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[pixieboots]

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text; some hours after they get back from the mission

[gambat]

Hey.
I'm really sorry but we're going to have to reschedule training till sometime next week. Again I'm sorry. Something came up. I'll reschedule something later, promise.

text; icly delayed by about an hour

[superwonder]

it’s okay. i’m actually not feeling too good this week anyway. in fact i’m probably just going to stay in bed for a couple days. see if i can sleep it off.

DATED TO WHENEVER THE BOMBINGS START; private, anon, voice.

[crossbearing]

( And she is on a motorbike, you can tell by the sounds of FURIOUS REVVING. )

Robin? It's Huntress. I have an assignment for you.

[pixieboots]

Huh? [ whoops how unprofessional. ]

What kind of assignment?

text

[gevurah]

[ AWKWARD. ]

Want to check in. You been alright for the past couple of weeks?

text + tldr whoops [1/2]

[pixieboots]

[ he doesn’t check this device anymore, hasn’t carried it since Dick Grayson first had to disappear all those months ago. it still feels longer ago now than it really has been.

only to Kate he never did disappear, which is how he knows who it is right away when he hears the soft ping of the message arriving. he has to rummage a little through a pile of old fabric, digging past a half-assembled cape and a few old food containers before he figures out where he left it. and sure enough, he’s not imagining things.

he can’t keep this up. he can’t and for Kate’s sake he shouldn’t, not for another minute. she’s smart enough to fit the pieces together the minute she starts looking a little sideways at the whole situation, that no one knows Dick Grayson because Dick Grayson isn’t really here in exsilium. she’ll be angry. maybe she’ll even try to stop him, once she figures out the why. seeing her angry once was enough, just the thought of seeing it again makes his stomach churn.

all he has to do is set it down. leave the message to sit there unanswered while he mends batarangs and adds pieces to the new utility belt. he knows already what Bruce would do, if Kate was his friend. he wouldn’t think about her if her life wasn’t in danger, wouldn’t wonder for a minute if he was doing the right thing.

he gets through one, then two more before he picks the tablet up again. ]

sure.

text [2/2]

[pixieboots]

you don't have to you know.

sliiiiides in here with a text message

[skort]

Hey, you got a minute?

text;

[pixieboots]

i always have a minute

[ for Supergirl he does. ]

what's up ?

text | early am 7/27

[crocodilesmiles]

Hey, my favorite Robin! I've been pulled for a private mission, so I'll be gone for a few days. Just wanted to let you know in case anyone asked after me!

We need to talk Jeeps and a public showing of Jurassic Park when I'm back!

Love,
Collette

Dick gets this late because I fail at notifs!!

[pixieboots]

does that mean i get a line on the intel too?

text | sometime around the 28th/29th

[vaccination]

if you're around, I've got your comics

text | A NEBULOUS PERIOD OF TIME LATER idk it's probably a few days

[pixieboots]

all of them?

voice

[khajidont]

Hey.

[...wow, he really did not think this through beyond the need to talk to the poor kid now that they're stationed here.]

It's Jaime. Pick up?

voice

[pixieboots]

[ wow does he not want to look at his tablet, which is a thing that only really starts to register near the foot of the bed when hears that ping. he wants to keep his head under the blankets, he wants to keep his hands pressed over his hears, he doesn’t want to hear it and remember that there’s a world out there filled with hundreds of thousands of people who are dead now. people he’d known and people he hadn’t known. people he’d failed completely. in every way possible.

but he’s been trained too well to ignore it forever. finally he rolls over and nudges it with his foot, enough that it tilts up and he can see that it’s Jaime calling.

his mind is already made him for him by the time he reaches for it and clicks it on. ]

…Hey. I, um.

[ his voice is watery once he’s tried it out, and he know how that has to sound. he forces out a breath, then holds in a sniffle and tries again. ]

-Hey.

backdated to the 29th

[controlledvariable]

you're up on the base, right?

