Author's Note: Homefront is my favorite episode, after Performances. I will be doing a rewrite of Performances as well. This is part of my Fem! Robin universe. I own nothing, please review.

Homefront

1. A Day In The Life

Batman and Robin had come home from a relatively quiet patrol at about three in the morning. The city had been pretty quiet since Ivy, Two Face and Penguin had escaped three weeks ago. Ivy had been recaptured that night by Batman while Robin was busy hiding from her team. Robin had flopped into bed in her training uniform after half an hour of stretches and practice on the uneven bars and trapeze in the Batcave. She had woken an hour later and went straight to the upstairs gym to do some tumbling practice and hit the punching bag until her phone went off at six in the morning to tell her it was time to get ready for school.

Alfred was waiting for her when she got out of the shower and got dressed. She had taken a long shower, half an hour of blissfully hot water on stretched muscles and scars. Before she had donned her uniform she had used the synthetic spray on skin to hide most of her scars. Some of them she had to keep visible but others would have given the game away. She was pulling on her white button up blouse when a short but polite knock sounded at the door. She finished buttoning up her shirt before she answered the door. She knew who it was already and hugged Alfred. To most he was just a butler but to her he was like the grandfather she had never really had.

"Good morning Alfred!" Alfred smiled slightly down at his young charge. She was always so exuberant and energetic, nothing like Bruce had been at her age. He had been surly and a constant loner, rarely smiling. She was always grinning about something.

"Good morning Miss Diane. Breakfast is ready in the main dining room. Master Bruce is waiting for you. He insists that he accompany you on the drive to your first day at Gotham Academy." Diane grinned and popped her collar grabbing her tie off of the rack next to her door.

"That's awesome! I'll meet you in the dining room, I can't seem to find my vest or blazer." Alfred grinned at her, she might be a bat but he could still surprise her.

"They are right here Miss. I had them pressed." He handed her the vest and blazer on their hangers and she grinned at him and hugged him again, careful to avoid the newly pressed clothes.

"Thanks Alfred, I'll be just a minute!" She grabbed the hangers and slipped back into her room to finish getting ready. Alfred smiled to himself and made his way down to the dining room.

Diane buttoned up her vest over her tie and straightened it so the gold crest of Gotham Academy rested right over her heart. She grinned and pulled on her blazer. She was excited about today. She would be going to a school that would really challenge her mind. Plus she already had a friend at Gotham Academy. She and Barbara had been talking for weeks about how much fun it would be to be at the same school. Diane pulled on her socks and grabbed her shoes and her school bag. She looked around her room and sighed happily.

Her room was decorated in mostly blues and silvery grays. She had a few posters on her walls, thought her favorite was the one she had kept from the circus of her and her family flying through the air in their act. She paused and laid a hand on the poster smiling sadly before she raced off downstairs.

Bruce smiled into his coffee cup as he heard Diane racing down the stairs. She could make quite the noise when she wanted to. She came bounding into the dining room, not even sliding on the hardwood floor in her socks.

"Morning Bruce!" She bounced to her seat and gracefully sat down. He knew she had to get all this energy out now because that wasn't who Diane Grayson was to the public. She was the epitome of a lady when in public.

"Good morning Diane, excited for today?" Diane grinned and nodded.

"Oh that reminds me, have you seen my camera?" Alfred cleared his throat and held out the camera to her. She grinned wider at the butler.

"Thanks Alfred! You are the best." He simply nodded and placed the camera, a Nikon of some kind, on the table. She helped herself to breakfast, fresh fruit and waffles as Alfred went to finish preparing her lunch. When she finished breakfast Bruce looked at her carefully folding his hands. It was only six forty, they had plenty of time to get her to school.

"So from the camera I take it you are already aware of who is going to be attending Gotham Academy with you this year." Diane grinned Robin's signature smile. He knew she was up to mischief but he had difficulty not grinning back.

"Of course, didn't Kid Flash tell you? I know everything." She winked and he rolled his eyes.

"I assume you have come up with a good reason for the camera then." She grinned wider.

"Of course. The Gotham Academy newspaper always does a huge spread for the first day of school. But their photographer is out sick. So, due to a computer error I got picked as their temporary photographer. It's really just for the day." Bruce smiled slightly, she was a clever one. He checked his watch and looked back up at his adoptive daughter.

"It's about time to head out, can't have you being late. Do you know who your student liaison is?" Diane nodded, the Robin smirk never leaving her face.

"Barbara Gordon." Bruce raised an eyebrow.

"Another computer fault?"

"Maybe." He shook his head slightly but he was still smiling. Alfred reentered the room with Diane's lunch bag, a blue one with silver lining and a black logo for Wayne Enterprises. They really did make pretty much everything.

"You have your utility belt?" Diane rolled her eyes.

"Of course, never leave the cave without it." Bruce nodded.

"Alright then let's get going."

About ten minutes later they arrived at Gotham Academy, pulling up in front of it in the black custom Lamborghini. Alfred parked and went around to the back door opening it. Diane stepped out gracefully looking for all the world like the lady she was. But only when she wanted to be. Barbara waved at her from the police cruiser she was standing by with her father. They made their way over to Bruce and Diane.

"Hey! Guess what?" Diane smiled lightly, already knowing what the redhead was so excited about.

"What?"

"I'm your student liaison! We get to hang out all day and you get the right kind of tour of Gotham Academy, my kind of tour!" Diane's smile broke into a real grin as she and her best friend hugged. Jim Gordon turned to Bruce who was smiling sadly.

"They grow up too fast don't they Bruce." Bruce nodded as Diane was practically dragged into the courtyard by Barbara. She waved at him and he waved back as she disappeared into the stone building. He turned to Commissioner Gordon.

"It was nice to see you but I have a meeting at Wayne towers in ten minutes and traffic is horrible." Jim nodded.

"As always." Bruce smiled lightly and nodded.

"As always. Until next time Commissioner." Jim Gordon smiled as Bruce got back in the car and Alfred drove him off towards Wayne Tower. Whatever the tabloids said about him he made a hell of a dad.