(For disclaimer see part one!)(No songs or books mentioned here belong to me)(Sorry for the delay but I had lots to do with university and stuff well here you go and thank you to everyone for your kind words)(Sorry this is a short chapter I promise the next one will be much longer)

As Wayne One climbed to cruising height on the way to Kansas, Bruce was looking thoughtfully out of the window; thinking about the reasons for this up coming meal. About how he almost lost his only friend in the superhero community, which then led to the creation of this clone of Superman, of this Superboy!

Deciding to put these thoughts away for the time being Bruce looked around at his family: Tim was listening to his walkman while doing some homework by the looks of it; Dick and Barbara were bickering playfully as usual about something or other. Bruce had heard all of these arguments so often that he now just listened to the sound of the conversation to know that they were just doing this because they always did and wasn't a real argument. Having checked that they were all okay he settled back into his seat and started to read a book he hadn't read in years because he never had the time. This flight, though, gave him the chance to re-read Goldfinger by Ian Fleming – an author that Alfred had got a young Bruce hooked on soon after he started touring the world.

Tim was sitting quietly at the back of the plane going over some chemistry homework from school he had to hand in the following week but he just couldn't get the masses to balance and listening to Brian McKnight was definitely not helping his concentration so switching his personal stereo off he thought who he could ask. He could always get Bruce to look at this, as he knew that if anyone could do this then The Batman could. But that would probably result in Bruce giving him extra chemistry to do while he could be being Robin to get him up to speed. He could also ask either Dick or Babs but in the confines of the plane Bruce would notice and check what was going on, plus they both looked liked they where enjoying their usual bickering matches. Resolving himself to being stuck on this for the rest of the flight, Tim got back to doing his hated chemistry homework.

Meanwhile Dick and Babs where having a "discussion" about the fact that Dick had 'yet again' (as Babs put it) left his old socks and boxer shorts out on his side of the bedroom. And pointing out to him that he no longer was living like a bachelor – which could be told by the absence of any week old fast food packages lying around the apartment and the fact that if he didn't start picking up his washing he wouldn't be 'getting any' (as she also put it) for the foreseeable future! With this ultimatum hanging in the air, plus the fact he was getting quite embarrassed in case Barbara decided to bring up any more things along those lines in front of his little brother and worse his father, Dick agreed to pick up his laundry in future and do all of it for the next month if she agreed to drop the subject that instant.

Just as Dick and Babs came to this decision the pilot announced to his passengers that they would soon be descending to Kansas City airport where there was a car waiting to take them on to their destination.

As the plane descended Bruce wished that Alfred was there to drive them, but he had been unwell recently and it had taken both Bruce and Lesley's insistence that they would be fine without him and that Dick or Bruce would drive. Glad that Lesley was with Alfred at the mansion, Dick wondered whether anything would ever happen there or whether the chemistry had just been there for too long for either to notice anymore. Dick just wished that his old friend and grandfather could find someone to be with and Alfred and Lesley where made for each other in so many ways it would be perfect.

10 minutes after setting off it was decided by Bruce that there would be no singing at all in the car after Dick had finished the 13 verse to I'm Henry the 8th I am I am.

5 minutes later he decided that Tim wasn't allowed to choose any music either there was only so much Spice Girls one man could take.