Hey so I'm back! I decided to shake it up a bit and write this birdflash fanfic a while back and I'vefinally gotten around to continuing it and now posting it. I had this 'hey what if ghosts' notion a while back and ran with it haha, hence this.
In the event that this doesn'tget a whole lot of feedback or love in a sense I won't be continuing it, but I really hope that you guys do like it! I certainly like it, and if you have any suggestions please let me know! Thx ;)
I don't own Young Justice.
I just want him to shut up already. It's always been annoying, but today it's annoying times ten.
Robin was sitting at the island, on a high stool, at the mountain. He was trying his hardest to do his homework, which happened to be calculus homework, and if that wasn't horrible enough, Reggy just wouldn't stop talking directly into his ear. He was babbling on and on and on about something that was completely pointless. And the worst part? He couldn't talk back to Reggy unless he wanted to look crazy while other people are around. Why would he look crazy just talking to someone you ask?
About 5 months ago, Reginald (Reggy), Whimsworth (great name, I know) got hit by a car while crossing the street in Gotham, it was a getaway car for a couple of criminals that had just robbed a convenience store. They were being chased by the GCPD so didn't pay any attention to the crosswalk or Reggy. He died on impact.
Reggy was 16. He was a sophomore at Gotham Academy, where he had taken a particular interest in the ward of multi billionaire Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne's ward was a sophomore also, although he was only just turning 15 this year. And when I say that Reggy took an "interest" in Bruce Wayne's ward, I mean he had a complete obsession. Reggy practically stalked Richard John Grayson. He would follow him around the school all day long, he would constantly flirt, and he would cock block anyone who would attempt to ask Dick out. And now, almost nothing has changed.
Reggy is still following Dick around, but now he's following him everywhere, even in the afterlife.
Shortly after Dick watched his parents die, he noticed he would see people disappear and/or appear out of no where. When he went to the orphanage, he continued to see people doing this, just different people. At first he thought all this was just a trick of the light, that they just looked like they were appearing and disappearing. But he soon found that no one else could see these people he was talking about. Sometimes he would see kids no one could see, but mostly old people and adults.
After a little investigating, he was able to identify one of the recurring people he would see. He found out that this person used to be the head of the orphanage he lived in at the time. Mary Wilcut was her name. Dick could see her headstone in the cemetery across the street from his window.
Dick (when he wasn't hiding from the other children, crying, or just trying to survive this living hell in the orphanage) managed to talk to her, and she told him about how the other ghosts she knew talked of a light, and how they would see their dead loved ones there, and so on. She was much nicer than any of the other adults in the orphanage, and Dick liked her a lot.
He managed to help her figure out that the thing keeping her earthbound was the fact that she didn't know what became of her children after she passed. Dick found (after talking to the new head of the orphanage) that both of her children grew up successfully, her daughter a lawyer, and her son a doctor, this made her very happy. So she, with Dick's help, was finally able to move on.
Then after Bruce took him in, he never really got around to mentioning the fact he could see dead people. The biggest reason being lack of words to explain his situation. He decided that it best wait until he could figure out how to say it, and make sure that Bruce wouldn't just write him off as crazy.
So, now Bruce still doesn't know, and Reggy follows Dick everywhere. Reggy continues to follow him because 1, Reggy still loves flirting with him, and 2, Dick is the only one who can see him. Also because Reggy follows Dick everywhere now, he knows that Dick is in fact Robin, the Boy Wonder. Upon learning this, it only made Reggy like even Dick more.
And right now, Robin, not Dick, sat in Mount Justice, with Reggy talking and talking about how he made one of the kids at Gotham Academy that used to bully him think his locker was haunted.
But M'gann and Superboy were making out in M'gann's room right now, so Robin was alone in the kitchen for the time being.
"Could you please just shut up?" Robin asked with a controlled voice, yet the anger and annoyance were clear behind it. But he still said this quietly so Superboy wouldn't hear it, just incase.
Reggy immediately stopped talking and stared at Robin for a bit, wide eyed. Then Reggy saw that Robin was trying to work, so he sighed and decided to stare at him, dazed in his features. Robin saw the way Reggy was looking at him and let out a groan of annoyance, then looked back to him homework, he was trying to hide the embarrassed blush that appeared on his face. He didn't like Reggy the way Reggy liked him, but that didn't make it any less embarrassing, or flattering, while horrifyingly annoying at the same time when Reggy would either flirt with him, or look at him like he wanted to pounce on him. It wasn't that Reggy wasn't cute, he was, it was just that Dick didn't like him like that. Regardless of the fact that he's gay.
