“Constance”
Roy/Kaldur. Spoilers for Auld Acquaintance.
Roy/Kaldur. Spoilers for Auld Acquaintance.
“Through it all, whenever he feels unworthy, whenever he feels like he shouldn’t belong or exist, whenever he feels like his whole life is one gigantic sham, all it takes it Kaldur to make Roy feel like a real person.”
After Kaldur is revealed to be a mole for the League, Roy gets a visitor he’d long since stopped expecting. Spoilers for 2.3, “Alienated.”
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I haven’t posted anything in so damn long. I have pieces of many things, but nothing complete, so here is the beginning of the final installation of “Dreams Won’t Do,” a collection of Roy/Kaldur oneshots. Sorry, everyone.
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Roy fidgets as he sits on the examining table in the Cave’s medbay, letting someone he vaguely knows extract a piece of shrapnel from his arm. It’s nearly eleven at night and he knows the babysitter is going to kill him, but he doesn’t have the money for hospital bills right now, even with Jade’s occasional, doubtlessly illegal monetary contributions. Ollie ensured he had a high school diploma but he can’t put his real job experience on a résumé (“running around at night in tight pants and shooting things full of arrows”), so his salary isn’t particularly impressive, and as it turns out parenting is pretty expensive.
Around the room, several other young heroes are being patched up. Roy recognizes some – there’s Nightwing’s replacement, the new Robin, whose dislocated shoulder is being tended to by Miss Martian, and that weird kid with the blue armor whose name he learned once but now forgets. There are others, but he doesn’t know them; it’s been a while. On the whole it looks like it’s been a hell of a day for the entire team.
Roy has just picked up Lian from daycare on the way home from work – security coordinator at a local bank – when right as he’s buckling her into her car seat, his cell phone rings.
Thing is, his cell phone isn’t on.
“Hello?” he answers suspiciously, tucking it between his shoulder and his ear so he can finish tethering his daughter in. “Who is this?”
“It’s Nightwing,” responds the caller. “It’s an emergency.”
(Well that solves the mystery, at least – the bastard hacked his phone.)
“So deal with it,” Roy snaps. He adjusts the car seat straps and ruffles Lian’s hair, taking the phone back into his hand and straightening out. “Or get the League. You know I don’t do that sh – stuff anymore.”
He glances at Lian to see if she noticed his slip-up, but she’s contentedly flipping through the book the daycare lady gave her, something about a lost cat finding its way home. She didn’t hear.
Pre-season 1. Roy/Kaldur preslash if you’re looking for it. Also on FF.net.
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Kaldur has made his home on the surface world for about three months when his flat gets its first visitor.

Dick/Wally as requested by emileesaurus. Thanks for this request! I was quite glad of it as I’ve been meaning to draw something from Young Justice for a while but just never got round to it… until now that is! :)