Oliver has a bad day. Could come after this post but could be any nebulously sour mood befallen upon Oliver.
"Why aren't you at work, Kaz?"
"Because you're not there."
"You can't just skip because I'm sad! There are still people to help."
Yeah, you, cuz you're sad. You deserves help too."
Kaz blinks at him. Then , instead of arguing the point, he says, "Let's go to the park!"
Kaz starts herding him along, and Oliver plants his feet to stall him. "I don't want to go anywhere."
"Sure you do. It's quiet there but not too quiet, and nobody will try to talk to you and we can stop for snacks."
Oliver still doesn't want to be here, so once they sit at a picnic table away from the dogs walking and playing children, Oliver stares off into the middle distance. Kaz will get bored and give up eventually, and then Oliver can mope by himself like he wants.
It doesn't matter that the sun feels nice, or that the breeze is perfect. It doesn't matter that the background noise of happy people does make him feel a little better about the world.
Kaz shifts in the corner of his eye, and he waits for chatter that he can pointedly ignore, but it doesn't come. Oliver tries to look without looking like he's looking and sees a notebook. Kaz draws an umbrella. Then another one. Then another one, but this one is caught in a tree that looks like the oak trees in the park.
Oliver can't believe that Kaz is trying to wait him out. He's outraged that it might work, since the sunshine really is getting to him. After a while, Kaz starts humming. Oliver huffs an almost laugh. He listens for a minute before realizing he's humming lollipop.
"Kaz looks up, confused. "Why what?"
"Why would you have lollipop of all songs in your head?"
"Because sometimes it gets stuck in my head when I think about you." He's so nonchalant, like it should be obvious. He gets a silly fifties song stuck in his head sometimes when he thinks about Oliver, who he's thinking about right now. Like it should be obvious. Like it should be obvious that Kaz would sit here doodling quietly instead of helping actual superheroes because Oliver is having a bad day. "That's so...you are so...I hate you." He does. Oliver hates Kaz so bad. "Never leave me."