Robin figured this fun fact out when he was 12. He noticed that at school (he went to a middle school with other kids his age, but he took higher classes, and sometimes would teach himself) he would constantly find himself thinking about some of the guys in that way, and whenever certain guys bent over, they looked... good to say the least. He most definitely couldn't complain about the view. However, one incident in particular really made him question a lot of things.
Dick was heading to one of his classes, trying to get through the hallways without running into anyone. He finally slid into the classroom and sat down at one of the many desks, he sat in the back. One of his friends, Emma was her name, waved at him and smiled, he waved back and gave her a half smile/smirk. She seemed to get a little redder, and then she looked away. Dick just shrugged it off and looked to the front of the room, the teacher was writing on the board, and Dick was reading as she wrote.
The class began and Dick payed attention the entire time, but once the class was nearly over, the teacher said they could all talk at a moderate level until class was over. Emma immediately went over to talk to Dick, she sat next to him and began talking about what was going on with her. Dick listened and commented occasionally, then both Emma and Dick heard a particular interesting conversation coming from the popular pretty girls group. They were all talking about how cute a boy named James Parkins was, and Dick couldn't help but concur with everything they were saying about him. How he "has perfect hair" and how his "whole face in general is like a puppy" and how he "has a great butt" once they got to that comment, both Dick and Emma blushed.
Dick then looked away and continued to talk to Emma, trying to block out the image of James's butt when he bends over in those tight jeans he always wears. Emma was probably thinking about that too, he could see her zoning. Dick then realized that who's butt he was thinking about, wasn't a girls butt.
Dick went home that day and found himself questioning everything, a lot.
So, once he really figured out everything about himself in that account, he accepted it and moved on, a little bit glad that he finally figured out one of the reasons he was different from some of the other kids. Besides the fact that he was the ward to multi billionaire Bruce Wayne, a former acrobat in the circus, and Robin the Boy Wonder.
This (the fact that Dick was gay) some how came to light in Gotham Academy with the other students, and he was definitely made fun of for it, but luckily one of the main guys on the football team was bisexual and he took a step up and defended him, and everyone who is gay or bi. So that could no longer be used against a person (well, not as much). Reggy is also gay, and because of this he found out that Dick was too, and because gays and bi people were more accepted, he decided that then was the perfect time to go after Dick.
When Reggy was alive, he would always stare at Dick constantly. Then Reggy started flirting with him, telling him how he was cute, or how every detail about him was perfect. It was really creepy to say the least, but Dick ignored it for the most part. But now it was hard not to notice it.
"Sorry cutey, you're just so adorably when you're annoyed," Reggy said smiling wholeheartedly at Robin. Robin looked over at him, Reggy was still in his Gotham Academy uniform, just his tie was loose hanging from his neck. Reggy has (or had) fluffy brown hair that spiked in the front, and big brown doe eyes that were great for pouting. He was of average build and height, and he was almost always smiling, but sometimes when he stretched and you could see his stomach you would be greeted with the sight of bruises and some cuts from the car hitting him.
Robin just sighed and mumbled "Yeah, if that's right then I must be adorable all the time."
"You got that right sweetie," Reggy replied. Robin then sunk down farther into a slouch at the fact that Reggy heard him. Robin's glasses then began to slide down his nose, exposing bright blue eyes. He finally finished scribbling down the last equation on his paper and sighed with relief. He sat up straight and pushed his glasses back up. He looked over at Reggy who was now trying to pick up one of Robin's pencils, and failing at it. Robin rolled his eyes and got up to go get something to eat.
"You do realize that only the most angry, or the most focused spirits can lift objects," Robin said giving Reggy a side glance, who stopped and looked at Robin, "and I know that you're most definitely neither of the two."
"How's that?" Reggy asked resting his chin in his hands. Robin then looked around the room to make sure no one would walk in on him, then he spoke.
"Cause, if you were angry you wouldn't constantly flirt with me, and if you were focused you would be listening to me right now."
"Hmm?" Reggy said, as he stopped drifting off, looking at Robin. Robin sighed at Reggy's short attention span and went back to ignoring him until he could talk to him again at home. Because for these past months, ever since Reggy died and realized Dick could see him, Dick has been doing what he was meant to do, which was trying to get Reggy to move on. But for some reason, Reggy hasn't been able to figure out why he can't move on, there for they can't address the problem, or fix it. So Reggy is stuck here, and Dick is stuck with Reggy following him around because, besides other ghosts, Dick is the only person who can see him.
