Disclaimer #1: I DO NOT OWN YOUNG JUSTICE, JUSTICE LEAGUE, OR ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH DC COMICS! Besides Aubrey. She's mine.
Disclaimer #2: BOLD= Translations Italic= Thoughts/Memories
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Chapter #3: Robin and Wren Take Flight! Part 2
WARNING(S): None
Aubrey: 6
Dick: 9
THIRD PERSON'S POV
Aubrey has been living at the Wayne Mansion for three days now.
Alfred has been teaching her how to cook small things, Bruce has been helping both of the children with their English, Math and Science, and Dick was teaching her where they could practice acrobatics in the Mansion or outside.
Of course, there have been some bumps, like breaking the chandelier after using it as a Jungle Gym, using Bruce as a Jungle Gym, staying in the Oak Tree for several hours making Bruce think that they were kidnapped and so on.
All in a time-span of three days.
Dick has been smiling and laughing more, that is one thing that Bruce noted.
The two siblings are as thick as thieves.
Sometimes if he goes into Dick's room late at night, he sees Aubrey in there too. They're both asleep but Dick is holding his little sister protectively to his chest. It's adorable!
Bruce found out that Dick has a stuffed toy elephant named Zitka, that his mother made and is named after one of the baby elephants in the circus. While Aubrey has a stuffed, white tiger toy called Winter that is named after one of the White Tigers in the circus.
Bruce expected them to find out about the Bat Cave and Batman eventually, just not three days for Aubrey, and a week and a half for Dick!
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It was 11:18 in the Wayne house-hold, when Aubrey woke up sweating and crying.
This is the second time that she has had a nightmare since being in the Mansion.
She quietly grabbed Winter, hopped out of her soft bed and walked out of her bedroom. After quietly shutting the door, she made her way to her big brother's room.
The tiny six year old opened the big oak door quietly and crossed the distance to the queen sized bed.
"Dick. Dicky." The toddler said while poking his cheek.
Dick opened his eyes just a little to see his little sister clutching her stuffed tiger like a life-line and looking at her nightgown sheepishly. The window in his room was open a crack, which let the moon light shine through, letting him see the un-shed tears in his little sister's eyes.
"Mhhm."Dick mumbled sleepily.
"I had the nightmare again." She said shyly while messing with the pink fringe of her nightgown.
Dick opened his eyes wider and slowly looked at his baby sister.
"Was it the same one?" She nodded while sniffling. That nightmare always makes the poor girl cry.
"Do you want to sleep with me?" Dick asked.
His sister rarely got nightmares, but when she did, she would either go to her parents and sleep with them, or cuddle with Dick. This time, Aubrey didn't want to cuddle.
"No, but do you think that Alfred left the fire on. He normally doesn't go to sleep until later." Aubrey asked.
She always found that sitting by the fire with her family was a good cure for anything. When she would get injured on the trapeze, she would just sit by the fire with her parents and Dick.
"It might be. Come on, we'll go check." Dick got out of his bed, grabbed Aubrey's small hand and guided her to the den. They were careful not to make any noise, which was easy for them since they were fairly light on their feet.
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Once in the den, the two kids saw that the fire was, in fact, still burning.
Dick looked down to his little sister to see that she was smiling brightly at the fire. He walked them over there and sat down with her in front of the fire.
Dick pulled Aubrey into his lap so that he was cradling her. Aubrey fisted Dick's shirt nearly unconsciously while Dick rubbed slow, comforting circles in-between her shoulder-blades.
They sat and just listened to the crackling of the fire as they smelled wood burning until they heard footsteps.
Aubrey looked over to Dick in panic. He knew that she didn't want to get in trouble for being up this late, so he wrapped his arms around her middle and moved them to the opposite side of the couch that the footsteps came from.
The siblings peered over the sofa and saw Alfred with a tray of food walking towards the grandfather clock.
'Why would he go to the clock?' Dick thought while staring at the butler quizzically.
Alfred stopped in front of the antique clock and moved the big hand and little hand to different times. [1]
Aubrey made sure to memorize what times, just in case.
Once the hands were in proper placement, the clock slowly moved to the right, revealing a hidden staircase that Alfred walked down, making the clock move back in place.
Dick and Aubrey looked at each other with wide eyes.
What was the butler hiding?
After a silent agreement to investigate, they both jumped over the couch and ran towards the clock.
Aubrey turned to Dick, "Give me a boost? I memorized the combination." Aubrey whispered. Dick nodded and clasped his hands together so Aubrey could use them as a step stool.
Once at the desired height, Aubrey used her spare hand (The other was clutching Winter) to move the big hand and little hand to the proper times that Alfred used.
The floor started to slightly vibrate as the clock moved to the side.
Aubrey hopped off of her brother's clasped hands and hugged his arm tightly. Who knows what they could find down there.
"Stai aproape de mine Micul Pasăre." 'Stay close to me Little Bird.' Dick whispered to his sister who nodded in reply, still clutching his arm and the stuffed tiger.
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The two siblings made their way down the dark stair case. It looked like a secret cave!
