Okay, the last short chapter!
I know Dick is a bit OOC in this chapter, but it's kind of like the one random snap he gets, so let him have it.
How long had it been since Artemis and Wally had started dating?
Dick had lost count of the days but he was sure they were coming up on their quarter year anniversary soon, seeing as Artemis was finding ways to put the words "quarter" and "anniversary" in nearly every conversation her and Wally had.
For Wally's survival, Dick prayed he would catch on. But for his own purposes (as a very lonely friend) he wanted him to forget and for that cause some horrible chain reaction causing the two to break up.
But this didn't look like it was going to happen.
For once, Dick and Wally were sitting all alone in the living room of Mount Justice and Wally look utterly distraught.
"What am I gonna do Rob?" He demanded suddenly rubbing a hand over his eyes. Dick simply shrugged and pushed back into the extremely fluffy couch,
"About?" He prodded when Wally just moaned and rolled over on the couch so his head was on Dick's lap. Dick's heart skipped a beat at the contact and his face automatically turned a bright shade of pink.
"Artemis!" Wally wailed again. Dick knew almost automatically what he was talking about, but he could still hope that for some random reason Wally felt the sudden urge to break up with her.
"What about her?" Dick questioned further, "Did she do something wrong?"
"Dude, no! Like three…or four month anniversary or three month or something is coming up! She's been all like 'you better remember the milk' and 'remember you owe me a quarter' and shit like that!" Dick raised and eyebrow,
"What does that have to do with anything?" He demanded,
"I don't even know man! But apparently she's been dropping hints about some anniversary that I had NO IDEA ABOUT!" The red head began flailing around on Dick's lap. Dick grabbed Wally's face and forced him to look up at him. Bad move. Dick's face grew even warmer at the sight of Wally's disgruntled look.
"Dude, come on, seriously? I even got that she was dropping hints." Wally groaned and puffed out his cheeks. Dick removed his fingers from the red-heads cheeks and let the taller boy continue to flail.
"I'm not good at reading her I guess." He grumbled irritably then after a painfully long silence he glanced up at Dick, "Rob…help?" He asked, Dick frowned, he hated having to help him with his girlfriend troubles. Dick was supposed to be Wally's…friend, not Artemis!
"Take her out to dinner or something!" Dick said quickly, There you go Dick, just quick like a band-aid then stop talking about Artemis. He thought to himself. "Buy her chocolates!" Wally rubbed his hand across his face, "Now, what do you want for din-"
"She's not that simple!" Wally moaned, "She has to be all complicated!"
"Get her arrows or something! I don't know!" Dick was beginning to get angry, it was one of the very few times he got to spend with Wally and they were stuck talking about the very person that had pulled them apart and who Dick had found himself loathing over the past view months.
"But! But! She'll expect that!" The speedster was getting frantic. "Come on Rob! Use that big ol' brain of yours and help me out with Arte!" Dick glowered down at him.
"I don't know!" He snapped, "I hardly ever talk to her! How am I supposed to know what she likes?" Wally rolled over to burry his face into Dick's knees,
"Maybe you should go talk to her or something…figure it out." He suggested.
"Why would I do that?" Dick questioned crossly,
"I don't know, you wanna do a bro a favor?!" Wally attempted his arms flailing forward in and exasperated attempt to get sympathy,
"I don't even li-" Dick began, but quickly fought back the urge to scream to Wally that he despised his girlfriend, even if he didn't know why he hated her, nothing personal of course, she had a wonderful sarcastic personality…it was more the fact that she had stolen Wally away from him."I hate having to do dirty work like that." Dick muttered and reached up to flick at the tip of Wally's ear.
"Please! Come on! For me?~" The older boy pleaded rolling over and looking up into Dick's shielded eyes,
"No. I don't want to ask your freaking girlfriend what she wants and I have no idea what to get her, so why don't you just get off your lazy ass and find something yourself?" Dick, honestly, had no idea where the sudden outburst had come from. Perhaps it had been a mix of adrenaline and anger that sparked it, or just the fact that Wally was infuriating when he spoke about Artemis…and didn't shut up about the damned pony-tailed witch.
"Hey man, chill I just wanted an outside opinion!" Dick reared up, nearly throwing Wally from his lap,
"Is that all I am to you now? An outside opinion on what will make Artemis happy?! Well screw that!" Dick snarled, when Wally didn't say anything in response Dick slide back against the couch with his hands over his eyes, "I'm sick and tired of never seeing you Wally! Ever! All you've done for the past, what three months, was sit there and be Artemis' little lap dog and I'm sick of it! I miss you Wally! I miss spending more then two minutes with you without talking about Artemis! I miss just being able to sit there and play video games! To just go to get lunch together and to have you steal all my food!" Dick was nearly out of steam when Wally sat up and wrapped him in a tight hug and brought him practically onto his lap before whispering into his ear,
"Rob, dude, I'm sorry. I promise I'll spend more time with you, kay? I know, I've been kind of distracted, but I promise you just call me and you can get all the Rob-Wally time you need, alright bro? Oh and umm…no homo" He chuckled and he pulled away from the Dick with a sheepish grin. Dick smiled and held up his fist for Wally to pound.
"No homo," He attempted to laugh. Although, there was a sudden ping in his chest almost crying for Wally to hug him again, to be able to be pulled back into those tones arms, back against that warm chest and just lie there and listen to his heartbeat. But he knew he couldn't, so he simply sat back against the couch and let Wally stand up and dash over the fridge.
Dick smiled regardless of his sudden outburst and rubbed at his temples. "Are you ever not eating, dude?" He smiled up at his friend who was already stuffing his face with a few dozen chips.
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