A wild Robin chase

Summary: Wally really couldn't believe his eyes, but it was right there! Dick… flirting… with a GIRL? Too bad no one believed him.

The recipes are GOOD, by the way. I encourage you to try them! Easy to make and just plain YUMMY, though I suggest sharing them with friends when you bake. It makes the experience of cooking so much more worthwhile.


Recipe 2: Fresh Apple Cake
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup no sugar added applesauce
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2-3 Granny Smith apples (or other baking apple), cored and cut into 1/2-inch cubes (3 cups total)
1/4 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Generously spray a Bundt pan with nonstick spray then set aside.
2. In the bowl of an electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat butter, vegetable oil, and sugar until pale yellow, about 2 minutes. Add applesauce then beat to combine. Add eggs one at a time, beating until combined before adding the next egg. Add vanilla then beat to combine.
3. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Remove 2 Tablespoons of flour mixture then toss with cubed apples. Add remaining dry ingredients to wet ingredients in three batches, mixing until just combined before adding the next batch, then fold in apples.
4. Pour batter into prepared Bundt pan and bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. Check cake at 20 minutes - if top is turning too brown, place a sheet of non-stick sprayed tin foil on top. Cool for 10 minutes in the pan then run a knife along the inner rim and invert cake onto a wire rack to cool completely. Garnish cooled cake with powdered sugar.


Chapter One
The Legend and the League

Wally West was infamous for bequeathing nicknames to everyone he ever met. Almost as if in a world of his own, the track-team champion happily renamed people left and right without even flinching. He'd even given himself a new title, demanding to be called The Kid Flash, or Flash for short. No one seemed to care… until he ran into one Richard John Grayson.

Now, unlike anyone else he'd ever met, Dick Grayson was an old soul in a young man's body; a venerable killjoy of titanic proportions. Talented, smart, clever, witty and unbelievably fit, Dick Grayson was every boy's nightmare. It was a Godsend that they were in an all-boys school, or else the fighting would have degenerated so much more in the presence of the ladies. Dressed always in red and black, Dick was a party pooper in boots and a perpetual frown.

Wally and Dick had gotten along reasonably well at first, Roy playing the role of moderator to their hotheadedness when roommate disagreements got too intense. Until, of course, at the yearly school-wide track meet, Dick Grayson had completely shown him up by beating him in a race.

Bested in his sport, Wally West had never felt so humiliated in his life.

Ironically enough, Dick, despite being a straight A student, was always late. The teachers even picked on him, picked on him! They even named him the "Early Bird", which had been the source of inspiration in calling that damn unflappable roommate of his Robin. That had been the first time he'd ever seen Richard John Grayson flip out… and it had also won him the legendary over-the-shoulder judo flip straight out the window. Wally had bounced back like a cockroach but no one had ever forgotten the sight of him sailing through glass out the second floor.

That had, of course, made Robin famous all over the school.

Dick hadn't been pleased, but Wally secretly thought the teen was unbelievably smug about the whole ordeal. The Dean had, of course, put Dick through a dozen reproachful speeches and even made him do community service at a Detective Agency in the central part of Jump City like some criminal.

A blessing in disguise for an aspiring police officer, and to Dick's delight, the man in charge of the Batman Agency was a world-renowned detective by the name of Bruce Wayne. Even after his hours had ended, Dick continued to go, now juggling that as his part-time job plus the AP courses.

To say Wally had been furious would be like saying a tiger was as harmless as a kitten. Thus, the bullying began like a thunderstorm, unbearably loud and there to stay. Roy had tried, at first, to intervene, but Flash was determined and Robin wasn't having any of it. Between an Unstoppable Force and an Unmovable Object, Roy found it was quite the uncomfortable place to be.

Thus, Roy counted his chickens and bailed on them, from then on staying completely out of their way. Their entire floor treated the verbal fights like National Events, people actually hopping over to squat in their room just to watch the show.

That's how they met Victor, Garth and the twins. Garfield had come in much later in the picture, having been sent into the private school in the middle of the school year, but he was now a permanent part of their group.

Still, Flash surveyed the damage done to the room and positively glowed with masculine satisfaction heralding a soon-to-be-won argument.

Robin was going to have kittens.

As he waded into the chamber, avoiding the twins as they tried to charge him at super speed, he stared down at the six guilty looking boys in the room, raising a brow.

"Not you too, Speedy," his smirk was audible and Roy flinched, lowering his pillow almost dejectedly.

"They started it," he accused, appearing grouchy and terrified at the same time. It made him look like a Chihuahua, Wally thought, and it kind of suited him.

How fitting.

Beastboy scratched the back of his head, looking so guilty that Wally didn't have to be a genius to know who'd instigated the pillow fight. The redhead opened his mouth, ready to snap something incredibly witty and appropriate… and shut it with a click when the entire room seemed to rumble with the ominous arrival of Robin.

Ooh, giggidy! He though gleefully, mentally bouncing on the balls of his feet.

He turned his head only and had to visibly stiffen to stop from shrinking away from one very, very furious Richard John Grayson. Everyone froze and seemed to deflate, pressured into shivering versions of themselves under the weight of Dick's presence.

He mourned for their recently replaced window, paid for out of his own pocket.

Totally worth it, though.

To be Continued…


Kid Flash is an ass of epic proportions right now, but I love him anyway. He and Robin would be better friends if they stopped posturing, but Dick is a boy genius and too stubborn while Wally is just proud. Masculine jealousy is fun to write because men are sometimes such simpletons.

I'm loving this.

YES, Dick's middle name is John. IS THAT COOL OR WHAT?

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