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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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"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."

"You're kidding." Steph just stares. "You're Superboy. I used to be a member of your fan club. Dude, I had your poster on my wall for like a year. And all this time you've been secretly going to school in Metropolis or something?"

...huh? -She- was a member of his fan club? She had a POSTER of him? Uhhh.

There really is just no words for that.

"Well, um, not all this time," Kon says, laughing a little nervously. "Just for awhile."

"That's so weird," Steph says. She leans back against the wall of the booth and wraps her arms round her knees. "And I thought I was gonna weird you out by showing up."

"Weird?" Kon has to blink at her now. "-Why-?"

"I never thought Supers would need secret identities. I mean, it's not like you've got anything to be scared of." She watches him for a while.

"I'm gonna go get something to eat," she announces, eventually. "See you 'round, SB." She unfolds herself and jumps up, swinging herself up into the rafters. She's fairly proud of herself for managing it, although the way she cut off the conversation feels a bit weird. Still, Batman probably felt weird too when he used to disappear in the middle of someone's sentence, so she'd better practice that too.

Nothing be scared of? Oh, yeah. Tell that to Tana... or the building at Suicide Slums...

But Kon's not going to say any of that. Even if he had had a chance before she left. And when she does leave, he stares at the place where she disappeared from, trying to figure out what the hell he's going to do now.

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