Why Heroes Can't Sip Champagne and Apples are a Girl's Best Friend –

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Chapter 12: Fun with Dick and Kori

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Parody on the film "fun with Dick and Jane."

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He felt his lips and tried to forget the smooch by a total stranger.

He finally was seeing Kori, on actual dates – and it wasn't just Haley who'd broken the mould!

She loved him for listening and being more a gentleman to her than Robin had ever seemed.

~ Take that for a happy ending, Red Hood! ~ Dick was excited, but…

Midnighter was what worried him as his office hours fell into wearing shorter sleeves and giving out tickets to kill some time in the early hours of the day.

He was a sitting duck!

Dick asked to stay in the office and do twice as much paperwork as was asked of him. Hisco – workers wondered if it was the fact that he didn't want to run into a old ex of his.

Kori, was amazing yet her cooking never improved so Dick took over that one role. She and he were thick as thieves and of course he wanted to see his puppy and best friend on the same sofa – uh, puppy being Haley….

She was over almost every time she did a shot in Blud. Why was she taking it that far?

If he had to guess it over the phone…

She wanted him to be a Titan again.

He gulped. No! That was dumb. Wally probably talked to Raven and she –

Dick Grayson groaned and put his head down onto his desk with a thud. When the Easter bunny had left the building, so had all of his post holiday rushed cheer after one kiss on a rooftop that night had shattered HIS proposal.

Work was going so well, that he'd be moving into a brand-new place very soon and…

He wanted Kori to join him.

That was the classic step two. Then came the biggest one that he'd rejected of her emotions back in Cali at nineteen.

They were too young and, he'd never said a real goodbye or what he felt. That his great quest was just a fallacy. He was a cop taking charge in a city in need of change. Just like Gotham, he'd made a difference on his own. All his own, and now…now…

It was time to come to terms with what was really eating him up alive.

Kori. A proposal, to live together…

Was all he could think about, as the clock soon struck; noon.

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With Kori's model job taking her places, Dick was a nobody in her life unless it was in bed. Or out, doing whatever couples did.

She was simple to him yet complex as a person. Her feelings and overflowing heart held little stigmatism for anyone, and she was a born leader when given the chance to work among a new generation of younger Titans.

"Dami did that??" Dick laughed at the story as Kori sat back in her sequined green dress with red hair shading a side of her face, trailing to the floor if she let it.

He'd decided to have her over to the flat for a romantic night and THEN he'd tell her about the new pent and pop his open question with a special gift he'd saved up for on top of the extra bonuses he'd be getting very soon.

~ Nightwing gets to roam free, but I'm not Bruce or Batman. ~

"Kori, this is amazing how we just met up after all this time. I want to fully apologize for how I was back…when I left the Titans. If they ever need me to help the new recruits for a few days, my vacay days are set. I'm practically the chief's favorite. All the perks and overtime included. Which is why…" He took in a deep inhale, his hands wrapped around her slender ones. "I'm moving departments in a month, and I'll be owning a home. No more rent to pay. And…it's got enough rooms for two."

"Oh… Dick!" She gasped and it felt too much like a movie as he got down onto one knee just for her.

"Kori Anders, will you stay with me here, be by my side or at least just until we can make it official…. will you –

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Explosions outside rocked the building. Dick had no idea why, but he was flustered as all!

"Are we "under the attack??" She floated over to turn on the television for the news channel as Dick contacted Oracle in advance to see what was going on.

~ A riot has started in Bludhaven between the two sects of the criminal underworld. Black mask and even a (joke this up!) Red mask! That's right, citizens! A red mask has declared a war –

Kori and Dick nodded to one another.

"Like the "times that are the old?" She smiled to him.

Dick smiled back, ruffling Haley's fur as the two went to suit up.

"Just like." He grinned back as they left the apartment before putting out their lights and candles to prevent a fire hazard.

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~ The city's gonna be saved by Nightwing. It's all over! I can –

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"Who was that?" Andrew Pulaski had finished washing the dishes as his disgruntled partner Lucas Trent, put a hand to his dark five o' clock shadowed chin. "You seen that suit, before?" He asked the ebony haired male on the sofa. Their favorite program had been interrupted by a news brief in Blud that night.

"Honey, you are not –

"I think I know a bird call when I hear it. Ah, as in, we are gonna stop cuttin' corners with him soon. Yo, Andy?"

"And I did say that you can't have your way all of the time, Luke!" Andy put his hands to his hips with dish washing gloves on to protect that day's handiwork. Next to a bad hair do, Andrew would never be caugt dead with prune fingers. Yuck!

"You promised to leave that poor couple ALONE." He stated to the brooding Midnighter; yes, while Apollo stood with his blonde streaks falling into his eyes. Batting a dirty look at his partner for being such a pit bull all of a sudden, and around that other aim this crude adult had yet to assist in battle.

"He's gonna need more fire power. Come with me, Andy." Lucas held out a hand, seeing Apollo reflecting how things might be if they were just normal citizens.

Normal and very openly gay; he loved Luke but this was too much! They had a life together, even if it wasn't the best place to raise a few kids in the suburbs.

"Aw, you are always here with me. I don't need no one else. I just want that Grayson kid to keep pushin' me away." Luke was fibbing. He had a thing for weak and malleable. It stunk up the apartment so badly that Apollo had no choice but to join him and keep an eye on his lover's next move. "If I see you grabbing anyone's behind, you are not coming home to me or my tight quarters after. Got it?"

Apollo's pent. His rules.

Grinning and eyeing that form with a hungry leer, (he's a dick!) Luke smiled and bobbed his head.

Getting up, he found a way, one way or another to honor what they had going on between them.

"Babe; you and I are the sun and moon personified. I'm not gonna leave you for no one. Would be the worst mistake I'll ever –

" Mm!"

Apollo shut his lover up with full tongue before pulling back with an even cheekier smirk and a husky tone that was oh so sexy…

"Get the bad guys for your boo here, and we can make it up to each other before the sun rises…m'kay?"

Batting those eyes, the hardly stoned vixen made a point. Luke loved how his lover tasted and he'd not give it up for the world.

But…. he liked how nervous Dickie was…maybe he could have the best of both worlds? If tonight was a success, he might even end up getting the whole package.

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I smell trouble! If you like that, we are keeping it M, baby! Whoo! Read on for more of that hound and the bird and the smitten princess, of course!