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Dick sits on the rooftop of one of the many casinos in Blüdhaven, overlooking the neon flashing lights of the city and the harbour. Blüdhaven used to be a whaling town, but that ended two hundred years ago. Now the harbour is used for shipments - and not always legal ones.

There's surprisingly not much criminal activity this particular night. A few muggers, some guy with a gun trying to rob a store and some asshole trying to grope a lady. Dick punched him. Other than that, nothing major really. He is having trouble with finding Blockbuster.

His mind is wandering to a certain redhead. He still can't believe he was dating Wally. Falling for his straight (or so he thought) best friend had been his worst nightmare. Dick had hidden it pretty well. He excels at hiding his emotions when he needs to, something that he picked up from Batman. It probably isn't that healthy, but he isn't as bad as Bruce. Besides, what more could he have done? As far as he had known, Wally was straight and saying anything would compromise their friendship.

He had cracked after that fight where Wally had died. Dick couldn't stop blaming himself for letting Wally out in the field when his health was at risk. The fact that Wally had pushed himself too far trying to save Dick had only made him feel worse.

Dick had been pierced right through by Mal, who was being mind controlled. He definitely would have died if Wally hadn't reversed time a couple of seconds to prevent the fatal wound and save him, yelling, "Get off him!" The over exertion with his condition at the time had given him a heart attack. Dick had scrambled over to Wally, calling his name. All Wally had managed to say was, "Too fast. I couldn't let you die. Don't really know how I did that."

Then Wally had died in Dick's arms. The pain Dick felt was worse than being stabbed, knowing that he hadn't told Wally how he truly felt.

Thankfully though, Kid Flash had managed to revive Wally by methods of some crazy CPR. Dick didn't quite understand the speed force. Not even Wally fully understood it, despite being lost in it for so long. It doesn't matter now, because Wally is alive and well again, heart condition a thing of the past.

After the fight, Dick so desperately wanted to tell Wally how he felt about him, how much he loved him, but he stopped himself, instead just asking Wally to stop dying. Dick had gone to Donna instead and told her, knowing Donna was accepting and her being his best friend right after Wally and Barbara.

"Sorry to interrupt your brooding," A voice says from behind him. He whips his head around to see Barbara in her purple, black and canary yellow Batgirl suit, smiling down at him and holding a paper bag, "Just wondered if you wanted donuts. It's a slow night in Burnside too."

"It would be unlike me if I were to turn them down," Dick replies, a grin replacing his serious expression. Barbara sits down next to him and opens the bag.

"I hear...you and Wally..."

Dick's mouth drops open, "Who'd you hear from?"

"Jason. He was complaining that he lost a bet to Arsenal and I asked what about. Turns out they had a bet that you two would hook up."

Dick thinks back to Roy letting Jason into the tower. Jason had probably come to pay up, "Ah..."

"I didn't mean to find out before you told me yourself. I think it's good you've finally gotten in a relationship with a guy, especially one you know so well," Barbara says. She knows Dick is bisexual, hell she even helped him put a label on it when they were teenagers, but he hadn't told her he had a crush on Wally. That crush had turned into Dick falling for him hard after he returned from the speed force.

"Yeah. One night stands with guys kind of sucked."

Barbara snorts at his choice of words and bursts out laughing. Dick huffs, shaking his head and trying to act offended instead of laughing, "Oh, you know what I mean!"

"Yes. I do," She hands him a donut with blue icing, lucky charms marshmallows and rainbow sprinkles on it. Dick gasps in delight.

"Oh my god. This is amazing! A cereal donut!"

He promptly takes a bite out of it and Batgirl chuckles, taking out a yellow, lemon flavoured donut, "You big child."

"Where'd you get these?" Dick asks after he swallows the bit of donut in his mouth.

"New place in Gotham. The Donut Hut."

"I will definitely be checking it out," Dick says, taking another large bite of donut.

"You can recommend it to your colleagues at the BPD," Barbara jokes.

"Can you believe they don't like donuts?"

"Whaaaat? No. My dad loves donuts. At the GCPD they always have them," Barbara shakes her head.

"Yeah well, the BPD is shitty," Dick sighs.

"I don't understand why you still work there. You've rooted out the corrupt cops, right?"

"Yeah. But I love the job. Besides, just because the corrupt cops are gone, doesn't mean there isn't more problems. There's homophobic cops. Caught them harassing my partner."

"What did you do?"

"Well, stood up for him obviously. Then one guy says, 'What are you Grayson? His boyfriend?' So I reply with, 'What if I am?' That took them by surprise," Dick recalls with a smile.

