Chapter 32

Wayne Manor; October 1st, 17:08 EST

"Yay!" Nicholas and Kaia both cheered, completely enthralled with the entertainment. "Do it again!"

"Wow," Zatanna said as she glanced at Donna and Alfred. "I get more appreciation here than I do at some of my sold-out shows."

"That's because they're small children and they adore you, Miss Zatara," Alfred pointed out.

"Well, they're my favorite audience," Zee replied. "I always knew that Bruce and Diana would make the most adorable kids in the world and I wasn't wrong."

"Me try that," Kaia said as she crawled over to sit on Donna's lap to get closer to Zatanna.

"You want to pull a bunny out of my hat?" Zee asked her.

"Yah…me," Kaia said, patting her chest.

"Kaia, you're too little," Nicholas tried to tell her only to receive a Wayne patented glare from his little sister.

"Me not too wittle," she insisted. "Me big girl."

"You still wear a diaper," Nick reminded her.

"Which, by the way, I believe needs to be changed," Donna announced with a wrinkled nose as she picked Kaia up from her lap to hold out in front of her.

"Come with me, Miss Kaia," Alfred said as he stood to his feet, taking Kaia into his arms.

"Me not want a diaper, Pappoús," Kaia pouted. "Me big girl."

"Ut-oh," Zee uttered with a grin. "Looks like someone's ready to be potty-trained."

"Don't look at me," Donna said, holding up her hands. "I've got two of my own I'm going to have to potty-train."

"This would be good practice for you," the magician suggested with a grin.

"Maybe you could use your magic wand and magically train them to use the bathroom for me."

"Hmmm…I don't think I have a spell for that," Zee replied with a thoughtful frown. "Have you guys come up with any names yet for the twins?"

"We've talked about a few but nothing that we've definitely decided on," she revealed. "We need to focus on finding a house right now. Our apartment won't hold all four of us for very long."

"You'll have plenty of time once things have settled down around here," she reminded her. "Besides, you know you'll have plenty of help with moving."

"You can just live here with us," Nicholas excitedly decided.

"That's not a bad idea," Zatanna agreed. "They've got plenty of room and you'd have lots of help with the babies."

"I can help with the babies," Nick volunteered.

"I appreciate that, Nicholas, but we need our own house," Donna told him. "Besides, Alfred has his hands full as it is without us and the twins."

"You move away?" he asked, his expression sad.

"No, not far," she reassured him. "We'll be over to see you all the time and you can come over to play with the babies any time you want to."

"Me too," Kaia added as Alfred reentered the room with the freshly diapered toddler.

"Of course, you can come too," Donna assured her.

"Okay, who wants to try to pull a bunny out of a hat?"

"Me!" Nicholas and Kaia volunteered, raising both of their hands.

"All right, my little apprentices," Zee said, holding her hat out before her. "Wave your hands over the opening of my hat."

Nicholas waved his hand over the opening of Zatanna's hat followed by Kaia, both anxious to see what was going to happen next. "Where is the bunny?" Kaia excitedly asked, bouncing up and down.

Zatanna said a few magic words before reaching into her top hat with both hands, pulling out two bunnies. "Wow!" Nicholas cried. "We got two bunnies, Kaia!"

"Can we keep them?" Kaia asked.

"Sure," Zee replied. "I think they would love it here."

Alfred and Donna shared a knowing look, amused by Nicholas and Kaia's reaction. "I can't wait to see Bruce's reaction to this," Donna told Alfred with a conspiratorial grin.

"I think this had best be kept a secret for as long as possible," he agreed with a chuckle.

"Like until Nick and Kaia graduate from high school," Donna decided.

"Looks like I'll be ordering a bunny hut for outside," Alfred announced.

"Me want to keep him in my woom," Kaia told him, carrying her bunny to Alfred. "He can sleep with me in my bed."

"Definitely not," Alfred said. "The bunnies will have to sleep in their own home outside."

"Oh, Pappoús," Nick whined, holding his little bunny up. "He's so cute. I want to keep him in my room too."

"I will not have rabbit droppings all over the house," Alfred told them. "You already have Ace and Peanut in the manor. Your bunnies can stay outside. You can play with them anytime you want when you go outdoors."

