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Also this is what I came up with and I think you will like it more then the piece of #$* that I came up with before. I am actually happy with this so please enjoy!
Oliver sighed there was no way he was going to be able to watch Dick today. "Roy!" he called suddenly having an idea. Roy peaked his head out from behind the door of his room in the penthouse.
"Yes Oliver?" Roy asked holding a bow and arrow in his hands.
"I have a favor I need, I will get you that new compound bow you've wanted," Oliver bribed. The red head's ears perked in interest.
"What do you need me to do?"
"Well…"
X
"No," Roy said looking at the kid that had been dropped off at the doorstep. "I will not watch him."
"Roy, you agreed," Oliver moaned. "I have a board meeting to go to…"
"You should have thought about it before agreeing to watch the kid," Roy snapped back.
"I am right here," the ebony said softly.
"It's alright Dickie, Roy here really is a soft teddy bear," Oliver said picking up the young kid. "Look Roy, just this once, I won't ask you again. Dickie here is easy to take care of," Oliver smiled. 'Dickie' smiled back at Roy innocently.
"Right… okay, just this once…" Roy sighed. The new compound bow better be wroth this… he thought to himself angrily. Oliver smiled in relief and set the kid down.
"Okay, Dick this is Roy Harper, he is my ward," Oliver explained. Dick smiled and looked up.
"Like I am to Bruce?" Dick asked happily. Oliver nodded and patted the kid's head.
"Roy, this is Richard Grayson…"
"But you can call me Dick!"
"Dick Grayson then, Bruce Wayne's ward," Oliver explained. Roy nodded, he heard of the kid on the news before. "So here is a basic list of what he can, and cannot do," Oliver said handing Roy a list. The list didn't look bad until it unfolded into a long list that seemingly never ended. Roy eyed Oliver, what was this about?
"Don't let him do acrobatics on the furniture? No sugar? No Lion King (1)? No Tarzan… Bambi… No peanuts… No hide and seek… No cooking(1) No patrol? What is this patrol?" Roy asked looking up from the list. Oliver grunted a bit and shifted.
"Well, make sure he is in your sight at all times… this is a list compiled by some other friends, and myself… There are also helpful tips on there…" Oliver explained.
"I thought this was supposed to be easy," Roy shot back.
"Dickie, you'll be good right?" Oliver asked the kid. The kid just smiled and Oliver's smiled seemed to falter some… Roy was getting worried, what was this kid going to do? "Well, the emergency contacts are in the kitchen, don't call Bruce unless Dick is dying, and call me first… and… well Dinah is also busy tonight but…"
"Auntie Dinah?" Dick asked excitedly.
"Is busy tonight, I am sorry, but Roy if you can't get a hold of me, call her next, call anyone but Bruce on that list before you call him, this is serious," Oliver stated flatly. Roy noticed Oliver's faint fear in his voice. "Roy I am trusting you," he added. "You got all of that?"
"Yes, call the list before calling Bruce Wayne," Roy answered. "Unless Dick is dying then call 911 I assume…"
"Well… generally yes…" Oliver thought aloud.
"Generally?" Roy asked.
"Well… never mind, so long as Dick behaves…" Oliver said. "So, call 911 if Dick is dying, then call Bruce, then call me," Oliver said. "If he is not dying, call me, and then everyone else if you can't get a hold of me," Oliver repeated. "Make sure he is in bed by eight, you can use my room, and Bruce will pick him up in the afternoon tomorrow, but I should be here."
"Yes I get it go!" Roy sighed. Oliver looked at the two sighed and left giving Dick a hug and Roy a pat on the shoulder for luck. How hard could this be? Roy was used to taking down villains at night… Once Oliver left Roy looked down and saw that Dick was gone.
X
"Dick!" Roy yelled in the penthouse, where could the kid have gone? He heard the kid giggle and then he looked down at the list of helpful hints. 20. If Dick is hiding bribe him with cookies, that do not have peanut oil! Roy walked into the kitchen and looked through the cabinets, sure enough there were cookies without peanuts, or peanut oil. "Dick I have cookies!" Roy called. Dick suddenly appeared out of nowhere and rushed over.
"Cookies?" the little kid asked excitedly. Roy handed the kid a cookie and Dick started to eat it.
"Come on, let's go do something quite," Roy sighed.
X
"What's this?" Dick asked holding up Roy's bow and quiver arrow.
"That's my archery stuff," Roy answered back taking the sharp point objects away from the small kid. "And I suggest you not touching it," the kid just nodded.
"So, why are you with Oliver?" Dick asked Roy. Roy looked at the kid wondering if he really wanted to answer that.
