Tim had carried Thomas up the to the manor not long ago =, with Alfred following close behind him. It was a relief to be alone for the time being, but at the same time i felt the constant silence was doing more harm than anything. I needed someone down here to keep me focused. My mind kept going back to thomas. Making me ask questions like, how was it to see him show up to the manor as a baby, naming him, holding him as a baby, what was it like to see him grow up. Even though he was sick, at least he was alive. That's when my mind started to try and figure out a way to heal him. I could put a call into Diana to ask her if he could use her healing springs. That might do the trick.

I stood up and started to walk to my to my screen to send a message to her. A few moments later though, i heard the garage door open and a bike come to a screech soon after. Not long after night wing came up behind me to look at the screen.

"Tim called me. Said that i needed to get here to help you."

"Don't need much help with this."

"That's not what Tim said. What's the case?" he said as he leaned back casually.

"A young boy from an alternate dimension. Just need to figure out wheres he's form and how to get him there.

"Doesn't sound too bad. So just some random kid?"the suspicion in his voice was impossible to look over it.

" it's not. His name is thomas."

"Ok, what else bruce?"

"HE's Damian's counterpart." the made him stop completely. Dick looked away from me.

"He's Damian? His counterpart?" he corrected himself.

"Yes, he is an alternate version of Damian."

'How alternate?"

"Well his name is Thomas. And he was raised by me."

"By you?"

"Yes."

"Not the league."

"No."

"Wow! That's something to think about" he said as he switched his gaze from the floor to the ceiling. Looking up towards the manor's floor where Tim and Thomas had gone to earlier.

"No kidding." he looked down at me again. I could tell that he was trying to figure out how that was working out here.

"So i can see why Tim felt that he should call me. Should i even ask how you are doing with this?" he crossed his arms and stood a bit straighter. His body stiff. Ready for the unsought if i so choose to give him one, but i felt no need to. Seeing Thomas's state made it very clear to me that first i had to make sure he was going to live a long life. To make sure that he got to grow up.

"Im working on it. The boy has some form of advanced lung cancer i believe. I'm going to try and see if Wonder woman would let him use her healing springs. Hopefully that will heal him, or atleast give me some time to think of something else out."

"He's sick? Dick said as he stood up to face me completely. His voice high and panicked.

"Yes."

"Jesus. How bad?"

"Bad." dick sighed and threw himself back into the counter. Shaking his head.

"Where is he now?" he asked tentatively.

"Upstairs with Tim."

"I see. Well is there anything i can help with?"

"Not at the current moment. Computer is already running a diagnostic on the waves his portal made. Trying to reverse engineer it, trying to figure out where he came from."

"So you ARE trying to send him back."

"Yes, i am." i said finality. As much as he looked like Damian, he wasn't him. Thomas grew up a different way, he was his own person. He had a family that was waiting for him. He needed to go home. Or atleast, thats what i keep reminding myself.

"Go upstairs and check on them for me. I will call you back once it's done." i needed some alone time again. Talking had helped, but now all i could think about now was that he would need to leave. Dick seemed hesitant to leave me, but i knew that he craved to see Damian. Even though it wasn't his Damian. He just wanted to see his face again. Just like me. We both lost our boy when Damian died. We both wanted him back, but that wasn't going to happen. So this boy was as close as he or i will get.

Dick seemed to contemplate the situation. Would he stay with me to make sure that i was 'ok' or would he do what he really wanted to do and go visit the boys upstairs. I knew his curiosity was blooming at the mentioned of the boy. And him being so close must be very tempting to dick. I waited for him to choose to satisfy his curiosity and his need to see a piece of Damian.

"The moment something comes up right?"

"The second it comes up." i agreed.

"Ok, well i'll go up stairs for now." with that he walked up that stairs to the manor. His pace quick and confident that i knew was fake. He was anxious to get up there. I sighed and waited for the door to close. When it did i leaned forward again to take a look at what so far i had about the boys original origins. There were echoes all over gotham from similar waves. They all seemed to be centered one area on the east side of Gotham. Something had been causing these disturbances and it must be somewhere over there. I would have to figure out what it was and close the rips before more people came through. First thing first i had to make sure Dam-Thomas was ok.

In the distance, looking over the manor, a young lean body ran up to the hill that would bring them to the manor's back door. They crouched down to catch their breathe for a moment and take in the view. The manor they knew forward and backward, but this was a different world. So they must approach this as a hostile environment. They needed to make sure they would be able to grab Tommy and be out before any would notice. Once he had him they would be able to get back to that rip. If he was right he had about 36 hours left before it lost its frequency and it shut down. He needed to work fast and safely.