The next morning Bruce woke up to his door opening, opened his eyes to see three kids running onto his bed, he laughed as they jumped up and down.
"Okay, I'm up" Bruce said pushing the blanket off his head.
"Alfred said to wake you up Dad" Roy informed.
"He did, well lets head down and eat breakfast then" Bruce suggested and watched as they all got off the bed running out of the room. When they reached the kitchen the smell of pancakes caught his nose, he looked over to see the four plates. Bruce took his seat while the kids all started eating.
"Good morning sir" Alfred greeted placing three cups of milk down and a mug of coffee.
"Good morning Alfred, I heard you asked the kids to wake me up" Bruce smiled.
"Well, they do have their appointments this morning" Alfred informed.
"Appointments?" Roy asked.
"Yes, you three are going to just meet a friends of mine" Bruce informed.
"Now when all of you are finished I want you upstairs getting dress or you'll see how your father was dressed" Alfred ordered.
The kids all finished and went up stairs, leaving Bruce and Alfred laughing.
"That means you too" Alfred stated.
Bruce got up running upstairs to his room, leaving Alfred laughing as he cleaned up the table. After they all were dressed and in the car heading to the doctors, Bruce noticed Roy laughing at something.
"Roy what's funny?" Artemis asked.
"I heard that Batman kicked this guy's butt who thought he was better than the Joker" Roy informed.
"You like Batman?"Bruce asked.
"Yeah, he is so cool" Roy replied.
When they got to the office, Bruce had the kids sit down in the chairs in the waiting room while he signed them in. He took the paperwork he needed to fill out and sat down with his kids.
"Okay, names?" Bruce said.
"Roy, Artemis, and Dick" Roy answered.
"Ages?" Bruce laughed.
"Nine, six, and four" Artemis replied.
"Bruce" Dr. Leslie said walking over.
"Hello Leslie, it's good to see you" Bruce said giving her a hug.
"You too, these must be your kids?" Leslie said.
"Yes, this is Roy, Artemis, and Dick" Bruce introduced.
"It's nice to meet you now lets go into my office" Leslie suggested as Bruce led them in.
Bruce had the kids sit down in the chairs, while Leslie looked at the paperwork.
"Okay, why don't we go with Roy first" Leslie said walking over. "Roy can you please sit down on this table"
Roy got up and sat, he then watched as Leslie looked him over, and then did the same with Artemis and Dick.
"Okay, now I need to get some blood from you, Bruce can you please have them sit on your lap, while I do it" Leslie informed.
"Okay, Roy you first" Bruce stated.
Roy sat down and Leslie stood next to him, she placed the container with the stuff she needed down.
"Now Roy I want you to make a fist for me, now it will only last for a few seconds and you're done" Leslie instructed and watched as he nodded.
After Leslie got blood from all the kids she had them go back out to the waiting room, while she talked to Bruce.
"They're all healthy from what I observed, I'll have the blood results in a few days" Leslie informed.
"Thank you for seeing them today" Bruce said.
"No problem and they were well behaved, I wish all my patients were like that" Leslie smiled.
Bruce walked out to see his kids playing with some toy cars on the floor, he led them back to the car and started driving home. When they got home Alfred informed them that lunch was ready and the kids all ran into the kitchen. Bruce smiled and walked into the kitchen to see them all eating their chicken nuggets. Bruce took a seat and started eating his own.
"I was wondering if you guys would like to start school?" Bruce asked.
"Really?" Roy asked.
"Yes, you all would be in separate grades, but-" Bruce responded.
"When can we start?" Artemis asked.
"When summers over, I still need to fill some stuff out" Bruce informed.
The kids finished, eating and ran out into the hall, Bruce laughed and watched as Alfred cleaned up.
"I've got some work to do, make sure they don't break anything" Bruce laughed as he left the kitchen.
The kids were playing tag, laughing as it went back and forth between the three, Artemis was it and Roy and Dick were running away and they ran into the living room. Dick went to hide in the clock when he notice it was cold.
"Hey I thought this would be warm, not ice cold" Dick stated confused.
"The times wrong too" Artemis added.
Roy walked over and fixed the time, they all watched as the clock slid to the side revealing an opening. They went down the stairs and realized where they were.
"Our dad's Batman" Roy said.
Alfred walked into Bruce's office, seeing that the kids weren't there either.
"Something wrong?" Bruce asked.
"Well, the children seemed to have vanished" Alfred informed.
"Have you looked everywhere?" Bruce asked worried.
"Yes, the only place I didn't check was the cave" Alfred replied.
They both sighed and walked into the living room, Bruce moved he hands and walked down he, then heard laughter. He entered to see Roy with Batman's cowl and cape on running after Artemis and Dick.
"Get back here Poison Ivy and Joker" Roy said in a deep voice.
"You'll have to stop my vines Bats" Artemis said pretending to send vines at Roy.
"And deal with my laughing gas" Dick laughed and did a flip over a chair.
"We'll see" Roy said as he moved the cape in front of his face and pretended to throw batarangs at the two.
Dick and Artemis dodged and ran at Roy who swung his cape in their faces. He flipped back keeping distance and then pretended to throw batarangs.
"Nice try, but you'll have to do better" Artemis lunged at Roy throwing a punch that he blocked easily.
"Don't turn around" Dick laughed as he went to fly kick Roy who dodged and turned to throw a punch that was blocked.
"Having fun?" Bruce asked coming out of the shadows.
"Yes, we were-" Roy stated surprised.
"It's okay, you didn't do any damage and you didn't touch any of the dangerous stuff" Bruce said.
"We didn't mean to the clock just opened and we were curious" Artemis informed.
"Well, you looked like you were all having fun" Bruce smiled.
"Daddy?" Dick said.
"Yes" Bruce turned to him.
"Can we help you catch bad guys?" Dick asked.
"I don't know, it's not something-" Bruce tried to explain.
"We promise we'll train really hard" Artemis informed.
"And in school we'll get good grades" Roy added.
"Fine, from what I saw you can fight a little" Bruce looked at them.
"We don't remember who taught us how to fight, we just remember being alone" Roy admitted.
"Well, now you'll learn new ways to fight from me" Bruce informed and all the kids smiled.
They all were led back upstairs to get ready for dinner, and Bruce just smiled at how much he's enjoying being a father.