A/N: Basically short unrelated drabbles about the Batfamily. Not all canon, not all accurate but hopefully all good to read. Some humour and angst. Occasional reference to: Dick/Barbara, Tim/Conner Kent, past Jason/Talia al Ghul. Enjoy!

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1. Most people in the family know that Damian is a fairly talented artist, but few ever get to see his pictures. He keeps the more private ones hidden in a box underneath a floorboard in his bedroom. Only Dick has ever been permitted to see one.

2. Bruce's latest birthday party involved cake, balloons, streamers and all four of his children. It also involved an all-out cake fight between the boys, with Dick and Damian versus Jason and Tim, a kitchen fire (which he blames on Dick even if he can't prove it) and spiked cola being fed to his ten year old son. Bruce blames Jason for that one and Jason never lets on that it was, in fact, Tim's idea.

3. When Tim admits his sexuality to his family and reveals his not-so-secret relationship with Conner Kent to them, nobody is surprised. Damian scoffs, Jason grins and teases him with rude comments and Dick remarks that he's 'got a winner there'. Bruce looks uneasy with the prospect of his son dating a 'relative' of Superman and Alfred just smiles acceptingly. However, when the couple get into a fight that leaves Tim on the brink of tears, it is the butler who insists that he's going to fetch the kryptonite.

4. Tim has smoked one cigarette in his entire life. He hated it the moment it touched his lips, but he finished it anyway because it was given to him by Jason and he didn't want to upset the delicate truce between them.

5. Bruce once commented to his eldest son that it was wonderful how comfortable Damian was with crawling into bed with Dick, seeking comfort, after one of his nightmares. He told Dick how proud he was of their close relationship. Dick will never tell Bruce that he would do and has done the same thing for both Tim and Jason.

6. Jason once gifted Damian a kitten in secret because he knew it would annoy Bruce.

7. He's under penalty of death if he ever admits to it, but Tim visits Jason in his apartment once a month. They have a drink and talk about the family; about Bruce and his ways, about Dick and his relentless cheeriness towards them all, and about Damian, who they still regard as the devil child. Neither one knows how much the other values these monthly visits.

8. The first one to get Tim drunk is not Jason, as Bruce expected, but Dick. Turns out that Dick was drinking alcohol while Tim was drinking soda, and the two got mixed up. Dick was too drunk already to notice and Tim didn't point it out.

9. Talia once showed up for a 'friendly visit', as she so snidely put it, at the manor. Damian doesn't know what hurts more, that she ignored him entirely or that she pecked Jason on the cheek.

10. When the anniversary of his parents' death rolls around, Dick sits at their graves for over an hour, just sitting in silence and thinking about them. At one point, somebody comes and puts a blanket over his shoulders, then leaves without saying a word. Out of instinct, he assumes it is Bruce. Damian will never correct him.

11. Damian secretly likes lemon sorbet. In fact, it's a peculiar favourite of his. He only pretends to hate it because admitting to liking it would mean that he and Tim actually share a fondness for something.

12. After finding the emotionally broken boy in an alleyway in the roughest part of the city, Jason cares for his younger brother at his own apartment for three days straight with a tenderness he was unaware he possessed. During this time, he does not tell the frantic Bruce or even Dick where Timmy is; he figures that if they have worked Tim into this state, then they can suffer their own demons for a while.

13. Dick doesn't have favourites in his family - if he did, he'd never admit to it. However, when it comes to sharing a bed for the night, he hates sharing with Jason because he snores and steals the blankets, and Damian is wriggly and sometimes talks in his sleep. Tim, on the other hand, is calm and easy to cuddle with.

14. One of the most embarrassing moments of Tim's life was when Damian was kidnapped. Out of the entire family, he was the only one to cry when they found out who had taken the youngest of the family. He'll never let on that this was because he knows how hurt Dick was by Jason's death, and he sees Damian as little brother most of the time. Tim doesn't want to lose anyone else.

15. On a cold December night, the Red Hood took a bullet for Batman. Nobody saw him for weeks after that.

16. One of his proudest moments as a father is the moment when Bruce realises that, even if his kids don't always get along, they are there for each other when they truly should be. He comes to this conclusion the night that he sees Jason laughing with Dick following a tense battle, and his two youngest holding a civil conversation together long enough to work out the location of a prostitution ring.

