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It's another weekend, and Kon has snuck his titans laptop into the bar. You'd think he'd be calm and collected about it, but oh no. He's got it in front of him as he sits in a booth, and he's glaring at the screen.

Glaring and muttering things about how it's not nearly -fast enough-. He looks ready to hit the keyboard, except he knows better.

Barely knows better.

Rescue him before he kills it?

He also happens to be in a bat logo shirt, because bat shirts are the -best- when you're broody and frustrated.

[Summary: Kon is found by Steph, which makes for great flail. He is also found by Tim, which makes for entirelly -different- flail as he's caught after ninja-snatching one of Tim's shirts. Oops?]

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"You... come down here?" Because if he's going to die a horrible mental death, he might as well make sure it's for for -real-. Though he's not sure how he'll make sure of that.

"All right." She lands on his table, narrowly missing the laptop, and sits cross-legged in front of him, amused by his wide eyes.

He immediately pinches her, as if pinching -her- would show that -he's- not dreaming.

To which Steph responds by smacking his hand as if he were a naughty toddler. Super-pinches hurt. "What was that for?"

Hey! He's not a naughty toddler! He's just... okay, there are no words to describe his emotions at the moment. "You're -dead-!"

"Oh, you know that?" Steph loses a bit of her good mood. "Yeah. Apparently heaven's a bar. This bar."

Kon just stares at her for a long moment, before letting his head hit the table. And then again.

And just once more for good measure.

"Um, Superboy?" Steph sticks her hand in between the table and his head. "...Look, this is kind of creepy for me too, honestly. I mean, I'm dead. But you don't have to kill the few brain cells you've got."

...great. And now she was insulting him. Nice cherry to top the demented ice cream sundae.

Kon lifts his head and shakes his head slowly. "Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see you're okay..." But this kind of felt like a sledgehammer of 'holy crap Tim's going to break AGAIN' proportions.

"Well, okay is, y'know, fairly relative. I'm dead. I have nightmares even when I'm awake. And I was kind of horribly tortured before I died, which doesn't help in the okay department." She tries not to sound upset. "But. Um. I can leave if I'm freaking you out. I just thought I'd say hi."

...ooh, foot in mouth. Okay. Can Kon just find a hole in reality and duck into it now? "I - I'm sorry," Kon tries to backtrack madly. He'd been enough of an ass around her in her -life-, thanks. "It's just.. not every day that you run into the dead girlfriend of your b -- " WAIT STOP. DON'T GO PAST GO.

" -- best friend."

"Guess not." Steph doesn't miss the pause, but she doesn't catch the significance, either. "So. Yeah. Weird, huh."

Well, she'd probably have to be really weirdly psychic in a creepy way to catch the significance. And then Kon would be flailing even more than he is already.

"Are you... so you just ended up? Here?"

"Pretty much. I died, and I kinda hung around there for a while talking to - um, this other guy, I think he was the other dead Robin - and then ... yeah. here. I wish I could tell Mom that Heaven's a bar. She'd probably die out of pure joy." Steph grins wryly.

"Well.. it's a good place to end up." Yeaaah, like Kon would want to get stuck here for all his life. But he's not going to say -that-.

"If you're old enough to enjoy it," Steph says. "And if you didn't miss Gotham every minute -" she cuts herself off. This conversation is staying light if it kills her. "Yeah, it's, it's not too bad, is it?"

Kon eyes her. "Well, aren't there people from Gotham here? That you can talk to."

Yeah, he so knew better than to think that was enough, after that little trip of his. But it was worth a try. right?

Steph, unexpectedly, grins widely. "I met Nightwing here the other day. That was cool. Intense, but cool. I nearly fainted when I saw him sitting there, though. Hell, I nearly fainted when I saw you, but at least I was sitting down then." She gestures up at the rafters. "There's. It's not the people I miss, it's the city. There's no buildings to jump off here."

And he nearly fainted or died or something when he saw her, so they're even. "No buildings to jump off of?" Kon could blink at that, but... he likes flying, so hey. He's not gonna say anything.

...'Course, flying was protected and there was the whole invulnerability thing going on, but hey...

"Being Robin is the most fun you can have with your clothes on," Steph informs him, hoping he'll blush. "Of course I miss jumping off buildings. You should go out with T- with Robin sometime and see."

...Kon, blush? At something perverted? Yeah, -right-. It just earns a hint of a smirk that he gives despite himself.

He considers taking the suggestion, but decides it'd be too damn creepy to do something with Tim that his dead girlfriend had suggested.

"Maybe."

"No, for real. It's awesome." Steph shrugs. "So what do you do with yourself when you're not flying around Gotham looking for Robin?"

...hey, he doesn't fly around there looking for Tim that much.

"Other than try to beat up technology?" Kon shrugs. "School, friends, the normal thing."

"You're kidding. Superboy goes to school?"

Kon has to laugh a little at that. "I have a secret identity like anyone else."