Prompt Post - Part Eight [CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS]
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When Batman defended his new wife's hard work to turn over a new leaf, they were slightly less not impressed.
When Batman brought a child into the mix, they were very much not impressed all over again.
When a billboard appeared in Gotham reading, “DEAR FATHER PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM CATS YOU ARE NOT HELPING,” they decided Gotham and its inhabitants were a lost cause.
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Dick Grayson was terrified of the people he lived with now.
Alfred was all right. Alfred made cookies and tucked him in at night and gave him cups of warm milk and sat up with him when he couldn't sleep because of the nightmares. But Mr. Wayne who wanted him to call him Bruce was always busy with work and always seemed so distant, and Mrs. Wayne who wanted him to call her Talia was a ninja with an evil ninja father and if Dick so much as looked at her wrong she would probably have him killed by the legion of ninja underlings she undoubtedly had hidden away somewhere.
“Richard,” she said to him, “Would you like me to read you a bedtime story?”
Dick did not notice how awkward she sounded, too busy nodding yes enthusiastically. And he didn't dare complain about the story she picked (a copy of Arabian Nights she found in the library).
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“Beloved, this is not working,” Talia said one early morning as she lay in bed waiting for Bruce to join her.
“You're awake?” Bruce asked, surprised.
“Richard flinches at the sight of me.”
“Try calling him Dick,” Bruce suggested.
Talia sighed. “Somehow, I do not think that will solve the problem,” she answered sarcastically. “He is terrified of me. I am not what this boy needs.”
Bruce grinned. “Have you tried not being terrifying?”
Talia threw a pillow at him. “Bruce!”
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Then Dick found out that Bruce was Batman, and that explained a lot. And after realizing that if they were anywhere the ninjas would be in the Batcave, he finally came to the conclusion that Talia did not command an army of ninjas, and was not going to kill him in his sleep. Which was very nice.
When she read Arabian Nights to him that evening, he abruptly slipped up under her arm and leaned against her, startling her. She blinked at him before continuing on with the story at hand.
When she finished the story, Dick looked up at her. “Will you teach me to be a ninja?”
Talia looked down at his earnest face, and thought that there could only be bad motivations to this question. “Of course... Dick.”
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When Bruce is Batman, Talia is understanding.
When Dick is Robin, Talia is furious.
Dick is far too young to be out fighting criminals, even if he had been brought up to do so, which he hadn't. When Talia was his age she had been training all her life, and even then she still went out into the field very rarely. Dick is too young to be a superhero, and that is that.
(But, because there is no stopping him, at least she can make sure he isn't flashing his bare legs at every pedophile in Gotham. Honestly, and he wondered why she didn't let him dress himself.)
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