—At The Roth Manor—
Wednesday September 12, 2018
Rachel and Jason woke up on the floor of Rachel's bedroom. Jason had a black eye and Rachel had a bruise shaped like a hand on her left cheek. They had other scars and bruises, but they were easy to hid.
Jason gave the money Rachel gave him to Tristan and ran to his house.
Rachel got changed and pulled her blue hoodie up. She didn't took the time to eat and headed out of the manor and walked in the streets of Jump City. All she wanted was to stay away from her father.
Her phone vibrated in her pocket, so she looked at it. She just realized that she had received 37 phone calls and 58 SMS. She had received the same video from 34 different persons. It was a video of Dick and Adam fighting. Some person even told her things like "Who do u like the most" or "DickXRach" or even "2 boyfriends at the same f****** time... your a s***". She quickly ran to the Wayne Manor and was welcomed by Alfred like usual, but this time she totally ignored him and ran into Richard's room.
Richard's eyes widened and he hugged her tightly. She hugged him back, but she still didn't know why he looked so scared for her. Rachel only hoped he didn't saw the bruise her father had done on her face. After their hug, Rachel saw the picture of her and Tristan and also the 3 darts on her father's face. "You already know what happened, huh?" She asked him.
"Of course I know... When Kory told me that your father told her you were tired and fell asleep... I didn't believe it... It's not the first time he does that" He replied to his 'sister' like he consider her.
"Then what is this" Rachel showed the video and the SMS to him and even some voice mails.
"Woah uh... well at the beginning I thought that Adonis had tried to hurt you again so..." She nodded at him.
"What have you done for your father to hurt you that much?" Richard asked her.
"Well, Jason had been my dealer for at least a month now and every time Tristan told me to stay away from Jason... I didn't listen to him so last night, he punished us" she confessed. Dick's blue eyes widened and were filled of rage.
"You and Jason can stay here as long as you want" He put his right hand on her left shoulder.
"Thanks Dick, you're really a good friend and person" They smiled at each other and after they got ready for school.
They arrived at school in Richard's porsche. Everyone was talking about them and looking at them. Garfield had arrived earlier than them and was a bit shock, but even more when he saw Jason, the dealer from the day before, get out of Dick's car.
The trio entered the school together, getting everyone's attention. Garfield was hiding behind Victor and was praying for the guy with green eyes and black hair not to find him.
—At Lunch Time—
Jason, Richard and Rachel were all sitting on their own rounded table. Garfield was observing them from Vic's table but eventually, one of the member of the new trio saw him. It was a guy with black and blue eyes, Richard "Dick" Grayson, a rich guy. Dick didn't go talk to him. Roy surprised Garfield looking at the trio and decided to show him the video.
"Gar?" Roy said.
"Yeah?" Roy pulled his phone out of one of the pockets of his jeans and showed him the video. "Look at what happened at the party last night"
—The Video—
"WHERE IS SHE... TELL ME WHERE SHE IS" Richard ordered Adam. "Who? You're lil sis" Adonis replied.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HER AGAIN?" They started to fight.
"WHERE.IS.RACHEL?" Garfield's eyes widened when heard this. 'His she his sister?' He thought.
Suddenly, a girl with green eyes, tan skin and red hair came to Dick's side and whispered something in his left ear.
After, Richard thanked her and walked out of Roy's house.
—In Real Life—
"Woah" Gar said. "Yeah I know" Roy told the blond boy.
"His she... his sister?" Garfield asked Roy with confusion. Victor spat all his food on the table and started coughing.
"H-His... sister?" He said, trying not to laugh. Victor Stone started to laugh out loud and all the other students, even the trio, looked at their table. "shit" Garfield muttered under his breath.
After a minute, Victor finally calmed down, but him and Roy forgot to answer Garfield's question.
30 minutes later, Dick got up and went to Garfield. "Hi, I am Richard Grayson, call me Dick" he presented himself.
"Garfield Logan, but call me Gar" the green eyed teen replied.
"Can I talk to you?" Garfield nodded his head and followed the rich teenager.
Garfield followed him to the parking. The blond teenager looked around confused and a bit scared. Dick stopped close to his car and turned around to look at him.
"Look, Jason told me what happened at the match... when you saw him sealing drugs" Gar gulped.
"Are you going to make sure I can't tell anyone or something?"
Dick shook his head with small smile on his face. "No no... I wanted to know if we can trust you"
"I-I won't say it to anyone" Gar told Richard.
"I already know that" he started. "What I want and need to know is... Can I trust you?" He asked the blond boy.
"Y-yes, you can trust me" Garfield answered hesitantly. Richard Grayson smiled at him.
"Well in that case, you can trust me as well... and them too" he gestured to the school to tell him who he was talking about.
"C-can I ask you a question?"
Dick nodded and asked "Yes sure, what is it?"
"Why did you say that Adonis had hurt Rachel before in the video?"
"That's to Rachel to tell you... it's personal" Garfield nodded his head as he said "okay".
They stayed silent for some seconds until Garfield started talking.
"Is that all?"
"Well can you do something for me" Richard asked him.
"Depends on what it is"
"Stay away from Adonis" He said sternly, making Garfield gulp.
"It's not that I don't want to but..." he took a deep breath and said "He's with Vic and the others and their my friends, well appart Adam and Garth of course"
"You can at least sit with us tomorrow" The black haired boy proposed.
"If Jason don't torture me or something, well I am okay with it"
"See you tomorrow than" Richard said, walking away from Garfield.
Garfield returned to his new friends and finished eating his dinner.
—Wayne Manor—
When school ended, Richard drove Rachel and Jason to his adoptive father's manor.
The trio was in the basement. There was a bar, a pool, a lot of video games and also an immense screen to look at some movies and series.
Jason Todd was playing video games while Dick and Rachel were talking near the bar. Richard had just told her about his discussion with Garfield Logan.
"Wait what?" She started. "You told him about it" She yelled.
Richard's eyes widened and he quickly shook his head as he said "NO of course not, I wouldn't have told him that and you know it really well Rach".
"You better not be lying" Rachel said sternly before walking to the bedroom Dick assigned her. 'If he ever told someone about it... I'll make him suffer for sure'