"Hey Robin? Who were you talking to?" Superboy walked in, looking at Robin confused. M'gann followed closely behind. Robin looked over at them, then tried to think of something to say.
"Uh, no one. Just talking to myself, I just finished my homework," Robin elaborated. M'gann smiled and dismissed any strange behavior coming from Robin, and because M'gann did, so did Superboy.
M'gann started to get prepared to bake cookies, because Wally would be arriving soon, and so would Artemis, and that means that there would need to be something to distract Wally so he wouldn't fight as much with Artemis. Robin then went back over to his stuff and brought it back into his room in the mountain. As he was setting down his stuff in his room, he heard the electronic female voice from the zeta tubes ring through the mountain.
"Recognized, Kid Flash, B03. Artemis, B07."
He then walked back into the kitchen to find that both Wally and Artemis were already sitting at the island. They were slightly bickering as usual, but Wally was more focused on the fact that M'gann was baking cookies.
"When are they gonna be done?" Wally asked while bouncing on his feet.
"Soon, I'm just hoping that I don't burn them too bad, so I'm gonna watch real closely this time!" M'gann responded, with her usual glee. Wally just nodded eagerly, only then noticing the Boy Wonder enter the room, and he sped over to him.
"Hey Rob! You wanna play video games later?" the speedster questioned. Robin just cackled, then replied.
"Sure, I just have to get my hands on one of those cookies before you eat the entire tray." Robin then walked over to the kitchen, Wally close behind. M'gann was staring at the oven, and when she heard the small ding, she used her telekinesis to pull out two trays of cookies, and set them on the counter. She then poured out the cookies onto two separate plates.
"Okay, this plate is for the team, while the other is for Wally." Wally let out a "yes!" then sped over to his plate and was about to devour them when M'gann stopped him before he burned himself. Reggy laughed at Wally's antics from the corner of the room, and Robin had to stop himself from looking at him.
"Just wait a minute or two for them to cool down," M'gann said calmly, Wally pouted and then nodded. Robin just rolled his eyes and sat next to Wally at the island. They sat like that chatting a bit before Wally yelled,
"They gotta be cool enough now!" and he grabbed some cookies and shoved them down his throat. When M'gann asked if they were still hot, he nodded "no" and continued eating. The team then each grabbed one of the cookies from their separate plate.
"Wow M'gann, you're getting way better at this," Artemis commented, M'gann then replied with a small "thanks" and Artemis smiled back at her. While Wally just scoffed. "What baywatch?" Artemis questioned the speedster.
"Nothing..." Wally just continued snickering, and instead of questioning him, Artemis just glared at him and went back to eating her cookie. Robin just sighed and left the island after taking a cookie, he then plopped down on the couch in front of the TV, Wally now following close behind.
"So dude, what're we gonna do later besides video games, 'cause Bats promised no missions for today. And, as you know, it's Friday! So nothing's going on tomorrow!" Wally then started to rally off different things that they could do tomorrow and later tonight. Then M'gann jumped in suggesting movies they could watch, and she even suggested having a slumber party. She was talking about how they could all sleep out here in the main area in front of the TV.
While the rest of the team joined in on the conversation, Robin was just trying to block out Reggy, who had decided that it would be good for him to right now start rambling on about how he was getting better at making breezes in areas, and making the temperature drop. So now Robin had two completely separate conversations going on around, and at him. It was becoming agitating to say the least. Robin just wanted to yell at them all to shut up, but the team were talking at a regular level that shouldn't be annoying, and he couldn't tell Reggy to shut up without looking crazy. So, he saw it best that he leave.
"Hey Rob, where're you going?" Wally asked as he noticed that his best friend was leaving the room. Of course now the whole team stopped what they were doing to look at the Boy Wonder. Robin just flashed a smile at them and spoke.
"Just gotta ask Bats something, so I'm getting my other communicator so we can talk, I'll probably be in there talking to him for a bit anyway, so just call me back in when you guys decide what to do." That was a viable enough explanation. Plus, everyone knows how secretive bats can be, so no one questioned it.
"Oh, okay. We'll call you back in later," Wally said with a bright smile, although you could see that he was sad to have his best bud not sitting on the couch with him anymore. Robin just nodded then went down the hall into his room, and not known to the team, he wasn't alone.
