Chapter: 7
"Ziva took this guy down?" Tony asked in disbelief, mentally comparing his female teammate to the behemoth in the interrogation room.
"Well Dick smashed him over the head with a lamp but essentially yes, Ziva caught this guy." Timothy didn't take his eyes off of the bulky man. "Apparently Ubu here was the guy who grabbed Dick last time as well."
"So he comes back to finish the job." Tony said, connecting the dots. "How much steroids does someone have to take to get that big?" he subconsciously squeezed his own biceps.
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Gibbs sat in front of the man who broke into one of his agents' house. Not only that, but the same house held his eight year old victim. The same eight year old that got kidnap not once, but twice by the dirt bag in front of him.
"You can't keep me here, I've done nothing wrong." Ubu growled, foot tapping on the floor in impatience.
"Breaking and entering, assault of a federal agent, and a lead suspect in the case of a juvenile kidnapping and murder of a naval officer. Should I continue?" Gibbs flipped open the rather thick file in front of him.
"I thought it was my house, easy mistake." He defended but the lie was laughingly clear. "As for your alleged kidnapping and murder charges, well I have no idea what you are talking about."
"I have an eye witness that says otherwise." Gibbs slid a copy of Dick's sketch in front of him.
"…hmmm, فإنه سيكون من العار إذا حدث شيء ل شهادتكم."(1). Ubu leaned back in his chair, a predatory smirk aimed at Gibbs. "I'm sure you'll soon find that I have nothing to do with your case, Agent Gibbs."
"Is that so." Gibbs stood with a flourish, buttoning a single button on his jacket as he leisurely made his way behind his suspect, the folder firmly gripped in his hand. He laid out the autopsy picture of Kevin O'Neil on top of the sketch. "I'm sure he'd say otherwise." Ubu turned his eyes aside but Gibbs continued. "What did you do as a child got broken bones? Did you just stand there and watch? Maybe you even joined in." he punctuated each point by tossing photos of Dick's more extensive injuries onto the table, each one making the man turn his head further away from them. "Look at them! What did you do?" Gibbs slammed Ubu's head flat against the interrogation table.
"I laughed." Ubu grinned even wider before startling to chuckle. By the time Tony and McGee rushed into the interrogation room the chuckle turned into full out laughter. "فما استقاموا لكم فاستقيموا مشاهدة هذا الطفل لديك في وكيل خاص رعايتك، لأنه لن يكون هناك لفترة طويلة!" (2)
Gibbs paused at the door and turned slightly to look at him, ignoring Tony and McGee's alarmed looks. "سأكون رؤيتكم مرة أخرى." (3) the special agent smirked at the man's jaw dropped look before taking off down the hall, after all, there was an eight year old with a hit on his head that he needed to take care of.
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"Is Roy and Ace still ok?" Dick asked, legs swinging back and forth as he sat on top of the bottom of the boat.
"I had Ziva tell Roy about the situation and Abby said that Ace is as happy as ever, if not a bit restless." Gibbs pulled the string for the light and placed a pile of files onto his worktable as the light flickered on.
"I bet he's getting all wriggly!" Dick giggled and slid into the boat through an unfinished gap in the side of the boat. "He and Bruce gets all overprotective if they can't see me for more than five minutes."
"Bruce?" Gibbs questioned even though he knew the answer.
"Bruce Wayne, he adopted me a few months ago." Dick leaned on a support beam. He grew a bit quiet as he could see the unasked question in Gibbs' eyes. "He got Ace only a week after my adoption. He said that Ace was there to protect me when he couldn't. I wish Bruce was here right now though…maybe then those five people wouldn't have died because of me. I should have stayed at the manor instead of going to Bab's."
Gibbs moved away from his work bench to kneel in front of the child. "It wasn't your fault."
Dick's blue eyes bore straight into Gibbs', "That's what they said about my mom and dad too."
"They?"
"Bruce, Alfred, Timmy, Jay, Dami, Barbra, Leslie, Roy, Barry, Wally, pretty much everyone who's close who knows the story." Dick's eyes wandered to his feet. "We were the Flying Graysons, we did the trapeze in Haley's Circus. A mob boss named Tony Zucco was harassing Pop Haley for money and when Mr. Haley told him no well, he loosened the bolts on the trapeze wire's and…" he shrugged. "When Bruce took me in, the only thing I could think of was taking my revenge on Zucco, I wanted to make him pay for what he did."
"But you didn't." Gibbs stated.
"No." Dick looked back up and quirked the side of his mouth in a half smile. "Bruce was the one who managed to convince me not to kill him…I almost did though. I tracked him down and cornered him, I dunno what happened but the last thing I could remember is kneeling on top of Zucco's bloody body and wanting to kill him…but then Bruce came up and managed to convince me otherwise. Right now he's rotting in a jail cell in a maximum security prison."
