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Jason parked his bike out of the sight of the manor and we hopped off and started towards the manor on foot. Jason fiddled with his fingers as we walked.

"Nervous?"

"No."

"Liar."

He sighed and we kept walking. I tried to mask my excited smile as we reached the door. I told Jason to stand off to the side in the shadows while I walked up and knocked on the door. I lowered my gaze and turned my grin into an offset frown. Alfred answered the door and sighed.

"Things will get better Miss Pierce."
"But they already have Alfred I said looking up grinning."

"I'm afraid I don't understand -" Alfred was cut off by Jason stepping out of the shadows.

"What no 'surprise jason's not dead' party?" He said smirking. Alfred went pale and covered his mouth with his hands. He moved to embrace Jason and Jay hugged him back as if reassuring him that he was really here.

"Master Todd, I don't know what to say!"

Jason just smiled in return and his eyes widened as he saw Layla padding her way down the stairs behind Alfred.

"Layla?" He muttered to himself.

I nudged him in the ribs softly.

"Go say hi."

He walked into the manor and knelt at the bottom of the stairs, eye level with Layla. She eyed him quizzically but said nothing.

"Hi, Im Jason but you uh... You probably don't remember me it's been a while."

"I'm Layla.... I know you, you're the boy that plays with me in my dreams and your in the pictures in the hall." Layla's voice was soft, no doubt from it being late and her being tired.

"Layla who are you talking too?" Sonya's voice called from the top of the stairs. She rounded the corner and caught a glimpse of Jason kneeling beside Layla and promptly screamed and ran down the stairs and tackled him in a hug. He landed hard on the floor with an Oof and sat up trying to pry Soni off of him.

"You Fucking idiot!" She screamed at him. "I leave the manor one time and you show up and then go off and get yourself killed." She slapped him and then squished him in another hug. " But dear god how its nice to actually meet you!"

She turned to project her voice up the stairs. "Dick, Bruce, Timothy, Get down here!"
The sight was comical, Dick had just his boxers on with shampoo in his hair, Tim had a bandage half wrapped around his arm and had his bo staff, and Bruce was wearing batman pajama bottoms and his toothbrush in his hand. Dick slid down the railing and smothered his once dead brother with hugs and shampoo bubbles. Tim's eyes widened and he stood frozen at the top of the stairs. Bruce calmly walked down the stairs and collapsed to his knees beside the once broken boy and pulled him into a hug. Bruces body shook slightly and he was in no doubt crying.

"It's okay Dad, I'm here now." Jason whispered and he hugged Bruce tightly.

After all of the emotional greetings Tim had somehow managed to unfreeze himself and professionally introduce himself before launching into full out fanboy mode. Jason just smiled at the boy who had taken up his legacy. I picked up Layla and rested her comfortably on my hip.

"Renity?"

"Yeah Lay?"
"Now that that boy is back you're going to be happy now?"

"Oh trust me, I will definitely be a lot happier and I think you will be to."  

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I Have changed the relationships of some of the characters for the sake of the fanfiction. Dont worry they wont be too out of character.

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