21.2 What makes you happy/laugh?

[cloned]

I'm happy that Bart's moved in with me. I missed him. And he wasn't taking care of himself. I don't care how grown up he is now, I'm glad he's somewhere where I can keep an eye on him. I mean, sure he can take care of himself, but how do I know that he will? He was living in a motel when I found him! A frigging motel! And I still can't shake the feeling that if I leave him alone for a minute, or blink or anything, he'll run away. He's gotta stop worrying that we like him. When is he gonna realize that we all love him and we want him around and I wouldn't have invited him to freaking live with me if I didn't!

Still, it's pretty cool sharing a house with your best friend. Maybe we can convince Tim to move in with us too. That would be sweet.

Steph makes me laugh. How did I not hang out with her back before I died? She's so much fun! I mean, she's kinda like Tim, only hotter. And not nearly as weird. And less likely to become an evil scientist. (No offense, Tim.)

Man, I cannot see how Tim let her go. I mean, I love Cissie. She's one of my best friends, and she and Tim are apparently doing absolutely great.

But man, Steph.

Comments

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Lame!

I'm totally trustworthy!

[sofasterthanyou.livejournal.com]

Not lame, true. You'd spend the entire time making incredibly unsubtle innuendos and then possibly threaten to kick his ass if he ever dumped me.

I know how you work, Kon.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Oh, please! That doesn't sound like me at all!

Okay...maybe I was planning on doing exactly that...but I'm still offended!

[sofasterthanyou.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. Sure.

See? I told you so.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

C'mon, Allen. We're gonna meet sometime.

[sofasterthanyou.livejournal.com]

Maybe so, but I'm trying to postpone that for as long as possible. I don't need you traumatizing him. I happen to like him how he is just fine without you making him paranoid of a super-powered ass-kicking.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

I'd only kick his ass if he tried to hurt you! Geeze, Bart, give me some credit!

[sofasterthanyou.livejournal.com]

Hmph. Well, I guess I'm entitled to give you the benefit of the doubt... You did take me in. I'll ask him to come over next time.

I'm still not happy about this. The first sign I get of you threatening him... I'm telling Tim. Or Bruce.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Uh...Tim would agree and help me threaten him, and you wouldn't have the guts to go to Batman.

[sofasterthanyou.livejournal.com]

Tim is a traitor.

You never know, I might. Apparently Bats likes Jaime.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but he doesn't like you. Or me, when it comes to that. We're too fun for him!

[sofasterthanyou.livejournal.com]

Yeah. He just doesn't know how to have fun. At least we're slowly chipping away at Tim's defenses.

Hey, he said we could stop by the Tower some time and completely ruin his reputation of being a cardboard cutout of Batman by forcing him to have fun and mocking him endlessly. Sound like a plan?

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'd do that!

But Tim'll still threaten Jaime if he hurts you. Sorry, we're your friends. We're not gonna let some armored freak hurt you!

[sofasterthanyou.livejournal.com]

Sweet. I'm excited.

He's no more of a freak than you or I, Kon. It's not like he asked the Scarab to crawl into his spine or anything.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

I mean freak in a nice way.

[sofasterthanyou.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you do.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Also, I totally called it.

[sofasterthanyou.livejournal.com]

You're still a jerk.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

But a sexy one!

[sofasterthanyou.livejournal.com]

I beg to differ.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Uh huh, just try it.

[sofasterthanyou.livejournal.com]

Alright. Your perception of your sex appeal is overrated, perhaps due to some sort of macho posturing that many young males going through puberty feel the need to embrace. It's not necessary, Kon.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

Steph says I'm hotter than Tim.

[sofasterthanyou.livejournal.com]

You may be more... classically handsome than Tim, but he has his charms.

Also, why are we talking about this? I have no idea what our previous conversation was about.

[ihavettk.livejournal.com]

He's a dork.

The fact that you eat all my food and steal my pants?