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Guys Weekend Out…

Donna chuckled as she tossed her mane of hair over her shoulder and double checked her purse, then knocked lightly on the door.

A lot had happened in the near year since she had come to man's world. It was not so bad, just very different, and she was kind of growing fond of it. Though she was ready to return home at a moment's notice.

The door opened and she smiled at Roy as he let her in. He was wearing a Hawkeye shirt, his red hair was standing on end, his sweats had stains on them and his feet were in bright pink fuzzy slippers. She thought he was adorable but left the thought unsaid as she walked in.

"Hey Donna," Roy yawned.

"DON!" a squeal shouted.

"My little Amazon!" she smiled as she bent down and snatched up Lian who smiled at her with a toothy grin and delight that was so purely absolute that Donna fought just taking the girl to Themyscira and never letting her leave. "We are going to have a delightful girls weekend with Raven, and it shall be wonderful, we might even talk Kori into coming!" she informed the little girl.

"Please just don't wreck the place," Roy said as he walked past her scratching his head. She smiled as she bounced Lian. She would never do that.

"How long do you and Jason intend to be on this job?" she asked rubbing her hand over Lian's back as the girl nuzzled her.

"Jay says a weekend, a week at most though," Roy shrugged. "You got all the numbers for Lian, and you know what to do, Rae will be here in the hour so… yeah, I'm grabbing a shower and changing then we're out," Roy gave her a slight grin. "Thanks for this Donna."

"Of course, I love this little one and will guard her with my life," Donna assured him.

"Uh… thanks, and I know you would."

"Now go, Lian and I have important, secret female warrior attack tactics to discuss!" she mused.

"Oh God… Oh, are you, um… you know, the offer?" Roy said uncertainly.

"I intend to speak to Raven before I decide, as this is more her home than mine, and then I wish to speak to Jason about it, then I will decide."

Roy nodded as he looked relieved.

Donna smiled at Lian as she walked to the designated kitchen to see Lian's other father with his dog, at the kitchen table nursing a coffee and looking three steps past dead.

"You look terrible."

"I wouldn't worry about it, princess, not all of us are drop dead gorgeous like yourself," he smiled charmingly.

"Why am I the Princess and Raven the Queen?"

"You're a real Princess, right, not the Queen yet?" he mused.

"Yes…" she managed.

"That's why gorgeous, when you get to be Queen you'll still be a princess," Jason chuckled as he ruffled Lian's hair and got up to leave her be. Ace trotted on Jason's heels.

Raven walked into Jason's room out of the shadows and was rummaging through her bag as she walked. She had been distracted packing for this weekend with Harley and Ivy prodding her weekend plans, Cass trying to track her to Jason's safehouse, and Stephanie calling to ask about the English 1O1 homework they had due on Monday. Which was stressing Raven out because she still had her math homework to complete this weekend and she was now talking to Donna and babysitting Lian and going to a dinner with Alice and her family.

When had life gotten so complicate?

At least things with Jason were simple enough. She just had to make sure Roy didn't let him do something too inanely stupid and they'd be good.

"Oof!" she grunted as she ran into a wall of something.

"Whoa!" a hand shot out and had her arm to keep her from falling back and she found herself staring at Jason's chest which had her blinking up at him.

"We have got to stop meeting this way, little bird," he smiled as he let her go.

"I didn't do anything! I was looking for my essay," she managed as she hopped into the air and started rummaging through her bag again. She had a printed copy she wanted Donna to edit because Donna was a merciless editor; if she was here for the weekend then she was going to be productive.

"You need to pay more attention little bird," Jason warned as he shoved her through the air to the bed, she fell onto it.

"I'm fine, you're fine, neither of us were hurt," she dismissed.

"With that attitude it's amazing you don't have more trouble."

"Before Bats I never had trouble," she said and pulled out her essay.

"Is that so?"

"That's a fact, Bats are magnets for troubles, and why aren't you wearing pants?" she asked noticing just then that Jason was wearing a towel only.

"Because I just got out of the shower," he stated.

