(rp for busty_robin)

[butimwondergirl]

Cassie would rather be home in bed. Or somewhere else in bed. She's exhausted by all the Serious Conversations she's had over the last forty-eight hours. Drained, and wanting to be in bed, and enjoying the results of those conversations, in one way or another, instead of flying the skies of Gotham looking for Stephanie. Knowing that when she found

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[busty_robin]

On the plus side, when Steph was pissed off she fought very well. As the would-be burglar, whose face was currently making nice with her first, could attest.

But she was still pissed off. About a whole lot of things. Most of which, she didn't have any right to feel one way or the other about. Tim could date who he wanted -- she was the one that left. Steph didn't like it, but that was the reality.

But what was also the reality was that no one involved -- all of whom claimed to be Steph's friends and future teammates -- had thought to give her a heads up. She hadn't even mattered enough for a stupid phone call. And that was...well, not an unfamiliar thought. She'd been kept in the dark plenty of times. By Batman, by the Birds, even by Tim himself. And maybe she was just a little too sick of all that to put up with it again.

((ooc: sorry about the lag! Papers ate me!))

[butimwondergirl]

Cassie finally caught sight of Steph and dropped down to the rooftop. She was determined to fix this. Everything was happening so fast, not in an entirely horrible way, and relationships do often fall together quickly. But she felt out of control. Certainly posting a glib announcement online would not have been Cassie's choice of method to let friends know what was going on. Obviously she should have said something, she just wasn't thinking that far ahead.

The truth of it was Steph had come up in the conversation with Bart even before Kon had. Cassie should have called her from the Manor itself. She just wasn't thinking.

Cassie squared her shoulders and approached Stephanie. "Hey."

[busty_robin]

And there was Cassie. Wow, but demi gods were quick. Steph had a guy in a choke hold (don't worry, he had it coming) when she heard the approach. She knocked the guy unconscious, taking a moment to think of the right greeting for a so-called friend who'd listened to Steph confide about feelings for an ex all the while holding a torch for said boy.

"...hey."

Steph was very eloquent. She got is from Cass.

[butimwondergirl]

It had come down to a lot of denial on Cassie's part. She wasn't supposed to have any such feelings for Tim. She mostly believed she wasn't ever supposed to have, even when Kon had been gone. Having gotten Kon back and still...it was unthinkable.

But the heart doesn't follow that same logic. She'd been jealous of the random pretty girl Tim had been sent on a date with. She'd been jealous of the feelings Steph still had. Just because it was unthinkable didn't make it any less true.

And she has no idea how to explain any of this to Stephanie.

"...I'm really sorry you found out that way."