Once at the bottom of the stairs, the brother-sister duo looked around at all of the strange attractions. There was a giant penny, a robotic T-rex and a butler in front of a huge computer monitor.
The two quickly ducked behind a shelf holding assortments of medieval armor.
To their left, they heard engines rumbling and saw a sleek black car drive through a secret entrance behind the water fall.
Dick and Aubrey watched from the shadows with wide eyes as the caped crusader jumped out of the vehicle.
The children were having a little fan-girl session from the shadows as Batman walked to the monitor.
Dick and Aubrey idolized the Batman and Dick even had Batman slippers. Aubrey had a Bat signal necklace and they each had a stuffed bat.
Bruce was very supportive of their Batman obsession, much to Alfred's amusement. And now they knew why, their adopted dad was The Batman!
I mean, it only made sense that he would be the Batman. He does have the money for it.
Dick couldn't take it anymore and jumped out of his hiding place in the shadows.
"Tu ești Batman!" 'You're the Batman!'
Batman and Alfred turned around, surprised, and saw the nine year old boy smiling at them happily.
Dick realized that he spoke in Romani and blushed nervously.
"Ah, sorry. I switch to Romani when I'm excited." The small boy explained while scratching the back of his head.
Batman and Alfred both exchanged a look and nodded.
"How did you find this place?" Batman asked while removing his cowl, now becoming Bruce.
"Well, you see. Aubrey woke up because she had a nightmare so we walked down to the fire because it usually calms her. After a while, we heard Alfred coming and hid on the opposite side of the couch, we didn't want to get in trouble for staying up late. We did not expect Alfred to mess around with the grandfather clock and there be a staircase! Aubrey memorized the combination and did the same thing, that's how we're down here." Dick answered all in two breath.
Bruce processed the information until he noticed something.
"Wait, then where's your sister?" Bruce asked while raising an eyebrow.
Dick looked behind the cabinet that she was behind and found her missing.
He started looking around frantically when,
"I'm up here!"
Bruce, Dick and Alfred all turned to see Aubrey sitting on top of the robotic T-rex.
Dick was smiling because his sister was having fun, Bruce was staring wide eyed because he didn't think that she could climb something so big that fast, and Alfred was keeping a straight face even though he was concerned for the young girl's safety.
"How did you get up there?" Bruce asked.
"I climbed." Aubrey answered nonchalantly.
"How can you be so nonchalant about this?" Bruce asked bewildered.
"I may not look it, but on the inside, I'm actually quite chalant." Aubrey stated which made Dick smirk.
When Bruce was teaching them English, they found it pretty confusing and asked why the opposite of nonchalant was not chalant. After class, the siblings spent an hour discussing the English language and how it should change.
"Chalant? What does that mean?" Bruce was thoroughly confused. He most certainly did not teach her that.
"It's the opposite of nonchalant." Dick answered easily which made Bruce stare at him too.
"Just like aster is the opposite of disaster." Aubrey informed their father matter-of-factly.
Alfred pinched the bridge of his nose, turned around and started walking back upstairs grumbling something along the lines of, "I'm getting to old for this.", making Aubrey and Dick giggle.
Once Alfred was gone, Dick turned back to Bruce.
"I wanna help." Dick told him.
"No. It's too dangerous."
"I don't care."
"Well I do. And I'm pretty sure that Aubrey does too."
Both Dick and Bruce turned to the T-rex only to find that the six year old was gone.
"I wanna help too."
They turned to see Aubrey sitting on top of the monitor staring at them. Dick giggled while Bruce stared at her dumbfounded.
"There is no way that either of you are helping!" Bruce said, after recovering from the shock and used as much strictness in his voice that he could muster.
But none of the children would back down.
"We're going to help. And if you refuse to train us, we'll go out on our own." Dick answered defiantly.
Bruce sighed and turned to Aubrey to see if she agrees. Aubrey nodded in response and Bruce groaned.
"Fine. But when we are training, I will not be Bruce. I will be Batman and Batman will not go easy on you. You must follow my every command and follow my lead. Understood?"
Both children nodded their heads excitedly.
"You'll need names." Bruce informed them.
"Aubrey, any ideas?" Dick asked his little sister who was now in a spinny chair.
Aubrey bit her lip in thought until she straightened up and smiled brightly at Dick.
She hopped off the chair and ran to Dick. She then cupped her hand and whispered into his ear.
Once Aubrey backed away, she gave her brother one of the brightest smiles Bruce has ever seen on the six-year old.
Dick nodded and gave a happy, yet sad, smile. The two siblings turned back to Bruce smiling widely.
Bruce raised an eyebrow to their odd behavior, beckoning them to explain.
"Robin." Dick told him.
"And Wren." Aubrey told him.
"Like the birds?" Bruce asked unsure.
Dick shrugged, "It's a family name."
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A/N:
[1]: I know that there is a lever in the clock that you pull to go in the Bat Cave, but I wanted to change it to point out that a little kid could have easily found that. I used to mess with my grandma' grandfather clock and I know that if I were in the Wayne Mansion, I would have found that lever by then.