Notes: Okay, so while I did plan this story out, Selina and Dick a proving difficult to write in this one. Selina especially. I'm trying to base her of the pre-52 version mostly from Gotham City Sirens but feel she's a little out of character in this chapter. Plus, even though I intended to have more Wally in this chapter (originally he was going to crash the outing but that was cut). The drama hits quickly.

This story is intended to have two parts. The first part is the Young Justice season 1 part. It's where Dick finds out and the team. The second part takes place closer to the Batman time where Jason, Tim and Damian find out.

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Part 1 – Chapter 2

Dick pulled his bag over his shoulder and slouched as he walked down the halls of Gotham Academy. Today was the day. Selina was taking him 'somewhere', not that he cared where.

Dick wanted to be anywhere but here, although if he could choose, he wanted to be at Mount Justice with the team instead.

He turned a corner and froze as he came shoulder to face with Artemis.

"Dick Grayson, right?" Artemis said, recognising him from her first day.

Dick wordlessly nodded. There was nothing connecting Dick Grayson to Robin, however he was still wary around team mates while dressed in civilian clothes.

Artemis examined him for a few moments and he frowned a little.

"Something wrong?" she asked with a sigh. Obviously, she didn't want to ask that question. Dick knew she didn't like prying into other's business, just as she didn't want anyone prying into hers, but for some reason was willing to make an exception for him.

"I'm fine," Dick responded, twirling around her. He purposely placed a spring in his step and a smile on his face as he dashed away.

"Yeah, that's why you look like you're off to a funeral or something," Artemis muttered. She didn't know why seeing Dick like that bothered her but, she also knew there was little she could do about it.

Dick ended up down the hall and further from where he was supposed to be, which was fine with him.

He plodded slowly to where he needed to be, finding Selina on the phone. He stood behind her silently for a bit while she franticly told the person on the other end that 'Dick's still not here!'. Dick knew she was talking to Bruce.

That caused him a spark of annoyance. Selina probably had been worried about him; it didn't take much of an imagination to imagine the dangerous scenarios Dick could get himself into. However, her reporting it to Bruce bothered him. Did she really need to call him?

He coughed and Selina jumped, turning to face him.

"Nevermind, he's here," Selina said, sounding calm as she hung up. "Hi, Dick. How was school?"

"It was school," Dick responded with a smile.

"Well, ready for some fun?"

"Fun for me is flying," Dick informed her. "Are you going to take me flying?"

"Bruce won't let me in the jet and Alfred would frown upon us spending this day in the gym," Selina quipped. Dick had to admit, she was doing a good job. Most of Bruce's girls had backed off at that question or suggested he could arrange for Bruce to take them in the jet. Selina was the first to mention the gym but he figured it was just because she knew about their nightlife and that Bruce was more than a jet-setting playboy.

Dick frowned and muttered a few words of annoyance at his luck.

"I thought we might try the zoo instead," Selina said. She tossed a bag at him. "But you're going to want to change. I'm not walking around with a kid whose clothes scream 'kidnap me for daddy's ransom'."

Dick smiled a real smile at that and ducked back into the school to change. While changing, his phone beeped with a message from Wally.

[How's the bonding-day or whatever?]

[Not going well. I have no idea how I'm going to go through with this.]

[?]

[How am I supposed to make Catwoman give up on this bonding idea?]

[Shiny jewels?]

[Haha. Not helpful.]

One bus ride and half an hour into walking around the zoo and Dick was starting to wonder where he could get a jewel shiny enough to get Selina to leave him alone. He had tried the direct approach of just telling her that he was totally okay with her dating Bruce.

"We're just friends, Dick," she had responded.

Then why was she wasting her time with his ward? Dick wanted to ask her but thought it would be rude. Besides, she probably would just brush off the question with something like 'you're a special kid, Dick'.

Ugh. He didn't think he could take that.

"Dick!" Did she really have to keep saying his name like that? There was a slight pause. A slight indication that she wasn't really comfortable calling him by his name. "Come take a picture."

Dick smiled a fake smile as he walked over to her. Selina was standing near a photo counter. The place offered to take photos and have them printed up almost instantly.

Selina placed her arm around his shoulder and knelt a little behind him as the camera woman took a few shots.

"Your son certainly looks like you," the camera woman commented as she passed Selina the photos.

Dick stiffened. Sure, a few people had commented that he looked like Bruce. But, never had he been compared in a family way to anyone else in Gotham.

Selina gave a dull chuckle and quickly guided him away.

"You okay?" she asked him.

Dick shook his head.

"Thanks for today but I want to go back to the manor now," he muttered, playing up the 'distressed orphan' act. His heart hurt but it was a dull ache, a scar he knew he would live with for as long as he lived.

