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Firstly: I'm sorry it took me so long to update.
Secondly: This chapter takes place after Alpha Male, before Revelation.
Thirdly: In Revelation (which was awesome cuz it had Joker and Ivy, who I love because of her *cough* special spores.) it showed who the light is composed of, so let's just pretend that there is an eighth member who is my OC Alex (Cee's, maybe, ex-boyfriend).
Fourthly: This is a filler chapter whose main purpose is to introduce Alice, the chapter after next is more actiony and is more in-depth about Scarlet.
"Cee things are starting to spiral out of control. Red Tornado was able to take all of out in seconds imagine what could be done now that he's in the hands of the enemy. Not to mention there might be another mole in the team," I said to the black stone; after you got over the oddity of talking to a rock it was exactly like talking to a phone, except it couldn't be tracked.
"Dick I don't know how the robots got into Mt. Justice any more than I know how Cadmus got the codes and DNA for Superboy. However I have a bad feeling that Alex has got something to do with it," Cee replied her voice echoed in the stone.
"What makes you say that?" I said as I worked on my tie, stupid monkey suit.
"He's been unusually quiet lately. In fact I haven't seen him in a full two months."
"Yeah, but I don't know if that exactly incri—"
"Come on Dick the party starts in ten minutes," Bruce yelled from the bottom of the stairs his voice slightly muffled from the closed door of my bedroom.
"Coming Bruce. My tie was putting up a fight, sorry," I yelled back turning towards the door. Then I turned back to the rock, "Sorry Cee gotta go."
"Don't worry I heard. I'll see you soon alright Robin?" I smiled at my nickname and almost missed the double entendre in her voice.
"Cee what are you planning?" I said wary.
"Nothing devastating I promise, now hurry up you're going to be late," I could hear the smirk in her voice.
"We can talk later right, because I haven't told you what happened with Aqualad" I asked.
"Of course now go!" Cee said before she cut the connection.
I put the stone on my bedside table running out the door and down the staircase. As soon as I reached the spiral section of the staircase I gave up the stairs and slid down the railing.
"What took you so long?" Bruce smiled, dressed as Gotham's most eligible in his suit.
"I was having a battle with my tie," I smiled back at the half-truth.
"No doubt Master Richard was fighting with his hair as well, with the amount of gel he uses I am surprised he doesn't have all the dust of the manor stuck on his head," added Alfred coming into view dressed as our chauffeur.
"I use a proper amount in order get my hair to behave," I objected happy for an excuse to delay our arrival at the party, and I use the term loosely.
"Your hair must be quite rebellious then," Bruce smirked back, "now stop trying to delay and let's get a move on."
"Was I that obvious?" I said trudging towards the door reluctantly.
"Dick Grayson isn't quite as stealthy as Robin," Bruce scolded following me to the door, "and it won't be that bad Alice is going to attending tonight."
"Sweet," I said my demeanor changing to chipper immediately.
"But," Bruce said tone back to scolding, "you are not allowed to blow up city hall this time."
"I was allowed to last time?" I asked cheekily remembering the last 'party' Bruce let me attend where Alice was also on the guest list, it was the first time I had actually had fun; of course said 'fun' lead to the destruction of city hall but….
"Master Dick," Alfred warned as he opened the door of the black limo.
"I promise not to blow up city hall this time," I said when Bruce slid into the limo after me.
"Good, I was worried I would have to continue the ban on Ms. Lawson's attendance to Wayne Enterprise events," Alfred smiled from the front seat after he had slid into the car as well, "it truly has been dull without her additions to the party."
"I can't believe that the calm tempered representative of Lawson Parks can be such a trouble maker; I've never seen I hint of her wild side when I talk to her," Bruce said his expression a mix of impressed and puzzled, "She remind you of someone Dick?"
"No one comes to mind," I replied my expression perfectly innocent. It took a minute but soon the car was filled with laughter, I think even Alfred let out a few chuckles. The rest of the car ride was filled with a comfortable silence so I plenty of time to balance the excitement of seeing Alice against the annoyance of dealing with the other snotty rich people. Plan for the night: sick as close to Alice as possible and try to ignore everyone else.
Pulling up at Cupit estate I had a last ditch hope to escape the horror of spending the better part of the night at the Cupit's, "You know Reddell is a very dangerous place, maybe I could…"
"You're not getting out of this," Bruce said icily crushing my hopes of escaping the party, bcause even facing the Joker solo would be better than spending the night here.
