Richard smiled as he snuggled closer to the warmth beside him, which only made his smile widen. Yesterday was wonderful... magical! He felt sore in all the right places and loved the right way. The healthy way. Something that neither Barbara nor Zatanna had made him feel before. Not to say they were abusive or anything, it's just that the lack of trust and understanding was toxic for the relationship. Dick could understand Zatanna, but Barbara was a bat, just like him, she should have understood him.

Well, he had Damian now and that's all that mattered to him.

"Good morning beloved," the green-eyed man greeted his partner tenderly.

"Good morning indeed," Dick chuckled as he greeted his new boyfriend with a kiss.

A kiss that would have developed into a full make-out session if not for their cell phones ringing at the same time. They both groaned, well Dick groaned while Damian was growling, but they still split apart and went to answer. The first thing that Dick heard was his best friend shouting: "You are dating someone and you never told me?!" Richard winced at the volume and then proceeded to placate the speedster. Meanwhile, Damian was attending a business call.

"Sorry for interrupting you while... you are on a date..." poor Raven, she could not imagine her dear older brother in bed with a romantic partner.

"The date was yesterday, but it does not matter," Damian chuckled. "Why did you call so early?"

"It's noon," Rachel replied dryly.

"Really?" Damian asked in shock. "you are right. Richard must have worked me hard last night..."

"Damian!" Whined Raven, making her brother laugh at her uncharacteristic behavior.

"That's enough playing around, Raven report!"

Just like that, as if a switch has been turned, Rachel was all business: "We caught Mother, Cain's right hand, and dismantled the human trafficking operation. The Pantheon will be in charge of overseeing the care of the children. Our next cases are The Brotherhood of the Fist, The Council of Spiders, and The King Snake and his Ghost Dragons."

"That is not all," Damian stated, not asked.

"No, it's been decided where shall be the base of operation of everyone," Raven answered. "With Red Arrow retired to be a dad, and Cheshire's 'community service' done for, she requested to be turned into a reserve member. So, she can stay home with her daughter and help her husband expand his security company. With that in thought, Arsenal decided to stay in Star City, unless on a mission, with Red Hood. Together with Black Canary and Green Arrow, they will be the only full-time heroes around, as Arrowette has decided to hand the cape and become an Olympic Archer."

"That's understandable, she never wanted to be a heroine in the first place," Damian commented. "What about the rest?"

"SomeBody and Ravager decided to make Bludhaven their base of operation, thank the gods for the House of Mysteries, which makes for teleportation much easier," Raven answered. "About that, Blockbuster is dead, shot by a new mask called Tarantula. We believed she was a new vigilante, but she seems to be more in the grey zone. Ravager tried to recruit her, but when Tarantula tried to kill cops for arresting her brother, Mateo Flores, for working for Blockbuster and being corrupted in general, the girls decided to bring her in. " Raven explained the situation. "Rose as Jason's second in command of The Birds Society will like to establish a branch in Bludhaven to aid the city the way the Wayne Foundation does in Gotham City. Of course, Queen Industries will foot the bill. From what Arsenal has told me, Ollie is fed up with Brucie making him look bad."

"Good luck with that," Damian chuckled. "After merging LexCorp with WE, he is now a trillionaire."

"Suren will join Captain Marvel in Fawcett City, while I stay in the team full-time with Poison Ivy and Harley. The girls have decided to live on Lazarus Island full-time, while Suren, Billy, and I decided to stay with John. No better place for someone with magic than the House of Mysteries. With Terra, Geo-Force, and Halo as reserve members, as expected as they have their own duties as a Royal Family. Red Hood has told me he has a few new possible recruits if we are interested, but has said nothing specific." Rachel completed her report.

"Set a date for a meeting, we can't have only three full-time members for a covert team of this scale. Especially, if we are taking The Council of Spiders and The King Snake next. The Brotherhood of the Fist will be put down in the list of priorities for now, compared to these two they can wait." Damian commanded. "At least, we have a good number of good reserve members in case of emergencies."

