Note: This is guest chapter from Alex, again.
About Dick Grayson:
So I guess the story I told Bruce isn't 100% the truth. Yeah, Alfred showed up to get me from the circus, but that wasn't until after The Incident. Yes, it really is that dramatic.
My whole family worked for the circus doing gymnastics. We were world famous trapeze performers and people had come from around the world to see us. We'd performed for kings and presidents and rock stars. That's how we ended up in the middle of the incident.
We were doing a show in California and I guess there were a lot of important people there that night. I was in the middle of my jump, with no net, when the trouble started. Some guys with guns pretty much forced their way into the tent and were trying to get near the president. That's right, the president. They weren't very sneaky, so people saw them and it was all really obvious. I don't know exactly how they ended up under the ropes- maybe security and the crowd were trying to get them away from him.
What I do know is that they were beneath me and I could see that one of them had a bomb. I pulled one of the ropes and used it to swing down like an annoying monkey and swipe the bomb from them. It wasn't until I was back in the air that I realized the bomb was counting down.
I was terrified and my dad said to toss it to him, like we do with props in our shows, so I did. It was like a game of hot potato, and boy did I not want to be there when it got dropped.
I was a kid, just barely turned eight, so I could barely understand what happened next. My parents were obviously trying to figure out what to do with the bomb, but they took too long. It was in the air between them when it was getting too close to going off and I could see both of their faces, full of fear like my own.
I went to get the bomb myself. I threw it in the water but when I came back my family was dead.