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I dont own batman.
They just stare as the older bats start taking off their weapons and putting them in their locks.
"What?" Lydia asks as she pulls knives out of her sleeves. They stay quiet for a moment, then stephany decides to ask some questions.
"2 things. 1 how did you get past the league? And 2, shouldnt be weird how you are just nonchalantly pulling knives out of random places?"
Lydia smirks. "1, we were trained by batman, and have worked with the league for years. 2, yeah probably but we are so used to weapons that I guess that it is just our normal."
"Ha like anything about us is normal. You are dreaming, Jones." she replied.
"Jones? have been hanging around damian more?" Lydia smirks.
Damian jumps in. "Jones, it could be worse. She could have been hanging around you." Jason and Dick are chuckleing in the background.
"Ohhhh ouch damian I'm hurt." she says sarcastically. "Anyways, can one of you guys call lestly?"
Tim looks puzzled. "Sure, but why? Who got injured?" he says as he starts to call.
"No one got a new injury. But Dick was in a fight when lestly said for him not to. So the plan is I am going to change, then up to the manor to check on terry. Seeing that this is one of the times he usually wakes up. Jason is going to make sure dick doesn't run before Leslie gets here." she doesn't miss the glare dick is giving her. Or the quiet chuckle from jason. "Now with that being said, it's late, you guys should probably start thinking about going to bed." she heads to get changed.
"Tsk, Jones, it's only 8pm." Damian says.
"Yes, I know. I said start because I know that by the time y'all are ready it will be anywhere from 9pm to 2am. Again I said start, not that you had to be in bed now." she smirks as she walks away.
(break)
An hour later.
Lydia finishes rubbing a towel through her hair. And walks out of the cave showers and scans the room. She sees dick in the medical bay, talking with leslie. Jason training with a bowstafe. No doubt he is hanging around incase dick tries to head to the manor before leslie is done talking. And Tim still messing with the bat-computer.
She lets out a light sigh, and heads to Tim. Man, this kid really needs to sleep more. What does he think? That he can live off of coffee?
"Hey tim? What are you working on?"
"Just seeing if i can get the download speed to be quicker."
"Ok. well it is 9:17, why don't you head up to bed, and continue this tomorrow?"
"Why not work on it tonight?"
She looks at him. "Why stay up working on it and get less sleep?"
He smiles. "Why would you think I'm not getting enough sleep?"
"Why do we just keep asking each other why?" she smirks.
"Why would you think I would know why?" they both just stare at each other before both laughing a little bit.
"Ok seriously. Are you just at a point where you can't stop?" she asks. Tim turns back to the computer. She turns to it too.
"Well sorta kinda. I have to wait about two minutes for this to finish. Then the computer just needs to be restarted."
"Ok so you are just finishing up basically."
"Yep."
"So the whole 'why' thing fust just to mess with me." she says still smirking.
"Yeah, pretty much." he says trying not to laugh.
"You are annoying." She says no mess with him.
"I try"
Ok well when you are done, I would advise you to head to bed."
"Ok. you heading up to check on terry?"
"Yeah, goodnight Tim."
"Goodnight Lydia."
Maybe she isn't so bad. Tim thinks as he restarts the computer. Maybe it will be cool to have them stay for a while.
(break)
Lydia quietly opens the door to terry's room and peaks her head in. She sees Terry still asleep in his crib. She looks around the room, there are a couple toys on the floor here and there. Along with a baby shirt or two. She steps in and decides to pick up the toys and the clothes.
Lydia hears light footsteps behind her. She tenses up, turning around, she quiet but quickly heads to stand in front of terry. She gets prepared for a fight. The bedroom door opens slowly, she holds her breath. She really doesn't want to get into a fight right now. The door fully opens and the figar steps in…
"Steph, you scared me. I thought you were an intruder." Lydia releases the breath she was holding.
"Hey on the bright side. I can be quiet enough to sneak up on a bat." stephany says while smiling.
" Hey now, I heard you coming." Lydia says as the jokenly points a finger at stephany. "And besides, who says that would be a good thing?"
"I do. And when I came in, did you call me steph?"
Lydia thinks for a moment. "Yeah, I guess I did. I understand that you only let certain people call you that. So I won't do it again."
"No, no, it's good. If there was one thing bruce taught us it's that blood doesn't make family, family makes family. And Bruce adopted you guys so we are family." stephany says a little nerves to the way that lydia would act. To her surprise, Lydia smiles a little.
