I am so sorry for not updating so long. My older sister just got back from college and she's taking back her room, so I have to go back to sharing with my little sister. *shutters* Well, here's the chapter!
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Tim POV
I always imagined what my dad would be like. I thought, maybe he would look a little bit like me, and perhaps he would be slightly distant, but still be nice. My imagination was actually kind of close, but I never thought he would be Batman. Well, at least I was right about the distant part.
"How much did you hear?" I asked quietly.
"Enough to get Jason and Dick in trouble." He said, stepping into the room.
I nodded, biting my lower lip. "Hey, Timmy, Jay said... oh shit." Dick said with wide eyes as he climbed through the window with Jason who had wide eyes as well.
"You knew." Batman said, glaring at the two oldest.
"Yeah. I think that's kind of obvious B." Jason said, not showing any emotion. Not much scared me, but seeing Jason like this, it freaked me out. Jason was usually mad, smirking, or teasing, but he was never emotionless.
"It's not their fault. I asked them to not tell for 2 weeks so I could get used to all this." I said, gesturing around to everyone in the room.
Dick and Jason looked at me like I was crazy for taking the blame, but who knew, maybe I was. After all, what sane person would admit to doing something the Batman didn't like in front of the Batman himself?
Batman pinched the bridge of his nose, and he sighed. "We're all going to the cave. Now." He ordered, looking at me like he was daring me to say no.
"Whatever you say B. Hold on, kid." Jason said, picking me up and running towards the cave full speed.
I laughed as the wind rushed through my hair and snagged at my cloths. The sad thing with Jason running so fast, the ride was over in a matter of seconds, and the fun ended with it. So when we got to the cave, the air musty and dank, I pouted when he had to put me down. "Seriously, you will be the only one to pout over the ride being over." Jason chuckled, ruffling my hair with his gloved hands.
"I still don't get why no one else likes it." I said, fixing my hair.
"I believe that has to do with the sanity of others." I heard a familiar voice say behind me.
I turned around and saw Alfred behind me with a plate of his cookies I remember him always baking. Apparently I wasn't the only one to remember the other, because Alfred paled deathly white when the others made it to the cave, including Damian.
"I see you have finally found Master Timothy." Alfred said to Batman after a few moments.
Batman nodded and gestured for me to walk to a Med. Bay. I looked at him confused, but followed. I wasn't hurt, and he couldn't take a blood test to check if I really was his Tim. So what was he doing?
He made me sit down on a medical table with a girl in a wheel chair next to him, bringing in some things like needles, and other stuff. The thing was, I didn't recognize her from my memories or Jason's. She wasn't even remotely familiar. Who was she?
"What are you going to do? You can't tell if we're related through a blood test." I said, fidgeting on the table nervously.
"There is 30 trillion red blood cells in our bodies, about 10 thousand of them are our original blood cells." Batman said, cleaning the needle.
"But how would you be able to locate them, let alone compare them to yours? Isn't that impossible?" I asked confused.
"We've been working on locating blood cells for a while." Batman said simply.
"Can you roll up your sleeve?" The girl asked, taking the needle from Batman so he could talk to Jason and Dick, both of my older brother's having a look of dread.
I froze slightly, then rolled it up enough so she could see the vein to put the needle in. "Can you just, try not to touch my skin? Please?" I asked with a pleading look.
"Yeah. Is your power triggered by touch?" She asked. Her hand clasped mine as she poked the needle into my arm. I sighed in relief when she didn't touch my arm, but grimaced when I felt the memories of the needle come into my brain. But since it was only touching my arm just a little bit, I could focus on something else to take my mind off the memories.
"Yes. What's your name? I don't really remember you." I asked with a frown.
"Barbara, and I wasn't around before you went missing, so you wouldn't remember me." Barbara said with a smile as she drew my blood.
"Yeah, that would make sense." I said as I shivered from the memories the needle was sending me. Different people getting their blood drawn like Batman, Jason, Dick, and Damian all popped up in my mind with clips of conversations. I shook my head to try to get rid of the memories, and let out a shaky breath.
"Are you alright? Your shivering." Barbara asked as she pulled the needle out.
