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“was there ever any doubt?”

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dick and wally call each other “babe” all the time in different ways

teasing and flirting when wally comes out in a suit because they have to go to this stupid wayne foundation charity gala with rich snobs and judgmental press and dick just lights up when he sees him like “lookin’ good, babe”

casual and domestic when wally’s had a long ass day during exam season and dick is visiting in palo alto so they’re binging some show on netflix and wally is totally laying it on thick like he’ll totally combust if he moves an inch “hey babe? can you pass me the remote?”

hot and needy because that same weekend after exams is the first time they’ve seen each other in two months and they can’t seem to make it to the bedroom and wally’s got dick pinned against the wall with his mouth on his neck and dick’s whining “baaabbbeee.”

frustrated and irritated because dick skipped out on a date to go one patrol again and wally understands that he forgot because he’s got a lot on his shoulders right now but he didn’t think that leaving the hero life would be so hard on them “babe, it’s fine. just forget it, alright?”

and even more flirting just for the sake of it when wally’s back and becomes the flash and the two of them are working together on a high profile league call taking down some mammoth of a rogue alien-thing and they make the best partners “got your back, babe”

desperate, voice shaking, because there’s blood everywhere, and wally is holding his dick’s face trying to get him to look him in the eye because he always forgets how human he is and shit shit shit his eyes are losing focus and there’s so much fear in him he can’t fucking breathe properly and it comes out uneven “babe?!” 

after the worst is over, the morning they’re home from the hospital, and it’s raining outside and the sun is barely up yet, and they’re just lying in bed all tangled together and dick is a little out of it from meds but he presses his lips to wally’s jaw and just breathes “love you, babe” before drifting off and

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I have this really soft fondness for a WWI AU

Conner, Wally, Dick, Roy, and Kaldur are sort of a squad of misfits. Probably why they’re put together, commanders thinking they’d be decent canon fodder. But they get on like a house on fire once they get to know each other.

 Kaldur’ahm is constantly battling the incredible amount of racism as a biracial soldier. His father was African American and his mother was a Pacific Islander. 

The you have Wally, the smart talking red headed Irish American who deals with that prejudice, but damn can he run. He wanted to be a soccer player - got drafted instead. 

Conner is a tank, but he’s got some major authority problems and anger issues. 

There’s Dick, who would be the model soldier - but he faked his age when he signed up for the army. He went in under the name Robin, aged 18 but when the team finds out he’s only 16, they cover for him. They’re pissed, but it’s too late to send him home now. They become a little protective of him.

Then there’s Roy, their sniper. Nothing odd about him, he’s just a jackass. 

They would look out for each other. Like, they insist on Kaldur being their leader despite higher command sputtering and refusing to give him rank. He gets it anyway. Wally and Dick end up falling in love, and they all keep the relationship quiet. 

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They get sent on basically suicide missions. Somehow they manage to pull them off, though. High command is just tired with them at that point, because they are making themselves legends on the front and these are not the War Heroes they want. 

Conner gets caught in mortar fire. He survives, but ends up in the field hospital. One of the nurses there is a sweetheart named Megan and she pulls off the miracle of getting him to calm down. When Conner returns to the front, he writes her letters. Sometimes he sketches pictures, and they’re really good. Who knew the guy was a big softie. 

At some point, they’re on a solo mission, about to get slaughtered on the Hungarian border, and suddenly every soldier aiming a riffle at their heads just drops dead. They look up and there’s movement in the clock tower across the square. A few minutes later, what they assume is a young boy comes out with a hat covering his face. They thank him, and then the kid looks up and takes the hat off and a mound of blonde hair spills out and - wait that is a woman. Artemis is a half hungarian half vietnamese intelligence worker and sniper, smuggling military secrets from her General father for the Entente. So, essentially their kind of gal. Artemis obviously can’t join their ragtag little group of soldier boys, but they keep in contact when they can. 

