Time to get another chapter up before I head back to work tomorrow. Soon I won't be updating so far and in between each chapter. My work schedule will be changing soon so I will be able to update at night again. Starting very soon, I will be able to update once a day at least. Anyway, in this chapter Damian, Suki and Dick are all alone at the house while Batman and Arcana are out. Dick sends Damian to bed so that Suki and Dick can talk, but Damian sneaks out because he hates being treated like a kid. They go to check on him and find out that he is gone.

Dick ends up getting a call from Arcana needing him and Suki to come and help out her and Batman, the two having been attacked by members of the Court of Owls. Batman has taken heavy damage, however keeps on fighting. Dick manages to patch him up. Damian has snuck in through the window.

Disclaimer: I don't own Batman or Arrow as they both belong to DC. I only own Suki and Monsterslut owns Katie, Luna and River.

Suki and Dick headed into the kitchen just as Alfred handed the two of them a plate of food with a jolly smile on his face. Damian was already sitting at the table eating when the two of them came in. He looked up and shook his head before he went back to eating.

"You know I am surprised that you two didn't stay down there in the Batcave for some loving."

Dick's face went beet red. "Excuse me you little demon! How the hell does a ten-year-old boy know about that stuff?"

Suki's face had gone as red as Katie's hair and she gazed down at the floor. She, like Dick, had no idea how even a kid his age would know something like that to begin with. When the two of them went to sit down on the barstools at the island bench, Damian got up with an empty plate and cleaned it off in the bin.

"I am going upstairs and heading to bed. It is late and I need to get some rest for tomorrow. I have school. You two can have the rest of the night to do what you want. Maybe head back down to the Batcave to do some training if you wish."

He headed upstairs as Suki and Dick both looked at each other, their faces were still red. They ate in silence whilst Alfred went around cleaning up the mess made from dinner, muttering about how Bruce and Katie were experts at neglecting to eat his fine cuisine or even telling him that they wouldn't be there for dinner. They finished eating as Suki looked up at Alfred and smiled.

"Alfred, the food was really good, thank you for dinner. Is there anything that I can do to help you out?"

He shook his head, a pile of cutlery in his hand. Dick knew how Alfred was and he would never let anyone of them help him out. He was one for never having help with anything that he did even when he and Katie had trashed the dining room a few years back from having a party whilst Bruce was away.

"No Miss Suki, you two go train or whatever it is you want to do. I will clean up and when Master Bruce and Miss Katie get home, make sure that they eat Master Dick."

He nodded as they both got up. Suki grabbed both of their plates and headed to the sink to clean them off but Alfred stopped to take them from her before he began to clean them off himself. Dick chuckled, he walked over to Suki and guided her back to the library. When they reached the library, he stopped and turned to her.

"So what would you like to do? Would you like to train or would you rather do something else? I mean there are so many movies here too if you want to watch one. Katie got sick a year back with some funky magical flu so she organised the movie library into genres and alphabetical order."

Suki laughed. "Some funky magical flu?" she quoted.

Dick shrugged. "Bruce stopped her when she decided they need to go into the year of production."

She smiled. Suki then turned her head to him. Something made her a little uneasy and she wanted to make sure that Damian was indeed asleep in his bed. She had heard from Katie that Damian liked to sneak out.

"I think before we do anything, maybe we should check on Damian. There is something that is making me feel strange. Katie told me that Damian likes to sneak out sometimes. I just want to make sure that he is in his room."

Dick nodded. Suki was certainly right, Damian did like to sneak off at night. He had snuck out one night and even stole the Batmobile which made Bruce really mad that he left like that. They headed upstairs and went to Damian's room. His hand slowly went for hers and they gripped each other tightly. She didn't pull away which surprised him. Dick slowly opened up the door to Damian's room only to find that it was empty. Dick sighed.

The window open, the curtains blowing in the breeze.

He turned to Suki. "Bruce is going to burst a blood vessel when he finds out. Come on we need to get going and find out where he vanished to."

She nodded just as his phone went off. He used his free hand to open the device, it was an emergency call from the Batcave. Dick was in no way surprised when Alfred spoke on the other end.

"Master Dick, Master Bruce needs you. I just got an emergency signal from his suit. Can you and Suki suit up and go to him. He needs some backup and Katie isn't answering her coms."

