It's Christmas time and snow is beginning to cover the ground. Kim looked out the window of her home and smiled as she grabbed her winter coat along with her hat and gloves, opened the door and walked over to Wayne Manor. Making her way to the door she grabbed a pile of snow forming it into a snowball, knocking on the door waiting for anyone to answer.  The knob turned and she quickly threw the snowball.

"Really? I should've known you were gonna do that, you goofball."
"Well you've known me your whole life. You gonna come out and get me or not?" Dick closed the door and came back out with his winter coat and boots and began to chase her.

She took off down the lawn laughing right before ducking behind a bush and as soon as Dick ran past, she jumped out and tackled him to the ground. As he laughed and pushed her off him, she looked at the sky, "I've missed having fun like this."

"Yeah me too," he sighed and turned his head to Kim and said "Hey let's go get Bruce and Alfred to join us. I'll go get them. You can throw snowballs at them once they come out." Kim nodded her head as he got to his feet and walked over to the door. Dick yelled out to Alfred and Bruce, "HEY GUYS COME ON OUT! IT'S SNOWING!"

From the main room Bruce and Alfred emerged. "Hang on, let me get my coat and gloves," Bruce explained. As he walked over to the coat stand and slipped on his coat and boots. "You coming Alfred?" he asked while putting on his gloves.
"No thank you, Master Bruce, the cold is too much for me, but I will make some hot chocolate for you all when you come back in.'' he replied.
"Let's go. Is Kim with you?" Bruce asked. Dick looked outside to see if Kim was ready, her eyes met his and gave a thumbs up with a snowball in hand. "No, she is inside''.

They both carefully walked out and before Dick could tell Kim to throw her snowball, Bruce smashed one right on the back of his head. "Bruce, you trickster what was that for?" He laughed as he wiped the snow off his head and looked up at Kim. "Oh, so you knew all along didn't you?" She shook her head, smiling, and threw a snowball at him, hitting him in the shoulder. "OMPH! That had some heat to it!"

He began to run in a charge, trying to tackle her into a deep pile of snow. Bruce laughed at them both and threw a snowball at Kim, then dashed from the door and into the yard. "You left your hiding advantage," Kim said, while picking herself off the ground and kicking snow at Dick right before running away as he chased her again. Bruce, armed with an arsenal of snowballs created while he hid, ran across the yard, beaning both youngsters with precise accuracy, laughing as each one exploded upon impact. With a wicked smile, Kim dove into a bush and watched as Dick looked around for her. He slipped on a patch of ice and landed on his back. As he laid there looking at the sky, trying to catch his breath, out of the corner of his eye he saw Bruce sneak up behind her and bash the biggest snow clump he could carry in his arms. Kim, covered in snow and laughing uncontrollably, grabbed a handful of snow, quickly turned around and smashed it right into his face. He smiled and grabbed her waist, picked her up as she screamed in laughter and threw her into a snow pile right next to where Dick was laying still trying to get up after tripping. Bruce offered the young ones both his hands to help pull them up. As Kim got to her feet and knocked off the snow she looked up at the sky with snow still falling about and stated "This is the most fun I've had in years" she said in a full voice. "Let's build a Snowman!!" The dynamic trio started in different parts of the yard rolling piles of snow creating three large mounds. Once their rolls of snow came close to each other they carefully sculpted each into as round of a ball as they could and then carefully picked each up and stacked them together, grabbed two pieces of rocks for eyes. Some small rocks for a mouth and a small twig for a nose. Dick, looking around the yard saw the wood pile and ran over grabbing some long twigs for arms creating a wonky snowman. They all stepped back to look at their creation and laughed at its awkwardness and lack of symmetry. Noticing that the yard had been covered yet again by the falling snow Kim collapsed backwards into the snow making a snow angel repeatedly stating "This day has been so much fun." Dick slipped her hand into his as he gently pulled her up. As she returned upright they could hear Alfred summoning from the side door "Please come on in, before you three turn into popsicles."

Once inside they took off their coats, gloves, boots and scarfs and sat them on the coat rack and walked into the Den where Alfred had laid out a tray of hot chocolate for them and a fire started in the fireplace to warm them up Kim and Dick sat on the couch as Bruce took the chair across them closest to the fire as it crackled and snapped. All was silent until Kim cleared her throat and said "so what do you all usually do around here at Christmas time"

Bruce turned to face her and said in a low shallow voice "I haven't really done anything ever since my parents were murdered." He paused "but before it happened we would go out and find the biggest tree and would decorate it with lights, tinsel and ornaments, and I will always remember that when we put on the star, my father would put me on his shoulders and I would place it on top of the tree and listen to stories by the fire" "But since then every Christmas I would go to the cemetery and place a special ornament of all of us together." Bruce's eyes began to twinkle, reflecting the warm red and orange tones of the fire. Kim's heart sank, she got up and walked over behind Bruce placing her arms around his shoulders and hugged him as tears filled her eyes "I'm so sorry Bruce it must be hard to tell us this." She said as she pulled away from him and sat back on the couch wiping away her tears.

Bruce sighed and looked at the fire and said "I learned to accept it, knowing that no matter what I will always know there watching over me. Besides this is my family now and I wouldn't have it any other way" he finished with a small grin. Kim smiled and began talking about how her and Dick did Christmas at the circus laughing and smiling as she explained. Alfred soon walked into the room and cleared his throat and said "I'm sorry for interrupting this moment but it's the Batphone sir."

         All three put down their cups and quickly walked to the study. Bruce quickly picked up the red phone. It was Commissioner Gordon "you won't believe this Batman but it is your old arch nemesis Mr. Freeze". "Mr. Freeze I thought he was locked away in Arkham?" Batman replied in a stern voice "He was but somehow he escaped and we tracked him to the abandoned meat storage warehouse" "were on our way commissioner" he quickly put the phone down and turned to Kim and Dick "Mr. Freeze is on the loose how is that possible?" Dick asked in a questionable voice as they all walked to the door leading to the BatCave "here's a better question, who is Mr. Freeze?" Kim interjected "I'll explain everything later right now we have to suit up" Bruce said before opening the door, sitting down and kicking the shelf in and was gone Kim and Dick both went at the same time before she backed up and motioned him to go next he nodded his head and went down as Kim lead behind him.