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POV Kon
While we’re all hanging around the ship, I’m in the common room with Tim and Bart. I’m finally also able to check my phone and all the messages I’ve got. Seeing many from Danny and just random updates, the kids texted me too. Dante was keeping me updated on his plans for LexCorp, I’m not telling Danny about that plan ever. Ellie was giving me all the gossip she’s heard about Jon and Damien’s relationship, and how Damien still has yet to realize that Jon thinks they’ve been dating for a few months. How the Wayne’s can be so obvious to relationships yet so involved I still don’t know.
Reading all of Danny’s texts it’s like a roller coaster, I’m giggling at some things then almost crying at the heartfelt messages. Especially the fact that he wants to actually go public, well less private with our relationship, and that he’s finally going to talk with Bruce.
Not noticing until I look up, Tim and Bart are looking at me. “Hey, I got confirmation that our kitchen is restocked when we get back. Also it was decided that we have a back up toaster for when we break the new one. Also we have a blender again.”
“How come you were told and I didn’t get a message?” Tim asked, pouting.
“Because Danny was the one to, because he was shopping for him and Jason and asked Alfred if any of the bases needed to be stocked.” I easily replied.
Bart now more confused, but Tim looked surprised. “Alfred let someone else shop for him, let alone one of the bases? Also Danny?”
I a bit sheepishly started talking more, it was more like rambling though. “We’ll yeah he’s done it a couple times actually, and yeah of course Alfred would he’s one of his grandkids and one who’s a parent no less. Besides, did you really think Alfred would buy enough chocolate milk to stock the freezer, and why do you think we end up with more coffee sometimes? That’d be Danny. Also if we’re back before then we’re all doing a double date on Tuesday so you can officially meet him. I know it’s been a long time and you haven’t met him, but he told me he’s ready to make it less private. A huge factor was a secret of his which he’s come to terms with it’ll be revealed with or without his consent so he wanted to in his own way. If you want, I can show you pictures, and you can see what the kids look like so you can put faces to names.”
Bart now blinking like a cat trying to comprehend anything, Tim looking like he might lose it. “On a different note, Damien still doesn’t know he and Jon are dating,”
“Wait really I would of thought he would by now, I swear I’ve heard Jon call Damien his boyfriend on multiple occasions. Also shows us! I want to see your boyfriend and the kiddos. How is he Alfred’s grandchild? Bruce doesn’t have other kids.” Bart rambled finally proceeded what I said. Tim now looks like he might cry or scream.
I pull out my phone and open photos, “Okay so this is Danny, he’s great and understands the cloning thing and is very protective because of it. This is us when we all went to Disneyland. Here’s a couple other cute pictures of him.” Showing many of the photos I have stored. “Then here’s the kiddos, so this is Ellie don’t let her fool you see is a chaotic being but also she’s open for adventure and trying new things. You can’t keep her still for long. Then there’s Dante. He looks like he would kill you but he’s a big softie. Just don’t hurt those he loves, he’s very protective. He is smart but doesn’t advertise it, he does struggle to express his emotions but he gets that from his grandpa’s side.”
Bart looks at me like I betrayed him, “YOU DIDN'T TELL ME YOUR PARTNER IS THE ASTRALGHOST!”
“Kon. Why does he look like a younger B?” Tim asked in a scary calm tone, completely ignoring Bart's screaming.
I try and act like I didn’t hear Tim’s question, “He only does it on the side for fun and I’ve been on his streams before, have you not put two and two together?”
“I just thought it was a coincidence, like how his friends Jay and Roy sound like Jason and Roy.”
“That’s because they are Jason and Roy, he just calls him Jay because it’s what he’s been called since he met them and he’s the kids Uncle Jay. It used to be Uncle Jayjay when they were younger but you really didn’t connect it.”
Tim chimed in again, “Are you just going to ignore my question?”
“Possibly. Only because I don’t know if I can answer the question.” I admitted.
“Well from what you said, either he’s B’s clone or B has a kid he didn’t know about again. With the added fact he’s Alfred’s grandson, which one is it?” Tim asked not taking silence or no for an answer.
“I don’t know how much I can tell so I might have to skip around or I can’t say certain things. Please don't look into him or his family, they can tell you when they feel ready. I know you like to know everything but this isn’t one of your projects or cases.” I say setting boundaries and expectations.
