Ch. 4 Around and Around

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Author's Note: This chapter's a bit short cause it was cut in half, enjoy :)

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Perhaps it was the combination of the unbearable heat, the incessant whining of children, and the chirpy music that wouldn't cease that caused Jason and Stephanie's anger to escalate to a level that fists would fly if allowed to continue any further. Somehow, Tim got recruited to arbitrate the quarreling robins, but unfortunately, he only managed to get them even more irritated.

Meanwhile, Dick had the dubious task of getting all of them in line for the teacup ride. He looked at them: Stephanie pointing an accusing finger in Jason's direction, shouting something about chipped paint, Jason with his arms crossed over his chest and a glare that could blow up a small town, and Tim wiping his brow of sweat while trying to get them to come to a reasonable resolution.

Dick tilted his head to the sky and pleaded a silent 'why me?' to himself and sighed.

Finding a brief pause, as they were all about to take another breath to resume their argument, Dick broke in with, "If you two are going to argue, do it while we wait in line."

In a miracle, they all got in line in peace until Jason started again with, "Tim, tell this idiot she's over reacting!"

Steph waved her hand in front of Jason's face. "Overreacting? Instead of the lovely shade that my hard earned cash bought, I got blood encrusted on them!"

"Hard earned cash? Are you fucking kidding me? You're using Bruce's money!" Jason said.

"Which Bruce has hard earned!" Stephanie fumed. She turned to Tim, hands on her hips. "Tim, tell Jason he owes me an apology for ruining my manicure!"

Jason rolled his eyes. "Well excuse me princess, I don't remember asking you to stop that fight!"

She turned back to Jason. "What was I supposed to do? Get my camera out and record you while you kill Disney characters!? The little kids crying sure would've made great background music!" Steph said sarcastically.

Tim's eyes darted back and forth between the two. His shirt was heavy with sweat and his hair stuck to his head like a helmet. He threw up his arms in exasperation, glanced over at Dick, and telegraphed a SOS signal with his eyes. The signal was not received due to Dick being busy lecturing Damian about 'running off without telling someone,' which left Tim stuck alone in his own circle of hell.

Stephanie shook Tim's shoulders and yelled, "Tim! Are you even listening?!"

He pushed her back and rubbed his ear. "Ouch. Now I'm not."

Realizing that they were now focused on him, and, seizing his only chance, Tim blurted out the quickest thing that came to his mind to dissuade them from arguing any further. "Damian went on the Dumbo ride!"

Sure enough, that brought their arguing to a halt, and both their jaws were now on equal level with the floor.

"What? No way!" Steph said when the entirety of Tim's statement sunk in.

"As if the brat would be caught dead on that ride," Jason followed.

By now, Tim had yanked away Dick's camera and proudly presented the picture with a smirk.

Both Jason and Stephanie leaned in to get a better look, and busted out laughing when they saw a determined expression on Damian's face, clutching the rail on the long eared elephant statue.

"Aw he looks so cute," Stephanie said between laughs.

"He is sitting on a mutant elephant going up and down in circles and he has a look on his face as if he's looking through a sniper scope," Jason put in, body shaking and his smirk firmly in place.

Damian's face turned beat red, but that did not deter him from sending a very potent batglare to Jason. Embarrassed, Damian decided to take his anger out on the unlucky person closest within range: Tim.

Tim, at the time was basking in his victory of stopping Steph and Jason from fighting, and thus was caught completely off guard when Damian inflicted damage in the most lethal way possible to any male.

Damian swung his foot out and found his target between Tim's legs.

Tim's eyes went wide and he fell down. He curled in a ball with his hands clutched between his legs, and made a sound that could not be mistaken as anything else but a sob.

"Damian!" Dick barked, obviously not pleased.

"I already told you I only went on that stupid ride for high altitude to find you idiots!" Damian exclaimed.

"Going. To. Kill. You," Tim hissed in pain, still on the floor, struggling to get up.

Now practically everyone standing in line with them had their eyes on the 'family.' Some were even whispering about the scene, saying how glad that their children would never cause such a scene.

One particular parent in front of the bat family was failing to be discreet in his disgust and annoyance. Jason saw this and leveled his stare at the nosy civilian. "What the hell are you looking at?! Haven't you ever been kicked in the balls before? No? Let me demonstrate and maybe you'll get that look off your face." Seeing that Jason was completely serious and completely insane, the civilian grabbed his son's hand and hurriedly walked away from his place in line, consoling his son that they will go on the ride later.

"Oh, will you look at that! It's our turn already!" Steph piped up awkwardly. The fact that most people in front of them parted away from the bat family like they had the plague had nothing to do with it, honestly.

She dragged Tim, who was still having some difficulties getting up. Everyone else followed.

The tea cups were all brightly colored because, when in Disney, everything is colorful. They all crammed into the blue teacup and the ride began.

There was a wheel in the middle to make the cup turn faster. Steph turned on the camera and began recording. Damian and Dick latched onto the wheel and spun it around both of them, making a steady rhythm. Jason pulled out another cigarette and tried to smoke it. Tim was sweating, still bent over, and glaring murderously at Damian. Damian was laughing crazily as if he was the Tasmanian Devil incarnate himself, grinning wildly as the cup spun faster and faster.

Dick, however, noticed Tim's glares at Damian, so he let go of the wheel and said, "Damian, apologize to Tim!"

"T.t," Damian said, ignoring him, twisting the wheel by himself.

Steph turned the camera towards Jason, who was sitting next to her and Damian. He was busy cursing out other people on the teacups that kept staring at him, twisting and turning his body with the tea cup in order to flip them off. Apparently, smoking wasn't allowed.

"Happiest place on earth my ass," Steph grumbled, turning off the camera. She thought that it's still a bit early, so maybe the day will get better. "Hey I know what's bringing us down, this stupid heat! Let's go on Splash Mountain next!" Steph said with a grin.

Tim paused in trying to incinerate Damian with his eyes. He gave her a thoughtful look. "Wow, you finally have a good idea."

She puffed out a breath." What the? What do you mean finally!? You know what? Never mind," Stephanie said. She decided to let that one go, after all, she could always get him back later. They 'enjoyed' the rest of the ride in silence.

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