Jason
Jason looked up at the clock. Tim had convinced Dick and Damian to come today. Stephanie had been planning on coming last week but then decided to come with the other two robins. He didn't know if they were bringing Mimi or not. He sighed. He really owed Tim big time for this one. He had been wanting to apologies to the others for a while.
"You have visitors." Jason stood up and went to the small room they used for group visits.
"Hey guys." He said.
"Hey Man!" Tim said.
"Daddy!" Mimi ran up to her dad and jumped into his arms.
"Hey Kiddo how are you?"
"I'm good! Really good! Really, really, really good!"
Jason frowned. "Are you sure? You sound like you're hiding something." He said.
"Um…" She thought about the stranger who had known her family's names. "Yes." She said. Cuddling into her father's arm
"Okay if you say so."
"She's been acting like that since last week." Tim said with a shrug.
"You're positive you're okay?" He asked his daughter.
"Yes."
"Okay…" He turned to the other female in the room. "… Hi Stephanie…" He said offering the girl a smile.
"… Jason." Tim shot her a look.
"I thought you said Uncle Dick and Damian were coming too." Mimi said.
"They'll be here soon." Tim assured her.
"It'll be like a family reunion!" Mimi said.
Stephanie frowned. It had been decided when Jason was originally charged that Tim would become her guardian. They decided that they would be telling her about who they all were as long as she swore never to tell anyone. They didn't really talk about Jason and how anyone other than Tim felt about him with her though. But they wanted her to have contact with all five. Since then Mimi had built a little family for herself that consisted of Aunt Stephanie, Uncles Tim and Dick, Cousin Damian and Dad Jason. The only thing that didn't work was the fact that the others didn't really like Jason who they all knew was the most important to the girl. She looked at the door as Dick and Damian walked in the door.
"Hey." Damian said.
"Uncle Dick! Damian!" Mimi said struggling out of her dad's grip and running to her 'cousin'.
"Hi kid." He said.
"Damian?"
"Yes?"
"You seem distracted."
"He's been like that for maybe a week." Dick said.
Mimi's jaw hit the floor.
"You okay sweetie?" Jason asked.
"Yes." She answered abruptly.
Damian looked up at the others. "Um… Mimi I brought something for you come with me to come get it." He knew the others wanted to talk and – other than Mimi – he had the least of a problem with Jason so figured he should take her out and let them talk.
"Okay!" The little girl said taking his hand and following the teenager out.
"I was wondering what that was…" Dick muttered. Then he turned to Jason. "Nice to see you again…"
"Hey. Glad to see you too. And I never said this but… Congratulations." The older responded.
"All the Retired Robins in one room." Tim said with a grin.
Stephanie roller her eyes. "Weirdo."
He just smiled at her and sat on the couch.
"Guys." They looked at Jason. "I want to apologize…" He said. "I mean… I don't really know what came over me when I did what I did but… I regret it I really do… I'm not asking you to forget what happened but… If you could just forgive me… please?"
"You know I already have man." Tim said.
"… I'll forgive you…" Stephanie said. Jason grinned at her. "For Mimi's sake." She added quickly.
Jason's smile only fell a little as he looked at Dick. "Dick… please?"
"Why not… The past is in the past."
"Thank you… All of you." Jason said holding back tears of joy.
"Aw… he's crying." Stephanie said.
"Am not." He said.
"Are to you big softy." Dick said punching him in the arm.
Outside in the parking lot
Damian handed the little girl a plain white box. She opened it and pulled out a stuffed bear with five dollars tucked into the bow around it's neck. "THANK YOU DAMIAN!" She said jumping to wrapped her arms around his neck almost knocking him off balance.
"Whoa easy there!" He said steadying himself before putting his arms around the little girl.
"… Damian…"
"Yeah?"
"Did something happen to you last week… while you were patrolling as Robin?"
Damian glanced across the lot at an older couple coming towards them. "Here let's talk in the car." He said opening the door. She crawled in and after he closed the door she slipped into his lap to look at him.
"Well?"
"Yes something did happen and you're going to tell me how you knew Scarlet."
Mimi's jaw dropped. "How did you- does Dick- does Tim- does Daddy-"
"No I'm the only one. I caught you on patrol one night."
"Oh… Well… last week I was out training and… well there was this girl…"
"What? Wait was she in a dark cloak and have a high, kind of high voice?"
"I don't know about her voice but yeah she was in a cloak and a turtle neck shirt… and all her cloths were black or grey."
"What did she say?"
"Well… she said she was just trying to figure out who I was and then she got it… and she knew all of you're names…"
"She knew who Dick and I are…"
"She said something about talking to you earlier and she disappeared into the shadows."
"Did you tell anyone?"
"No."
"I was going to tell Dick but by the time I got to the cave I had decided against it…" The assassin said.
"Should we tell them?" The little girl in his lap asked. He glanced at her. She looked like a lost kid asking a sibling for advice
"Yeah... lets go…" He said. She grabbed her gift and he lifted her out of the car. They could travel faster if he ran and this was important.
"Guys!" He said rushing in the door.
"Something wrong Damian?" Dick asked.
"Well…" He looked at Mimi.
"How do we tell them?" she asked hopping out of his arms.
"Um… We think all of our covers may be blown…" Damian said nervously.
"WHAT!" Stephanie yelled bolting upright.
