"Emergency. You're watching the kids tonight." Oliver said.

Roy stared. "What? But Ollie- the guys are coming over, Halo 4 comes out tonight!"

"Just watch the kids." Oliver said, heading for the zeta tubes. It was five minutes later when Scarlet, Dick and Wally turned up, Wally with a note pinned to his shirt.

"What's with the note?" Roy asked.

Wally shrugged. "Uncle Barry said it was for you."

Roy sighed. "Fine... Get in here."

He unpinned the note from Wally, reading it, as the kids looked around, grinning.

Hi Roy,

He's had dinner but he'll probably need snacks. NO SUGAR, NO RED DYE, and his parents are out on a date. DO NOT CALL THEM! Have a good time! :)

Love,

Uncle Flash

Roy scoffed. "Nice. A smilie face. Gee, that really makes up for EVERYTHING, Flash."

He sighed. Maybe he could still have a good time tonight...

He looked up to realize the kids were gone, and heard echoing laughter, realizing they'd ran into the huge manor.

"Guys? Where are you?"

He heard a crash and the sound of glass breaking and his heart rate picked up. He ran towards the sound, terrified...

"Oops..." Wally was looking down a the remains of a broken vase. "I'm sorry, Roy..."

Roy looked around, relaxing. No one was hurt, cut, or bleeding.

"It's alright, Wally, at least no one got hurt..."

Dick nodded, pointing at the winding staircase. "Can we banister slide?"

Roy stared. "Don't kill yourselves..."

"That means yes!" Dick grabbed Wally's hand, dragging his friend towards the staircase, and Roy stared. "Where's Scarlet?"

"Hey Roy- who's the kid?"

"Lucas? Billy? How'd you guys get in here?" Roy asked, shocked to see the friends who were going to come over and play Halo already inside.

"Oh- tiny butler opened the door when we knocked." Bill said, and Roy looked over to see Scarlet trotting into the room.

"Scarlet? You let them in?"

"Yeah. They looked friendly." Scarlet said, and Roy gaped. "Haven't you heard of stranger danger!?"

Just then Dick and Wally came flying down the banister of the stairs, all of them ending up on top of Roy.

Lucas stared, eyes wide. "Dude! Where are all these kids coming from!?"

"Roy kidnapped us." Scarlet said brightly.

"Wally get OFF me!" Roy said, getting to his feet, brushing himself off. He gave Scarlet a look. "And I did NOT kidnap you, Bruce had to go take care of some..l business, and dropped you off here."

"So- you're stuck babysitting?" Billy asked.

"No! He'd stuck with US!" Wally said, looking indignant and crossing his arms. Both boys exchanged glances, and Lucas brushed his floppy brown bangs from his eyes.

"So- we playin' Halo or what?" Lucas asked.

"Halo? Sweet! I wanna play!" Dick said, looking excited. Roy cast a remorseful look at his siblings. He wouldn't mind playing with them, truthfully, but he couldn't let Lucas and Billy know that. Besides, he'd had the plans before, it wasn't fair to just blow them off...

"Of course we're playing!" Roy said. "Look- guys. Have fun, don't eat anything that isn't food, no sugar, no red dye, and don't kill anything. Now dudes, come on." and the boys headed off towards the living room.

They all settled on the leather sofa in front of the plasma screen, Roy turning on the Xbox and handing out controllers.

"This is gonna be AWESOME!" Billy said.

"And I brought snacks." Lucas said, pulling out a ten pound bag Swedish fish, two packs of double stuf Oreos, a six pack of monster, and a tons of other things from his overnight bag, and Roy gaped.

"Dude! With this stuff, we can stay up all night!" Billy said, ecstatic.

Roy nodded. But it just reminded her of his siblings. "Whatever you guys do, don't let the kids have any of this, alright? They're not good with-"

Roy was shushed by his friends as the theme started playing, the monks chanting, and the menu popped up.

"Firefight! I say we use the first map..." Lucas said. Things went relatively uninterrupted for the first ten minutes. Then Dick popped his head in.

"Hey Roy, can we watch a movie?"

"Sure. Just don't kill each other." Roy said, busy shooting the crap out of an Elite.

"Dude, they have sticky grenades!" Billy yelled. There was a small crisis then as Lucas dropped the can of monster he'd been sipping to use both hands to evade them, but everything resumed as normal, aside from the green stain in the carpet.

Twenty minutes in, they heard screaming.

Billy and Lucas looked at Roy, wondering what to do. They really didn't want to pause, the darkened room, glowing TV screen, and eerie music were perfect for the game.

"I'm sure they're fine..." Roy said hesitantly. A moment later a screaming Wally raced in front of the TV and into the next room, holding a bag of flaming popcorn.

Billy and Lucas shot nervous glances at Roy.

Just then Scarlet charged past them, after Wally, dragging a fire extinguisher behind her.

Dick was yelling something about smoke alarms, and Roy hit pause and spoke then. "Will you excuse me for a minute?"

Lucas and Billy both nodded, looking pale and afraid, and Roy rounded the corner to see Wally barrel towards him with a bag of flaming popcorn...

They collided, the popcorn landed on the ground, and Scarlet ran over, spraying it with the fire extinguisher.

"You get it?" Dick asked.

Scarlet nodded, and Dick sighed. Wally, from where he was tangled up with Roy, looked disappointed. "What're we gonna eat now?"

Roy sighed. "Tell you what- clean this up, and I'll make some more popcorn."

Dick hurried to obey, and Roy sighed, heading into the kitchen, putting another bag of popcorn in. He handed it to them. "Now don't ignite anything else. And don't watch the Lion King." he said, remembering the scene where Mufasa fell to his death.

"Thanks Roy!"

And the plodded out of the room, a lot quieter than when they'd come in.

Billy stared. "Dude. How were you so CALM? That shit was on fire!"

Roy shrugged. "A lot of shit starts on fire when they come over. Anyways, come on, almost beat your kill streak." and just like that, they were back to normal.

"So- what are we watching?" Sparrow asked, as they settled down with the popcorn.

"The Excorcist." Dick said. "It was on demand, so I figured we might as well..."

They stared at the TV, enraptured, for the next hour and a half, watching the scenes and trying to keep what was left of sanity together.

By the time it was over, the were all staring at one another, shocked.

"That...was creepy." Dick admitted. Scarlet nodded, looking like she didn't really want to do anything but turn on the lights. "Wanna go bug Roy?"

"Sure." Wally said, because the all felt safer when Roy was around.

They'd been gaming hard-core for two hours when Roy paused, standing. "I have to go to the bathroom- you guys can snack break or whatever. Maybe order pizza."

Lucas and Billy nodded, and he headed off down the hall...

Scarlet trotted into the room. "You seen Roy?"

"Yeah, he's in the bathroom. Oreo?" Billy asked.

"Thanks." Scarlet took it, popping it into her mouth... Double stuf. She smiled slightly. It'd been so long since she'd felt sugar course through her veins...

"Help yourselves, dudes." Lucas said, opening the bag of Swedish fish. Wally smiled, grabbing a handful, and Dick helped himself to a can of monster.

Roy came out of the bathroom to hear screaming. His FRIENDS screaming to be exact, along with crazed laughter.

He entered the room to see Billy was duct taped to a chair, Scarlet sitting on the floor laughing, and Wally chasing Lucas with a broom. He also noticed Scarlet clutching the bag of Swedish fish and sighed, It was going to be a LONG night.