A/N: I was thinking of Robin while listening to "Perfect" by Simple Plan. Then I remembered this quote from Sleep Talkin' Man… He's hysterical…
Disclaimer: I don't own anything. At all. Seriously. Stop pestering me about it.
Warning: Language.
"Rob, you gotta come see this. Right now."
If Kid Flash's voice wasn't already annoying to begin with, when he was pestering the Dark Knight's protégé, he got twice as irritating. His voice turned whiny and he was always poking the younger boy to try and get his attention.
"Right now. Rob. Right this very second. C'mere. Now. Please? Pretty please? With extra sugar on top? Right now?"
Robin wished he could just punch Wally in the face, but since he couldn't, his only tool was his ability to ignore people. The same way he ignored a good majority of Batman's orders. The same way he ignored his teachers. The same way he ignored anyone who tried to piss him off intentionally. He continued to work avidly on hacking the Pentagon like Batman had requested. It was for a covert mission that the League was going on to stop some sort of terror plot, and Bruce was too busy to do it himself. So his protégé had set to work on it the night before, passing firewalls, cracking encryptions, blocking all viruses that were thrown his way, dodging security measures, and figuring out over a thousand passwords. Turns out, most of the passwords had just been the names of pets and other operations from the government. It wasn't hard for the little bird to get through his work.
Until distractions came along. Like Wally.
"Rob. Robin. Rob. Rob. Rob. Look. Come on, just look. This is the funniest thing. You gotta see it. Seriously, look. Looooooookkkk."
Then the poking started. Kid Flash's finger jabbed into his best friend's shoulder. "Robin, look." His finger jabbed the younger boy again. And then again. Again. And again. "Rob."
Ignoring him was typically easy. If he was halfway across the room and it had just started two minutes ago. But Wally had been at it all morning. It had started with Robin being too busy to eat breakfast with the speedster who had arrived at Mount Justice promptly at seven o' clock. The two had been at the same routine for weeks. They'd eat whatever mush Miss M made them, no matter what, and whoever puked first would owe the other a few bucks. Robin hadn't paused from his work that morning to do that. Hack the Pentagon or get a few bucks from his best bud? How often would he ever get to hack the Pentagon? With permission from his mentor? Um, never. So he'd chosen his work.
Then, later, Wally had pestered Robin to train with him. Megan had gone shopping with Superboy to get him a bigger wardrobe. The girl had insisted that he needed new boots and some sort of shirt that wasn't so obvious. So they'd headed out to the mall, leaving Wally to fend for himself with entertainment. Usually, he'd go hit on the green-skinned girl, but with her gone, he could only hang out with Robin. Who was still busy. The acrobat had continued to work despite how irritating his friend was being.
Then, to harass the little bird further, the redhead had plopped himself down with his own laptop beside the Boy Wonder in an attempt to imitate him. So for the past two hours, Wally had been perched on the couch beside Robin and had been mimicking everything he did. Of course, he wasn't in the Pentagon's mainframe, so there was no harm done or anything.
"Dude, look." Wally poked Robin's cheek. "Dude. Dude. Rob. Dude. Look. It's funny. Look. Please? With sugar on top?" Wally poked his best friend again in the shoulder and then his cheek once more. "Dude. Seriously. Look. It's funny. Really. I'm not kidding. Just take, like, three seconds."
And in those three seconds he could've looked, he could've been slammed with viruses that would wipe out his entire computer, his hacking codes, his passwords, and all his gaming data. No way was he looking away for even a second. His job was too important.
Wally got even more annoying. "Robin… What's your middle name? Oh, and your last name. I need to do the whole 'Nagging Mom' thing. You know, say the full name and crap."
Still, Robin continued. He really had to keep up his defenses now. Wally was playing dangerously close to Robin's weak points. If anyone knew how many holes there were in his armor…
"It's funny. You'll laugh. Just look. Please? Pretty please? I'll stop bothering you for the rest of the day, promise! I swear, cross my heart and hope to die!" Wally elbowed his friend this time, the younger boy tilting to one side before righting himself once more. "C'mon, Rob. Like, two seconds, promise!"
Well… if it meant Kid Flash would stop harassing him… With a huffing sigh, Robin looked over. "What is it?"
The same finger the ginger had used to poke his friend was then pointing at a line on the screen. "Read it, read it, read it!" he chanted like a little kid, his voice getting higher with each word. "It's Sleep Talkin' Man!"
As his hidden blue eyes skimmed over the words as he read them aloud. "Back off Robin, Batman is my bitch now." The child's eyes widened a bit. "You're just a bitch's bitch, bitch." And Robin looked up to his friend, his eyes leaving the computer screen. "What is that?"
"This British guy talks in his sleep. And for some reason, he was talking 'bout you and Bats. I just found it too friggin' funny." A grin was spread across his freckled features.
"He called me a bitch…"
"I noticed. That's why it was so funny!" The redhead's grin grew until it was ear to ear. "Rude, but very funny."
"True, true." And Robin turned back to his laptop to find it attempting to disable an attacking virus. "Great… Just great…" He set back to work. The Pentagon wasn't going to hack itself…
A/N: I wonder what Batman would do if he saw that quote… 0.0 I'd be afraid… Anyways! Reviews are appreciated! Adios! Thanks for reading!
~Sky
