Title: Insane.
Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice.
Rating: T.
Prompt: Tiresome.
Summary: Red Arrow and Aqualad talk about the Team. Set before Season 2.
When Red Arrow came home he wasn't expecting to find Aqualad sitting in his apartment.
"If you're here to check up on me then you can just fuck right off." Roy snaps, dropping his gear onto the floor. "I don't need a babysitter just because I – "
"I am not here to watch over you." Kaldur interrupts, getting to his feet and placing the book he had been reading on Roy's patched together coffee table. "I am here seeking sanctuary."
"Sanctuary?" Roy asks, feeling the tension in his shoulders easing a bit at that. He's had Ollie and Dinah on his case far too often about 'pushing himself too far' in his efforts to find Speedy. He doesn't need Kaldur joining in as well. He just needs a friend. Someone to be on his side.
"My team-mates are . . . tiresome." Kaldur says, wincing slightly at the last word.
"That doesn't explain why you're in my apartment." Roy says, freezing when he gets a whiff of the smell coming from the kitchen meaning Kaldur's cooking something. Roy's stomach protests suddenly, reminding him just how little he's eaten in the last few days.
"It's been exhausting few weeks." Kaldur admits. "But every time I go to relax they, err, find me."
"Find you?" Roy asks, smirking. "You're trying to hide from them?"
"I adore them all dearly." Kaldur says in a desperate, honest tone. "But there is only so many times I can put up with Artemis ringing to complain about how Wally is stealing her stuff to get her attention when he's bored and how it's still my job to reign him in even though she's now his girlfriend. Or how Robin keeps posting embarrassing photos of the Team everywhere as a joke and how, as team leader, I need to be the one to remove them all and stop him. How – "
"Here's the deal." Roy says, cutting off the blond before he can really get going. Kaldur isn't one for talking a lot but when you get him on a roll he can give Kid Mouth a run for his money. "You admit that your team isn't 'tiresome' but down-right crazy and I'll let you hide out at my apartment for a couple of days so you can recover from them."
"I – I can't say that." Kaldur exclaims, "It's rude and – "
"Totally true." Roy says, heading towards the kitchen and the lovely smelling food. He pauses in the doorway to smirk at Kaldur and say, "Come on, say it."
"They may possibly– "
"Definitely."
"- be a little – "
"A lot."
"- odd."
"Insane."
Kaldur looks so guilty that Roy can't help but laugh, "Come on, fishsticks. Let's eat the food you cooked and bitch about your crazy team-mates."
Yeah, this was just what the doctor ordered. Good food and good company and who could be better company than Kaldur?
My fill for Day 2. Hope you enjoy.