Donna and Zatanna both struggled to hold in their laughter, knowing that the stubborn duo had more than met their match in Grandpa Alfred. "Stick to your guns, Pappoús," Donna teased him.

Alfred gave her a sidelong glance. "I plan to," he replied. "Four pets in the house is two too many. Unless they can be potty-trained, they will be staying outside."

"What are you going to name them?" Zatanna asked.

Kaia tilted her head as she looked at her bunny, trying to think of a good name. "Me don't know."

"How about Bert and Ernie?" Donna suggested, knowing how much they loved Sesame Street.

"Yah! My bunny is Bert," Nicholas decided. "Kaia, your bunny can be Ernie."

Kaia wrinkled her nose. "Me love Elmo."

"You can name your bunny Elmo," Donna told her.

"Otay, my bunny is Elmo," she announced as she held the little rabbit protectively against her chest.

"My bunny is Grover," Nicholas declared. "I love Grover."

"Well, that's settled," Zatanna said with a chuckle. "I never thought naming a bunny could be such a process."

"You have no idea," Alfred replied as he stood to his feet. "Please excuse me as I see to dinner. Will you be staying, Miss Zatara?"

"Are you kidding?" Zatanna questioned him. "I wouldn't miss your cooking for anything."

"Hey, what's going on in here?" Dick asked he entered the entertainment room. "Where did the rabbits come from?"

"I'm afraid that would be my fault," Zatanna sheepishly informed him, having the decency to appear chagrinned.

"We made them appear!" Nicholas excitedly cried, holding his bunny up. "Zee said we could keep them."

"Oh boy, don't tell Bruce," Dick replied with a chuckle as he sat down next to his wife. "You two are lucky you got a cat and a dog. I don't know if I would push it anymore."

"Too late," Donna told him, leaning into her husband. "Alfred is already ordering a rabbit hut for them."

"How long do you think we can keep them a secret before Bruce finds out and goes ballistic?" Dick asked.

"Mine is Elmo," Kaia told him as she crawled up onto the couch with him, holding her bunny up for him to see.

"Mine is Grover," Nicholas said as he stroked his bunny's ear.

"Should have known," Dick murmured, looking at Donna. "Sesame Street."

"It's their favorite show," she reminded him.

"How long before we end up having rabbit stew for dinner?" Dick joked.

"Richard Grayson!" Donna cried, slapping him on the shoulder. "That's not even funny. You're going to scare the kids."

"You guys know Bruce isn't going to be on board with this."

"Well, it's time he lightens up a little more," Zatanna commented.

"Are you kidding me?" Dick exclaimed. "Since Diana, this is the lightest I've ever seen him. If he gets any lighter, no one will recognize him."

"Whatever," Zee said with a roll of her eyes.

"How are you feeling?" Dick asked, kissing Donna on the cheek as his hand settled on the swell of her abdomen. "Are my children behaving?"

Donna laughed as her hand fell to cover his on her growing abdomen. "They're good," she reassured him. "I don't know what you think you're going to do if they aren't behaving."

"Hey, I'm their father," Dick firmly stated. "I don't want to have to step in and put a stop to any nonsense they might be causing. A good, stern lecture can go a long way."

"Yah, that'll do a lot of good," Donna said with a laugh.

"You two are just so adorable," Zatanna said with a sigh.

"Hey, how's Constantine?" Dick asked. "Are you two still together?"

Zatanna frowned as she set her top hat aside to settle back on the couch, her gaze falling on the kids playing on the floor with their new pets. "He's a real pain in the…well, you know."

"Yah," Dick agreed. "We know."

"Are you going to break up with him?" Donna questioned her.

"Oh, no, it's nothing like that," Zee confessed. "It's more that I haven't gotten to see him for the last couple of weeks. He's a workaholic."

"Where's he been?"

"Helping Swamp Thing with a case or something like that," she replied, waving her hand in the air. "He gets so obsessive when it comes to his cases sometimes. It's like 'hello…remember me?'"

"Sounds like someone we all know and love," Dick pointed out with a laugh.

Zatanna frowned as she shook her head. "They would definitely make good brooding buddies."

"Maybe the four of us can go out when he gets back," Donna suggested.

"A double date would be fun," the magician decided.

"Yes, but no smoking around my pregnant wife," Dick adamantly stated.

