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Dedicated to a Friend
It is ironic
It started with that stomach churning when they're both close. It started with that phone call in the middle of the night. It started with the smallest skin contact. It started with that brave character inside them. it progressed into a peck. It progressed into a kiss. It progressed into a make out session. It progressed into something more than 'friends with benefit'. They became many things but something never change and that is "Dick and Babs".
How many times have they broke up with some lover just because they thought that the other was cheating with the other. They were stranger dipping into a spectacular friendship story. They were stranger dipping into an epic love story.
But they didn't have to carry so much responsibility. Dick didn't have to save the world. Dick didn't have to lie this much. Babs never had to doubt him this much. They were stranger dipping into a spectacular and epic story with a danger of the worse ending.
It was a joke. Babs said once "Dick, you're driving me crazy". It was a beautiful day even though it was raining. Their heart beating like crazy in their ribcage, like they just run from Gotham to Indonesia non-stop. It was raining and It was beautiful.
Dick gave her a book about mental illness 2 days later. They had laugh it off. They both even plan to read it to Joker, try to whack some sense into him. That was then.
This is now. Babs would always see the future, live in the moment. She would say that what happens in the past is in the past. But for once, in her life, she looks back. What they had then was beautiful, what they had now, is depressing.
Dick keep on pushing her away, Dick keep on keeping secrets, Dick keep on feeling guilty. One thing never change is the midnight phone call, She would run to his apartment and see him breaking down. It hurts to see him like this, thus she keep on looking into the past.
Things like this, makes her ask which one of them is crazy.