Thanks to Andrei Rian for the favorite and follow.

I wake up feeling excited. Today's the day.

I get dressed in my sky blue T-shirt with the sun and a cloud on it along with slits for my wings which, yes, you can't really see, soft gray pants and, as always, my flats.

Yep, I'm wearing the first outfit that I ever wore. I like it.

Yes, I like my lab coat too but I don't want to wear that to meet Gar.

I head to the breakfast table and look at Blue Dad. "So where am I going to be meeting him?"

I'm told that he'll be coming here at around 1 o'clock.

Well, since I won't be wearing my bracelet, I guess that he didn't want the meeting to be in public.

I look at the clock and see that it's almost 9 o'clock. More than 4 hours to go. At least I have more than one way to spend the time until he comes.

Yes, I'd like it if it was sooner but this way I can get a fly in or get some reading done. I'd kind of like to fly with Gar but there's no reason that can't be my only fly. I'll go for one after I finish my breakfast because I feel like my wings could use it.

It's not too long before I'm headed to the room that I fly in. This room has a higher ceiling because Blue Dad has things he uses as an aerialist in it.

It's usually called the workout room. I learn how to fight in here. It's also where I've learned acrobatics and started to pick up how to do aerobatics. The latter came from watching Blue Dad. He's told me that I'm a good learner of the first two things I mentioned.

Red Mom and her friends have taught me some fighting moves too. Dinah sometimes calls me little bird. I like it because it reminds me of Dad Falcon.

Yep, he would call me that. He wasn't the only one of my scientist parents who had a name like that for me. Dad Fish would call me little fish.

The names that Dad Wolf and Mom Kitty are little different than that. Dad Wolf would call me wolf cub and Mom Kitty would call me kitten.

Mom Windy, on the other hand, would take all parts of me into consideration by calling me her special animal-girl.

I feel a pain in my wings and it quickly distracts me from my thoughts.

I've ignored them for long enough. It's time for a fly.

I land gently after fifteen minutes and, soon, I'm going for my book. It's one in the Redwall series called Pearls of Lutra. Today, I'll be starting it. I might finish it on the same day.

As you know, I'm very smart so my reading speed is kind of fast. Sometimes, I read faster than I mean to which makes it a good thing Red Mom used to be a librarian.

It means that, like Tim, she will suggest books for me to read. That way there's still ones in my To Be Read stack. It's never been tall enough to fall over. At least, not yet. I can divide it if I need to though.

Okay, I've got the book. I finish it just in time for lunch which means it's not too much longer before Gar comes.

I finish my lunch and check the clock again. I'll have to wait a little less than an hour more.

What will I do until then? I know.

I head to the workout room then, after preparing myself, do some running and jumping. I would do some swimming but there's no pool here. That makes it nice there's one I can use at Wayne Manor.

I don't want to go there because, as I'm sure you remember, I'm expecting a visitor.

I put my clothes back on and, once again, check the clock. I hiss like a cat because I still have almost half an hour to wait.

I guess that I'll get some fighting and acrobatics practice in. I do the fighting first because, like I've told you, the acrobatics is more fun.

The fighting isn't alone either because Red Mom enters the room for it.

Blue Dad, as I'm sure you can guess, enters the room for the acrobatics. Somersaults feel kind of weird on my wings even though, yes, they're tucked in. It's just that they nestle next to my spine like Maximum Ride's so you can still kind of see them.

Yep, I've obviously read those books. Red Mom suggested them.

I like Max. She's my favorite character. I can actually untuck my wings without taking off my shirt like her. I don't do it very often, probably because I used to go naked when I lived in my lab.

I like her very much but I can't fully relate to her because, well, she doesn't like labs. We're a lot alike bird wise though, which I have obvious reasons for liking a lot. So far, she's the closest character I've seen to myself but we obviously have our differences.

I don't really like how her enemies are part wolf but, over all, I like the books. I think it would be pretty nice to meet Max in real life. I have questions that I want to ask her but, since she's a fictional character, I have to accept that they will never get answers.

Now what time is it?

I check the clock yet again, really wanting it to be time for Gar's visit but I learn that it isn't.