Donna gave him a quizzical look. "You do remember I'm an Amazon, right?"

"I know, but we can't be too careful," he reminded her. "My babies are half human, remember?"

"Whatever," she murmured, rubbing her belly. She could hardly wait until they came, but she feared what sort of family situation they would be arriving into.

Batcave; October 1st, 21:16 EST

"Tim is definitely brainwashed," Jason confirmed, his muscular arms crossed against his chest as he leaned on the edge of the desk. "You should have seen the look he gave me when I told him that if he was compromised, we would stop him. He had this wild look in his eyes and this…grin. It was super creepy. It felt like Joker himself was sitting in that bed."

"We can't leave him up there in his room," Artemis commented. "He's too dangerous."

"Cassie is with Tim now and Donna and Zee are with Nick and Kaia in the entertainment room," Dick informed them as he ascended the steps of the platform. "They're keeping them separate."

"Is Zee prepared to use her magic on Tim if he decides to take the house hostage?" Jason grumbled.

"I know Tim is still in there," Diana adamantly insisted. "I can see there's a struggle going on inside of him. Cassie told me that he asked her to help him, so he knows it too. There's still hope."

"Why can't Zatanna just use her magic to cure him?" Artemis asked.

"We don't know for certain everything that Joker did to him," Bruce told her. "Using magic could trigger any magic that Joker may have had used on Tim."

"Besides, Tim knows where Joker is even if he's not saying," Diana added. "We need him to lead us to him which is why I'm going to let Tim take me tonight."

Bruce's jaw couldn't be clenched any tighter than it already was at that moment. His heated glare was piercing, boring straight into her as she kept her focus on the others. She wasn't making eye contact with him on purpose. She knew how he felt about this and he wasn't going to be able to change her mind about it.

Jason snorted in amusement. "And Bruce is really okay with this plan? Has hell frozen over and I haven't heard about it yet?"

Everyone turned an eye on the leader of the Batclan, all knowing his feelings on this matter without having it spoken out loud. "Yep, he's against it," Artemis noted.

"I just don't like the idea of using Diana as bait in order to trap Joker," Bruce stated with a thick undercurrent of anger. "We're basically handing her over to Joker."

"Bruce, you know—"

Bruce quickly held a hand up to silence his wife. "I know you can handle yourself, Diana," he interrupted her. "It's not you that I don't trust. It's Joker…it's the what if's and unknown variables that have me breaking out in a cold sweat. There are so many things that could go wrong in there before any of us could get anywhere near you to help you."

"You're forgetting I'm an Amazon, Bruce…I'm Wonder Woman," she reminded him.

"And you're forgetting that you're not Wonder Woman in Gotham, Diana. You're Batwoman. She doesn't have the abilities that Wonder Woman does."

"I don't go down easily."

"But you do…go…down," he ground out each syllable, memories of what had happened to her in the Underworld invading his mind all over again and nearly causing his heart to stutter out of rhythm.

"I will not sit back and let Joker take our son from us," Diana angrily stated with overt determination in her voice. "If there is any chance that we can save him, we need to take it."

"This is probably our best shot, Bruce," Jason interjected. "Tim is begging Diana to go out on patrol with him. It's obvious he's going to make his move soon. Best for him to do it out in Gotham alone with Diana than for him to try something in the manor with Nick and Kaia present."

Bruce growled a curse as he turned his back on them, his arms folding defiantly across his chest. He knew in his heart they were right, but that didn't mean that he had to like any of this. "Fine," he relented, not wanting to endanger his small children.

"We'll be right there with her," Artemis reminded him. "She's not going in there without all of us waiting just outside ready to pounce on Joker the second he makes a move."

"We have to remember, though, Tim is going to be our wild card," Jason pointed out. "There's no telling how he's going to react when we come in there like gang busters. He could either fight against us or with us. We have to be prepared to take him down if needed."

"With the least amount of harm," Diana adamantly declared. "None of this is his fault. He's only doing what Joker has programmed him to do."

"I know, but at the same time, we can't let him take each of us out," Dick added. "Which reminds me…what are we going to do about Damian? Are we going to let him join us?"

