Chapter 24.

Timothy Drake.

Alexis Pov.

I began making my way down to the cave to confront my dad about his fucked up behavior. The elevator doors opened to reveal the dark cave, I saw dad sitting by the giant bat computer probably looking for Red Hood again not that I cared.

"You are a terrible father"

That seemed to catch his attention since he immediately spun around and looked at me, his face clearly showing he was in a state of shock from what I just said. I just kept on glaring at him as I made my way slowly towards him.

"You know Alfred, Dick and me have been patient with you for so long and I honestly thought you just needed time, but here we are almost a year later and you're still acting like a teenager going through a way to long emo phase"

I said as I stood in front of him, looking him in the eye. His shocked expression faded away as he started glaring at me as well, I, however, stood strong and didn't let it bother me as I continued with my rant.

"You have ignored me for so long and haven't even tried to have a proper conversation with me, and I honestly feel ignored and unimportant to you. I understand that you don't want to lose any of us but pushing me and everyone else you care about away is exactly how you are going to lose us and the worst part of it all is that you know what you're doing is wrong and yet you keep doing it"

He looked down in what I assumed to be a disappointment in himself. I felt tears sliding down my cheeks as I finally decided to drop the bomb.

"...I'm moving out, me and Laura have already found an apartment not so far away from our colleges. I have enough money saved up in my account to get by until I get a stable job. Although I don't want any contact with you until you've changed your ways. I'm sorry, I really am dad but right now I think it's for the best that I stay away for a while"

Dad looked at me in shock, I could see the fear, shock, and desperation in his eyes. I was trying to be strong but I knew I was failing miserably, I hated this but I knew he wouldn't change if I stayed here, he needed this push but maybe I needed it to.

Laura and I had begun planning this last month, we found a three bedroom apartment near the center of the city where both our colleges were located. The apartment isn't incredibly big but it's big enough for three college students even though we were only two. The money I had in my account was some of the allowances I had been saving up and there was also the money I had saved from my job at the Coffee Bean, I had to quit though because I had too much homework so I couldn't do my shifts although James(the owner) saw how absolutely exhausted I was on my shifts and said I had to quit because of it.

I turned around and made my way into the elevator, as the elevator doors closed I saw dad standing there looking at me with tears streaming down his cheeks. Part of me wanted to run over to him, hug him and tell him I'm sorry but part of me wants to yell that this is his own fault. I just looked down at the ground as the elevator doors closed, when they did I couldn't hold it back anymore, I broke down in sobs.

~Timeskip~

I looked around my room and saw all my boxes ready to be unpacked. It's been two days since my little discussion with dad after I left the cave I had contacted Laura and told her everything and afterward, she came and helped me pack, I had also told Alfred and Dick who didn't know about me moving until I told them. Alfred had not tried to stop me since he knew he couldn't say anything that would change my mind, I also think he silently agreed with me and knew that this was the best solution, Dick just said it was about time since he had already expected it ever since dad started to push us away and ignore me. Dad, well I honestly hadn't seen or heard from him since, since I stayed with Laura and her mother in the two days where we were planning the move. Alfred had told me that it seemed like nothing had changed other than dad would talk to him a little more than he had other than that he was still miserable, which told me that me moving out had started something, but who knows how long it will take for him to somewhat get back to his somewhat normal self. I sighed as I began opening the different boxes and personalizing this very white room, that was now mine for however long I planned to live here. Since the movers had already been here Laura and I had all of our furniture(AN: en/25307/central-3-bedroom-beautiful-apartment This is what the apartment looks like, the little girl's bedroom has just been made into a guest room after the desk was removed. And if you are in doubt Alex's room is the very white one and Laura's is the one with the two beds that can be made into one, she painted the walls of her room dark gray and put up black curtains). After a few hours of setting things up and personalizing the apartment(even though it still felt a little empty, but I feel like that's gonna change after we have lived here for a while.