"Oh," she blinked and now took in the wet hair then shrugged. "I hate math," she announced.

"Is that so?" he mused as he continued about his business.

"Yes, it is the apitimy of evil," she said as she opened her bag in search of her book again because that was due on Monday and she wasn't chancing the possibility of failing school though she had just started.

"Well, it's math, and if you need help, ask Tim, I think he's a genius," Jason shrugged.

"I was going to ask you," she admitted as he walked into the bathroom.

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm not doing the school thing, ever, Rae," he warned her and she groaned as she looked at the book.

"Jason, please!" she begged.

"N. O."

"Why not!?"

"Because you'll sucker me into helping you and Stephanie and that'll lead to Bats. No."

"Actually that's not why I was asking. And Stephanie's thing is math, I'm asking so I get out of math tutoring with Steph. I like Steph but she's not really a tutor, if you know what I mean," she sighed.

"Too energetic?"

"Too energetic."

"Fine. We'll talk after this job," he said walking out dressed and she breathed a sigh of relief.

"How is it that I got suckered into the school thing?" she muttered.

"Because your smart Rae, and you actually could have a life outside this life," he answered as he picked up his pack and started double checking it.

"I don't want a life outside the hero life, the civilian world is complicated. Cass threatened to beat up some poor boy who handed me his number," Raven balked. "I don't even get why he handed me his number, we don't have similar classes or anything, I just see him at the library!"

"Rae…" Jason groaned.

"No, No, I NEVER had this weird stuff happen when I get to be Raven, and humans are infuriatingly confusing!"

"I'm human," he chuckled as he checked a gun over.

"And you're normal, but civilian humans… they're weird."

"Sunshine, Bats aren't normal."

"Are you sure about that? because you seem pretty normal to me," she said honestly. She was so baffled with the civilian world that she was just going to stay in the hero world. Then she was now Rachel Roth, college student, and holy shit that was confusing! Her empathy was giving her whiplash in her confusion! Though at least this was better than that time she'd gone undercover with Tim at his school; that had been a true hell, and she still shuddered with nightmares of High School.

"Very abnormal," he assured her.

"Why would a guy give me his number? I get when heroes do it, it's for communication, but why do civilians do it?" she asked.

"Ask your brother," Jason advised.

"I did, and Victor said he would go knock some sense into the kid, which wouldn't help matters as far as I know," she said earnestly.

"You're more naïve than Kori!" Jason balked.

"I have landed on an alien planet and demand to just fight evil have pizza and not deal with this nonsense of civilian life!" she snapped as she stood on his bed.

"Sit down," Jason shoved her back which had her falling back onto the bed. "You and I are going to have a talk about civilians when I get back."

"Promise?"

"Yes."

"And the math!?"

"Fine!" he rolled his eyes at that.

"Thank you, minion!" she breathed a sigh of relief then.

"You'd be lost without me queen, and I'm the advisor, not your minion," he chuckled.

"I just let you think you're the advisor," she smiled then.

"No, I'm the advisor, not the minion, though we should make Roy the minion!" he decided.

"Very well, we shall recruit Roy into our nefarious dealings," she agreed.

"See, now I'll see you after the job," he promised.

"Jason."

"Hm?"

"Don't do something exceedingly stupid, please."

He smiled and walked out. She felt his grief for Zed still and sighed as she stood off the bed. Oh, she wanted to take that pain from him.

Jason had his gear and they were in the car and on the way to Gotham. He rubbed his brow as he stared at the road.

"Where do we start?" Roy asked.

"The safe house," Jason admitted.

"You got a safe house already?" Roy asked.

"Yeah, same ones I always have there," he shrugged. He hadn't had the heart to get rid of it after the Joker fiasco; mostly because he was running out of Gotham as fast as he could. But he had been paying to keep it. Well, he technically didn't have to pay for it, but owning the buildings through the shell companies but that wasn't… alright, he paid for them still.

"How many safe houses do you have?" Roy asked him.

"As many as I need."

"Dude, that's not an answer," Roy chuckled.

"It's the only answer you're getting."

