#jaimetim

“stolen kiss” it is. :3 This is… more or less 63!Tim/Jaime. Because I wanted to use the Traci lead-in from Blue Beetle #16.

“ – could meet a cute girl who would be okay with all the weird.”

“Jaime? Jaime Reyes?” The girl walking in looks kinda familiar, in a weird way. And really pretty, not that Jaime’s staring at her or anything because his mom raised him way better than that. But just. Wow.

Paco elbows him in the side, and Jaime realizes that oh right, he’s should probably. Say something. “Yes? Can I help you?”

“I hope so.” She tilts her head at him, and for some reason, he can’t shake the feeling that she sees way more than she’s letting on. It’s practically giving Khaji-Da conniptions. “Can I talk to you… privately? For a minute?”

“Lady,” Paco says, “you can be private with my man here doing anything you want.”

“Sure!” Jaime says, quickly and loudly like he can somehow cancel out Paco’s being an idiot while she’s right there, come on. Luckily, Paco gets out of the garage pretty quick. “So, uh, what did you need?”

“I, uh.” The girl goes quiet for so long that Jaime’s kinda worried Paco really did offend her or something. “God, this was stupid. He’s gonna kill me,” she mutters, which is definitely not the least alarming thing she could have said.

“Are you in some kind of trouble?” He’s not sure why she’d be going to Jaime Reyes, Definitely Not the Blue Beetle for that, but it’s not like he’s going to ignore her if she needs help.

“Not yet.” Her mouth tilts upwards in a smile that’s more bitter than happy. “I mean, hi. I’m Robin, of ‘Batman and’. I’m AWOL and probably having some kind of nervous breakdown, but I figured since I was having it in your general area, I’d stop in and let you know that Batman believes you about the Reach. And he’s taking steps to prepare against it.”

It’s a lot to take in, and he really wouldn’t even believe her if it wasn’t for the fact that she knows about the Reach, but somehow, the thing that pops out of his mouth first is “Robin is a girl?”

“Sometimes. I mean, Robin’s a boy, but his civilian identity is me, and I’m a girl, and that’s – really not important right now.” She shoves her hands into the pockets of her jeans, shoulders hunched over. “I just wanted to let you know that you’re not alone, with the Reach. Cause, uh, you don’t – deserve that. Okay?” She twists around so she’s looking outside again, like she’s gonna leave. “It was nice meeting you.”

“Wait,” he says immediately, even if he’s not sure why. Maybe it’s just cause she’s a superhero or something, and there’s gotta be a heroes help heroes kind of code, right? Maybe the JLA sorta screwed it up when they left him like they did, but – she just looks so sad. “We’re really far from Gotham, do you have a place to stay? Or… do you want to hang out and talk or something?”