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

[flunkingspanish.livejournal.com]

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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[halfgoddess.livejournal.com]

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!”

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

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...

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

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.

[mrsarcastic003]

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."

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

Jaime's quiet.

[mrsarcastic003]

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.

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

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."

[mrsarcastic003]

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

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

Probably not.

"You know what I mean."

[mrsarcastic003]

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

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

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

[mrsarcastic003]

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."

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

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."

[mrsarcastic003]

"Do I get to help now?" Tim asks, raising his eyebrows. "Since I know?"

[el-escarabajo.livejournal.com]

"All of us will. Me, you, Wonder Girl, Speedy, Supergirl, we'll all try to figure it out, and we've got plenty of others to help us," says Jaime, and his mouth quirks into a little grin. "Titans Together, right?"

[mrsarcastic003]

Those words make Tim grin back at him. He nods. "Yeah--Titans Together." They will fix this.