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Barbara Gordon ([personal profile] her_own_rules) wrote in [community profile] etrayamemes 2025-06-28 12:33 pm (UTC)

Barbara knows he would, too. It's a strange vertigo of memories. The last time he slept on the floor was ... a while ago. She can still viscerally remember how hard it was to fall asleep that night. The tension and the awkwardness. Or at the newest beginning of all this, when even, despite necessity and her willingness just as much to do the reverse, he'd shooed her off to sleep in his bed and taken the couch—that nebulous feeling of uncertain butterflies, and Dick's familiar scent suffusing his pillows.

The question is as surprising as it isn't.

"You've looked worse." Well, he has. Resolutely, from the one person who generally had the job of watching everyone's vitals, whether through computer screens or smart glasses or mask patch-ins. He doesn't need stitches, and nothing is specifically broken to the point of needing to track down a medical bot (if this location even has those stored away somewhere). Which doesn't mean nothing is potentially hairline or sprained. Nor that she doesn't know he could go for days on top of this were it a state of emergency.

Especially given that he's put several hours of additional activity on top of it this time, compared to the first time. (That's another part of the equation she hasn't had time to consider yet. Does this change things? Not with them. With home. With the painstakingly, minute-by-minute-by-week-by-year after this. People don't seem to know, to remember on the otherside—but there things Barbara isn't sure she's willing to risk breaking again.)

"We could probably whip you up some ice packs from the ice machine down the hall if you wanted them." A small beat. The faint tug at the one corner of her mouth. "You do end up a bit funfetti colored for a while."

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