The wind whipped at Red Robin's cape, and he grabbed it angrily and held it down, lest it inadvertently gave away his position.
"You applied for college?" comes through Tim's comm-link. They are meant to be staking out a warehouse not enjoying idle chit-chat. Tim glances at Dick, who's three rooftops away, through his binoculars. Dick waves at him, and Batman shouldn't be allowed to look so cheerful in Tim's opinion. It was highly disconcerting.
"Yes" he answers, turning his binoculars back to the warehouse once more.
"To study photography?"
Tim sighs "Yes"
"Huh"
There was silence over the comm's for a few minutes before Dick pipes up again.
"I heard Cass was applying too. Maybe you could room together"
"I didn't know you were interested in Ballet" Tim muses, he and Cass are holed up in what has become their booth in a small unassuming coffee shop a few blocks from Wayne Tower. Tim chose it as a location for the two of them to meet and catch up a while ago, because the owners were nice and would never sell him out to the paparazzi, and it had become a tradition to come here whenever they wanted to talk (away from the rest of their crazy family).
"It's peaceful. It's nice to use my training, in ways that don't hurt anyone" she replies taking a sip of hot chocolate and pausing to think. "And it's beautiful"
And Tim can see it; Cass with all her instinctual movement and gracefulness would fit in perfectly. And turning all that destructive power and tricks that her father taught her into something else, something beautiful and decidedly not violent would be good for her.
"Maybe we could be room-mates" Tim asks tentatively, after all Cass may want to assert her independence, or she may want to room with Steph who was heading towards her final year.
"Yes" Cass confirms, as if there wasn't ever another alternative, and Tim was silly to even think so.
"Okay" Tim replies, and they fall into an easy silence as they sipped at their steaming beverages. This could either go really well or really badly Tim thinks. But I guess there's only one way to find out.
The flat is… small, for them at least, and looks like one of the last places anyone would have expected any of the Wayne kids to live in. The kitchen can only comfortably hold one person at a time, the water pressure in the shower needs to be looked at, and the living room… well cosy would be the kindest term. There is however a small room ("Cupboard" Cass keeps insisting) that Tim could feasibly use as a dark room, if he keeps his elbows to himself, and It has two bedrooms and rooftop access. The real selling point though, was the fact that it was just over the road from their coffee shop.
They paid the deposit on the spot.