A woman working the indie mall bank was looking at her phone when something slapped down in front of her. Looking up she saw a kid, or rather two, standing there. The one who looked like a charming little kid had a half smile half smirk on his face and the other kid she coudl only see his eyes and up looking at her with big green eyes.
"Uh, can I help you?"
"Yes," The dark hair kid said. "I took a hundred out of the ATM and now I need you to break it up into pennies."
"Please." Added Edward his eyes somehow got wider. "We're going to throw them in the fountian!"
"Uh, let's see." She took the hundred dollar bill and sure enought it was real. "And you want all of it in pennies?"
"Yes."
"Hold on, I will be right back." She left and returned with the small mount of pennies and she had a bag with her. "You might need this. Alright let's count them. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,"
"I believe you." Bruce said pushing the rest into the bag. "Come on, Eddie, let's go."
"Yay!" Edward bounded after his friend until they got back to the fountain." I need one, please."
Laughing Bruce pulled out four rolls of pennies. "Here, use as many as you want. I got them for you after all."
Gasping Edward smiled. "Really? I can make as many wishes as I want?!"
"Yes."
"Your the best Bruce!" Edward hugged the taller boy before opening the pennies and pausing before holding out a shinning new one. "This is a penny."
Taking the little copper thing Bruce stared at it for a moment. "Hm. Alright, I'll go first."
Edward watched as the little thing flipped off form Bruce's thumb and landed into the fountin with a plop.
"What did you wish for?"
"To have a good time."
Tossing in his penny Edward smiled. "My wish came true!"
"Already?" Bruce folded his arms. "What was it?"
"Being here with my best friend!" Edward hugged him. "It's always so much fun!"
Chuckling Bruce hugged him back. "I'm glad and your my best friend too. Alright, want to toss in more pennies or go have some fun while we look for Jonathan?"
"I'm done... oh, can we leave the pennies for other kids?"
"Yes." Bruce looking up and yelled. "FREE PENNIES COME MAKE A WISH!"
The two left as a bunch of kids came from everywhere. Bruce held tight to Edward's hand because the small redhead normal wandered off everything he saw something. Sure enough the passed a store and Edward stared at something and tried to tug them towards it but Bruce was on a mission to find their other friend.
They went to where the store Jonathan worked at only to find it was no long there. Bruce wasn't amused and was quickly angered when they found a landline phone to use and Jonathan's number was no longer in service.
"Bruce, you hurting my hand."
"Sorry." Bruce let go. "Come on, Edward, something's wrong."
"Where's Jonathan?"
"I don't know."
"What about Harvey and Jarvis? He might be with them." Edward offered looking at the phone worried. "They're okay, right Bruce?"
"Yes, of course." Bruce grinned. "Here, go get us something to drink right over there, alright?"
"Okay..."
Tim was so tired and he was sure that world hated him.
Both he and Damian had manged to take down the inmates and return them to their right places when they were radioed in that Dick and Jason had been tracking Bruce and Edward down because they had lost them but than they ran into some other Gotham Rouges so they should go and get them at the mall.
Walking into the Entrance of the Mall Tim felt like he was going faint if he didn't get sleep soon. As he followed Damian who stopped by a bunch of kids throwing a bunch of pennies into a fountain before leaving.
They finally found the two missing kids and Tim noticed that Bruce looked aggravated and Edward was just standing there next to an angry Bruce looking nervous and worried and waiting for something.
"There you are." Tim said tiredly. "We we're worried. Come on let's go home."
Bruce looked at him before pausing. "Are you alright? You look really pale."
"Tt, Drake is weak is all."
"I am tired and I want to go home, take my medicine, and sleep until I have to get up for work tomorrow." Tim sighed. "Come on, let's go."
"Damian, is this another brother of yours?" Bruce asked walking closer and looked Tim up and down noting that he was only an inch shorter. "How old are you?"
"Seventeen and my name is Tim." Tim answered scowling. "Come on, you can come back tomorrow or something let's go."
"You rather small for a being seventeen." Bruce stated before smiling. "However that's fine, isn't it Edward?"
"I'm adorable." Edward grinned up at Tim. "I'm going to eleven soon!"
"Tt," Damian raised an eyebrow. "You look like an eight year old."
"Like I said, I'm adorable." Edward pouted before looking at his friend. "I am right, Bruce?"
"More than puppies."
"See, I told you!"
Closing his eyes Tim swayed a little before glaring, or rather trying to glare at Damian. "I need to go home... now."
Not paying attention to how pale Tim was Damian was looking at the things his Father had bought and noticed that it was an high tech toy plane, some cars, and there was a few things that looked like stuff he was going to put in the play room.
"What are you doing with those?"
"Going to have some fun of course." Bruce turned to him. "I need a few more things than we can go. Come on, you three let's go."
Scowling Tim held his stomach as they walked onto a few other stores hoping they would finish soon. In the back of his mind Tim had wondered if he had brought some emergency pills with him that he needed to take. Looking into his bag Tim found them but they where empty.
Stupid.
How could he for get to refill it?
Tim felt a little hand take his and looked up to see Edward looking up at him and noticed that as Bruce and Damian were talking that Bruce had Edward's left hand as if he was the parent and Ed was the child.
"Are you okay?"
"No... I need to lay or something."
"Okay! Edward smiled before tugging at Bruce's hand. "Bruce, can me and Tim go sit down over there? Please?"
"Alright, but do not move." Bruce let go but pulled out a couple of twenties. "Here, in case you need something. Tim, take care of Edward."
As they left Tim sat on one of the chairs and laid his head down on the arm of the chair as his head pounded. It felt like it was in a plastic bad with all the air being sucked out of it. A cold wet thing pressed agianst his head. Looking up Tim saw Edward holding a plastic soda cup to his head.
"Is this better?"
"Yes..." Tim gave the hopful boy a smile. "Thank you, Edward. That was very nice of you."
Wow, the kid lite up like a Christmas tree. Closing his eyes Tim thought that maybe a few minutes of sleep would be alright when suddenly his shoulder was shaken rather hard and he gasped sitting up.
"Stop," Tim complained with whine. "That hurt."
"Get up, Drake, we're leaving." Damian demanded.
Bruce stepped forward. "Calm yourself, Damian. You didn't have to wake him up like that. Come on, Tim, let's get you back to my house. You look like you've got the flu or something."
Getting up Tim paused as something washed over him and he vaguely remembered hearing his name being yelled before the world spun around to fast and the floor raced up to met him. The last thing he saw was three blurry faces above him before nothingness took him.
To Guest: Thank you and yes I hope so soon lol
To Sapphire-Roz: He'll be there soon, but first Bruce gets to know the bat boys a little better. Well a little bit at a time lol XD
To PrettyKitty-Luvs-U: Thank you!
To grandshadowseal: lol Bruce only excepts giant pennies! Lol, I wish they had that in an issues where Bruce is just like "So this... is a penny? What can I buy with it?" XD