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Dick laid quietly in his bed, Kory in his arms. He knew that she was also awake and probably also aware that he was up, but she didn't say anything either. He loved these moments. It was peaceful, comforting. Though it wasn't their bed, in their apartment and the reason why they weren't there weighed on his mind, it was still nice. It ended though when he heard Kory ask, "You awake?"

"Yeah." He quietly confirmed. He felt her turn around and when he opened his eyes, he saw that she was watching him.

"Are you okay?" She wondered, confusing Dick.

"I'm with you, and the kids and the Titans are here and safe. Why wouldn't I be?" Dick responded.

"Because of Slade." He was able to resist an annoyed groan at that but he did close his eyes as Kory continued, "You still haven't said anything about what happened with him."

"And I don't want to." Dick told her, his tone getting a little harder.

"I know, but I think you need to. It could help." Kory replied, her voice staying just as gentle as it was before.

"It's in the past Kory. It doesn't matter. All that matters is finding him and taking him down." He said. Kory opened her mouth to argue when there was a knock at the door.

Looking over at it, Dick said, "Come in."

"Good morning Master Dick, Ms. Kory." Alfred greet after opening the door. "I trust you slept will."

"We did, thank you." Dick politely informed him.

"Good. Breakfast is ready downstairs. The others are already down." Alfred replied.

"We'll be right there. Thank you Alfred." Dick said. With a quick nod, Alfred turned around and walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.

"Come on. If we don't go down now, the kids are going to eat all the food." Dick told her as he threw off the covers and got up to get dressed. Kory watched him for a minute, slightly frustrated at his attempts to avoid having the conversation she thought that he should have, but knowing he was and actually being hungry, she also got up to get changed.

Once they were dressed, they went downstairs to find everyone, with the exception of Bruce, at the table eating.

"Morning sleepyheads." Hank said with a smirk when he saw them enter the room.

"Good morning." Kory replied as she took a seat. Dick sat down beside her and they immediately started eating the breakfast that Alfred had prepared for them.

For the next few minutes, the atmosphere was light. Everyone was digging into the food on their plates, too amazed by how perfect the butler's cooking was to even really talk. And when they did talk, it wasn't about anything serious. It was mostly just complimenting Alfred's cooking and catching Dick up on what he missed over the last several days he had been in Gotham. Even Jason wasn't doing or saying anything that would disturb it which Dick was grateful for. Throughout his stay at the Manor, the newest Robin did a good job of getting on his nerves and Dick was struggling to keep from going off on him. He briefly wondered how long that would last.

The peace ended though when Rachel asked, "So what happens now?"

"Well, what do you want to do?" Jason wondered, apparently not understanding her question.

"I mean, what do we do about Slade?" Rachel clarified. "He's still out there and we can't really do anything until we catch him."

"Don't worry. Bruce will find and catch him soon. I doubt you guys will be here longer than a week." Jason replied before taking another bite.

"Really?" Gar said excitedly.

"He's not called the World's Greatest Detective for nothing." The fellow teenager responded with a smirk.

"Be that as it may," Dick chimed in, "it still might be a while before he's caught. Slade had a lot of experience of staying under the radar."

"So we just stay here until Slade is caught, even though we have no idea how long it's going to take?" Hank grumbled unhappily, causing Dick to shoot him a glare. He understood his frustration but it wasn't like he was any happier about this than everyone else was.

Apparently sensing that a change in topic was needed, Jason said, "Since you guys are going to be here for the foreseeable future, how about a tour after breakfast?"

"That's not a bad idea." Dick told him. He had no doubt that there were places in the Manor that would interest the others, especially Rachel and Gar. And the more distracted they were, the less likely they were to remember why they were and start asking questions about what happened five years ago. Donna, Dawn and Hank didn't look thrilled about the idea, but they shrugged, meaning that they go along with it though. Rachel, Gar and Kory on the other hand looked intrigued by the idea, especially Gar who smiled and said, "Cool!"

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Almost two hours later, Jason and Dick were still showing the others around. Normally Dick found tours kind of boring, but it actually wasn't that bad. Jason tried to make it somewhat entertaining, which Dick expected but what he didn't expect was Donna chiming in with some stories from when they were kids. Like how one time, Bruce was hosting a gala for something and the two of them ditched to hang out in the treehouse out back and ended up falling asleep out there, causing Bruce to nearly have a heart attack. Or how the chandelier by the stairs wasn't the original one because Dick had decided to swing from it despite having been told not to and the rusty wires snapped, sending him and the chandelier.

Dick normally wouldn't have liked his friends, his girlfriend and the kids hearing embarrassing stories about him, but not only was Donna careful not to say anything too humiliating, it was actually fighting. Of course, at the time it wasn't funning when the chandelier fell, but now it brought a smile to his face. His relationship with Bruce was always complicated, yet he couldn't deny that he had many happy memories of life at the Manor, especially when he was younger. Back then, after Dick finally started getting comfortable in his new home and was slowly healing from his parents' murder, Bruce had started to become like a father to him. As much as he still hurt and as much anger he still harboured, he did become happy here. Until he got older and everything went to h*ll that is.

