HAHAHA! I'm not dead! I feel it though... anyway, I FINALLY finished this chapter, and I hope you like it.

Chapter 8: Together; Rixie's POV

Recognize: Robin, B-0-1 (Finally watched it with subtitles and this is how it's written. Sorry for the change between chapters though.)

Wally wasn't all-too surprised when heard the computer announce Robin/Rix's arrival. His school district had Parent-Teacher Conferences, despite the fact that it was mostly for the younger students in the district, it didn't stop him from having a half day of school. Seemed like it was finally time that Gotham City Academy let out.

Using his superspeed he sped into the Zeta Room. He saw Rix walking out of the leftmost tube dressed in a casual black jacket, red sweatshirt, black pants and a pair of yellow converse. An odd combination but he realized that Rix, or rather Rob at this point, had incorporated all of his costume colors into the outfit. Of course, much to Wally's annoyance, his startlingly blue eyes were covered by black sunglasses with extra dark lenses.

"Hey Rob." he greeted, knowing Rix's rule on his name not being allowed in the Mountain.

"KF!" the raven replied, excitedly, increasing his step size slightly to get fully out of the Zeta Tube. "Hey." he greeted back, smiling brightly. High Fiving and holding the ginger's hand for a microsecond before releasing it.

"No one else is here." he stage whispered, the raven rolled his eyes, but still smiled.

"Good to see you too Wally." he drawled. "Whatever you're thinking is not smart."

Wally looked offended, but still chuckled. "I'm not thinking anything." even if he wasn't the son of The World's Greatest Detective the raven could tell he was lying without even trying.

Robin rolled his eyes. "Batman isn't working today, it wouldn't surprise me if he has the feed running on one of the monitors."

Actually, that is a good reason. Wally thought sourly. Rix's father, over-protective father, was Batman. Best not to make him angry.

Robin's hand grabbed his, squeezing it slightly. Drawing the ginger back to reality. "Sorry KF." he mumbled.

Wally didn't release it, and they began walking towards the living room/kitchen area. "Pfft, you don't need to apologize, it's not your fault you have an over-protective Daddy-Bats." Robin chuckled at the terms, which made Wally grin, since he had thought of that over the weekend and was just waiting for the right time to use it. "So, now that we've confirmed your dad wants to kill me, what do you want to do?"

Rob probably rolled his eyes underneath the lenses, but Wally couldn't tell. "First, Bruce won't kill you, I won't let him." Wally would never admit that the response made him actually feel better. "And, I got the new Call of Duty game." he commented, seeming as if he didn't care if they didn't play it.

It was his dead give away. "You already hacked it, didn't you." he accused, though only meaning it in a way that conveyed he was annoyed.

Robin looked appalled. "I do not hack the video games."

Wally rolled his eyes as they paused with the hallway to their backs. "Right." he let the vowel run long to convey his sarcasm. "Says the kid who hacked the motion sensors."

The raven didn't even look ashamed, rather he looked smug. He chuckled and this time it was the one that echoed around them when he was disappearing, or already disappeared, into the shadows. "Is that a no?" a mischievous glint in his eyes.

Wally didn't even respond, he used his superspeed, grabbing snacks and running in to Rob's normally locked room.

The raven walked in calmly after him, dropping his backpack to the ground by the one dresser in the room to dig out the game he promised. Wally set up the TV and system with ease, finishing before the raven had even stood up, with the game in hand.

While they were playing Wally continuously declared that his boyfriend was cheating. Five matches in an idea came to his mind, he smirked, knowing that Rix probably ensured that Batman didn't put cameras in his room. Rix leaned forward, his lips turning into a fine line in his concentration. Barely using his superspeed he got an arm around the acrobat's waist before pulling him to sit between Wally's legs and his back to Wally's chest. Wally could feel the dark haired boy freeze. Giving Wally the victory in the match. He smirked smugly, but didn't say anything, as Robin still looked shocked and unable to even form words.

His blue eyes wide and bright, his skin gone pale, except for the very back of his neck, where Wally could see a pink tinge. "Rob, you okay?" he questioned, worried now.

"I lost." he mumbled, shock coming over his voice.

Wally couldn't help it, he just about died laughing, for an awful moment he thought he had overstepped one of Rix's and made him uncomfortable. "Now you know how I feel." he teased.

Rob's pupils shot to the corner of his eyes, just barely visible on his right side to Wally. "You cheated." he spoke calmly, but Wally shivered. Clearly he was channeling his Batman side.

Again, exactly how I feel. Wally thought slightly more amused that he was scared.