Dick looked back at Suki and even though he knew that she still needed training-a lot of training. But like Katie always said-there ain't nothing like a field test for the morale. Thinking about Katie though made him wonder why she wasn't answering her com and if she was alright as well or had she been hurt?

"We are going to head out to find Batman and Arcana, send me the coordinates of where the signal came from. The two of us will take it from there. Thanks Alfred."

He hung up as they both headed back down to the library. He knew that after they found the two Wayne's, they would have to regroup and look for Damian unless he came home before they did. They made their way down the elevator and into the Batcave. When they got to the Batcave, the two walked and Dick separated to grab his Nightwing suit. He looked at his phone to see the location on screen.

"Your costume is in the silver box on the bench," Dick pointed. "I know you bought one but Bruce and Katie got your specs from Oliver and fixed it up with Wayne tech like our is."

Suki frowned, nothing against Bruce or Katie but she wanted to use her suit. After all, she'd designed it. She wrinkled her nose and shook her head before walked over to pick up a bag that was in the corner and she smiled. "Don't worry I brought mine, I mean nothing against Bruce and Katie but there is memories attached to that suit of mine."

Dick nodded, he grabbed his suit and went to change in the back. He almost walked into Katie's part of the Batcave and stopped just inches from walking inside. He would not the same mistake that Tim did, so he went far away from her part of the cave and changed. Dick had to adjust his suit as it seemed a bit tighter than normal. He headed back and he found Suki already in her costume. She had her bow and quiver full of red and black feathered arrows. Dick chuckled seeing her with that and walked over setting her bow and quiver to the side.

"I know you are good with a bow and arrow," Dick grinned, "but you should try something else. Think of it as in the field now I can let you use a boe staff, I am sure Tim wouldn't mind anyways. It isn't that hard to figure out how to use it anyways."

She nodded and watched as he walked over to Tim's costume and pulled out a long pole and handed it to even walked over and grabbed a few other items that he felt that she would need while out in the field. He wanted to make sure that she was well prepared just in case they ran into trouble. Dick hoped that they wouldn't run into any trouble while they were out, but who knew at this time of night. He grabbed a utility belt from Katie's bits and bobs drawer (their similar stature was obvious) and put it on for her.

"I know that it doesn't exactly go with your suit, but this is more about making sure that you are safe and not for a fashion statement."

She nodded and look down just in time to see the belt glow and turn black with a red buckle at the front. "Okay, that's weird."

Dick sighed and rubbed his temple. "That's Katie in a nutshell."

Suki let him to fix her up with weapons so she would be safe, though now she began to think about it she should have picked the suit that Bruce and Katie had designed for her. She would think about that later as the two walked over to his bike and she got on behind him. Batman and Arcana had the Batmobile and her bike so if Suki didn't like riding with him on his bike, she could ride back with the Bat. When she got on, she wrapped her arms around his waist just as he revved up his engine and took off.

-XXX-

Nightwing made sure to head to the coordinates that was given to him. He floored his bike as fast as he could just to get there. If Batman was hurt, he didn't want to just leave him there while he he could be dying. When they arrived, it was just a normal museum.

Nightwing got off first. He helped Black Wolf off the bike and they took off inside.

The inside of the building was a mess. The two managed to find Batman lying by a statue beaten and bloody. They ran over to him. There were bodies everywhere. Black Wolf had seen the same costume on Talon and she looked up at Dick with worry on her masked face.

"I've seen these costumes before. They are the same as Talon of the Court of Owls. Batman must have had a run in with them, but where is Arcana?"

Nightwing picked up Batman and the Black Wolf went to help him carry him to the Batmobile. Nightwing put him gently in the seat. He set the car on auto pilot as he tried to contact Arcana from where they were at. He hoped that she would answer when he said that Batman was hurt and they needed to get him back to the house. After they stitched Batman up, the two of them would go out and look for Damian and now the missing witch of their group.

"Arcana, please come in. Batman is hurt and needs help. I may need your help to fix him up when I get him back to the house. Black Wolf and I have to go out and look for your nephew that decided to escape after telling us that he was going to sleep."

Black Wolf looked over, worry still firmly placed on her face. She walked over and looked at the Bat. She knew that they had to get him home before Batman got any worse. Behind her she could hear footsteps so she turned to see who it was. Arcana was standing there-clearly not happy and slightly puffed from running.

