This is another chapter idea given to me by thefayzqueen.
Good friends ask questions to get to know you better...
Everyone on the team always asked Robin questions. Questions that he usually couldn't answer due to Batman's gag order. If the guy wasn't so paranoid...Anyway, today was no exception to their curiosity. Conner asked how Robin could do all those flips when he saw the boy in the gym on the parallel bars. Zatanna asked Robin where he got that scar on his chest-a giant slash from the right side of his collar bone to the fourth rib on his left side. N-not because she was admiring the shirtless wonder's muscles or anything...that would be silly. Artemis asked Robin how come Wally and him were so close-they were lazily lounging on the couch in a weird position. Well, weird to the team, totally normal for them. Wally was sprawled out on the couch with one leg dangling off the back of the couch. When Robin had told him to move over, Wally had stubbornly replied, "If you want to be on the couch, you have to get through me." To which Robin had shrugged and simply replied, "Okay." The small ebony headed boy then lay down on top of Wally, his head on the ginger's chest, and wrapped his arms loosely around his best friend. He was too tired to argue with Wally. The young speedster, having seen from a mile away that Robin just needed to crash, said nothing and lay his arm on the young boy's back, slowly moving his hand up and down.
The boys did this kind of thing all the time. Sometimes it was Roy pinned under the couch. Sometimes it would be Wally crashing. There were occasions when the older boys would end up lounging with their head in Richard's lap. They were best friends. Who cared? Apparently Artemis. The blond archer took one look at them and said, "Okay. You guys are the weirdest 'best friends' I've ever seen." Artemis made air quotes around best friends with her fingers. "If I didn't know better..." she added under her breath. But the archer did know better. She saw the way the Robin looked at Zatanna.
Megan came in and asked if anyone wanted the freshly made blueberry muffins she had made. Wally felt Robin tense for a second then relax back into Wally. "No thanks, Miss M. I'm good."
"Oh, come on. It's not like they're poison, or anything." Megan tried to tempt the team hacker.
Wally rolled his eyes. Enough was enough. He had been listening to the team ask their stupid questions for weeks now, and Robin was always trying to dodge answering them. Most because he wasn't allowed to talk about, some because, he just couldn't. "They are to him, Megan."
"What?" the Martian girl asked innocently.
"Rob's allergic to blueberries. Big time. And Conner, he can do all those flips because Bats is a Nazi when it comes to training. He expects nothing short of perfection." Okay, so that wasn't the whole truth, but it was good enough. "Zatanna, Robin got the scar from a fight with Two-Face. The coin didn't like him very much that night, so he has about four other scars because of it. The one of his chest was from a white hot poker dragged across his chest." Robin cringed into Wally's chest when Wally said this. The speedster just tightened his hold on his little brother and continued. "And Artemis, I swear if you make one more joke about us being gay, I am going to kick your teeth in! He's like my little brother. We're so close, because we've known each other since before either one of us was a side kick. And this," Wally gestured to the way he and Robin were arranged on the couch, "is because Robin is exhausted from however long of a patrol he pulled with Batman and he's about to crash. Robin sleeps better after a battle with a psycho if he knows someone's there." Wally finished with a glare at the open mouthed archer.
"Wally," Robin complained in embarrassment. Sure, the thing about the blueberries wasn't that bad, but his big brother airing out all the other stuff to the team? Especially his liking to sleep with someone after a tough patrol? That was a little awkward.
The red head rolled his eyes and rubbed Dick's head. "Yeah, just go to sleep." Wally gently commanded. Robin was about to say he wasn't tired, but he was cut off by a huge yawn that he failed to stifle.
"Oh, no. You're not tired at all," Wally sarcastically commented to Robin's unspoken denial. Robin didn't comment. He was already drifting into unconsciousness. Everyone looked on as Wally slowly removed his best friend's sunglasses. The girls were all about to comment on how adorable it was when Wally gave them a hard look. "Any of you wakes him up, and I will hunt you down. You have no idea how hard it is to get this kid to actually sleep. This is one of the few ways that actually works." Everyone nodded, wide eyes at the tone the usually jovial speedster was using. Suddenly, Wally was all smiles again. "Great. Now make sure you save me a muffin," Wally added as he ever so gently started to deftly maneuver Robin around so he was sitting in Wally's lap, head now leaning on the ginger's shoulder. Then, Wally lifted him up, bridal style and started walking to the hallway with everyone's rooms.
Once Wally was out of ear shot, Megan gushed, "Oh, my gosh! Is Robin sleeping the cutest thing you've ever seen or what?" Artemis nodded in agreement.
When Wally lay Robin down on his bed, the younger boy's hand shot out and latched onto Wally's shirt. "Don't leave," Dick muttered.
The red head rolled his eyes. He was in full big brother mode, where did the sleeping bird think he was going? Still, Wally got out of the chair he was sitting in and slid into bed with Dick once again on top of him. That helped Dick sleep better, anyway. If the young boy could reach out and grab someone, then he felt secure enough to sleep. That was what Wally was here for. The speedster also made sure the the lamp on Robin's nightstand was on so that Robin wouldn't wake up in the dark. Too often, when Robin was kidnapped by some villian, he would wake up in complete darkness. That was why he was afraid of the dark...not that the boy wonder would ever tell that to anyone on the team, aside from Wally, obviously. They would never-could never-understand the horrors that he had seen in the dark. Wally didn't totally get it either, but he understood enough to know that Robin needed a light on when he slept. Whether it was light from the moon, or the TV. Heck, if it was a cloudy night, or there was just no moon out, Dick had on occasion had a nightlight on in his room. Wally knew all of this and so much more about the bird.
Sure, everyone on the team was friends with Robin. KF knew that they would all do practically anything for the kid. But none of them would ever know the things that a big brother knew about his little brother.
...but a best friend could write an embarrassing biography about you.
Not all of that was embarrassing, but the point is that no one knows Robin-or Dick-like one Wally West-or Kid Flash. Thanks again, thefayzqueen for letting me use this!