"Please don't mind me asking, but did bruce make the adoption official?" lydia asks as she starts to pick up terry's toys.
"Yeah, he did. Filled out the paperwork, sent it in and got it approved about a year and a half after each one of us came here." stephany says as she helps Lydia pick up terry's room. "Did he adopt you, Dick and Jason?"
Lydia hesitates for a second. That second doesn't go unnoticed by stephany. "Umm no, he didn't get the chance to."
"But I thought you guys lived here for years?"
"We um did. Dick 7 years, Jason 5 years, and me 6 years."
"So why didn't he-" stephany starts before she realises.
"I,.. I don't know." Lydia says looking sad for a moment before covering it up with a smirk. "Well stephany it's like 10pm, you should probably head to bed. Alfred will kill us if he finds out we let you guys still be up. But thank you for your help with the room."
"Ok goodnight lydia." she heads for the door. "Oh and lydia?"
"Yes stephany?"
"It's steph." stephany turns and leaves. I think they will make a great part of the family.
(break)
3:26pm wayne manor kitchen.
Dick walks through the manor to the kitchen, he sees Lydia doing the dishes.
"Lydia, what are you doing up still? "
"Well I am turning into Alfred and Bruce at the same time. What about you?" she says chuckling.
"Well, I just spent some time telling lesly I am fine. Got tim to go to bed. Went to bed myself for about two hours. But I am no longer used to being here so I wake up every hour on the hour. So how are you both Alfred and Bruce?"
"Well I got their school figured out and their lunches packed. I got the dining room, living room, front entrance, tv room, library, and now the kitchen cleaned. When you went to bed. I wasn't tired so I did a quick patrol of bludhaven, darkcoda and gotham. And now i am here"
"Why didn't you-'' dick went quiet. He and Lydia looked at each other. Both thinking the same thing, someone was here. Precisely hiding on the other side of the doorway. They nodded at each other and Lydia signals dick to keep going.
"Jason and I could of helped you." they slowly walked towards the door.
"It wasn't a problem. I was able to handle it.'' Lydia stops and smirks. Dick looks at her with a curious expression. She signals for him to stop, he does, still looking at her. "Damian we know you are there." dick smirks.
"How did you know it was me? And not somebody else?"
"Experience…. And we have lived with bruce." she shrugged.
Dick jumps in. "what are you doing up anyways?"
"I wanted to see if Lydia was still up."
"And why did you want to see if i was still up?"
Damian looks down.
"Damian are you alright?" Lydia asks.
"If you were still up,... I was going to ask… if you would mind making some hot chocolate… the kind you made the other night." he says trying to hide a little embarrassment. "If you wouldn't mind."
Lydia smirks nicely. "Yeah sure. Take a seat.'' Damian pulls out a seat by the island. Lydia turns to grab a small pot. "Would you like some marshmallows?"
"Yes please."
"Well I'm gonna head to bed. Goodnight damian, goodnight Lydia."
"goodnight."
"Night"
"Here you go." Lydia says as she hands him the mug. He just stares at it. "Is there something on your mind?" she says as she leans on the counter.
"Do you miss him?" he asks, still looking at the mug.
She looks at him, then at her mug. *sigh* "everyday."
"Does it- nevermind."
"No, what are you going to ask?"
"I know mother loves me, father and pennyworth always say so. But after father's… his death… I expected her to come and claim me, drake said he wouldn't let her, but i still expected her to. She never came, never called, wasn't even at the funeral. But she is still alive. I know that. Don't take this the wrong way, I haven't gone through losing my father before and you … have…" he whispered the last part. He looked down at his mug. "Does it get...easier"
She nods once slowly. "No, not really. But you find people you really trust. The kind that you can go into a mission blind and know that they would watch your 6. That has seen you at your worst and still be there. And it's still going to hurt. But then you will have those people that are going to be there when it hurts and make you feel better."
"What if you don't have those people?"
"Damian? You down here?" Tim asked as he walks through the door. "Umm hey Lydia you are up too. Damian you alright?"
"Yes. I was just about to head back to bed."
"Yeah, that was probably a good idea." Lydia says as she puts the pots in the sink. Along with hers and damians empty mug.
Damian gets off the chair and pushes it back into its place. He and Tim were heading to the doorway.
"Hey damian." Lydia says. He and Tim look back at her. She looks at tim then back to damian.
"You got them."