[Dick smiles kindly.] You look like maybe you could use one. [Not going to reach out and touch that cheek, to try and gauge the level of damage - Dick makes a fist under the table instead.] You okay?
[Dick fetches those drinks and slides in next to Tim] Please tell me whoever did that already got their ass kicked. If not, point me in the right direction.
[Dick notices the motion and assumes further injuries. He puts his hand over Tim's on the table] Well, I don't normally speak ill of the dead, but I'm guessing he probably deserved it.
[Dick blinks. Tim's not just being shy, he really doesn't know him.] Dick Grayson. [He's wearing the costume but his mask is off - pretty much everyone in this bar is supposed to know his identity anyway]. Or I go by Nightwing on the street. You've never met me, in your world?
[Tim licks his lips as Dick touches him, spreading his fingers slightly to let their fingers entwine.] He hurt... several people before me. I was... the lucky one.
I moved away from Gotham when I was three. I'm not...I never became Robin like everyone else seems to have. I'm not...[He ducks his head] important
[definitely not use to having hot guys come up to him like this! Blushing madly] It seem like all of the other Tim's I've meet here are... heroes or special in some way. I'm just me.
"Just you" is special enough. [Dick smiles encouragingly.] Just because their lives had different circumstances, that doesn't mean they're so much better people. I adore my Tim, back home, but I've met a lot of different ones here, and so far they're all pretty great. I bet you're pretty great, too. [If Tim keeps looking down like that, Dick is going to have to duck his head and look up at him - which just happens to put him in rather close proximity].
That's pretty cool! A photojournalist in Metropolis, hmm? I'm going to take a stab at the perverse and capricious nature of the universe and guess Daily Planet?
[Dick's aim really was just eye contact. Really! But now that his proximity is making Tim gasp and lick his lips, Dick's reconsidering that quickly. The way he's touching Tim's hand now is less comforting and more...other things. He strokes up and down the fingers, from Tim's wrist to the tips and back again.]
How did you guess? [Tim seem genuinely surprised Dick would know that. His breath quickens as Dick touches him, his eyes a little wide. He turns his hands so that Dick's fingers play over his palm]
[Tim bites his lip and looks away a little] Yeah, yeah I know him. [There a deep undercurrent of betrayal in his voice.]
[But he doesn't move his hand away, his fingers rubbing gently over Dick's. There's something strangely intimate about the touch that makes Tim's chest tighten]
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I'm...[he shrugs] getting there.
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Thank you... for the drink. I'm Tim by the way.
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[Dick blinks. Tim's not just being shy, he really doesn't know him.] Dick Grayson. [He's wearing the costume but his mask is off - pretty much everyone in this bar is supposed to know his identity anyway]. Or I go by Nightwing on the street. You've never met me, in your world?
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I moved away from Gotham when I was three. I'm not...I never became Robin like everyone else seems to have. I'm not...[He ducks his head] important
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Whoa, hey now! Not being Robin doesn't mean not important. [Such a frown you are getting, Tim.]
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[Dick's aim really was just eye contact. Really! But now that his proximity is making Tim gasp and lick his lips, Dick's reconsidering that quickly. The way he's touching Tim's hand now is less comforting and more...other things. He strokes up and down the fingers, from Tim's wrist to the tips and back again.]
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[Oh, Dick likes that reaction. He strokes slowly across Tim's palmand then twines their fingers together, stroking Tim's thumb with his own]
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[But he doesn't move his hand away, his fingers rubbing gently over Dick's. There's something strangely intimate about the touch that makes Tim's chest tighten]
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[Dick tries tracing his fingers up the inside of Tim's wrist, over the sensitive skin there.]
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