Murky Realm
Murky Realm
by Mara
Summary: See, *this* is what happens when you let Oracle get bored.
CONTINUITY: Nope.
NOTES: Written for Fanfic100 and Psych_30, but I’ll give the prompts at the end.
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“C’mon, Wingster,” Babs said in his ear, “Gimme a chance.”
“No way.” Dick threw himself backward off the roof of City Hall, counting
windows as the wind swished by, grabbing the flagpole and swinging over it in a
few lazy loops.
“Just for a few minutes? I’m bored.”
“Jeez, you’re the information source for the entire community. Go…” he did
handsprings along the roof of Murphy’s Gym, “track down some work. Somebody must
need something from you!”
“Everything is running automated. All I can do is watch.” She sounded ready to
shriek.
“I thought you *liked* to watch.”
“Don’t change the subject, Little Boy Bluebird. You haven’t even found a mugging
in the last hour. All the supervillains are tucked in their villainous beds.
Surely you can take the time.”
“That’s…” not the point, he thought, “true.” With one last flip, he dropped
onto the roof of an apartment building, scaring three filthy pigeons. Morituri
te salutamus, he thought with a sigh. “Lay it on me.”
“Water,” she said with just a note of triumph.
“Tempest,” he replied.
“Fire.”
He closed his eyes. “Ice.”
Babs snorted. “Oh you were *not* thinking of Tora. What was your first thought?”
“Okay, my first thought was bikini,” Dick said with a sigh.
“That’s more like it. Earth.”
“JSA.”
“JS…oh, Sand is the leader of the JSA. I get it. Air.”
“Plane.”
“Heart.”
“Beat.” Dick leaned over the edge ot watch two men following a woman, but they
turned the other way at the corner.
“Diamond.”
“Selina.”
Babs snickered. “Club.”
“Blunt trauma.”
“Funny, Wingster. Spade.”
“Shovel.”
“Circle.”
“Life.”
“Square.”
“Block.” Even as he spoke, a noise caught Dick’s attention and he turned his
head.
“Star.”
“Fire,” he responded absently.
“Ha! I knew it!” Babs crowed.
Dick closed his eyes tightly and wondered what, precisely, the universe had
against him.
–end–
A/N: This was for Fanfic100 #46, Star, and Psych30 #28, Free Association 😀