Two hours later Alfred meets Barbara and her father outside. "Mr. Wayne is unfortunately busy working at the office today but I'm sure we can manage here without him." Barbara can tell that Alfred is trying to act like he's just met Barbara and she also knows that Bruce is not at Wayne Industries, he's in the cave. She has a bit of trouble getting through the swamp like rug but she manages to get through the entrance hall to the foyer and to the elevator down to the cave. She was right about Bruce being in the cave. He's training with a kid who's wearing a caped Robin outfit. "Keep a low center."
The kid argues back but then ends up on his butt. "If you don't, that's what happens."
Bruce grabs a sweat towel, wiping his hands then his face and then grabs a water. "How long have you been watching?"
He never turned to see her come in but he knows that she's there. "When did you get a kid?"
"Damian Wayne who the hell are you?" The kid is unimpressed to see her and actually mad that she's interrupting his training. Bruce tells Damian to back off and take five and walks over to Barbara. "How are you?"
"Just living the life, you know just what I had planned." She uses a sarcastic sense of humor to really deflect her feelings, and besides he doesn't really care, he never has. "Barb-"
"Master Bruce you have a meeting that has just come up at Wayne Industries. Lucius claims that you need to be there." He nods as Alfred interrupts him. He passes Barbara and leaves her down in the cave alone with Damian as he gets ready to head to his office. "So you're the girlfriend." Damian states without question. "When did we get a kid?"
She hears Dick's signature laugh before she sees him. "So you've met the bloodthirsty son."
"Is he actually related to Bruce?" Dick is so chill about the fourteen year old demon child in the cave. He just nods as he sits sideways in the chair by the batcomputer. "Yeah, kills me. Eighteen years of lectures about using protection and then that thing shows up."
He uses his leg to point at Damian who he addresses as 'that thing' as he tells Barb the backstory of Damian. Damian doesn't stop his workout, Barb most surprised about how talented he is in blade handling. "Bruce didn't teach him that."
"League of assassins raised him. That brings me to the point of his mother, Talia Al Ghul."
Barb stops watching Damian train and looks over at Dick with a look of surprise plastered on her face. "No."
"Yeah, can't imagine how that one went down." Dick jokingly shudders, "I'm not sure I even want to imagine how that one went down." Dick ducks as a league of assassins star flies past his head and makes a home in the batcomputer. He looks over at Damian, "Whoops."
"Nice throw. What if I hadn't ducked?"
"It would've hurt." Damian makes a smart comment back and Dick shoots Barbara a glare when she chuckles. She wheels over to the computer and starts snooping through Bruce's files. "What does he actually do for a living?"
Dick doesn't answer, he knows it's a rhetorical question. He gets up off the chair and answers his now ringing phone. "Hey, yeah bad signal, I'm stuck under a tunnel and it's really bad traffic." Dick looks over at Barbara and smiles as he paces back and forth lying to whoever he's talking to. "Yeah I know I promised that I wouldn't be late again,-" He sighs as he's cut off by whoever is on the other side of the line. "Yes I know that your parents are in town and I promised-" He's cut off again. "Yes Kori, I'm on my way." He finally hangs up and lets out an angry sigh while making faces with Barb who's laughing. "So who's Kori?"
"Girlfriend, I really should get going. Watch the kid, the public doesn't know of the Wayne ward."
With that Dick leaves. Barbara parks herself at the computer, hacking through firewalls and into files trying to catch up on anything that she missed while in the hospital. She feels her eyes drooping and wanting to shut up.
