Evelyn "Eva" Grayson, is a normal little girl with a different life. She lives with her dad, Richard Grayson, but no mom. Her mother passed away when she was three. Dick always told her she died from a car accident, but he knew that one day she would figure out the truth.

"Ready or not, here I come!" said Danny, the little neighbor boy Mr. Grayson was babysitting for a few hours. Dick was doing some work for his "night job" on his computer and sent Danny to go play with Eva. They were both 7 years old, so they were good friends.

Eva had not yet found a hiding spot. She frantically looked around as she heard Danny's footsteps get closer and closer. The closest room to her was her fathers room, where she was not allowed to be in, unless her father was with her. She never understood why. Danny was getting closer with every second.

Eva gave in and opened the door to her fathers room because god forbid she lose a game of hide and seek. She looked around quickly and figured the closet would be the best place to hide. She walked into the closet and shut the door. Suddenly, a light on the wall came on.

A little button with a finger scan started glowing. Eva touched it in curiosity. It scanned her finger. Suddenly, a voice said, "Recognized… Grayson," and the back wall of the closet opened up into a different room. A light from the room turned on as Eva walked into it. In a display case, was a Nightwing suit. She walked into the room even further to see a big supercomputer. "Whoa," Eva said in disbelief.

She walked over to a chair in front of the computer and sat down. Right away, she noticed that the chair spins, so she spun herself in circles. With each rotation she went faster and faster until, she came to a sudden stop. She looked up and saw her father standing over her. "Uh oh…" she said under her breath.

Dick got down to her level and looked at his daughter sternly. Eva smiled to try to ease the fact that she was in trouble, but quickly realised it wouldn't help anything. "What is the one place in this apartment I told you not to go in?" Dick said. "Your room…" Eva responded with her head down. Dick took a deep breath to calm himself. "Now do you see why?" he asked. "No… What is this place? Why didn't you want me to see it?" Eva said looking around the room.

Dick looked at her for a few seconds. "What if I just don't tell her? Ugh… she'll have to know eventually," he said in his head. "I have a...different... job," Dick explained, "When I go to work at night, I go and fight bad guys who want to hurt good people." "So you're a police officer?" Eva asked. "Kind of," he said. Then, Eva remembered seeing a masked man on TV called, Nightwing. "You're Nightwing?" she asked, stunned. Dick nodded his head.

"Why?! Why would you want to risk getting killed?!" she said walking over to the Nightwing costume. "Many reasons, it's just…" "Why would you risk someone taking you away from me?!" Eva said with her arms crossed, and tears starting to well up at the thought of losing another parent. Dick walked behind her and put his hand on her shoulder.

"You lied to me," she said turning around to him. "It was to keep you safe," Dick said. "What else have you lied to me about?" Dick just opened his mouth, but nothing came out. Ava teared up even more, and walked out. Dick started to walk after her, but stopped when he noticed he didn't know what to say.

That night Dick went to Eva's room to tuck her in, as he does every night before "work." He opened up Eva's door to see that she had tucked herself in. Dick sighed and walked over to her bed and gave her a kiss on the head, with her facing away from him pretending to sleep.

Once Dick walked out and closed the door, Eva got up out of her bed, walked over to her dads room, and opened the door just a crack so that she could see him go into his secret room. Once he was gone, she walked into his room, climbed up onto his bed, and fell asleep.

At 4am, Dick walked out of his cave door in the closet. Eva woke up and stared at him with an expressionless face. Dick walked over to his bed and sat down next to her. After a few seconds of sitting in silence, Eva jumped onto Dick and wrapped her arms around him. Dick returned the hug, and held his daughter in his lap. "I don't wanna lose you," she said, crying.

"Don't worry. I am trained well, and I've been doing this for years, before even you were born." Eva picked ran her hand over a scratch by her father's eye. Dick gently grabbed her hand and pulled it away. "You'll learn everything eventually, I promise."

He picked her up and carried his daughter to her room and tucked her into bed. "Daddy?" "Yeah?" "Will you stay with me?" Dick nodded and lay down next to Eva.