Reggy was following him into the room, still talking all the way. But once they were in the room, Robin turned to face Reggy, looking him in the eye.
"Reggy, stop talking for a second." Reggy looked back at him, and stopped. He nodded for Robin to continue. Robin sighed and sat down on the bed, he slipped off his sunglasses becoming Richard Grayson. He patted the spot next to him telling Reggy to sit. Reggy sat down, luckily this time not fazing through the mattress. He really is getting better, Robin thought.
"Reggy, I think that right now we need to keep trying to figure out what's keeping you here, 'cause if we don't, soon you might never be able to leave, and that might drive me insane," Dick stated plainly to Reggy. Reggy just sat there ogling at Dick because he had taken off his sunglasses.
"Reggy!" Dick shouted, snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Hmm? Oh, sorry..." Reggy replied now back in focus. Dick just sighed and went back to business.
"Okay, we need to really find out what's been keeping you earthbound, so we can resolve it, and you can move on," Robin explained once again.
"Yeah, okay, but what happens after I 'move on'," Reggy asked putting air-quotes around 'move on'. Dick just sighed and continued.
"I don't really know exactly, seeing as how I've never actually been there, you know, 'the light' that is."
"Well then how do you know that it's better than here?" Reggy questioned with an accusing tone.
"I don't know, but I trust that it is, all things considered," Dick stated.
"What exactly have you 'considered'?" Reggy once again pried.
"I've considered all the other ghosts I've helped, and the fact that they say when they're about to enter that they see dead family members and friends, and they feel warm and happy." Reggy just pouted at that.
"I don't have any dead family members I like, and I don't have any friends in general, just you. Besides, how can you be sure about the light in the first place regardless of what the other ghosts say?" Reggy asked. Dick sighed again.
"Well, what do you think happens to the ghosts that don't have unfinished business, so they don't stay on Earth?" Dick asked, he used a voice that would commonly be used when an adult was trying to explain something to a child. Reggy frowned at that.
"Uh... go into the light?" Reggy tried to make it sound like he didn't know what happens to those people so he wouldn't have to state his reason for staying on Earth. Even though he did have a reason, but he just didn't want to say it, because if he did, it would only make things awkward.
"Correct. They have already moved on from the world of the living so they don't need to stay here." Reggy just sighed slightly, and Dick just stared at him waiting for him to say something. Dick was waiting for Reggy to tell him what was keeping him here.
"Cool... about the whole 'moving on' thing... But I just..." Reggy trailed off hoping that he could avoid telling Dick what was keeping him earthbound, he had been avoiding it for the past six months after all.
"Just what?" Dick asked semi harshly which he probably shouldn't have done.
"It just that I really really like you and If I go into the light that means I won't be able to talk to you until you die... and you're really the only person that ever even bothered to try and be nice to me when I was alive, and... and I really don't want to have to lose someone that is so important, that someone who happens to be you..." Dick looked at him semi awestruck, and couldn't reply. He knew that Reggy liked him like that, but he hadn't realized he had gone far past that. He was in love with him.
"O-oh... well... that's no excuse. You still have to move on, besides, in my line of work it's not like I'm gonna live 'till I'm a hundred," Dick said trying to kill the awkward and lighten the mood. Reggy laughed slightly at his dark joke then smiled at him with bright eyes.
"Thanks I guess... and, I guess I'll start working on really moving on." Dick smiled at the fact that he may have just made a breakthrough with Reggy after all these months. Reggy smiled back at him. Dick let out a subtle sigh of relief and put on his sunglasses. He then left his room, knowing Reggy was trailing close behind, and went to see if the others had decided on something to do tonight.
"Oh! Rob, hey! We figured out what we're gonna do tonight!" Wally shouted to Robin, once he saw him enter.
"Cool, but I'm not staying at the mountain tonight, just a warning," Robin said smiling. Wally seemed to darken at the fact that Robin wasn't to stay the night, but he seemed to push it aside quickly and brightened back up.
"That's fine, we'll just plan this so the movie we planned to watch will end before you have to leave." Robin nodded, and the rest of the team seemed in agreement.
"So, what are we gonna watch?" Robin asked taking a seat on the couch. M'gann brightened at the question.
"Because it's October, we decided that in celebration of the Earth holiday 'Halloween' we should watch Haunted Mansion," M'gann said with glee.
