TIM POV

"Tim, What is going on with you? You've been ignoring me for months and then last night you sparred with me and helped me get at my Dad. I'm just confused." Jackie just blatantly asked that and I am still staring at her like she has grown a second head.

"Well, if I remember right you sparred with me, and plus Bruce's rules aren't always the best things to follow. I need to show you the real ropes. And you may not be all that bad." She smiles and why I've been avoiding her for months comes rushing back. She is absolutely beautiful in every way.

"Oh… well then what now? We friends?"

"Yeah. We are friends. I can be friends with a really beautiful girl." She smiles at me in the same stunning way.

"Thank you, Tim." She saunters away from me. I suddenly realize I don't want her to leave yet.

"You don't have to thank me for being honest." I smile goofily at her.

"Well you're not bad looking yourself, Tim." She turns and walks away from me again leaving me looking after her with a stupid look on my face.

"That was smooth little brother." Dick puts his arm around my shoulders.

I feel an immediate hit to my pride knowing that Dick saw my attempt at flirting with Jackie. "Shut up, Dick." I start to walk away from him but he follows just like always.

"Come on, I'm her partner. I can get insider information from her."

"I don't want to know. Girls are stupid anyway." I keep walking trying to get Dick off of my back, but I know deep down that it wont be that easy, and he does have a point.

"You're sixteen, we all know you don't think girls are icky anymore. Let me help you out.

I walk over to a punching bag in the corner of the batcave and start hitting it. "Dick, girls are stupid because the ones you like never like you back and think you're a stupid jerk." Saying it out loud makes my crush seem even more silly.

"She doesn't hate you. She probably even likes you back. You just have to show her you're not a stupid jerk."

"How do I do that." I sneer at him and keep going. I've never been as good with the ladies as Dick or Bruce.

"I can ask her if shed go on a date with you, she's a lonely kid she'd say yes. She wants you to like her."

"How do you know that?" I feel pathetic, but him asking her on a date for me sounds like a pretty good idea.

"Because she has talked about you during training. It bothers her that you didn't talk to her. She will say yes, let me do this for you, man." I think about that really hard for a moment before answering. Then what he said really hit me.

"She's talked about me?" I feel a smile spread across my face.

"Yeah, she talks about you a lot. She wants you to like her."

"Alright… You can say something to her… But wait! What are you going to say?" Dick smiles his billionaire smile and runs off.

"We're on patrol tonight, I'll take care of it!" I go back to not thinking about it. I hope he doesn't ruin this for me.

JACKIE POV

I'm glad Bruce let me go out on patrol tonight. He was worried about how I would feel about it after seeing the Joker. But I am actually pretty excited to be out , and, in particular, to see the Joker again. Seeing him made every bad feeling go away, now I know I can do this. I am brought out of my reverie by Dick looking at me and smiling.

"So, what do you think of Tim?" he stops moving and smiles over at me. We are on top of the US bank building; it has been a slow night, nothing but purse robberies and one rapist in an alley.

I blush slightly then look away from him. "What do you mean?"

He smirks at me, "Just what I asked. What do you think of him? Cute, Charming, something?"

I smile to myself then stop, "He's sweet I guess. He doesn't seem to like me much, though. So it doesn't matter."

"Are you sure about that?" He chuckles slightly.

"Well yeah, he ignored me for months. He wasn't exactly yearning for my friendship."

"I know he is definitely yearning, he actually has a big crush on you." I laugh slightly at what he just said. It seems so obvious but I can't make myself believe him.

"Seriously?"

"Yes… Why are you laughing?" I keep laughing for a few more seconds before I respond.

"Because it seems so obvious now that you've said it!" Dick starts to laugh to and pretty soon we're both rolling.

"But in all seriousness, he is too shy to ask you out."

"So he is having you ask me for him?" I smile at the thought of a date, I've never been on a date before.

"Basically, yeah. So, what do you say?"

"I've never gone out with anyone. I don't know…" I am really nervous, my dad never let me date. I didn't even know any boys when I lived with him. Now I don't know any girls.

