Taser Secret
Note: I hope you guys liked the last chapter. I want to thank Jo for the review. Okay so I'm about to bring Dick in and he is going to be young as in four and I will be moving in time okay.
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Taser Secret
Three: Circus
The entire week goes flying in Wayne Manor, she doesn't call Avengers Tower and they don't call. Alfred got everything that had happened in the tower out of her. It actually made her feel better. It made her feel relief that she wasn't holding in the pain.
Darcy and Bruce were currently eating breakfast, when the phone call came. She wasn't going to answer but decided to incase it was an emergency.
"Hello?" she said.
"LADT DARCY!" Thor boomed scarring Darcy and making both Bruce and Alfred raise amuse eyebrows.
"Thor inside voice." Darcy says with a smile.
"Darcy are you having fun? We wanted to call but Pepper told us we should give you time." Jane is the one to say. Darcy hears noise.
"Am I on speaker?" she asks.
"Yes you are short-stuff." Tony says. Bruce looks at Darcy from his newspaper that he rose again.
"Are you having fun?" Steve asks.
"I am Cap, no worries." She tells them. "So what are you guys doing is Clint still alive, Natasha hasn't killed him yet right?"
"Ha-ha, I'm fine Darce." Clint says.
"Maybe." Natasha tells her making Darcy laugh and Bruce smiles at seeing her laugh like that.
"Thor is Jane eating and sleeping, the same question goes to Steve about Tony, is Dr. Banner eating and sleeping." She asks. Bruce notices how her voice broke when she mentioned Dr. Banner.
"Yes." Steve tells her. They talk for a little while and they tell her they miss her. When the call ends she puts the phone down.
"They really care about you." Bruce tells her.
"Yeah." Darcy tells him. Bruce puts his newspaper before he makes the comment.
"So, Dr. Banner?" he says.
"Nothing Bruce." She tells him and it's the same thing he had told her when she asked about Rachel a few years ago.
"He isn't dead?" he asks.
"No he is happy." she tells him. Bruce knows to drop it, because if she is saying that it means that he is with someone else.
"Well since everyone thinks you're in vacation, do you want to go to the Circus?" Bruce asks changing the subject.
"The Circus?" Darcy asks.
"Master Bruce must make an appearance in society, Haly's Circus is in town." Alfred tells her.
"Okay, as long as I don't have to become one of Bruce's bimbo dolls I'm fine." She tells them both.
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Going to the circus is very different. Darcy had to dress up for it. She did it in one of the dresses she bought for the Gala's in Stark Industries. So there she sat in the black dress and hair pinned up and she looked at Bruce as they were in the car.
"Come on don't be broody." she tells him and Bruce smirks.
They both arrive and get into Haly's Circus without being notice. They sit down and hear the Ringmaster in the middle of the stage.
"Ladies and Gentleman, I welcome you to Haly's Circus." He began to say the acts. As they see the acts Darcy laughs in the right parts, she holds Bruce's hand when the clowns come out. Each act is well performed that even Bruce is relaxing a bit. They saw that the big performance was coming up.
"Now Ladies and Gentleman we have come to our main event, I'm about to present the Flying Grayson's as they ride the trapezes with no net under knead them. Will they make it enjoy the show?"
Bruce and Darcy look up and see the act. It gets a bit more interesting when their little boy gets in the act according to the Ringmaster his name is Richard Grayson son of John and Mary Grayson. It's beautiful seeing them fly. Once the parents put him back in the platform, where he has the best show in the house to see the routine. The acrobats do the dangerous moves Bruce and Darcy like the performance both used to the dangerous life it seems nice. Bruce than notices something odd on the ropes, Darcy looks at Bruce before she fixes her eyes on the ropes and they see how they snap.
"Ahh!" the scream from the crowd sound but both Bruce and Darcy are looking at the little boy who is looking down at the mangle bodies on the floor already bleeding. Bruce has flashbacks to his childhood and Darcy had flashback of her parents. The little boy climbs down and he tries to move his parents, to wake them up. The Ringmaster moves him away from the bodies and he is crying trying to get to his parents.
