Selina leaves Jason's room and accidently bumps into Bruce, who seems to come back from a long WE meeting today. He looks exhausted (the man has barely been to sleep after seeing the videos to the point he spars with Oliver, Sara, and Dick in order to get at least 3-4 hours ) and probably needs at least 2 cups of coffee.

"He knows about TIm." Bruce eyes comically widen in surprise but its immediately replaced with a grimace, an expression of anger, pain and most prominently, complete exhaustion.

"How?" Bruce asks rhetorically (he already knows who but his mind is too tired to think right now (sue him)).

"Joker told him. Probably to further break his spirit."

"Seems even with the videos, we don't all of what happened."

"Probably for the best." Selina says and Bruce can't help but agree with her. It may be a blessing in disguise to an extent. "I talked to him about Tim and hopefully made a little bit of progress but I'm not holding my breath." Bruce absentmindedly nods at that.

They head into the kitchen to makes themselves coffee but when they arrive their, they find freshly brewed black coffee with a few teaspoons of milk. The coffee brewer has a note on it.

Had to get some groceries, supplies and necessities. Will hopefully be back in two or three hours.

-Alfred

Bruce puts the note down and grabs 2 cup, fills them up and gives one of the cups of coffee Selina. Bruce sees Oliver and Sara who just came back from training in the cave. Just cause they can't patrol doesn't mean they can't still train and stay in peak condition. They talk for a while about how things are in Star City, Queen Consolidated and Wayne Enterprises.

"So, I talked with Roy and he told me something interesting." The other 3 turns their attention to Oliver, who has a grimace on his face, which gives them a bad feeling about what's he going to say. "Bruce, during Jason's tenure as Robin, did you ever once drag him into you and Dick's arguments?"

"No. Dick argued that Robin was his to give but I told him Jason had more than earned the mantle but I never dragged him just to win arguments." Bruce says "Why you ask?"

"Remember when Jason stopped going to Titan's tower?" Oliver asks instead of answering Bruce's question.

"Yeah?" Bruce asks, wondering where Oliver is going with this. The look on Oliver's face says many things, none of them good with realization as dawning on Bruce and Selina's faces along with Sara's, who hadn't known before hand.

"Fuck."

"Dammit."

Bruce gets up from the seat, leaving Selina and Sara to discuss with Oliver about what Roy said to him, goes down to the Cave, where Dick and Roy are sparring while Tim is watching.

"Hey B. You good?" Dick asks, wearing his usual smile on his face.

"What happened to Jason while he was with the Titans?" Bruce asks harshly.

Dick smile is replaced with a grimace, something Tim notices. Roy goes

"What did you?" Bruce asks coldly.

"I treated him like shit. It wasn't my proudest moment and I regret; I do. But I'm trying to make up for it."

"Dick, I get that you and I had our problems but you shouldn't have dragged Jason…"

"JASON WAS THE PROBLEM, BRUCE!" The older man steps back at his eldest outburst. "You benched me from being Robin and then a few months later, you find some else!"

"That's not what happened and you know it." Dick reels back at Bruce's voice and tone, feeling like kid being scolded by his parent after being caught stealing a cookie jar (which is technically what's happening right now). "You left Dick. You spent more time in San Francisco than in Gotham at that time and you even mentioned that you were growing out of the mantle." Bruce says, anger in his voice clear as ice. "Jason was you're successor, Dick. By the time he went out there, you had already discarded the old uniform and become Nightwing." Bruce says matter of factly. He leaves after saying his piece, leaving Dick thinking on how much he fucked up.

Bruce stops at the stair case to the Cave to stop and think, realizing how much he's fucked up as parent to Dick and Jason.

"Make it right." He turns to see Selina, who knows what he's thinking because she knows him better than anyone, even Alfred. "You may not have been the best parent Bruce but you were there for them. That's worth more than a lot of people would have done." She goes next to him to comfort him. They both stay there for a while, enjoying this small moment of peace.


So What do you guys think? Poor batfamily but things will look up soon. Oh and incase you are wondering, Queen Consolidated is still owned by Oliver and is run by Walter Steele, who fell of the face of the earth after Arrow season 2 like Sin did in season 3. Pardon me but the fuck Marc? Hope you all enjoy, appreciate actual criticism but will delete hate

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