"How about you guys go to a movie tomorrow night. Simple as that."

"Well, okay. I guess it couldn't hurt. Bruce wont be mad?" I think Bruce has more important things to worry about then us going to a movie, but still.

"No, not at all."

"Okay then, that's decided." I grapple to the next building and can hear Dick right behind me. Now I can think about my first date. I smile to myself.

THE NEXT NIGHT

I am looking out over Gotham's vast cityscape from the hood of Bruce's Camero. I don't know how Tim managed to get him to say yes to him borrowing it, but it is a beautiful, fast silver car and despite everything we took it for a spin to the top of the largest hill in the Gotham area to look over the city. From here is it easy to imagine that nothing bad ever happens in that city. The twinkling lights of the skyscrapers make it seem like a much happier place to be.

Tim is next to me, we went and saw a movie which neither of us watched. I don't know about him, but I was too preoccupied with holding his hand to notice the movie. He really is a sweet boy.

"What do you think?" Tim asks from his spot next to me

"That this is the best way to look at Gotham City. It's beautiful up here."

"So what made you say yes to a date with me?"

"I suppose that you're a nice guy, and we live in the same house and I barely know you… and you called me beautiful, which no one has ever done. And you're my first date. Why didn't you talk to me for so long?" I really want to know. It is sort of odd for me that suddenly he wants to date me when just a few days ago we were not on speaking basis.

"I don't know, I'm shy, I guess. Afraid you wouldn't like me, a myriad of things…" he kicks some dirt with the tip of his boot. "As for getting to know me, ask away. Free unlimited questions."

"Okay, why do you live with Bruce?" I'm dying to know if he is an orphan or not. It didn't seem polite to ask him outright. So I'm taking a more subtle approach.

"Because I kind of forced myself on them. I became robin on my own choosing and followed them around. So after I was initiated Bruce wanted me closer." He smiled as if lost in thought, and he stealthily avoided my question. I decide to give up on my beating around the bush.

"Oh, I see. Do you still have parents then?"

"My mother passed away after being captured by Obea Man while on a trip to the Carribean. My mother passed away shortly before I completed my training, my father is still in a coma. Bruce adopted me after that.

"Oh, I'm so sorry."

"That's okay, the pain of it never really goes away, but I have a new life now. I had to work hard to earn this life."

"I rather got dropped into this life." I think back on the last few months of training and hardships and shudder.

"You stayed didn't you? You could have walked away and hung up the cape. You didn't have to stay, but you did. That's earning it." He smiles and I can't help but smile back. I can feel myself falling for him, it's a new feeling.

"Well what choice do I have, plus I have a thing or two to prove."

"It's an admirable trait, you feeling you need to prove something. Bruce looks for that."

"Okay since you know so much, what am I trying to prove, detective?" I wink at him so he knows I am kidding around.

"My guess would have to be that you want to show everyone that you're not him. And you're not. You are far more attractive than him. And you can call me Tim." He just smirks a little and moves closer to me.

"Well thanks. But you're only half right, Tim." His hot breath being so near to my skin makes a shiver run up my spine. I want him to kiss me.

"What clue did I miss?"

"That I'm not trying to prove anything to anyone but myself."

"I think you know that you are not him though." He turns to me and looks at me deep in the eyes like he wants me to see a reflection of everything he sees in me.

"I may take more convincing than you." I smile and shiver again as he breathes out warm air onto my face.

"Well I have faith in you." He leans towards me more so he his looking down into my eyes and he places a hand on my waist.

I can't take it anymore and I lean in and kiss him on the lips. It felt just the way a first kiss should feel. His hand moved away from my waist and up to cup my cheek. I lean into his hand then pull my lips away from his slowly but leave my face caressed in his hand.

"Well that was nice." He pecks the tip of my nose and smiles at me again. Suddenly he seems even more handsome than he did before the kiss.

"Yeah, it was." I kiss him again. Best night of my life.