had sounded a lot like his second oldest brother, Jason Todd.
"That does not give us the right to kill! Some of those people were needed for answers on where the drugs were being sold. How do you think your father would react to your sacrifices you're making out of these innocent people?"
"THAT'S the problem! You're NOT my father! And THEY are NOT innocent!" Damian stormed out of the house of his father leaving Dick speechless to his young sidekick's behavior.
Damian could not keep his mind off of the situation. How could he? He was raised to kill for ten years and then just shipped to his father back in Gotham to learn how to fight crime. Even as he beat up thugs one by one, the conversation haunted him. Then, out of the darkness of the night, he heard a chilling laugh along with constant 'ting' of a metal piece being thrown and caught. The young boy wandered into the abandoned Warehouse to find half a monster, and the other half, a man.
"Two Face." Robin said in a low voice. However, the voice carried through the echoing building. Two Face turned his bad side to where the boy was standing. The Boy Wonder would have been able to get away without being seen only with enough training. However, the death of his biological father had hurt him more than anyone had thought. More so than his oldest brother, Dick, who was now his mentor and guardian. He froze as the villain slowly walked towards him.
"Ah, the Boy Wonder…we are pleased to meet you again…" the chilling voice continued. The young boy got down in ready stance, just as his mother had taught him so many years ago. The raspy voice of the boy wonder's opponent cackled through the echoing warehouse.
"YOU actually think you could beat us? How foolish… get 'em boys." The half monster ordered his thugs. One of them came behind the boy wonder, picked him up by the back of his neck and squeezed as the other two thugs tied his hands and feet together. Just as they dropped the young child firmly on the ground, a masked figure leaped from the darkness. However, it was not Batman. It was the second youngest brother of the four, Red Robin. Damian gasped knowing the history between the two of them.
Why would the brother I tried to kill save ME? Damian asked himself. Red Robin flew through the air knocking the thugs out one by one. As they were all knocked to the ground, unconscious, Red Robin slowly walked toward the half hideous man. Before Two Face was ever able to make it to the door to escape, Red Robin grasped the collar of the custom made, half black, half white jacket and stared into the eyes of the villain. The frightened look on Harvey Dent's faces, turned into a smirk.
"You think you're just as good as the REAL Batman, don't you." The raspy voice crawled on the skin of Damian as he listened.
The remark apparently had made the second youngest son mad. He threw Two Face up against the wall of the abandoned building. The smirk on Dent's face was still plastered on both halves.
"Truth is, Bird boy…" the voice echoed, "You're not…"
With that, Red Robin blew a punch right into the front of his skull sending the once great White Knight into unconsciousness. Red Robin came closer to the young boy. The same glare he had on when he took out Two Face. The possibilities of Tim blowing a punch to his head as well, was very probable. Instead, Tim took out the first batarang he had found on the first night he saw the batman and sliced the ropes with it, setting the young boy free. Damian stood up.
"Isn't it pass your bed time?" Tim spat at him. As he looked into the eyes of his younger brother, he remembered the brutal punches and beatings Damian had done to him. All he could remember was the fact that his younger sibling was trying to kill him.
"Maybe…" Damian said walking off.
"…any reason WHY you're out this late?" Red Robin tried questioning. Damian stopped in his tracks and swiftly turned around, glaring at his older brother.
"Why should it matter…it doesn't involve YOU." The Boy Wonder said, still holding a grudge.
"Look, Damian, I know the death of Bruce probably upsets you…but think of how Jason, Dick and I feel. We're hurting too." Red Robin tried to say as quietly and calmly as he could.
"NO!" Damian started to shout, "You DON'T know! You have had him since you were MY age! You've had him for about ten years now! I've only had him for two!"
"Which is why you now have Dick…he's the most experienced out of the three of us." Tim's voice had gotten louder than before.
"I want nothing to DO with Dick!" Damian shouted. "ALL I ever hear out of him is 'If your father was here, BLAH BLAH BLAH!' I HATE IT!"
Little did Damian know, Dick is just above watching down from the skylight as he conversed with Tim. Damian looked up, finding his older brother walking away from the skylight. He looked back down and stared into Tim's masked eyes.
"You set me up, DIDN'T YOU?" He shouted. Tim said nothing. The realization of the youngest brother was true. Dick had found Tim right before he was about to rescue Damian and asked him to talk to him about his father…their father. Damian's eyes began to tear. He ran out of the warehouse feeling as if no one was there that he could trust. Damian was not in the mood for killing anymore. All he wanted was his dad.
A/N: first off, i'd like to thank thos of you who have read the first story! a lot of you have asked for a sequel...and include little Damian...so i did! because i wasn't so familiar with Damian, i would like to thank Lin36bffbecca for the help and details on this child. i did go by the comic version and not Batman: the Brave and the Bold version mainly because i just didn't like their portayal of Damian...well, anyways, i will be writing more soon! so, stick around! ;)