AN:- Drabble 2 here, about Tim, took off Cassie because I want to focus on the brothers.
Soldiers For The Cause
Chapter 2: The Boy Next Door
Timmy was already practically part of the family.
I babysat him every other weekend. Bruce said that it would be good practice for me. Of course, when Jay joined us, I ended up with 2 people to babysit instead of the one. Jay didn't know about Bruce and I being Batman and Robin, and we intended to keep it that way.
Then the Drakes died on one of their expeditions.
I could relate. So could Jay.
Yes he was a troublemaker but I could tell he loved Tim like a brother too. He was still getting used to me but he latched on to Tim no problem.
Sometimes I wonder why he doesn't like me. He calls me 'Goldie' all the time, and I have no clue why. I try and get him to talk about it but so far, no good. He rarely agrees with me.
So I was surprised that when it was discovered that Timothy Jackson Drake had no more family and I asked if we could take the almost 6 year old in, Jason backed me up.
Between Grayson charm and Todd tantrums, we coerced Bruce into first making him a ward, a few weeks later, Timothy Jackson Drake added on a Wayne to his name.
He had a tendency of following me around everywhere. And if he couldn't find me, he would follow Jason around.
And the violent temper I saw in Jason all those months ago, and experienced (which were not whelming times at all. I had to pretend to not know a lot. I may be older and bigger and an acrobat, but he survived on the streets of Gotham… yeah if I was an ordinary teenager, I'd put my money on Jase too…), grew tempered as the more protective side of his nature came out in the presence of Tim.
Protective hmm? Did this mean the opposite of protective was tective? Or maybe it was contective. Pro was a positive aspect so con must be the negative…
Off track. Sorry, where was I? Oh. Yes, Jason and Tim.
Tim made it subtly clear that he preferred me to Jay, that didn't seem to faze him at all though. You know what he did? He said
"Great. This means I don't need to live up to impossible standards Goldie."
According to him, I'm pedestal-ed. Don't see what he means though. Tim just has this state of awe around me, which I don't understand.
Jay and Tim turned into prank partners. Jay was the brawn of the pranks and Timmy, little Timmy was the brains.
Guess that should have been the first warning signs that sooner or later, Bruce and I would be ousted as the Knights of Gotham.
But yeah, that wouldn't be until the last Wayne brother was accepted at the Mansion. I'm getting ahead of myself here.
But Jason and Tim were slowly piecing together what their father and eldest brother liked to do at night.
When they weren't gobbling Alfred's biscuits that is.
AN:- Yes, its very short and not up to my usual standards, I'm feeling my way through this fandom at the moment. I did make an allusion to another fic here though. I wonder if anyone can spot it?