Saviours of the World

                  “Backup right.” His first thought had been for Bart, he hadn’t even thought of making the call in for backup. Not that he was sure who would come to help them. Cassie wouldn’t answer, they were fighting and she was being pissy about something stupid. Tim was in Gotham. Anyone else wouldn’t really put up a good enough fight. “Let’s get you somewhere away from the psycho and then I’ll call backup.” He wrapped his arms tighter around his friend before taking off into the air. Luckily the crazy man didn’t follow him and he was able to get Bart to a roof, well away from the maniac.

                  “Not a funny joke…” She wrapped her arms around herself, knowing just where his thoughts had gone and unable to stop her own thoughts from going down that same road. Too many nights had she thought about the Rogues and what they had done. She knew that if she ever came across them, she would kill them herself.

                  “Okay… if you say so.” She didn’t need her bow to help protect him. She’d taken classes when she was still with her mother. Her mother had insisted. She learned to defend herself without her weapon of choice, and had even kept several other weapons around her apartment. After all she did live in Gotham. There was no way she’d live there without being protected.

                  “You and Conner…” She let the grin on his face calm her and she smirked back. Seeing the grin, knowing that it wasn’t fake or to make her feel better, made her feel slightly better. “Maybe if you’re real good, I’ll make a new one.”

               “Yeah.. I know.” He knew now anyway. But often times his mouth moved faster that his brain and then he ended up saying stupid things like that and getting himself in trouble or hurting someone by accident. The speedster wraps his arms around her again, an attempt at comfort and a silent apology for upsetting her.

               “I do say so! It’ll be totally fine! There are enough flashs in Central to take care of things if something were to go south.” As he’d already decided, he wouldn’t be one of them. Not until he was sure Cissie was safe and far from danger. Course he couldn’t get her that far from danger with her living in Gotham City. He’d have to hassle Tim and make sure he keeps a check on the blonde.

                  The next morning saw Nathaniel cleaning up from the missed meetings he had the previous day. The “visit” from his old team had not only messed up the one meeting but the whole rest of the day. He’d suffered from a headache and had cancelled any other meetings, knowing he wouldn’t get anything done. With coffee in hand, he finished up meeting after meeting until he was finally able to rest. He had noticed something out of the corner of his eye and had smirked when he finally was able to relax at his desk.

                  “Would you like something to eat, Thomas?” He waved over towards the counter that his assistant had set up various breakfast items. “I’m assured that the muffins were made this morning.” He quickly shuffled around a few papers, and sent a message to his secretary not to bother him for the next few hours.

               Thomas. Ugh. The speedster shrugs, casually leaning against the counter and grabbing a muffin. He wasn’t one to allow someone to intimidate him and he didn’t care if this guy was Kang the fucking Conqueror. He was Tommy Shepherd and he wasn’t scared of shit.

                  “This is stupid…” He huffed as he crossed his arms over his chest. “Every few months you get a new foster family, and then a few weeks later you are sent back to the orphanage. I don’t see why you just won’t allow my father to adopt you.” He looked away from Colin and pouted. He had brought it up to Dick once before, but his ‘older brother’ had just messed up his hair and told him that things would work out in the end. He didn’t know what that was supposed to mean, and it had annoyed him. Alfred had done something similar and had told Damian to 'leave well enough alone’. He didn’t understand why none of his family wanted to help his friend.

                  “My brothers and father have plenty of friends who are more than capable of giving you a better home. A stable home. I do not understand why they aren’t doing it!” He was fuming. He knew he shouldn’t get this angry but he couldn’t help it. “They’re… they’re selfish!”

               Colin frowns as the other boy rants. It was nice to know that Damian cared so much, but really the orphan boy didn’t want his friend being angry at his family over him. He wasn’t worth all of that. Though the boy had entertained the thought before. Bruce Wayne had adopted two other children and been the legal guardian of another... so what was so bad about one more? Still, if he didn’t want them he didn’t want him and Colin didn’t want to be with another family that didn’t want him.

// Heyo archived this blog and moved it to a new one so it’s no longer a sideblog yay!!! My queue will continue to run for this blog until it runs out (which should be in a few days) but I’ll be attempting to continue all threads over on the new blog. 

                  “Or you could ask him to do it now… come on man. I put on the jacket, you get a hair cut. That was the deal. Don’t make me use the TTK to hold your ass down.”