"But my partner didn't really want me getting involved or reporting the incident. I don't think he likes me all that much."

"Did you tell him that you're bi?" Babs inquires.

"No. I might, but...bisexual guys are kind of ostracised in the LGBT community and really just in general. Plenty of women don't like bi guys because we've had sex with other men. Other people see it as just 'a phase' because you can only 'be straight or be gay.' Or we're just labelled as likely cheaters," Dick explains, sighing.

Barbara frowns, "That's unfair."

"Yeah. Ask Jason and he'll tell you the same. So would Arsenal."

She takes the third and last donut out of the bag and tears it in half, then passes one half to Dick, "I was going to eat this all myself but here. You've got all that shit to deal with on top of villains and criminals."

Dick smiles, "Thanks Babs," he tears his half in two and hands her back a quarter, "But you can have three quarters. You bought them, it's only fair."

She takes the quarter with a shake of her head, "How very Dick Grayson of you."

"I'm charming, it's a quality I'm well known for," He says with a grin and a shrug, then stuffs his piece of donut into his mouth.

"Gotham Pride is coming up next month. I'm going to support some of my friends. Are you going to go?"

"Mmm..I don't know. Tabloids would eat that up, you know, me being Bruce Wayne's son and all," Dick says, knowing the likes of Vicky Vale and other Gotham journalists would jump at such a story if they saw him and immediately assume he's gay.

"Never mind that. It's fun, I went last year too. Bring Wally and Roy along. Maybe Roy can convince Jason to come."

Dick laughs, "The bi guy squad."

"You'll have to get matching t-shirts," Babs suggests.

"And one for Donna, saying 'token straight friend' or something," He adds, getting them both in a fit of laughter. If they were anyone else, they would have fallen off the roof of the Casino.

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"Have you ever been to a pride parade?" Dick asks Gannon Malloy, his cop partner. They're on a stakeout. Basically just monitoring some guy that's suspected to be a big time drug dealer. Dick has been following him a bit as Nightwing too.

Gannon sighs, "Yes, I have. Why?"

"I was considering bringing my boyfriend to the pride parade in Gotham next month," Dick says, trying to sound casual about it.

The blonde cop turns his head to Dick with an eyebrow raised, "Come again? You? Having a boyfriend? You attract women like flies to shit."

"I had a girlfriend. She broke up with me a few months back. I'm bisexual."

Gannon laughs, "Pft. No you're not. You're just saying that for attention or trying to stay half in the closet."

Dick was worried about receiving this kind of reaction, "No. I like guys and girls. I've had sex with guys, I just haven't dated a man until now."

"Who is this boyfriend of yours then?" Gannon asks doubtfully, going to take a sip of his coffee and finding it empty. He frowns.

"You wouldn't know him. He's a guy I've liked for a long time. My best friend, who I thought was straight. As it turns out he's also bisexual."

"You're bluffing. No way. That's like two unicorns in one place."

Dick pulls out his phone, "You don't believe me? I'll text him right now."

:

At work, my partner won't believe I'm bi and have a bf.

The gay guy? Really? That's weird. Tell him your super hot, ripped, bi boyfriend says hi.

Will do~😘

Dick hands Gannon his phone, "Viola."

"So, you have a boyfriend. Then you're gay."

"No. Not gay. I'm still attracted to women, that doesn't just magically disappear. But it doesn't mean I'm going to cheat on Wally either, I'm strictly a one-person guy."

Gannon crosses him arms, and shakes his head, "And you're sure it's not just a phase?"

"I realised I liked guys and girls when I was thirteen, but rejected it until I was about seventeen. I think I'd be over it by now if it was a phase," Dick shrugs, "I'm the B in LGBT."

"Hmm. What's he like then, your 'super hot, ripped, bi boyfriend' in his own words?"

"Well, he's not lying when he says he's ripped... He's taller than me. Red hair, green eyes. A total dork. I've known Wally since I was twelve. He's originally from Blue Valley."

"That's pretty far from Gotham. Did you meet online or something?"

"No, his uncle works occasionally with my adoptive dad. They introduced us and just like that, we sort of clicked," Dick explains, "What about your husband? You don't really talk about him."

"Ellis is..." Gannon looks towards the house they are staking out, "Hold on. We have movement. He's on the phone right next to the window."

"Oh, right. Hold on, I'll see if I can lip read him," Dick says, and Gannon scoffs at this.

"You can lip read?"

"Yeah, shush. I have to concentrate."

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"Hey, Roy. Whatcha doing?" Wally asks, popping his head into Roy's wildly untidy workshop. There is blueprints, parts and prototypes for new arrow designs everyone.

