AN: I write according to my interests so sometimes I start a story and I lose interest in writing it or I hit a wall and I leave it alone for a while so I felt inspired so I can't stop writing.

Also I'm not so sure about pairing Dick with Barbara as far as I know they always end up broken up in the comics and I don't really like her as his lover. Their friendship is awesome but their relationship isn't something I enjoy writing so comments? Help?

I'm kinda thinking of pairing him with Kaldur (he just gets no love from anyone ever) but I'm not completely sure if that would be a good idea but when the time comes I'm pairing Stephanie with Jason. Her relationship crashed and burned badly with Tim in the comics so she deserves better and more love and Batman treated her like an ass so I'm pulling her to Danny.

I am not making Dick move to Bludhaven and become a cop. Firstly he became a major ass and lots of bad things happen when he moved to that city and also he moved away because he was having problems with Bruce so it doesn't fit in my story and I don't really know where he ends up in YJ.

Again people, No beta, if you spot tiny grammar errors, ignore, I am by no means a professional writer.

Chapter thirteen

Dick groaned, living with a newborn while patrolling until 4am and running on little to no sleep was not good for him. He struggled to keep himself awake as he stared at his math teacher, not listening to a single word out of his mouth. He already knew all this stuff and he was also thinking about more important things like the future. It was kind of hard not to be doing that when there's a baby around and everyone is constantly talking about the future and what comes next.

He knew that Danny and Artemis had some sort of conversation about the future and he told her that he wasn't ever going to stop being a hero but he also wanted her in his life so maybe she could move in with him and go to college in Gotham someday. Artemis still had a year of school left so it was just something that Danny was letting her know he was open too if they were still together and he also knew that she didn't want to be on team forever but she also didn't want to give up the life completely, honestly she was still figuring it out and he was happy for them, for having an idea of what they wanted their future to look like but he was at a loss with his future.

He had always known that he didn't want to be Robin forever, that there would come a day when he wanted to be his own hero and after that disaster of a training exercise he knew without a doubt that he did not want to be Batman but he wanted to be someone else but he didn't know who that person was supposed to be, hell he didn't even know what he wanted to do when he finished school.

He knew that if he wanted he could graduate next year and honestly he was sick of school, he was going to be fifteen this year and school was making life harder, he needed a more flexible schedule but he didn't know what he wanted to study and if he didn't study then he didn't know what he was going to do. He didn't want to work for Bruce in the company, business was not his thing but at the same time after he graduated, he didn't want to do nothing and leech of his dad's money.

He thought of B in his mind as his dad even if he didn't say it out loud and he didn't want to spend the rest of his life sponging off him even if he knew that that man didn't mind and would gladly give him millions. He knew that B had set up a college fund and that he had a trust fund of some sort but he didn't want to use that money for the rest of his life. He wanted to earn it and working while being a vigilante wasn't going to be easy but he had chosen Batman as a mentor, nothing was easy about his life. He could juggle it if he ever figured out what it was supposed to be.

It helped that Tim was around, that he knew that B would be alright and he wouldn't be alone when he did decided to fly the nest but that didn't mean that he knew who he wanted to be. Tim was making good progress but he was young, he would turn nine this year and if Dick finished school next year then he would be ten and that would be a year older than he was when he picked up the mantle and he was pretty sure that Tim would be trained well-enough by then.

Honestly between Bruce, Dinah, Danny, Dick and Jason the kid had learned and he learned fast. Bruce taught him what he expected from Robin, Dinah taught combat with Bruce until she was pregnant but she still helped (from a distance), Danny taught him science stuff (he was a hacker, Danny was a mad scientist) and Tim learned everything that Danny taught him, Dick taught flexibility and acrobatics and hacking (but Tim was already better than him at it), Jason taught him street smarts and Tim just picked it all up so well. He would be amazing in the field but Dick still wanted to have some sort of idea of who he was going to be and every time he tried to picture it, he came up empty.

Danny encouraged him to talk to other heroes that knew him and would give him some advice, sometimes a different perspective helped but Dick didn't mind taking his time with that decision. Bruce always told him that he didn't have to go anywhere until he was ready and Tim ensured that he knew that he didn't mind learning and waiting until Dick was ready because once he started patrol, he would have less time on his hands. He was taking the opportunity to learn as much as he could before he entered the life even though he was eager and excited to get started.

Barbara raised an eyebrow when she sat down at the lunch table and Dick had his face planted on the cool surface. He was unconsciously running his fingers around the rim of his glass, lost in thought.

"Alright, whats with you? You've been moping for ages." She said as she poked his cheek to get his attention.

"Do you know what you want to do after school, like when you graduate?" asked Dick and Barbara was actually shocked that he asked something so serious. She was used of him joking around and making puns but he was really serious right now. She knew it was possible but she saw it so rarely.

Barbara shrugged, "I know I want to help people. I want to join Gotham PD but my dad would pitch a fit. I'm good with technology so maybe I'd study IT and I've considered medicine."

