The doorbell sounded and three year old Trinity who had been sitting on the staircase awaiting her father's return home. She got up and ran to the door, "I got it Alfred" she called to the butler who at the moment was upstairs, she used a small step stool to unlock the door and open it she was about to step off the step stool and see who it was when the door tipped over the stool sending the three year old against the hard cool title of the manors foyer. She didn't cry however she moved to see who it was. It was a woman with blonde hair and blood covering her jean looking crop jacket and now the tile floor, the small girl looked down at her feet, although once covered in the foot portion of her yellow footie pajamas now they were almost completely soaked in the woman's blood.
"Miss, you got to get up please? Miss," She said touching the woman's shoulder in a weak attempt to wake her.
"ALFRED!" She screamed at the top of the lungs almost running to the stairwell.
"Miss, trinity what did I tell you about, oh dear, Miss Trinity give me that night gown and go upstairs please I must take care of our guest." He said and trinity took of the pajamas and handed it to the butler and running half way up the stairs.
"Alfred, will she be okay," The three year old called down.
"I do not know Miss. Trinity." Alfred said waiting until the child disappeared before picking up the 'guest' and taking her down to the cave where he could properly treat her wounds. In that time he also informed Bruce on what was happening.
"Master Bruce I have a feeling we have other guests." He said as the doorbell rang yet again.
"Great, just what I need a kid who needs sleep and a house crawling with heroes." Bruce groaned from the other side of the phone. Alfred hung up and opened the door to more wounded hero's. The flash whom happened to be the only unharmed hero, seeing as he healed quickly flopped on the stairs rubbing his head, how could things have gone so wrong.
"Alfred" He heard a voice from behind him and turned around to see a small girl standing at the top of the stairwell on her tippy toes streaching to try and locate the missing butler.
"I think he's down stairs." He said poining down to the fire place.
"Oh well Thank you very much." The three year old said.
"You are welcome very much." The hero said attempting making the girl smile but instead got a death glare and crossed arms.
"That's not what you're supposed to say." The girl informed him.
"Why not," He asked with a smile.
"Because you're just not supposed to same reason it's bad to have cookies before bed." She said and somehow the scarlet speedster couldn't help but smile.
"Why can't you have cookies?"
"Because it has too much glucose in it," She explained. The scarlet speedster just stopped and looked at the child who he guessed couldn't be more than three years old yet used a word like glucose in context and it didn't seem like she was repeating someone else.
"Where did you learn the word glucose?" He asked.
"I found an old textbook in the school library and read it. It said glucose was the name for the compound C6H12O6 but simply its energy. And Alfred said that if you have energy you can't sleep." The girl said.
"How old are you?" He asked simply.
"I am three years and nine months old. Are you friends with Da… Batman" She said almost to late to realize her slip up.
"Yeah names Flash kid I am the fastest person on earth."
"Are you the real flash? The one who fights bad guys like doctor freeze saves kittens." She asked suddenly excited and talking more like a three year old.
"That's me." He said with a smile.
"Cool, I asked batman why he doesn't save kitty's and he said that he would as soon as the kitty was put there by poison ivy. That made me laugh because poison ivy doesn't care about kitty's dose she?" The three year old asked.
"Not that I know of, but if I ever meet her I will ask." He said.
"Really thank you Mr. Flash,"
"Flash your presence is needed." Martian Man Hunter said and Falsh looked down with a nood before turning back to the child who screamed and ran away and hid.
"Did I scare the child?" He asked as she disappeared.
"Yeah your kind of green dude."
Trinity sat on her day bed curled against one side holding tight to her teddy bear when Bruce finally made his way up to her.
"Daddy," She screeched jumping into his awaiting arms.
"Hey there kiddo seems like you've had an interesting day." He said kissing her head.
"Is he mad at me," Trinity asked.
"No what would make you think that."
"How would you feel if someone looked at you screamed than ran away?" The girl asked climbing under her bed sheet.
"Well I guess I would take some offence but he didn't he actually wanted me to tell you he was sorry for frightening you." He said.
"He didn't really frighten me I just never seen a green person before and he had blood on his hand and I don't like blood." She said.
"Why don't you?" Bruce asked never hearing her complain about blood before.
"Because when you bleed you are usually really hurt and Alfred says to let you rest. And I don't like people being really hurt and not talking to you in the mornings." She explained and Bruce smiled as he grabbed the story book from the shelf.
"Well you can talk to me now, and you have a decision to make, Would you like a bed time story or to talk seeing as I am late."
"Um, bedtime story," She cooed.
"Do you have a preference,"
"The one about the little prince and the maiden finding dragon teeth,"
"Ah alright then, so not to long ago there lived a young prince in a huge castle. He was the only child of the king and queen so he spent his days playing with the maid's daughter, but we shall call the girl the maiden." He began sitting in the soul rocking chair in the child's room. Trinity took this as a chance to climb up and curl in his lap her blanket fallowing after her. She curled up tight her head resting upon his shoulder.
"Well although the castle itself held many adventures for the duo their favorite thing to do was treasure hunt on the castle grounds. One day the maiden found a sole dragons tooth. The prince was envious of the maidens discovery seeing as he had been infatuated with…"
"Daddy," Trinity's voice cut threw.
"Yeah sweetheart,"
"What dose infatuated mean?" She asked.
"It means very interested. Like you my dear happen to be infatuated with books." He explained.
"Oh like you are infatuated with fighting bad guys." Said still looking up as if not sure of the sentance
"Not really infatuation is usually a good thing." He explained .
"Um then your infatuated with Ms. Rachel." She said
"You know rugrat there's more to the story if you wish to hear we better get back to it." He said tickling her and she giggled before settling back into her first position.
"Alright I am ready." She giggled.
"Okay so where were we." He asked.
"The prince was infatuated with dragons." She said.
"That's right the prince was infatuated with dragons so he wanted to have the tooth,"
"That's not nice the maiden found it."
"Your right it wasn't nice but the prince wanted the tooth really bad and didn't understand why he couldn't have it. After all it was found on the grounds of his castle. So he got the maden to show him the tooth and then he ran away as far as he could."
"That's mean why would he do that daddy?"
"Because he didn't want the maiden to ketch up with him, but he wasn't watching where he was going and fell down a pot hole into an old cavern on the grounds. Where there where bats" He said tickling her once again.
"Bats don't tickle daddy,"
"Then what do they do Trinity,"
"They fight bad guys" She said.
"Well some bats not all,"
"What happened after the bats attacked daddy?"
"Well the maiden saw the prince fall and went to get the king and butler who both happened to know a lot about medicine. Once they retrieved the prince they told him that he had a broken hand and asked him why was it that any one falls."
"So they can get back up!"
"Exactly so they can get back up. When the maiden visited the prince later that day the prince gave back the dragon tooth. Years passed and the prince traveled a lot. On his first birthday back at the castle the maiden who no longer lived in the castle brought him a present. In the present was the dragons tooth and a card that said finders keepers."
"And they lived happily ever after," Trinity said with a yawn.
"Now its time for little girls to go to bed," He said picking the child up and laying her in the bed
"Daddy, ketch the bad guy,"
"Always sweetie now sweet dreams," He said moving to the door way and looking back at the small child.
"I love you" He whispered walking out of the room.
"Love you more daddy." She whispered.