"So uh, anyone up for a game of hide and seek?" Jason snickered, and Damian to his side scoffed, "Are you five?" he muttered, but Tim saw through his disgust. Damian might act like a little kid but he was totally into using fun kids games as training, it was totally Graysons influence from when he tried to teach the demon battle tactics with kickball of all things.

So damn did Tim jinx it, cause from Damian to Jason and the gang of young heros who had no idea what they were getting themselves into, he was totally outnumbered.

Wally chuckled along with Jason, ignorant to Damians pretend distaste, "Sure why not?" he replied.

Tim couldn't help but chuckle at Wally's innocence to the game, thinking of what the team just signed up for. "Ah well—" Tim took the moment of silence as a way to get a head start and started off in a random direction, at a speed only a meta could catch up to, "here we go!"

And with Tims sudden outburst, Jason took to using it as a distraction and also took off running, in the opposite direction. Damian who was previously next to him was already gone, no one even saw him initially leave.

"Wait-! We didn't discuss who was going to be the seeker!" M'gann attempted to yell as she watched the boys run away from the group, she noticed the shorted boy falter for only a second and could faintly hear a,

"Guess you guys are seeking then! No way in hell am I ever doing that again" followed by a laugh as his voice faded out along with his body down one of the halls.

Artemis sighed as she also watched him disappear down the hall and stood there for a few minutes in shock with the rest of the team. "What does that even mean?" she finally spat, before yelping in surprise when a hand found its way on her shoulder from behind her, and there stood Tim who only god knows how he managed to get from the hall and back without her noticing, enough to sneak up on her.

He looked as if retelling a ghost story, "Last time we played this game. I was it" he said horrified, and faking a shiver, rubbing his hands on his elbow to exaggerate his fear. "I can handle the Joker, Superman, hell I can put up with Batman! But I refuse to handle another game of hide and seek with those morons!"

Tim continued, "Damian wasn't found till day 3, and Jason well.. Jason lost a lot of blood okay, Dick? He spent 5 days in the batcaves ventilation system." The team froze.

"Dude..you guys got some serious problems" Wally mumbled grabbing onto Dick like his life depended on him. As Robin pushed him off he looked directly at Tim, "How does that even happen?!" he yelped.

Tim didn't reply, looking over the room dramatically. "Well I'm getting out of here while I still can!" He grabbed a small ball from his utility belt and tossed it to the floor engulfing his body in a puff of smoke, and just like that as quick as he appeared he vanished.

Once he was gone Conner stoically turned to the team. arms crossed and a determined look on his face, "All we have to do is find them, right?" he asked, as if that was still a question.

Wally shrugged completely unaffected by Tims performance, "Doesn't seem too hard, I mean what can some future Robins do?" he chuckled elbowing Dick in the side. It wasn't like these kids were serious about how bad the game could be, I mean sure trained by Batman? Scary right? But it's not like they're little assassins or immortal zombies, they're just kids, not so normal freaky little kids, like rob.

Dick looked over at Wally "I mean I guess so?" he replied. He looked a little upset and suddenly Wally felt a bit guilty, and very bad for Dick right now. Finding out he leaves Batman, gets replaced. He leans over in his normal joking manner and rests his arm over Dick's shoulders making sure to rub my hand on his shoulder as a way to comfort him. When he noticed the small smile appearing on his lips he knew his job was done.

M'gann clapped her hands together, "Well then we better get to it!" she yelped in joy.

"Alright then, M'gann, Conner, you will go look for the short one, Tim? i'm sure he's not far behind" Kaldur stated, sounding a bit side tracked, "Artemis, you and me will search for Red...Face? I think it was, and Robin, you and Wally will go after that other Robin." He and Artemis then started in the direction Jason went, while Conner and M'gann went down a different hallway near the bedroom area.

Seeing a Chance to comfort Dick the grip Wally's hand had on his back tightened. "Dude you okay?" he asked, sounding as worried as he could.

"Hm? Yeah.. yeah, I'm fine" Dick responded, staring off in the direction of the training rooms, "I think the kid went that way" he smiled, and Wally felt the worry wash right off him.

"Yeah, me too, let's go get 'em!" he yelled, speeding off down the hall. After all it should be pretty easy finding a lil kid like that.

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Damian kept his head rested against the metal base of the vent he was currently hiding in, listening below. He decided it would be one of the best places to hide in the huge building since the team lacked the initial experience that would require you to check the vents first, like Richard always does when they play. Plus he was small enough to comfortably fit in the space, well comfortable was a bit of a stretch.

He was rather tired and decided against laying down in case he accidentally fell asleep, and that would be embarrassing.

Suddenly there was a large banging from his side, as if someone was crawling towards him, surely they didn't find him that quickly? Damian moved towards the noise shining a tiny light down the edge of the vent to see where the noises came from. Instead he heard a small whisper from the edge next to him.

"Finally a place to hide" the voice mumbled, and ugh Damian would recognize that voice anywhere.

"Drake" he whispered, and with a bang, the taller boy, startled, hit his head upon the top of the vent.

"Damian! Ouch!.. Damn it, I should've known it was too good to be true" Tim muttered rubbing the top of his head in mock pain.

"Get out, this is my spot" Damian yelped, trying to keep his voice down as much as possible.

"No way! I have just as much a right to be here as you!" Tim yelled back, voice slightly above a whisper.

"-tt- I was here first" Damian moved closer and pointed an accusing finger towards Tim who whipped the younger's hand away. "Shut up brat! You're going to get us caught" he argued.

The both of them went silent after that and Tim took the time to get a closer look at Damian who seemed to be leaning against the wall, eyes blinking rapidly as if trying to stay awake. Despite how tired he was Damian was far too stubborn to not at least put up a fight about the hiding spot, sadly Tim was just as stubborn as he was.

After some more silence Tim finally decided to speak up, "Damian?" he asked as he watched the kid lean against the wall some more, eyes slowly closing, was he really that tired? It hasn't been that long of a day. "Damian!" he whispered again, he leaned forwards himself and grabbed Damian by the shoulders shaking him gently back and forth, expecting a cocky remark or even an attack.

Damian appeared to be either fast asleep or at least in the process of being because all he let out was a small whimper before curling up in on himself in the corner. Tim took that moment to get up and crawl towards Damian, pulling him off the vent wall and leaning him against himself.

Seeing Damian so vulnerable was definitely weird and Tim wouldn't lie he was sort of expecting the half pint to jump up and stab him right now.

But he didn't want to lie, Damian sleeping like this was kind of cute, man maybe he was feeling tired himself too, maybe it had been a long day. Well if Damian could fall asleep, who could fault him for doing the same, wouldn't be the first time he's passed out in a ventilation system before anyways. And if Damian consciously cuddled closer while he was asleep, who was Tim to call him out on it?