Why (not) me? (BirdFlash)

Introduction

'If you keep up like this your going to get yourself killed! Now try again.' Bruce said, fixing his stance.

Dicks whole body ached, he was trembling. Three hours was too much. He put his hands on his knees, head dropping. Sweat dripped off his forehead and he watched as they made tiny pools on the floor.

'Bruce I-'

'I said again!'

Dick swore he felt tears sting at his eyes at that point, he wanted to cry! But he didn't. He got up, heart beating out of his chest.

He could barely breathe as he was but he went anyway, punching and kicking as hard as he could, even in this state he swore he saw Bruce almost get knocked back.

Bruce fixed his stance after accidentally taking a step back, he looked sick in the eyes;

' it's not good enough! Do you want to die? Huh? Are you trying to get yourself killed? Do better!' He exclaimed; he was a lot more emotional than usual, but dick knew damn well why.

It was Jason.

Bruce was comparing him to Jason.

Suddenly sick threw the hardest punch he could; filled with ammo and no sim he hit Bruce square into the chest, winding the 30 odd year old man.

He wheezed as he sat down by obligation, flicking the focus mitts off his hands.

'Idiot' he said breathlessly.

Dick had to refrain from kicking Bruce in the face at that moment; he could have, it would be so easy to keep hurting him.

'Even Jason-'

But he wouldn't. Not physically anyway.

'Don't say his name.' Duck said, cutting him off. 'I'm not him his stop comparing me to him that's not fair!'

'Well if you did better I wouldn't have to.' Bruce slowly got up.

'Your comparing me to the guy who's actually dead?? Your saying I'm not good enough when I'm the one who's alive?' Dick started to unwrap his hands; since Bruce made him train pretty much bare handed.

'That's not fair and you know it.'  Bruce said, getting angry.

'No what's not fair is this! This isn't fair! You replaced me and now I'm being puni-' he yelped as Bruce suddenly grabbed him.

'Quit while your ahead, kid.'

Dick pulled away quickly, tears burning in his eyes. he wanted to scream at him, but he knew he couldn't. he rubbed his chest sorely, picking up his towel from the floor and walking out, it was by time he took a break regardless.

*present*

so that's how he ended up here; in his training shirt, sweatpants he threw on, cheap shoes, sunglasses of course, and mildly frostbitten skin. He knew it was by time he went home, the sun would be setting soon anyway, but he was waiting on someone;

just when his mind began to convince him that person wasn't coming, he saw them coming through the gate.

Wally, forgivably, didn't really know dick outside of being robin, so the only thing giving him any idea who he was looking at was the sunglasses and haircut in all actuality- it was the only way he had seen him outside of his suit.

"Rob?" he said timidly, not completely sure if he had the right person. Dick looked up, giving a small wave, just rolling the basketball around under the palm of his hand. Wally came over and sat down next to him.

"jeez, you look like your freezing," he said.

"I am,"

"why didn't you grab a jacket or something?"

"didn't care, I just wanted to leave as quickly as I could," He said, stopping the ball. wally sighed, he was sweating under his jacket anyway, he'd ran most of the trip so of course he was heated up.

"here," he said, unzipping his jacket.

"no, I-"

"it's not up for debate" wally said, putting it over him. Initially dick was surprised by how warm it was, but it was short lived as he remembered who exactly he was dealing with.

They sat in silence for a while, the snow piling around them, Wally himself was starting to get cold.
"Do you want me to walk you home?" He asked, staring at the twilight sky.

"Do I really have to go home?"

"I mean...no, you could always come to mount justice" he whispered.

Dick thought about it for a moment, shifting himself into a more comfortable position.

"Bru- ..batman. Batman wouldn't like me going anywhere without telling him..." he said.

"We can contact him when we get there, use the computer" he said. Dick clearly hesitated but he eventually agreed.

The night wasn't over yet though.