Dick groaned when she spoke and she just gave him a questioning stare, "You have an idea of what you want to do, I just don't know."

Barbara shrugged, "You may be in a higher grader but you are only turning fifteen, what fifteen year old knows what they want to do? I only came up with those options after months of searching and looking at college courses to figure out what I want to do."

Dick rubbed his eyes with the palms of his hands, "I've got enough credits to graduate next year and I want to be over with school, I just don't know what comes after that. I know wouldn't mind if I decided to do nothing and stay home but I want to do something."

Barbara hummed, "Why don't you try taking a gap year and try travelling? Lots of people do that, trying new stuff until they figure out what they want to do.

Dick couldn't tell her that he was Robin and that he wasn't a regular person but at the same time he appreciated the help. Babs said to think about travelling but instead he decided to look at other heroes and see if any of the professions seemed like a good fit for him, in fact he wondered for a moment how far he was thinking of going. Bludhaven crossed his mind for second, the sister city of Gotham however it was too far from his family.

Dick actually felt a little better once he realized that he didn't want to leave Gotham which meant that he needed to figure out what he wanted to do in the city where having the last name Wayne basically made you royalty which meant that no one was going to take him seriously. He groaned thinking of how hard it would be to work himself upwards but at the same time he knew it would be rewarding. All that was left was to figure out was what he wanted to do.

Artemis collapsed into the chair opposite him and buried her head in her hands as well. He had befriended her when she didn't know his identity and she had become good friends with Babs and he was glad that Artemis had found a friend in her. She didn't have many and he knew that having someone like Babs at their back was a good idea however it seemed like today was a crap day because even Artemis looked like hell.

"Whats with you?" asked Dick and she pushed what looked like a contact towards him.

"I'm being sued." She replied and Barbara and Dick looked at her shocked.

"Why?" asked Dick and Artemis rolled her eyes, "Some guy groped me in a store when I was in Star City and I punched him in the face. His lawyers are calling it aggravated assault."

Dick rolled his eyes as he read through the papers and he smirked, a little evilly, "Firstly there's so little evidence here that he doesn't stand a chance in court."

Artemis raised an eyebrow, "He has a broken nose, I have no marks to claim defense."

Dick rolled his eyes, "As woman you felt threatened and reacted. Secondly he has no real basis for a case and if he wants to go to court fine, we'll just get the tapes from the store and sue him back for slander and we can tell him that Daniel Wayne is your boyfriend so you're gonna lawyer up with him in you corner and problem solved. Our lawyers can tear this apart in seconds, I see so many loopholes."

He pointed them out to her and Babs whistled, "Maybe you should be a lawyer Dick, I'm kind of scared of how quickly you tore that case apart."

That night Danny's eyes flashed a scary green for a second when Artemis told him about being sued and then he called his lawyer to deal with idiot. Well, he called Lucius and told him to deal with the idiot because he didn't know who B's lawyers were. He was some politician's son who thought he ran Star City unfortunately for him he chose the wrong girl and there were very little people in the world who were going to stand against someone named Wayne at this point in time.

During practice with Bruce, Dick asked him, "What if I became a lawyer?"

Bruce lost concentration and Dick got in a hit before registering the question, "You want to study law?" questioned Bruce and Dick shrugged.

"I was thinking of becoming a cop to be closer to the cases but that's only inviting extra danger so instead what about a lawyer? Like a prosecutor?" he questioned and Bruce thought it over.

Being a prosecutor in Gotham was hard, Harvey Dent was an excellent example of what could go wrong but Dick really wanted this and a lawyer was far better than being a cop. He was smart, everyone knew that and he was a good detective but he was better with puzzles and debating and talking his way out things. Dick would make a good lawyer he knew that and he also didn't want to lose his son so even though he was worried about the future, he had to let his son make his own decisions.

"You would do well. You would have to be careful of your double life but court dates and such wouldn't be too hard to juggle. Your working hours would be standard when not researching cases. I think if you really want this then you would do well."

Dick beamed at him before stealing a hug from him and ducking out of the cave.

Dinah smiled at him with Damian in her arms. She walked over to him and kissed his cheek, "You did well there."

Bruce sighed, "Are you sure? So many things could go wrong Dinah."

Dinah calmed the wriggling infant in her arms, "He could break his neck and fall down the stairs too Bruce. He is a good boy with a bright future, yes being a lawyer in Gotham is hard and dangerous with all the death threats and criminals. You make enemies but he is also bat trained and in a better place than most to protect himself. You make enemies every day when you use your money and influence to save this city, he is a target because he is your son, either way he is a target. You might as well be there for him to ensure that if something goes wrong he'll come to you."

Bruce took the baby from her arms, "Please don't ever grow up son." He muttered to the baby and the woman hid a laugh in her hands.

Damian was going to be the splitting image of his father, he had black hair and he was going to have blue eyes as well, she was sure of it. She kind of hoped that in a few years they could have a little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. She always hoped she would have a daughter at some point but seeing them together she couldn't imagine him as being scary.