[She's been keeping an ear to the ground with regards to who's been seen on the ship, but she needs to be sure.]

text | THIS REPLY PROBABLY COMES THROUGH ON LIKE THE 2ND he sucks i'm sorry

[pixieboots]

you can stop wondering now

text

[controlledvariable]

i'm heading to the US (2010) in a couple days, you want me to pick up anything for you?

text

[pixieboots]

[ INTEREST PIQUED ]

like what?


like really anything?

text

[gevurah]

We need to talk.

text

[pixieboots]

oh.

really?

[ he wouldn't have really blamed her if she'd never wanted to talk to him again. ]

can they even private WEAK PRIVATE IF CAN whatever standard setting is around

[crocodilesmiles]

It's awfully hard to move back in with someone if they keep moving around, you know!

( She let's it come out like an easy tease. All the things that have been happening with and since the mutiny have been important, stupid, so many different words and emotions.

She's glad Steph's overprotective side means that no one's going to go off half cocked at him and say or do something they'll regret. She doesn't think they would.

But it's nice not having to worry. )

Private: but Steph's probably still reading his messages sigh

[pixieboots]

They're not even arresting me. Can you believe that?

[ It's easier to put it like that, brush away the awkwardness of having to have this conversation in the first place.

It's Collette, not a stranger.. ]

...But I probably can't stay here anymore either.

text

[khajidont]

[Slightly backdated to earlier on the 26th.]
If you're getting this, you wanted to know more about the clones. I'm going to tell the network what I know soon, but here's a copy of my notes.

[Attached is this document.]

text

[pixieboots]

[ He's reading the notes pretty thoroughly so it takes him a bit to reply. ]

thanks for sharing.

did your take that pic with your mask ?

text

[controlledvariable]

who's with you right now?

[Because she's tempted to just 'port in and steal him but she doesn't wanna worry anyone.]

text

[pixieboots]

it's just me

[ it doesn't happen often, and when it does it's harder each time to resist the needling itch to take a step outside unaccompanied. Just to do flips in the hallway, just to do one good handstand.

But Steph would be upset if he did, so he'd been curbing the feeling this time with some DS instead, curled on his bed with his tablet at his side.

Only Steph wouldn't text him if it wasn't important, she'd be here in person. ]

what happened

not long after her release from solitary:

[totallytrustworthy]

suppose my denial didnt stop you in the end

for whatever its worth darling: I'm sorry

about everything

[pixieboots]

but you're still getting out right ?

[ he hasn't checked the network yet. ]

no i'm sorry okay i shouldn't have said anything
you were right i messed up

text 12/9

[crocodilesmiles]

( Once upon a time this would have been a long description of what she's going to be doing.

Then she realized she had to send this to a whole bunch of people, so she got lazy, and: )

Hey, I'm going to take up a missionary position in France! See you again in about a month. Hopefully the snow's not all gone by then!

Hey, you're not a bad guy, you know? You're really smart, and you learn fast, and you ask for like, so much more of yourself than most people do. Don't forget to see what you do well along with anything you feel you can improve on, for your own sake. I'm going to miss you at Christmas! I bet you would have been the best as hanging mistletoe for maximum prank value... we should do that in January anyway!

Love ya, #1 R. ♥

( That was a thing. )

text 12/9

[pixieboots]

but we just got here

come on it's not that cold out

TEXT.

[badnewsboy]

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TEXT.

[pixieboots]

[ there's probably an hour or so of delay while Dick turns the tablet sideways, tries counting the characters, tries reading it backwards and cracking it like a code.

and still nothing. ]

okay I give

is it a riddle or what ??

12/23 | text

[gevurah]

Going to be away for a few days.

12/23 | text

[pixieboots]

right now ?

but christmas is coming

[ :c ]

so... so backdated 12/15

[boughtabookstore]

Dick, we need to have a quick conversation.

voice; because reasons

[pixieboots]

Hey Roslyn. What's up?

text. this one is actually icly the 30th too she took her time

[motherofnemesis]

You trained with bo sticks before?

text; he's been waiting ;;

[pixieboots]

aw how'd you guess ?

[ spoilers he knows just how ]