#tim forgets that not everyone has the context clues he and steph do

[nerdpoe]

I wrote the start of pain because of how toxic Tim and Stephanie's relationship was.

"Why Bernard, though?" Stephanie asked, lounging on the couch behind Tim.

Tim rolled his eyes.

He was used to it; he knew that Steph like Bernard well enough, and that they sometimes conspired together.

Both he and Steph knew that they hadn't exactly...been good. For each other. Too immature, too soon.

It was an age-old fake argument they had for the sake of filling silence after a hard mission.

So, without thinking much about the rest of the Bats around them, he replied.

"For one, he listens to me when I tell him no," he said, referencing how Steph had held his civilian identity over keeping the relationship.

Dick, sitting in front of him, froze.

Then he slowly turned to look at Steph, body tense and eyes pissed.

"What?"

#batman au #red robin au #spoiler #red robin #stephanie brown #dick grayson #nightwing #tim drake #tim forgets that not everyone has the context clues he and steph do #this may be a bit ooc but i'm in a rush rn #story prompt