Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans.

Aubrey's crap: I haven't written a lot of DCU, but I just got the Showcase Teen Titans edition, and I've been practically twitching from all the happy dynamic between the old school generation. There might be a bit of the newest generation, later on, but I really wanted to focus on the original Titans. With Dick, Donna, Roy, Garth, Wally, etc. I really do apologize if any of them are horribly mangled, but I'm never going to improve with them if I don't practice, right?

Everything Changes
Part the First:
Nightwing and The Flash

He'd smiled.

When the JLA had contacted Wally to join them, Dick had smiled, and he'd congratulated him, and gone through all the pretty motions of being sincerely happy for his friend. The fact that it had all been totally insincere was beside the point. He'd been a good friend. That's what he told himself, anyway.

It hadn't been long after Barry Allen's death that the League had contacted Wally to replace his uncle, as the one and only Flash. It made sense, really. Dick berated himself, deciding that he really should have expected it…

But he knew that the Titans wouldn't be the same without Kid Flash. Just like it wouldn't be the same without Roy, Donna, Kory, or any of the others. It was bad enough when a Titan died…but to have one just walk off…

"Dick?"

Nightwing looked up, and plastered that painfully unconvincing grin back on his face. He'd retreated to his room, leaving Roy to handle the festivities that they were having in Wally's honor. Evidently, his absence hadn't gone unnoticed. Now his friend stood in his doorway, unmasked. Dick felt a muscle in his face twitch under the pressure of trying to hold up the façade of happiness.

"Hey," he greeted, running a hand through his hair. "Congratulations on making the League."

"Yeah," Wally nodded. "You said that already."

"Did I?" Dick winced. He should have spent the time that he'd had alone making note cards, or something. He should have prepared for what was, inevitably, going to be a rather painful and awkward conversation. "Huh. Imagine that."

Wally took his weight off of the door, letting it swing slowly closed as he zipped across the sparse space to sit down next to Dick on his bed.

"What do you really think?"

"I think the Titans aren't going to be the same without you." Dick shrugged. What else could he say? It wasn't like he could just tell Wally, 'oh, please tell Superman no and stay with us here!' It wasn't going to happen.

"Well, no, not really." Wally agreed. He leaned back on one hand, on the bed, turning to face Dick completely. "But it's not like you're alone. Roy's still here; and Donna, and everyone."

"Yeah." Dick agreed, resting his face in his hands, propping his elbows up on his legs. "Everyone except you. One of the Founders." He felt the weight of Wally's hand on his shoulder.

The kiss that came when Nightwing looked up wasn't expected. What happened next, as the door softly clicked shut, wasn't surprising.

End note: Something tells me that never actually happened…but, I don't really care. I figure we'll get some Wonder Girl and Speedy, next…maybe Nightwing and Arsenal…we'll all have to wait to find out.