It's pretty close though. I'll have a snack. All the things I did have made me kind of hungry.

I have a snack of nuts, dried fruit and some jelly beans. I think it's kind of funny I had the same snack I did on my first day here while wearing, as you know, the first outfit I've ever worn.

It makes me laugh a little. You probably remember what my laugh sounds like. That might be why, even though I have my bracelet, Red Mom homeschools me.

Well, I think that it's one of the reasons. Helena will sometimes give me homework. She and Red Mom say that I'm very smart. That, if I did go to a public school, I'd be a high school freshman.

Yes, I know you know that I have my bracelet. Zee said that it can only do so much. It can make me look like a human girl but I'll never be completely like one. The way my laugh sounds will probably not be the only thing about me that's kind of hard to explain.

I finish my snack and, after I have a glass of water, I hear someone knocking on the door.

I grin. I feel pretty sure that's him.

Blue Dad answers the door. I think it's so, if there's anyone outside besides Gar, they don't get a look at my eyes.

Well, that and stranger danger. I do know about that.

A man comes in who, like me, doesn't look like a human then closes the door behind him.

I've seen pictures of that green skin before. That's Beast Boy. I mean Gar.

He's got green eyes too though, like Wally's, they don't look exactly like mine and green hair.

I get up from my chair to get a closer look at him and feel an instant connection, like the animal in me knows the animal in him. Like he's a big brother.

I like that feeling and him. He's kind of like me. I've never met another animal-human in person before.

He smiles at me. "So you're the animal-girl that Dick told me about. Fauna, right?"

I almost greet him in Bird. "That's me."

He gets down so that he's eye level with me*. "I've never met anyone like me before. It's like you're my little sister. I feel like the animal in me knows yours."

He feels that way too? It's like he understands me. Like he knows me better than anyone could.

"You understand what it's like being the only animal-human that you know." I tell him pretty much the same thing he just told me but I say big brother instead of little sister.

"What's your last name?"

I'm pretty sure he means the one I was born with so, as you already know, I can't really answer his question.

What can I say?

I feel like I should give him the truth so I tell him that I don't think I was born with one.

He raises his eyebrows. "What, were you a basket child?"

No.

I breathe out slowly, not feeling sure if I should tell him the truth this time. I don't want to lie to him either.

I look at Blue Dad, since I don't know what to say but it's not too long before I look back at Gar and tell him the truth.

His eyes widen. "Wow. You are a lot like me."

Red Mom rubs the back of her neck. "Yeah, Fauna's pretty blunt about it. Like you, she's never known another way."

So he does understand.

I show him some of the animal qualities that I have.

His smile widens.

I can't believe I didn't notice that, like me, he has slightly elongated canines.

He shows his ears. They're pointed like mine.

I wonder if he's also missing a belly button but I'm not going to ask. That, as well as asking if he's oviparous, feels too personal. I doubt the latter more.

"So you don't know who made you an animal-girl."

I shake my head. I may be wondering who made him an animal-boy but I'm not going to ask. It feels too personal.

"You don't know your birth family. Fauna, I'm sorry to hear that."

I don't understand why he's sorry.

"You don't need to be sorry. I can't miss what I've never known. Besides, I have a new family now."

I reach my right hand out and he does the same so they're touching then I grin at him. "You'll be my animal-brother now and always."

He gives me a hug which I return. "You'll be my animal-sister now and always." He gets up, still hugging me, which makes me laugh.

Seeming somewhat surprised, he puts me down then asks me why my laugh's breathy.

"I'm pretty sure it's because I have a syrinx."

His eyes widen.

I nod then tell him about my animal DNA and the attributes it gives me.

"Wow. I think you might be more animal than I am."

Really?

"Do you know how much of you is animal?"

He rubs the back of his neck. "Not really. Hey, you want to go flying?"

I grin and tell him that I thought I was going to ask then, after leading him to what I call the flying room, untuck my wings, which I stretch.

He grins on seeing them then, soon, we're flying together.

I like having him as my animal-brother very much.

*at canonically 5'8", he's almost 2 feet taller than she is.