Summary: Song Fic based on Graffiti by Chvrches
Notes: Yes I have requested but I needed something to break the writerâs block I was having. This song came on the radio at work and I was like âI want to write a fic based on that songâ then I asked @royslittleharper  @the-shadow-of-atlantis @coffee-randomness and we were all like Jason!
Then I changed my mind on the ride home.
So sorry no Jason tonight. He should be back very soon seeing as I have three requests for him.
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I'm writing to ask you; did you achieve all you wanted to do?
Before we were dragged up, something was different and nothing was new
How did you see me?
Faith paused on the rooftop, the darkness of the city enveloping her as she looked down at the street below. One lonely flickering streetlight cast itâs weak light across the wall behind it. Itâs golden light dancing across the faded words etched across brick.
She landed gracefully onto the street right below her. Two steps and she was in front of the large Graffiti painting. Fingers danced over the bright yellow lettering caught up in her own thoughts.
We didn't know what we wanted to be
When did we move on?
I didn't feel it, nobody told me
âWhat are you doing here?â
Tim smiled turning to see Faith behind him, adorned in her ripped jeans and bright yellow beanie. Arms folded over her chest eyes narrow, studying him. She was so different out here in the heart of Gotham than when she was dancing in Bruceâs mansion.
There she was so graceful, so lost in her own world, so focused on something beyond those mirrored walls.
Here she was so relaxed, so alert to the world around her, so present.
In the slums of Gotham, a place no one wanted to call home.
This place had reached out and called to her. Embracing her with its broken arms.
âJust enjoying the view,â he said taking a step back motioning to the wall below. She joined him standing next to him looking down. In the dim alleyway, a few city street lights illuminated âOur Guardian Angelâ. Scrolled in bright yellow paint the words were outlined in blue. Large wings were painted around the words feathers floating around as if swept up by a gentle breeze. A small girl sat in on a plush cloud looking down at a city below, a large smile on her face that matched the one on her yellow beanie.
âI think they like you⊠Guardian Angelâ
âGuardian Angel, I like it.â she let out a loud laugh her whole face breaking out into a smile. Tim couldnât help but smile along with her, realizing with a small pang in the few months he had known this newly orphaned girl she had never laughed like that before. It was loud and deep. Seeming to envelop her lighting her up so it seemed like she was glowing. It was a very nice sound.
âSoâŠâ she said turning to him, âWhere is your Robin wall? Since this is how every masked vigilante gets their name.â
âMasked? Hey you only have that mask because of meâ
She paused studying him for a moment, lost in her own thoughts. As if for the first time really taking him in. âVery Trueâ she whispered, more to herself than him.
Standing in street lights, we didn't know wrong, didn't know right
Making a mess and running in circles, getting in fights
Tim looked up, pure fear in his eyes as he tried to fight the pain through his broken leg. Tried to move before Two-Face flipped his coin.
Two-Face gasped as a brick flew into his face. Stumbling back he turned a moment too late as Faithâs small frame tackled him causing the already unbalanced man to fall. Two punches to the face the second rending a sicking crack before she was flung off him.
Both sat up for a moment size each other up. Faithâs beanie laying a few feet away hair falling in tangled layers around her shoulders.
Two-Face quickly stood looking for his gun while Faith lunged at him again. This time for his knee punching forward, the bone bending unnaturally backward. He fell again with a cry getting another blow to the head.
âStop stop!â he begged as he covered his head.
Faith stood over him body tense fist high ready to strike again. She almost did too but was stopped by Tim.
âAre you ok?â Faith asked concern suddenly washing over her face as she looked over his broken own. She had almost been too late
 Tim nodded toward the door as he saw Batman coming into view. Taking Faithâs still clenched fist Tim pulled her away from the scene. He could never quite used to her street style of fighting. His eyesÂ
We were just kids then, we didn't know how and didn't know when
Taking our chances, calling it off and starting again
âAre you ok?â Tim asked gasping for breath from running the length of the Young Justice Base. Faith looked up at him flashing him a wide toothy grin. Or it would have been a toothy grin if she wasnât missing her two front teeth.
âSuper good, and look now I can whistleâ Faith let out a few wobbly notes causing Tim to shake his head suddenly feeling all the fears he had when she ran off dissipating. Those fears being replaced by pure exsaustion.Â
âYou canât just jump into danger like that, something really bad could have happenedâ he mumbled taking a seat next to her hospital bed. The smile slowly faded from Faithâs face as he spoke.
âBut Plastic-girl was in trouble, sheâs my best friend I couldnât just leave her.â she kicked her feet back and forth as she spoke, âI donât leave you guys behind.â
Tim blinked realizing what she meant. All those times she had jumped head first into a fight. It wasnât because that's how she fought all her battles. It was just how she fought the ones he was in.
âOH M GEEEEâ The recently saved red-haired girl came running into the hospital room cutting Tim off. Almost tackling Faith, Plastic-girl was stopped by her blonde friend who had been kiddnapped with her.
âCareful Plastic-girl, your friend is hurt.â Â Â
âNo way, Iâm so good!â Faith sang, her feet swinging just a little harder as if to prove this point.
âOh, wellâ the boy, Plastic-girl had called Sparks, said leaning against the table wincing slightly. Tim assumed probably a bruised rib from the escape. âWhen they let you out of here want to get coffee or something?â
âShe doesnât like coffee.â Timâs voice spoke on its own, Faith and Sparks turning to him for a moment.
âHot Chocolate?â Faith said flashing the blonde boy a smile, âCoffee makes me hyper⊠or more hyper.â
We wrote our names along the bathroom walls
Graffitiing our hearts across the stalls
I've been waiting for my whole life to grow old
âI love you Steph⊠okâ
Faithâs fingers balled up into a fist. A fist that landed on the large graffiti in front of her. His last words. Ecoing in her brain as she ran, ran as far away as she could. Maybe if she ran fast enough he would come back. Maybe she would wake up.
They had so much time. So much of their lives to live.
She was supposed to have so much more time with him.
Looking up at the large painting of her name, her acceptance. Her wall.
She had always liked to pretend he had done it for her. She knew he hadn't, but sometimes when she was alone she liked to sit on the rooftop above it and remember that day,
The day she fell in love with the boy who had shown her who she could be one day.
A day she knew she had time for.
A day she thought she had time for.
She couldnât help but let out a choked laugh as the tears fell down her face. She had been killing time, this whole time she had just always assumed he would be there. Pointing out the wonders of the world. That he would be by her side. Taking all the time they needed.
And now he never would be again.
Shaking the spray can she raised it working quickly. Moving fast.
Because now she knew, there was no more time. No more waiting for him and her to go on one more adventure. No more waiting until the right moment to admit that maybe there was something more. No more waiting to grow into who they were suposed to be.Â
Taking a step back she looked at her work wiping tears from her eyes with the back of her hand.
ROBIN in brilliant red stood in front of her. His name in flickering street lights honoring him forever. Next to her name like it should be. Together forever etched in stone.
Because they never would be in the flesh
Time to kill
Was always an illusion
Time stood still
And now we never will, never will
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