Ch.67: Visiting the Stop-Watch

Danny pushed the stack of books forward on the floor, albeit with a lot of effort. He was wheezing with the effort but continued to push them, occasionally slipping on the tiled surface.

"Need help over there?" Clockwork called, smirking. Batman was silently standing beside him, the same amused smirk on his face.

"NO!" Danny yelled back, turning around and pushing his back against the stack. His feet slipped and he fell on his backside with an 'oomph'. One of the smaller books near the top wobbled before falling onto the nine-year-old's head. Danny grumbled to himself, hair in his face because the book was pressing the strands down. He continued to grumble as his mentor's boots fell into his limited sight and took the book off his head.

"Maybe you should make more than one trip." Batman suggested, tilting his head to the side. Danny whined. "But I want to do it in one!"

"It will take less time to do more than one trip." Clockwork stated. Danny blew a strand of white hair from his face. "You would know."

Clockwork and Batman continued to discuss the forces of space and time, as it interested the Dark Knight greatly. The Time Lord ducked as Danny sailed from his hiding place, fully intent of tackling the blue-skinned ghost, but tackling his mentor instead.

While Danny adorned an 'oh-crap' look, Batman lifted his head from the floor and glared at the child. Danny chuckled nervously. Squealing, he flew from the control room as Batman face-palmed. He let his head fall back to the floor, still sprawled all over the floor.

Clockwork laughed, noticing how it was much funnier to watch in person than on a time-screen.

Danny, being held back by the Time Lord, strained to escape the older's grasp, reaching for one of the many clocks. He was making a determined sound but, if he had noticed that Clockwork was having no trouble keeping him in place, it would have turned desperate.

"I just wanna touch it!"

"If I did that, the world would end."

...

"…that's ok!"

Batman turned to his kid. "You only visit Jason every once in awhile! How corrupted can he make you in such short time?!"

Danny let out a squeak as he plowed right into Batman's back. Clockwork snorted, looking down at the duo on the ground.

The Dark Knight threw a dirty look over his shoulder at his kid. Danny chuckled and said "I might have miscalculated just a little… I was trying to tackle Clocky again…"

"I just wanna touch it!"

"NO!"

"PLEASE~!"

The nine-year-old stared at the closed book in his lap blankly. He then turned his head up towards his smirking mentor and the amused Time Lord. With eyes wide, he said "You want me to read the book… But I can't even read the title… How am I supposed to read the book?!"

"Sound it out." Batman suggested, amusement clearly shown on his face.

Danny looked back down. Then back up. "Yeah no…"

The white-haired child sailed over the ducked Clockwork and plowed into his mentor, again, and sent him sprawling on the floor, again. Danny chuckled at his mentor's ticked off face, lying on his stomach. He quickly scrambled off and took off running. Batman mumbled a low "No you don't…" before taking off after his kid.

Their yells were very amusing to the Time Lord, who did not have visitors often.

Here's the second update I said would appear~!

Kadzait: Took you long enough.

I HAD SCHOOL, MORON! Then I had the PMs (woo) to do and hey! My finger's leaking blood and my iPod's playing a sad song!

Kadzait: From you, both are typical. I will get the Band-Aid.

I don't like Band-Aids.

Kadzait: You are going to get blood poisoning one day because you don't like Band-Aids.

*smiles* I will reply to reviews tomorrow! YEAH!