If I owned Young Justice, there would be more bro moments between Roy, Dick, and Wally.
Monday, January 1, 2012, 16:30
"So. Robin, before you vanished, you and Kaldur had a fight," Dinah began.
"So?" Robin muttered, not liking where this was going.
"You two are going to resolve it, right here, right now, without fighting. If I hear fighting, well, it won't be pretty," Dinah commanded.
"Yes ma'am," Robin murmured, looking at Kaldur as the adult left. "You start."
"Robin. Why are you always taking risks that you should not?" The meta asked.
"They're not necessarily risks I shouldn't take… They're just risks you don't think I should take," Robin looked at Kaldur through his shades, "Contrary to popular belief, I can handle myself in a fight."
"I know you can. It is just that you have been making idiotic decisions as well," the leader pointed out. Robin looked away, blinking.
"I know," was his simple reply. "It just… It feels like I have to prove myself, because I'm the youngest… And I'm only human." The last two words were spat bitterly.
"I would also believe I would feel better if I could at least see your eyes sometimes. It would… put me at rest as to how you are feeling. The glasses and the mask hide your eyes, so for all I know you could be hurting and just putting up a façade to throw us off," Kaldur informed.
"Kaldur… Do you believe in God?" The question caught the Atlantian off guard, and he realized… Robin's glasses were off.
"I believe… I might," he replied, looking through the brightness of the blue in the teen's eyes to the underlying pain.
"If He does… Why would He let such horrible things happen?" Robin was now blinking tears out of his eyes.
"I remember something someone once said… 'He lets the bad happen so the good is all that much better'," Kaldur quoted, feeling awkward, unused to situations like this.
"But… Why did He have to take them?" Robin growled, pain turning to rage. Kaldur knew he was talking about his parents.
"Everyone must die at some point in their lives. It is only the natural order of life. It is… The balance of opposites. To have good, there must be evil. To have light there must be dark. Life is impossible without death," Kaldur reasoned.
Robin nodded as he put his shades back on, suitably calmed. "Thanks Kal. I'll try not to be so idiotic… It's just that, sometimes I want to be with them so much it hurts." With that, Robin left the room, leaving Dinah and Kaldur wondering what happened.
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Tuesday, January 2, 2012, 02:47
Roy was confused when he woke up to his door opening. He chose to just watch as Robin made his way hesitantly over to the half-asleep archer.
"Rob? Whatcha doin up so early?" Roy chose then to speak. His words were slightly slurred with sleep.
"I couldn't sleep," the bird murmurs, looking at the floor.
"Oh. Well. Why not get some Benadryl?" Roy squinted at Robin's silhouette.
"Kaldur removed it all from the Mountain," comes the muffled reply.
"Huh. I don't have any, but… Well… If you need to…" Roy trailed off, thinking of the words, but was startled when Robin launched himself at the older hero, wrapping his arms around his 'brother's' neck.
"They're too much. The nightmares… The mixed Joker venom and fear gas! It hurts, and it's painful, and I just c-can't get it out of my head!" Robin was sobbing into Roy shoulder, as the elder returned the hug.
"Shh, it's okay Dickie. Don't worry. I'm here," Roy soothed, rubbing circles on the younger's back.
"I-I want B-Bruce," Dick said, his words muffled by Roy's shoulder.
"I know. But he'll be back eventually. You know he'd never leave you- they'd have to drag him away kicking and screaming, with an awful lot of explosions, batarangs, and nerve gas mixed in," Roy explained.
"It's just… They hurt me. It still hurts," Robin sniffled. His glasses had fallen off, and he looked up at Roy through broken blue eyes as Wally sped in.
"Dick! Are you okay?" Wally's hushed call had Dick turning to look at the speedster, while Roy answered for him.
"No. He's not," the archer replied. "Now, Dickie, are you completely healed? Entirely?"
Robin shrugged, and Roy and Wally slowly removed the bird's shirt. What they saw was horrific. He was covered in scars, old and fresh alike, but a glowing red rune marked his chest.
The rune marked him as Klarion's. Klarion's to use. Klarion's tool.
"Oh, Dick," Wally gasped, wrapping his brother in a hug, while Roy pulled them both close. Covering them with the blanket, Roy wrapped his arms around Wally and Dick, preparing for the hell to come as they slept safely under the covers of the archer's bed.
No one said anything when the trio all kept staying at the Mountain, sharing a room. They accepted it. And when Conner heard Robin's muffled sobs at night, and the older boys' comforting words, he knew that it was a good thing the archer and speedster were staying at the Mountain.
They were good for each other.
Cue more plot setting up. Well, I'm happy with this. Mostly. Next chapter, not so much, but I can work with it. Happy reading. :)