Darcy and Bruce return to Wayne Manor so he turns into Batman because three is something fishy about those ropes snapping. Bruce is gripping the side of the door to hard and Darcy is even paler than before.
"Those ropes were tampered with." Bruce growls out.
"Are you saying the deaths of the child's parents were a murder?" Alfred asks.
"They were." Darcy answers him .
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In the next three days Darcy, Bruce and Alfred find themselves in the cemetery to bury John and Mary Grayson. It seems Gotham is crying the lost or it would be if the weather wasn't so gloomy.
"I'm sorry for your lost." Bruce tells Richard as he stands behind him.
"Thank-you Mister Wayne." Richard says and it looks so wrong because the boy is only four. Bruce lost his at eight and Darcy lost hers at nineteen. They both see Richard moved with the social worker.
"Shall we go Miss, Sir?" Alfred asks.
"He's all alone now." Darcy whispers.
"I've been thinking just that, when I lost my parents I had the luck to have you Alfred." Bruce says.
"Master Bruce?" Alfred says.
"I'm going to take him in, Alfred." Bruce tells him as he sees the car disappear. "As my ward."
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Two days later Bruce is driving with Dick because he prefers that from Richard. The car drive was awkward its pure silence. Dick seems afraid and Bruce tries to ignore some of the bruises he probably got in the detention hall they put him in. they finally arrive at the Manor.
"Welcome to your new home Dick." Bruce says as he opens the door. Dick stands there and sees the large Manor. He is afraid, he wants his parents but know they are not here anymore. He knows he can trust Mr. Wayne because he just has that thing about him, but he is still afraid.
"It's intimidating at first glance isn't it?" Darcy comes down the stairs and bends down to Dick's level. "Hello Richard, my name is Darcy Lewis" she says extending her hand. Dick looks at the nice lady and shakes her hand.
"Hi. Do you live here too?" he asks her. He is kind of hoping so because she looks like a happy person.
"No I'm just visiting Bruce for a while." She tells him and Dick tries not to be disappointed.
"Oh." He tells her. She stands up and smiles at him.
"Come meet Alfred, Richard." She says.
"I like Dick better." He tells her and she nods.
"Okay, come so we can get some of Alfred's famous cookies they are awesome"she tells him and Dick is charmed. Darcy stretches her hand and he takes a few minutes before he takes it, it nice and comforting. They walk and stop in-front of an older man. "Dick this is Alfred." She said.
"Is good to have you at Wayne Manor, Master Richard." Alfred says politely.
"Hi." Dick says.
"Maybe we can wait until Dick settles before eating anything." Bruce says carrying Dick's backpack.
"Let me show you to your room." Alfred says. Bruce is about to leave but Darcy grabs his arm and gives him a look pointed toward four year old Dick. Bruce sighs and follows Darcy and Alfred as they take Dick to their new home.
They arrive to a large wooden door; Alfred is the one to open the door. Dicks goes in and puts the backpack on the large bed. He opens it and the adults wonder what he is doing, he takes out a picture of his parents and puts it on his dresser he looks pretty sad. Darcy hits Bruce with her elbow and does some signs so he can say something.
"I hope you like living here, Dick." Bruce says.
"Thank you Mister Wayne." Dick replies.
"You can call me Bruce." The man says. Dick looks at him with wide innocent eyes and nods.
"Thank-you Bruce."
"We'll let you unpack but I'm coming back so we can eat cookies and probably spoil our dinner." Darcy tells Dick giving him a wink and a smile. He returns the smile a little bit. The three adults move out of the room.
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The next two weeks pass and Dick is getting used to the life in Wayne Manor. He knew that his caretaker was a very busy man and a bit sad. He didn't see him at night much. Alfred was nice and polite but if someone asked him. He preferred Bruce and Darcy, when Bruce was at work he spent all his time with Darcy and she taught him many things, she told him stories. He knew she was going to leave in a week and he was going to be sad, because if Bruce didn't come for his nightmares Darcy did.
