Hey y'all~ thanks a lot to anyone who reviewed/followed/favourited it means a lot ^.^

Anyways, I'll be getting into the more plot-ty stuffz, so if you were here for sex... that's not until a bit later! :3

Warning: no lemon this chapter :( sad, I know.

The Morning After- Almost

Dick woke up briskly at 6:00 am the next morning- well, briskly isn't quite the word Dick would use.

He groggily woke up, and glanced at the neon green digits shining in the morning darkness. After a half hour of failing to fall asleep again, he went to take a shower; Biology wouldn't start until 8 anyways.

However, when he came back from his shower, it was 7:56, and the Biology building was halfway across campus. Frantically, Dick pulled on a shirt too big, boxers too small, pants too loose, a sweater too tight and ran out the door, vaguely hearing Wally shouting, "WHERE ARE YOU GOING? I MADE YOUR OMELETTE AND TOAST!"

Luckily for Dick though, the Biology exam started late due to a problem with the photocopier; turns out trying to get 500 copies of a 5 page Biology test until 5 minutes before the test wasn't a good idea. Apparently.

Unluckily, when he reached the section on cellular respiration, his mind drew a blank, and all he could smell was the scent of Wally on the clothes he picked up. Not exactly unwelcome, but very distracting given what transpired early in the morning before the exam.

Why did Wally wear such strong cologne? He almost sneezed- as he felt the sneeze approaching, he pinched his nose, stopping himself from making a very loud "AAAAAAAAAAAAAACHOOOOOOOOOOO!" in the middle of an exam.

He panicked further as he saw the exam proctor picking tests from his peers, he rushed to finish the multiple choice section and quickly scribbled something about the endosymbiotic theory for the written section.

He breathed a sigh of relief as they were allowed outside of the exam room; it was 10:30, he probably had enough time to head back to his room and get breakfast from Wally.

Wally leaned on their table, nibbling on a piece of bread, "Hmmm im ooooo?" he asked incoherently as Dick walked through the door.

"Chew, swallow."

The redhead grinned, swallowing before speaking again, "How'd it go?"

"Okay... I think. Where's my omelette?"

"A bird came in, stole our plates, and fed it to her hatchlings."

Dick rolled his eyes, "I'm hungry, where is it?"

"I'm serious." Both stared at each other for five minutes, Wally's eyes stern.

"Then make me a new one."

"She stole all of our eggs too."

"Did she take your brains as well?" Dick asked, knocking on Wally's forehead.

"I don't wanna make another one!" Wally whined.

Dick kissed his cheek, "You instigated the fuck's sake agreement, you have to follow through. Or I'll use the five rule punishment of our Roommate Agreement."

Wally sighed, sliding off the table, making his way to their fridge, pulling out two eggs.

"So, what happened between you and Artemis?" Dick asked, getting a glass of water.

"We were fighting a lot lately; there were too many obligations on both sides to uphold, neither of us wanted to do any of them any more. I think she was too demanding, too emotional, and too shut off. She says I was too hesitant, not there enough, and distracted," Wally said breaking open the eggs and whisking them.

Dick was dumbfounded, for the passed six months or so, all you'd see was Wally and Artemis together. Dick really only saw Wally alone when they were together in their dorm room late at night or early in the morning when Wally was snoring asleep in his bed or when they were both getting up. Although, lately, Dick did sense a rift between the two love birds... he also thought that Artemis was getting more and more detached and emotional. Which really wasn't a good combination.

Regardless, Dick had more questions, "Do you still love her?" Wally began grating some cheese.

There was a pause, and Dick could tell what Wally was thinking- did he still love Artemis?

"I love you," Wally said nonchalantly, dodging Dick's question, buttering up a slice of bread.

Dick held onto his glass of water a bit tighter, "Answer the question."

Wally oiled up a frying pan, "Yes and no."

"In what way yes, in what way no?" Dick released his tight grip on the glass of water, taking a sip.

Wally began turning the bread into toast, "I still care for her, and I wish her the best, in that way I still love her. But, I don't think I hold romantic feelings towards her anymore."

Dick almost sneezed, yet again. He pinched his nose before getting out a nasal but all the same sincere, "I'm sorry."

Wally patted Dick on the head, placing the newly made cheese omelette and slice of very buttery toast in front of him, giving Dick the most reassuring smile he could muster with his current mental state, "Don't be."

"I love you too, by the way," Dick got out, before devouring his breakfast.

"What?" Wally asked, surprised.

"While you were dodging my question you said 'I love you' to which I responded with 'Answer the question,' but I'm telling you that I love you too."

Wally was playfully indignant, "I was not dodging your question."

"You dodged my question like people playing dodgeball dodge balls. You tried and failed as I got you anyways," Dick said, playful as well, finishing off his breakfast.

