April 1, the week after Wally and Artemis's date

"Dick? Are you ok?" Dick startled as Artemis placed a hand on his shoulder. "You seem kind of...out of it." Artemis was worried. She had never been able to sneak up on him before.

"Oh, um, yeah. I'm fine. I didn't sleep well last night is all." Dick started waling towards the doors. He just wanted to get out there. Artemis followed, unconvinced.

"Dick, I'm your friend. Talk to me."

"My ride's here. I gotta go." Dick walked out of the gates to a black limosine driven by an elderly man in a perfectly pressed suit.

Artemis watched him go. Dick had looked so sad all day, spacing out and forcing smiles that didn't quite reach his normally playful blue eyes. She went home and went to her computer. It was time to take a page from Robin's book and do some detective work on Dick.

"Master Richard, would you like something to eat?" Alfred stood in the door to Dick's room.

"No, thanks Alfred. I'm not hungry." Dick traced the face of his mother on the old circus poster. He had several of them on his walls.

"Master Bruce will be home soon from work." Alfred paused. "Is there anything I can do for you, Master Richard?"

"No, not right now. Thank you." Dick heard the old butler walk away. Besides Bruce, Alfred was the closest thing to family Dick had. THe posters on his walls portrayed him and his parents, uncle, aunt, and cousin performing daring stunts, or just standing together, smiling.

-Flashback-

"Dickey! Hurry up! The show starts soon!" Mary Grayson stood outside her son's dressing room.

"No! I look stupid!" Dick was nine years old, and this was the first time his parents were going to let him do his new trapeze stunt. But his new costume was not what he had in mind.

"Dick, listen to your mother! Come out here!" John Grayson stared at his son's colorful red and green costume. It matched the theme of the rest of the acts' costumes. "See? You look fine."

"Yeah, Dickey. You look so cute!" His cousin, also named John, ruffled Dick's hair before walking away to join his parents, Richard and Karla Grayson. They were Dick's aunt and uncle.

"I look stupid! Why does this have to be so colorful?" Dick pulled at the tight fabric of his costume.

"Because I want everyone to be able to see my little robin fly tonight." Mary kissed the top of Dick's head.

"Aw, Mom! Don't call me robin! I'm not a kid anymore!" But he smiled.

"You'll always be my son though, and you will always be my robin." Mary hugged her small son, and John picked them both up and swung them around.

"I love you guys so much." Dick laughed as his father twirled them around. "Will you catch me tonight?"

"We'll always be there to catch you, Dickey." John smiled. "Alright, let's go warm up."

It was April 1, 2006.

-End Flashback-

Dick laid down on his bed to wait for Bruce. He wiped a tear from his eye.

"Batman, where are you going?" Superman followed his friend towards the the zeta-tubes.

"I have something I have to do."

"I know that this day is...difficult. But we could use you here. Sportsmaster is still out there, and now that he knows the location of Mt. Justice, we need to discuss-"

Recognized-Batman 02.

"And he left." Superman sighed. "He couldn't wait for me to finish a sentence."

At his house, Wally set down hi school books and checked his phone. One text.

A: Hey, I have to do something today, so I might not answer texts for awhile.

Wally closed his phone, relieved that he wouldn't have to worry about Artemis. He needed to get to get ready to leave.

Bruce knocked on his ward's door. "Dick, can I come in?"

"Yeah." Dick was lying on his bed. Bruce walked in wearing dark jeans and a black t-shirt with a leather jacket.

"Are you ready to go?"

"Yeah."

Bruce drove in silence. Dick looked out the window as gray clouds formed. They didn't look particularly rainy, just depressing. Perfect, Dick thought. They pulled up in the cemetary, and got out of the car. They walked through the grave until they found a cluster of granite tombstones. Dick went straight to two that were right next to each other.

JOHN GRAYSON
LOVING FATHER
BELOVED HUSBAND

MARY GRAYSON
LOVING MOTHER
BELOVED WIFE

Bruce pulled his adopted son into his embrace as Dick cried. Every year, he took Dick to see his parents' graves on the anniversery of their deaths. No matter what he was doing, where he was, Batman made sure that Bruce took Dick to see his parents on April 1, every year for four years. Bruce thought back to the times he visited his own parents graves. It never got any easier.

Dick settled down slightly as Wally West showed up. Dick had told Wally his secret identity a while ago, and his friend wanted to be there for him. Dick released Bruce and knelt on the ground between the graves. Wally nodded at Bruce, who nodded back. They stood silently while Dick sat on the ground, telling his parents about school. Suddenly, Bruce whipped around to find a girl with long blonde hair walking towards them.

"Dick, your friend is here." Bruce wasn't upset, though he was wondering why Artemis was there.

"What?" Dick turned his head and his eyes widened when he saw Artemis. "What are you doing here?" He stood up to face her.

"I'm sorry. You looked so sad...I did a little research and I found out what happened on this day four years ago...I should go." She was about to leave when she saw Wally. "Wally? What are you doing here?"

"Oh...um, I know Dick from...um..."

"You all work together." Bruce put a hand on Dick's shoulder. "It was only matter of time until you found out." Artemis's eyes widened. Dick was...Robin. Then that meant that...Batman was Bruce Wayne. "But you may not tell anyone unless I say to. That is my rule, one I don't suggest you break."

"I won't. I swear." Artemis turned her attention to Dick's red puffy eyes. His eyes were blue. "So this is what you look like without your shades." Dick laughed softly.

"Thanks for...caring, I guess." Dick looked at his parents' graves again. "Now you know." Artemis apporached him, and slowly pulled him into a hug. His arms wrapped hesitantly around her, then tighter. Wally joined the hug, his arms wrapping around his best friend and his girlfriend. Bruce stood off to the side, smiling sadly. He was just glad that his ward had friends like that. Artemis couldn't have known Dick for very long, and yet here she was, at the cemetary. She had done research because Dick was sad, and then shown up at the exact place. Bruce decided that if he couldn't trust Artemis with a secret, he was too paranoid.

Suddenly his cellphone rang. "Yeah, Clark. What do you want?"

"I wanted to tell you this myself."

Dick noticed his guardian's face tighten. "Bruce? What is it?" Bruce put away his cellphone.

"Dick...Zucco broke out of prison."

Cliffhanger. Back to business. Anywho, I decided to take a break from Sportsmaster. Or have I? Muhahahaha! Read, enjoy, review.

Questions:

From celestialstarrynight to Robin: Yo Robin, if pro in the oppisit of con, what's the oppisit of progress?
Robin: Con-gress? Congress! *creepy laugh* I love it.

From supersoda to Flash: Flash, did you teach Wally to be this cheesy or did learn it all by himself?
Flash: It's a family tradition.