#i..love them

“   we  are  now  a  clan  of  three.   ”

Listen,, (dont ask for a timeline,,,,,,or why steph and cass are black bat & batgirl bc it is what it is i suck)

Barbara isthe first one to find out of course. She has eyes everywhere, after all, andJason and Roy aren’t really hiding their relationship. She hacks into Roy’s com a few daysafterwards, and tells him in the most dead serious voice ever “There’s not asingle place on earth you could hide where I couldn’t find you, Arsenal. Just keepthat in mind.” and then cuts the transmition. Roy is terrified, and Jason can’tunderstand why his bf misses a few shots during that mission. (Barbara feels a bit bad, and a few days later he sends them a fruit basket to congratulate them)

Tim issecond, best detective and all of that. He straight up asks them when he seesthem, and then congratulates them when Jason confirms it….. and…… okay, if thatnight he sends Roy a few messages reminding him how being trained by Batmanshaped him to be able to take him down, it’s nobody business. (“I thought youbats didn’t kill” “There are worst things that death, Roy :)” “why are you guys so creepy”)

Surprisingly,Cass is next. She drops right next to Roy during a patrol, when Jason had disappearedinto an orphanage to leave a few kids they had just rescued from Killer Croc.Black Bat doesn’t say anything for a while, which only works to unnerve Roy even more.Finally, she just says a very clear “Be careful with him”, and waits till Roynods before leaving. Somehow, Roy suspects she would be the first one to comeafter him if anything happened.  

Stephanieand Harper break the “passive aggressive” chain. They corner him one night,Batgirl shoving him against a wall, the tip of one of his own arrows againsthis throat, while Blue Bird looks at him curiously over her shoulder. “You hurthim, I hurt you, capiche?” Stephanie asks, as sharp as the tip of his arrow,and  when he nods, she smiles and letshim go. “You gotta grip these tighter, red” she jokes before turning around toleave, as if the arrow just wasn’t close to slash his throat a few seconds ago.“She means it” Harper tells him, almost amused before following Batgirl. 

Roy knowsthe newest Robin hates being leftbehind, so he isn’t surprised when one day he wakes up to find the little bratsitting on his chest, the end of a sword right between his eyes. “Todd may bean imbecile, but he’s family. Do him wrong, and my father won’t be able to stopme from hurting you”. Roy has to bite his tongue to stop himself from askinghim if Dick is aware his little brother is running around shoving swords intopeople’s faces. If the kid is half as good as Talia, he would be toast in a matter of seconds.

Talkingabout Dick, Roy doesn’t understand how the oldest ex robin hasn’t even sent hima text to warn him about hurting Jason, or something like that. Not even a punthat would make Jason snort the moment Roy showed it to him, or emails.. nada.

The answercomes when Nightwing crashes into their apartment one morning, shouting about needing intelabout some gang they had been rounding up, only to come across both of them cuddlingin bed, as naked as the day they were born. There’s a beat of silence, and Roycomes to the conclusion that Dick didn’t try to give him the shovel talkbecause he didn’t know. Anyway, youknow that episode from friends where someone eats Ross sandwich, and he startsyelling angrily? Well, that’s how Dick starts screaming when he connects thedots.

(“MYBROTHER, ROY?? MY BROTHER??  YOU’RE SLEEPING WITH MY BABY BROTHER??WHAT THE FUCK!!!” “Actually we’re datingand he’s…twenty two…” “MY BABY BROTHER”)

(Meanwhile,Jason just mumbles something like “Jesus Christ Dick chill out its 6am, go killRoy somewhere else and let me sleep in peace”)

Roy decideshe likes Duke the moest out of the batclan when the kid just pats him in theback and, making a batman impression, tells him right in from of Jason to “benice with red hood, you both are pretty cool and I wouldn’t like to take sides”. (“Hey! Roy isn’t even a bat, you shouldtake my side by default” “uh uh” “oh come on, I showed you the best hidingplaces of the batcave and this is how you repay me? I’m hurt” “is he alwaysthis dramatic?” “yup, get used to it”)

They decideto tell Bruce instead of waiting for him to find out. Roy expects him to be theless chill about it, expects some maiming or glares. Instead B only smiles,something completely new to Roy, and tells them he’s happy on their behalf. Atleast Jason looks as bewildered as he feels.

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