Prompt Post - Part Ten

[yj_anon]

I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.

If there is anything I haven't responded to, as of now, I'm

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Putting the Un in Settling

[palmtreesky]

AN: Just something small, for your lovely prompt. Just something small. If I keep telling myself that it might be true.

Wally drifts back to consciousness some time in the early morning, temporarily unsure of what woke him up. Then he has a minor freak-out because there's someone in his room, staring out his window at the slowly lightening sky.

And then he remembers. Hell of a fourth of July.

"How you doing, Rob-man?"

"Whelmed." The kid murmurs distractedly.

"What?"

The young man pauses and comes back to himself.

"I'm 'whelmed'. Not overwhelmed or underwhelmed, just whelmed."

"That's ... good, Rob-man. Do you do that a lot . . . make up words?"

Robin's brows come together for a second before smoothing out, "Sorry . . . I guess I've spent a lot of time talking to myself recently."

He grins, like it's a joke. Like bad guys kidnapping a nine year old orphan and turning him into thirteen year old assassin could be comedy material. Like it's not the least funny thing Wally's ever heard of.
Wally smiles back, though, because

Re: Putting the Un in Settling

[yj_tracker]

Huh, I wonder if there's some significance to Wally only calling Robin Rob-man? Or maybe I just look too much into stuff xD

And whoa I am interested in all the implications of this fic, Robin is living with Wally and not with Bruce? And oh Robin, his last line just brings to mind a ton of isolation in Cadmus :C

I'd totally read/watch anything about turning a nine year old orphan into an assassin although it probably wouldn't really count as comedy

And Wally smiling back <33
It makes me happy that their friendship is still there in some/way/shape/form although I figure it's a lot more unsteady in this 'verse

Re: Putting the Un in Settling

[palmtreesky]

He's just with him that first night, like Superboy was in the comics associated with the YJ show.

I actually tried to write nine-year old Dick Grayson being turned into an assassin, but that was in the Evil Has Never Verse, and it got progressively darker and less coherent, so most of it never saw the light of day. Like Robin *sob*

Also, I'm trying to keep these verses separate in my head, so . . .

I think I PM'd you if you want to keep talking off the meme. (I've been scolded for socializing before.)