Fic: The Boy With The Broken Smile, Teen Titans, Tim/Kon, PG, 1/1
There’s something broken about Tim’s smile; that just makes Kon want to see it all the more.
The Boy With The Broken Smile
It wasn’t that Tim didn’t smile, he just didn’t do it often. And when he did, the smile was so sad, so full of hurt and pain, that it didn’t seem real. To everyone around him, it seemed fake.
To everyone except Kon. That smile looked like he’d felt after something really sucky had happened to him - when they’d thought Uncle John was dead, when he saw and felt Tana die, when Secret went evil… Those smiles of Tim’s were realer than real, they just weren’t completely happy. Tim didn’t have it in him to be that happy.
Nether did Kon. He just faked it better. So whenever something bad happened to Tim, Kon tried to be there for him. Even if Robin didn’t need comforting, Tim did. And even if Tim thought that he didn’t want it, he needed to know that people cared for him.
So after Apokalips, Kon swallowed his pride and apologized. And after Batman did…something…that got Tim angry, he let Tim vent to him. And when Tim was beating himself up for Donna’s death, he grabbed him in a bear-hug and didn’t let go until Tim stopped shaking.
After Spoiler died, instead of being hopelessly happy that Robin - their Robin - was back in action, Kon had just given Tim another hug and murmured, “Glad to have you back, man.” He didn’t say anything about the tears that he later found dampening his shirt.
After Tim’s father died, Tim came to him late one night, and took the hug. And when Kon offered him more, he accepted it. Between them, there was the unspoken promise that the next time, Kon would come to him. When Tim left the next morning, the smile on his lips was broken.
But it was real. And in the end, that was all that mattered. That, and that Kon loved him.
And he was going to make Tim smile as often as he could.
The Boy With The Broken Smile
It wasn’t that Tim didn’t smile, he just didn’t do it often. And when he did, the smile was so sad, so full of hurt and pain, that it didn’t seem real. To everyone around him, it seemed fake.
To everyone except Kon. That smile looked like he’d felt after something really sucky had happened to him - when they’d thought Uncle John was dead, when he saw and felt Tana die, when Secret went evil… Those smiles of Tim’s were realer than real, they just weren’t completely happy. Tim didn’t have it in him to be that happy.
Nether did Kon. He just faked it better. So whenever something bad happened to Tim, Kon tried to be there for him. Even if Robin didn’t need comforting, Tim did. And even if Tim thought that he didn’t want it, he needed to know that people cared for him.
So after Apokalips, Kon swallowed his pride and apologized. And after Batman did…something…that got Tim angry, he let Tim vent to him. And when Tim was beating himself up for Donna’s death, he grabbed him in a bear-hug and didn’t let go until Tim stopped shaking.
After Spoiler died, instead of being hopelessly happy that Robin - their Robin - was back in action, Kon had just given Tim another hug and murmured, “Glad to have you back, man.” He didn’t say anything about the tears that he later found dampening his shirt.
After Tim’s father died, Tim came to him late one night, and took the hug. And when Kon offered him more, he accepted it. Between them, there was the unspoken promise that the next time, Kon would come to him. When Tim left the next morning, the smile on his lips was broken.
But it was real. And in the end, that was all that mattered. That, and that Kon loved him.
And he was going to make Tim smile as often as he could.