Wealth

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And I'm back again.

This time the team discovers Robin's wealth (due to Wally being an idiot mainly).

Hope you guys enjoy and thanks for all the support.
Robyn out.

The first time it happened the team didn't really notice, well actually they did notice it, they just chose not to question it.

The second time it happened the pair drew some curious looks.

The third and final time it happened was when Artemis snapped.

"Why do you keep going to Robin like a lost puppy asking him for a new phone? This is the third time this week you destroyed it! How does Robin even have enough money to get you a new one?!" She defended drawing the whole team round to watch. She was annoyed at Wally (as usual) and feeling offended on Robin's behalf.

"Robbie here is loaded and it's not my fault my phone keeps falling out of my pockets as I run! Keep your head on Moony!" Wally replied swinging his arm over Robin's shoulder ignoring the glare he was given by Robin for the new nickname.

"Well don't bring your phone! Moony!? Why Moony? Kid Idiot?" Artemis was on the edge of screaming at the speedster.

"Your name is Artemis as in the Greek moon goddess. I thought you were supposed to be smart." Wally egged the angry archer on.

"My friends I believe we should calm down." Kaldur decided to step in before anything was broken. The rest of the team had been watching the argument, but not interfering as they didn't want to turn Artemis' ire onto them. Kaldur ever the mature responsible member of the team however decided it was time to interrupt the pair before they started physically fighting (which would happen if the pair were left long enough).

"What do you mean he is loaded?" M'gann asked confused stepping forward with Conner to join the small circle that had been forming in the middle of the room.

"It means he has lots of money Megalicious. Rob here, along with Bats, have to have lots of money. How else could they pay for all their equipment and the Watch Tower?" Wally asked grinning at the Martian. Robin hit his best friend in the head and muttered something suspiciously sounding like 'identities Kid Idiot', his friend just ignored him.

"What do you mean the Watch Tower?" Conner joined in the conversation.

"Bats pays for all the equipment and the Watch Tower itself, he also pays for a lot of the mountain. Just remember if you break something Batman has to pay for it!" Robin cackled his signature cackle before disappearing through the Zeta Beams. Well if Wally was going to drop hints to his identity, he may as well use it to his advantage.

Everyone exchanged nervous glances, Batman payed for everything?

Uh oh. They all suddenly had flashbacks of everything they had broken (some lists were much longer than others).

A week later the conversation was practically forgotten. The team was enjoying a day off from both training and missions, using it to explore Happy Harbour. The whole team were in their civilian clothes, with Robin wearing his normal black sunglasses to cover his eyes. They had been wandering rather aimlessly around the town, chatting happily, sharing stories of both civilian and hero lives (careful to not let any nearby civilians hear the hero ones). They had already gotten ice cream and walked along the beach before heading back into town.

Once they reached the mina street they had started going from shop to shop showing the non-humans what Earth/Land shops were like and the joys of both window shopping and wandering through little shops without a true aim. Then the girls found a beautiful little shop with all sorts of gifts decorating the windows and little trinkets they were actually interested in buying. M'gann wanted somethings to decorate her room in the mountain and even Artemis had a similar idea, plus it was one of her friend's birthdays soon and they would make good gifts. They had gotten excited and were about to go in only to stop when they realised they had forgotten to bring more money - they had only brought enough for ice cream as they hadn't exactly been expecting to go shopping, plus it isn't like either of them had much money to begin with either.

"Oh, it's okay girls. Maybe you can get something next time." Wally tried to reassure the downtrodden girls.

"Hey, it's okay. Here have some of my money." The Boy Wonder stepped forward and gave a handful of notes to the two girls.

"Are you sure Robin?" Artemis hesitated, with M'gann at her side wearing a similar expression.

"I'm sure, go enjoy yourselves." Robin grinned.

The pair looked at each other before giggling (in a very un-Artemis but very normal for M'gann fashion) and nodding. They strolled into the shop side by side, shouting back to the boys behind them. "We'll meet you in one hour at the café around the corner." That was a mildly worrying statement for the boys, they hadn't expected the girls to want to take that long.

"So, what do we do now?" Wally asked looking towards Kaldur, Conner and Robin beside him. The girls had disappeared into the shop and the windows didn't allow much visibility into the little shop.

A shrug from each boy was the simple reply. None of them had any idea how to occupy an hour.

Ten minutes later found the boys in a small park near the centre of Happy Harbour. They were sitting on a bench next to a small pond, which to Wally's relief had no ducks in it, enjoying the peace and quiet. There wasn't anyone else around, bar a stray dog walker.

"I wonder what the girls are doing." Wally interrupted the peace. Robin grinned, he had been mentally timing how long it would take the Speedster to get fed up with the quiet.

"I have a feeling we will find out later." Kaldur replied sighing.

"What should we do?" Conner grunted. Even he was getting fed up just sitting around waiting.

"I think we should show Conner and Kaldur more about our world!" Robin grinned to Wally, who grinned wickedly back. Kaldur and Conner shared a worried glance, because the girls disappearing wasn't worrying enough, they had to be stuck with these two.

Forty minutes later the boys met up with Artemis and M'gann at the small corner café. Robin had payed for everyone's drinks. Kaldur had water, Wally had an ice cream shake, Artemis had a hot chocolate, Conner tried a lemonade, M'gann had a strawberry milkshake and Robin had a can of coke (which Wally kept glancing at him for - he'd never forgotten what Robin was like on a sugar high).

"So what were you two doing for an hour? Shopping for new clothes?" Wally questioned curiously, cream on his face from his ice cream shake. The girls had met them at the café carrying a few bags, wide grins on their faces.

"Actually we were buying these." M'gann ignored Wally in favour of taking out six items items from a gold plastic bag.

They were necklaces. All six had a braided silver chain with a jigsaw piece hanging on it. Each jigsaw piece was a different colour; one red, another yellow, a third blue, the fourth light green, the fifth was orange and the last was a darker green. They should have looked tacky (like most friendship jewellery) but in fact had been finished nicely.

"There's one for each of us. Red for Robin, yellow for Wally, blue for Conner, dark green for M'gann, orange for Kaldur and light green for me. It's a way to celebrate being a team for six months. " Artemis said handing each person their necklace.

"They join together, see." M'gann continued fitting all the pieces together.

"Thanks."

Thank you."

"Wow these are AWESOME."

"We are very grateful for your thoughtful gifts."

Both girls grinned and slipped their own necklaces over their necks before gesturing for the boys to do the same. They seemed a bit cheesy but it felt great to actually have a symbol of them as a team. The conversation dissolved back into general chatter, M'gann showing off what else she had gotten in the little shop, and Wally and Robin sharing embarrassing stories about each other and other heroes.

"Soooooo, Boy Blunder are Bats and you rich in your real lives?" Artemis prodded at a break in the conversation.

"I thought we were finished with this!" Robin complained exasperated.

"Never Bird Boy."

"Hey talking about money, do you think you can get me another phone, I dropped my last one?!"

"Again!"

"Really!"

"Come on, Wally!"

"How do you keep dropping it?!"

"Shut up Baywatch!"

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