A visions quest

Chapter 2

Bruce could hardly believe who he saw. There before him stood his father and his mother. He stretched his hand out and tried to touch them. "mm….momma?, dad?"

" It is us son, my goodness have you have grown. You have become the man we always knew you would be except you aren't happy, and we so wanted that for you."

"your mother is right son, we are honored and very proud that you are Batman because of us, you do so much good work that we could hardly believe what we had heard. How can you wish you were never be? I know that you wished that you could have prevented our death , but in reality son, our death was meant to be so that you could be who you had to become."

"Dad how can you say that, I needed you both of you in my life."

Martha Wayne looks at her son "Bruce, we have always been with you."

Bruce gets tears in his eyes. "why have you shown yourselves to me now?"

Thomas wants so bad to hug his son , closed his eyes and says "we are here to remind you why you became Batman."

"you don't need to remind me , seeing you is reminder enough." Bruce got up and about to call Alfred when Thomas says " Bruce we understand why you are angry, we left you alone and you are hurt. Unfortunately it was our destiny , we had no choice in that matter."

Bruce drops to his knees " Don't you see mom and dad there was a chance even if you weren't killed that I would still become Batman."

They looked at each other. Martha got on her knees and wanted so bad to comfort him. "Bruce do you really believe that?"

Bruce looks up at his mom "I want to believe that"

Thomas shakes his head and says " we are going to s how you what would have happened if we were never killed."

"what do you mean Dad I….."

Thomas claps his hands and they are at a theatre. Bruce couldn't believe what was happening. Here before him the events on that tragic day were unfolding but in a different way. Thomas and Martha and little Brucie were coming out of the movie theatre. They just got done seeing Zorro when they were approached by a man in a mask with a gun that was pointing right at them. "Your wallet sir" the thief said.

Thomas Wayne acted like he was going to give it to him w hen he did a roundabout kick and emptied the mans hand of the gun., then Thomas punched him. Martha wrapped her arms around his neck while Brucie was saying "way to go dad."

The adult Bruce was watching the scene with tears in his eyes. Martha got close to him and said "its not over yet son, watch."

Bruce watched himself as a child playing with his parents, seeing one happy family, he was watching what he always wished would happen. " I don't understand , what you are showing me is nothing but happiness."

Thomas smiled at Bruce. "as times progresses you will see son what is missing. Watch and you will see."

Bruce watched as the next scene transpires. He saw a little boy and his parents doing circus acrobats and then watched as the boys parents died. "That's Dick, I took him in when his parents died, he became robin, my first sidekick and most importantly my son."

"With you not being batman you didn't care that his parents had died. You never took him in as your son and you never took him in under your wing and trained him as Robin.

Bruce watched as Dick was passed from foster home to another foster home, never feeling like he belonged anywhere. He watched as Dick fell into the wrong crowds.

" I don't want to see anymore of this. Dick grew up to be a fine young man, a leader and an inspiration to others. He is my son and …"

"None of that happened Bruce, without your influence in his life. You made a difference to his life even in the early stages you made a difference.

Then it got dark and they were in the Wayne manor. Bruce watched this scene where the Wayne's came home. They were greeted at the door by Marcellus. "who is that dad?" Bruce asked. Thomas frowned and answered that is our butler Marcellus." Bruce looked shocked. "where is Alfred?"

Thomas closed his eyes and said "Alfred felt like we didn't need him. He wanted to go and marry and have kids before it got to late so he gave us his resignation."

"No, Alfred knew I needed him, he was always there to take care of me, to mend my wounds, he was an anchor for Batman."

Martha shook her head. " You aren't understanding Bruce, you didn't become Batman for there was no need so there is no need for Alfred to take or mend batman."

"NOO, this isn't real. Even if there was no Batman , none of this would've happened." Bruce screamed.

Thomas and Martha Wayne started to fade and asked "Are you so sure son?"

Then they were gone .