After their batallion liberates a small village, Dick and Wally find an abandoned apartment, more like an attic, tucked away on the far side of the town, fifth floor, about as private as you can get, and they find a gramophone and just - dance. They just slow dance and hold each other. 

They get sent to the Somme. There’s a massive explosion, and Wally had run out to find survivors before anyone could stop him, he just runs and he doesn’t come back and Dick loses it, it takes Roy throwing him over his shoulder to get him back to the trench. Wally’s presumed dead. After the war, the four of them have their own funeral for him, get him a gravestone with nothing to bury, and Dick is just not the same after that. 

A couple years go by. It’s the 1920′s, the whole generation is a little fucked up and so are they. Conner and Megan got hitched, they found Artemis again, and they all end up along the Northeast coast of the US, so they spend a lot of time together still. Well, Dick visits. He’s a roamer, and ever since the war ended he just hasn’t been able to stay in one place for too long.

So it’s a nice summer day, they all met up in Gotham, and Dick is in town so they spend a few days at Wayne Manor (turns out his adoptive father is rich, who knew?). Spent some time at the beach, in the water, playing eurchre, things like that. They’re thinking about going out for a night on the town. It’s the 20′s, why not? So they’re getting ready, and there’s a knock on the door. None of them think anything of it, that nice old butler Alfred went to get the door. He comes back a few minutes later reporting that a Mr. West is asking to see Dick, who goes all quiet thinking it’s probably Wally’s father or something. 

But he goes to the door and it’s Wally. Standing on the porch with his hat in his hand and he’s trying to smile but he looks to scared and unsure. He was caught in the blast and when he woke up, he was a prisoner of war. Managed to escape and make his way down to Italy half dead, where he was taken in by Giovanni Zatarra. He was too sickly to go back to the front, and he couldn’t get any letters to his batallion. So, as he healed, he worked for the Zatarra family in their shop, became good friends with the daughter, Zatanna (who stands teary eyed behind Wally on the porch as she watches Dick launch himself at him and both boys just break down). Eventually, the war ended, and he made enough money for a boat trip back to the USA, and Zatanna, obviously, came with him. Took him a while to find Dick, considering the bastard was moving around so much, but - well, he was always late, wasn’t he?

It’s also notable that Artemis is ogling Zatanna for the rest of the night. They stay in after all, have a few drinks in the sun room with the windows open and the breeze coming in. 

No one talks about the War. 

So like I might write this? I just gave away the entire plot, but maybe. Eventually. 

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The Team starts playing “The Floor Is Lava”. Except they can’t do anything normally, so it’s Extra ™

Wally calls it on Robin outside Mount Justice, and Robin ends up in a tree in three seconds. 

Robin calls it on M’gann after a mission briefing in the Cave, and she flies up, sparking an hour long argument in the bioship on the way to their drop point on whether or not that was cheating. The whole team gets involved. It was cheating. 

Artemis calls it on Conner during movie night, and he jumps too hard to get to the kitchen counter and puts a dent in the ceiling. And spills the popcorn. 

Kaldur calls it on Artemis in the hangar, and Artemis ends up face planting into the water after she tried to jump onto the wing of the bioship and slid off. 

It’s all fun and games until they’re on a mission fighting a Geokinetic rogue and the ground starts splitting apart and spewing lava so everyone gets the fuck up the high ground. After they take the rogue down it’s all quiet and calm until Wally just starts snickering because

Guys. The floor was lava.

And they all just look at each other for a moment and burst out laughing. 

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Headcanon that Dick doesn’t have any of his family records. He has absolutely no idea what his family’s medical history is. They were nomadic, essentially, didn’t keep or record anything like that. The only link he has is to his one living Uncle who lives in Romania, but they don’t talk. 

Because of all of this, Dick is hesitant to be the biological father if he and Wally try for kids with a surrogate. He doesn’t know if he’ll pass anything down to them, and it scares him. 

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dick grayson: barbara is my best friend

wally west, offended: I thought I was your best friend!

dick grayson: I mean my best friend that I'm not fucking

wally west: :)