Do you know how goddamn hard it is to think of names for your characters?! Especially in this situation, the name just had to sound awesome or have a deeper meaning!


Challenged

"Mary, would you quit jumping?" Dick laughed.

His five year old daughter stopped and pouted, looking up at him with big blue eyes. "Sorry, daddy, I'm just so esc- ecs- ex-"

"Excited?" He corrected, smiling as his daughter stomped her foot on the ground in frustration. She just never could get it right!

Despite being named after Dick's mother, Mary was nothing like her. She looked almost exactly like her mother; violet hair, pale skin. The only thing she had from him was his blue eyes, and although she got teased sometimes because of her hair, she proved to be quiet the spitfire (like her dad, her sarcasm and witty remarks definitely came from him, although Raven definitely could be sassy at times) when needed.

She could be calm and collected, like Raven, but most of the time she was a bouncing ball of energy.

They were at the carnival, Raven hadn't gone with them; she had promised Starfire to go patrolling with her.

While Dick and Raven had moved on from the Titans, it didn't mean they dropped their hero career. They just toned it down a bit because of Mary. Besides, Raven knew her husband couldn't live without going out at night and saving people, it was just who he was; although he switched from being Robin to taking a new identity as Nightwing.

Cyborg had joined the Justice League, leaving Starfire and Beast Boy as the only Titans. However, Titans East had taken up their offer and moved to Jump City, with Beast Boy as the new Titans leader. Which he was surprisingly good at.

But that day had been a team mission, and the numbers were uneven, so Starfire had asked Raven to go with her; which the half-demon agreed to. She had to admit, she missed being a constant hero sometimes.

Which ended with Dick taking their daughter to the carnival so she wouldn't sit around all day waiting for her mother to come home so she could practice with her powers. (Another thing she had from Raven, although she was almost as agile as her father, which was both a good and a bad thing.)

When Mary spotted a huge fluffy panda as the top prize for one of the games, she squealed and asked her dad to try and win it for her.

It was almost impossible to most people; you had to throw a ninja star straight at the center of the target, from twenty feet away.

It was quite easy for Dick though, he had been trained by Batman himself and spent most of his life throwing bird-a-rangs and explosive discs at villains; he still did.

Besides, he liked a challenge.

So when he heard all of the people coming to watch to see if he could actually do it, he smirked, especially when they openly displayed their doubts.

He could hear Mary talking to another kid, said kid saying that he could never do it. Dick bit his tongue, forcing himself to keep his mouth shut. He simply calculated how hard he needed to throw, if he needed to flick his wrist, at which speed etc.

He'd prove them wrong.

He flinched when he heard his five year old daughter reply with a little more force than needed, glad that her powers weren't connected with her emotions, like her mother's were. If that was the case, multiple things would've exploded by now.

Dick twirled the ninja star one time in his hand, before throwing it; the smirk never leaving his face as it hit the center of the target, the object shaking a bit from the impact.

Mary giggled when Dick crouched down and handed her the panda, jumping into her father's arms soon after.

He chuckled when his daughter turned to face the kid, sticking her tongue out when she saw the surprised look on their face. She said that her father could do it, she had faith in him, uncle Bruce had told her many stories about her dad's time as Robin and all the amazing things he could do, she also heard amazing stories about what he was currently doing as Nightwing. She knew that throwing a simple ninja star would be easy.

As he walked away, he took out his phone to call his wife; she answered on the first ring.

"I'm on my way home." She stated.

He figured, he could hear the sound of the air rushing; proving that she was flying.

"I know, could you make some room in Mary's room please?" He glanced at his daughter who was playing contently with the stuffed animal her father won.

Raven sighed. "What did you get her this time?"

"Technically, I didn't get her anything, I won something...and it's an oversized panda bear."

"Garfield's going to have a heart attack when he sees all the stuffed animals Mary has." She joked. He could hear her stop and the sound of a door opening, she was already home.

"Yeah, well, he'll have to get over it."