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“Hey wonder!” A voice sounded behind Tim. Tim whipped his head around, eyes wide, a flush already spreading across his face,
“Superboy” he said using his superhero name, conscious they were in public and he was out of uniform “What are you doing here?” He whispered glancing to his classmates who were whispering among themselves. Tim caught a few words
“Hey is that Superboy?” “Whats he doing with drake?” “I've never seen him in person before!”
“Just visiting”, Kon said with a smile as he flipped upside down. “How are things with you?”
“They're fine”, tim said, sounding more rushed then he intended, he lowered his voice to a even quieter whisper as he said “look, I'll meet you… I'll meet you at the roof of the building near the river in half an hour ok?”
Kon pouted, showing off his new lip piercing “fine” he said before flying off towards the river. Tim breathed a sigh of relief before rushing the rest of the way home to change to his uniform.
“DRAKE” a voice shouted as soon as he closed the door, “What now Damian?” He called back, “I am in need of your assistance regarding Jon” Tim sighed, walking towards where the voice was coming from. There he saw damian holding his phone staring at a text message, “Drake good you're here. Now what on earth does this mean!?” He asked showing Tim the screen with a text from a contact named ‘sidekick’ saying ‘lol’
Tim sighed again before answering “lol or LOL stands for laughing out loud, its kinda a way of, saying that you are laughing? And that whatever you sent was funny I guess. Anyway I have to go” Damian returned to glaring at the screen as Tim rushed to his room. Within a few minutes, Tim was in his uniform grappling from building to building as he travels towards the building on the river. He checks his watch as he gets closer, cursing as he noticed he was late. “Hey Kon” Tim called as he hopped onto the roof, no need for superhero names now.
“Heya Tim. Bit late aren't we?”
Tim stared flatly at him “two minutes is hardly late, besides you remember New york.”
“Oh come on! New York was hardly my fault! Blame Supes! Now, I have something to talk to you about.”
“You do?” Tims asked, surprised,
“Uh, yeah” Kon said as if it were obvious “why else would I be here? Other then to see your gorgeous face tim-tam”
Tim rolled his eyes, ignoring the gorgeous comment, “don't call me tim-tam.”
“Aw come onnnn you like it” Kon said with a smile and a wink.
Tim tried to ignore the heat rising up his face by rolling his eyes again and sitting down next to Kon trying to resist the urge to swing his legs. “Anyway, what did you have to tell me?”
“Ah straight to business as usual rob, red tornado has another job for the yj and he sent me to collect you.”
“But… I'm not robin anymore, and when dick became discowing he had to leave (idk alright) so surely you should get dami-”
“Oh who cares if you aren't robin anymore? Your red robin, that's close enough- and frankly, I'd prefer you to be on the team again instead of another little upstart who'll want to be boss.”
Tim laughed a little, relived “oh god imagine him trying to boss superman about when he comes for mission report”
Kon laughed to, making Tim smile again. He really loved Kons smile, he just seems so relaxed where Tim was stif and formal.
“So the mission is pretty typical from what I've seen, but they haven't told me much. Just said to comd get you from this hellscape.” Kon said gesturing vaugly around “y’know, gotham” he chuckled
“It's have to be fairly important if they're getting us back together to do it. Or maybe it's just a family reunion.” Tim pondered, “did they have you get the others?”
“Nah they said not to worry about it.”
“Right” Tim said sceptical, “we have uh,” he checked his watch “ 2 hours untill I have patrol, so we have plenty of time.”
“Good, we should probably leave tomorrow if we want to be back in time”
“ Ok, I'll check with B after patrol” Tim said bumping shoulders with Kon “do you wanna join?”
“Yeah sure, who's out right now?” Kon asked
Tim breathed out a heavy sigh “ normal muggers, penguin, and, ugh condiment king.”
“Oof, let's hope we don't get him”
“Well Steph had him last week so I'm going to.try and get dick to do it.’
“He's down from Bludhaven? I thought things were picking up around there?”
“Eh that's passed over by now. He's visiting for the family Saturday dinner”
“Surely if he's just visiting then Cass or demon child should do it?”
“Cass is scary and Damian dyed my hair green last time I made him do it so no. I’m making him do it, he owes me for last time.”
The conversation continued on like this for the next 2 hours, with Tim failing to flirt and complaining about his family.
A faint buzzing came from Tims wrist, he checked his watch, “Aw fuck, we need to to head out now.”
“Yep, do you want to grapple or should i fly us?” Kon responded, bumping his shoulder against Tims.
Tim grimaced, remembering last time he was flown