"Done," Rachel replied. "By the way, Cyborg is leaving The Outsiders for the Justice League, he was recently invited."

"Will he be ok?" Damian inquired, his tone showing his worry, even if his face was expressionless. Cyborg is the newest member of their makeshift family, but he has already been through so much. "He has been working himself too hard with Mother's case. if we were horrified by what she's done, he who dwelled so deep into the net..."

"He's been constantly aiding various intelligence agencies all over the world stopping people trafficking over the net... especially, kids." Raven sighed. "He's been doing an incredible job. But he is working himself dry and scaring a lot of people."

"Those rats will hide if they know they are being hunted down," Damian sighed. "Such brutal frontal attack is not the best plan. Now to mention, that once you go down the rabbit hole of the darknet, it's hard to come out... much less, complete."

"I'll also schedule an intervention," Raven assured him.

"You are the best little sister," Damian smiled.

"All good?" Damian turned around at Dick's question and kissed him, as he finished the call.

"All good... just some rescheduling needed for The Renegades and the need of an intervention for an overworked friend," Damian answered, without going into detail, knowing that a bat will understand the need for secrecy for the sake of efficiency.

"By the way, the net is going crazy about us," Richard chuckled. "I can't wait for the media circus revealing you are dad's biological son will bring," Dick chuckled, but stopped when he saw his lover's grim expression. "What's wrong viața mea?"

"I don't believe announcing that is the best course of action," Damian admitted slowly. "The Wayne's are already under enough scrutiny with Cassandra winning the Benoisee de la Danse, you becoming the Chairman of the Wayne Foundation, and Jason coming back to life. Not to mention, the engagement announcement of a union of a Queen and a Wayne. I do not desire for my past to come out to light and if people start asking the right questions that's what will happen." Damian explained, kissing his beloved apolegitacly. "There's a reason why I divided my ONGs into five different organizations and do not oversee them on my own... at least, legally. Being in the shadows it's what kept me safe and helped me get this far."

"I understand... though, I can't say the same for dad. While I understand you don't need any paperwork to be family, B likes to be in control of everything," Dick told him.

"Well, then we are both very much alike in that aspect," Damian chuckled. He does that a lot with Richard. "How are things going in Gotham?"

"Better... incredibly so," Dick confessed, still slightly stunned by that fact. "With the Court of Owls gone, and all their members spread throughout the country's prisons, we can finally start getting rid of the corruption from the core. Every judge, cop, politician, and businessman that aided them was ruined and in jail, with dad buying their businesses. Our family now owns around 80% of Gotham! There are no major families anymore, just minor ones, except the Kane's. With the Elliot's and Cobblepot's ruined, the head of the families are villains. By the way, thank you for the tip about Hush."

"You are welcomed, beloved," Damian replied with a soft smile and a tender kiss on the forehead. "Though, I don't believe father was happy to find out about Hush's reason to become a villain."

"No," Dick sighed. "He was very angry, blamed Gotham for breeding insanity and them himself for not noticing his childhood friend was being abused." Richard shook his head, that had been a difficult and dark month. First finding out about Haly's Circus and the alliance with The Court of Owls. Then Raptor, Richard's own childhood friend who had been chosen to replace him as a Talon when Dick was adopted by Bruce, and who Dick was unable to save before he had died in the aftermath of the battle against Nightwing. And then about Tommy Elliot... it took the Colony a lot of time to recover from the whole ordeal. "We should also be thanking you for the funds for the gentrification of the Narrows and Crime Alley. Which curiously are the amount of the combined fortune of the Court of Owl's members."

"What can I say, I thought they had a better use than being used for bribery," Damian smirked cheekily. "Did Fox get my plans for the gentrification?"

"Yes, Lucius got them. I was left in charge of the whole thing, so I decided to make it a joint work with The Birds Society," Dick answered.

"It'll be nice to see you and Jason working together outside of your night costumes," Damian replied.

Richard was filled with the love he felt for his viața. He pulled him for a deep kiss, which lead up to both of them being in bed and losing their flight to Gotham. Not that it mattered, with both of them being rich.