"You do realize the whole cloak and dagger, mysteries routine with me won't work, right? We live together, have a kid and a dog, short of being hitched we spend way too much time together," Roy said.

"I wouldn't marry you for all the tea in China," Jason snapped.

"Why, am I not pretty enough?" Roy mused.

"I'm not into redheads, that was always more of Dick's thing than mine," Jason shrugged. He had never really liked redheads, but the mantle of Robin; at the time, had had a long standing flirtation with Barbara. Which honestly had mostly annoyed Jason, especially with how the world was falling apart and flirting was a part of the persona. It was annoying. Flirting was never his strong suit before his time as Robin.

"Your type wouldn't happen to be Amazon, curvy, with black hair would it?"

"You are in the program," Jason pointed out.

"I can look."

"Don't look, focus on rehab, and the program, and the jobs."

"Is that why you don't look?"

"We are not looking at my love life, ever."

"Why not?" Roy chuckled.

"Why is it a topic of interest all of a sudden?"

"Why wouldn't it be a topic of interest? We have a kid, a dog and live together but I know next to nothing about you," Roy said.

"I am letting your stay at my place, you don't need to know more about me!" Jason sputtered.

"Nine months!" Roy snapped.

"So what?"

"So, gimme something, we're now on a team mission together!"

"I like books," Jason said.

"You're no help."

"Why the fuck does it matter!?"

"I get more information from Dick," Roy sighed.

"We aren't friends so that's fine," Jason smiled. He didn't really want to think about Dick or them at all, he didn't want to worry about Lian and the girls, and he did not want Roy's unneeded information on Dick.

"You Are Impossible."

"I try."

"Why does Raven tolerate you?"

"When you figure it out, tell me because I have no idea," he sighed honestly.

Bruce looked up in his study that evening, he was reading over the final proposals of the day and saw his eldest standing there. Sitting up he brushed the papers aside as Dick walked in.

"Hey B," Dick smiled, he looked like he was thirteen then and about to get into mischief with Barbara, but that was another life. Mar'i was in his arms as he sat down and Bruce looked his eldest over carefully. "Duke seems to be taking to living here."

"Yes," Bruce answered uncertainly.

"Look B… I… uh… could you please take Mar'i for the weekend?"

"You collected your mother's ring," Bruce said.

"Um… yeah, yeah I did," Dick looked sheepish and Bruce softened as he stared at hi eldest for a long moment. He had watched Dick grow up from that cheerful kid, into a moody, complicated teen who loved Barbara with everything, and now he was a man. A man who was truly in love with an alien, warrior, princess, Koriand'r, and though Bruce did not particularly approve of the relationship he could see that what Richard had with her was once in a lifetime, real and vital.

"Are you sure?" Bruce asked softly.

"I'm not changing my mind!" Dick got defensive and Bruce smirked a bit internally.

"I ask because you can't take it back," Bruce said; he remembered when Dick was eighteen and had wanted to get the ring for Barbara. Just before the world went crashing to hell.

"I don't think I've ever been more sure of anything in my life," Dick admitted as he held Mar'i and looked nervous. "I'm… I'm not asking her cause of… you know, Mar'i, but I just… I love her B," Dick got a goofy smile on his lips.

Bruce nodded in understanding.

"I'll take Mar'i for the weekend," Bruce nodded.

"Thanks B!" Dick grinned.

"Dick, be sure," Bruce advised. Though he knew his eldest was sure as he accepted his granddaughter and he waited until Dick was out of the room before he smiled at Mar'i. He was always so fascinated with Mar'i, not in a way like he was fascinated with Helena, Terry or Damian, those were children of his blood.

But Mar'i, Mar'i was the daughter of his eldest. It was amazing, and he could find traces of Dick in the girl's appearance and her blooming personality. There was so much of Kori there too, and a lot of what he was coming to think of Mar'i's own personality.

It was fascinating. Just as fascinating as Terry, Helena or Lian.