"I'm fine. And you don't need to put on a band-aid, I'm not bleeding much." I said, pulling down my sleeve.
"Okay." She said, giving me a weird look. She put the blood sample into the computer to analyze, then turned back to what she was doing before.
"What are you doing?" I asked as I watched her shuffle some tarot cards.
"Well, I've heard that seers can channel their energy through the tarot cards. I've been trying but it's hard." Barbara said with a sigh.
"That's because you're doing it wrong." I said.
She turned her wheelchair to face me and asked, "How would you know?"
"Well, I've done it before, and the past and present cards were always right." I said with a shrug.
She passed me her cards, and demanded," Show me."
"Okay." I said simply before starting to shuffle.
I felt energy flow through my body as I shuffled, and I laid down the cards on the medical table "You know, you don't have to flip them over." I said, looking up at her.
"Well, I have to make sure you weren't lying about being right." Barbara said with a smirk.
"Yeah, but the thing you have to realize about tarot cards, the cards aren't always good." I said with a frown.
Barbara flipped the past card over, and the Star card was shown. "You do know what the Star card means, right?" I asked, hoping not to have to explain.
"Yeah. It shows that I thought I lost something in the past when I really didn't lose anything." Barbara said, turning a little pale.
She flipped the present card over, and The Lovers card was shown, making me blush. "Um, you know what this one means too, right? Because I do not want to be the one to explain that card." I said awkwardly.
"Yeah, I know what it means." Barbara said with a laugh, looking over at Dick getting lectured with Jason.
She flipped the future card, showing that it was the Empress card. "This one I don't know. What does this one mean?" Barbara asked as I blushed as red as her hair.
"Um. The Empress is supposed to symbolize creation and the giving of life. More or less, it basically means your having a kid." I said, blushing even harder.
She blinked at me, then laughed. "Well, you got the first two right, lets just hope the last one is right too." She said with a smile.
I nodded with my blush fading slightly. The computer beeped, showing that it was done analyzing my blood. "It's a 100% match, Bruce." Barbara said to Batman who had looked over at us for the results.
Batman looked at me with a slightly surprised look, but then it turn hard. I looked away from his hard gaze, fidgeting slightly on the medical bed. "Told you." Dick said with a smile, turning Batman's attention to him and not me.
I sent him a grateful look and looked at everyone else. Damian was glaring at me like I was a pest, but I just glared back at him. What right did he have to glare at me? He didn't know me, not anymore anyways. "So you did. Alfred, will you prepare a guest bed room till a more permanent room can be made?" Batman asked, looking at the butler who was smiling a little.
"Of course, Master Bruce. Please follow me, Master Timothy." Alfred said, turning towards me.
I nodded, blushing slightly from being called 'master'. When I had looked into Jason's memories, Alfred had called me that all the time, but it was weird to be called that now when I've been used as an experiment and a punching bag by Ra's. Oh well, I guess I would just have to get used to it.
Alfred led me up the stairs to the batcave, and I heard sounds of yelling behind my back as we disappeared from eye sight. "Alfred, is me being here going to cause a problem?" I asked, looking up at him nervously.
"No, I believe Master Bruce is just mad that he was not told about you before. He is very overprotective like that." Alfred said with a sigh. I blinked, then nodded. While overprotective wouldn't have been a word I would have used, it did feel nice to think that he cared about my well-being.
I looked around the manor hallways we passed through, each one making the manor seem more and more like a huge maze. "How does anyone get around this place without getting lost? It's huge!" I said when we turned to another hallway.
"Well, you knew most of this place when you were 5, I believe you will know most of this place soon enough." Alfred said with a chuckle.
"Maybe, though I don't remember knowing this place. Memories are a foggy thing for me." I said with a shrug.
Alfred frowned at that, but he looked like he wasn't too surprised by it. "Sadly, that was expected of you, if you were ever found." Alfred said, stopping at a door.
He opened it, showing a room with dark blue walls, a twin sized bed, and a black dresser. The room was empty of anything else, like it was waiting to be filled. "This was your old room. I thought it would be appropriate for you to have it back after the 5 years you've been missing." Alfred said as I walked in.
