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Gotham
Tim
Most nights the quiet hum of the computer is comforting. Tonight though it’s nothing but an annoyance, after getting hurt on patrol B and Alfred both benched me. Always the over protective ones at least they didn’t call Dick this time, he would’ve wrapped me in bubble wrap and never let me out of my room.
I mean how was I supposed to know i was gonna get stabbed by that guys girlfriend? She came out of nowhere. I grumble softly as I continue to click through old case files, B really needs to start cleaning out the computer.
*CLASSIFIED AUTHORIZED PERSONAL ONLY *
Flashed at me in bright red lettering. I have been through this computer at least 10 times, why is this the first I am seeing of something “classified “? I hover the cursor on it before checking the time in the top upper corner of the screen
2:15 AM
Blinks in response, I still have at least 3 hours before anyone comes back to the cave. I click on the file before I can second guess myself. At first nothing happens just a blank screen staring back at me. Before a photo of a boy maybe around 5 or 6 pops up with black hair and bright blue eyes smiles at me, a blue cake sitting in front of him with candles sticking out of it. Bruce is standing behind him stoic as ever but with a little half smile on his face while Dick is smiling is usual blinding smile humor dancing in his eyes. Jason standing off to the right with a small smile on his face looking straight at the camera.
PERCY JACKSON- WAYNE 7th BIRTHDAY (Year 1)
Captioned the photo, I tilt my head looking closer at the screen. Who is this? Does B have another child ?
I continue to click through the file, more photos pop up, the same little boy Percy my brain auto corrects for me. In a pool, baking with Alfred, reading in the library with Jason. The same boy the same bright eyes everyone who is with him seems to be just as overjoyed to be with him. If I didn’t know this family well I would think that this is the picture perfect family. But I do and it’s not.
Through every photo if you look close enough you can see the cracks within the dynamic. As everyone in the photo grows older you can see how the this Percy kid the sun that everyone is revolving around even as Dick grows more distant from Bruce and Jason is becoming more.. Well Jason like they still show up.
Years of photos and school reports and report cards go by as I continue to click through the file. Nothing out of the ordinary. My mind wonders as to why Bruce would have a file on what I am assuming is one of kids that’s not apart of the vigilante life.
MISSING PERCY JACKSON-WAYNE!
By Vicky Vale
Percy Jackson- Wayne better known the to the public as Bruce Wayne’s adopted third son fresh from his 12th birthday has disappeared! Reports are saying he was abducted coming home from the school year at Yancy academy A private boarding school primarily for "troubled kids" and students with ADHD or dyslexia. Last reports puts the boy on a bus headed towards New York notably not Gotham. Percy Jackson-Wayne come to Bruce when he was just six years old following the passing of his mother Sally Jackson. Speculation surrounding her death includes her husband Gabe Uglino being the reason that Percy was orphaned at such a young age. Not wanting to engage in rumors or raising another man’s son Mr. uglino surrendered his parental rights
And left it to the foster system to find a family for him. Lucky for him Bruce Wayne just happened to be visiting that orphanage that day.
This coming abduction off the heals of the death of Bruce Wayne’s other son Jason Todd. Who died in a car accident less than a year ago, which begs the question.. what is going on at Wayne Manor ? Is Bruce a fit father ? ..
The article continues but I stop reading. My mind racing, Bruce had another kid sometime between Jason arriving and Jason dying. He lost said other kid only a year right after Jason.
Why haven’t we heard of him before?
Why is he reduced to a classified file hidden deep in the computer?
I continue to click through the file, missing reports, PI photos of what looks like a blurry photo of Percy in Las Vegas. As the years go on there is less and less information the text getting les frequent. Before it stops all together about a year ago , one last photo another blurry one but Percy in Alaska. He looks more battle hardened now. It’s hard to make out anything in the photo due to the blurriness but you can tell that the scrawny child is now gone, the kid in the photo is build like a brick house. His hair a lot darker now but he still has those bright blue eyes.
Where did this kid disappear too? Why aren’t we out there looking for him? Why do we not know he exists, besides Jason and Dick why weren’t we made aware ?
There’s too many questions. Too many unanswerable question.
“Yo replacement we’re headed back there’s not a lot going on tonight “
Jason’s voice comes in clear and direct from the computers comm
“Red Robin I expect that you found your time in the cave.. productive “
Damian’s voice also floats through, if I wasn’t so preoccupied by Percy I would’ve clapped back.
“Yes brat my time was very productive “
I say not to Damian,not to anyone really just out loud to myself. I close the file quickly, before anyone can come and see what I’ve been spending my night doing. My mind wondering as I listen to tonight debrief back to the lost Wayne sons.
Cabin 3
Percy
I sit straight up in my bed, breathing heavy I look around wildly. I’m safe, I’m in my cabin I’m not.. no I’m not still
“Seaweed brain? “
My eyes focus on annabeth, she reaches out for me eye eyes still half closed. I meet her halfway squeezing her hand softly
“I’m sorry wise girl, I didn’t mean to wake you”
She just shrugs before pulling me back down and rests her head on my chest. I smile softly kissing the top of her head. I glance up at the roof my cabin, there is no way I am going back to sleep now. I try to focus on the sound of annabeth sleeping next to me and the sound of the water from the lake but I cannot Shake the feeling of someone watching me or at the very least talking about me.
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Okay! Full disclosure I really have fallen down a rabbit hole of this cross over and I really just wanted to try and write it.
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