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Chapter 2
A/N: Terry's age jumps a bit around at this point. There will be a side note for how old he is.
Welcome (Terry Age: 20)
He wasn't sure when he became part of their family
He wasn't sure if it was after one Christmas or what
Every McGinnis get together he was called.
Terry's birthday
Matt's birthday
Even Mary's birthday
New Year's Eve
Easter
Thanksgiving
Christmas Eve
Christmas
He became welcome in their family
It wasn't just that he became part of their family
Twenty First (Terry Age: 21)
His mother made sure Bruce took the boy out for his first drink
The rest of the weekend was planned to hang out with the girls
But today on his twenty first birthday Terry McGinnis was spending it with Bruce Wayne and a few others
Tim pushed a beer to the kid and told him to drink
Terry drank it listening to Tim's and Dick's stories of their twenty first birthdays
The boy laughed at their stories
Bruce watched as he tried to hid the face every time he took a drink of the now warm beer
Bruce chuckled to himself
Late Night Worry (Terry Age: 31, Epilogue)
He didn't know why he was worried
It wasn't like he couldn't go downstairs to the cave
It was that he didn't want to
He knew he could trust the boy
Boy
Terry wasn't a boy any longer
He hadn't been in a boy in years
It was just easier to think of him as a boy
And not of what he was really was
A grown man
But he couldn't stop from worrying
He guessed it was the father in him
Dance (Terry Age: 25)
The one thing he hated about being back as the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Wayne Enterprises was the parties
The fake smile he had to put on for people he only saw once or twice a year
He wasn't trying to pick ladies anymore to keep up with what everyone though he should do
He was making small talk
Something he was terrible at
Out of the corner of his eye saw Dick, Tim, and Barbara
They were watching something
Bruce made his way to them
Resting his hand on Tim's shoulder he asked what or who they were watching
Tim pointed to his protégé and his girlfriend
They both had smiles and dancing to slow music
"Looks like I should hold more of these parties. At least they are enjoying it"
Calm (Terry Age: 19)
"Kid, stop moving your head so much, you look like a doggie on a dashboard."
"Sorry Bruce"
"Just take a deep breath in your mouth"
Bruce paused
Terry took a deep breath
"Now out your nose. Feel any better?"
"Nope"
Bruce sighed on the other side of the com link
"Terry, you need to calm down."
"I just don't want to fuck this up, Bruce."
The boy's voice came over the speakers of the cave
"You're not going to mess this up, Terry."
"Yeah, well Rex thinks so."
"Don't worry about him. He's just mad that you got picked for this undercover op and he didn't."
He heard Terry chuckle on the other end.
"Just stay calm and you'll do fine. Trust me kid, the first one is always the hardest."
He heard Terry take another deep breath in his mouth and out his nose.
"Let's do this, Bruce."
'Atta boy, Terry' the old man thought to himself.
A/N: This is dedicated to you, Dwayne McDuffie. R.I.P. You will be missed.
P.S. I shouldn't write anything late at night after two glasses of wine.
Ace
