[The pushing would probably work, at least, for a little while. Already, Dick kind of just wanted to go figure out where Tim or Steph or someone was and do some sparring or something to take his mind off of all this, but for the long term? She'd have to do better then that.

And he didn't miss the stumble, or the words that had come before it. Frankly, he'd suspected something along those lines since they'd talked about what had happened with him, so the accidental admission didn't surprise him. He did, however, ignore it, moving on to her brush off.] You're not.

This isn't just because of... what we talked about. [He was still not calling it anything, or really even acknowledging it.] If this is what you want, fine. But I'm serious. This doesn't. change. anything.