AN: I haven't published a story in a while so don't yell at me if this stinks! I love the BabsxDick paring!
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It was a dark night. In a big manor was a small child. She had red hair like her mother, in two braided pig tales, but the blue eyes of her father, that were slowly drifting off into sleep. Her mother's heart broke a little every time she saw those eyes. They reminded her so much of him. He had just left one night. She was planning to tell him about Cassidy that night. He was gone before she got the chance though. She always thought, and to this day still does, think he left because he found out she was pregnant.
It was one of those clichés where you only have sex once and fall pregnant. It was there two year anniversary of dating. He had took her out to dinner at a fancy restaurant, bought her flower, the whole shabang. They went back to his house. Bruce was out and alfred was on vacation, one thing had lead to another and the next thing she new she was crying in her bathroom staring at the pregnancy test that had a little pink plus on it. She cried herself to sleep that night. She was only seventeen and she was going to be a mother.
She remembered the night he left. She went up to his room and walked in. His room was empty. Everything was neat, but she had a sinking feeling. She walked over to the bed and saw a note.
I left.
-Dick
She flipped it over hoping there was more but there wasn't. He hadn't even said good-bye. She sat down on his bed crying. She rubbed her stomach apologizing to her baby. Saying that even if it's father didn't want it, she always would.
She showed bruce and Alfred the note. They had figured out she was pregnant already. I mean he is the batman after all, and Alfred had found her test. Bruce had said that he would help pay for the expenses of a child. She was always so grateful for a wonderful mentor.
One night when Bruce was particularly angry he said he was going to go find Dick and drag his sorry ass back here. She had stopped him saying that he didn't deserve to share the child they had made. If he had left once he was going to again. She didn't want her baby loosing his father.
She could still hear the gun shot. It rang in her ears endlessly. It was supposed to be simple. It was just a gang. Batman and Batgirl could handle it. They had called to police when they were finished. She saw her father walk over to thank them. Then it happened. She felt like everything was going in slow motion. A shot had rung out and hit her father in the chest. He fell to the ground, blood coming out of the hole in his body. She ran over to him crying. She told him to hold on. Told him that she was Batgirl and she loved him. He told her he was proud of her and to take care. With his last breath he sad he loved her. He loved both of them.
It took her breath away when she first heard it. Her baby girl's heart beat surrounded her. She cried in happiness. She looked at bruce who had even shed a tear. Cassidy. That is what her name is going to be. Cassy for short. She looked at the ultrasound picture of her baby and smiled. She loved her with every fiber of her being. Sometimes she just wished Dick were here...
She cried when she saw the news. It was a station from a far away city. It was about the teen titans. She vaguely payed attention to the new super heroes. That is until she saw dick, her dick. He was the leader. And, from the way the reporter talked, had a thing with the orange alien girl. He had left her and their, her, he didn't deserve Cassy, daughter. He had gone and found company in four complete strangers. He had left her for someone else. He had left his family behind. He left behind Alfred, and Bruce. He had left her. He had fathered a child then left. She cried herself to sleep that night.
It was the worse pain she had ever felt. She way lying in a hospital bed. She screamed as she felt another contraction. She told Bruce that it hurt and she wanted it out of her. He held her hand and told her soon. She creamed and cried and told Bruce to hunt down the kill Dick for doing this to her and not even being around. When all the screaming and swearing was done she held a little pink bundle. She cried when she saw her daughter had his eyes. She held her close and told her she was never going to leave her.
She had lived in Wayne Manor ever sense her father died. She was looking down at her daughter's sleeping body. She was two now. She had her fiery red hair that was wet from her bath. She snuggled close to a teddy bear with a cape and mask Bruce had given to her for her first birthday. She had promised herself her daughter would not follow in her footsteps. She would not allow her daughter to become a super hero like herself. She had not been going out as batgirl as often anymore. Bruce wouldn't allow it. She was glad he was over protective though. That meant she would be able to see her baby grow up.
She had frozen at the question. She new this day would come, she just hoped it wouldn't be for a while. It was an innocent question. With a not so innocent question. Six words had sent her into a panic. "Why don't I have a daddy?" Cassy had asked her one day after she saw a couple with a baby. She tried to explain to her that he left before she was born. She asked a heart braking question. "Doesn't he want me?" She had cried and pulled her daughter into a hug and said nothing. Because the truth was, he didn't. He left when he found out. She didn't even get to tell him. He had figured it out and left without saying good-bye.
Six years. It had been six years sense he left. She was living in Wayne manor with a retired Bruce and her daughter Cassy. They had given their position to a new generation of heroes. They no longer fought evil around Gotham. She looked at her life. She was twenty-three with a five year old daughter. She hadn't heard from him since he left. She didn't cry any more, she had done enough of that already. She stilled loved him. Even if she didn't admit it. One day Wally, Kid Flash, had come to visit. He made the connection that Cassy was her daughter. When he asked her who's she was all she said was that she was hers. He had left the matter alone.
She looked at her daughter's sleeping form. Her red hair in the braids she begged for. She alway wondered what it would be if Dick didn't leave. If he had stayed. If he wanted them both. She never dwelled to long though. He had put her through enough. She had a daughter when she was eighteen. She was a single parent. She used to be Batgirl. She used to be, and still is, in love with her baby's father. She is strong. She doesn't need him. She is Barbara Gordon.
AN: Please review! Oh btw's you can decide wether or not Dick knew that Babs was pregnant. I wrote it with the intention that he didn't. Review and tell me if you think he should or shouldn't know. I was thinking of making this a multi-chapter fic. But I'll only do it if you review!