and I know at the day's end I get to come home to you

[chemistryinmotion]

[note: this is an alternate version of this thread, starting from the comment where Wally kisses Robin again.]

Well then, I guess this is the part where I kiss the bride.

[Because this whole conversation kind of stopped being sarcastic a while ago, and there have been a lot of feelings between them ever since Christmas and Robin's disappearance and all that time in the Pokemon Center and moving into the house and sharing beds because it just felt more comfortable that way... So when he leans closer, reaches out to touch Robin's face, and actually kisses him, it's not weird at all.

In fact, it feels... well, he's not really sure what the right word is, because it's better than okay, but right sounds like he was doing something wrong before, and Midori was never a mistake, never will be. It just sort of... feels, like every good feeling all wrapped up into one singular moment, and it's that feeling—being this close to Robin the same way he'd been close to Midori and for once not thinking about her but only him—that finally lifts a weight from his shoulders, allows him to loosen his grasp on her.

Of course, he can't let her go completely, because he'll always have feelings for her, but she'd want him to be happy, to move on. And he is happy. Right now. With Robin. Happier than he's felt in quite a while. Because whatever he feels, it's good. It's nice. So when he finally does pull away after lingering for as many seconds as his lungs would let him, his forehead touching Robin's, he's smiling.]

I should probably get you a ring, huh?

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[asterbatics]

[Originally when Wally came out with that 'kiss the bride' line, Robin had a retort and an eye-roll ready for action. Because obviously if he didn't, and if he gave it a moment to sit and think over, Wally would look too far into it and everything would just get complicated. Complicated because of things Robin was trying to ignore, trying to get rid of. The same kind of things that always ended up pushing the 'joke' about them being married, the things that made him push it just a bit farther than he should, than was necessary, but he didn't care because it was just a joke, right? Christmas and the sleeping together and the hospital thing and-

The train of thought is derailed when Wally reaches out and touches his face, and Robin has a split-second for his eyes to glance up before Wally's kissing him. Again. And it's not Christmas or peer pressure or mistletoe and it's not a dream and Wally is kissing him, actually kissing him, and it's nice. More than nice, though it also hurts, in a way, with how Robin's heart is pounding in his chest and he can't seem to simply breathe but he won't break it, he won't be the one to break it, because Wally is kissing him and it's just them.

But then Wally breaks it again, and for a moment Robin just sits there with his eyes closed hoping it's not over, praying but then he feels Wally's forehead against his own and he opens his eyes the slightest bit to look at him, first at the smile, then his eyes, and his lips turn up into a slight smirk. Just because it all feels good. Great even.]

Probably.

[He thinks about it for a moment, his eyes glancing down to see that one of Wally's hands - the one that hadn't been touching Robin's face a few minutes before - was lying on the bed, and in a moment of courage and if you don't do it now you may never get the chance, Robin slips his fingers between Wally's.]

You never know, someone might need to know I'm taken.