Various Five Things written in chat for chevauchee.
Five times no one saw Tim smiling.
1. The first time Young Justice offhandedly referred to him as Tim. They hadn't known he could hear them.
2. The first time Jason called him Robin.
3. After Spoiler kissed him.
4. When Dick told him he was a good Robin, just a few months after he put on the suit, Tim thought he would never be happier in his life.
5. When he sees Black Mask's corpse.
Five snarks Barbara kept behind her teeth, with a bonus extra!
1. Re: Stephanie. "Yes, Bruce, because you did such a good job with Jason."
2. Re: Dick’s adoption. "Normally people don't adopt children when said sons have been in love with their fathers for nearly a decade."
3. She has contemplated hijacking Matches' various low-level accounts for the sole purpose of never letting the man purchase his own clothing again, and she refrains from asking Dick if Matches taught him how to dress.
4. "I'd be more willing to believe that you hadn't killed Fairchild if you didn't routinely put teenage boys in mortal peril, Bruce."
5. "... Kindly stop speaking of my father with that mooncalf look in your eyes, Batman."
6. "Gee, Dinah, maybe you should lay off Helena. Pot, kettle, you know."
Five times Roy went home alone.
1. After Dick beats the crap out of him in that red gear, Roy thinks about trying to get hold of the Bats. He goes drinking instead, and fucks a pretty blue-haired man rougher than he means to. He leaves the club on his own.
2. That whole thing with Batman and Deathstroke, where he gets his ass handed to him. He's been beaten before, but that was *pathetic* and he and Deathstroke both knew it. Once he's healed, he heads out to get laid, but he ends up going back to base at three in the morning, cold sober.
3. For six months after he gets Lian, he doesn't bring anybody back with him.
4. When he's hooking to get his fix, all his johns stay on the street. He gets a couple offers, but he doesn't want anybody back in his cheap little place.
5. That pretty Gotham redhead who turns him down flat, but she laughs while she does it and she buys him a drink. It could've gone worse. He's grinning when he heads back, thinking of her sharp eyes and her muscled body.
1. The first time Young Justice offhandedly referred to him as Tim. They hadn't known he could hear them.
2. The first time Jason called him Robin.
3. After Spoiler kissed him.
4. When Dick told him he was a good Robin, just a few months after he put on the suit, Tim thought he would never be happier in his life.
5. When he sees Black Mask's corpse.
Five snarks Barbara kept behind her teeth, with a bonus extra!
1. Re: Stephanie. "Yes, Bruce, because you did such a good job with Jason."
2. Re: Dick’s adoption. "Normally people don't adopt children when said sons have been in love with their fathers for nearly a decade."
3. She has contemplated hijacking Matches' various low-level accounts for the sole purpose of never letting the man purchase his own clothing again, and she refrains from asking Dick if Matches taught him how to dress.
4. "I'd be more willing to believe that you hadn't killed Fairchild if you didn't routinely put teenage boys in mortal peril, Bruce."
5. "... Kindly stop speaking of my father with that mooncalf look in your eyes, Batman."
6. "Gee, Dinah, maybe you should lay off Helena. Pot, kettle, you know."
Five times Roy went home alone.
1. After Dick beats the crap out of him in that red gear, Roy thinks about trying to get hold of the Bats. He goes drinking instead, and fucks a pretty blue-haired man rougher than he means to. He leaves the club on his own.
2. That whole thing with Batman and Deathstroke, where he gets his ass handed to him. He's been beaten before, but that was *pathetic* and he and Deathstroke both knew it. Once he's healed, he heads out to get laid, but he ends up going back to base at three in the morning, cold sober.
3. For six months after he gets Lian, he doesn't bring anybody back with him.
4. When he's hooking to get his fix, all his johns stay on the street. He gets a couple offers, but he doesn't want anybody back in his cheap little place.
5. That pretty Gotham redhead who turns him down flat, but she laughs while she does it and she buys him a drink. It could've gone worse. He's grinning when he heads back, thinking of her sharp eyes and her muscled body.