dear_mun | I apologize to Discedo now...

[If he wasn't missing you so much, you'd so be getting a foot in the face right now, Dick. The fact that you're not speaks volumes, really.]

How am I supposed to figure anything out from that stone face?

*yes, yes it does. And Dick gets that. So he's not going to push it or even bring it up.

However, after Damian asks that, he turns to him, and his eyes crinkle.*

How about I get back to you on that?

[Poking Dick in the side with his finger a couple times.]

You'd better. You have to take responsibility after running off back to Bludhaven and leaving me to deal with him alone Grayson.

*exaggerated ow faces ~~but that kind of tickles~~*

Hey, you'd have liked being stuck between us even less. *which is also true*

[Thinking about the proposed scenario...]

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[And then this face.]

Oh god. You're right. Never come home.

*quietly* I'll come home when I'm needed. I always do.

Can I go to Bludhaven instead when you do? [Because he would forget. And listen to Dick instead of Bruce. And then things would just get messy.]

You can come visit. *that, and watching two people he's starting to build some respect for grind each other to small pieces would be disastrous*

[Temper tantrum to end all temper tantrums, that's what they'd get.]

Really?

*see? Nightwing sometimes does have wisdom about him. That would really not help with the trust issues between Damian and Bruce. Like, at all. Also, Damian... you're so much more like your oldest older brother than you probably suspect.*

You're asking like anyone can stop you.

But you'd be welcome to.

[I-in a really strange backward way, maybe.]

I didn't know if you'd want me to.

*aw, come on, not like Dick didn't have his share of temper tantrums.

That answer makes Dick blink just for a moment. Yes, throat catching. Because it's such a simple thing and it says a lot and... he only answers, simply*

I do.

[Damian stares at Dick for a minute before looking down.]

Oh.

Okay.

Good. *quietly, just. Damian, why are you still a lonely little boy who needs all the family you can get and will never admit to that?

Dick reaches around, clasping the back of Damian's neck - and ready to meet his eyes when his bro looks up. Or, you know, ready for violence, which is why he speaks quickly after that*

And next time you're wondering about stuff like that, you can ask. Things have a way of happening before I... before any of us thinks of to say stuff we take for granted. Like this.

*shh, he's not talking about feelings. Really*

[Damian stiffens for a moment under Dick's hand before forcing himself to relax and meet his gaze.]

Sometimes I'm not sure I want to hear the answer though.

[Liar.]

*tiny approving... not so much a smile as brightening in Dick's eyes, and a tiny nod. Then he lets go*

That's... part of being alive, actually. *lie or not*

[Damian scowls and darts his eyes away.]

Sounds stupid.

You've got that right. *flops back against the couch, head tossed up.*

I mean, I doubt that's the first stupid thing you've run into. *and by doubt he means know - not like Damian's not used the word before*

[Still frowning, perched on the edge of the cushion and staring at Dick's sprawl.]

No. Pyg was pretty stupid too.

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*well, that snaps Dick right back into attention, looking back on Damian. Just. A tad of concern there.*

He was.

[Don't look at him like that, Dick, he's not some fragile kid, he's the goddamn batman's son. Damian's expression turns mulish and defensive.]

What.

*oh, here we go. Not fragile, no, and far more than normal, but still a kid*

You okay?

[He doesn't like people reminding him though. Damian's scowl goes from petulant to angry.]

I'm fine Grayson.

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*and that gets a Dick!grin, because, yeah, any other response would have been very worrying.*

Good. Now let's keep it that way.

lol it's not Zorro is it?

Well, it sure ain't Disney. Hey, maybe they go for Tron: Legacy or something.

Damian would so watch that

Parkour, kapoeira, and daddy issues. Yep. Both of them would.

1/2

And proceed to try all of it themselves later too

... batfamily frisbee tournament, too.

Another excellent opportunity for Damian to chuck things at Tim's head.

Good thing all Bats learned to duck pretty well... pretty early.

Damian will just have to try harder then

Boys. BOYS. Dick is not above locking them in rooms in opposite ends of the mansion.

Oh good then Damian won't have to see his face.

Fine for now. Later, we'll start working on the sibling rivarly. Totally out of place.

Tt. Drake deserves it

What, for earning trust that you're still working on? Come on.

For being annoying. Also, his face.

Oh, hush, you. We all take sorta after Him, anyway.

Drake has all the worst bits then.

But he's still brother. So there.

adopted brother

Yes?

So it doesn't count.

Pout. So I don't count, either?

That's different and you know it.

Do you know how many times I've thought myself different and was proven wrong?