"You mean the movie with Eddie Murphy?" Robin asked, he could already hear Reggy talking about how he "loves that movie" and how he "can't wait to watch it again".
"Yep, that movie's a classic. Plus, we didn't want to scare M'gann to death with any real scary halloween movie," Wally responded. Robin nodded, and tried to block out Reggy's yammering.
"Makes sense," Robin offhandedly replied. They all then abandoned the conversation, and went back to what they were doing. Robin pulled out his computer, and began checking over case files that Batman had organized. But it was hard to concentrate with Reggy sitting awful close, trying his best to snuggle next to him, but that's kinda hard considering he's dead.
"Reggy..." Robin mumbled out of the corner of his mouth, hoping that no one heard him.
"What...?" Reggy mumbled back, trying to snuggle closer, even though he knew Robin couldn't feel him for real, just his presence.
"If you scoot any closer, you'll end up inside me," Robin mumbled back, while everyone was too wrapped up with what they were doing.
"Is that so?" Reggy asked, his voice getting higher at the end. He then scooted closer.
"Wh-what?" Robin stuttered, growing bright red, realizing just how wrong what he said sounded. "That's not what I meant, and you know it!" Robin whisper screamed. Reggy laughed at Robin's embarrassment, then scooted away to a more comfortable, platonic, position. Robin then sighed, and looked up, only to make eye contact with Superboy, who was looking at him weird. 'Crap! He probably heard me!' Robin internally screamed at himself.
Superboy was still staring at him, so Robin just nodded "sup" to him and acted as if nothing was wrong. Superboy just narrowed his eyes a little more, then he shrugged slightly, and looked back to M'gann, who was making more cookies for tonight, and Wally.
Robin let out a sigh of relief and went back to what he was doing. Reggy looked slightly guilty for getting him caught talking to "nobody".
"Sorry?" Reggy said smiling, hoping he wouldn't get yelled at for this later. Robin gave him a side glare, then shook it off and continued working.
Luckily for Robin, the rest of the night went smoothly. They watched Haunted Mansion, which for some reason, was funnier with Reggy mouthing all the words and making funny impressions. But he couldn't laugh, so he just had to hold in his snickers. He got a weird look from Wally, who later asked what was funny, besides the obvious, which was the movie. Robin just said that he'd seen this movie a lot, and that it get's better everytime. Which it totally does, by the way. Wally bought what he was selling, and Robin went happily through the movie, laughing all the way.
Robin left when the movie was done, and it seemed like Wally kept trying to make him stay, but he told him that he had "bat business". Once Robin got back to the manor, he immediately changed into his 'comfy clothes' and said hi to Alfred, telling him he finished his homework before asked, and then he asked where Bruce was.
"Master Bruce is currently on patrol. He would have asked you to accompany him, but he knew you were spending time with your team, and decided not to intrude." Dick smiled and nodded, glad that Bruce wasn't just not including him. Dick then went up to his room, and shut the door. When he turned back around, Reggy was sitting on his bed.
"Really Reggy? Sometimes I want to be alone, you know?" Robin said, then he went to his desk to work on his laptop. Reggy just shrugged.
"Do you want to be alone?" Reggy asked. Robin just looked at him straight in the eye.
"Yes." Reggy nodded, and disappeared. Robin sighed in relief, finally alone...
"Robin." Robin almost jumped out of his skin. Batman's voice crackled through his comlink, Robin sighed and pressed it to his ear, before pressing the button on the side.
"Robin here, currently Dick Grayson however," Robin responded after taking a second to calm down.
"Dick, I just wanted to make sure you got home okay." Robin sighed, and rolled his eyes slightly at his mentor.
"Yes, I got home via the zeta tubes from inside a high tech mountain, safely. Because there's so much danger in that." You could almost hear Batman roll his eyes.
"Good. I have a feeling that this patrol will last all night, so I'll hopefully see you in the morning." Robin mentally took note of the 'hopefully' Batman put in there. Robin responded with a "okay" and Batman cut the signal. Robin sighed and looked over at his clock.
11:46 pm
Robin decided that this was a good a time as any to get some rest, he hadn't gotten too much sleep in the past week due to patrol, training, school, and over all insomnia. He got under the covers and curled up.
Hopefully Reggy won't wake me up in the middle of the night again...
I hope that this first chapter caught your attention and you'll be willing to read the next one!
Thank you again, and review please!