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No ones hurt?" Bruce's voice was smooth with underlying steel.

The three teens shook their heads in reply.

Burce raked a hand through his ebony hair, somehow not managing to move a hair from its place.
He followed this with a sigh and cast a glance around them, resting on some of the police who had saved them earlier.

"Go to the car, Alfred's waiting" was his abrupt order as he walked away from them and towards the police.

Dick looked like he might disobey was tugged along by the other two. It wasn't hard to spot their ride.
It was the only sleek black Mercedes Benz with a dignified looking butler standing at the side patiently.

Vic shot Dick a disbelieving look but judging by the look on the smaller boys face, hedecided it was probably better not to question.

"Hello Master Dick, Miss Kori." Alfred looked at Vic expectantly.

"I do not believe I have had your acquaintance"

Vic stared at him, confused before it clicked and he laughed sheepishly.

"Sorry man, I'm Vic"

"Ah yes, a pleasure to meet you, young Victor"

There was an awkward silence.

"Well, young masters and young miss. Would you like to be seated. Once we return to the manor, you can clean yourselves up.

"I gotta call my parents" Vic stated.

"As you shall once we return to Wayne Manor but I believe it would be unwise to wait here"

With that Alfred, opened the back doors and nodded at it.

Dick headed for the car and climbed in, Kori followed after and after giving the butler a weird look, Vic slipped in too.
The door clicked close after them.

"Are we in trouble?" Kori asked tentatively

"Looks that way"

"He has no right to be, we were just defending ourselves

Before the other two could say something, the front door opened and Bruce stepped into the car, it was like his presence filled the car with an intimidating tense air.

Alred seated himself in the driver side and soon the engine has revved up and they were on the road.

Bruce adjusted his tie slightly.
His broad shoulders were tense . Finally he spoke, as he pressed his thumb to the bride of his nose and massaged his temples.

"What happened?" his voice came out in a low menacing growl.

"That stone thing attacked us!"

"So you decided to act the big heroes and take him down"

"Well we tried the diplomatic approach but he had no sense of compromise and he had the nerve not to wait for the proper authorities to arrive and detain him" Dick shot back fiercely.

"You should have just run"

" We did, he caught up"

Kori and Vic were shrinking back into the leather apolostery trying to make themselves invisible.

"You could have been killed! This isn't some school yard bully who only needs someone to stand up to him."

"We did run and he chased us. Didn't you hear those guys, that ..thing was after us nothing else"

Dick could feel Kori sit up straighter as he said this.
Kori and Vic exchanged worried glances.
This was news to them.

"We'll discuss this at home"

"Fine by me!"

The car was silent on the trip back. It was relief when they were able to scramble out of the car.
Alfred was showing the other two to the bathrooms when Bruce pulled Dick aside into his office.

"What aren't you telling me about this?"

Dick knew he couldn't his suspicions and he wanted help so he pulled out the small orange and black disc that he suspected caused the while thing.

"When we were bringing Kori home, we crashed and there was some guy in the smoke. He was talking about how its starting soon and how we was expecting things from us. He left this behind" Dick held out the disc for his guardians inspection.

Bruce took it from him and studied it.

"And today we were there cheering for Vic and this monster charged at us. He was heading off with Kori but I think that was because we split up and she the only one left on the field. I think it has something to do with that, I keep getting a weird feeling when I meet these people and then when we're all together we get attacked."

"OK supposing your paranoia isn't unfounded, it would probably be better to keep this people safe and together. Vic will be staying here as well. Call him in when you find him"

Dick bit back a sarcastic reply and left unsure if he felt better or worse about sharing that information.
Bruce sat at his desk and began sorting through paper work ,stopping to give Dick a questioning look.

Seeing as this conversation wasn't going to continue, Dick left in search of his friends.
Vic was walking down the halls with a towel thrown around his shoulders, looking clean.

"That was fast " Dick observed falling in step with him

"Yeah no hair to wash" he grinned pointing at his bald head." Kori, on the other hand might take a while"

"Oh yeah, Bruce wants to talk to you about staying here for a bit"

Dick led Vic to the office and stood outside the door waiting for Vic.

After about fifteen minutes, Alfred strolled up to the door with two adults in two, who Dick assumed were Vic's parents.

Inside the room Dick was pleading the importance of his football scholarship while Bruce listened patiently.

