I got a review asking for more Dick/Wally/Roy brotherly bonding so here it is! Contains references to Wounds, old and new.

Robin the... scroog?

Part 3: Christmas Hide and Seek

December 22nd

Dick was at the door as his parents said goodbye. Bruce and Selina were going to a Christmas benefit. They said Dick could stay home and they'd tell those at the benefit he got a cold or something.

"I know we don't have to tell you but be in bed by 10," said Bruce, giving his son a hug.

"A'right," said Dick, turning to hug his mom.

"Wally and Roy are gonna come and keep you company," said Selina, giving him an extra hard squeeze "Don't destroy anything and be good,"

"A'right, Mom," he answered.

"I'm never gonna get used to you calling me that," said Selina "I just love it,"

Dick gave them a smile but he looked sad despite it. Alfred walked over to them in a chauffeur outfit.

"Shall we be going?" he asked.

The parents nodded and Bruce ruffled Dick's raven-hair before the adults left via the front doors.

Dick looked at the front doors before turning around and walking off.

The Boy Wonder lay back on his bed, looking up at the ceiling. Every Christmas since it happened had been hard. The first Christmas with Bruce had the hardest. He was allowed to hide away until the holidays were over back then but as time went on he was allowed to hide away less and less and less. Dick put his hand on the right side of his abdomen, right on top of where he was shot. He remembered telling Bruce and Selina about their deceased parents but he couldn't remember being in a coma. All he could remember was waking up after collapsing, the in between was foggy. He heard the front doors slam shut on the other side of the Manor.

"DIIIIICKIIIIIEEEE-BIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRD!" he heard his best friend call "COME DOWN FROM YOUR NEST AND PLAAAAAAAAYYYYY!"

"WALLY!" Dick heard a redheaded archer shout "I DOUBT YOU TALKING LIKE A PSYCHOPATH WILL MAKE HIM COME OUT!"

Dick sighed. All they had to do was come to his room and they'd find him. Oh well... sometimes his brothers could be real idiots (and sometimes they could be complete lunatics but that's another story).

Wally and Roy were in the front hall, looking around.

"Where do you think he is?" Wally asked "I hope he ain't at the cemetary again, that place creeps the heck out of me!"

"C'mon, let's go find him. He's probably in his room or something," said Roy.

"Or something," came the voice of the 15-year-old Boy Wonder.

"GAAAAAH!" Wally and Roy exclaimed, jumping before turning around.

They saw Dick in his jeans, a t-shirt, socks and his hair messed up leaning against the support piller that cept the section of the second story above him up like a balcony.

"Dude! Stop doing that to us!" Wally exclaimed.

Dick smirked half-heartedly and looked at Roy.

"S'up, Roy?" he said.

"Hey, Dick," said Roy "S'up?"

"Dude! I heard this awesome joke! You wanna hear it?" Wally asked quickly.

"Not if you're telling it," Dick said, knowing Wally's history of killing good jokes.

"How do you make holy water?" Dick shrugged "You boil the hell out of it!" and Wally began laughing histerically.

Both Dick and Roy groaned at this.

"Dude, that made me feel even worse," said the Boy Wonder, leaning against the piller before pushing himself off.

Roy gave Wally a punch in the arm and the speedster forgot about his dumb joke and began ranting about 'why do archers abuse him?'. Dick simply walked down the hall, leaving the 2 redheads to fight amungst themselves. It took Roy and Wally 5 minutes before they realized Dick was gone.

Dick was in the Wayne Manor private library. Half of the books in the collection were on loan to the Grand Historical Society of Gotham's Christmas fund raiser for the National History Museam (the Wayne's had collected many historic texts over the years). Dick went over to the books written in Romanian. Most people who learn another language start to think in that language after a while. But, Dick wasn't like that... He still thought in Romanian, except when in a mind-link with the Team. Dick pulled a Romanian copy of a mystery novel and sat down to read.

Dick was already halfway through the book and Wally and Roy had looked over half the house for him.

"I can't find him!" Wally exclaimed "Where could he be?"

"I dunno. That bird changes hiding places all the time," said Roy "Where haven't we looked?"

Wally started counting on his fingers.

"We've checked the Batcave, his room, the lounge, the media room, the living room, the conservatory, the kitchen, the pantry, the guest bedrooms... man, this place is big," said the speedster.

"And you didn't even know there was a library," said a voice.

"There's a library?" said Wally, turning around to see Dick standing behind him.

"Yeah," said Dick.

"Then we better go-" Wally suddenly squealed "Wait, where'd you come from?"

Dick smirked at them.