Now he just had to get off Selina's shit list and life would be good. But he was still trying to figure out what exactly he had done wrong to upset her. It wasn't like she was making it easy and just telling him. Well, she had told him, but he hadn't exactly done what she thought he had done…

Raven stared at the wall as Donna was going over her paper, and she wanted to sigh in boredom, but she wouldn't. Lian was napping, and Ace was whining as he lay on her feet.

"You are very good at writing Raven," Donna said.

"I just need to pass, why is this so stressful!? I have saved the world, been in life and death situations and it's not this stressful!" she groaned as she rubbed the heels of her hands in her eyes. The stress was unsettling her father, and her mind was turning into another warzone. Then there was Stephanie and Cass who were proceeding to drive her insane. Though Cass less so than Stephanie; as Cass was rather good at being still and quiet and enjoying the silence. Also there was this new stress for her as a little girl with strawberry blonde hair kept popping up in her head; and that was not part of her dreamscape.

"You should not stress it, this is very good, few errors but fixable," Donna assured her.

"Thanks. But I'm stressing the math, not the English papers. Math SUCKS!" Raven sighed as she dropped her hands and stared at the wall.

"Raven… I wanted… I wanted to ask you something," Donna said.

"Okay."

"Roy offered for me to live here," Donna said handing back the paper.

"I know, Jay filled me in on that," Raven admitted.

"Would it… would it be improper for me to live here?" Donna asked her.

"I'm not the best one to ask about proper and improper," she admitted. "I only say that because I practically live here and steal all of Jason's clothes, am not his girlfriend, and continue to do so and have him slave away at the stove for me. So I am not the best person to ask about proper."

"Do you…?" Donna started.

"Look, Jason's okay with it as long as you're not near him, and Roy offered, Lian adores you, so if you want to talk to the guys about it then you'll have to pin them down and talk to them about it. As for me, I'm taking over a room here to hide from Jason's sisters."

"Really?"

"Cass and Steph are forcing me to go to school! Yes I'm hiding!" Raven admitted this shamelessly. Stephanie and Cass's gang up on her was so they could get Jason around, it wasn't working how they wanted so far. Jason wasn't likely to go to Gotham willingly unless he had a mission or the Joker was dead. And the second wasn't likely to happen so the first was really the only reason he'd go to Gotham. But the first was only a temporary way to get him there. Dragging him to the Manor required different skills, and they were apparently skills his family thought she possessed. Which she did not! She could no more make Jason do anything than she could alter a hurricane's path.

"You and Jason must be close for him to just accept you being here," Donna sighed wistfully.

"No, he accepts me because I accept him," Raven said. "I'm a genocidal demon, who can and has destroyed worlds. He's a very dangerous Bat who no one trusts. I see him for him, not what he's done, and THAT is why we accept each other. He does not like me being here, he accepts it though. Push him, judge him, be little him, that will have him keeping you away and have him wanting to leave you be. He's willing to let you be here though because Lian and Roy both like you."

"I just… I do not wish to impose."

"You won't be imposing. I'm pretty sure Jason doesn't mind you here so long as you sleep as far away from him as possible."

"I've heard them, you know, the screams," Donna whispered.

"Don't bring that up with him and you two will not have problems."

"Really?"

"Really. But if you're doing this to flirt with him or get close, I'm warning you now, he won't let you stick around."

"He's cute, but I do not think he is my type," Donna chuckled.

"And what's your type?" Raven mused.

"I'm thinking more redheaded."

"Mmm, taking a page from Dick's book I see," Raven mused.

"And you?"

"Undecided," Raven admitted as she got up to put the dishes in the sink. She hadn't dated enough to have a type, and she was too fucking busy to want to date. She could probably happily live and die single. It made her life easier.

"Oh, I have a dinner this weekend, tomorrow actually, so I'll be going to that, you have Lian then. I should be back in a few hours though," Raven said as she finished the dishes.

"A dinner? With whom? A date!?" Donna grinned.

"No, a family thing though I should dress up," she groaned then. Fuck, there went her plans for jeans and a blouse, she would actually have to look nice.

"Does Jason know?"

"Yes, as does Victor, my moms, and B, probably Cat and Dick too if I'm honest, and Kori will know when she calls me in an hour," Raven said.