Bruce scowled with the reminder of his rebellious son who was just as insolent and stubborn as himself. "I don't want him there," he stated. "He's still recovering from being shot and he's too hellbent on getting revenge on Joker. I don't want to have to worry about what he's going to do to Joker while we're trying to get Diana and Tim out of there."

Dick chuckled with the thought, his laughter lacking any amusement. "He is so not going to be happy with this," he uttered with a shake of his head. "Who's going to be the one to tell him that his wings have clipped for the night?"

"I'll talk to him," Bruce said. "He can't be showing up tonight like he did at the airport. It's too dangerous."

"Do you think we should have Kal and some other Leaguers on standby?" Diana asked.

Jason and Dick shared a look, already knowing the answer to that question. They turned their attention to Bruce as they awaited the response they knew was coming. "No, this is Gotham business and it stays Gotham business. No outside help. We'll deal with Joker and Harley ourselves."

"Let's get ready to leave then," Dick agreed as he clapped his hands together.

"I'll talk to Tim and let him know he can go on patrol," Diana announced, receiving a disgruntled frown from her husband.

Everyone began to move to prepare for patrol, the tension palpable. "Wait," Bruce said as Jason started to walk by, gripping his son's upper arm. "We need to talk…alone."

"Behave," Artemis softly threatened Jason as she walked past him, giving him a pointed look.

She knew that Jason had issues he was still struggling to work through, anger and resentment that he had difficulty letting go of, but she wanted him to keep an open mind. She had encouraged him this afternoon to try to at least meet Bruce halfway before just walking out on his family in an outburst of anger.

Jason scowled at her before turning to face his father figure. "What is it?" he bluntly asked, already knowing what he wanted to talk about.

"We need to find some common ground before we go out tonight," he stated. "I don't want to get into Joker's hideout only for you to go rogue on me. Can I trust you to not kill anyone tonight…especially the Joker?"

Jason drew a deep breath as he attempted to rein in the darkening storm of emotions roiling within him. He wanted to tell Bruce where he could go and what he thought of his no killing rule. He wanted to beat him until he finally saw the situation that he saw it…felt the betrayal and resentment that he felt.

At the same time, Jason knew there was too much at stake tonight. This wasn't about him or his deep hatred for Joker. It wasn't about the grudge that he held against Bruce that he was determined to hold on to at least for the time being. It wasn't even about revenge.

This was about saving his brother and keeping Diana safe from the Joker. It was about stopping a madman who was bent on controlling Gotham and letting the city spiral into a tempest of pure chaos and lawless destruction. It was about finally finding redemption and peace within himself.

"Fine," Jason bit out, clearly unhappy with the tenuous truce. "I won't intentionally kill anyone, but I can't promise that it won't come down to that if it means saving Tim or Diana. If it comes down to Joker or our family, I'll chose our family every time. I guess the real question here is—who will you chose, Bruce?"

Bruce glared at Jason, his son glaring back and refusing to back down. After several long moments, Jason just shook his head with a grunt. "I should've known," he grumbled in disgust as he stalked away.

Bruce's shoulders slumped slightly as he pinched the bridge of his nose. He knew the volatile situation could very well devolve into a horrible choice that would have to be made in a split second—save his wife or his son or save the Joker. He internally shuddered with the thought that caused nausea to churn in his gut.

A hand gently rested on his back, an all too familiar touch that he craved and needed as much as he needed his next breath. "Bruce, it won't come down to that."

"You don't know…it might," he managed to utter despite the painful lump that clogged in his throat.

"You know you never have to choose between my life and someone else's," Diana reminded him.

"We both know it's not that easy, Diana," he responded with a derisive laugh as he finally turned to face her. "How do I choose between saving you and Joker? Saving Tim or Joker?"

"You have to stick to your core beliefs no matter what happens tonight, Bruce," she adamantly insisted as she took his face into her hands. "If you don't have your beliefs, then who are you?"

"If I don't have you, I'm nothing," he stated, his hands coming to rest on her forearms.

"Don't become the very thing that took your parents from you…that took Jason from you, the monster that took away Barbara's ability to walk," she told him, her thumb lightly tracing the curve of his lips. "You're the strongest of us all whether you know or not…whether you believe it or not. It's one of the many things that I love so much about you."

He leaned towards her, his forehead coming to rest against hers. "I can't lose you," he uttered with a choking gasp.

