Time jump! Just so you guys aren't confused (and just to see who actually reads what I write here) this is about a week after JJ gets out of 'juvie'.

Shout outs to: Smokeydirtcat, and Teenagejustice! You two ladies are awsome beyond compare!

ENJOY!

"Hey David, how's homework coming?"

JJ, now alias David Carter, looked up from a calculator, math book, and notebook. He gave a mock grimace. "It's coming." He answered.

The tall man with dark brown hair standing in the doorway chuckled. He didn't buy it for a minute. He and his brother had gotten to know JJ over the past three months the boy had spent in the Juvenile center so that their cover as his uncles would seem more legitimate.

The teen had now been living under his roof for almost a week.

On top of everything else, Rick was a cop with good instincts. He could tell when the teenager was faking.

"What are you working on?" he asked, entering the room.

JJ was sprawled out full length on his bed, propped up on his elbows with his various school supplies spread out on the blankets before him. He scooted over, making room on the bed for the man to take a seat beside him.

"Solving linear equations graphically." He answered.

The man hissed in sympathy. "I never was much good with math. History was more my thing." He admitted. "Danny's pretty good at that kind of stuff though."

"Mental note: Do not ask Rick for help with Algebra homework." JJ nodded, grinning. "Good thing Danny's good at math, cause I'm stuck on this one. What time does Danny get back?"

Rick pushed his sleeve back and scrutinized his watch. "Meh…about half an hour or so. Just circle that one and go on to the rest. You can always come back to that one later." He stood. "Speaking of Danny and problems, I'd better get dinner on the stove. You know how he is when he gets home from a hard day."

JJ grinned. "Voracious." He answered.

"You said it!" Rick agreed. "I'll call you down as soon as dinner's ready. You can pose your problem to Danny after that." He ruffled the teens hair warmly and left the room.

"You two seem to be getting along all right."

JJ whipped around at the sound of that familiar voice, a huge grin breaking out across his face. "Robin!"

The young acrobat was contentedly perched on the sill of JJ's, now open, window. He smiled at the clowns obvious delight, rising and moving to take Rick's place on the bed.

"How are you settling in?"

"It's not exactly what I thought it would be, and the makeup to hide my white skin and keeping my hair dyed black is a pain, but over all I'm happy. It's amazing to finally have a quote unquote 'normal life' again!" JJ made air quotes on the words 'normal life'.

Robin nodded. "I'll bet!... So…What sort of cover story did they come up with to explain why you're living with a pair of guys?"

JJ laughed. "Not the one you're thinking!" He answered.

"You couldn't find a straighter pair of guys! Rick and Danny are brothers, and they have a sister living overseas or something like that. So I'm supposedly the sisters son, and while the rent's are traveling the globe, I'm stuck here in school. They're just looking after me to make sure I don't do something incredibly stupid." JJ explained. "They're my 'uncles'."

"And the school work?" Robin asked curiously, leaning over to eye JJ's math homework.

"Some sort of scholarship." JJ answered, a slight frown on his face. "I didn't quite understand that part. They had me take a bunch of tests, and apparently my marks were high enough to warrant a scholarship to Gotham Academy." He gestured at the notebook Robin was currently studying. "So now I'm sitting here working on Algebra."

He shook his head. "And I gave up a life of crime for this?" he joked.

Robin laughed. He tapped a gloved finger on the page. "This the one you're having trouble with?" JJ nodded, and Robin grinned. "Here, let me have your pencil." JJ handed it to him, and the boy wonder quickly explained. "You're doing the equation right, you just forgot to carry the negative over here, and you added instead of multiplied over here. You did everything else right, so just change those to little slip ups and you should get the right answer."

JJ face palmed. "Of all the stupid little mistakes…" he muttered.

"Hey, everyone makes mistakes, just be glad it was a little one!" Robin answered, handing him back his pencil.

JJ erased out his mistakes and was correcting the problem when a thought occurred to him. He stopped, then began to chuckle.

Robin cocked his head. "What?"

"How many kids can say they have a super hero for a tutor?" JJ asked, grinning.

Robin laughed and shook his head. "Not many." He agreed, leaning over to check JJ's work, and nodding when the clown wrote down the correct answer.

JJ finished and dropped his pencil with a sigh of relief. A frown crossed his features and he gave Robin a quizzical look. "You didn't just come here to help check my math homework….Why are you really here Robin?"

The boy wonder held up two gloved fingers. "Two reasons." He counted them off. "One. To see how you were settling in here with your new 'Uncles'." He made air quotes around the word Uncles, grinning.

"And two…." He slowly drew a folded envelope out of his utility belt and passed it to the confused clown. "…to explain how the mailing system works around here."

JJ frowned and unfolded the envelope.

His eyes widened at the sight of the oh so familiar hand writing on the front. He hurriedly tore it open and unfolded the letter, his eyes seeking out the signature on the bottom of the third page to confirm what he already knew.

Tears welled in his eyes as he cast Robin a grateful look. "Thank you." He murmured. He looked back down at the letter in his hands and shook his head, almost at a loss for words. "I don't know what to say…"

Robin clapped him on the shoulder. "You've already said it."

He handed JJ a small key and stood, preparing to leave. "There's a box at the post office for you. That's what the key's for. We've already told your grandmother to send her letters there. You can pick them up on the way home from school. Any letters you send need to be dropped off in a mailbox, not mailed directly from this house. You sign them with your alias, and leave no return address."

He grinned, climbing up onto the window sill.

"Think you can handle that?" The clown nodded vigorously. "Good. Close the window after I'm out." He gave the teen a two fingered salute and leapt out into the night. "Have fun!"

JJ hurriedly scrambled up off the bed and ran to the window, his eyes searching for the boy wonder.

He knew Robin was a fantastic gymnast by now. But still, he smiled when he saw the young ninja land on a nearby rooftop and send a cheeky wave back at him before disappearing into the night.

The clown shut the window and returned to the bed.

He half expected the letter to just disappear in a puff of smoke, like a magician's illusion. But no, it was still lying there on the bed, along with the envelope and the key.

He picked it up and stretched out full length on the bed again, grabbing his pillow and propping himself up on it. He shuffled the pages again to get at the first one and quietly began to read, a small smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.

That was how Rick found him half an hour later.

"Hey, dinner's ready…Passing notes with a girl already? It's only your third day at school!" he came to sit by the edge of the bed, whistling when he saw the multiple pages. "Wow. That's one serious love letter kid!"

JJ laughed and whacked at his 'uncle' with a pillow. "Ha, ha. It's from my grandma."

Rick frowned. "Your real grandma? She knows where you are?" he asked, worried that JJ's cover was blown.

JJ shook his head. "No. Robin dropped it off. He gave me this to." He held up the key. "He said it's for a post office box. Mamaw can send her letters there, and I can pick them up after school on the way home."

"Ah." Rick nodded, relieved.

Downstairs, the two could hear a door open and close.

"Honey, I'm home!" Danny's voice called.

The two groaned, and JJ rolled over on his back, dramatically face palming with both hands. "And I just got through explaining to Robin that you two are brothers…!"

lol, I often use my sisters and brother as springboards to bounce ideas off of, and when I pitched the idea of Danny and Rick her first thought was that I had written a gay couple! While that wasn't what I had intended, I figured if she thought that straight off others would to! And that could make for a very amusing scene!

I hope I didn't offend anyone with the gay jokes, I know some people are very touchy about that. I've got nothing against it, I'm friends with several people who are. So, if you must flame, know that they will be used to toast marshmallows.

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Until next time...