These kinds of parties are exactly as you'd expect a few dozen rich people thrown together all trying to show how much money they have. I walked in behind Bruce and was immediately meet with the nauseating chique covered ballroom. Fat ladies stuffed into gowns that were unsuccessfully giving the appearance of slimming and old dudes littered the huge floor.
"Oh, Brucie! You made it," Mrs. Cupit's annoyingly high voice floated from her fat throat as she approached from the left. "And Dick came with you how wonderful!"
"Hello Mrs. Cupit," I answered perfectly, god I hate this woman, "you look lovely tonight."
"Oh you're so cute," she squealed as her annoying sharp nails abused my cheeks, I'll never understand how a 45-year-old woman can squeal.
"Mrs. Cupit you were interested in making an investment on the new WayneCorp technologies?" Bruce said saving my cheeks as Mrs. Cupit turned towards him and let me slip away to hide by a wall.
"Damn it," I cursed under my breath. I couldn't see Alice anywhere, just other fat people and their gold-digger dates. Speaking of gold-digger dates, I looked over to Bruce and saw the blonde bimbo that had attached herself to his arm; man they work fast. But besides for the bimbo on Bruce's arm and a few other ridiculously fake chested bimbos around the room there weren't any other blondes, much less fifteen-year-old blonds.
"Looking for me?" a voice said following twin taps on my shoulder blade. Turning around I saw Alice in all of her pale-blonde, aqua eyed, tanned skin glory. "Or do you make a habit of hiding in the corner and staring at party guests?"
"No, it's just a normal routine, Bruce insists on it," I joked back at the only thing that makes these things fun.
"How have you been Dick?" Alice said chuckling.
"Good but you wouldn't believe what 'we've' been up to."
"Oh I can guess. Contrary to popular belief, I'm not a complete hermit, and I do see the occasional news cast."
"I never would have guessed, but it doesn't exactly surprise me given who has attracted so much attention lately."
"My dear brother has been bit by the popularity bug," Ali smiled at me, you wouldn't guess it by looks on any planet but Alice Lawson was Roy Harper's younger sister. The first time Roy was adopted his father was Brave Bow a Navajo medicine chief that was constantly busy and often had to leave Roy to his own devices, as fate would have it Magdalena Lawson, Alice's adoptive mother, was a member of the tribe and was spending a year with the tribe as a "shift in environment;" Roy didn't have many friends in the tribe being he was the only kid with everyone else at minimum two years older than him, so when he started hanging out with Ali he became an older sibling to young girl and, consequently, overprotective at times. When Brave Bow died he moved from the tribe just before Alice was supposed to move back home leaving them both feel that their family's had been torn apart, again. When Roy showed up with Ollie for a charity event he got the pleasant surprise of seeing Alice, who was also attending; with the riches between the two families Alice and Roy stayed as close as siblings despite their long distance commutes.
"I have no doubt that you already have a poster for the new hero?" I asked. Ali was fully supportive when she found out about Roy's vigilante double life and became a bit of a fangirl for all of the league and their protégés; her favorite pastime being making posters of the superheroes with a quote on them for comedic value, and most of them were pretty funny, the others were hilarious.
"Yep, I can't wait for you to see it; I also made a new one for you. The other one was a bit outdated," Alice said smiling.
"Yeah I really don't appreciate the reminder of the scaly-underoos," I replied using A's term for my old costume.
"Hehehe don't worry it's not like I put said picture on the internet along with all the other posters I ever made."
"Why am I not surprised?" I asked the sky.
"Because she's my annoying little sister," Roy said from behind Alice.
"ROY!" Ali squealed spinning around and crushing Roy in a rib-breaking hug.
"A… you're… choking… me," Roy gasped out his face slightly blue.
"Oh, sorry," Alice said releasing her choke-hold on Roy's neck. "I thought you weren't coming, after the little dispute you had with Ollie I doubted you'd ever come within a hundred yard radius of Mr. Queen."
"I wasn't," Roy growled, "my date made me."
"How in world did you get a date?" Alice and I said at the same time.
Roy grunted and flicked his head towards the center of the room where a young girl in a purple dress stood out from the fat and old. Black hair and a gymnast's body, WHY THE HELL WAS CEE HERE?
To be continued…
Now I really wanted to not cut this chapter in half but I really wanted to post something and I thought this was the best place to end this chapter.
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Yay for me! I passed my Tae Kwon Do test, but now I'm in soooooo much pain, I nearly butt-slid down the stairs to escape the pain of my soreness. Also I have to take care of a baby for 24 hours on Wednesday, fake for a school project… what I'm saying is it's a good thing I'm already an insomniac.
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