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It was not a normal day in Gotham. When Jason had woken up, there was snow covering the ground. He walked slowly down the steps, into the kitchen for breakfast, bumping into Dick on the way down.
Everyone was feeling a bit lethargic due to ten different robberies and a long night of patrolling when it started to snow. The gray sky wasn’t anything odd for Gotham, but the snow was something new. It rarely snowed in Gotham. It was like the dark and dreariness of the place was keeping the snow out.
It snowed throughout the night, two inches of the stuff coating the ground when they woke up the next morning. The phone had rang earlier and Bruce had stepped out of the dining room to answer it. Everyone else was just kind of poking at their food, not really eating it.
Dick and Jason had arrived at the Manor early yesterday afternoon because it was almost the start of winter break for Tim and Damian. They only had one more day to get through before they could sleep in.
They were sitting around the table just staring down at their plates when Bruce entered. “Gotham Academy just called. No school today; it’s a snow day.”
He collapsed back into his chair. The birds had really gotten a beating last night. It seemed as if everybody was targeting them. More and more people were robbing banks and toy stores since Christmas was right around the corner.
“Ugh,” Tim groaned, “You mean I could have gotten more sleep?” A tired Tim said.
“Well, I’m already awake now, what's the point of going back to bed?” said a slightly cheerful Dick, lifting his head off his arms from where he had been resting it.
“Are you sure we can’t get more sleep” Tim muttered sleepily, hoping to catch up on all the sleep he had been missing out on being Red Robin and an insomniac on top of that.
Everyone grumbled, but they all got up and headed to their rooms to get ready for the day.
They all had rooms near each other so all of the batboys could hear when Damian shouted happily.
“Snow! It’s snowing again!”
The boys stopped in their tracks and looked towards the window, and lo behold, there was snow falling from the sky.
“If we wait a few more hours, there might be enough snow to go and play in!” Dick started to walk faster towards his room, eager to spend more time with all his brothers, hopefully without them all fighting and trying to kill each other. Which wasn’t a wish that came true very often.
“Play in snow? How do you play in snow? Isn’t it just frozen rain? Damian forcefully asked.
Dick froze.
He slowly turned around to stare at Damian, not believing what he just heard. Hoping it was just a trick of the mind, but by the way that Jason and Tim were also staring at Damian, he didn’t get his hopes up.
“What!?” demanded Damian, not understanding why everyone was staring and gaping at him. “What!? I demand you to tell me!”
“It’s just - it’s just that from the way you said it … it sounded like you’ve never played in the snow.” Tim stuttered out.
“No, I have never played in the snow,” Damian snaps while glaring. Which was understandable, he never liked being the odd one out or being left out of things. “How do you play in the snow!? I want to know!?”
He was glaring at them the whole time, but they could all tell that he was just desperate to fit in.
He had no friends at school. He sat alone at lunch everyday, his teachers either didn’t pay any attention to him or they hated him. Tim tried his best to introduce him to people and to keep him company, but he couldn’t always be there for him because of the difference in grades.
“Well, we know what we are doing today” Jason growled out, eye’s screaming bloody murder at the League of Assassins for depriving his little brother of his adolescence.
Now wasn’t the time for that though, he would deal with the League of Assassins another day. Today was going to be all about giving his little brother the childhood he deserved.