"This was my room? I never really thought of me having a blue room. That seems a little bit more like Dick." I said thoughtfully. Honestly, I liked red and gold a little bit more, but that was probably because of my wings.
"You were more like Master Richard when you were a toddler. We were hoping you would grow out of it. As wonderful as Master Richard is, we do not, and never will, need another one." Alfred said.
I laughed a little, then sat down on the edge of my bed. The bed was 100 times softer and better than the thin cot I slept in at the bell tower. I actually almost feel asleep on it right then and there. But I didn't, because that would be embarrassing. Plus, I was hungry. So hungry that my stomach growled.
"If you are done looking at your room, I will take you down to the dining room now." Alfred said with a gentle smile as I blushed.
The walk to the dining room was just as confusing as the walk to my room, but I at least knew how to get half way to my room now. "Figured you come down here at some point." Jason mumbled from the dining table where he was drinking something out of a cup.
Vampires blood always deplenished quickly, making the need for us to drink blood. However since most of our bodies, just like humans, was made out of water, we still needed to drink that. The point to all this info, I had no idea what Jason was drinking in that cup. "What are you drinking? It smells weird." I said, wrinkling my nose a little.
"Jason calls it a Bloody Mary. Really it's just a mixture of beer and blood heated up. Kind of like a hot totte, only it uses blood to sweeten it up instead of honey or sugar." Dick explained from where he was drinking a glass of dark blood that made me drool a little.
"Oh. That's why it smells weird." I said, looking over at Alfred, who was handing me the a glass of blood like Dick had.
I took it from him, drinking a little bit out of it before sitting next to Jason. "So, what was it Jason said I needed to see?" Dick asked as Alfred left.
I paused drinking the blood in my cup, then gulped down my drink before setting down my cup. "I don't really think there's any easy way to tell you." I mumbled.
"Okay then, show me." Dick said with a shrug.
I looked over at Jason nervously, and he nodded. I slid off my seat and walked to Dick. "Just... look down the back of my shirt." I muttered, blushing like crazy.
Dick looked at me confused before looking down my shirt when I turned around. He gasped seconds later, and I felt fingers touch my wings. "You know, my wings are actually really sensitive. So could you please not touch them?" I asked, my wings shifting in my shirt.
"Oh yeah, sorry. But why do you have them in the first place?" Dick asked, looking really freaked out.
"Ra's." I said simply, sitting back in my seat to finish my drink.
Dick paled, then set his own glass down. "I don't understand. Why would he want to do that to you?" Dick asked.
"I'll let you know when I find out." I said, glaring down at the table.
"So, you really think Bruce will let me live here?" I asked after a while.
"Well, he told Alfred he would make an permanent room, so I think that's a yes." Jason said with a smirk.
I smiled at the thought, sipping the blood in my cup.
Of course fate just hates me enough that I can't enjoy this moment with my brothers, because seconds later, my vision blackened out.
It felt like I was floating around in this darkness, my eyes closed so I didn't have to see the vision I knew would be above. But fate hated me, so of course it would have Barbara here to tap my shoulder to make me look at her.
"Tim, what are you doing here?" Barbara asked confused.
"My guess, to watch this." I said, pointing to the scene playing above us.
Above us was all of us at Ra's palace. I widened my eyes when I saw Cass and Steph there as well and gasped. What would Steph and Cass have to do with Ra's?
"Make up your mind, Timothy. It's either your freedom or these two girl's lives along with your families. What will it be?" I heard Ra's say as 2 of his ninja's held knifes at their throats.
My future self looked around at the scene around him. All of the bats were locked inside an iron cage, looking at what was happening in front of them. Then, just like that, the vision was over.
"Timmy, are you okay?" I heard Dick say when I opened my eyes to the present.
"What?" I asked confused.
"You've been staring at your glass for a while, kid. Dick was asking if you were okay?" Jason said, giving me a concerned look mixed with protective.
"Oh, yeah. I'm fine. Just... thinking." I said with a nod.
"Okay, if you say so." Dick said with a frown. Jason narrowed his eyes at me, but didn't ask anything. Good. Because, honestly, I didn't know what to say.
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