17. Damian is secretly pleased every time Conner comes to visit the manor. His mere presence stirs up some sort of protective fury in Alfred, and Damian thinks it's hilarious that the butler might one day attack the boy. Privately Damian thinks that Alfred would win.

18. Dick is deeply ashamed to admit it, but secretly he always hopes that something goes wrong between Bruce and Damian, if only so he can have his little brother all to himself again.

19. The four boys who have all been, at once point in their lives, called 'Robin', do not watch horror movies. It's not that they're scared, it's just that the movies are always dull and boring to watch. They've all seen enough horror in real life that the movies just can't stir up the desired adrenaline.

20. Ironically, the only one of the four who has never seriously considered suicide is Jason.

21. Bruce knows that it's wrong to have a favourite child, but he's only human. His favourite child knows that Bruce has one, but never for one second thinks that it's him.

22. After spending any amount of time in Wayne Manor, Jason always realises that he misses one person the most out of all of them. He thinks it's because, after his return to the living world and his uneasy 'truce' with the family, the one who remembers the little things about him from his childhood is Alfred.

23. Damian's bedroom shares one wall with Tim's bedroom. On the nights that Conner sleeps over - much to Bruce's dismay - he can hear frequent bangs on that wall. What he doesn't know is that Conner and Tim have barely got past first base in their relationship, and that they hit the wall with their fists on purpose because they know it will make the little demon uncomfortable.

24. The Halloween chocolate fondu party was a terrible mistake. If there's one sight that Bruce never, ever wants to witness again, it's the sight of a drunken Jason bathing in the chocolate fountain while Dick gorges himself on marshmallows.

25. One morning, Tim wakes up with his fingernails painted scarlet. Nobody will admit to being the culprit, so Tim does the only sensible thing he can think of: he simply gets payback on everybody.

26. Every member of the family has a hidden talent. Dick can identify any bird by its call; Jason can embroider so finely that the stitching seems like artwork; Tim can sing remarkably well; Damian can recite beautiful poetry. Bruce will never tell a soul that he is a particularly skilled free-style dancer and Alfred has never revealed to anybody that his archery is good enough to rival the best.

27. Dick thought it would be a good idea for he and all his brothers to watch a musical together, and after much pleading and bargaining, he eventually got them all settled in one room. Unforunately for him, the only musical they had on DVD was 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'. Nobody but him had ever seen it before. Jason now thinks he would look fantastic in that corset, Tim has big ideas for seducing Conner and Damian is thoroughly confused.

28. Damian envies Dick. Not because of a skill or an achievement or his brother's relationship with his father, but because Dick's biological parents seem, when he talks about them, so loving, both of their son and of each other.

29. One year, the Joker escapes from Arkham on Tim's birthday. With the exception of Alfred, everyone in the family forgets about his celebrations in favour of hunting and capturing the escaped maniac. The only one who ever apologises for his absence at the aborted party is Jason.

30. Jason once talked himself into making it up with Bruce and properly returning to the family. When he arrived at the manor, he looked into the window and his heart sank at what he saw: Dick and Damian playing together on some electronic games console while Bruce and Tim sat, cuddled up, talking on the sofa. They looked to be such a normal family in that moment that Jason slunk back to his apartment without saying a word.

31. The game of Scrabble is permenantly banned in the manor. Bruce doesn't care how educational it could be; he's sick of having to replace dictionaries because Damian clunks Tim over the head with it every time they play.

32. There is not a Robin who has not embarrassed himself whilst drunk. Dick fell off the roof, Jason ruined an expensive carpet throwing up on it, Tim streaked halfway through the manor before he was caught, and Damian exclaimed his undying love for all of them.

33. Jason once told Damian that pole dancing was an extremely difficult technique to master and that only the most serious of martial artists could perfect it. Damian scoffed but secretly took up self-taught classes. This went on for several weeks before Tim accidentally caught him practicing and laughed so hard that Bruce, Dick and Alfred came running.

34. Not that they would ever admit it, but each of the boys had their favourite villain to fight. For Dick it was Poison Ivy, since he enjoyed a harmless flirt with her before halting her crimes. For Damian it was Bane, since he liked being able to best a villain who was much stronger physically. For Tim, it was the the Riddler since he liked the challenge to his mind. As for Jason, it would always be the Joker.