Alfred knocked on the door gently.

"Mr. and Mrs. Stone are here to you see, sir" he informed them in his dignified tone.

"Pops, Mom?" Vic asked in disbelief staring at the couple standing at the door.

Dick watched when he heard a soft voice in his ear.

"What's going on?" Kori whispered, walking up behind Dick, raking damp strands of hair away from her face.

"Parents "

"Please sit down, Vic I'd appreciate it if you waited outside for this"

Vic didn't look at all happy at the notion of leaving his parents alone with Bruce but he left, reluctantly.

The door closed after him, leaving him standing with Kori and Dick.

"Man whattya' think they're gonna say?" Vic asked, staring at the door willing himself to be see through it.

The other two shrugged when Dick smirked.

"We could just stay here, having our own conversation"

Vic smirked right back at him.

"And if we happened to hear their conversation, why that would be just terrible"

"You want us to eavesdrop?" Kori asked in horror

"No no no…ok yeah"

"That's terrible"

"C'mon on Kori. They're talking about my future, I need to hear this"

"You don't want them to say something awful about Vic without us being able to defend him"

Kori gasped and looked at them with a worried expression.

"So we cool?"

Kori nodded and sat down beside the door, ;leaning against the wall.
Dick sat next to her and Vic leant against the wall trying to look casual, they were perfectly silent trying to catch snippets of the conversation.

Somewhere along the line, Alfred had placed a tray of cookies beside them and they nibbled on the cookies quietly.

The conversation swung from the value of education to the foolishness of youth.
As it seemed Vic's parents didn't approve of football but they did approve of the scholarship because of the opportunity it might provide. and as such they didn't love the idea of him missing out on his two week training with the Gotham City knights They hated the idea that their son might be in danger.

Bruce for his part had assured them that it was merely a precaution and it would be easier for Vic if he stayed at the manor during his training.
What with his charming tone and having the art of negotiation down to a tee, Vic's parents soon agreed that they had to do right by their soon and this seemed to be the right thing to do.

The door of the office opened and Dick and Kori looked up to see Vic's parents staring down at them.

His mother hugged him tightly, ordering him to tell them if anything bad happened and his father gave him a brief hug and a pat on the back.

"Take care of yourself baby, we'll see you in a fortnight" his mother gushed while his father turned his attention to the other two.

"Weren't you that girl who worked for a horrible boss and refused to leave?" his father asked, looking at Kori sharply.

Kori grinned nervously.

"Yeah that was me" she replied, scratching the back of her head.

"Glad to see someone got you out then"

Kori shot Dick a shy smile.

"Me too"

"Take good care of my boy" Vics father warned Bruce in good nature.

"Bye baby" his mom planted one more kiss on her sons cheek before her husband practically dragged her away from them and towards the car.

They thanked Bruce once they were out of earshot of the teens and bundled into their car, taking off out the gate.

Bruce walked past them.

"Show your friend to a room" he ordered calmly, disappearing inside his office.

"Welcome to the manor" Dick said ruefully.

The next morning, Kori was pottering about the kitchen despite being ushered out of the room many times by Alred and the boys were sprawled out on the sofa watching the TV.

Dick got up to grab something form the fridge when Vic's shout alerted him.

"Hey Dick, Kori. You GOTTA see this"

They both ran over to where their friend was seated and watched the TV screen showing the news.

"The opening of Gotham's new zoo has been thrown into disarray by one young protester" the blonde reported spoke with a chipper voice, as if this was the cutest thing in the world.

The camera swung to a young boy no older than themselves with blonde spiky hair with streaks of green running through it and forest green eyes, who had chained himself to the front gates and was shouting something out waving a picket sign at the crowd gathered around him..

To be continued.

Hi I'm actually going to try and write decent authors notes for a change, I've been meaning to and now I have so yay.
OK first off ,sorry if I don't have the characters right but that's the way its going so...yeah.

Also I know the action scene was off but I've never written an action scene before, well not really and I thought it would be good if it was kinda messy. Maybe they'll get better at it, the longer I write this.

I'm really sorry about the delay as well, very busy couple of weeks.

Thanks to everyone who's reviewed, you made me all giggly and please continue with the reviewing. I like it very much

Anyway, I hoped you enjoyed this chapter.
Lots of love

Nibbs