"Well, he took me in," Roy answered simply. "Not much too it."
"Oh, okay. Bruce took me in after my parents died…" Dick answered back. "They fell… in front of me…" Roy suddenly felt a wave of emotion, his parents had died, but he wasn't there for their deaths… What this kid must have seen…
"Hey!" Roy said trying to change the subject. "Let's try and find something you can do that is not on this list."
X
The list had pretty much banned everything, like baking, sewing, and… travel? How did some of this stuff get on here? When Roy asked the kid just laughed and suggested they play a game. Well that was another problem, hide and seek was banned, written in big red letters, cowboys and Indians… how Roy did not care to know, playing Batman and Robin was also banned in big bold letters…
"I want to play Batman and Robin!" Dick declared.
"But on the list it says…"
"What about Green Arrow and Speedy?" Dick asked. "That's not on the list… hey you have bows and arrows!" this was true… but Roy had a bad feeling about this… But hey if the kid wanted to play that, he had no problem with it…
"Okay… I don't think we should use my archery gear though…" Roy explained.
"What about Uncle Oliver's?" Dick asked.
"Well… I still don't think…"
"You can be Green Arrow and I can be Speedy! I think Speedy is super cool!" Dick smiled. Well… maybe Roy could show the kid how to shoot an arrow… "But Robin is way cooler!" then again maybe not.
"Well…"
"Count Vertigo is on the lose!" Dick yelled. "Lets go find him!"
"Wait Dick…"
"It's Speedy!"
"Speedy, whatever don't just play with those arrows!" Roy yelled after the kid.
X
"It hurts!" Dick whined. Dick had managed to cut himself with an arrow, Roy was just thankful the arrow didn't go through him. Roy sighed and looked at the long cut on Dick's arm… he was going to have to call Oliver…
"It's going to be fine," Roy soothed. He hated to see the kid cry like this. Picking up the gauze he wrapped the injury after cleaning it. "But hey, now you have a cool story to tell your friends at…" Roy stopped and saw several long scars on the boy's arm. What the hell? Who would hurt someone as innocent as Dick? Dick noticed Roy's eyes wondering over the scars and Dick quickly pulled his long sleeve down.
"Those aren't going to be permanent," Dick said. "Let's go do something!"
"Right… stay here and let me call Oliver first," Roy said.
X
"Pick up the phone…" Roy sighed. "Come on…" Roy wanted to call Oliver to not only tell him of the incident but also ask if Bruce Wayne was really a nice guy.
"You have reached Oliver Queen. I am sorry I cannot make it to the…" Roy suddenly heard the clicking of a lock. What was… Suddenly Dick ran over to Roy causing him to hang up the phone.
"There are two thugs outside the door, they both have guns," Dick said.
"What?" Roy asked surprised.
"They said they want to rob Oliver Queen, and they know we are here, I think they want hostages!" Dick explained. "But we can take them!" the ten year old declared. Roy put a hand over Dick's mouth and shushed him at the sound of footsteps.
"Shhh…" Roy ordered quietly. The kid was insane, how was he going to protect himself? If only he could get arrows… then they could get out of this…
"I think I hear voices," thug one said. "Let's go and see…" the thugs turned into the kitchen to see the two wards standing there. "And we found the gold."
X
"So…" Thug one said tying Dick and Roy to a chair so they were facing each other. "So, so, so… which one of you will call your famous daddy?" Dick gave the Thug a glare that sent a shudder down Roy's back. The Thug looked at Dick in surprise and then slapped Dick's face. Roy started to struggle.
"Let him go!" Roy yelled. "I'll call Oliver, just let Dick go!" Roy yelled protectively. He was not going to let anything happen to Dick.
"Roy, I'll be fine," Dick smiled at him. "Thank you though," Dick said. "You are like my brother!" he decided.
"This is all fine and nice, but…" Thug two kicked Roy's chair to the ground. "Call Mr. Queen and we'll let the kid go," Thug two smiled. Dick laughed a bit and looked at the two captors.
"What's so funny?" Thug one asked.
"Nothing, you guys are armatures, I've been kidnapped before, and you really think this is going to work? Come on, black masks?" Dick asked. "If you meant business, I would see your faces," the two men glared. What was this kid doing? Roy thought to himself on the ground. He called Oliver and Green Arrow comes to save the day. What was the kid waiting for Batman and Robin?
"Call Mr. Queen and the kid lives," Thug one said pointing his gun at Dick.
"Okay!" Roy said, he was not letting his new brother die.
"Roy, don't…" too late, Roy was already dialing Oliver's number once they released his hands.
"Let Dick go," Roy ordered placing the phone to his ear.
