A/N: Hiya! I'm back with more crazy Bat! Siblings antics and shenanigans! Also, I forgot to mention this earlier, but for the purposes of this story, Wally doesn't know Dick's real name or back-story.
TheBurntMarshmellowofDoooom: The movie is called It's a Wonderful Life, or something like that. My parents and grandparents all love it. I don't really get it personally, but whatever.
On with the show!
The Same Day at 4 PM, Mount Justice
To say that Dick Grayson was tired would be similar to saying that Batman was smart: a monumental understatement that would make the speaker appear to be an idiot, as it should. The boy wonder had never once taken Alfred and all he did for them for granted, but until today, he'd never had an inkling of what it was really like to be Alfred.
Note to self: Tell Bruce to give Alfred a raise. A big raise. In fact, tell Bruce to buy Alfred his own goddamn private island.
With a hefty sigh, Dick fell onto a bench in the Waterfall room, spreading his spandex-clad self over the cold stone. Though it was the middle of the afternoon, the ex-acrobat felt as though he could sleep for a century or seven.
A quick nap won't kill me…
Meanwhile, at the Zeta Beam
Recognized: 04, Kid Flash
The speedster yawned, slightly tired from the long school day. He wouldn't say that he disliked school, per se; there were just so many things that would be a much more productive use of his time, in Wally's opinion.
One of these things was training at Mount Justice, which is exactly what Wally planned on doing this fine day.
What he didn't plan on was seeing a small group of kids sitting on the couch in the lounge room, watching one of the countless Transformers cartoons.
One of these kids, the only girl in the group, looked over at him, then shook the shoulder of the oldest of the group, a boy in a red hoodie and sunglasses, and pointed back at him, which caught the attention of the other two kids, a younger boy in a Green Lantern shirt and a baby in a Batman onesie.
"Hi there! Are you Kid Flash?" The younger boy asked cheerfully, getting up and running over to him.
"Uh… Who are you children and how did you get in here?" Wally asked, going into a slightly defensive position.
The other two kids walked over, the eldest holding the baby in his arms and the girl hiding shyly behind him. "Relax, Weasley, we've got permission to be in here. I'm sure you know our brother, Robin."
The speedster blinked, not sure he heard that right. "… Brother?"
"Yeah, brother, as in, a male sibling."
"… Batman sent you to kill me, didn't he?"
This time, the younger boy spoke up. "Uh-uh! Daddy doesn't even know that we're here! Di- I mean, Robin had to take us with him 'cause Daddy's in space an' Alfred is sick! I'm Red Robin, by the way!"
The boy in the sunglasses nodded, shifting the baby in his arms and placing a hand over the one the girl had gripping the leg of his jeans. "Red Hood. This one is Batgirl."
The girl waved shyly before ducking back behind Red Hood. In the split-second between those actions, Wally swore he saw her cradling a small doll that looked suspiciously like the Dark Knight himself close to her person.
The baby, meanwhile, whined a bit, pulling on a lock of Red Hood's dark hair. "OW! Damian, quit that!"
"…Damian?"
"Yeah, Damian's too little to have a code name. So we just call him by his name. I wanted to call him Batbaby, but Daddy said no." Suddenly, Red Robin rushed forward, grabbing Wally's arm and pulling. "C'mon! I'm sure that Di- I mean Robin will be glad to see you!"
Wally flushed a bit. The truth was that he and Robin hadn't spoken since the… incident over a week earlier. The awkwardness in the room whenever the two were together was too much for either to bear, and thus neither could find the courage to say what they wanted to tell each other.
"Er… I don't think that's such a great idea…"
"Awww, why not?"
Okay, screw how cute they are, I am not revealing my inner turmoil with the issue of my sexual preference to an eight-year-old! "B-Because I said so!"
"That's not a good reason! That's what Daddy says when he tells me I can't go out on patrol with him an' Robin!"
Wally groaned and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Look, I have my reasons, okay? So please just- Huh?"
Someone was tugging on his shirt sleeve, Wally noticed as he looked over. Batgirl, who had remained quiet throughout this entire ordeal, was staring at him earnestly out of chocolate-brown eyes. The dark-haired girl said nothing, but her eyes seemed to be asking- no, pleading with him in a way that, should she have done it verbally, would have made even Batman crumble like a fresh-baked cookie. And like fresh-baked cookies, especially those that Robin would occasionally bring from home, Wally wasn't able to resist for long.
"… Fine. You win."
The younger dark-haired boy cheered at this, while the eldest boy and the girl smiled and Damian blew bubbles out of his own spit, which the speedster found to be both gross and adorable at the same time.
I hate my life…
A/N: And that's a wrap on the first part of Phase 1! Sorry it's short, but I'm pretty much beat. If you want, click the review button and tell me what you think!
