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The Revelation (bendy-timed before the Meet and Greet)

The Sub-Visser was dying. It was obvious to anyone in the MedBay, from the way Paco was shuddering and moaning in his restraints. The last hold-out of the Yeerk infestation was dying. It would all be over soon.

He looked up as Superboy and Robin entered the MedBay and laughed, baring his teeth in a grin.

"Hey Superboy, want to know a secret?" he asked. "It's a good one. A real kicker, that Francisco and Jaime and Speedy have been keeping from you and your little friend there."

And before Jaime can stop him, he spits it out:

"You're dead when you go home. Dead! Had a nice funeral, too bad you weren't there too enjoy it. Oh!" he rolls Paco's head to look at Robin. "And I wouldn't get too attached to your little buddy Kid Flash either. Oh wait, too late isn't it? Ah well. At least Superboy goes out saving the world. Flashy drops the 'kid' off his name and goes out like a punk."

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Tim frowns. "How can I be so different that you're a Titan and you don't know me?"

He's not going to argue Jaime's other point because--damn it--he's kind of right. And Tim isn't sure he would have done anything different if he'd been in Jaime's position, and knew Paco was going to die.

"He's...he's not the only one you lose. You were so...miserable. And then you left the team. Everybody left the team. There's only the three of us now. Wonder Girl keeps telling me the Titans are family, but I haven't seen it yet. I mostly stick around just because Eddie's my friend."

Tim blinks. Things... are going to get worse? Worse than losing his family, and Steph, and Kon? And he's going to quit the Titans? No wonder Jaime doesn't know anything about him. He doesn't even recognize himself from that description. He grinds his teeth a little. As furious as he--still--is with Jaime... He can't sahe was wring. They just... have to move forward from here.

"I think," Tim says slowly. "That you need to tell us what happened. The truth, this time. So we can try to figure out what to do now." He's trying to be patient, and not vent his anger.

Kon finally speaks up.

"Did we win? Did we stop them?"

"You did. You stopped them. You saved everyone. That's why the statue. Everyone--everyone was grateful for what you did. For all of us."

"Then that's all I need to know."

Tim smiles very slightly. He had known Kon would react like that. It's just... the kind of hero he is. He turns toward Jaime and does manage to keep the "see?" to himself.

"Wait." Now he turns to look at Jaime, with his eyes wide. "Nightwing. And Cassie. They made it, right? You said Cassie's still a Titan? She's okay?"

"They're both fine. She's okay. She's leading what's left of the team."

After the thing with Lycus, she'd even stopped being so angry all the time.

Kon stands up.

"Okay. Then... okay."

He looks at Jaime.

"And I'm not mad. I get why you..." He breaks off. "I don't know how I'd tell somebody something like this, either, and when I was with the Legion, they were so freaked about the idea of sending me back to the wrong time, for what it could do... I get it."

He honestly has no hard feelings here. It's not Jaime's fault that this...that this is supposed to happen. It won't be his fault if it does happen like it's supposed to.

Clenching his fists fitfully at his sides, he glances up at the statue again. "If I have to go back, after all this, and...if I have to, I will. I mean, you figure, at the worst..."

Kon looks over at them both. "You figure at the very least I've got more time, right? I have extra time, that...that I wouldn't have had."

Looking down again, he says, "I just wish Cassie was here, though. That I had a chance to..."

Exploration is her new game, and she decides that getting a mental layout of this place is her first order of business. Business, however, is quickly interrupted when she hears a familiar raised voice.

Tim?

She changes her course, and follows the voices at a jog; Tim’s arguing with someone, talking about... Kon? She barely listens to what they’re saying, focused on getting there.

When she reaches the statuary, she slows to a walk, and then comes to a dead halt when Kon asks about her, and then wishes for her to be there. Kon asks, as though he’s alive, and he is, there with Tim and another boy.

Cassie’s heart hammers in her throat. She has no idea how to interrupt, for a moment, so she just stands there, feeling weak in the knees and so utterly lost for words. A hand drifts to her mouth and she holds it there for a moment, eyes welling with tears.

“Kon?” she manages.

His heart freezes in his chest with the best kind of shock possible, and Kon turns, standing there and looking all the world like he's lost and found all at the same time.

He's going to die, but she's here. She's stuck here like they all are, but she's here. Even more time means nothing when he knows now that he's probably going to die, but now it means more time with her because she's here.

"...?"

It's only a half a second's pause. Worldlessly, he bounds towards her, and practically slams into her as he pulls her into his arms--hell, it might even be enough to bowl them both over.

"Cassie! You're here! You're here!"

He didn't know it was possible to feel this much relief after finding out something so horrible. He doesn't want her to be here, because of the dangers, because it sucks here, but he does, because the prospect of going right back to die without more time spent with her is horrifying.

Cassie isn’t exactly as durable as she normally would be. He hits her pretty hard with that enthusiasm, and she stumbles back and has to cling to him so that she doesn’t end up on the floor. She’s so taken aback it doesn’t exactly work.

“––Woah!”

Down they go.

“Ow,” she cringes, but it can’t trump how overjoyed –– and stunned –– she is. “I’m here? You’re here!”

Thankfully--if not for him, but for her--his superstrength is waning, so he didn't slam into her that hard. Still, now they're a tangled pile of awkward teenage limbs on the floor.

He kisses her, hard.

"If you're from the future, I'm--I just found out I'm-- time travel. We got pulled from different times. I got pulled from right before the fight--the fight in the North Pole. I just found out--I--"

Now it's actually, finally hitting him. He buries his face against her neck.

"I just found out. I just--I..."

I don't wanna die.

"Guys," he says to Robin and Jaime. "Can you leave us alone a minute?"

Because he can't--he doesn't want to deal with this with other dudes there. This is...it's a little much, and...

If he'd just heard, maybe, if there wasn't the statue, if Cassie didn't just show up and give him a stark reminder of what he'd miss out on, if there was more time between when he was due to go back and the actual fight, if if if...

Jaime looks away and immediately walks out as Kon requests, not relishing the fact that it means he'll be alone with Robin.

He feels the worst he has ever felt right now.

He feels even more horrible for doubting someone who he--now that he's getting to know him--seems to deserve every statue and whispered prayer of thanks that he's gotten.

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Tim walks with Jaime, grabbing him by the arm and pulling him along a little to get him to move faster. Kon and Cassie... should have their privacy. Once they've managed to make it out of the statuary, Tim releases him. "Sorry," he says, frowning a little. He gestures behind them. "They needed privacy."

Jaime's quiet.

Tim watches Jaime for several moments. He looks like he feels awful, and Tim just can't bring himself to be sorry about that.

"Hey," he says finally. "You okay?"

Because yes--he kind of wants Jaime to feel bad for lying to them, but... It had been a tough situation, and if he really hadn't known what kind of people they were, there was no way to know how telling them would have changed things.

He's asking if he's okay. Geez.

"I think I'd feel a lot better if one or both of you had punched me in the face."

"Trust me--you don't want Kon to punch you in the face."

Probably not.

"You know what I mean."

"Yeah, I do. Sorry we're not obliging."

"I'm really sorry for this whole thing."

Tim lets out a sigh. "I know you are. I'm pissed as Hell, but..." he shakes his head. "I'm not sure you were wrong--at first." He fixes Jaime with a look. "I still think that once you got to know us, you should have said something, but... yeah. Maybe initially I would have done the same thing you did."

Jaime leans back against the meat wall they're near, crossing his arms.

"I do intend to figure out how to save him some how. There's gotta be a way."

The Revelation (bendy-timed before the Meet and Greet)

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