Absolute Zero [2/?]

shadesninde:

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.

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Absolute Zero [1/?]

shadesninde:

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.

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Kaldur Week part 2: “Tiresome”

shadesninde:

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.

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chyldea:
“ I’m going through net withdrawal, and so: Roy/Kal art happens. Sob. At least pretty things come out of my stress.
I have one more day of sad-anxiety-times before my plan rolls over and I get to surf without it costing me bloody 20cents per...

chyldea:

I’m going through net withdrawal, and so: Roy/Kal art happens. Sob. At least pretty things come out of my stress.

I have one more day of sad-anxiety-times before my plan rolls over and I get to surf without it costing me bloody 20cents per MB. *faints* When this happens I intend to GLUT myself on an otp-spree. So! Dear followers/ readers of this, if you have anything to recommend, would you help a poor deprived fan out and drop it in my askbox/ submit? I will love you forever and ever and ever. ;~;

chyldea:
“ For shadesninde. I feel an explanation is in order, um…
On today’s episode of chy’s Horrible Headcanon:
When Kaldur embarked on his super secret undercover mission, Dick reasoned (with his well-trained Batlogic) that it would be prudent...

chyldea:

For shadesninde. I feel an explanation is in order, um…

On today’s episode of chy’s Horrible Headcanon:

When Kaldur embarked on his super secret undercover mission, Dick reasoned (with his well-trained Batlogic) that it would be prudent for the rest of the team and the League to find out that he had “turned” from a source outside the ones who were in on the secret. It had to come from an absolutely believable source, from someone who had ties with both League and team, yet was not in the strictest confidence of either. There would then be no reason for that person to lie about the discovery.

It was probably an added bonus that Roy happened to be Kaldur’s closest friend on earth.

That said, they engineered things carefully so that Roy would make the discovery. As predicted by both Nightwing and Aqualad, Roy absolutely lost his head and decided to confront Kaldur head-on. Kaldur taunted him and led him on a merry underwater chase until Roy’s supply of oxygen was very nearly depleted, then dealt the ‘killing blow’ for the benefit of his new Manta comrade witnesses by ripping off his breathing apparatus. As an exhusted Roy succumbed quickly to unconsciousness, the escaping bubbles provided enough cover for Kaldur to sneak him a breath of air before letting Aqualad’s last tie to the surface world drift off for the ocean to claim for her own…       

… Subsequently, Dick also found it prudent not to tell Kaldur that Roy began from that point on to become Shaggy-Bum-Roy, distrustful of all allies and focused on nothing else but finding his original. Batlogic yo.

*runs from the hail of stones rained on down by angry fans*

chyldea:
“ Happy Birthday Slothy! May you have all the best things today and always!

chyldea:

Happy Birthday Slothy! May you have all the best things today and always! <3

Augh, goddamn you tumblr you made me miss my deadline! I was ready to post this at 11.55pm! sobsobsob… can I pretend I’m not a Narnian?

chyldea:
“ …hello new otp
I blame these causes:
a) this awesome author whose RoyKal fics gave me FEELINGS
b) this awesome song which I’ve had on repeat for the past hour
c) and this awesome person for reasons she is already aware of. Or at least she...

chyldea:

…hello new otp

I blame these causes:

a) this awesome author whose RoyKal fics gave me FEELINGS

b) this awesome song which I’ve had on repeat for the past hour

c) and this awesome person for reasons she is already aware of. Or at least she better be. :3