"Why does someone need two libraries in their house?" Rachel wondered as they entered the second library that was on the second floor.

"Not enough space for all the books I guess." Dick answered. He himself had wondered that when Alfred showed him around when he first moved in all those years ago. The answer butler gave him though at the time was just that the designer of the house decided to make it that way.

"Nah. It's because the rich snobs who made the house would banish the people they didn't like to the second floor and they needed to make sure that they were well entertained so they wouldn't come back down." Jason joked.

Gar apparently didn't get it because he frowned and said, "But, we're staying on the second floor."

"Jason made that up Gar. And everyone except Alfred sleeps on the second floor." Dick told him.

"Then what's on the third and fourth floors?" Kory asked, looking over at her boyfriend.

"Mostly just more bedrooms, a smaller gym, a sun room and another, smaller, library." Dick revealed, causing everyone but Donna and Jason's eyes to widen.

"Why does someone need all of that? Especially if they already have those on a different in the old days." Hank questioned.

"Because rich people need to flaunt their money as much as possible, especially back in the old days." Jason answered.

For a minute, the group stayed quiet, then Gar asked, "Can we see the Batcave?"

Jason and Dick both immediately locked eyes at that question. Though the Titans were fellow heroes and knew Bruce Wayne was Batman, Bruce would not like them hanging around in the Cave. Plus, Gar had a tendency to get easily and extremely excited and when that happened, he liked to touch things and become pretty clumsy. There was no doubt in Dick's mind that if Bruce was here instead of at work, he would tell them 'no'. Jason however, either didn't know that, didn't care or, more likely, just wanted to look cool in front of the others because he smirked and turned to face the others.

"Well,"

"Actually, there's not much there that isn't also in the Manor, like the big gym downstairs. Let's go there." Dick cut Jason off, earning a small glare from high school senior.

"But I want to see all the cool Batman stuff." Gar said, practically whining.

"Trust me, the last thing you guys want is Bruce annoyed and angry at you." Dick told him and before Gar could continue arguing, he added, "Come on, let's go downstairs."

Wordlessly, they all followed him out of the room, though Dick could see the disappointed on the green-haired boy's face from the corner of his eye.

Soon, they were all back on the main floor in the large gym. Dick and Jason had already shown them this room, but they didn't really give them a chance to explain. Now they did. Though Dick could tell that Gar, and probably the others were disappointed that they weren't in the Batcave, he could also see that they were impressed by the place.

"This is pretty cool." Hank admitted to Dick while Jason showed the others around and explained some of the equipment. Before Dick could respond, he heard Rachel ask, "What's that in the back?"

"Looking over to see what she was talking about, Dick said, "It's old acrobatic equipment."

"Bruce got that all for you?" Dawn wondered, knowing about Dick's acrobatic background and that Bruce didn't use those skills in his fighting.

"Yeah, not long after I moved in. He thought it would help me settle in more. And stay off the chandelier." Dick said with a grin.

"Did it work?" Kory wondered, coming over to her boyfriend's side.

"Actually yeah, it did." Dick responded, his expression turning into a thoughtful one as he again remembered how he felt when Bruce first showed him the equipment.

"You going to show us some moves?" Kory then asked, smirking as she nudged his arm.

"Maybe later."

"He's probably too rusty and doesn't want to embarrass himself." Jason chimed in. Knowing that Jason was just trying to egg him on, Dick stayed silent, deciding to just glare at him instead. Apparently realizing that Dick wasn't going to react, Jason opened his mouth to try again to get a reaction out of him, Gar suddenly said, "Cool! You guys train with these?"

"Yeah we do." Jason told him when he saw that Gar had grabbed one of the training bo's.

Twisting it in his hand so it was pointing at Jason, Gar said in a mock-serious voice, "I hear-by challenge you to a duel."

"Challenge accepted." Jason replied, also with a jokingly serious tone before he rushed to grab his own bo.

The two then made their way to the matts in the center of the room. Holding their weapons like they were swords, they immediately started fighting while the others watched. It was quite entertaining. Especially when they started 'politely' trash mouthing each other. Soon though, Jason disarmed Gar and declared himself the best swordsman in the world. At that, Rachel quickly challenged him, which he instantly accepted.

As they got into position, the majority of Dick's focus shifted to Jason instead of Rachel. He found himself studying the way he moved, how he'd attack and defend, how he himself focused on his opponent. Dick couldn't deny that he was a very good fighter. Of course he still had some rough edges that needed smoothing out, but Dick knew that with more experience that he'd be a force to reckon with.

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It was nearly midnight, yet Dick was still awake. He and Kory had decided to go to bed a while ago but a growing headache forced him to head down to the kitchen for some Tylenol. The place was dead quiet which wasn't surprising. The other Titans had gone to bed as well, Bruce and Jason were most likely on patrol which meant that Alfred was down in the Cave, stress cleaning or something until they returned.

