100 Drabbles for Little Robin

100 short drabbles for Dick Grayson A.K.A. Little Robin.

1. Birds and Babies

Mary Grayson sighed, exhausted, and laid her head down on the pillow in the hospital room. John was at her side, trying to console her, after eight hours of labor, she was very tired.

"Here's your son, Mrs. Grayson," the doctor said, handing her the baby.

Mary cradled the baby, humming to him softly.

John beamed. "I'm proud of you, Mary. Look at what you've given us. Now, a name for him…John Grayson."

"No…Richard. Richard John Grayson."

Just then, a brightly colored red robin landed on the window outside. Richard stared at it wide-eyed and cooed.

2. High Dive

Mary tried to console her crying two-year-old as he held her tightly. He'd gone and done a high dive off a pile of toys in his room.

"It's okay, little Robin. Mommy's got you. You were trying to fly so high like Mommy and Daddy, huh?" she smiled.

John walked in and saw his son crying and looked at her.

"Our little Robin tried to take off. He's going to be a professional aerialist before he's out of diapers." She gazed at him. "I call you Robin because you came to us on the first day of spring. I didn't know you'd want to be a little bird…"

3. Nothing To Fear

"If you're sure of yourself up there, you've got nothing to fear," John said, calling to him from the other wire. Dick would fly without a net for the first time. He was five.

Dick swung out and decided to attempt the quadruple somersault. Mary was panicked when her son began to fall, but John knocked him onto a safety mat.

"Your old dad isn't about to lose his Boy Wonder on the first time out," John breathed hard. "He's a Grayson through and through."

"He's an adrenaline junkie," Mary said, worried. "I don't want him to kill himself."

"I won't ever let that happen," John reassured her.

"Good, because I'll kill you," Mary stared at him hard. "Don't ever let anything happen to him."

"Don't worry, I won't."

4. Aliens

"Momma, do you believe there are aliens out there?" six-year-old Dick asked.

"I don't know, never met one before," Mary told her son. "Why're you asking? Did you listen to War of the Worlds with Pani again?"

"Maybe," Dick admitted. "Do you think they're scary Momma?"

"They're probably as scared of us as we are of them," Mary said. "Everyone gets scared, especially when they're in a strange place and don't know anything about it."

Dick never forgot that, so when a green comet fell out of the sky and he saw the red haired alien girl, he knew that she had to be scared of this place, and wanted to help her if he could.

5. Death

"Mom, why did Grandpa have to die?" Dick asked. Mary had just lost her father after he'd been sick with cancer. She didn't understand why he left her either, she put her hand on her son's shoulder.

"I don't know, Dickie. I just…don't know," she said, wiping her yes.

"Will we see him again?" Dick asked.

"Sure son," she replied. "In Heaven."

"When you die, you'll go there too, right?"

"Yeah, but don't talk like that sweetheart. I'm not gonna die anytime soon, but if something happens, I'll always be with you."

"How do you know?" Dick asked, staring up at her with his big green eyes.

"Because I love you, Little Robin," Mary told him, enveloping him in a hug. "That's how I know."

6. Trust

"Dad, how do you know that you won't fall down during your trapeze act?" Seven-year-old Dick asked one day after practice.

"I trust your Mother to catch me," John replied.

"But how do you know she'll catch you?"

"I don't, that's why I have to trust her."

"How do I know that I can trust you both to keep me safe up there?" Dick asked, staring up at the high platform.

"We're your parents, Dick. We love you and we'd never let anything bad happen to you," John reassured him. "We're your safety net. We will never let you fall."

7. Love

"Dad, how much to you love mom?" he stared over at the cards, chocolate hearts, and flowers John had left Mary on the table for Valentines Day.

"I love your Mother more than anything," John laughed, ruffling his boy's hair.

"More than you love me?" Dick asked.

"No, of course not," John said. "I love you both equally. I can't love either one of your more than I love the other."

"I don't get it," Dick said.

"You don't have to," John smiled. "That's just how it is."

8. Glue

John rolled over in his bed and stared down at Mary, smiling. They had both decided to take a nap and he'd just woken up.

He gazed down at his sleeping wife and kissed her cheek softly. She opened her eyes and looked over at him.

"Hey beautiful," he whispered. He pressed his lips to hers. He kissed her deeply, running his fingers through her hair.

"John," Mary protested, gently pushing him back from her.

"What's wrong? What'd I do?" he asked, hurt.

"John, why's there glue on your fingers? Now they're stuck in my hair," Mary said, trying to get her husband's glue coated fingers out of her blonde hair.

"RICHARD JOHN GRAYSON!" John bellowed angrily. "You put glue on my hands, AGAIN!"

9. Tattoo

"Dad, it's a temporary tattoo!" Dick protested. "It'll wash off!"

"No, you're not going to let yourself become a picture gallery!" John said sternly.

"That's hypocritical, you have a tattoo! And Mom likes it!" Dick said.

"Your mother likes it because I got it to remind me of her," John said. "You want a tattoo of Obi-Wan Kenobi on your elbow."

"Obi-Wan is cool! It's not bad," Dick pleaded.

"Fine," John said, sighing.

"At least mine will be cooler than yours, you've got a heart with an arrow with the words, "I love you forever, baby," on your chest!"

"Don't say that too loudly!" John hissed. "I have my reputation to keep here, and Ringmaster Stan Rutledge would never let me live it down!"

Picture Gallery is the circus term for a tattooed man.

10. Con Men

John Grayson grabbed the man by the scruff of his hair and promptly dragged him out of the big top.

"I never want to see your ugly mug anywhere near these grounds again!" John bellowed "I may just be a gaffer, but I'm not stupid!"

The man scrambled to dust off his three piece suit.

"Listen, man I only want to make sure you people have your insurance," the man said. He was just a punk trying to graft money.

"I don't need your insurance, I've seen plenty of your type and you're not welcome here!" John pointed his finger at him. "If I see you on the grounds again, you'll be dragged off this place by cops!"

The man quietly backed up and ran off.

'"Dad, how do you know when they're lying?" Dick asked.

"You can always tell, son," John said. "They're smooth talking, and too accommodating. Most of all, they're selfish, they never have your own interests in mind. They just want to help themselves."

"Why do they always try to con you?" Dick asked.

"They see me as an easy victim," John said. "I'm nobody's victim."

"That's good to know," Dick said. "Those con men are bad people."

"Yes, they are, they ruin people's lives," John said. "I won't let them ruin me. I'm won't ever be a victim of their schemes."

"How do you know that?" Dick asked.

"Because I'll never let them pull the wool over my eyes," John told him. "Deception is the worst thing. They wear their sheep's clothing and convince you of whatever they want and then they take everything from you."

"It's a good thing you chased him off, then," Dick smiled.

"Yeah, I really hate those con men," John sighed, he had to go to the Pie-Car and get some food. He was hungry.

"Let's get something to eat," John said, ruffling his hair.

"Okay."


Gaffer is a circus term for circus manager.
A trailer that carries food, beverages, and beer for the circus.