Thirty Kisses: Dick and Barbara

by sleepy-geeky

Thirty unrelated ficlets written on the themes of the 30kisses livejournal community. UPDATE: Superstar

4. Safety

Title: Safety
Author: sleepygeeky
Pairing: Dick Grayson/Barbara Gordon
Fandom: DC Comics/Batman
Theme: #6 / the space between dream and reality
Disclaimer: Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Blockbuster, Tarantula, and Bruce Wayne all belong to DC Comics/Time Warner

When he manages to sleep he kills Blockbuster and Tarantula does things on the rooftop, his mistakes playing in his head over and over; he does not want it, but he can do nothing but watch from outside his own body. His dream-self knows that he is letting Bruce down.

When he wakes, screaming and in a cold sweat, he faces a world changed, a city destroyed, and friends lost.

The only safety he finds is waking to her calming him with a kiss on the forehead. Here in the space between his dreams and his realities, that is enough.