Robin was in the kitchen loading the dishes into the dishwasher when he heard the computer announce the arrival of The Dark Knight.

He quickly added the soap and turned the machine on, then whipped around to face the door.

Dick grinned as his mentor swept into Mt. Justice's living room, "Hi Batman, how'd the JLA meeting go?"

A hint of a smile ghosted over the older hero's lips as he approached his ward, "Hello Robin, the meeting was productive, overly long, but productive."

"That's good." Robin vaulted over the kitchen counter and into the adjoining room followed up with a back flip and landed gracefully before Batman, "Did you get my message?"

"Yes, since it's the weekend I have no objections."

"Awesome, thanks!"

The beginnings of a smile crossed the older male's face once more, "Where is he?"

Dick snorted and jerked his thumb toward the couch, "Still passed out over there. He's pretty out of it, even slept through a grease fire and Super boy's 'help'." the Boy Wonder held up his fingers to draw imaginary quotes in the air as he spoke.

"I don't even want to ask how that happened," this time Batman didn't try to hide his smile as he silently made his way over to the sofa and peered down at his protégé's friend.

Wally was laying on his stomach, one arm curled against his chest while the other hung off the couch, his head half on a throw pillow and his fiery red hair sticking out in messy spikes.

Bruce felt the stirrings of the paternal instinct he hadn't known he had possessed until he had made Dick his ward, rather than fight the impulse that was becoming all to familiar he leaned over the back of the couch, pulling the red head's blanket up over his shoulders.

Kid Flash sighed and snuggled a little deeper into his pillow.

"He's probably going to be pretty hungry when he wakes up."

Batman pulled his hands back and glanced down at his partner who was perched on the back of the couch watching his mentor, "Preparations are already being made at home. Does Flash know where he is?"

Robin nodded, "Yup, he said it was fine and Black Canary gave us the weekend off from training with her. She figured if even Flash was tired enough to take a day off then Wally could use the rest, she asked me to look out for him. I guess she figures you'll make up for any training I miss."

"I see. Did you complete the checks on the security system?"

"Yup, I'm just waiting for the last of the enhancements that I made to finish uploading themselves to the system. It should be done any minute."

"Good, and where are the rest of your teammates?"

Dick put a hand to his chin, "Hmm, I didn't see Artemis today, Kaldur is in Atlantis, Meg and Supey decided to go out to dinner after the fire fiasco, and Red Tornado is out on a mission, so I think it's just us right now."

Batman glanced up at the clock on the wall, "I'm going to fuel the jet, finish the update and see if you can get him up. You can brief me about the changes you made on the way home."

Robin offered the older hero a playful salute, "You got it. Meet you in the hangar?"

"Yes, try not to be too long."

"I'll try, might take me awhile to get sleepy-head back on his feet."

The Dark Knight nodded and left the room, his cape billowing out behind him. Once his mentor was out of sight the young acrobat leaned over to look down at his best friend.

"Hey, KF."

He paused, but the speedster didn't stir, he reached down and put his hand on the other teen's shoulder giving him a little squeeze, "Wally, wake up…dude, it's time to get up."

Kid Flash grumbled a bit in his sleep, but didn't wake, Robin sighed, "Talk about sleeping like a log."

The Boy Wonder hopped down from his perch and walked to the side of the couch so he could lean over the older boy's head, putting his mouth close to his ear, he grabbed his friend by the shoulders and took a deep breath, "Wally get up already!"

The speedster's head jerked up and his eyes snapped open, wide and unfocused. He was still half asleep when he looked up to see Robin's face just inches from his, the red head let out a startled noise and started to bolt upright, instead he got tangled in his blanket and fell off of the couch.

Dick just barely managed to avoid getting hit by falling back onto the floor, he blinked a couple of times then got on his knees and peered around the corner of the sofa, "KF?"

The speedster was blinking rapidly and trying to rub the sleep from his eyes, "Ugh, what th' heck?"

Dick chuckled lightly at his friend, "Dude, you alright?"

Wally yawned and looked at the other boy through blurry eyes, "Rob? Not cool man, you scared the crap outta me…."

