Hello fellow YJ fans. I am Masterbrey. This is my first fanfiction so please be nice. Please review! Well, let us get on with the show.
Disclaimer: I don't own YJ.
Richard can hear the roar of the crowd as the spotlight falls on him. He can hear Haly's booming voice as he introduces 9-year-old Richard Grayson to the wild crowd. Dick waves to the crowd while waiting for his cue. His mom and dad, Mary and John Grayson, come swinging towards him on the trapeze. Mary's arms are outstreched to catch him. Dick gets ready to jump, but then he hears-
*SNAP*
The wires of the trapeze holding his parents snaps. Dick's gleeful face is replaced with one of pure terror as he looks at his parent. Their faces showing the same emotion. Mary screams for her son as she falls. John and Mary Grayson fall to the netless ground where their lifeless bodies now li-
*BEEP BEEP*
13-year-old Dick wakes up in a cold sweat as he turns to turn off his alarm clock. Why is it always that same nightmare? Dick wonders. It isn't a nightmare really, more of a memory coming back. That fateful night that made poor Richard Grayson an orphan and landed him with his abusivie, adoptive father, Gabe Smalls. Dick winced at the thought of the brown-headed, fat, bruly man. That reminds me Dick thought better not be late getting ready for school, or I'll get The Belt. Dick shivered. He hated that belt.
As he gets up from his sleeping bag, the closest thing he has for a bed, he looks around his dark, cramped, damp room. As he does so his stomach growls. He pats his stomach. Don't worry stomach, he thought. I'll steal some food tonight if Gabe doesn't feed us today. He got dressed and walked out his door and the front door of the house, carefully avioding waking Gabe, heading to Central City High School.
Thanks for reading. Please tell me if I should continue. I promise the next chapter will be longer. This one was just a inderduction.