"Dick I'm going to find you." He hears Darcy call. They were currently playing hide and seek. It was late but he didn't want to sleep and Darcy thought of the game.
He ran into the study and hid when he heard something opening he saw Alfred come out from behind the grandfather clock. He didn't know that Alfred was playing too. when Alfred leaves the study Dick went behind the grandfather clock before it close Darcy wouldn't be able to find him if she didn't find Alfred.
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Darcy was looking for Dick when she saw Alfred cleaning some of the statues.
"Hey Alfred." She tells him.
"Miss Darcy looking for the Young Master I see." Alfred said with a smile. It was nice to have noise in the Manor once more.
"Yes, keeping him entertain." She tells him. Alfred sighs.
"We are going to miss you here." He tells her. "Once you are gone." Darcy looks at Alfred seriously.
"I don't think I want to be MIA anymore, I missed you guys too much." She says.
"But you are still afraid." Alfred tells her.
"You would be afraid too if a maniac like the Joker kidnapped you after killing your parents." She says.
"Yet you're stronger for it." Alfred tells her with a soft smile.
"You're right, now let me find Dick so I can put him to bed." She says.
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Dick walked down the stairs wondering where it would lead him. He didn't know the Manor had a basement. He walked down and he heard noise up, he looked and saw a bunch of bats on the ceiling. He went in more and saw a computer; he walked around and saw the Giant Penny and the Dinosaur. He heard a noise and he went to hide behind one of the machines.
Dick hid and he heard a car. He peaked from his hiding spot and saw the Bat mobile, he had seeing it a lot on TV.
'What is the bat mobile doing under Wayne Manor?' he thought. He heard footsteps leave and he got out of his hiding spot. He was about to walk when someone grabbed his shoulder, he jumped and turned to see the glare of the Batman.
"You're…your Bruce." Dick said. Bruce sighed and put his cowl down.
"What are you doing down here?" he asked.
"I was playing hide-and-seek." Dick told him innocently. It told Bruce that Dick couldn't sleep. He didn't want to smile that his ward figured it out.
"Bruce!" Darcy called and she sounded desperate.
"Down here." Bruce called to her. Darcy walked down and looked at Dick standing there.
"So this is where you came to hide." She says. Dick jumped at her side and began to talk.
"Darcy, Darcy did you know Bruce is Batman." He whispered the last part.
"Yes I know." She tells him.
"That is so cool." He tells her. Darcy and Bruce share a look.
"Dick there are some rules to knowing this." Darcy said and stretched her hand so he could take it; she led him upstairs so Bruce could change.
"Am I in trouble?" Dick asked suddenly scared that he had done something wrong and they would send him away.
"No, you're smart I knew you would find out eventually." She tells him.
The arrive to the study and Alfred was standing there. He left to her something for them; Dick sat on the sofa with Darcy.
"Are you a superhero too?" Dick asks her.
"No." she says with a laugh.
"She works for them." Bruce tells him as he comes out change into something more comfortable.
"Really?" Dick asked. "Do you work for Bruce, are you really his girlfriend?"
"What?" both Bruce and Darcy say.
"Well she knows your Batman and works for superheroes, do you know Superman, or Wonder Woman?" He asks.
"I work for the Avengers." She blurts out. Dick's eyes seemed to get wider.
"You know Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thor and the Hulk." He says jumping in his seat.
"We were going to talk about Bruce." Darcy tells him changing the subject and returning fire to Bruce who is smirking.
"Yeah." Dick says.
"Dick knowing I'm Batman comes with great responsibility, you can't tell anyone and my enemies might hurt you, or Alfred or Darcy trying to get to me." Bruce told him. Dick looked at both of them.
"I won't tell anyone, I promise." Dick told him.
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