Not as long as I'd like, but eh. I've been crazy busy IRL, so I honestly haven't written more than a few hundred words in the past two-ish weeks, which kinda sucks, but oh well. Things will eventually calm down and I'll stop working overtime eventually. :)
So. Tim was a demigod. But whose kid was he? And did he have any idea that he was? Probably not, to be honest. Tim didn't have any of the classic signs most demigods had. He didn't seem to attract monsters. He wasn't dyslexic. He didn't have ADHD.
What was the connection? Did Tim suspect that one of his parents wasn't his parent? Tim was sharp as a tack, there was no way he could have missed it.
What was the missing piece? What was Dick missing?
"Hey, Tim," Dick called. "Where's your family from?"
Tim looked up from his laptop and raised an eyebrow.
"Why?"
"Just curious," Dick lied. "My little cousin-"
"You have a cousin?"
"Distant cousin, and not the point. She was wondering about genetics. She's at that age and has been reading a lot of stories about those Ancestry DNA test. Anyway, she was curious, so I told her and that got me thinking about you guys."
"And our genetic makeup?" Tim asked dryly.
"Pretty much," Dick agreed, grinning.
"Well, my mom was half Italian, a quarter French, and a quarter Vietnamese. Dad was mostly German, I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but he also had a little bit of Iberian. So that makes me a quarter Italian, an either French and Vietnamese and then probably 37% German and about 13% Iberian, but my dad's numbers may be off by a bit."
So Tim didn't know one of his parents wasn't his parent. A biological parent, at least.
How the heck was Dick going to explain to Tim that he was half god? How Would he take it?
Probably like he took his coffee, to be honest, straight black, so right to the point. He'd probably process, grimace for a few seconds, and then move on.
And when he found out Dick knew about a whole world… gods, Dick was so dead. Thanks, Zeus, he really needed more to deal with. At least he could kidnap Jason and have him help explain everything, after all, Jason was a demigod.
Then again, maybe having Jason help wouldn't actually help. His experiences wouldn't exactly translate very well to Tim. Gods, this was a problem for another day and a much, much more awake Dick.