Robin shrugged and got to his feet, leaning down to offer his hand to the older boy, "Sorry KF, but you wouldn't get up."

The red head yawned again, tears pooling in the corners of his emerald eyes as he reached for his friend's hand, "What did you have to wake me up for? I was having a really good dream."

"What were you dreaming about?"

Wally grinned mischievously up at him, "It was great man, M'gann was standing over me feeding me cookies."

Robin coughed to cover a laugh, "Oh really? Cookies huh?"

Wally looked suspiciously at the younger boy, "What are you giggling about?"

"Nothing, nothing, you're just such a dork dude."

Wally waved him off, "Whatever man, you're just too young to understand these things."

In spite of his mask Kid Flash could tell Robin was rolling his eyes, "Sure, that must be it, since you're two whole years older than me."

"It's more of a difference than you'd think bro."

Robin scooped the pillow and blanket up off the floor, "Not that I mind, but how come you're here anyway Wally? Wouldn't it have been easier to crash at your Aunt and Uncle's house? It's all but official that you live there isn't it?"

Wally glanced away and reached up to rub at the back of his neck, "Yeah, well…Aunt Iris and Uncle Barry haven't had a chance to spend any time together this week so I thought maybe they'd like some space y'know….?"

The speedster trailed off and Dick folded the blanket while he waited for him to continue.

He didn't have to wait long before Wally turned back to him, but didn't quite look at him, "I guess I could have gone to my parents house, but they're sort of used to having me out of their hair so," he shrugged.

Dick suppressed a sudden desire to smack his best friend's parents, "I hear you Wally, I didn't think you'd go there." he fought with himself for a moment before he continued, "You know Flash and your Aunt absolutely love having you around right?"

Wally finally looked at him and he smiled, "I called your house a couple weeks ago to talk to you, you weren't home, but I was on the phone with your Aunt for like half an hour while she told me how proud she was of you."

The red head beamed at him, "That sure sounds like her, according to Green Lantern when they're on monitor duty my Uncle does the same thing. Don't worry Rob, I know they love having me around, but I'm old enough to know they should have some space once in awhile too. So since I have a room here I figured it'd be fine for a couple of days."

"Makes sense, Batman said we can use the rooms whenever we want."

Wally put his hand up to cover a yawn, "Anyway you didn't answer me. Why'd you wake me up? I'm beat man."

"Batman's here to pick us up, we're supposed to meet him in the hangar in a couple of minutes."

"Batman?" Wally stretched up onto his toes with his arms over his head, then rolled his shoulders and ran his hands through his messy hair.

Robin nodded, "Yeah, Batman and Flash said that you could spend the weekend over at my place if you want to."

Green eyes lit up as they locked onto Robin's, "Really? Awesome, it'll be nice to just chill with my best bro for the weekend, but what about training?"

Robin grinned, "Since you were so tired Black Canary gave you the weekend off and she asked me to look out for you."

Wally smiled, "Awesome!"

Dick walked over to the counter where his computer sat with numbers scrolling across the screen, "I bet if we don't cause any trouble that Batman'll let us go on patrol together again."

Wally followed along behind the smaller boy a hand over his mouth to stifle another yawn, "Sounds like a plan Rob, there's always something exciting going down on your turf."

The Boy Wonder tapped a few keys on his laptop, "You know it. I just have to finish this up and then we can go meet Batman."

The speedster looked over his shoulder for a moment before zipping over to the fridge to extract a soda, he took a long drink then licked his lips. Wally's eye brows furrowed in confusion and he licked his lips again, "What the….?"

Robin looked up at him with his head tilted to one side, "What's the matter?"

"Dude…why is there chocolate on my face?"

Dick snorted and quickly reached up to cover his mouth, "Uh, let's just say it was a baking experiment that got a bit out of hand. Sorry KF."

AN: The promised sequel! I hope it lives up to what those of you who requested it were hoping for! I actually almost forgot to put in the explanation for the tiny drop of angst I squeezed into the last one so hopefully it fits well.