As I was folding my clothes and putting I heard the door phone ringing and since Laura was at work(she works at Gotham museum, surprising I know). I stopped folding and walked over and took it "Hello who am speaking to?" I asked as politely as I could, I waited a while but when I got no answer I tried again "Hello?" still no answer. I sighed and just went back to my room and continued folding my clothes. After I was done I started dinner since it was pretty late and Laura was gonna be back any minute, I decided that spaghetti and meatballs was a pretty good idea for the first meal in our new apartment. But when I walked around the living room setting the table it almost felt like someone was watching me. I walked over to the big window and looked out and around at the different buildings, just as I was gonna give up I saw a black figure on one of the rooftops nearby. I just sighed and shook my head before I drew the curtains and went back to setting the table. Not long after Laura came back severely exhausted and annoyed, we sat and ate before she just went to bed while I spent some time watching some tv for a few hours before going to bed as well.

~Timeskip~

"Hello my lovely elder sister"

I just chuckled and hugged him. I've now lived here for about two weeks with Laura and it went pretty well, I even got a job as a part-time nurse in the local hospital. "So how have you and Kori been, I heard you had a little trouble a few days ago," I said as we sat in the living room drinking some coffee and just relaxing.

"Of course you would know about that, I should have known Kori would have contacted you about that" he said holding his head in his hands, I just gave a chuckle because of course Kori had contacted me about that "Well it's kind of hard to ignore when your brothers girlfriend calls you at 1 am and starts complaining about your brother being a useless idiot" I said taking a sip of my hot chocolate that Dick had begged me to make since he hasn't had it in so long.

"So, have you talked to Bruce lately?" I looked at him before looking into my almost empty cup of hot chocolate with a slight smile on my lips "Not really I mean Alfred has been giving me a daily update on how he's doing. I think I'm gonna visit him tomorrow and see the change for myself" I said as I took one last sip of my hot chocolate.

"Well if you think he's ready than I won't stop you," he said as I stood up and took out two empty cups and put them in the sink. Dick said goodbye before he left, leaving me alone with my thoughts. It was true, Alfred has been keeping me updated, the change really started happening after a week of me being gone, he talked more to Alfred of course but he also started to talk with uncle Clark(yeah you read that right)and even started talking to Dick again, so I felt that he was ready for forgiveness. The next day I contacted Alfred and said that I was coming over for a visit and that he should not tell dad. I got my things and went out to my car which was parked not so far away from our apartment. If you're wondering about what happened to Noah well no need to worry, we have kept in contact and have actually become very good friends, we hang out basically every other day.

I arrived at the manor when the sun was going down and got through the gate, Alfred had told me that dad was out on patrol so he wouldn't be home for a while meaning I could relax and have a talk with Alfred. After about two hours of relaxing and baking dad came back although he stayed in the cave so I suppose that's where I'll go. When I got down there I saw dad sitting in his bat suit except for his crowl at the bat-computer.

"I'm a little busy Alfred," he said when he realized that there was someone standing a little behind him.

"Wow two weeks and you have already forgotten my name" he looked up immediately after I had said that, his face both showed shock and happiness before he made his way over to me and hugged me close.

"Hi dad," I said in a shaky voice as I felt tears well up in my eyes making him just hug me tighter as I hugged back just as tightly. We stood there hugging for a while making me realize how much I had missed him.

"I'm so sorry for the way I treated you, I should have realized that I wasn't just hurting myself but I was hurting you as well"

"I forgive you, dad, I forgive you". After that little emotional bonding moment, we just started talking about the things that have been happening, I told him about my new job and how it was going living together with Laura. It felt nice and for once in a long time, I felt everything move back into the place where it once was before… Until something made noise over by the Batmobile both me and I turned around and got in defensive positions, although dad got in front of me to protect me since he, of course, was the better fighter.