Making his way back to the stairs however, Dick found that he was wrong about one of those things. Instead of being out on patrol like he had assumed, avoiding Bruce meant not fully knowing where he was or what was going on, Jason was sitting in the living room, leaning over the coffee table which had what appeared to be a school binder.

"Still up?" Dick questioned as he made his way into the room.

Looking up at him, Jason answered, "Just finishing up some schoolwork. You know Bruce. If the grades drop, you get benched."

"Yeah. I remember that." Dick responded, coming to a stop near the couch where Jason sat.

"You probably never had that problem, huh?" Jason then muttered, causing Dick to look over at him.

"What are you talking about?"

"Having to work to keep your grades up."

"I don't know if I'd say that." Dick said, moving to lean against the couch. "I definitely struggled when I first started. Before I lived with Bruce I was homeschooled. It took a while to get adjusted. And even when I did, I still hated it."

"Really?" Jason asked with a slightly disbelieving tone.

"Circus orphan in a private school full of rich, self-intitled snobs. How well do you think that went over?" Dick wondered.

While Jason nodded in understanding, knowing firsthand how those kids acted, he said, "Bruce never mentioned anything like that. According to him, you're perfect."

This time, it was Dick who stared in disbelief. "He said that?"

"Well, not outright but I can see it on his face."

"Trust me Jason. I was not, and am not perfect. Bruce knows it and he made d*mn well sure that I knew it too back when I was Robin." Dick responded, his tone becoming bitter and angry.

"Seriously?" Jason questioned, tone full of disbelief.

"Yeah. Why do you think I didn't stay?" Dick responded, shrugging his shoulders as though he thought it was obvious.

Jason fell silent at that. He had always wondered why Dick would ever leave the Robin gig. Early into his career as the brightly-coloured hero had asked Bruce that, and not only did Bruce refuse to answer, he had silently made sure that Jason knew to never ask that again. It only took about a month before he got curious again. That time though he asked Alfred. All the butler would say way that it was because of the personal differences, but he definitely gave off the vibe that it was Bruce's fault.

"Is that why you don't like me being Robin?" He then wondered, looking back up at Dick.

Sighing, Dick revealed, "Bruce and I had a really big fight, had been fighting for a while actually. During that fight, Bruce basically said that having a sidekick, a partner was a mistake and that he wouldn't do that again."

"So when I showed up,"

"It was a surprise alright." Dick interrupted, nodding his head. "What made it worse was that Bruce gave you Robin."

"Robin is Batman's partner though." Jason pointed out.

"It wasn't his to give. I created Robin. I designed the outfit, I picked the colours and the name." Dick said with a harsh tone. Seeing Jason flinch a little because of it, Dick calmed down and explained, "Robin was a nickname my Mom gave me, when I was a little kid. She said it was because when she saw me on the trapeze, I reminded her of a robin, her favourite bird. I created the identity to hunt for the man who killed her and my Dad. And Bruce just gave that away without asking or telling me."

For a few seconds, Jason sat in stunned silence before he whispered, "I didn't know."

"I know you didn't."

"Do you want me to change my name?" Jason suddenly asked, surprising Dick. "I can you know. And I'm sure Lucius and I can come up with a different outfit or something."

"No, it's okay. You're right." Dick said, coming over to stand in front of Jason. "Robin is Batman's partner. He's more than what I originally created him for. It's yours now."

"Thanks." Jason replied with a small but sincere smile.

"See you in the morning. Don't stay up too late." Dick told him, then proceeded to make his way out of the room.

"I won't." Jason said. However, something suddenly came to his mind and he called out, "Hey Dick?"

When he saw Dick turn his head back in his direction, he asked, "Do you think that maybe you can show me some moves?"

"Sure." Dick answered with a smile, then turned back around and headed for the stairs, more than ready for bed.

Unbeknownst to the two, Bruce stood in the shadows near the other entrance to the room. He had just come back from a quick patrol and was on his way to bed when he heard their voices. He had been intending to just send them to bed as well, but when he heard what they were talking about, he froze and listened in. As Dick explained the meaning behind Robin and his own hurt as to what he had done by giving the mantle to Jason, Bruce felt the guilt he already carried weigh more heavily in his gut.

He had always known that he messed up with how he acted and had been treating Dick in those last few years before Dick left, but he didn't think at all about how giving Robin to Jason would be a part of that. Getting another partner, yes, but Dick didn't tell him where he got the name Robin from, or the colours and he never asked. As guilty as he felt, and as much as he knew that he had a lot of work to do if he wanted to fix his relationship with his adopted son, he was glad that Dick and Jason were finally starting to get along. That was one win at least that he was completely willing to take.

AN – Is my family the only one who has a medicine cabinet in the kitchen? Anyways, sorry again this chapter took so long but I hope you guys liked it! See you all next time!