It was a quiet afternoon in the Watchtower. The earth moved lazily out the large tinted windows of the main area. Inside at the consoles Nightwing and Batman sat side by side working on case reports. The room was warm and filled with the murmur of keys.

Wally dressed as the Flash sped into the room shattering the peaceful atmosphere. He was wearing a smile so tight you would have thought he'd been hit with Joker gas.

He stopped by Nightwing who was still focused on report and pretending to ignore Wally's theatrical display.

Leaning against the console, he waited for Nightwing to speak.

After 17 seconds, he did. "What put you in a good mood today?"

"I was hangin' out with Bart and showing him weird stuff from this time and his reactions were priceless. I took him to Target and he was-"Wally broke off with a loud giggle, "he was trying to smell this fruity kids' no tear shampoo and it wouldn't come out. Well he..." another snort "he, ended up squirting half the bottle in his face because he was squeezing so hard. His face looked like it was covered in bubble gum! Then he slipped in the stuff trying to run to a bathroom and body flopped on the floor! And let me tell ya, it wasn't no tear anymore, ha!"

Nightwing shook his head at the image but Batman drew his eyebrows under the cowl.

"Anyway, I came to get a few of my souvenirs to show him, but I thought you'd get a kick outta that." Without another word, he sped off to another level of the watchtower.

Once he was gone, Nightwing turned to the man beside him, who was still working on his report.

"Man, Wally amazes me sometimes. Of course it wouldn't be 'no tear' shampoo if you squirt it in your eyes." Chuckling to himself the first boy wonder turned back to his unfinished report. But Batman had stopped his at that comment and turned slowly to stare at Nightwing with a bewildered look.

"Nightwing," he began slowly, catching the other man's look, "it means no tears, as in you won't rip your hair out, not that you won't cry."

It was Nightwing's turn to look confused. "I always thought- I mean, it's made for kids so I thought it meant they wouldn't cry if some of the soap did get in their eyes. He paused for a moment before wailing, "MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LLLLIIIEEEEE"

Batman narrowed his eyes disapprovingly as Nightwing became melodramatic over this 'world ending' news, ranting about how the English language was messed up and how this was why he broke off prefixes and suffixes, because English did. Not. Make. Sense. He turned back to the report just as Nightwing finished his rant and loudly announced he had to go tell Wally.

Sometimes, it's better to leave things unsaid.