"Again." Wally nearly missed it as determination came over Rix entirely, which then snapped the redhead's attention back to the TV screen, where the game was counting down the 20 seconds before the next round would start.

The round felt three times longer than it normally did. Wally wasn't being totally destroyed by Rix (which he conceded did happen a few times) but Rix wasn't even leading. Then he was, by a mere single hit, which Wally then evened back out.

The round came to a tie, both ready to bring on a follow up round. The two smirked, unaware that the Zeta Tube had just announced the arrival of someone else into Mount Justice…

The new arrival looked around the empty with slight confusion, but knew where to begin looking for whom they searched. Surprisingly the living room was empty and the kitchen looked untouched, except for the pair of black shades on the counter. They looked generic, if it wasn't for the triangle lenses, and small spiral right behind the hinge.

"Robin?" they questioned, surprised that the Boy Wonder would not be wearing his sunglasses while in the Mountain.

"Aw man." a voice they recognized whined from down the hall.

"Wally?" they murmured, now even more surprised by the pair of the glasses on the counter.

A bout of childish laughter bounced off the walls. Proving that the Boy Wonder was not only in the mountain, but with Kid Flash. Steeling their still high-running nerves, they headed down the hall surprised that the only room open and with the light on was the Boy Wonder's. "Would it kill you to stop chewing in my ear?" the Boy Wonder questioned.

"Danger of where you're sitting." Kid Flash's voice was muffled, but after knowing the speedster for so long they knew that he was talking with his mouth full.

"I wouldn't be sitting here if you would let me go!" the Boy Wonder protested, some annoyance underlying his joking tone.

"We all know that won't happen." Wally's voice commented, finally he couldn't take it anymore, he couldn't stop himself. None of what they were saying was making any sense. He had to know what was going on.

He stepped forward, now perfectly in the doorway, though not even the son of the World's Greatest Detective seemed to notice. As he replied, looking behind him and up to the speedster's face from his spot in the redhead's lap. "Good." though a smug smirk on his face. His right hand extended to reach for the controller in Wally's also raised hand.

His brain couldn't process what he was seeing, disbelief at the change in the two he thought he knew so well.

The small distance the two boys was crossed for a moment as the speedster kissed the boy in his lap.

His eyes widened as he watched Robin not even react, or rather not react in a way that would display shock. As if this wasn't the first time they had done this.

Why didn't they tell me? He demanded of himself, blaming his selfish desires that clearly drove the other two far enough away from him that they wouldn't tell him something as big as this. He sighed, heading away before they would spot him. He nearly walked to the Zeta Tube, but decided he needed to clear his head, using the ramp to walk to Happy Harbor.

He was angry yes, but not at the two younger boys, but at himself. He clenched his hand, surprised when he felt hard, cold resistance. Looking down he found the Boy Wonder's sunglasses still in his hand.

Sliding them into his pocket, a sinking, sad feeling pooling in the pit of his stomach. He continued to make his way to Happy Harbor. Suddenly, for once, glad he was wearing his civies. He was so out of sorts that when he crossed the fence line (which I imagine to be a fair distance beyond the Mountain, so that someone can drive up and not have to slow down. Then looking like a high-tech buried electric fence.) he didn't notice that it got his name wrong.

Inside Mount Justice

Recognize: Miss Martian, B-0-5

Recognize: Superboy, B-0-4

As the two resident aliens exited the Zeta Tube, they were surprised to see no one in the training room.

"Usually the other beat us here." Conner mumbled, looking to M'gann as she allowed her skin to shift from caucasian to green.

She hummed in agreement, then her eyes glowed a startling green, then returned to her brown-gold colored irises. "Robin and Kid Flash are in the Mountain, almost seems like they're in their rooms."

That would explain why Conner couldn't hear them, the rooms were soundproofed. Both for Conner's sanity and for everyone else's comfort. Then the hallway was noise dampening, meaning that if Conner was in the Living Room the noise from an open door would be a soft whisper (in comparison to normal speech) to the half human-half kryptonian.

As the two walking into the living room they heard the arguing between the two members they knew to be in the Mountain.

"You're imagining things." Wally's voice sounded slightly annoyed and rooted with humored disbelief.

"Wally, look at the time!" Robin's voice nearly shouted back.

There was silence. "Alright, alright, I'll go check." he muttered walking out of the room both recognized as Robin's. "Alright Rob, you were right. Supey and Miss M are here." he conceded seeming saddened, but still happy still to see the other two members of the team.

"Still need my glasses." the younger teen's voice shouted. Wally blushed and zoomed past M'gann and Conner keeping his speed lowered, but faster than even M'gann could while she was levitating.

