"I don´t need you to tell me what to think!"
"I wasn´t saying that. You keep misinterpretating everything I say,"
"Oh, I am sorry that I am not as good a detective as you,"
Static sighted as he heard the noises from the kitchen of the Team new HD. Robin and Wonder Girl were at it again. Sometimes he really thought that Tye was a genius for dating someone who didn´t speak the same language as him. Then again there were probably many couples better at getting along, even if they shared the same first language, than Zeus´ daughter and the third Robin.
It had been almost a years since Static had joined the Team. Over the span of that time he had become good friends with Robin and Wonder Girl, as well as the three other "kids" on the Team: Bart (he was usually only called Kid Flash on missions and meetings by his friends to separate him from the original Kid Flash), Blue Beetle and Beast Boy.
"Looks like mommy and daddy are fighting again," Static looked around to see Beast Boy standing beside him.
"Yeah. Those two are just as stubborn and scary as their mentors sometimes," Static replied.
The "wonder-couple" (the name they had gotten for the simple reason that she was Wonder Girl and he the current boy wonder) had hardly been speaking to each other without arguing the past weeks. Well months to be honest. And lately it was starting to affect their relationships with their friends. Blue Beetle had taken up the strategy of avoiding being around both of them at the same time if he could (which hadn´t been that hard at late since usually they didn´t spend more time together than necessarily these days) and did his best to discretely disappear whenever they started arguing. Beast Boy did his best to ease the tension with a joke and Bart tried to play peacemaker which only made things worse the times they actually acknowledged having heard a word of what he said. Static just kept quiet or told them to safe it for another time if they had other things to do.
"I suppose this is what you get when you pair Wonder Woman's protégé with Batman's," Beast Boy said.
"I dare you to say that to their face,"
"Lets not tempt fate. I really don´t feel like getting a trunk thrown in my face´,"
"Probably a good idea. Wanna play a video game?"
"Sure, Bart's wiping the floor with Lagoon boy. Lets watch them and see if we can get a turn after that,"
Blue Beetle was standing behind Bart and watching play against Lagoon boy when Static and Beast Boy came into the HD´s living room.
"Stinking catfish," Lagoon boy cursed when Bart beat him and the game over sign popped up.
"Don't beat yourself up. there is no shame is losing for someone as crash as me. Especially since you need to be fast to win at this game," Bart said.
"For such as small person, you got a really big head," Blue said.
"Well I need enough space for all my intelligence,"
"What intelligence?" Blue retorted.
"You really hurt me, my friend," Bart said dramatically with one hand on his right chest.
"And you really annoy me by stealing my food all the time," Blue answered and gave him a nugdy.
"Hey, I'm a speedster. I need the food. You wouldn't let a friend starve. And I don't do it all the time,"
"If that friend is you, then yes, and you do steal food from me all the time,"
"Not my fault you always got the best snacks,"
Static and Beast Boy looked at each other and rolled their eyes.
"Besides, it´s not stealing, it´s scavengering," Static joked. He had heard them argue over the definition of theft and scavenger rights several times by now.
Yes, they were an odd couple those two, Bart and Blue. Practically conjoin to the hip and constantly bickering or teasing each other, but both clearly very loyal and protective of the other. Blue could get very annoyed at Bart, but he also had a strong respect for him in a way while at the same time always looking out for him like a mother hen or an older brother. Bart however loved messing with Blue and annoying him, but was at the same fiercely loyal to him. Static even expected him to have a crush on Blue, or at least some sort of a hero-worshipping like the kind a kid might have for his big brother. Maybe he hadn't had a lot of friends in the future. Static didn't really know anything about Bart's life before he came to the past (or present, depending how you looked at it) . Just that the entire human race had been enslaved by the Reach and that Blue was under their control like when he tried to take the Runaways back to the S.T.A.R. lab. Those fact told him that Bart must have had a tough life growing up, but not what he had gone through precisely.
Blue on the other hand seemed to have had the ideal childhood: good friends, a good home, great parents and a loving family.
Yeah, they were a strange pair. So were Wonder Girl and Robin, but at least Bart and Blue got along. Well except when Bart stole Blue's food. He could be generous a lot of times, but he did not appreciate being stolen from.
"Hey, guys. Aqualad wants to see us in the meeting room," Wonder Girl said leaning through the door. She showed no signs of the argument she had been having with her boyfriends moments ago.
So much for playing against Beast Boy. Well, there would be time for that later.