"Whos there!?" Dad yelled as he glared at the Batmobile. This scenario seemed very familiar to me, and that's when I realized this was my vision from two weeks ago which meant that the person hiding behind the Batmobile was the kid.

"It's okay, we won't hurt you," I said in the softest and kind voice I could, trying to calm the kid down. I walked forward keeping my arms out in a peaceful gesture.

"Alex!" Dad yelled out thinking that whoever was hiding would attack me.

"Dad it's just a kid, calm down you'll just scare him even more," I said giving him a glare to shut him up since I knew his yelling was just scaring the kid even more.

"I promise all we want to is talk with you. I won't lie to you and say that you aren't in trouble but come out so we can talk calmly about this"

I knew what I said would make him come out from his hiding spot. And I was right, the little black haired kid came out from behind the batmobile slightly shaking probably scared out of his mind. I heard dad stand up straight before he slowly made his way towards me.

"Who are you?" Dad asked in his gruff voice still glaring at the kid as if he had murdered someone in cold blood. I just sighed and gave the kid a soft smile, dad might be the greatest detective but he was a dunce when it came to getting answers out of a kid, well he uses to be good at it but after Jason.

"My name is Timothy Drake sir" He answered his voice slightly shaking but he seemed to be trying to stay strong and actually did better than a lot of stupid people with a half-assed plan and a baseball bat.

"I'm guessing that you snuck in with the batmobile," I said putting my hand on my hip, not in a threatening way. He nodded before looking back at the ground, probably still afraid because of dads glare so to get him to stop I gave him an elbow in the ribs before walking over to the kid and crouch down to talk more directly to him.

"Well it's nice to meet you, Tim, you've probably already guessed who we are right" he looked me in the eyes and nodded, I just smiled at him before continuing "well that's not very good, but I suppose it can't be helped. Anyway even though you already know who we are I think it's only polite to introduce ourselves. My name is Alexis Vita Bianchi Wayne and the emo-teen-turned-adult beside me is my dad Bruce Wayne" I said as I put my hand out for him to shake which he did. Dad walked over to his computer and began typing in something on the bat-computer, probably looking information up on the kid.

"You must be hungry if you've been here for that long, why don't you follow me then I'm sure we can get you some food," I said smiling at him, he nodded with a small smile on his lips before we made our way to the elevator. After we came up we went to the kitchen to find Alfred cleaning the stove slightly humming to himself.

"Tim this is Alfred the family butler" I had already told Alfred about my vision of me and dad finding Tim so he already knew it would happen. Alfred turned around and was shocked when he saw Tim, he quickly calmed down and smiled.

"Pleasure to meet you young master Tim"

"Hey Al think you could whip something up, Tim hasn't eaten anything for a while" Alfred smiled and got to work. Tim and I just went around and sat down in the bar stools near the kitchen counter.

"So mind explaining what you're doing here in general and why you were following dad?" I asked since if I didn't get the information dad would and he would definitely not be nice about it.

He explained that he had followed dad after his fight with the Penguin to try and persuaded him into becoming the new Robin. I also learned that he had apparently been trying to figure out who the Batman was for a long time and had almost cracked it so he decided to finally follow Batman to confirm his theory. I was shocked, and I could tell Alfred(who had been listening)was shocked as well. To be honest, after Jay's death I hadn't thought about a new Robin, I even doubted that dad would continue. One thing was for sure, dad was gonna say no and be hella stubborn, and me I honestly didn't know how to feel about this, there was no doubt that Tim would be a great fit to be a new Robin, I mean he was a young genius(from what he had told me, and the fact that he found out who Batman was something that a lot of super geniuses haven't figured out)and the fact that from what he told me he was great at combat sports.

I sighed before I put my hand on his shoulder, but just as I was about to say something I was interrupted by a strong and stern voice "No" we all turned around to see dad standing there with his arms crossed glaring at us, or more directly at Tim.

