AN: Wow, I feel so loved! Alright, here's 'Image'! We get to see what Dickie thinks of Gar!

What.

The.

Cheddar.

Cheese.

Sure, a little over a month after Whisper's disastrous temporary term as leader (Even though it wasn't real.), let's give the youngest leadership just because Aqualad is with Aquaman in the deep blue sea. That a great idea!

Thanks so much, Bats.

Oh, oh, and then there's the fact that there was a stampede threatening two civilians and if the Team engages, it could cause the entire the entire strength of Bialya to come down onto the League's and the U.S.'s heads! The situation just got better and better!

Taking a deep breath, Whisper turned back to the (his at the moment) Team. "Deploy, but stealth mode. If the Bialyans know we hit them, this becomes and\ international incident."

A few minutes later, the soldiers were running for the hills. Ah, the power of lasers and exploding whisps.

Landing in a crouch behind who he assumed to be the Logans, Whisper asked, "Are you both alright?" He waited until Kid Flash had thrown the guns over his head before rising; he wasn't exactly fond of getting a concussion via thrown guns. The teen studied Ms. Logan. She didn't look too happy, kind of like how M'gann looked when Wally ate all the cookies last week…

Whisper was jerked out of his thoughts by the little kid freaking out. "Mom, mom, mom! We were just saved by Kid Flash! And the teen who's been helping Batman!"

Great, even a kid living on an animal sanctuary in Quarac knew who he was. 'Operation: Avoid Getting Found by the League of Talons' wasn't going too good. Well, it looked like he came up with his plan just in time.

"Well, Superboy and Miss Martian helped, too," informed Kid Flash. "And Batman's little buddy is Whisper."

Right on cue, an oryx floated down onto the grass, only to be hugged by the boy. "Oryx!"

Whisper's eyes softened as he remembered himself doing the exact same thing to Zitka at the circus. Mentally shaking himself out of his thoughts, the teen immediately got down to business. Those days were over.

Okay, Whisper had to admit, despite being completely off mission, he kind of liked the Logan Animal Sanctuary. And it didn't hurt that Monkey seemed to have a personal vendetta against Superboy and vice versa.

Settling into an armchair, Whisper listened with rapt attention to Garfield. "So pretty weird about Miss Martian and my mom, huh?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean she looks exactly like Marie!" So the kid had noticed it too. He was observant, that was for sure. "You know, except greener."

"She does," questioned Kid Flash.

Garfield seemed not to care that Monkey was currently trying to bite a hole in his shirt. "Well, duh! Especially back when mom was a TV star on 'Hello Megan.'" Okay, looks Whisper noticed, but catchphrase? Not so much.

"Wait, 'Hello Megan' is a TV show?"

Whisper turned to look at his friend. "I just thought it was something she said all the time."

"Yeah," they turned to look at Gar. "On the TV show. Way before we were born. Only one season. You can't even find it online." Turning to look back at the vintage TV set behind him, Garfield slowly said, "I know mom has a tape somewhere."

Whisper just grinned at the slightly mischievous look in the kid's eyes. He knew that look all too well, having seen it on his own face as well as his cousin's too many times when he was younger.

Looking at the blood dripping from Garfield's hair, Whisper wanted to go smack his forehead against a tree.

The kid was eight! If Gar was anything like he had been at that age, then orders didn't go over well. Heck, anything contradicting movement didn't go over well!

The teen's stomach only dropped farther as Marie looked up at him. "I told you there would be consequences."

"Always." And it was true. Everything done, no matter how good-willed it was, brought repercussions. Refusing to pay 'protection money' to a mobster got the majority of a family killed. Choosing to act like an emotionless pit got your team killed in a stimulation. And protecting civilians from a hostile army got a small boy almost killed. "Let's get him inside."

Whisper tried not to feel too bad, or jealous for that matter, as the door was slammed in his face. It had been years since he had seen a mother care so much for her son and in a way, it stung. It probably didn't help that Marie Logan had so many likenesses to Mary Grayson.

Dropping his head into his hands, Whisper started to think aloud. "And on top of all this, Harjavti steps down tomorrow, subjecting all of Quarac to this danger." The teen covered his eyes with his hands before pushing them to the back of his head. "Hey, KF, can you find a news station?"

Whisper looked down at his lap as the speedster attempted to figure out how to work a remote. However, the theme song that started to play on screen prompted him to stand to get a closer look.

Well…that was unexpected.

Taking down soldiers armed with alien technology was fun. Cracking his knuckles, Whisper looked over all the Bialyan soldiers to make sure they were really unconscious.

"Thank you for saving my father. We will take care him now." The Team nodded before dashing off into the hallway.

Just as Superboy was contacting Miss Martian, a piercing pain hit Whisper's skull. He grasped it in desperation before everything went dark.

"Dude, saving a country. Pretty big win for you first term as leader."

"Yeah, thanks." Whisper gently put a hand on his arm. The punch hadn't hurt, but he couldn't help remembering that this was technically his second time. He was just glad that no one died this time around.

"And, I assure you, the Wayne Foundation is here to do whatever it can to help you and your people rebuild Quarac. "

Whisper leaned forward in his chair, grinning. Bruce sure could please a crowd, which made it all the more funny when he scared people while wearing the Batsuit.

Watching as KF suddenly remembered his souvenir, Whisper couldn't help but smile. The mission was almost over, Gar still had his family, and it looked like Whisper had one, too; even if it was a weird one.

Whisper pouted slightly as Alfred took his king using a pawn. A pawn! Still, the teen was improving; he had lasted an entire hour against the butler this time. Carefully repositioning the marble chess pieces, Whisper listened attentively to Alfred's question.

"Master Bruce tells me you had a mission in Quarac yesterday."

Whisper nodded slowly. "Yeah, it was…interesting. We met a boy while we were there- Garfield Logan. He was really cool."

"I see. And what was he like?"

Abandoning his self-appointed job of straightening a rook, Whisper looked up at Alfred. The old man's eyes were way too bright for him not to have a trick up his sleeve. "He was nice. Really eager and he really liked superheroes." A small chuckle escaped his mouth at that. "And I'm pretty sure he had the biggest blue eyes in the world. I…it was refreshing, I guess. To see someone who hasn't been scarred by the world. At least not yet."

The last part was muttered, but Alfred caught it nonetheless. He also caught the almost nostalgic air in which Whisper spoke. Perhaps the young master wasn't always so guarded; perhaps he also used to have 'the biggest blue eyes in the world'…or at least the biggest brown eyes.

Was it just Alfred or had Whisper's eyes been changing color over the past few months?

AN: And...done! But seriously? 202 reviews? YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST! And if any of you don't play chess, then just know that the last scene has Alfred beating Dick really bad at chess.

Man, I love chess.

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-GSDLover