"Hey Wally." M'gann greeted with her usual bright smile.

"Hey Supey, hey ba- M'gann." he corrected himself, much to Conner's curiosity, but also relief. Then the speedster frowned. "Have you guys seen a pair of black sunglasses?"

Now Conner and M'gann looked confused too. "Like the ones Robin wears?" Conner questioned, noticing the redhead's gaze returning to a spot on the bar height portion of the counter.

"Not like Rob's, they are Rob's." Wally corrected, then sighed. "Are you sure you left them here?"

There was a groan as Robin emerged from the hallway, a pair of glasses on his face, but the black was duller, to the point where Conner could just barely make out the outlines of the younger boy's eyes, irises, and pupils, though no color was discernable. Not to mention the lenses looked broader, bigger, rounder than the pair he normally wore, and the frames looked like they were plastic rather than metal. "Yes, I'm sure, Kid Idiot." he grumbled, though when he caught the look of genuine hurt on Wally's face his own features softened. Conner could now see that as his scowl faded the corners of his eyes dropped. "Sorry, it's just that Batman's going to kill me if I lost them."

"We didn't see them." M'gann spoke, catching the raven's attention.

"And no one else has been in or out of the mountain." Wally continued, small smile forming, clearly still hurt by Robin's snap at him.

"So they're still here, somewhere." Robin murmured. Conner saw his eyes crinkle as his eyebrows drew together.

"Did you leave them with the game disks?" Wally questioned.

Robin waved it off. "I know they're here in the Mountain, somewhere, I can find them later." he gave no one any reason to argue. "Just stay whelmed." That got them all smiling again.

Recognize: Artemis, B-0-7

Recognize: Aqualad, B-0-1

Recognize: Black Canary, 1-3

"Better get ready for training." Wally spoke up, using his superspeed to squeeze Robin's hand before bolting out of the room.

The raven felt the redhead clutch his hand, but then it was gone and he found his hand startlingly empty. Had we been holding hands the whole time and I didn't realize it? It was possible, unlikely, but possible. That brought up a new question, however. Did Miss M and Superboy notice? He easily determined that it either hadn't happened or they hadn't noticed, not that he was surprised after the Belle Reve Mission they were actively romanticizing with each other. Did Wally notice? He wouldn't put it past the redheaded speedster, but it seemed unlikely.

"Hey guys." Artemis' voice brought him back to reality. She was dressed in her uniform, bow and quiver on her back. However, he knew that she kept a few varying outfits in her closet in the mountain as opposed to his basic ones and two new uniforms. "Where's Baywatch?"

On cue the redhead zipped past the blonde, startling her and ending up in the kitchen where he grabbed on of his high-calorie protein bars. "Right here." he commented, his mouth half full of food.

Robin shot him a look before he even realized what he was doing. Wally swallowed and looked sheepish. The raven frowned, not understanding Wally's reaction, but mouthed "Alfred" to him and Wally's smile returned as he chuckled.

"Team." Canary's voice spoke from behind them, getting all five to turn nearly in sync with each other to face her. "You ready for training.

There was a chorus of yeahs which prompted her to head back out of the room and wait for them to follow her.

M'gann and Conner almost silently left for their rooms, both of them still having their backpacks and wearing their school clothes. Artemis barely glanced at the other two boys before she followed Canary towards the Training Room.

Wally watched, mildly surprised as Rob's eyes flicked between the two hallways, apprehension in his not-so-guarded eyes. "Rob?" he questioned, before taking another bite his bar. "Are you okay?"

His gaze came to a stop on Wally, "I'm okay, let's go." giving the redhead no room to argue as the tanner, the smaller hand grabbed his and practically pulled him towards the training area.

"Wow, Rob, calm down." Wally watched as his shoulders tensed. "Rob," serious this time as he pulled him towards edge of the large hallway and to a less popular edge of the training room. "are you okay?" he pried again.

"I told you, I'm fine." the raven replied tensely.

"And I don't believe you." Wally replied, equally as tense, but his concern colored his voice more than the tense edge. "As your best friend, I want to know why."

They both knew that the word(s) best friend was in place of a word merely one letter shorter, but meaning infinitely more to the both of them.

"Do you want the team to know?" Robin asked lowly, so much so that Wally nearly missed it, but just because he heard didn't mean he understood it. He never needed to school his features, much less in front of the Boy Wonder. Therefore it didn't surprise him that he didn't have to vocalize his confusion. "Do you want to tell the team?" he questioned and Wally nearly questioned it, vocally this time, until he felt Robin's hand grip his own.

