The Words That You Say Who: Lizzy Raleigh and Dick Grayson Where: Wayne Manor When: September 17 What: Dick and Lizzy discuss the future. And make sweet sweet lovin' Rating: R for Sexual Content
In some ways, it was a test, though Lizzy didn’t quite consciously get that she was testing Dick. Still, when he had made the proposition for her to move in with him, she decided the best thing to do was to make herself at home. Since she had been recovering at Wayne Manor, she mostly had kept to her room or the gardens. However, she had taken the afternoon to somewhat explore. She hadn’t gone poking behind closed doors, but she had spent a little time in some of the less formal rooms of the Manor, poked around the kitchen a bit, and even sat by the pool a bit, wondering how it would be to sun bathe here or take a dip. Truthfully, her whole afternoon was trying to envision herself living here full time. It wasn’t that she wasn’t used to posh living – her own father was wealthy and she had grown up spoiled – but Wayne Manor went beyond what she had ever experienced. She’d never had a large, full time staff before, or even a butler. In her family, they always just made do with a nanny and a housekeeper.
As evening approached, Lizzy tucked herself into the lounge room she and Dick had cuddled in that first night, curled up with her ereader. She was still a bit restricted in what she could wear simply because anything that touched her bandages was extremely uncomfortable, as was wearing a bra. In deference to the still warm early Gotham fall, she was wearing a dark green tank top and a pair of jeans, her feet bare. She knew she didn’t dress like the ladies that would live in a house like this – and maybe part of her wanted to see if Dick cared.
She had ordered dinner earlier in the afternoon – something she thought they both would like. She could see out of the corner of her eye that they were setting up dinner on the patio, just as she requested. Lizzy was a woman who liked getting what she wanted, so the fact that there was a whole staff that could cater to her whims was really growing on her, though she had a few changes in mind if she moved in, like streamlining the recycling, and maybe even a vegetable garden next spring.
Her mind wandered a bit more and slowly, she dozed off on the sofa, her head on the arm and her body curled up in a ball.