"You can't just say no, you haven't even seen what I can do!" Tim exclaimed apparently his courage had come back In ten fold. Dads glare just hardened "It isn't about what you are capable of, I don't need a new partner and that's final. Alex will take you home after your done eating and after that, you will forget what you saw and heard tonight" he said before walking away. Tim stood there frozen, but yet again before I could say anything he followed after dad leaving me and Alfred alone in the kitchen. I looked over at Al who just sighed before going back to make the sandwich for Tim "Maybe I should go and make sure dad doesn't accidentally say something to bad to the poor kid" Alfred just nodded. When I came down to the cave I found exactly what I was expecting to find, Tim yelling at dad who was just sitting at the bat computer.

"I want to help, I want to be more than just a measly kid who can't even stand up for himself or others. I want to save others who can't save themselves!"

Tim yelled, and dad just ignored him and stood up for the bat computer and made his way over to the Batmobile, before the car door closed we made eye contact and I sent a silent message to him that I was gonna take care of Tim, he just gave a short nod before the car door closed and he sped out of the secret exit/entrees. I walked over to Tim and put my hand on his shoulder and talked to him, calmly.

"You know when I first found out that my dad was the famous Batman saying that I was shocked would be an understatement. But after a while I felt that I wanted to be able to help people too, I wanted to be a hero. This was all before the first Robin so the notion of a hero having a sidekick or partner was completely unheard of. But when I told dad that I wanted to help he said no, that I was to under no circumstances gonna be a hero, I thought he was an overprotective asshole so one night when he was out I dressed myself in completely black clothing and went out. I saw a woman surrounded by five guys, so I arrogantly thought I could take them all on, after all, they didn't have any weapons so I thought it would be fine" I took a slight pause, getting slightly lost in the memory. It hasn't really been something I talked about often "But I was overwhelmed, and before I knew it one of the guys had pulled out a gun, I was so scared I really thought I was gonna die… until dad or Batman showed up… he took a bullet for me and even after that he continued fighting like the bullet hadn't hurt him. He took all of them down but when he was done he was bleeding so much, I was still scared but not for myself anymore, I was scared I was gonna lose my dad. When we got back here I saw Alfred stitch him up, and that's when I realized that there was other way to be a hero than just dressing weirdly and fight off evil super villains and that was the day I decided I wanted to become a doctor"

I began slightly nudging him with me as I led him up to where both Dick, Jay's Robin suits hung, even one of dad's old bat-suits were hung up in their own separate pod "I'm not saying that you should just give up on becoming I gotta a hero, but I am saying that there is more to being a hero than just saving someone from a burning building, you're probably already a hero to someone else. But if you really feel like this is something you want to do than I won't stop you, but I will say that you wouldn't take it lightly nor should you take it to seriously, I mean look at what happened to my dad" we both laughed a little before I continued "Do what you want with your life but don't take it for granted, and never think you're less important than someone else because there are people that care about you and they would be crushed if you were to die or disappear… trust me" I said as I looked at Jay's old uniform.

Timeskip~

It took just about three weeks for. Tim to finally convince dad to let him become his partner. After a lot of persistence and a lot of begging(he even when as far as to try and help dad with Two-Face)dad finally gave in, but he did set some conditions. First condition was that he had to get everything straightened out with his father at home, second condition was that he was to be trained until dad thought he was ready and that only after that he was gonna be taken on patrol and on missions, third condition was that he was not to slack off in school and the fourth and final condition was that if ever got in a life-threatening condition he was immediately fired and had to stop. Tim happily agreed to all of these conditions(probably still to existed over the fact that da had said yes to casually think about the conditions).

And that is how the third Robin was created.

Hey everyone sorry for the late chapter, but I promise that I've spent it wisely. I've edited every single chapter of this story and as you've probably noticed I've changed Alexis last name, I felt that Heartfilia was a bit to fantasy and since she comes from an Italian family I thought she should have more of an Italian last name. As always I hope you all will have a great day or night where ever you are in the world.

MIsker Out.