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Thing 1 and Thing 2

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Kaldur wasn't sure when he first noticed it, but as time went on, he found it increasingly harder not to notice it.

The "it" in question was Robin and Kid Flash, and it confused him to no end.

The first time it happened was on their first mission (the unplanned one where they broke into Cadmus and discovered Superboy) and Robin had let his grappling hook fly. Right as he was about to go up, Wally had grabbed onto his utility belt and had whizzed up alongside him. Kaldur had let it go, figuring that it had been a clever, if a bit bold, way of hitching a ride.

But then he remembered another time when Robin and Kid Flash had needed to go to Gotham (Kaldur hadn't wondered why then, but he was certainly curious now.) Rather than take a zeta beam or catch a jet, Wally had simply strapped on his goggles and bent down. Robin, not to be outdone, had hopped on top, piggyback-style, and they had taken off, Robin's black and gold cape flying behind them like a farewell wave.

That had been strange.

After that, Kaldur was seeing it everywhere. There had been that one day, when Robin was eating a sandwich and Wally had simply strolled up and taken a bite. Rather than discard the sandwich (which Aqualad certainly would have done, seeing that it was now contaminated by all sorts of Wally-germs), Robin had rolled his eyes, socked Kid Flash in the shoulder and had continued eating. And then there was that day with T.O. Morrow's robot and the way Robin and Kid Flash had been laughing and fighting and joking all day. Then there was the time when Robin had bandaged Kid Flash's leg wound when Wally was in too much pain to do it himself.

And the time when Wally had done Robin's science homework (of course, only after Robin had done Wally's math worksheet) and the time when Robin had baked Wally a birthday cake, and the time when Wally had brought Chinese takeout from China for the two to share, and not to mention all the strange facts the two seemed to know about eachother.

Kaldur hadn't known that Wally got nosebleeds when attempting to vibrate his molecules through walls, but apparently Robin did.

And then there were the times that the two acted more like brothers than friends.

Like the day (the memory was firmly branded in Kaldur's mind) when the team had arrived on the scene of a chemical fire in one of Star Labs' more remote facilities. The rescue 'copters and the firefighters had arrived, but the blaze was too big for anybody to actually get close. By the time the team had gotten there, nearly the entire place had burned down, and most of the people inside had been killed. There was one scientist who had bravely tried to escape through a window, but he had lost his balance (and forgotten how high up he was) and was dangling from the sill.

And then he fell.

Robin, being the closest, and the only one still able to think clearly, had fired his grappling hook, taken off, and lunged for the man. Kaldur could see that their fingertips brushed, but it had been too late and the man had slipped through Robin's gloved hands and had crashed to the ground several stories below where he lay like a broken doll. The helicopters all had immediately highlighted the scene with their spotlights, but there was just something so horrible and gruesome and wrong about the lights falling on the man's broken body and making the blood sparkle in the flames.

It had been their first witnessed casualty, and all of them had taken it hard, but none more so than the little bird. Robin had just hung limply from the end of his zipline, his wide, blank gaze tilted downward. He didn't move, didn't come down, didn't do anything until Wally called him back.

Kaldur hadn't known what to do when Robin's eyes went wide and his breath shallowed and his body started to shake. He watched, though, as Wally took the hacker into his arms and let him mumble out his worries into his soot-smeared yellow chest.

There were times when they seemed to utterly hate eachother, and times when the others wondered if the two were related.

Especially interesting were the times in battle when they chose to act this way.

Like that time when they had been fighting Amazo. Kaldur hadn't seen it himself, but Superboy had told him everything. Robin had been picking himself up off the ground while Amazo was fcusing his laser beams on him. Robin was just about to be fried when Wally had appeared, picked him up (bridal style, no less) and had whisked him to safety, even though Superboy had been perfectly sure that a kid with reflexes like Robin could have dodged with time to spare.

And really, Wally carrying people around wasn't new. Heck, Wally had carried Artemis through nearly all of Bialya, but what made this different is that instead of being indignant about being treated like a damsel in distress, Robin had gripped Wally's arm, whooped, and urged him to go faster.

There was another time too, and while the details were all foggy, Kaldur remembered that there had been guns and there had been way too many men for them to fight. Kid Flash and Robin had been assigned to the same wing of the building, which just so happened to be the most dangerous place as well, teeming with money-seeking armed thugs.

By the time Kaldur had finished off his bunch and had gotten to the scene, he fully expected Robin and Wally to be unconscious, bloody and beaten and defeated.

He did not expect them to be having a flippant conversation while easily overpowering all the men. While playing leapfrog.

"Rob, nice spin!" Wally commented as the smaller boy leapt over his back and kicked three men at once. Robin bent down and allowed Wally to rush over him, hitting the faces of several more men and knocking the guns out of their hands.

"Watch your ribs," Robin offered, and Wally shifted ever-so-slightly to the side so that the man who had been sneaing up on him was met with his ready boot rather than his tender side. Robin grinned as he vaulted over his best friend, using Wally's back as a springboard and launching himself into a series of complex-looking flips and somersaults.

"Show off." Wally panted, pressing Robin's face into the ground so a bullet whizzed right over it instead of through it. The Boy Wonder shot him a grateful glance.

"Hey, if you got it, flaunt it." he teased, and then grabbed a man by the back of his jacket. Wally grinned and grabbed his own goon, and on some unseen signal, they both sprinted toward eachother, knocking the men into eachother with enough force to give them concussions. The two thugs slid to the ground while Robin and Kid Flash dusted their hands off in unison and looked around for more men, only to find that there weren't any.

Kaldur was speechless. The things these two did.

Which brought him back to the present. He had just walked into the Young Justice living room to find the two sprawled out on the couch, fast asleep, Robin's head cushioned on Wally's stomach, Wally's legs in a tangle with a blanket that was slowly slipping off the sofa. Kaldur had to work hard not to smile.

Sometimes it was weird to see the bond these two held.

And sometimes it was nice.
Lol, Dick and Wally just make me happy.
I hope they make you happy too.
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Elizabeth-F14's avatar
I know I'm wayyyy late to this xD but that was great well done! This is the best fanfiction I've read in a reallyyyyy long time bravo!