Elliot closed the door to the young Damien Wayne’s room. It was late enough that he had fallen asleep after playing a few games of darts with himself and Alfred.
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He returned to the kitchen where Alfred was cleaning some silver.
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“Thank you for putting master Damien to bed, Mr. Argus.”
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Elliot took a glass and was half done filling it with water before he replied.
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“Don’t mention it Alfred.”
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“It’s late, if you’d like you can stay the night if you’d like.”
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“Thank you for the offer; however, I’ll just stay until Mr. Wayne arrives.”
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With an ‘as you wish’ Alfred returned to his duties, leaving Elliot to wander around the mansion.
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After wandering around the manor, a squeaking caught his attention.
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It couldn't be mice. He thought. Alfred keeps the manor far to pristine for that.
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He followed the noise until he came to one of the many living rooms within the manor. A movement caught his attention within the dark recesses of the room.
Flipping the light switch, the squeaking grew more shrill and finally Elliot discovered the animal responsible for all the commotion, a bat was within the face of the grandfather clock.
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“Well, hi there little guy; how’d you get in there?”
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Elliot opened the glass covering of the door, he tried to get the bat in hand instead, knocking the hands of the clock into a 12 o'clock position. The clock swung backwards and the bat soon disappeared down the staircase that was hidden behind it.
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What the fuck? A hidden stairway?
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He stood at the entrance, listening for any noise within the manor, now that the bat was gone, however, it was silent.
With one last glance, he started down the stairs.
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He walked down, lights on the well kept stairwell darkening as he reached the end. The stairwell let out into a large underground cavern.
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The bright flood lights kicked on illuminating some kind of terminal at one end of the room. As he walked over to examine it, a shine of glass caught his attention.
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A case full of suits, Batman suits.
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Elliot felt his face shift into annoyance.
This was why Bruce felt the need to go out at night unattended?
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“For fuck’s sake, Bruce. Of course he’s Batman.”
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He turned and looked at all the gear within the cave. All tech that he’s been making with time and resources from Wayne Tech.
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How is it possible no one has figured this out?
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With a sigh, Elliot turned deeper into the cave where a gadget caught his attention. A glove rested within a protected glass case.
A little placard read: ‘Livewire ‘02’
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‘Livewire’? The electric villain? Her suit I bet would be invaluable to the conductive issue the Gotham suit is facing…
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He carefully put a gloved hand on the door of the container and waited for the alarm to trip, but it didn’t.
He pulled the torn glove from its resting place and placed it in his pocket before closing the door. He turned and headed for the stairs when something shifted from deep within the cave. He looked on as he saw car lights heading towards him.
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With no time to run for the stairs, he hid behind a stalagmite off to the side as a bike came into view.
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It’s rider came to a stop as Elliot recognized the outfit.
Red Hood?
“UGGGH!!!” With a wail, the man ripped the helmet from his head and with a loud echoing ‘thunk’ it clattered against the cavern floor. Someone was getting out of a car.
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“Jason! It’ll be fine! Tim’s a capable guy!”
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“Dick! You don’t know what Joker is capable of! Not like I do!”
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The two men began stripping out of their clothes still speaking as they did.
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“Dude, Joker flat out admitted that he didn’t even see Tim! He’s fine! Probably just found another way out of the building!”
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“Tim’s dead and it’s all my fault! I left him alone in there!”
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Elliot shifted as the two exited up the stairs and the lights within the cave dimmed.
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Fuck me, Jason Todd is Red Hood. And Dick Greyson is Nightwing. They were talking about Tim. What did Joker do?
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Elliot struggled with the questions floating through his head but stood up and carefully walked up the staircase.
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He could hear Jason still screaming about this, that, and the other as he headed down the hall nearly walking into a half-asleep Damien.
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“Whoops, what are you doing up, champ?”
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“I can’t sleep with all the yelling Jason’s doing.”
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“Fair. I was just about to see him myself.”
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As the two of them turned into the kitchen, the yelling stopped. The three men in the room all staring at Elliot who spoke with a lopsided smile.
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“Jason, I’m glad to see you guys back, but Damien is trying to sleep you know.”
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“We have more important things to worry about! Tim’s gone!”
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Elliot made his best confused expression, which frankly wasn’t hard.
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“You lost Tim? At a nightclub?”
“YOU LOST DRAKE AT A NIGHTCLUB!?”
Damien was now fully awake and lunging for Jason as Elliot restrained him.
“Wait until Father hears about this!”
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“Hears about what?”
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Bruce stood in the doorway of the kitchen, suit coat carried over his arm and the top few buttons still undone. Elliot noticed a twinge of red lipstick, on his collar but said nothing as the two boys tried to come up with something to say; unfortunately, Damien beat them to it.
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“Dick and Jason lost Tim at a nightclub!”
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Immediately, the color in Bruce’s face drained.
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“What!? Which one we have to go search for him!”
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Elliot let Damien down and put a hand on Bruce’s shoulder.
“Look I’m sure you all wouldn’t be worried over nothing but come on, Tim probably out with a girl.”
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Everyone in the room stared at him with a knowing expression. He felt his face growing red as he retracted his hand and spoke.
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“Look, a guy his age would only leave a club without letting someone know for one reason, just saying.”
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Just as he was about to fill the silence, an intercom sounded on the wall and a woman’s voice called out from it.
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Excuse me, I got...what’s his name? Right. Tim here. Lindsey said I could drop him off here?”
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There was a collective sigh of relief through the room as they all heard. Elliot himself took a breath he didn’t know he had been holding while Alfred answered the intercom.
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“Ms. Lindsey sent you? Allow me to open the gate for you.”
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He pressed a button and headed towards the front door of the manor where all of them waited anxiously.
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“See Jason? Tim’s fine.”
Elliot heard the quiver to Dick’s voice as an orange jeep pulled up to as close as the door.
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Bruce was out of the door before the girls could even help Tim out of the back seat. He didn’t recognize either of the girls, one looked like she should be in a surfing competition in National City; the other girl looked like a doll, except for the scrapes on her knees.
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Tim was soon in the house and the girls had said their goodbyes. Apparently Tim was at a nightclub with the younger girl. Now that everyone was safely accounted for though, it was time for Elliot to head back to his own home.
After a quick goodbye to Alfred as everyone else was busy looking after the hungover recently found Tim, he departed the manor.
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As he got home near one in the morning, he finally looked at his phone, there were a few messages from friends and a missed call from another. He quickly sent her a text.
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‘Hey, sorry I missed your call. Was working all night. But I’m off tomorrow, well today, I’ll call once I wait back up later.’
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‘Understood, I’ll look forward to seeing you at the rally tomorrow at Gotham Park. Sleep well.’
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‘K. Night Ives.’
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Elliot plugged his phone in to charge and plopped onto his bed. Pamela always seem to find new events for him to go to for saving the environment, oh well, he’d be super to wear something nice.
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