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Chapter 9
Brothers Forgive
A month had passed, and Tim was still not speaking to Damian despite Dick’s best efforts to get them to reconcile. Finally, he asked Bruce to force the issue and send them on patrol together and he reluctantly agreed; not for the sake of their relationship, he said, but for the sake of the team and Gotham.
“Of course, it is Bruce,” Dick said with a knowing smirk.
After about an hour of fairly routine activity; stopping two attempted rapes and three armed robberies Red Robin and Robin spotted what appeared to be a drug deal going down in the alley below them. Without waiting, Damian jumped down from the rooftop and charged in recklessly knocking the dealer off his feet.
The buyer ran off in a panic, but he wasn’t the one Damian was interested in.
“Is this how scum like you get their kicks, by selling your poison to those who’ve already lost hope?!
“Where is your source, where does this come from?”
Damian lifted the man, more the twice his size, to his knees by his throat so they were now eye-to eye.
The dealer’s eyes bugged out and his face turned blue, “Answer me now, or I swear by Allah this breath will be your last!”
Damian was so intent on ringing the information he wanted from the drug dealer that he failed to notice his partner moving up behind him with a compact .38 automatic pistol.
Robin’s first clue that he had a brush with death was when a shot rang out; he spun just in time to see Red Robin subduing his would-be murderer.
After they’d gotten the information they needed on the source of the drugs and turned the two dealers over to Jim Gordon’s special task force; Tim rounded on Damian, “What the hell was that,” he shouted, “You almost got yourself killed trying to interrogate a low-level dealer!”
“It isn’t as though you’d give a shit if I had been killed, Drake!”
“Why would you think that,” he paused “Little-D?”
At the appalling nick-name Grayson had given him Damian turned to Drake and scowled, what did you call me?”
“I know you heard me, now answer the damned question, why would you think I don’t care if you live or die?!”
“Because you’ve never liked or trusted me, and after what happened last month you no doubt hate me.”
Tim kept his expression neutral, he was as good at hiding his emotions as Batman; and then carefully explained, “I was angry at the invasion of my privacy, and worried about Kon’s reaction to it but I don’t hate you.”
“You were worried about the Kryptonian half-” seeing Tim’s face darkening and remembering his father’s admonition, Damian amended his sentence, “About Kon-El; Why?”
“Because he may seem nearly invulnerable but the reality is he’s a lot more fragile than you might think.”
“You think it’s been tough on us growing up in the shadow of the bat; imagine what it’s been like for him trying to live up to Superman.”
“I suppose I can see your point Dra-Tim,” Damian admitted.
“So now do want you want to tell me why you were willing to die for that piece of shit?”
“I just dislike people distributing that venom all over the city,” he said.
“Wait a minute,” Tim said to Damian, “Before you said poison and just now you said venom, care to explain that?”
“What’s the difference!”
“In this town, it can mean a hell of a lot,” Tim said, “If you’re thinking about trying to go after Bane, forget it!”
“No, even my grandfather was wary of dealings with him, but let’s just say I know someone else who’s life has been affected by it.”
“You do, who is it?”
“Do you remember Colin Wilkes,” Damian asked Tim.
“Yeah,” Tim said warily, “He’s the orphan kid at St. Aden’s who was experimented on by Scarecrow and injected with Bane’s Venom; now he’s a crimefighter who calls himself Abuse.”
‘Yes, he and I have become friends, in fact recently we have become a little more than friends.”
“Really how did this happen, Tim asked.” He was more than a little shocked by this news, and the fact that Damian would open up about this to him of all people
“He admitted he has feelings for me, and I’m believe I’m starting to share those feelings, and I think I’m beginning to understand what you have with Kon-El.”
“How do you think I should proceed?”
“Really, you want my advice about this?”
“Well I can’t ask my father about this, Grayson would no doubt tease me endlessly, and Todd is absolutely out of the question.”
“Well, my advice is take things slowly, you’re both still really young, hang out with him as much as you can get to know everything about each other, well except for the fact that you’re the current Robin, you know how your dad feels about that.”
“Well, actually he already knows, I didn’t tell him,” Damian added hastily, “He figured out for himself.”
“How does a thirteen-year old kid just figure something like that out, Dami?”
“I don’t know but he did, Grayson told me that’s how you learned that my father was Batman and he was the original Robin.”
Tim couldn’t argue with that, it was pretty much how it happened, so he just let it go; Damian would have to take the repercussions from Bruce about this later.
“I’ll say this Little-D, you never cease to surprise me.”
Damian once again bristled at the nickname, but this time he found it was at least tolerable.
After three more relatively uneventful hours of patrol Robin and Red-Robin returned to the cave.
No one else was present so they showered and changed into their civilian clothes, then headed upstairs. Dick was at home and his light was on, so after saying goodnight to Damian, Tim knocked on his door.
“Hey Tim,” Dick said sleepily after answering his door, “How’d it go?”
“It went fine,” Tim said in a non-committal tone that gave nothing away.
Dick made a note of that and then asked “So is everything alright between you two now?”
“Yeah,” Tim said with a slight smile, “I think everything is going to be just fine from now on.”

End.
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