I was really bored one day at school and then this emreged. this is pre reboot. :)

Please enjoy and tell me what you think! :D

L.L.A.P

~Laces

Chpt.1

The Girl and the Book

An Cailín agus an Leabhar

Dick Grayson paced back and forth, waiting for Tim to get to his apartment. He was sweating profusely, but refused to turn off the heat in his apartment. He actually turned it up as much as he could.

There was a knock at his door and he ran to it as fast as he could. There stood Tim, his entire body covered in snow.

"You do realize that we're in the middle of a blizzard, right?" Tim questioned and entered Dick's apartment. "But this place is sure warm." He nodded as he took off his jacket.

"Tim, I'm in a bit of a situation." Dick informed, and Tim raised an eyebrow.

"What do you mean?" the younger man inquired, raising an eyebrow. Dick sighed, and brought Tim to his couch.

"She knows about the Batfamily." Dick stated.

Tim looked at the couch to see a bundle of blankets wrapped around a small body. Only the girl's face was visible. Her hair was stuffed into one of Dick's snow hats and her dirt smudged skin looked sickly. Her chapped lips were a fading blue color, and her nose was red.

"She had hyperthermia. I'm hoping that she's going to be alright, but she still knows about us." Dick stated seriously.

"How do you know that she knows about us?" Tim questioned, and Dick ran his hands through his hair.

Dick is acting like this girl knows our entire life story or something. She's just a kid, she probably saw Dick change into Nightwing, but that can easily be explained off as a mix up. Why is he so worried?

"I noticed that she had been living in a cardboard box in the alleyway next to here. I was hoping that she'd go to a homeless shelter, but when the storm started to get really bad, I looked out the window and saw she was still out there. I was going to let her stay here until the blizzard passed, but when I got out, she was already nearly frozen." He explained, and looked at the girl sadly. "She was already passed out when I saw her, but in her hands was this." Dick stated, picking a book up, and handing it to Tim.

Tim's eyes widened as he looked through the book. There seemed to be facts about the entire bat-family. Everything. Even down to their favorite colors. But how did she know this?

"Dick, how is this possible?" Tim questioned, looking up at his "brother."

"I have no clue. It's as if she can read minds or something." The older man sighed.

"Hm." Tim and Dick looked down to see the girl starting to squirm, and she slowly opened her golden eyes.

She looked at Tim and Dick with wide eyes.

"Hello." Dick said gently, and the girl wormed around in the blanket she was bundled in, trying to get free to run away, but the blanket proved difficult to get free of due to how Dick wrapped her in it, and she was too weak to free herself quickly.

"Hey, settle down. We're not going to hurt you." Dick informed in a soft voice, trying to calm her down. The girl stopped struggling, but she was breathing heavily, her eyes darting from Dick to Tim, and to Dick again.

"What's your name?" The girl settled her eyes on her book that was in Tim's hands. Tim opened it and looked at the inside cover.

"Aoife? Is your name Aoife?" Tim questioned, and the girl nodded her head. Aoife looked frightened. Extremely frightened. Even though Dick noticed this, Tim didn't, and continued to question her. He was determined to get his questions answered.

"Did you write this?" Tim questioned, holding the book up, and once again, she nodded her head.

"Why?" Aoife looked at Tim then at Dick. "Aoife, why?" Tim questioned again. She looked away from them to look at the ground while trembling. Tim noticed the scared expression on the girl's face then.

Dick placed a hand on Tim's shoulder, then looked at the girl.

"It's been a long night for you Aoife." He told her. "You should rest." The girl slowly nodded her head and closed her eyes, almost falling asleep immediately.

"What are you going to do?" Tim questioned as he paged through the book.

"Tell Bruce and see what he thinks I should do. This has to do with everyone." Dick explained. "Aoife can stay with me in the meantime."

"Why would a homeless girl have all this information? And why would she be homeless? She should be in an orphanage or foster care. She looks to be ten, at the oldest." Tim stated as he looked at the girl.

"I don't know. I tried looking for some hints about her past in the book but besides her name there's only stuff about us in there." Dick explained. Tim looked out the window and sighed.

"Can I stay the night? I think the roads are pretty much un-drivable at the moment. This is probably the worst snow storm Gotham's seen since Mr. Freeze broke out of Arkham three years ago." Tim stated and Dick chuckled.

"You don't even have to ask Baby Bird. You can stay here anytime you'd like." Dick smiled, but then looked back over at the girl and frowned.

"What is it?" Tim questioned. Dick shrugged.

"I was just thinking. She didn't have anywhere to stay. But why did no one take her in? She's just a little girl."

"You said that you saw her living in a cardboard box. You only took her in when the blizzard hit. You thought that she'd go to the homeless shelter though. That's what everyone else who saw her thought. They believed that she'd go to the homeless shelter too. That's why nobody took her in." Tim explained. "Plus, most people don't take in homeless kids because they don't know what these kids did to be homeless. The people don't want to be taking care of a thief." Tim paused for a moment. "You remember that Jason was a street kid."

Dick nodded his head solemnly. He hated thinking how there were kids who had to live on their own on the streets. The streets weren't a place for kids. Especially the streets of Gotham.

"I just hope that this girl won't end up like Jason." Dick sighed, causing Tim to chuckle.

"I don't think someone could end up like Jason unless they tried really hard."

"Yeah," Dick smiled at his 'brother' "You got a point there."