Sometimes we all need guy time.

[slowspeedster]

Bart had an idea. Especially since the entire Bat!Clan was in a slump. He had a plan, but it probably measured up about as well as his typical plans. On the other hand, it might work. And he had the box with his Nintendo and games under one arm as he went to abscond with a future Batman.

Some things took a friend, not family. He'd done it from time to time for Tim, so maybe he could do it for Terry, too.

"Enough brooding, man. Otherwise I might think you really need that suit," Bart told him.

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[slowspeedster]

"Well, you can go swimming in water you won't need a full medical workup after contact with. Learn something new. Check out the dinosaurs," Bart said. "Or just veg out and play primitive video games."

[beyondthesuit]

"Hey! Gotham's not...that bad. And, if it's all the same, I've had my fill of dinosaurs." Terry's only elaboration was to gesture to a faint scar that peeped out from under his shirt sleeve.

"But the video games can stay."

[slowspeedster]

"Well, I remember Tim mentioning that there's a lot of Joker Toxin and stuff like that in the harbor. He didn't even like me running on it," Bart commented.

"And I'll trade you dinosaur stories...although I don't have any scars. Not even from the time Deathstroke kneecapped me."

[beyondthesuit]

"Uh, it involved Kobra, splicing, and a really weird kid trying to date my friend Max."

In the short version, it almost sounds funny, like a setup for a joke.

[slowspeedster]

"Mine involved a spin on the cosmic treadmill and a pack of velociraptors following me home," Bart said. "It was really a pain to hold one long enough to get it back to when it belonged."

[beyondthesuit]

Terry finds himself smiling at the mental image. He's never really swapped stories with people; Barbara had only told him about the past in warnings and Bruce just didn't do stories. And here he is with Bart, just slagging it out.

It's not bad.

"They're slippery like that."

[slowspeedster]

"You don't have to tell me twice," Bart said, shaking his head a little. "I never watched Jurassic Park the same way after that."

But it could have been worse. Maybe. "I think the Flash would have read me the riot act on that one if Max hadn't stepped in. I mean, it wasn't like the time Young Justice accidentally triggered a self-destruct of a secret base in Mount Rushmore."