Selina called Alfred to come pick them up. While they waited, they sat on a bench outside of the zoo. Dick sat with his chin on his knees and curled up on the seat, staring into the distance.

Sitting beside him, Selina felt the distance between them. Dick barely even looked at her; not that he needed to as his training allowed him to use his other senses to know where she was. However, this just confirmed that she wasn't someone who he would seek comfort from.

What was she doing? She had given Dick away as a baby and now she was trying to bond? Guilt hit her as she thought of Mary Grayson in her grave. The woman she had willingly and gladly given her baby to was dead and here she was, trying to bond with the child she had given away.

Selina knew that Dick's mother was Mary Grayson. She would never be able to compare and she didn't want to.

So, what was she doing here?

Alfred came and managed to ease Dick's mood a little as they drove back to the manor. Selina grew more and more nervous as they got closer. She was going to make it clear to Bruce that she had no intention of playing family.

Alfred parked the car and let them out, Bruce waiting on the doorstop. The well-dressed man seemed to realise that the afternoon had not gone well.

He asked Dick how it was and received a glare in response, even though the teenager insisted that it was 'fine'. Selina wrapped an arm around Bruce's arm and whispered that she wanted to speak with him. Bruce sighed and told Dick to exercise in the gym while he and Selina talked.

Dick stomped up the stairs and down the hall. He frowned at the image of Selina wrapping herself around Bruce.

"'Talking'," he scoffed, "yeah right." He had a feeling he knew exactly what they were doing and it was not talking.

An idea occurred to him. He was Robin, Batman's partner. If they weren't going to be honest with him, he would just get proof.

Dick pulled out his phone and switched to the camera. Then he snuck back down the stairs.

"Where's Bruce?" he asked Alfred, who was walking towards the kitchen.

"I believe he's in the library, Master Dick."

Dick frowned at that. The library was a strange place for Bruce to take Selina. They usually went to the lounge, balcony or hung around the parlour before retiring to their room, or 'rooms' as they claimed.

The library had multiple entrances, making it simple for him to sneak in. He slipped through a door and ducked behind a chair. Bruce and Selina were standing close to each other, talking furiously. Their bodies were tense, lines prominent around their eyes and mouths as they tried to talk to each other.

"This whole thing was your idea."

Dick wondered what idea she was talking about. He had a sinking feeling it had something to do with Selina's change in the way she approached him.

"Selina-"

"No. Things were fine as they were before. Dick's parents are the Graysons and we shouldn't mess with that."

Bruce was silent for a few moments. When he spoke, his voice was soft, firm and carried right over to where Dick was hiding.

"Yes, Dick's parents are the Graysons. That hasn't changed. However, I don't think they were the kind of people to appreciate the distance you're creating. You have a chance to get to know your child. You don't have to tell him that you're his birth mother, even though I did suggest it-"

"Then he'll probably feel forced to act like he likes me," Selina interrupted. Then she sighed, defeat weighing heavily on shoulders. "He hates me."

"He does not."

"He does. You didn't see him today. I know Robin, Bruce. I even know a little about Dick. What I saw today was a teenager who does not want to know me."

"I'm sure it's not that bad. Dick just takes some time to truly warm up to people."

Dick noticed then that Selina was holding the picture of them both. Both hands held the picture like it was something important. His brows knitted as he tried to put the pieces of their conversation together.

It sounded like they were talking about him but what did Bruce mean by 'birth mother'? Did Selina have a child he didn't know about?

He wondered if maybe she was trying to get some experience with kids and felt a little bad for being so uncooperative.

"You're lying to yourself. You may be his birth father but he doesn't see you as his father."

"I know that." Bruce stated it in such a matter-of-fact way that Selina was surprised. Dick leaned forward in interest. "Dick doesn't see me as his father. That place belongs to John Grayson. However, there is nothing wrong with him building another family."

"Then I won't be part of it," Selina said. "I should have stayed away."

"Maybe if you tell him-"

"What about you, Bruce?" Selina asked, now angry. This conversation was going in circles and Bruce still didn't see her side of it. "Are you going to tell Dick that you're his biological father? That you didn't even know of his existence until you ran a test, years after he became Robin? Are you going to tell him that he was the product of a one night stand between Catwoman and Batman and that I gave him away to people who died before he hit double digits?"

Dick gasped and two sets of eyes turned to him.

"That… what ar…" He shook his head. It couldn't be true. He felt sick to his stomach and tears were running down his face. "That can't be."

"Dick," Selina gasped, covering her mouth.

"Dick, listen-"

"That CAN'T BE!" Dick yelled, his mind refusing to accept it as anything beyond a cruel joke.

Bruce flinched and Selina stepped towards him.

Dick bolted.