Her son was graduating high school and she was so proud. He was mad at her though and she really couldn't blame the boy. It was bad enough that his father had four other biological kids not to mention his adoptive children but his mother was having another one. Bruce had three boys including Richard, Tim, and Jon and four girls Sasha, Noel, Tea, and Leigh. Bruce had married Selina when Jon was three. She retired but not Bruce. His father was standing beside his pregnant mother who was having her fifth child with his step-father Richard who just happened to be his older brother. His family was so weird.
His mother and Dick had been through a lot and their story made him sad but glad that they had each other. He shook his head although sometimes the fact that they had three children together just grossed him out because they were his brothers and cousins. Richard Jr., Nicolas, and Brody and then there was the new baby and that was just strange. He was eighteen and he was going to old as dirt by the time the new baby was in college. He groaned as he watched his Uncle Garfield hoot and holler. The new baby was a girl and they were naming her Lena. The Graysons and Waynes were very close with the Harpers and Kents. Jon had a huge family and half the time he was with one of them but next year he'd be on his own.
He'd miss how crazy they all were together and how most of them were Superheros and his Step-mother and Mother were villains. He'd laughed at that because neither one acted like that at all. Both of his mothers had scars from their past but his father and Dick had helped them. He knew when he was young that his mother hadn't been there for the first five years of his life but he didn't hate her never could. He knew that the woman he saw smiling and crying at him wasn't the woman who had birth him. She was better, stronger, and wiser. She never yelled at him and allowed him to be himself. She was the reason he hadn't rebelled like his sisters. He knew all about her and Jason. He knew she had fought with Dick and Bruce when she first came back. He knew his Mother was ashamed of herself and didn't want to expose him to that until they both convinced her that he needed her.
She wasn't whole for a while but she tried with him and he remembered the day his mother married Richard. For once there was no dullness in his mother's eyes and her smile was so true. They had dealt with their problems and made him, and his sisters want a love like theirs.
As he walked across the stage he felt like he could do anything. It was because of his family. They never told him he had to be perfect because he was Batman's son or Nightwing's step-son they let him be him. He was going to Yale. He was Nightwing's side-kick. He was happy. He thought about the 'what ifs'. What if his mother never came back? What if she never married Richard? What if his father hadn't wanted her in his life? He would be where he is now. He wouldn't be a good man which is what his mother had told him since he was sixteen. They were happy even when the hero business was pushing and pulling them.