"Well…" Mimi started walking over to her dad and cuddling in his arms after she was picked up. "There was this person who came up to us a week ago on Patrol…"
"Wait… Patrol?" Tim said looking at her.
"Oops."
"What is oops?" Jason said looking at her. She looked away nervously. "Oh crap." He said.
"What?" Stephanie asked.
"A few years back she found the original Scarlet costume…" He said. "Sweetie? Have you been training as scarlet?"
"Um… Maybe?"
"Cosmia Todd." He said using her full name.
"Yes…" She said. "But I haven't tried to take on any of the big guys just little crimes! I've been training so I can be one of your sidekicks someday!" She said.
"Can we get back to the fact that ALL OF OUR COVERS MAY BE BLOWN!" Stephanie yelled in a panic.
"Explain. Now." Dick said turning to Damian.
"Like she said about a week ago there was this stranger… she didn't say anything about who she was and her face was covered by a hood but she knew all of our names… by the sounds of it she didn't know exactly who Mimi was but she figured it out pretty quickly."
"Wait… if her face was covered how did you know it was a girl?" Tim asked.
"I saw her." Mimi said hopping down. "When I first turned around she was standing like this." She walked to a wall and mimicked the girl's stance. "So her cloak was open and I could see what she looked like… except for her face."
"I only heard her voice… It was high like a girl's but a bit more sweet and less squeaky so it was a teenager's voice I think…" Damian said. "And it was kind of mischievous sounding too."
"… HOLY CRAP!" Dick said pulling up a hologram on his watch.
"What?" Stephanie asked.
"At yesterday's league meeting Conner and Kaldur both said something about their kids telling crazy stories. But Kaldur's sidekick is the world's biggest prankster and Conner's kids are six and three so he thought that it was just his six year old's imagination.
"Wait… you don't think that it could have something to do with YJ do you?" Tim said.
"What's YJ?" Mimi asked. Damian looked equally perplexed.
"Um… Well it's a team I use to be on… It consisted of the old justice league's sidekicks."
"Who all was on it?"
"Me, Aquaman who was at the time Aqualad, Flash who was Kid Flash, Superman who was Superboy, and two others you don't know." Dick said deciding not to get into the circumstances around Megan quitting and where Artemis currently was.
"Are you calling them?" Jason asked
"Those three."
"Why not Megan and RA?"
"Megan doesn't have a sidekick and RA wasn't a part of the team."
"He was with you guys around once a month right? Whoever this is may have gotten in contact with him. I know that.. uh … She… isn't really an option but this involves Meg too…" Stephanie said.
"Does RA have a sidekick? It sound like this person is going through them." Jason said
"… He's in contact with a younger hero in Star I think and he has a little sister who isn't involved but he may want to bring them anyway…" Tim said.
"Where are you going to have them meet you? We can't exactly have them all come here!" Jason said.
"We'll have to go to the hall, the watchtower or maybe the mountain if we want to look for this mysterious stranger." Dick said.
"You should take them with you guys." Jason said nodding to Damian and Mimi.
"You won't come?" Stephanie asked rather shocked.
"A month and three weeks."
"Oh yeah… But…" Dick had a sly smirk on his face.
"But what?" Tim asked him.
"Batman might be able to get him out on… special terms…"
"Good thinking." Stephanie said.
"Mimi come on we gotta go." Tim said.
"You too Damian come on." Dick motioned to the door."
"We'll see if you can come with Jason." Tim assured him. Stepping through the doors. They walked to the Arkham Asylum parking lot and got into the cars.
"Meet back here in twenty?" Stephanie asked.
"That works." Dick said.
"Mimi."
"Yeah Stephanie?"
"You're coming with us."
"Okay…"
"As Scarlet."
"Really!" She squealed with joy.
They got back to the apartment and ran to change. Stephanie put Damian's present on her desk and changed. Her costume was similar to the original scarlet's except for the mask which she had stolen one of Damian's domino masks (don't ask how she got it). The other one had been to hard to breath in and see through. She also had a skirt on since it made it a bit more innocent in her opinion. It came to her knees and she wore it over a copy of the original pants and boots. She ran out to meet Red Robin and Spoiler.
"Ready?"
"Yep."
"How good are you at traveling by rooftop?" Spoiler asked her.
"Um… ninety percent… I've never actually fallen but I'm a little slower."
"Works for me lets go." They traveled to the Asylum to see the Batmobile outside.
"Looks like they beat us." Mimi said.
She followed them inside where they saw Batman and Robin awaiting Jason. He came through the door and Mimi resisted the urge to wave at him.
"You certainly are popular today." The guard muttered to Jason. He smile weakly as the handcuffs were taken off him.
They went out. "We'll all ride in the batmobile." Batman said.
"Will we all fit?" Scarlet asked.
"You and I will have to squeeze into one seat since we're the smallest." Robin said.
"Or I could sit on someone's lap." The youngest replied.
"Smart thinking." Spoiler said.
They climbed in with Robin and batman in front and the backseats that nobody normally saw was filled in by the other four with Mimi on Jason's lap.
"Where are we going?" Scarlet asked.
"The hall of justice." Batman said.
"In Washington! like the capital! SO COOL!" The little girl pounced up and down.
"Stop squirming batman can get tickets too." Jason said trying to hold her still.
"Then why's he goin over the speed limit?" She asked.
Robin chuckled from the passenger seat. The girl had a lot to learn.