"So it's not a date," Donna sighed.

"Why would it be a date when I said it was a family thing?"

"M'gann used the family excuse to cover up hers and Conner's date," Donna said.

"And how'd that work out for them?" Raven chuckled.

"Not very well as M'gann is pregnant," she admitted. Raven sighed. The drama for that pregnancy was not unknown in the Titans as Martian pregnancies lasted for a Martian year (six hundred and eighty-seven days, give or take) and according to Kara a Kryptonian's recorded pregnancy before they had ceased to do natural births, was roughly the equivalent of an Earth year. Lois even admitted to being pregnant for a year with Jon. So, M'gann was in for a long pregnancy either way, and she had just started.

"Well, I'm not going on a date, I'm attending a family thing I don't want to go to," Raven said.

"Then why go?"

"Curiosity." She answered. Then she paled. "I've been hanging around the Bats too long," she sighed as she scratched her head.

Donna laughed.

Jason sighed in relief at arriving at the safehouse and not having something terrible happen like the Joker busting out of prison.

"Well this is… well stocked," Roy observed.

"It's a World War II bunker," Jason admitted. Right beneath the precinct of Gotham Police.

"What the fuck!? And no one uses it!?" Roy sputtered.

"No, pretty sure they forgot about it," Jason said earnestly. Didn't matter, no one used it and it was linked into his own personal network. Jason was the Red Hood, he had networks offline of the normal networks that the Bats knew about, the JL monitored, and other Supers knew to look for. He could do this, enjoy the time of no pain and accept the job. He could do the job. He was great at the job.

"Okay, so where are we starting?" Roy asked, Jason turned on the power, and watched as his system rumbled to life. "This is like Oli, Felicity, Digg and I's first bunker," Roy grinned. "Not as… technical as Felicity would like."

"I am not into tech," Jason admitted. He didn't like tech, it felt too exposed, especially with people like Babs and Felicity in this world. But it would have to do.

"Well, where are we starting?" Roy repeated.

"Black Mask has an incoming shipment, coming in tomorrow evening from Metropolis by train. I'm thinking it's from LexCorp," Jason admitted as he started pulling the information up. Roy just nodded as he started looking it over.

"I guess it's true, Lex is going to run for presidency, these shipments are massive, and look like they are probably his illegal projects," Roy said.

"That much I have figured, they are too large to be just equipment. Also a few of my sources have said that there's been a big bidding war under the table for some equipment," Jason admitted. He didn't say employees because he didn't think of the men in his organization as employees. It was hard enough thinking of them as scum most the time.

"Well, looks like Black Mask is trying to move up and out of Gotham. Say, wasn't his dad some big time international mobster or something?" Roy asked.

"Before Selina gutted him, yes," Jason admitted.

"Selina gutted Richard Sionis?" Roy blinked.

"B can't prove it, but we know she did it because he tried to steal her neighbor's kid, Holly."

"I'd say that's cold, but she's the Cat," Roy shrugged.

"Damn right."

"So wat are you thinking?"

"Attacking the tracks is too exposed, but they'll be going to this warehouse; this is the largest area for the size of product Black Mask is attempting to move that he owns," Jason said as he pointed on the map.

"So we attack there."

"Yeah."

"The problem is all these," Roy gestured to the surrounding containors there, and the other warehouses. "What are these?"

"They're mine and they'll be empty," Jason shrugged.

"No shit!?"

"Red Hood. I am a crime lord," Jason pointed out bitterly. He felt that controlling the crime was what was making it go down just a little bit, though he was still working heavily on it. Interupting his own operations against human trafficking, animal trafficking, and arms smuggling was difficult though. They were being slowly destroyed though; not that his organization knew that. The All-Castes had taught him many things, but the one thing they taught better than the League of Assassins was discipline and invisibility.

The League of Assassins were too well known, members while challenging to identify were easy to spot if one knew what they were looking for. The All-Caste though… he was the last of them, and he was the best of them before they had been destroyed.

"I forget about that because you're so anti-crime at times."