It was hard to believe that this over protective, paranoid, awkward man-child was Batman. He fainted when he learned she was pregnant and was useless during the birth but he doted on his family until he forgot they existed as he punched bad guys in the face. He was still a mystery even after everything they had been through, and she couldn't wait to be out there again. She missed being a hero and in four more months she would be able to get back out there. She also knew that Danny had designed a new suit for her and she was curious to see what it looked like.

Artemis had helped Danny design the new suit. Honestly she was spending a lot of time in the manor. She did her homework with Dick if Danny was busy in the lab when she came from school and she trained with whoever was available. Bruce even let her into the batcave and that was something that shocked everyone but she had proven herself to be trustworthy.

Artemis had been trained a lot like Bruce even if it hadn't been as intense. Her father wasn't as good as Batman but she had learned a lot of weapons and when she wanted to be a hero she had mostly just chosen a weapon that she was comfortable with and a hero that had a protégée. The bow and arrow thing was a Green Arrow thing however she didn't mind in a little while leaving Oliver. He was a good man but her relationship with him wasn't like the ones that Dick had with Bruce. He mainly just ensured that she wasn't a mole or lying or playing some sort of long term game with them.

Bruce had a lot of swords around the batcave, and she had taken to training the weapon every time she worked with them. It was nice but at the same time she had the feeling that Artemis wouldn't be around forever. She just wasn't meant to be Green Arrows protégée and she was grateful for what they had done for her but Batman was teaching her more than she ever learned from Oliver, mostly because she never really tried to bond with the man. She had the feeling that some-day she was going to reinvent herself and unlike Dick who was over thinking it, she didn't mind just letting it come to her because she wasn't in a hurry to move on.

Black Canary's new suit had a mask, because honestly not wearing one was stupid and in Gotham it would get her killed. It also had a lot more amour, she may be a meta-human but the only power she had is her canary cry, she doesn't have a healing factor. The new suit covered every inch of skin in black armor with a bat symbol the same color as her hair in the middle of her chest. All in all it wasn't that bad and not that much different from her usual suit. She had to admit that wearing fishnets in Star City would be enough armor but there was no way that she wouldn't get shot in a place like Gotham.

She still needed some time to practice before going out there because having a baby does mess up the body and she needed some time to get back to the level that she had been at but for now she was happy doting on her child and watching her boys grow up.

Jason knew that Dick had a lot on his mind so he tried not to worry him too much but everyone knew that out of all the people in the house Dick and Jason spent the least amount of time together so when Dick saw the kid in the gym stretching out, he joined him on the floor mat. They worked in silence for a while before Dick couldn't stand the silence and ended up telling him everything that he had been thinking. Jason laughed at him when he was done.

"You're the lawyer, Tim can be the business man, and Danny is the mad scientist. You know that people are going to wonder how the airhead Brucie can have such a talented family?"

Dick chuckled at what the papers would be saying in a couple of years, "Hey, we aren't blood related. Our success comes from hard work."

Jason raised an eyebrow at his words and the two boys broke out into laugher. So maybe they didn't spend all that much time together but they both knew that they cared for each other and if anything happened they would be there for each other. That was enough for him, for now.

"Hey, what happens when Tim is too old to be Robin?" asked Jason and Dick paused.

"Maybe Damian can be Robin next?" it was more of a question than a reply and Jason raised an eyebrow, "You expect Tim to be Robin for nine years until he's like nineteen?"

Dick winced, he was fifteen and getting ready to fly the coop, maybe Tim would want to do the same eventually, "We'll see when the time comes. You may be right but at the same Tim it depends on when Tim is ready."

Danny had been listening in and their conversation had been so all over the place he gave up trying to follow it but they seemed to manage just fine.

"I think that the two of you might want to pipe down before Dinah hears your plans about putting her infant in the Robin suit."

Dick and Jason both smiled at him innocently and he knew better than to trust that look, "Just throwing out suggestions. You cannot be in this house and not know how to defend yourself."

Danny shook his head, "How about you guys stop thinking so far ahead? Let's look at five years from now and then we can think about what comes next when we know where we are then."

Dick actually thought that was a great idea, he had been so focused on what comes next that he had been freaking himself out a bit but thinking short term, like five years was something that they could all work with.

"How was your date with Zatanna?" asked Jason and Danny turned to Dick with a raised eyebrow.

Dick blushed, "It was okay, I guess." He mumbled and Jason laughed, "You ruined it somehow?" he questioned and Dick shrugged.

"It was fun at first and then I don't know it didn't feel like a date, just two friends hanging out."

Danny put a hand on his shoulder, "Remember what I said about Sam? Building the tension until it fizzled out? Not everyone is meant to be together and sometimes its best to save the friendship before you lose it completely or you can try again because maybe it was just nerves. Just be sure Dickie."

Dick groaned, he was just done with today, so much happened, so much thinking, he was just done. He was going to take a nap before patrol.