"Oh." was all he could manage. "Do you?"

"I'm not the one that has the entire team convinced he's straighter than a ruler." Rob reminded him, the joke only slightly humorous.

"We should tell Roy first." Wally decided. Afterall they had known each other the longest.

"What about…" Robin trailed, once again apprehension covering his eyes. "the… other thing?"

Wally's eyes sterned. "Does that affect how you feel?" he questioned.

"About telling Roy, yes!" Robin nearly snapped, just barely keeping his voice low as M'gann walked in.

"No, how you feel about me." Wally nearly snapped back. "It doesn't bother me, but does it bother you?" his tone going towards accusatory.

"What, no- Wally- of course NOT!" he finally managed to get out, but it was a full on shout when he did.

"Everything okay, over here?" Canary questioned, walking towards the two.

"No, we're good." Wally replied, trying to smile at the thirteen-year-old.

"It's nothing." Robin replied. "It's fine." Wally caught the second meaning and nearly smiled, but just waited for Canary to turn away and Conner to walk in. Corralling the two groups of stragglers towards the ring for training.

TIME SKIP!

Happy Harbor, Rhode Island, USA, 18:30 (5:30pm)

"I don't get why Roy didn't want to meet us at the Cave, there's no other Zeta Tube near here." Wally murmured as he and Rob (though now they were both in their civies once more) headed into the diner they agreed to meet to Roy at. The first place they had been to Happy Harbor, nearly a year ago.

"Because I was already here." Roy's voice spoke from behind the two, startling Wally and making Robin tense.

"Jesus, Roy, don't do that." Wally grumbled, recomposing himself.

"Table for three, please." Roy spoke to the waitress instead of responding to Wally's annoyance.

"Booth or table?" she questioned, looking what was open and who was working what areas.

"Booth." all three chuckled.

"Follow me please." she said with what seemed like an honest smile. They did and found themselves in a quiet portion of the restaurant. Not empty, but no shouting children either. "Your server will be with you shortly." she said as she placed to menus in Wally's hands and one next to Roy's right hand.

Wally handed a menu to Rob with not even a word, suddenly it all seemed far too much, far too real, far too unpredictable.

"Are you two going say something or do I need to guess what this is all about?" Roy questioned, barely glancing up from the menu.

Robin and Wally exchanged a look, ready to give the older boy the response he deserved. "Can you promise you won't get mad?" Robin questioned, his voice quieter than normal.

Roy stopped looking down at the menu, his blue eyes looking to the only other pair of eyes he could see. Wally's malachite green ones. "Depends, if you two are being stupid, then I will probably get annoyed. If you're being beyond stupid then I will probably get mad." the two winced, that was a true assessment of Roy, when he was mad, there was either furious or not at all. No in-between. "How about this, I won't get mad unless you two give me a good reason to be."

The younger teens shrugged, that was really all they could ask for.

"So, what is it?" Roy questioned after the two were silent for awhile.

The thirteen-year-old turned almost as red as Wally's hair, much to Roy's surprise, while Wally also gained a tinge to his face that wasn't very common.

Robin reached up and grabbed the edges of his sunglasses. "What are you doing?!" Roy demanded, drawing some attention, but when nothing else happened they all turned back to their own conversations or meals.

The thirteen year finished taking off his glasses, setting them down on the table, before his bright blue eyes met Roy's. "Pleasure to meet you Roy Harper, I'm Rix Grayson."

Roy blinked in shock, then again. Then again. Then twice quickly, until his brain was finally able to process what he had just been told. "W-why?" he managed to question.

The thirteen year old's dark hair shifted and a strand landed directly in between his eyes, as he tipped his head slightly. "Your my friend, we've known each other for ages, I trust you."

Roy nodded, remaining silent, then noticing the silence from the other redhead. "You knew?" it wasn't accusatory, but more about curiosity.

Wally nodded, and opened his mouth to respond.

"Hi, sorry about the delay, my name is Marinette and I will be your server tonight, do you want to just start out with drinks or would you like to do your whole order now?" the raven, who's hair seemed not as dark as Robin's and her eyes were bluebell rather than that inexplicable color the Boy Wonder's were. Not to mention her family's Western European heritage was attested by her pale skin tone.

"We'll do our whole order." Wally spoke up. Marinette gave them a smile and waited for one of them to start. "I'll have two number twos, a number three and a coke."

Marinette blinked. "Are you serious?"

Wally nodded. "Very." he affirmed.

"Alright then." she mused, jotting down the order.

