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[hellofist]

Who: Tim Drake and Cass Cain
What: Hanging out in the hot hotness
When: Sunday
Where: The guan


She hasn't been avoiding him, not exactly. Scarce, yes. But she hasn't gone out of her way to avoid Tim since learning about Steph disappearing. Everyone's dropping away like flies, it was unfortunate, sad, but losing seeing Steph for that brief moment and then finding out she's gone again?

It was hard. She didn't want to talk about it, so she didn't.

But Tim loved Stephanie, she should have been there. She goes to find him now, in a tank top and shorts because of the heat, hair tied back because the feel of it sticking to her neck was starting to drive her crazy. She knows where he is, it's where she would have gone too if it weren't for... okay, maybe she had been avoiding him a little.

Either way, she finds him in the guan. She wants to smile at him, but it's too hot. She just raises a hand to wave at him, a grave look on her face.

"Not melted yet. Good. Hi Tim."

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[detectivewonder]

"That obvious, huh?"

He shakes his head. "I have a lot of time on my hands right now. And... a lot of things I miss. I know this isn't an exciting place for you, Cass. But I will bet anything you name that I can find a way for you to have fun."

[hellofist]

Inevitably she thinks of Steph and Cass' face clouds a little. She doesn't say me too, she only nods and moves forward so she's on her knees in front of him.

"Know it's hot. Going to... hug you anyway."

[detectivewonder]

"...Okay."

He reaches out, putting his hands on top of hers, as far forward as he can safely lean right now.

He'd been worried she'd turn him down, at any stage of this.

[hellofist]

She squeezes his hands and then lets them go so she can put her arms around him, leaning over his knees a little awkwardly so she can reach to hug him. It's not really a gesture that's meant to be an answer, a way to tell him she's agreed, but she's aware it comes off that way a little bit.

"Temporary." She tells him, resting her chin on his shoulder. "Not really interested... in being leader."

[detectivewonder]

"I know." He hugs back, a little awkward because of the chair, because of the heat. But Steph would have hugged her. Steph would have hugged him. And until she was back... doing things she would have approved of, making things work in the awkward, haphazard way she did (but they did work, and reliably)... that's important.

Cass is important.

"Two months, and I'll be back, or Dick will be ready. In the meantime, well, if you wanted a Robin..."