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I guess I have always had an attraction to guys who are broken. Maybe that's why I felt drawn to Dick when I first saw him. I must have sensed his pain. I watched him grow up from a young boy of 13 to young man of 18 but I knew his pain never went away. The loss of his parents never went away but he coped with it, dealt with the heart break with the help of his friends. But then Wally's death… took its… toll. The pain came back full force, I could see it. That's why he left the team, I think. He needed to find a new way to cope without his best friend. That's where I thought I would come in, I wanted to be his new best friend, be his new coping mechanism. I lost my father to Fate so I thought we could come together, two lost souls in a harsh, unforgiving world. I saw the cracks in his fortress and I wanted to fix them, to ease his pain. I thought I would be a friend but it became so much more.