"Hey, wanna have sex?" Wally asked, his eyes slightly dulled.

Dick contemplated the idea for a moment, but took another look into Wally's darkened eyes and shrugged, "Okay." And like that, for a brief, indescribable moment, Wally's eyes shined again.

"You know, I disapprove of you consoling Wally with sexual activities, Dick," Kaldur reprimanded, while they were studying

The two were in Kaldur's dorm room, sitting on Kaldur's bed.

Dick sighed, "he was heartbroken! He may have covered it up with silly words, but his eyes said everything."

Kaldur put the textbook down, "Wally is a grown man, Dick. I know that the two of you are best friends, but I am certain that you can find more constructive, more effective, and more meaningful ways of consoling him and satisfying yourself."

"Excuse me!? I am not taking advantage of Wally's saddened state to satisfy my own libido!" Dick flared up hotly.

Kaldur raised his hands, "I apologise, that was ambiguity on my part. I know that you are not using Wally to satisfy your libido, but I meant that you should find better ways to ease Wally's torment as well as your concern for Wally's torment."

Dick felt slightly stupid, "Sorry, Kaldur. I know you mean well. I guess I'm more torn up about Wally than I thought."

"It is okay, Dick. I am here for a reason," Kaldur said knowingly, soothingly.

"And then the two of you went ahead and did the nasty?" Roy asked, setting down two cups of coffee.

The two were in Roy's apartment, sitting across the wooden table from each other.

"Yeah," Wally replied mechanically.

Roy seemed a little curious, "Were you on top?"

"Yes...?" Wally asked, a little bewildered.

"Nice."

Wally rolled his eyes at Roy's one-track mind, "I'm not giving you details about my sex-life so you can fantasise about it later, Roy."

Roy chuckled, "I know, I know. So anyways, Dick brought up a good point, do you still love Artemis?"

"I already said yes platonically, no romantically."

"No, you said 'yes platonically, I think not romantically.' You also told Dick you loved him."

"I'm well aware of what I said, Roy," Wally snapped.

"Are you sure?" Roy snapped back, standing up, "Do you realise the connotation that you give when you say you love someone when they're asking about someone else? Are you even aware of what your implications are of saying 'I think' for romantically but a certain 'I am' for platonically?"

"What does that have to do with anything!?" Wally asked angrily.

Roy sighed, sitting back down, rubbing his forehead, "If you don't know, I can't help you."

"Wow you're spending too much time with Kaldur and Jade. There's too much wisdom and too much mystery coming from you."

"Spending a lot of time with my best friend and girlfriend, what a shocker," Roy said, watching as a smile tugged at the corners of Wally's lips. However, something was still off.

Roy sighed, and reached out for Wally's hand, "Firstly, if you tell anyone we held hands, I will hunt you down and kill you. Secondly, be careful about what you say to Dick: he can read people like books, thinks too much about what he hears, you're flipped open to the chapter on your heart, and perhaps not speaking from there."

"And it looks like you'll be making breakfast for a week," Dick happily chimed, as he entered his dorm room.

"What? Why?" Wally asked, getting up from his bed, leaving his textbooks there.

Dick showed him his Biology final- a red 80%, with an A written next to it plastered the front page.

"Dude, this is an A," Wally said, sticking his finger onto the big red 'A'.

"Only because of the bell curve, 80% is still a B."

"Nuh-uh!"

"Yuh-huh!"

Wally flicked Dick's nose. Dick flicked Wally back back.

They ended up in one of those cartoon dust clouds of fighting, before ending up crashing into Wally's bed, where all his textbooks rained down on them.

Dick rubbed the back of his head, "YEAH HUH!"

"NUH UH!" Wally said, also rubbing the back of his head.

Dick and Wally glared at each other for a moment, sat cross-legged, and then jerked their heads to glare in opposite directions. Tension thick enough to be easily cut with a cold butter knife.

They slowly looked back, eyes softened, mischievous smiles wide, "Both? Both. Both, yeah, we can do both." And the tension eased away.

Yeah... Kaldur is Dick's top secret confident and Roy is Wally's :3 Although Dick and Wally are best friends, they obviously can't really get advice about how to deal with the other from themselves, so they go to Kaldur and Roy :3 For just about everything else, it's each other.

This chapter is a bit more... um, everywhere, but it sets the stage for the future :3 Hopefully. :D

And, I the title is "The Morning After- Almost" because I still haven't fully explained what goes on due to the Morning After clause, there are several parts to it, and the only two shown in this chapter is that the person who used the fuck's sake clause is to make whatever the other wants for breakfast, and reveal what happened with their romance.

I'd appreciate it if you reviewed, so I know what I've done incorrectly, what I can improve on, and that you're still reading this and interested, and that this fic is worth continuing ^.^