"You're not going to lose me," she reassured him. "You know I'm far too stubborn to die. Besides, I think my father has had more than enough of me to last him for quite some time."

His eyes fell closed as a soft chuckle escaped his lips, his arms slipping around her waist before crushing her to him. "I'm holding you to that, princess," he whispered. "Don't make me come down to the Underworld to bring you back home to me."

Diana retreated enough to press her lips to his, showing him how much she truly loved him. Her fingers gripped his hair as his tongue invaded the warm cavern of her mouth, thoroughly tasting her sweetness. He groaned softly as he finally broke away, softly kissing her once more.

"We're definitely continuing this when we return home tonight," she told him.

"I'm holding you to that too," he told her with his usual playboy smirk.

Wayne Manor; October 1st, 21:31 EST

Damian exited his bedroom at the same time as Cassie was coming out of Tim's room. "Damian," Cassie called his name. "Can you sit with Tim for me? I just got a call from the Titans. They need my help."

"Yah, I guess," Damian reluctantly agreed, wondering where everyone else was at that moment. He wanted to get downstairs before they went out on patrol. He wasn't about to be left behind this time.

"You're a gem," she told him before flying down the hallway and disappearing around the corner.

Damian walked across the hall to Tim's room, poking his head inside to find him climbing out of his bed. "What do you think you're doing?"

Tim looked up to find his brother standing in his doorway. "I'm getting out of here," he firmly stated.

"Where are you going?"

"Out," Tim snapped, pausing to sit on the edge of his bed. His hand moved to his bandaged ribs as he waited for the pain to subside. "I can't stay in here any longer."

"You don't look like you're in any shape to be going anywhere," Damian replied with his usual sarcasm.

"You're one to talk," Tim muttered with a huff of annoyance. "I heard you showed up at the airport to fight Harley and Joker without being fully healed. How smart was that?"

Damian averted his eyes as he shoved his hands into the pockets of his zip-up sweatshirt. "You don't understand. I had to."

"So do I."

"To do what?"

"It's none of your business," Tim told him as Damian made his way to the chair beside Tim's bed. "I just have to leave. It's very important that I do."

"Look, you're not even healed yet," Damian pointed out. "I know that you want to find Joker just like the rest of us. Just let us handle finding him."

"You don't even know where he is," he ground out.

"And you do?"

"Yes, I do," Tim revealed.

"Then, why haven't you told anyone before now?"

"I just remembered," he lamely said as he pulled his t-shirt over his head, revealing the extent of his still healing wounds.

"You don't even have your uniform," Damian reminded him. "Where are you going to get one?"

"I keep an extra uniform in my room just in case."

"Are you being controlled by Joker?" Damian pointedly asked the question everyone had been dancing around since Tim's unexpected return to them.

Tim looked up sharply at him, his eyes narrowing. "Don't you think I would know it if I was under the Joker's control? Wouldn't I be acting differently?"

"Actually…no, I don't think you would know it," he smartly responded. "That's the idea of mind control, genius. The person has no clue they're being controlled."

"Do you think I'm brainwashed?" Tim questioned him as he took a couple of steps closer to his brother. "Do you think I'm a danger to this family? To you?"

"How should I know?" he asked. "This is the first I've seen you since Joker released you. Frankly, I don't think you're a danger to the family except for maybe Nick and Kaia only because they're too little to fight you. I know I can take you."

Tim lunged towards him, his hands gripping the armrests of the chair Damian was sitting in. Damian couldn't help but involuntarily shrink back as Tim got in his face. "You smug little brat," Tim hissed, his chest heaving as his lips curled back with a sneer. "How dare you think you're better than me. Don't you know I could snap your neck in a matter of seconds?"

Damian stared up at him shock, not quite sure how to respond. What he did know with absolute certainty was that Tim was no longer the Tim they had once known. Now, he was Joker's pawn and there was nothing they could do to stop it.

"You won't hurt me," Damian defiantly stated as he sat forward, coming almost nose to nose with his brother. "We're family and you won't hurt your family."

"Are you sure about that?" Tim questioned him, a bone-chilling cackle filling the room.

XXX

Diana ascended the stairs, a feeling of confidence permeating her entire being. They were going to save Tim and stop Joker tonight. Things around here could finally get back to normal or as normal as things ever got around Wayne Manor.

