Important Author's Notice Please Read.

First of all I would like to thank everyone for reading this series, I have enjoyed writing it and working with the characters. Now I know I have posted a teaser trailer for a four story but as I keep trying to write a new chapter for it I keep re writing it feeling like it is too much like my other stories and I keep thinking of how I am going to orchestrate the plot and it is far to many characters to deal with, plus I feel it would not be as good as the other stories and thus bring the series down with it.

I apologize for saying I would write a fourth one but I just don't think it is going to work. So since all of you guys have been so awesome reading a reviewing here is a epilogue to kind finalize the story.

Also if you like reading my stories you might want to read this new story I will be working on called Best Friends Forever, it is a Batman fic involving a Bruce/OC and a slight Joker/OC it might be darker then my last fics but hopefully still as good. Anyway without further adew the epilogue.

6 years later…

"We're going to be late!" Said Thomas with a huff as he sat at the breakfast table watching everyone else scramble around the house getting ready.

"I have to agree with the young master on this one we are most defiantly going to be late." Said Alfred as he handed Jesse a cup of coffee as she bolted out the door. Even thought Jesse and Grayson had a place of their own sometimes they stayed over at the manor if work had them more in this part of town than near there apartment.

"We are not going to be late." Said Faye as she grabbed a piece of toast from the toaster.

"Dad's not even awake yet and he promised he would drive me to school on the first day."

"Alfred you told me he was awake." Said Faye.

"I am." Said Bruce entering the kitchen with a yawn. The city still needed Batman so Bruce was often still having late nights. Faye had retired from that aspect of her life and would only go out into the city to help the vigilante if it was desperately need. Grayson who had once been know as Robin had decided he would rather not be a side kick and instead became known as Nightwing and would help the city with this identity.

"Bruce you're wearing the wrong suit." Said Faye when she noticed he was dressed in Batman attire.

"No I'm not school starts in five minutes and we have to get halfway across town. We're taking the Tumbler."

"Cool!" Said Thomas no longer looking so glum. Thomas knew about his father's other identity because they did not want to keep any secrets from him, it was a lot of responsibility to put on a boy his age but they knew he could handle it.

"Is that a safe vehicle for young master Wayne to be riding in."

"I think it would be more dangerous for the car that hit them." Said Faye rolling her eyes at Alfred's concern.

"Well come on you we better go before we are late." Said Bruce grabbing his son from where he was sitting and spinning him a circle before setting him down on the floor.

"Don't hurt yourself." Said Faye with a smile.

"I won't." Said Bruce giving her a kiss before heading down the hall after his son who was already running to the study.

"Why is Bruce dressed as Batman?" Said a Grayson still half asleep.

"He's making sure Thomas isn't late for school. Thomas will have to get dropped off in the alley though."

"Oh, where's Jesse?"

"I think she went to work already Master Grayson, she is after all a member of Gotham's finest."

"Yeah, did you hear Gordon made her part of his special forces team?"

"Understandable, considering." Said Faye with a smile.

Faye and Grayson then went to work knowing that Bruce would meet up with them later. Grayson was working under Lucius so he could better understand the technology behind a lot of the things in applied sciences. Faye still was head of the education department that had been going strong these past few years and had been greatly helping the public school system in Gotham.

As usual her mornings were spend in front of the computer answering emails. In about an hour Bruce came into her office.

"Did he get to school on time?"

"Yeah, I tell you what though next time we are just getting ready on time I would actually like to walk my kid into school instead of dumping him in some alley and then sneaking around a following him into school."

"Well I was going to pick him up today if you're not in a meeting you should come."

"I do have a meeting but I'll let Lucius handle it."

"Alright."

The rest of their day was rather uneventful. Once they picked up Thomas from school he continued to talk about what his first day at school was like. They ate dinner as a family and even Grayson and Jesse stopped by. When the sun began to set however it was time for Bruce to leave. Even since the accident a few years ago, Faye always had a hard time saying goodbye to him before he left to defend the city. After her and Thomas hugged him goodbye they would always stand in the cave as watch as the Tumbler sped away.

"It's okay mom, he'll be back. He always comes back." Said Thomas noticing her worried expression.

She looked over at her son. Her son that had her eyes but other then that looked so much like Bruce. He didn't quite understand the dangers his father faced, to him Batman would always be the hero, but Batman was so much more then that.

"Yeah, he does, doesn't he?" Said Faye ruffling his hair before the two of them headed back upstairs.

And as Batman parked the Tumbler into the alleyway and began to climb the fire escape to talk to Gordon, he thought of his family, one of the reasons he fought so hard to keep this city safe. Mostly he was fighting for the future in hopes that his son would never have to follow in his footsteps, he wanted Thomas to have a life with a little amount of demons as possible. As Harvey Dent Gotham's white knight had once said just before his downfall, the night is darkest just before the dawn…and Bruce hoped that this time soon that dawn was coming…

Well there you have it the epilogue. Again thank you everyone for reading.

Captain Turlow