"Working on an arrow that will temporarily blind my opponents. What have you been up to all day?"

"Nothing really, Dick texted me earlier, saying that his partner at work doesn't believe he's bi, even though he's gay himself," Wally says, casually zipping around the workshop to have a quick look at various things.

Roy hums, "Mmh yeah, some gay guys can kind of be assholes about the bi thing. And some straight girls. There's a lot of bi erasure in general."

"I didn't even really think bisexuality was a real thing until you and Dick came out to me. I'm kind of accepting that I'm bi too."

"That's good man," Roy nods, pressing a button on whatever contraption he is working on. It causes an arrowhead to come shooting out of it towards Wally. Not phased all that much, the speedster catches it mid-air.

"Shit, sorry," Roy apologises as Wally hands him back the projectile.

Wally waves it off, "Nah. It's fine. You're lucky it was me and not anyone else though."

"Oh, definitely. Hey, pull up a stool there. I feel like we haven't talked in a while, we haven't been on the best of terms," Roy says, pointing to a stool across the room. Wally zips over and gets it, then sits down in a few milliseconds.

"Sure."

"How's it going with you and Grayson?" Roy asks, setting down his prototype and casually leaning on the desk.

"Pretty good. We had coffee with my aunt Iris the other day. It was nice."

"How's the sex?" Roy asks bluntly, making Wally blink in surprise. Roy laughs, "What? It's just a bit of man-chat."

"Yeah, sorry. You just took me by surprise, that's all. We uh, haven't really had the chance to...again since the pollen incident. Dick's been pretty busy. But the pollen thing was...fantastic."

"Just curiosity, you don't have to answer, but who topped? Dick is a mysterious guy. Kind of hard to figure him out."

Wally laughs, cheeks pink, "Well yeah, that's true. I topped."

Roy nods thoughtfully, "Mmm yeah. I guess that makes sense, it being your first time with a guy. And Dick has a nice ass. Everyone knows that."

"What's it like...uh, bottoming? You said you and Jason used to switch."

"Yeah. It really sort of depended on our moods who did what, especially because we're both pretty macho. Bottoming...It's kind of painful at first, then uncomfortable as you get used to it and then it's fantastic," Roy describes, "Prostates are magical things, Wally. I'd recommend you try bottoming at least once. Maybe not for a while, your relationship is a pretty new thing, but whenever you feel comfortable enough to."

Wally nods. He feels kind of awkward but is also grateful for Roy's insight and experience. Roy is actually giving some solid advice.

"The relationship thing...what about going on dates?" Wally asks.

Roy hums, "Mmm..well Jason and I didn't go dates. One, that was it, really. We lived together and we'd known each other for quite a while, obviously not as long as you two, but a significant amount of time. We didn't really feel the need for dates because we did almost everything together anyways."

"Oh, right."

"But going on dates could be good for you guys, with Dick being so busy and you running all over the place. And make time to do the dirty," Roy says with a grin and a wink.

"You know, Roy. You give surprisingly good relationship advice," Wally tells him, "Thanks man."

"Well, guys are easy. Girls are more complex. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing with Donna. I don't even really know if she thinks we're official."

"I can tell. It was so obvious you liked her, yet you kept telling her you didn't."

"And yet you kissed her anyways..." Roy says, then coughs, "I was finally going to get myself together and tell her how I felt and then I saw you two locking lips. I threw away the flowers I got her."

"Yeah...I'm really sorry Roy. It was a..moment of weakness."

"It's okay, it worked out. Even if Donna had to yell at us for fighting over her," Roy winces His face then lights up, like he just remembered something, "Hey, actually, Dick was walking along the hallway when he saw me dump the flowers. He asked what was up and I told him I saw you guys kissing. For a moment he looked pretty hurt, then immediately hid it again."

"Shit, really?" Wally asks, feeling guilty for not noticing Dick's feelings for him. Dick had been so nice about Linda, actually giving him advice on how Wally might win her over. It must have broken his heart.

"Yeah. Grayson doesn't let himself fall apart easily. Garth, on the other hand is the complete opposite. He's an open book. He was even more obvious he liked Lilith, Lilith didn't even have to read his thoughts to know that," Roy snickered, then says seriously, "But I think Dick probably hid it so well because he was afraid of loosing your friendship. I mean, we're all friends, of course, but you two have always been like two peas in a pod."

Wally nods, "Yeah. God...I feel like shit. He's had his heart broken enough without me adding to it."

"It's not your fault, man," Roy assures him, putting a hand on the fellow redhead's shoulder, "Just try not to break it again, because you'll probably have The Birds Of Prey coming after you."