When Dick had woken up that morning and remembered it was his birthday, he'd been overwhelmed with a wave of homesickness. Birthdays were a big deal at home, Alfie made sure of that, there was always a home made cake and work was off limits for Bruce. They always finished the evening watching a movie and eating pizza (okay, so, sometimes they went out on patrol after, but the pizza was important, it was tradition). It was family time and it was important and Dick had never quite missed home so much as he did waking up alone and knowing that there wouldn't be any cake, there wouldn't be a movie, or pizza, but most importantly there wouldn't be his father.
He spent most of the morning and early afternoon trying to distract himself, working out or prowling the corridors for something to do. Occasionally, he popped into the special HQ to see if anyone was around, but every time he dropped by he found it empty. He wasn't completely surprised, there was always something going on and not everybody could sneak away from their day jobs to hang out there, they probably all just had things to do, it had been pretty quiet the day before as well...
As the day wore on, he began to feel more and more lonely, he tried to convince himself that it was okay, that it was just another day and maybe it wasn't even his birthday anyway, maybe he'd counted wrong, and what was so special about a birthday there wasn't anything different about it, why should he expect anything? He wasn't very convincing.
He found his steps takng him back to the special HQ, hoping that there was somebody there now, because keeping his own mind off the whole thing was just not working, and if he didn't find someone soon he was going to go crazy.
Re: Specials Event!
He spent most of the morning and early afternoon trying to distract himself, working out or prowling the corridors for something to do. Occasionally, he popped into the special HQ to see if anyone was around, but every time he dropped by he found it empty. He wasn't completely surprised, there was always something going on and not everybody could sneak away from their day jobs to hang out there, they probably all just had things to do, it had been pretty quiet the day before as well...
As the day wore on, he began to feel more and more lonely, he tried to convince himself that it was okay, that it was just another day and maybe it wasn't even his birthday anyway, maybe he'd counted wrong, and what was so special about a birthday there wasn't anything different about it, why should he expect anything?
He wasn't very convincing.
He found his steps takng him back to the special HQ, hoping that there was somebody there now, because keeping his own mind off the whole thing was just not working, and if he didn't find someone soon he was going to go crazy.