Lori hurried into the school finding Jason first. "What's wrong?" Jason pointed into the cafeteria glaring at Bruce. With a frown Lori went in her eyes settling on Rose first then to the boy across from her. "Oh God." She choked out as the mini Bruce stood up and came to greet them. "Hello father I thought you would be taller."

Bruce stopped right behind Lori, wondering why Jason was glaring at him like that. He figured it out when a child that looked like him walked up to him and called him father. "W-wha...how...what?" He stammered, clearly confused as all get out.

Not wanting to be left out, Rosemary followed Damian over to the group. "Hi auntie Lori. Why does uncle Bruce look sick?" She asked, noticing that the man looked as if he would pass out.

"You must remember your short marriage to Talia al ghul." Damien sighed. "Maybe not apparently you and mother didn't see eye to eye...though you are technically still married." He grinned at him. "Mother sent me to get to know you. Isn't this great?"

Lori felt like she would be sick. She took Rose's hand simple so she wouldn't kill Bruce "because your uncle betrayed me." Her voice was flat. Jason's mouth was open in shock as it closed he couldn't decide who to punch first Bruce or the boy.

Bruce felt like the ground had dropped out from underneath him. "My...marriage? to Talia? No. I was never married to anyone, especially not that woman! Talia is a liar." He said, getting angry.

Rosemary was confused. "But uncle Bruce wouldn't do that. He loves auntie Lori." She said, gazing at the angry adults around her. "I believe him." She said stubbornly. "I believe that Damian is his son, but I also believe that uncle Bruce doesn't know anything about this. So I think that this Talia lady did something really bad." She reasoned, sounding just like Gemini at that moment.

Lori stared at the boy who just shrugged. "Suit yourself but in mothers culture a girl has just to except and she's married. So you could have been married this whole." He jumped as the sound of Lori slapping Bruce echoed threw the cafeteria. Tears rolled down her cheeks but she looked surprised to see the red mark on his face her instant reaction was to apologize but instead she took Rose and lead her to class.

Bruce didn't know how to react. Lori had never hit him before- not seriously, at least. He didn't understand what was going on. He had no memory of ever being with Talia, of ever wanting to. "I don't...understand..."

Rosemary yelped a little as Lori dragged her. "Wait, auntie Lori I can't keep up!" She cried. Tears ran down her cheeks, a mark of how upset she was about all this. She didn't like seeing her auntie cry, or seeing her uncle get hit. "Please don't be mad auntie Lori Damian didn't mean to cause trouble. Please try to forgive uncle Bruce. I don't know what he did but I know he didn't mean it. Mommy says he loves you more than anything."

Lori stopped and gathered the little girl in her arms giving her a soft squeeze before kissing her forehead gentle. "I didn't mean to upset you bunny bear." she smiled. 'Know be a good girl and go to class Auntie and Uncle will handle this...if Auntie doesn't kill him of course." she added the last part with a piranha snap at the girl chuckling a little. She stood and opened the classroom door "I'll see you later ok?" she waited till she went in before heading outside pausing when she saw a girl that was tall, skinny, with brown hair and a lazy but evil smile on her face.

Jason looked to Bruce "Your some kind of idiot." he sighed and took Damien's arm. "Fix this or you'll answer to me." Before Damien could protest Jason pulled him to class before going to his own grumbling softly.

Rosemary sniffled and nodded. "Okay. Remember to call Mommy and remind her that I'm staying with you after school until she gets out of work." She instructed before entering the classroom.

That seemed to snap Bruce out of his stupor. This was a huge mess, and it needed to be sorted out. First, he had to find Lori and talk to her. Going down the hall she had taken Rosemary down, he was presented with a horrifying sight: Lori and Talia, face to face. "Oh God no."

"Well if it isn't Bruce's little flavor of the month." Talia walked towards Lori who's mouth set in a thin line. "You go to hell." she snarled hands turning into fists. "You want Bruce he's right there." she pointed to Bruce. "Oh Bruce there you are." Talia stood near Lori a settle threat not to try anything or she would do something to Lori.

Bruce paused, obviously conflicted. His hands balled into fists by his sides. "What are you trying to pull, Talia? Why is there a boy here calling me father? what did you do?" He asked, his voice becoming a growl as he got more angry.