"Sorry it took so long and that I didn't answer," Arcana answered. "We came across Talon so the Bat's and I split up hoping to cover more ground. Why isn't BW wearing the costume that Batman and I designed?" she frowned. "It's the best of what science and magic can do blended together. Near impenetrable body armour lighter than a feather but stronger than metal. We can talk about that later, for now we need to get my brother home and fixed up."

The Black Wolf nodded as Nightwing went to get on the bike, ready to follow the Batmobile back to the Batcave as it took off. Black Wolf turned to her and looked at Arcana.

"I had wore my own out of habit, I mean I made mine and next time I will wear the one that you two have made me."

"Don't worry," Arcana shrugged. "Mine's made from the same material. Tweety Bird won't let me modify his out of worry I'll turn him into a toad or something."

"Do not call me Tweety Bird," Nightwing shot back.

Arcana stuck her tongue out at him.

As the Black Wolf got on behind Nightwing, she wrapped her arms around his waist, any thoughts she could have had about Katie and Dick ever being together were squashed purely because of the way they acted towards each other. Like Oliver and Thea they were. Nightwing revved the bike and took off as Arcana got on hers, following beside them.

-XXX-

Robin snuck into the mansion through the only open window, landing on the floor with a soft thud only to realise that they were in Katie's room. His was sitting in a chair next to a lamp and a table with medical supplies and herbs sitting on the surface. When Robin saw his wounded father, he was too shocked to notice that he was being glared at.

"And where do you think you have been Damian?"

Suki and Tim sat on the bed, Dick and Katie were one either side of Bruce sewing him up. He had a cut on his shoulder that Dick was sewing up and a wound on his arm that Katie was making in an attempt to prevent poisons or infection. Robin had took another step towards Bruce, a look of worry across his face.

"What happened to you? Are you alright?"

His voice was full of worry but Bruce clearly wasn't happy with his son, he shook his head dismissing the worry in his own son's voice.

"You don't get to ask questions right now, you snuck out yet again and do you really think that you have anything to say that could help you right now? I left Dick and Suki here with you to make sure that you didn't sneak out. No matter what, I am still your father and you are still my son."

Robin tossed his mask off and threw it on the bed as he glared at his father. Damian was probably the only one who could get up in his father's face like that (aside from the princess of course). Dick cut the threat that he was using to sew up Bruce and set it off to the side.

"You had us all fooled thinking that you were in here asleep. Suki and I were worried about you."

Damian shot Dick a glare as he pointed his finger at him. "Like you care, you are just an orphan who Bruce took pity on." He turned back to Bruce. "I maybe your son, but a biological accident doesn't make you my father."

Both Dick and Katie's eyes widened in shock. Bruce stood up and crossed his arms and looked down at his son.

"There is a school in Switzerland that deals with boys who have trouble with authority, keep it up and that will be where you will be going for the next year."

He walked out without another word as Dick followed him out right behind him. Suki followed Dick out right behind him as she closed the door behind her. Bruce rubbed his forehead in anger.

Dick walked over and placed his hand on Bruce's shoulder. "I did my own fare share of sneaking out at night, I mean he is just a kid."

Bruce turned to look at him as he shook his head. Suki was standing next to Dick shaking her head.

"Dick, those things are out there, what if they got to him while he was out? He doesn't understand what those things are. Besides he isn't you or Suki, both of you have loving family who loved you before you got to me. You at least have a heart."

Dick looked at Bruce a bit worried.

"Are you saying that Damian doesn't have a heart?"

Bruce sighed and shook his head.

"That is not what I mean, he was trained by his grandfather and fighting is all he has ever known. He doesn't know what love or what really anything is. I am trying to help him see that, but right now he doesn't understand. I thought I could help him Dick. I mean Suki, you know how Ra's is"

She nodded as she stood beside Dick she held his hand as she was clearly worried. Bruce looked between the two as Katie walked out of her room with Tim.

Tim headed off to his room and Katie walked over to Bruce twisting her hands inside each other, a lemon coloured woolen cardigan slung over one arm. She was definitely worried.

"Bruce, I have to tell you that Jason and I are going apartment hunting in the city," Katie told him. "We've a realtor meeting us in half an hour so I'll be back later on in the afternoon or even evening. Don't wait up for me."

Clearly she'd been hiding that one for a while.

She walked off down the hall Bruce balled his fist and punched the wall shocking both Suki and Dick when he put his fist through the plaster.