Tradition – challenge reply 3
by Chastity
231 words
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I guess it's tradition, something that every Robin goes
through.
You only have to look into Dick's eyes – or listen to
Alfred's stories – to know what he felt.
Jason… well, I don't know a lot about him. Sometimes, though, there's a difference in
his old case logs, a softness about her eyes when she remembers him, and it
makes me think.
I mean, like I said, I don't think any Robin could avoid
it. Get a teenage boy working together
with a woman as beautiful and powerful as she is and there's no denying it –
especially when she's so open and real, and the only other person who shares everything
plays at humanity like an actor on stage.
Dick and Jason, they knew her when she could still ride the
winds. I only know the part of her
that's confined to the earth. It gives
her a certain helplessness, one that's hidden within the electronic construct
she's placed around herself, but that slips out sometimes when one of us swings
through her window. Her painful
yearning just makes me care for her more.
I'm not going to tell anyone. Usually I'd talk to Dick, but if I said anything he'd roast my
balls on a spit… no, he'd make Alfred do it, because the only thing Dick can
cook is cornflake pizza.
But I think I'm in love with Barbara Gordon.