“You’re not painting a great picture. But fine I won’t, I trust you enough to not need to.” Tim agreed, a bit annoyed though.
“Wait, isn't he an owner of a fortune five hundred company? He talked about it a bit on his streams.” Bart added. To which Tim looks done with me, “He owns a fortune five hundred company?”
“Yeah, a while ago when he finally started to be able to put time into it they had a huge overhaul. It took a bit because of a thing that happened but once he was in a good headspace he worked to bring it to what it is now. They have plans for an even bigger overhaul and rebrand set to launch soon. He’s the owner because his crazy “godfather” died and left him as his sole inheritor. For a while it was a huge trigger for him but now he’s shaping it into something that he’s proud of to leave his kids. His Ma and Aunties are actually the ones who run it but he still is very involved.”
Tim now with a look that he uses for business, “What company?”
“You’ll find out soon, Mom is getting an early scoop on it this weekend.” I said, smiling brightly.
Tim now snaps out of business mode, “Wait back to why does he look like Bruce?”
“Oh that’s easy, he’s Bruce’s biological kid. Granted Bruce doesn’t know he exists, but that was for many reasons. Also before you even suggest it, no he isn’t Bruce’s clone. The protectiveness around clones is for a different reason and one I will not disclose because it is the person's story not mine. They are just as much a person as I am with a huge support system. The person behind it is dead, all technology is gone.” I went off.
Bart cuts me off, “It’s all good he just wanted to make sure it wasn’t another Clark at the beginning.”
“Oh trust me, Danny wanted to murder Clark when he first heard of his first reaction.”
“AS HE SHOULD!” Kaldur screamed while walking by.
Tim redirected us again, “Who’s his other parent then? And why didn’t Bruce know?”
“So I’m just going to go off what I remember so it might be off but there was a while when Bruce and Selina had a thing going, it ended not the greatest. The thing was Selina found out she was pregnant, but she didn’t want a pregnancy to be the reason to keep a relationship together. She also realized she didn’t want a child to live in Gotham especially with everything tied to both her and Bruce. She also told her brother and his family as well as Pam and Harley. She originally was asking her brother if he knew of anyone looking to adopt, and they actually were the ones who adopted him. He’s always known who his bio dad was and all of that, he also always had the option to let Bruce know about him but decided against it. He lived in a small town in Illinois for most of his childhood until something happened, which led him moving to Gotham with the twins. I will not go into what happened there. That is his story and very traumatic. But, know something had happened earlier that led to him becoming a meta, his kids are also metas.”
“How long has Bruce been a grandpa?”
Trying to figure out the math with the added bonus of where it would start. “Uhm do you want the answer based on their age or real answer?“
Tim, now confused and a bit concerned, “What do you mean based on their age or real answer?” Bart looked lost, like I said there was a random clown on fire.
“You know what I’ll give you it based on their age, just don’t question the age of Danny at the time it was not consensual.” I try to make it sound better than it did.
Tim now alarmed, “What do you mean it wasn’t consensual, that opens a whole different can of worms.”
“If it helps the person is dead dead, like dead as a doornail.“ I try to reassure them. “Anyways Bruce has been a grandpa for twelve years. Technically eight but going off age twelve. And you’ve been an uncle for that long as well.”
Tim now looks like he’s going to faint, I don’t think it clicked he’d technically be an uncle as well. Bart, now trying to help Tim collect himself. I take that as my sign to drop another bomb, “Danny is Alfred’s grandson because his husband adopted him in his culture, so both from Alfred adopting Bruce and Alfred’s husband adopting him as his grandson and mentee.”
“Oh my god, Dick didn’t have a concussion. I fully believed he had one when I was reading the chat.” That finally snapped Tim out of it.
Tim starts just laughing maniacally, which leads the whole team into the room trying to figure out what led to that. “Oh this is gold! Bruce has been making fun of Oliver and Clark for being grandfathers this whole time! When he’s been one just as long as Oliver!”
“BATMAN IS A GRANDFATHER!” Is screamed by the rest of the team.
“You want to see my kiddos, we finally decided to go public with the relationship.” I say both trying to distract them in hopes they don’t make the connection, as well as just wanting to show off my kids.
They swarmed me, and I just opened the folders of pictures of the kiddos.