"I'm not anti-crime, I'm anti-stupidity, and most criminals are stupid," Jason stated. However, others, they were in crime not because they wanted to, but because the didn't want to starve. Those criminals he took pity on and set them up with legitimate jobs, or places to be. He might be a crime lord, but he was just as clean as he was dirty. His operations were also brilliantly hidden right in front of the Bats, so they didn't know.

"Well, that's a valid statement," Roy shrugged. "If they want to keep this incoming quiet then they'll probably move the cargo through here, it's concealed enough to provide cover from the Gotham blimps, and be quiet enough. The think is the cops, there's a precinct not five blocks from the docks."

"Cops are dirty, almost all the ones in this precinct belong to Black Mask, minus a few good ones, but they won't respond to the docks alone," Jason said.

"Why not?" Roy asked.

"Because the docks are like Crime Alley, it's where you go to die," Jason answered. It's why the Bats normally had the docks, but Crime Alley, well, even the Bats stayed out of there.

"Why the fuck is this city so corrupt?" Roy sighed.

"Because it is, now focus, I'm seeing three optimal ins," Jason said as he gestured to the map. He spent twenty minutes going over the breeching ideas with Roy, and this… this was the first time in a very LONG time that he had someone on his team. Jason remembered the last time he'd been on a team, and it had been so long since then. It was kind of odd. And it was kind of nice at the same time.

Still very odd, but that was okay if he thought about. Beat being alone for some reason.

And he'd been alone for so very long he had forgotten what teams were like.

Her eyes opened when she heard the low thundering sound of man's world's machines and she stood. Gaining her feet, she decided she would not attack it here, but she would go with it to where ever it was going and then attack whoever was at the end of the line. She would find the Bow of Ra, and she would destroy the sorceress. She was more than willing to do that.

The brilliant yellow engine rounded the bend and she rushed it. Moving swiftly she charged the machine before leaping up, she saw the whites of the man's eyes as she flew over the machine.

Biting her lip in concentration she sought out that power again, the sweat beaded on her brow, and she desperately reached. Stretching her mind as far as it could go, but she could not feel that power, she could not sense the woman.

"We are going, now," Circe spoke which had her gasping as her eyes flew open and she fell back on the bed. "Pack your things pet."

"Y-Y-Yes ma'am," she stammered, she looked at the Amazon who stood there like a zombie.

"Shim'Tar will aid you, be quick about it," she ordered.

"Where are we going?" she asked weakly as she got to her unsteady feet.

"To make the preparations, now hurry along, we mustn't dally here," Circe said as she tossed her heavy purple hair aside which had her sighing. She could escape.

Yet.

She would find that mind again.

Raven looked at Donna as she stood there in a dress. Donna had Lian in her lap.

"I look ridiculous," she stated to the Amazon.

"Well, it is in my size and the dinner is in an hour, you and I do not have enough shopping time, and Kori could take you but she's not answering the phone," the princess stated.

Raven sighed, and looked herself in the mirror.

"We put a jacket on and the family will be none the wiser," Donna said.

"I still don't want to go," Raven muttered.

"You are going," Donna stated.

"I have homework due on Monday!" Raven protested.

"It's dinner, not war."

"Maybe I'll get lucky and Jason will call with some emergency," she wistfully hoped. Azar above, get her out of this dinner.

"Turn around, I'll finish securing the back," Donna said.

Raven did as she was told before Donna nimbly pulled the dress a bit and safety pinned it, then braided Raven's hair. Picking up the jacket she had gotten from Jason she pulled it on and flipped her braid out.

"Presentable now?" she asked.

"Yes, and when you get back we shall have ice cream and movies as you help me select a room here," she smiled.

"Deal. I want cookie dough ice cream though, and none of that Dreyers stuff. The good stuff Donna!"

"Deal!"

"Good, and I'll call Kori tonight," she promised as she walked into the shadows and walked out of them in Water Mill, Long Island, New York. She looked at the address she had gotten and then at the big farm house.

Here goes nothing, she thought as she walked up the stairs and knocked on the door.

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy I've Got the Umbrella! =)