She was anxious to be back into a routine once more, resuming her duties with the League and hopefully starting plans to get the Themyscirian Embassy rebuilt. Thoughts of the embassy caused her chest to tighten with renewed sorrow over all that had happened with it. She was resolved to get the embassy back up and running as soon as possible.

While she was a little wary about going through the whole process of rebuilding the embassy, she knew that it was what she had to do for the Amazons. It was important to impart the ideals and beliefs of the Amazons, attempting to build bridges and spread peace.

Thoughts of her mother and sisters invaded her mind, creating a sense of loneliness. She missed her mother, missing she could be here with them now, but she knew that her mother had responsibilities on Themyscira that required her full attention. It would be a very long road of rebuilding not only the island, but the bond between sisters.

Stopping before Tim's bedroom door, she knocked, waiting to be given permission to enter. Not receiving any, she knocked again, her lips curving into a frown as worry began to well up inside of her. "Tim?" she called as she knocked once more. "Cassie?"

Not receiving a response, Diana tried the door handle to find it locked. Without a second thought, she crushed the handle, pushing the door open to find Cassie gone and Tim asleep in his bed. "Tim?" she called as she slowly approached the bed where someone slept curled up under the covers.

"Tim, are you all right?" she tried again as she laid her hand on the shoulder beneath the bedspread. "Tim?"

Panic began to set in as she realized that something was seriously wrong. She pulled back the bedspread and sheet to find Damian unconscious in Tim's bed. His hands were bound in front of him and he had a gag over his mouth. "Damian!" she cried as she quickly began to untie his hands and remove the gag.

Damian groaned softly as he struggled to open his eyes. A thin stream of blood had trickled down the side of his head to pool on his jaw. "Damian," Diana urgently called his name, grabbing a couple of Kleenex from the bedside table to apply pressure to his bleeding head.

"Ugh," he groaned as his eyes fluttered open. "My head is killing me."

"Damian, what happened?" she demanded to know as she sat down on the edge of the bed, gently stroking his hair. "Where is Tim and Cassie?"

"Cassie got called out on a mission with the Titans," he replied as he tried to sit up in bed. "She asked me to sit with Tim. When I came in, he was getting ready to leave."

Diana looked over at the window to find it open, the curtains blowing gently with the breeze that was coming in. "Did he say where he was going?"

"He said that he was going after Joker, but he was not Tim at all," Damian informed her. "He got all Joker-creepy on me. I told him he wouldn't hurt me because we're family and then everything went black."

Diana felt as if her heart was hammering against her chest wall as she looked to the open window again. This was not at all how the night was supposed to have gone. He was supposed to be going out on patrol with her, leading her to Joker so they could put a stop to the psychotic clown's reign.

Now, Tim was out there somewhere under Joker's control, planning Hera only knew what.

Gotham; October 1st, 23:13 EST

Red Robin stood on top of the Gotham Gazette's roof top, his narrowed eyes surveying the area. He knew it was only a matter of time before Batwoman would track him down. He had been all set to go out on patrol with her tonight, but he had a nagging feeling that Batman would try to put a stop to it.

He couldn't risk having Batman interfere in his plans. He thought that he had been home free when Cassie had left for a mission, but it didn't help that Damian had appeared in his room tonight. He'd been forced to improvise in order to keep him quiet and revealing his plans to anyone.

He couldn't help wondering if his family had found Damian tied up in his bed yet or not. He had anticipated their arrival before now, knowing that they would be tracking his every move. Unfortunately, they hadn't showed up yet, making him wonder what was taking so long.

Were they surrounding him now? Making plans to capture him and try to cure him?

They would find it to be a futile endeavor. He had an important mission to complete and he was going to fulfil that mission no matter what it took him to do it. They weren't going to get in his way of delivering Batwoman into the hands of the Joker.

He reached into his utility belt, pulling out the small gun that Joker had given him. He had a feeling that they would be closing in on him very soon. It wouldn't be long before Batwoman arrived and when she did, she would find him more than ready for her.

"Come and get me!" Red Robin screamed into the night air, followed by a chilling laugh.

A/N: So hope you're enjoying this because I'm having a lot of fun writing it!

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