"You are his father Bruce. You don't remember...I suppose I wasn't very a memorable experience then." Talia smirked. "You and I did it you left, nine months later I gave birth to a baby boy. I sent him here to learn from you and father is running a campaign something to dangerous to have the boy around." She smirked. "Before you worry it was consensual." Lori looked away torn with all her heart she wanted to believe Bruce but the evidence was against him.

Bruce sneered. "I'm not stupid,, Talia. It's obvious he's my son, but I never consented to sleep with you. I don't like you. That, and the fact that I don't remember any of this, tells me that you must have drugged me. Either way, I'm not accepting that boy as my child. Take him somewhere else if you want to keep him safe." He spat, wanting to rip this woman apart for making Lori stop trusting him.

"Oh very well I did drug you but you fell very neatly into the trap." Talia grinned then frowned. "I thought you a better person Bruce, he is your son but you will hold your hate for me against him? Better not make him mad if you want his kids to have a father." She glanced at Lori then ducked out of the way of her fist. "Little girl has spunk." Talia laughed easily catching Lori's hand. "But I am the better fighter."

Bruce swore and lunged forward, yanking Talia away from Lori and holding her arms behind her back. "You stay away from her!" He growled. "Now listen and listen well. If the boy has any actual desire to know me, then he can stay- but only on the condition that you go far away and have no contact with him, myself or anyone connected to me in any way." He said.

"That's not a problem but once he's ready I will be back." Talia twisted away and headed for a black car when she slipped in he caught a quick glance of Ra's. Lori meanwhile was staring at him like she wasn't sure what to do or say.

Bruce glared hard at the car until it drove away, part of him wishing his hatred alone would set it on fire. Then he turned to Lori with sadness in his eyes. "I don't know what to say. I know an apology won't help, but I am sorry. If I had known, I would have told you. As it is, if you want to leave and never speak to me again, I understand. I deserve it." He said, defeated, knowing he had lost her forever.

"Well you do deserve it for letting that girl get the upper hand. I'm not going to just drop out of your life with not a word. I'm not you." Lori sighed. "The problem right at the moment is I'm not helping to raise her child."

"No, I don't expect you to. He's my responsibility, and I'll raise him. I suppose...I'll just ask for your hand again in a few years when he's grown..." Bruce said.

"Oh no you aren't not getting rid of me that easily I have waited all my life to marry you.' Lori huffed. "You'll have to suffer threw a sugar spree." she blinked as lightening and thunder appeared behind her. "Odd no clouds." she shrugged.

Somewhere across the city, as she served a table full of people, Gemini felt a deep, cold fear overcome her. Oh no...Loris talking about sugar somewhere... She thought with a shudder.

Bruce's eyes widened. He had lived through Lori's sugar highs before- and still had the bruises to prove it. He gulped, but nodded. "I understand. If that is my punishment, then I'll take it." He said.

Lori grinned evilly and pulled him towards a nearby sweets shop. "One of everything." she chuckled darkly and handed over his card. She began to eat everything she had ordered then the rest of the day was blank until she found herself in the middle of the city on the track for the subway with Gemini. "What happened?" she blinked.

((Bat credit card.))

((A BAT CREDIT CARD?! THEY HAD THE BALLS TO GIVE HIM A BAT CREDIT CARD?! *starts shooting things*))

Gemini looked dizzy. "You...you had a...sugar rush and...TRAIN!!!" She yelled, pointing. She tried to pull Lori out from the tracks, but tripped. "Go on without me!"

Suddenly, Bruce was there, pulling both women out and up onto the platform just in time. [B]"You have no idea how hard it was to keep up with you."[B] He panted. "By the way, I had Alfred pick the kids up from school. They're waiting back at the manor."

Lori chuckled and hugged Bruce. "since we all survived you are forgiven however." she let go and crushed Gemini. "Gemmy...Bruce has a child with another girl!" she pouted at her friend.

Gemini turned slowly to look at Bruce. "Oh, he does, does he? Well, I'll need to talk to him about that." She said, getting out of Lori's arms. She advanced towards Bruce, dragging him away to "talk."

Bruce gulped. He had hoped Lori wouldn't tell Gemini just yet. He followed the fiery redhead towards inevitable pain. Three minutes later, they both returned, Bruce looking considerably shaken.

Lori hugged him tightly. "We can start planning to get married. Of course dad will want to talk to you about that." she giggled. "You know how protective of his princess he is."