Chapter 2: dick's pov

The Great Pretend

By: janahjean

"Get away from him." Dick normally bouncing and jumping by the ball of his feet was striding like a chunk of molten fury was growling when he spied a group of teenager kicking his fallen brother.

Jason manage a weak laugh despite the pain and he was thankful for dick for giving him a brief respite from the kicking. "You dont want to mess with my older brother boys." He drawl before he flopped like a starfish and rest on his back.

"Whatcha gonna do, mathlete?" The leader of the bullies sneer at the scrawny dick.

Dick eyes narrowed almost to bat stare level. He surprised the guy by being able to yank his collar down and now they re able to see each other on an eye level. "He is strong." The bully thought.

Dick lick a finger and wipe it to the bully's forehead and then..."for starter...this!" He said as he slammed his forehead to the target.

Damian watch the all out brawl in approval. "Good that he didnt use his signature Robin's style gymnastic eh Drake?"

Tim knows he is supposed to apologize for the painful grip he have with damian's hand. Fortunately damian didnt seemed to care. Tim have to hold damian because a loose ninja assassin puppy rescuing his brothers will blow their cover. Also holding damian seemed to help tim ground himself to reality or else he too might have join the brawl.

Tim, for all appearance, simply look mildly concern at the fight. Inside though, tim was furious. His deathly grip on the birdarang In his other pocket was hard enough that later on at the clinic it will require stitches.

Later...

Dick limp his way to his seat in the classroom looking as far as possible from his neat, bouncy normal appearance. His hair is as disarrayed as his school uniform and as soon as he sprawled onto his seat, he never take his eyes off from the clinic which is visible from the window.

He seemed totally oblivious to the fact that he was the topic of his gossipping classmates. Or mebbe he just didnt care because he was sprawled into his chair projecting a bad boy vibe that made him suddenly attractive to some of his classmates. Occassionally he yank his hair and pick on the tip of the bandaid on the bridge of his nose.

He sigh in relief when he discover a sitting position that didnt add more pain on his back, shoulder etc. He look like he is a model for a commercial of the school's chair coz he made it look like a throne suddenly. He pop an aspirin and was chewing the bitter pill with no water but with lots of determination.

He was brooding like Bruce. His hotness factor just level up. But before the popular girls could leap into action...

"Oi. Who are you and what did you do to richard grayson?" Barbara gordon walk into the classroom and spy her bestfriend and smirk.

"Huh?!" Dick was really out of sort for he actually narrow his eyes at barbara. Barbara mused at the hard cool glare that reminds her that dick and jason are really brothers even if its not by blood. Dick blink and his eyes are almost back to normal as he mutter "he is my brother" as if that explains everything.

He seemed to made a decision because he stood up. "Im going back to the clinic," he announce as he tried to straighten his hair and clothes.

And then he vanish from the classroom.

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"Dick! Make him stop!" Jason spot his saviour leaning on the doorway of the clinic's. Jason wailed trying to get off the bed where damian is determinedly pinning him.

"Jason. No." Tim said firmly while carefully turning the page of the microbiology book he borrowed in the clinic's bookshelf. "As long as you are resting you might as well catch up on your learning. And dick-shut the door." He order his brother who was coming in.

"Hows your hand timbo?" Dick asked with concern.

Tim made a so and so hand gesture.

"Why are you here dami?" Dick asked while tim began to read aloud at the sullen jason

"TT. I cut class. School is stupid." Damian declare.

Dick briefly wonder where the nurse is at but he shrugged it off. Jason was a regular at the clinic and probly the nurse is just trying to gather her composure at the canteen or whatver.

Now that dick is here he feel suddenly happy and so he hug the offguard jason. "Dont do that ever again jaybird." He scolded.

"Ditto." Bruce wayne said drily. He smirk when he caught his sons offguard.

Later...

A janitor who was passing by was curious after hearing loud sound of protests, arguement and shrieking at the clinic and so he decided to act on it. He decided to spy and saw a group of boys seeming to argue at a brick wall or sumthin.

"Weird rich kids." He mumbled.

That same night...

"This is the best day ever!" Jason yelled before he hop inside the batmobile wearing the robin costume. He began to play with the stereo.

Batman roll his eyes and look at the three other kids in who surround him in the batcave.

"Check the monitor boys and i leave you some exercises to practice." He told them in lieu of goodbye hugs and kisses.

Truth be told hed rather have damian for the robin stint tonight because he is the only one whole but he was ganged up on the clinic by his sons who pointed out that jason had been true to his words about not picking up any fight just because jason was determined to be robin for tonight.( It was not his fault that the bullies didnt get the memo.)

"Pop, come on." Jason stand up and motion for batman impatiently.

"Yes chum bucket." Batman said drily.

Jason give dick a thumbs up sign before he close the door.

Dick for his part will treasure this memory forever.

Fin

(Next is tim's pov)