Chapter 4: Hearts and Minds

Back at the orphanage;  Helena Kyle sat at the dinning table along with many other children around her age. She sat next to Dick, hoping to get an answer out of him. “Hey Dick, did you think about Mr. Wayne’s offer yet?” Dick looked away from his plate of food. “I have, and I am think of calling him.” She looked at him surprised.  “So your answer in a yes then?” he nodded.
“You still have the number?”  
“Yeah, it’s on my bed.”
“Ok, I’m going to call the number, I’ll be back.’
Helena left the table and went upstairs to get the number. She pulled out her cell phone and called the number Bruce left Dick a few days ago.

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The phone rang in the hallway, and Alfred was out shopping for Bruce, and Bruce was out at a Meeting and Tony was the only one home at the moment so he went and answered the phone. “Tony stark, talk to me.” There was long pause before Helena started to talk.
“Hi, this is Helena asking about the adoption?”
“Of Richard Grayson right?”
“Umm-well Bruce said he would be willing to adopt both me and Dick.” There was a long pause. ‘why would Bruce not tell me about adopting another child?’ he thought to himself. “Hello?” Tony was bought back to reality by the small girl’s voice. “I’ll call you back.” He hung up the phone and looked at the clock angrily, waiting for Bruce to get back from the meeting.
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Bruce arrived home about an hour later, thinking he would be able to go home and basically fuck his husband, but that’s not how it happened. As soon as he walked through the door tony was standing there, arms crossed over his chest and he was pissed as he could be. Bruce was scared, he never seen tony this upset before, not ever.
“Tony? What the matter?” Tony glared at him arms still crossed over his chest, tapping his figures on his arms. “What’s the matter? How dare you ask me that?” He yelled threw clinch teeth.
“Tony Wh-“
“You adopted another child? I thought we agreed on one?”
“Well I was going to tell, I was but-“
“But nothing, you went behind my back and adopted a daughter.”
“Wait, how do you know that?”
“Helena called, asking about adopting her and Dick.”
“What did you say?”
“Does that matter?”
“Yes. Yes it does, what did you say, Tony.”
“I said I’ll call her back.”
Bruce looked at Tony with sensitive eyes. “Tony, listen I’m sorry, I would have told you, you know I would have eventually, but I was nerves on what you would say. Helena and Dick are like sibling and I could never split them apart.” Tony looked at him and grabbed his lovers arm. He pulled him upstairs into the bedroom and sat down on the bed.
“Alright Bruce, call Helena back.” Bruce looked at him, a smile showed on his face.
“Your serious tony?”
“When am I not?” Bruce smiled and kissed him.
“You’re the best.”
“Just call already.”
Bruce called Helena cell phone number and she answered it. “Hello?” she said into the line.
“Hi this is Bruce Stark calling, I wanted to let you know that if you and Dick want to be adopted-“
“I called earlier about that, me and dick talked about it and we have decided that we would like to take the chance.” Bruce sighed in relief.
“I know your name is Helena, But what’s your last name, sweetie?” He asked.
“My full name Is Helena Kyle.” Bruce froze when he heard the last name.
“Are you Selina Kyle’s daughter?”
“Yeah, how did you know?”
“Lucky guess. I’ll see you and Dick tomorrow then, Bye Helena.” He hung up the phone and looked at Tony. “What’s wrong?”  Tony asked grabbing his hand. “Nothing, everything is fine.” Bruce grinned and playfully tackled Tony, pinning him to the bed. Tony kissed him, running his hand threw his hair. “You know something Bruce, tonight it’s my turn.” Bruce grinned as his lover started pulling at his clothes and moaned when he kissed him in all the right places, making his way down to Bruce’s jeans button and fly.
Bruce pulled tony up and looked into his eyes. “You know when the kids come, we can’t be doing this as often as we are now.” Tony rolled his eyes. “I’m getting it out of my system now.”