Disclaimer: I own Ryan Grayson, whose POV this story is set in, and his sister and brother Mari and Roy Grayson, but nothing else.
This story is like an epilogue to another story of mine, 'Little Miracles,' but you don't have to read that one to understand this. It is set in Ryan Grayson's POV.
My Dad
My dad is my hero.
He's the Captain of the Gotham City Police force and has helped clean up the streets ever since I was a little kid. But he has a secret, one that only our family and closest friends know of.
He's Gotham City's hero, The Target. He used the identity to catch the city's former Prince of Crime ten years ago, when my little brother Roy was born.
Lately he hasn't been putting on the suit as often, and I'm happy for that. After Roy, one of his closest friends who he partnered with sometimes, died, I was scared something would happen to him. Crooks already hated him as a cop… What would happen if they had found out he was The Target too?
My dad lost his parents when he was eight-years-old. I could never imagine losing even one of my own!
When I was younger, I didn't really understand why my dad got up every morning just to get shot at, but as I grew older I realized the answers were all around me, even a part of me.
I was named after an uncle and grandfather I never got to meet. Ryan Anders and Jonathon Grayson. My sister is named after my paternal grandmother, whom we also never got to meet, Mary Grayson. My little brother is named after a family friend who my sister and I can barely remember the face of, Roy Harper. The only two relatives on my dad's side are dead. Hell, most of my aunts and uncles have lost at least one person close to them. Not from old age, not from some kind of disease… No, they were murdered. Killed for no reason at all other than the stupid ones those jackasses come up with.
It's those people – some whom I've met, some I will hopefully never meet, even after I take the big dirt nap – that cause my dad to get up in the morning and put his life on the line.
He fights for them, for my mother, sister, brother and I, and for the family and friends to come. The past present and future.
Richard Grayson is my dad, and I'm proud to be his son.
A/N: Very short, I know. It's actually only a little over three hundred and fifty words, but I hope you still enjoyed the story.
As for the continuation of the 'Detective Grayson' series, as I'm calling it now, at the moment I don't plan on posting anymore of the series. That doesn't mean that I don't have something planned, I just kind of don't feel like doing it right now. My mind is on my Teen Titans series and a new story I'm working on slowly.
I hope you enjoyed this one-shot! Please review.