Robin one shot part 3!

if not now then maybe never pt 3

Readsforescapism requested a continuation very nicely so i have to follow it up

Robin had faced many terrors that your average teenager would never know of nor be able to truly comprehend. Yet, now standing just outside the doorway with his hand against the wall to support him because his legs were shaking, here that once great hero stood terrified of what he'd be met with. Wally knew who Dick was. They'd introduced themselves by their real names faster than anyone could tell them not to so naturally they were best friends. The rest of the team had no idea. He took a deep breath and just pushed himself forward until he was through the doorway and there was no way he could go back now they'd seen him and-

"DICK GRAYSON IS ROBIN?"

Dick had never regretted an action so fast unless he counted the time he made a "your mum" joke with Bruce. He'd never get over the chill he got and the pure embarrassment of having to explain what the joke meant only to be told it was in bad taste since they were both orphans so he should know better. After that point, those types of jokes were reserved for criminals. 

He studied his friend's reactions to M'gann's outburst as well as his reveal of who he was which had been swiftly taken out of his hands and therefore out of his control. He never did well when things were out of his control and although he could've just about dealt with not controlling how his friends would react to the reveal, he felt horribly violated that he hadn't even been able to get out that he was Dick Grayson. 

Artemis was staring at him with an almost unreadable expression. It looked somewhere between intrigued and annoyed but then again she always looked like that with him. She said it was because he was annoyingly interesting or violently fascinating as a person. He actually liked both of those descriptions. 

Connor and Kaldur were studying him, looking mildly put at ease if not curious by his reveal. He knew both of them had been accepting of his secret identity and didn't declare their distaste for his secrecy half as much as the others. Connor would sometimes mention how he found it odd he could never see Dick's eyes and Kaldur always insisted that he could trust them no matter what he was hiding. Since the mole situation, that felt a little disingenuous but he didn't say anything. 

Wally looked relieved for just a moment but then seemed to catch that Dick was regretting his reveal when M'gann yelled his name. He shot his friend an apologetic look, like he wanted to do something but couldn't think of how to do so. The team could infer from their closeness that Wally already knew about his secret identity but it had never been openly stated and he looked to be debating if now was the time to state that.

M'gann was the easiest to read out of all of them. She looked like a fan who just got the last front seat ticket to their favourite band or was about to have the meet and greet of a lifetime. Her gaze made him feel uncomfortable and itchy like she was picking him apart or pulling up all the photos that she'd seen of him to decide if he was close enough to the idealised version she'd made of him. 

Finally, someone said something to break the minute-long silence since the alien's outburst. Dick hadn't meant to let it stretch on for so long but he didn't know what to do. 

"You know him already?" Connor asked curiously. M'gann nodded excitedly, snatching up one of her teen magazines to show him the evidence. It was a picture of Dick out with a girl with ginger hair, Barbara but her name hadn't been outed yet, both of them were trying to cover their faces from the press. Big bright bold letters spelt "SECRET GIRLFRIEND? FIND OUT MORE INSIDE" and Dick could feel his skin crawl upon remembering that day. Press had followed them for hours and he'd apologized endlessly on the way back home, even warning Gordon about it. The man had ultimately told him to calm down but that didn't make him feel better. Dick glanced over to Wally who looked like he was about to say something but was cut off by the alien.