Late night prime time!
Batfam x neglect older reader x Superboy prime
Prologue
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This was the right thing to do you thought while placing down the final box, sure the apartment was practically bare outside of your few boxes but hey empty bare apartment meant a new start! Which you desperately needed after the shit while that’s been the past few years. Speaking of with let’s thing back on it! It all stared when you were 12 almost thirteen, growing up in crime alley wasn’t safe and it meant you were very poor. So when your neighbor and best friend at the time decided to steal the wheels off the fucking bat Mobil you didn’t bat an eye. That is until the bat himself showed up.
Now surprisingly he wasn’t mad, like at all if anything he looked guilty as if being poor enough to try such a stunt was his fault. That’s the night everything changed, soon enough after the death of Jason’s parents and your mom giving you up due to a terminal illness. Somehow some way you both became Wayne’s. Now being suddenly rich was major culture shock, mainly due to you living a semblance to the fairy tale life you always wanted and cuz being rich actually had a lot of rules.
Yet the most interesting thing was when Jason became Robin which you quickly found out and complained about due to you being a child that had major FOMO. That night you followed Jason down to complain to your new dad was the night you met your new older brother Richard who of course the second he told you and Jason to call him dock had you both snickers as children would. Now most likely to piss Bruce off dick took you under his metaphorical wing. His training was different from Bruce’s but no less intense where Jason learned how to use gadgets you got extra gymnastics lessons.
Rick being uncreative gave you the nickname of night feather, which you deadpanned at but nonetheless you had to accept it. You didn’t start doing anything unless dick was in town it Jason begged Bruce to let you come along but hey you were given the green light a few moths after Jason so you weren’t complaining. Life was good, secret night life was fun, being sent to a good school that actually worked with you on learning shit, and having your bestie as brother! Not to mention secretly being taught little things by Alfred cuz you reminded him of his daughter when she was younger.
But then it happened. The night of April 27th, the night Jason died. You were 16 and forced to stay him due to getting hurt a few days prior on patrol with dick so you were benched. The night started normal but then when you went down to the cave at the normal time Bruce and Jason would be back they weren’t. That was the moment you knew something had happened. You got filled in when Bruce returned with Jason no longer in his Robin costume, dead in his arms. A part of you died that night with Jason.
It hit everyone hard, his funeral was small, personal and in typical Gotham style rainy. You gave up your own mask not long after, it don’t feel right with him gone, nothing did and maybe that’s when the shift happened. Bruce didn’t look at you the same way neither did Dick, not because you were at fault no. It was because every time they saw you, they saw Jason too. First it was dick your mentor he stopped showing up as often calling you to tell you that he was busy with his civilian job.
The calls turned into texts promising you would hang out on the weekends or before patrols if he was in town at the time. They never happened, you told yourself he was busy being a hero or you had to study for a test. Dick was easy to forgive, Bruce on the other hand was colder. You never saw him at breakfast or lunch and of course not even at dinner. Alfred tried to reassure you that he was busy and still grieving Jason like you were, you believed it at first but as the weeks went on not so much.
Then Tim showed up, out the blue and by surprise. Bruce didn’t tell you that he was bringing another kid home or that he would be the new Robin. Yet this kid knew about you, who you are, and that Bruce was Batman. That startled you that this kid knew this shit by connecting a few dots that no one would look at. Tim wasn’t your brother not yet, not if Bruce could avoid taking in another kid. You did try to be nice to him give how you were only a few years older than him but it was hard. He wasn’t too interested at getting to know you given how being Robin was a bigger task at hand while also making himself useful to Bruce.
You finished high school a year later, early graduation due to your hyper focus on school to keep from breaking down over Jason death every week. It didn’t stop it but it helped in some ways, Bruce didn’t go to your graduation, neither did Tim and dick due to them being exhausted after dealing with villains for the past week. Alfred and his daughter showed though which was really all you could ask for. You weren’t super close to Julia but her showing up still meant a lot.
In all honesty the only one who congratulated you when you came home was Barbra, another woman you weren’t close with given how everytime you went out with Bruce two years ago she wasn’t bat girl that night. She was sweet to you the few times you did meet, helped you fill out college applications too. Which lead to the next part of your an academic life college, the plan is go to Gotham community for two years get an associate degree and then find work.
That’s exactly how it went. Just like dick you moved out at 18 got a nice little apartment near the college and didn’t tell anyone but Alfred. It went well got eveything finished up in two years, made a few friends and joined a few clubs that would look good for university applications for when you were done working for a bit to go back to school. You didn’t want to rely on Bruce’s money forever anyways.
Fast forward two more years and here you are standing in your new apartment at 8 pm at night after hauling ass 3 hours out of Gotham and to metropolis. Oh yeah you moved to metropolis, for college of course and for a change of scenery makes it easy to go out and have fun at night with the risk of getting jumped but that fucking clown that you hate. Besides Gotham is fine with out your former sidekick self, like what’s gonna happen?
Jason’s gonna rise from the dead? Bruce has a secret biological child with some baddie? You huff out a laugh at such thoughts before flopping onto your bare mattress. Sure this city had its own issues but last you heard nothing majors happed yet that’s out of the ordinary.
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Holy shit this was longer than I expected it to be for a prologue but oh well!! Shit will start to be explored more in chapter one, also before anyone asks reader left before Damien, duke and cas got introduced for a reason and as for Steph? Well reader never really got to meet the blond. Sorry is it’s bad as well wrote this at like 4am LOL
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