"I'll have a number one, light on the onions." Robin- Rix said. "Then, I'll have a cherry coke."

"Alright." she said then directed her attention to Roy. "For you?"

"How's the number four?" he questioned, they had changed it since the last time they were here.

"It's good, little heavy on the sauce though." Marinette offered.

"That's fine. I'll have that and the Oktoberfest." he said, putting his menu on top of the other two beside Wally.

"Can I see your ID?" she questioned, sounding a little bit skeptical.

"Sure." the ginger handed her a small card from inside his wallet. She glanced it over before nodding.

"Alright, that should be about fifteen minutes, but I'll have your drinks in a few minutes." Marinette gave them one last smile before heading off.

"Fake ID, really?" Rix hissed, seeming both annoyed and disappointed in the eighteen-year-old.

"I'm only having one, okay?" he grumbled, his annoyance showing.

The two younger boys clearly didn't like it; but stopped arguing with him, much to Roy's relief. Though he almost wished they would keep arguing when he saw the still pensive looks on their faces.

"Is there something else going on that you need to tell me?" Roy finally asked.

The two exchanged one more glance, before Rix's left hand and Wally's right were placed on top of the table. Their fingers threaded together, and Rix's smaller hand being held- seemingly- tightly by Wally's.

Roy didn't even blink. "Okay." he said, though he almost seemed to be getting close to the angry that the two feared.

"Roy, we're dating." Rix said calmly.

Wally went to go back up his boyfriend where Marinette came out with a large circular tray and so did another waiter. Then again, Wally ordered three meals.

Once all the food had been placed down, the conversation was put on pause, mainly for Wally's sake, both of the non-metas knew that if you put food in front of Wally and then didn't let him eat it… let's just say it wouldn't end well.

It took Wally all of seven minutes to get to the point where he was willing to slow down and have an actual conversation, despite the presence of food.

"Are you going to say something?" Wally asked, looking at Roy, he knew that the archer knew exactly what he was talking about.

"What exactly do you want me to say?" he asked, placing down his sandwich and looked at Wally with a mixture of skepticism and anger. Something that both younger boys were used to seeing on the eighteen year old's face. Unfortunately.

Rix glanced up from his food as well. "Anything."

Roy cocked an eyebrow. "Are you two trying to get me to object?" that would be counterproductive.

"No, we… we were just expecting-"

"You to say something." Wally's tone was very different that the one Rix used to begin that sentence. Both of them were denying it, but Wally's voice had annoyance slipping into it while Rix's had hesitance holding him back.

"Like how I'm surprised that Wally's gay?" Roy offered, still seeming emotionless about it, though there was an edge creeping in on his words.

"That'd be a start." Rix admitted.

Roy's face morphed into a very angry, dark expression. "Or how it sickens me-"

"Hey!" Wally yelled.

"that the only reason you two decided to tell me was because you had to." Roy finished, his eyes almost turning into blue fire as he glared at the two younger boys.

They blinked. "What?" Rix managed.

"Don't play dumb with me, I know you know I was there, that I saw, and that's the only reason you two are telling me this now." Roy was getting very angry.

"Roy, calm down, you're not making any sense." Wally tried.

"No, I'm making perfect sense, you two just can't admit that you weren't going to tell me if I hadn't seen you!" Roy yelled, standing up as much as he could while still in his seat. Before he stepped out and glared at the thirteen-year-old and fifteen-year-old.

"That's not true!" Wally yelled back, standing up as well. "And what do you mean that you saw us?"

Roy glare intensified. "You can stop playing," he was so angry that he wasn't even yelling right now. "I saw you two in the Mountain, today!" he yelled, pulling something out of his pocket and slamming it down on the table, before walking out.

The two stared at what he slammed down, stunned, and that was all they could do because on the table were Rix's 'missing' sunglasses.

Wally was numb, unable to believe that Roy assumed that they were telling him for such a horrible reason when really it was the exact opposite. He was so numbed he didn't notice that Rix had placed his cash on the table and stood up until he barely saw the figure fly past him. Silent as ever. The only thing was, he knew where he was going. Not to mention this was something they had to do together.

So, this chapter ended up being 4,658 words and 13.5 pages long. I hope it was worth the wait! I get on Thanksgiving break after tomorrow, so I'll try to get really into Chapter 9, but I'm not sure when it'll be posted. I'm hoping to get it pretty to close to mid-early December, but considering that I'll be having exams I make no such promises. Anyway, thanks a lot, please Review, I really do love reading them. Plus, if you cast a vote on who you want to have them tell next I can to do that next.

Stay safe, Love everyone and keep the peace- BVDG1