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Tweak says, "Maybe you were."

Dick Grayson (gothamboy) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2008-04-29 23:11:00

Entry tags:

carrie kelley, dick grayson

Who: Dick and Carrie
What: A Talk About Their Relationship
When: After Carrie's talk with Bruce.
Warnings: Probably not.

A planned (and unwelcome) proposal, an unknown marriage, a disturbed girlfriend, a near breakup... considering what was going on in his life, Dick probably should have been going out of his mind. The fact that he was sitting on the couch reading a book about the history of New York state while his various computers quietly defragmented themselves might have been surprising for anyone who hadn't grown up with Batman. Compartmentalizing emotions was easy.

Besides, Carrie had promised to come back. If Dick had faith in nothing else in the world, he had faith that Carrie would honor that promise.

A careful observer would notice, however, that no matter how good he was at dealing with his worries, he hadn't mastered them completely: on the DVD shelf of the entertainment center, every Disney movie had been turned backwards.

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gothamboy
2008-05-01 02:09 am UTC (link)

He let out a quiet little laugh at the idea of it. No matter what she said, Dick was intensely aware how much the idea frightened her. And yet here she was. Carrie never had let something like fear interfere in what she wanted. It, like most things she did, made him smile. "I love you. But you're supposed to get down on one knee." He grinned a bit, then sank to the floor himself.

"Allow me. Carrie, will you... stay married to me?" It didn't have quite the same punch, but Dick tried to sell it as much as he would have done if he were asking her to marry him for the first time.

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girlwonder
2008-05-01 02:37 am UTC (link)

She took a shaky breath and watched him move to the floor with slightly wide eyes. This was real. There would be no turning back, no liquor to blame this on. Her stomach was in a knot. Carrie opened her mouth, shut it, and then said, "Yes," quickly.

The tension in her body faded just a little as she looked into his eyes. Carrie trusted Dick. She loved him. They could do this. "Yes," she said again. Nodding, she moved forward and rested her hands on his shoulders before kissing him deeply.

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gothamboy
2008-05-01 02:48 am UTC (link)

For a brief, terrifying moment, Dick thought that she was going to say no. Which was silly. After all, she was the one to say it. But she had that kind of hold on him, to rob him of the casual confidence he'd cultivated since his youth playing with elephants and swinging on the trapeze.

And then she said yes, and it was instantly restored. She was kissing him and he was kissing her and suddenly it wasn't a week since they were together, it was minutes. Seconds.

Life was beautiful.

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