35. Following his return, Bruce was acutely aware that Dick shared a bond with Damian; this never bothered him. However, he didn't know how to feel about Jason's slowly developing relationship with Tim. It both relieved and terrified him.

36. The year that it was only Dick, Damian and Alfred in the manor for Christmas, Dick claimed that Santa was going to come down the chimney to give them presents. Damian, who had been totally unfamiliar with the concept of Santa Claus, was freaked out by the prospect of gifts left by a stranger who broke into your home via the chimney. After Dick went to bed he lit a fire to be sure that, if it was all true, the intruder would get burned as a punishment for breaking in.

37. Alfred is notoriously difficult to prank. But once, when Bruce was away on business, Dick teamed up with Jason and Damian to fool the butler. They orchestrated new files on Kryptonian biology and sent a fake message from Tim telling the family that he was feeling ill lately. Alfred, ever the dutiful helper, did some research on the Bat-computer and discovered that the most likely cause was: 'pregnancy, often achieved between two males in the Kryptonian species'. Alfred calmly rose to his feet, retrieved the Kryptonite and made his way to Smallville, where Tim was spending the weekend with Conner. Needless to say, Tim has never been more confused than when a furious butler turned up and brandished the deadly stone, claiming that nobody knocked up his grandsons and got away with it.

38. The only member of the family who willingly took geography as a school subject was Damian. He wanted to learn more about the world in relation to the differences between where he had lived and where he lived now; he wanted a reason to be seen researching this at home.

39. Much to Dick's annoyance, the member of the family who looks best in a dress is Tim.

40. Dick is vaguely disappointed that Damian's nightmares become less and less frequent as he ages. He knows it's a good thing in the long run but he misses the frightened child letting go of his emotions while hiding under the covers with his older brother. Dick does not know that his thoughts mirror the thoughts that Bruce once had as Dick got older and his own nightmares became less frequent.

41. Sometimes Nightwing goes on patrol in Gotham with the Red Hood. He neither adopts his brother's violent tactics nor accepts them, but watching him commit those acts is still better than not seeing Jason at all.

42. Tim may not show it but he's extremely glad that even when Bruce returns, Dick and Damian are very close. It means that after he has his terrible, more frequent than ever nightmares, he can always go to Bruce for comfort and know that he won't run into Damian, who will always go to Dick.

43. The family, save Jason, attempts a normal Thanksgiving dinner one year. After Dick causes a minor explosion trying to help Alfred in the kitchen and Damian tries to replace the turkey in the oven with Tim, Bruce vows to tie them all to their chairs the next year.

44. Damian does not like Barbara Gordon. It's not that he has any great disrespect for her or that she's done something in particular to offend him, it's just that she takes Dick away from him and Damian doesn't like sharing.

45. All four of the boys have, at one point or another and for varying reasons, had to put on make-up. Tim was embarrassed, Jason scrubbed it off as it was applied and Damian insisted on applying it himself and smudged it terribly. Dick still insists that he looked fabulous.

46. Tim does not like opera, but when Bruce tells him that he wants some company, Tim agrees without hesitation because he can tell that the music has some connection to Bruce's childhood.

47. Dick sings in the shower. He is barely aware that he does it. The rest of the family, however, have noticed and all secretly resolved to purchase earplugs for the next time they hear that dreadful noise.

48. One year, on the anniversary of Jason's death, a package arrives for the Red Hood. Inside is a crowbar, and the next day the Joker is found in a dark alley, bloodied and beaten. Knowing that it was at least a provoked attack, Bruce refrains from confronting Jason about it. What he doesn't know is that Jason did not even leave his apartment last night and is currently wondering which family member is looking out for him.

49. Sometimes Damian wishes that he had had a more normal childhood but at least he now has a proper home. Even if he doesn't get along with everyone in the manor, he is fairly confident that the people within its walls care for him on some level. In fact, the only one he has doubts about is Bruce.

50. The four boys have each, at one point in their lives, had a crush on a female villain. For Dick it was Poison Ivy with her silky voice and flaming red hair. It was Catwoman for Tim, who was fine with admitting to it until he realised that something existed between her and Bruce. Damian favoured - not that he would ever admit it - Harley Quinn, whom he found to be doing a job that was far beneath her. And for Jason it was Talia; he never mentioned it or admitted to it except when it was needed to irritate Damian or Bruce.

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