"Very well," the common thug one said. "You better not say a word about this kid," the thug warned as he let Dick go.
"ROY!" the kid cried, little did the thugs know they had just let hell free.
X
"Oliver it's me Roy, two thugs came to your house and kidnapped me and Dick, they let Dick go, but they want 40 thousand dollars," Roy spoke into the phone.
"They let Dick go?" Oliver's voice sounded amused.
"Yes, so are you coming to pay?" Roy asked hoping Oliver got the message.
"Yeah, if the little bird doesn't get there first," Oliver answered back.
"Let Roy Harper go!" came a somewhat familiar voice. Roy and the two thugs turned to see a little boy clad in a canary yellow cape, bright green booty shorts, and a domino mask.
"Who are you?" Thug two laughed.
"I am Robin the Boy Wonder!" Robin declared. Roy watched as the kid went into action. The kid flipped in the air landing on Thug one, Thug two started to shoot his gun. But the kid was too quick. After a few more rounds Robin had the Thug out cold. Roy watched the boy turn and saw a familiar bandage on the boy's arm.
"Dick?" Roy asked as the boy released him. Robin smiled a bit and dropped a few green arrows and flipped out of the penthouse. A few minutes later he heard Dick crying with the police outside the penthouse.
X
A few hours later, Roy and Dick were free to go back to their business. The police had determined that Green Arrow had saved the day and let the two kids settle back into the penthouse, at the request of Bruce and Oliver. Oliver and Bruce were on their way back to the penthouse.
"Dick… are you Robin?" Roy asked looking at the kid. Dick looked up and smiled and put a finger to his lips.
"Maybe, now Speedy I wouldn't want you going around and telling everyone that…" Dick smiled. "So… What do we tell Uncle Oliver and Bruce?" Dick asked changing subject. Roy stood there stunned, the kid already knew?
"The truth?" Roy suggested. Dick shrugged and winced. "Hey are you okay?" Roy asked seriously noticing the younger boy wince.
"It's fine, the thug got me in the ribs, that's all, just a bruise," Dick explained. Roy looked at the boy and then pulled him into a protective one-armed hug.
"You had me worried little brother," Roy sighed. Dick looked up at Roy and beamed.
"Brother?" Dick asked, Roy's face flushed a bit.
"Dick!" said an exasperated voice. The red head and ebony turned to see Bruce Wayne rushing into the apartment with Oliver closely following not really worried.
"Hi Bruce Green Arrow saved Roy!" Dick smiled happily holding up an arrow the police forgot to pick up as evidence. Roy quickly took the arrow from Dick who was still beaming at Bruce. Bruce picked the child up and looked at his arm wrapped in gauze.
"What happened here? Did one of the thugs hurt you?" Bruce demanded. Dick shook his head.
"No, Roy and I played Green Arrow and Speedy, Batman and Robin was banned…" Dick said sadly.
"Banned?" Bruce asked.
"The list," Oliver said. Bruce looked at Oliver and it clicked.
"Anyways, I found Roy's arrows and I accidently scratched my arm with one… Not Roy's fault though! Roy was so cool! Can I play with him again?" Dick asked all in one breath. Bruce chuckled and nodded.
"Sure, why not," Bruce smiled. "I think I'll take Dick to my Star City penthouse tonight Oliver, and make sure Roy keeps the secret," Bruce said leaving with Dick in his arms.
"The secret?" Roy asked.
"Well, you know they are Batman and Robin now," Oliver said seriously.
"How did Bruce know that?" Roy asked in awe, they had not once discussed that.
"Bat-speak, you'll get used to it…" Oliver explained. "Now, how was it?"
"It was fun, I think I am going to enjoy watching him," Roy smiled.
"I bet, now I think you want to add something to the list…" Oliver added handing Roy a pen. Roy nodded walked over to the do's and don'ts when watching Dick Grayson and added:
Do NOT let Dick play Green Arrow and Speedy with real arrows!
A/N:
(1) Refer to Robin Moments for some of these…
Me: Sorry it's long and rambling…
Red Arrow: Well… Glad to know that you decided to add me.
Me: Hey Speedy!
Red Arrow: IT'S RED ARROW!
Robin: Chill man, it's alright!
Me: Robin!
Robin: Hey SanuraKitKat!
Me: Robin would you like to…
Robin: Do the Review thing? Yes I would love to, thank you! So SINCE this is not on my: cannot do list the Robin Fan Club created I am going to do it! Would you please review for Sanura? She really loves it when you do, and I enjoy reading the reviews too, also to those who made it this far and have reviewed since chapter… 9 welcome to the Robin Fan Club! Rules include REVIEWING and the likes! LOL *Hands out membership cards*