Non-Optional Social Convention
This has been a hard week for reasons I can't even pin down. wojelah suggested "Bar Detox" and that makes about as much sense as anything. I am still without employ and I desperately miss feeling like a productive member of society (which is not strictly an employment thing - I have no significant other or kids and I could honestly go over a week
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Oh, The Story of Dinah and Bruce! (I have not left a story unfinished since that one, I swear.) So I just had the most fun hours or so - I couldn't remember, and the file was on a flash drive from when I had moved over everything that was on disks. So I found a whole bunch of things I had forgotten about and then I had to read TSODAB to see where I'd stopped and everything. So, this is the scene I wrote for them getting together. I don't know if I would have used it or if I would have rewritten it or written something else. But it's easier to just post/read than describe, right? OMG, things I wrote 8 years ago. *hides face* *peeks out* And apparently I need two comments. Oops?
Tim walked into the kitchen, his tie down to the second button, his shirt sleeves rolled up, and his glasses in his pocket. His graduate class had run over tonight and he was tired and in need of something to drink. He paused when he saw Cassandra sitting at the kitchen table, struggling with her own homework. Bruce had insisted she get a GED so she could take some community college classes. Alfred had helped her considerably, but some of the language in the science and mathematics texts still gave her trouble. She sat with her back to him but he knew she would see him if he walked across the floor to the refrigerator. He decided to risk it. The awkward silence in the apartment had put them both on edge for nearly two weeks now. He opened the fridge as quietly as he could, pulling out a bottle of water and taking a long drag from it. He closed his eyes briefly, savoring the feel of cool liquid running down his parched throat.
"Physics is suck!"
A pencil shattered against the wall.
Tim walked slowly toward the kitchen doorway. Cassandra wasn't looking at him. She'd picked up another pencil from her cup and was trying to make her equation work, again.
"Hey."
Cassandra looked up at Tim's soft greeting. He took it as a good sign and slipped into a seat next to her. "Let me give you a hand," he offered. "I used to like physics pretty well."
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"It looks smooth. But there are lots of little microscopic bumps all over it," Tim explained. "The grain of the wood makes little grooves. Dust sits on it and gathers. Maybe little bits of food or something get on it and don't come all the way off. That makes the table NOT perfectly smooth. It makes friction. Friction works against inertia." Tim rolled a pencil over to her. "See how it slows down? That's the friction slowing it down. If we had a perfectly smooth table, with no friction, the pencil would go on forever."
Cassandra stared at him like he was loony. "Fall on floor."
Tim laughed. "Ok, you're right. If we had a perfectly smooth table that went on forever, then the pencil would go on forever."
Cassandra nodded, suddenly preoccupied with the pencil.
"We can talk about it some more if you want."
She suddenly looked up, straight into his eyes. "You ARE perfect."
"What?" Tim asked, blinking.
"You ARE perfect! You say you work to do things but you ARE perfect. You do everything. You do school good, you do Robin good, you do work good. I do school bad, I do work bad..." She dropped her head, letting her hair swing over her face. "I was bad with you."
"No, Cass, don't say that..."
Tim reached for her face with both hands, tilting up her head with one and brushing her hair out of her face with the other. "We're still friends. We just...just got confused for a while. It's ok, really."
"No! Not ok!" Cassandra pulled away from him and fled to the sink where she crossed her arms over her stomach and looked out the tiny window above the faucet.
"Why is it not ok?" Tim asked, softly. "Tell me why you kissed me."
"I-saw it on Brave and Bold."
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You saw it on Dinah's soap opera?" Tim asked with a smile. He stood up and walked over to her.
"Larry and Diana...fighting. Then she kissed him and they stopped. I wanted to stop fighting."
"Hey, if you think it was a mistake, I'm ok with that."
"But..." Cassandra dropped her head again.
"But what?" Tim placed one hand on the countertop on either side of her, leaning in but not touching her. "Did you like it?"
There was a pause so long and so quiet Tim was sure she heard his heart pounding in his chest. Slowly, she nodded.
"Dinah is friend," she said, softly. "Dick is friend. Cissie is friend. Roy is friend. Tim is...Tim."
"Of course I'm Tim," he said, smiling as he straightened and touched her gently at the waist. She flinched but he didn't move his hands. "What are you telling me, Cass? That you feel different about me than you do about your other friends?"
She nodded, her dark hair brushing his face as he ducked his head to be closer to her. He pressed his cheek to hers, then kissed her on the temple.
"You've always been special to me," he said softly in her ear. "I hate that you're upset..." He brushed his lips gently against the shell of her ear. "Caring about somebody...being attracted to somebody...it's always scary. You don't know what they think or what could happen. But Cass, it's good with us. We're friends. And we're always going to be friends. I promise. But..." He paused, unsure of whether he should go on. "But ever since you kissed me, I've been wanting to kiss you again. Because you're more than just my friend." His hands moved down to her hips and gently eased her around. "But I don't want to kiss you if you don't want me to."
"I want you to," Cassandra whispered.
Tim cupped her chin in one hand and tilted it up to him. His other hand moved from her hip to the small of her back, and once their mouths met, the rest of the world became a swirl of color and sound.
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Cassandra stared at him like he was loony. "Fall on floor."
Oh Cass. ILU bb, never change. ♥~
Thank you so much for this! Tim and Cass have gotten such a raw deal in the comics, so it's nice to see them all cute and happy here. Long live the Potatoverse!
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