A/N hey everyone I'm so sorry I haven't updated my other stories! I've been really busy at school and don't usually get home until 5 so I don't have time to go online and on the weekends I just like to chill cuz it's only two days off of school. So as I was spacing out during school, I came up with this new story. Hope you all like it. Please review! Once again I'm sorry I haven't updated yet!

Summery: AU. Richard Grayson must find a wife in one month or he will lose inheriting Wayne Enterprises. But what happens if the girl he really loves isn't the girl he's getting married to? RichKor

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Chapter: 1

The Deal
By: xStarfirex

Richard Grayson woke up to his alarm clock at seven in the morning. Oh how he dreaded waking up so early. TGIF right? Thank goodness it's Friday. Richard yawned and finally gained his strength to get out of bed. He stretched and rubbed his eyes. He looked outside and found that it was raining. Richard suddenly had a feeling that something big would be coming his way. The rain says it all.

Ah, rain. Something about rain makes anyone depressed. It's like you could be doing something fun outside but instead got stuck doing something boring inside.

That was the feeling Richard got as he sat on the leather chair in the conference room of Wayne Enterprises.

'So…why am I here again?' he thought as he tapped his pencil on the table. He was in a meeting with Bruce and some other employees of Wayne Enterprises. They were discussing about graphs and charts and other useless junk Richard didn't care about.

"Now, if Bruce had put these various merchandise on the market, everyone would be blah blah blah." Those were the words Richard tried to interpret in his mind. But he was too timid to pay attention to the meeting.

He looked out the window and saw two robins making a nest high up in one of the trees. He smirked. 'Damn. Even birds are happier than I am'. He stared at them for a while until he was interrupted.

"Richard, Richard, RICHARD!" Bruce was calling out.

"Huh? Yeah?" He realized he, Bruce, and two other people were left in the room.

"Come sit closer. These two gentlemen have a proposition for you," Bruce said in his serious and threatening tone.

"Whatever it is, I'm not interested," Richard said, gathering his papers and standing up.

"You will be once you hear you will not be inheriting the fortune of Wayne Enterprises," said one of the gentlemen.

"What?" This caught Richard's attention and he sat back down.

"You heard me, you will not be inheriting Wayne Enterprises."

"Unless," the other gentlemen spoke up, "You find yourself a wife in one month."

"What!"

"Richard, these gentlemen are co-founders of my father's company. Since you are so young, they don't believe you will make a good president of this company. Prove yourself worthy by marrying a woman and treating her fairly. Only then can you save this company," Bruce explained.

"You have exactly one month. The time period ends when the big hand and little hands point at twelve, you must be married by then," said one of the officials as he pointed to the clock on the wall, "Nice doing business with you." They got up to leave, but Richard had one more question to ask.

"What happens if I'm not married by then?" Richard asked.

"This company will be owned by us, if you fail to wed. Then it will no longer be called 'Wayne Enterprises'," They both laughed a laugh of pure evil as they exited the conference room.

"Don't worry, Richard, I'll find you a bride to wed," Bruce said. He picked us his papers on the table and left the conference room also. Richard sat there, bewildered. Wondering, how the heck is he suppose to fall in love in just one month?

"Total harshness," Victor Stone said.

"Yeah, why are they making you get married again? Dude, you're only twenty-one!" Garfield Logan said.

"I know! Bunch of idiots!" Richard screamed over the phone. He and his two best buds were 3-waying over the phone.

"So what are you gonna do?" Vic asked.

"I have no choice. I have to get married," said Richard.

"You have guts. If someone told me I had to get married within a month, I'd freak out and probably move away to California," Gar said. He was met with some light laughter.

"Well, I have to go, I'll just sit on my bed and remember the good times I had being single, before it's too late," Richard said and hung up.

He threw the phone on the floor and laid in his bed staring up at the ceiling.

:Flashback:

"Why are we here again?" Gar asked.

"It's Raven's birthday tomorrow and we still haven't bought her a gift," Richard explained.

"Let's just get her something emo and go," Vic suggested.

"No! She always got us what we wanted for our birthdays," Richard argued.

"Oh fine," the two gave up and helped Richard look for a gift.

The three were walking around the mall when something caught their eyes.

"Will that do?" Gar asked.

"Yeah, I think it will," Richard said and all three walked into the store.

"Yes! Problem solved! Can we go to the arcade now?" Victor asked.

"Sure, why not," Richard replied.

:End Flashback:

Richard woke up to the annoying music of Blink-182. His music was his alarm clock. It woke him up everyday at seven. Apparently, last night he forgot to unplug his alarm clock. Richard covered his ears with a pillow. But after a while he finally had the strength to press the snooze button to finally shut the stupid clock up. Richard eventually fell back asleep.

He awoke to the creaking sound of his door. He slowly opened his eyes but suddenly sat straight up as he realized Bruce was hovering over him.

"Oh crap, Bruce, I don't ever wanna wake up to your face ever again!" Richard screamed.

"Sorry to wake you up at 11 on a Saturday, sleeping beauty, but we have stuff to do," Bruce said to him.

"What stuff? Can't this wait until Monday? I mean, c'mon, it's the weekend!"

"Look, Richard, you heard what those two men said yesterday, you can't waste time finding your one true love."

"Who said anything about my finding my one true love? As far as my concern, I'm pretty sure I don't have one."

"Well, weather you like it or not, I'm finding you someone to betroth."

"Well, what if I don't wanna go through with it?"

"Now, that's just too bad isn't it?" And with that, Bruce walked out of his room.

Man, was this guy serious. He is totally for finding Richard's future wife. And by the looks of things, he won't stop until he finds her. Seriously, this is only the beginning. Sadly, Bruce only has one month to find her. One month? What can he accomplish in one month? And so, as Richard showered and Bruce tried to devise a plan, both couldn't help but think the same thing at the exact same time.

"Anything but marriage!"

A/N That was kinda short wasn't it? I hoped you all liked it. Don't worry, the next chapter will be longer. I recently deleted most of my stories and am planning to make more new ones. Well, Please Review!