Gibbs eyed the boy in front of him, so young but having such a past so close to his own yet able to keep a level head, he was truly spectacular. "You did a good job, not killing him. I wasn't so lucky to have someone like Bruce to help me."
Dual blue eyes but of different shades met in understanding, "what happened?"
"My wife and daughter were both killed instantly in a car crash that was caused by a sniper killing the driver. My wife was supposed to testify in court as a witness to a murder. They were placed in witness protection but it didn't help like it was supposed to."
Dick stared at the much older man in front of him for a moment before hopping off of the boat. He stretched onto his tiptoes and wrapped his arms around Gibbs' neck, "It's ok. It's not your fault either."
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"Father, Grayson is still in NCIS custody and your still in Barbados." Damian stared flatly at the man on the screen. They both knew that if he wanted to be back in the United States that he'd be there already.
"I'm not in Barbados." He responded instead of answering the obvious why.
"Are you on your way back?" Damian asked confused.
"No." oh how infuriating the Bat could be. Seeing his brother's twitching eye Tim stepped in.
"Jason reported to Ubu being in NCIS custody, their online records verify it as well. Dick is currently staying at an Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs' house." Tim reported.
"Did you say Gibbs?" Bruce asked, hand resting on his chin in thought.
"Yea, you know him?"
Bruce was silent for a moment before, "I'll check in later." And the screen went black leaving the two thoroughly confused.
"I'm going to Grayson first thing tomorrow." Damian declared, straightening his posture in an attempt to look menacing.
"You wish, I'll go. You can wait here for Bruce's call." Tim took a step up to him.
Damian narrowed his eyes, "Fine, we'll settle this like we always do."
"Fine by me." Tim narrowed his eyes back.
"Rock, paper, scissors!"
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The next morning found Gibbs sitting across from the still half-asleep acrobat. They both had a bowl of cereal in front of them and a glass of orange juice. Gibbs didn't bother to hide the smile that overcame his usually blank expression when Dick almost face-planted into his food because of how tired he still was. A stab of guilt hit Gibbs for having to wake him up so early but he had to head into work soon and the unfortunately meant that Dick had to come with him.
Dick was working on his the third near miss with his cereal bowl when the doorbell rang. Gibbs was instantly on his feet with his gun out and a now-wide-awake Dick secured behind him. His gun never wavered as he took silent steps to the front door to peer through the peep hole before huffing out a sigh and swinging the door open, though his gun had yet to be lowered.
"NCIS put your hands up and step away from the door." He shouted the moment the barrier of wood was out of the way.
"Whoah! We come in peace!" the sudden familiar voice had Dick gasping and scuttling out from behind Gibbs to launch himself at the newcomers.
"Dick!" Gibbs protested and shot out an arm to pull the child back to safety, but missed.
"TIMMY! DAMI!" the acrobat squealed in delight, latching an arm around each of his brothers' legs.
"Tt, Grayson relinquish your hold on my appendage." The taller more gruffer looking one huffed out.
"Hey Dick are you being good for the agents?" the other male asked, bending down to look over the younger. Gibbs didn't miss how his eyes narrowed at the child's still painfully obvious injuries.
"Drake stop frolicking around with Grayson when we have a gun still aimed at us."
"Oh, I'm so sorry." A hand was produced. "My name is Timothy Drake and the dark one over there is Damian Wayne, we're Dick's older brothers."
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Bruce was starting to get worried, no one was answering his calls to the cave. He needed Damian and Tim to go to Dick right away. Ras Ahl Ghul was not a man that was usually deterred and now that Bruce had uncovered what the immortal really wanted, Dick was going to need everyone's help. He might even need to call in the Justice League for this one…Bruce shook his head, no. They weren't needed, he still had the situation under control. He just hoped Dick would be safe while he's otherwise preoccupied. Someone had to take down Ras, and he sure as hell wasn't going to let his sons anywhere near the madman.
A/N: How was everyone's Easters? Good spring break? I updated much faster this time as an apology for the slight mishap. Forgive me? I love you guys DX
Princessalexandra0201- yea now that his brothers are around he's gonna be way more mischievous.
Ellamana- of course I'll finish this, I just had to do a few (lot) filler chapters cause I sorta…kinda…maybe haveforgottenwhatihadforaplotsoineededtostall, but! I remembered so now everything's back on track.
Guest- glad you're whelmed, stay traught =)
Nebelkind- I'm glad you like it, heeeeere's Dami! XD
Alexandria-likethecityinEgypt- Thou is now….IMMORTALIZED! Lol, Yea Jason's pretty BA as Red Hood and I love writing him being the older protective brother to a younger Dick, it's just too much fun.
Translations-
(1)- It would be a shame if something happened to your witness.
(2)- I'd watch that child you have in your care special agent, because he won't be there for long.
(3)- I'll be seeing you again.
These were translated via google translate so sorry for any inconsistencies.
Sorry again for the month mishap. I don't own NCIS or Young Justice, review please~! See you guys hopefully soon.
