When we first dropped out bags on apartment floors
“Have you guys heard about Nightwing? Apparently he is in town,” Asked Dick to the rest of the quad.
“Oh yeah, he’s so cool! I heard he quips at the criminals!” Responds Jake.
“I wish he would’ve go to the NYPD with his information about the criminals or at least hand them directly over to us.” Added Captain Holt, having appeared out of nowhere.
“Huh, well he did that in Gotham and Blüdhaven as well, when he was there,” Replied Dick, “Maybe he will hear you complaining about that though, and change his ways…”
The next day, Captain Holt seemed a little apprehensive.
“What are you so stiff for?” Asked Jake when he got yelled for walking in a certain area of the bullpen.
“Grayson was correct when he said that Nightwing might be listening to my complaints and change his ways. Last night, I was called in to see that vigilante standing outside my office with a beat up perp. And evidence. I am looking for a way he may have heard my statement,” Captain Holt stated.
“I bet he just wants for you to trust him,” Dick replied, a little bit startled at the police Captain,
“The police commissioner at Gotham really liked the guy, and had known him since he was Robin,”
Captain Holt reeled on the detective.
“How would you know he was Robin?! Are you telling him things about the precinct?! Are you a mole?!”
“No! No, no, everyone who has lived in Gotham since the first Robin knows they are super similar and even act the same way, with all the acrobatic stuff he does,” exclaimed a surprised Dick Grayson, trying to avoid his identity being revealed.
“I know how Nightwing heard the Captain,” Jake whispered to Dick once Captain Holt walked away.
“Oh really?” Whispered back an apprehensive Richard,
“It’s because you’re him.”
“Oh yeah I’m totally Captain Holt, you definitely haven’t seen me and him in the same place almost everyday I’ve been at this job,” deadpanned Dick,
“No, you’re Nightwing. How do I know? The morning after Nightwing busted a whole gang by himself, you were exhausted and bruised all over. You said it was because of falling off acrobatic equipment. That led me to my second clue. You said Nightwing does a ton of acrobatic stuff, and guess what you say all your bruises and stuff come from? Acrobatic mishaps,” Dick was surprised at the facts that Jake presented.
Then he laughed.
“Sure man, sure. But I would give looking into this up. Apparently his dad is the actual Batman,” Then Dick walked away to his desk.
“What are you doing in my house, Jake?” Asked a tired Dick, standing by his door.
Jake squatted by the kitchen bench for a couple of seconds, in the middle of snooping.
“You said you were having some time with family for a couple days, so I thought that that was just an excuse for you to do vigilantism through the day, so I decided to snoop,” He said guiltily.
“Yeah I was with my girlfriend and my family, like I said,” said Dick blandly.
He stepped out into the kitchen, followed by Barbara.
“You must be Jake Peralta,” she said.
Jake let out a quiet squeak as he realise he might be wrong in his accusations.
He wasn’t but he didn’t know that.
“I’ll just…leave,”
“Yeah you will.”
Jake shuffled past the couple and ran out of the apartment building,
“Also please don’t break into my house again!” Dick called after him.