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Chapter Summery: Bruce has a talk with Jason and it is time to start to go swimming.
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Chapter 2 : Conversations and Starting the Day's Activities
Bruce's POV
As soon as the time that I had given the boys earlier to get ready by rolled around, there were four children in the room again and as I looked at them I noticed that Damian appeared to be forcing Jason into the room he looked like he wanted to bolt from the room as soon as he could.
"Damian! Let Jason go! You do not hold your brother captive." I exclaimed to him. Damian let Jason go reluctantly while giving a mini bat-glare after telling Jason, "Don't leave." I really didn't want to chase him all over the manor.
"Why do you want to leave here Jason?" I asked him as I bent down so that I was at the same eye level as him. As I did this Jason started to fiddle around with his hands.
"I just feel like I don't want to be here. I don't know why but I feel uncomfortable. More so around you Dad." Jason mumbled his response while looking down at the floor.
Memories had left them but he still had the same impressions and thoughts of people. That meant that I would have to convince Jason that this was home and that he was part of the family.
"Jason, look up at me." I told him gently. He looked up a bit afraid to do so. "You will always have a place in the family and this place will always be a home for you." I told him extremely seriously and he nodded in understanding.
"Are you guys ready to go swimming?" I asked the boys after I finished reassuring Jason that this place and myself were safe to be at and near respectively.
"I still have to get ready Dad." Jason told me. He was scared of spending the day with me before, I guessed.
"I'm ready can we head out now!" Dick exclaimed excitedly while bouncing on the balls of his feet.
"I am fully prepared to go out and go swimming, Father." Damian told me.
I waited a verbal response from Tim who was standing next to me quiet. After a few seconds I realized I would have to prompt a response from him.
"Jason, how about you go and get ready now. It's okay that you aren't ready. We will wait for you." I told him and at that moment I realized just how right my idea and action of going and getting supplies we might need.
"Tim, are you ready kiddo." I asked him, and he nodded while saying, "Yes." He told me in a quiet voice. We were all by the heated swimming pool which was located behind the manor less than ten minutes later.
For a moment I thought about just how long it had been since the pool was used more than once or twice a year. After Jason had died we stopped doing stuff like this.
"Daddy can we go into the pool now?!" Dick asked me practically jumping up and down about the activity.
"Of course Dickie, you can go on in," I said with a laugh hidden in my tone that was a honest laugh at his excitement over something as normal as going swimming. Wow, it been a while since I have had an honest laugh.
He was younger now it seemed than when I took him in. A nagging voice in the back of my head told me that he might be able to swim all that well at whatever age he was now. "Wait, Dickie!" I called over just in case of my thoughts being true.
I took the floaties off the patio table that Alfred had insisted that I get for them. He had told me over the com-link while I was shopping last night, "Master Bruce, the boys might not know how to swim well enough to do it on their own. It is still summer and they might wish to go swimming before this ends. You will get each one of them floaties."
I put the ones I got for Dick on him first, then the ones for Damian on him next cause he had stated "Father may I go in and play with Richard." Then Jason had decided to join in with his brothers and I put on his floaties.
Around 15 minutes after Jason went into the water to play with Dick and Damian, Tim still had yet to express any interest in going swimming with his brothers.
"How about I put on your floaties and you can go swimming with Dick, Damian and Jason?" I suggested the idea to him casually.
He responded to it by shaking his head. "Come with?" He asked me looking up in an expression that reminded me of Dick's puppy dog eyes. He wanted me to come into the pool.
"Fine, I'll go in. First let's get you into your floaties on." I told him as I started to get the floaties from the table.
"Don't you need some floaties too Daddy? I only see one pair! You could. . ." Tim started to panick till I cut him off.
"You grow out of floaties as you grow older cause you learn about how to float without help. I have learned this but you're still a bit too young to float on your own." I explained to him and he calmed down quickly.
"Okay, Daddy that makes sense." Tim told him as we entered the pool.
It hasn't been that bad today, truthfully it was kind of good but it has only just started I thought to myself as I entered the pool.
