The Archer | T.D. ✔

Chapter Forty-Six

Once Rory and Tim got their frustration out he had called Barbara, Stephanie, and Cassandra to come and keep her occupied while he got the surprise ready. The girls were currently in Rory's room crowded around her bed as they sat there and talked.

"So, why did Tim make you all drag me in and lock me in here?" Rory asked. 

"We promised that we wouldn't tell until it was time to, and you will know in about an hour and a half. Until then you are stuck with us, what should we do while we wait?" Barbara asked, leaning back in her chair as she ate a bag of gummy worms. 

"I want to know what exactly it was Jason did this morning that made Rory so petty," Steph asked with a laugh. 

Rory's face went a little red at her words. If she told what Jason had done, that would mean she would have to explain why she was upset, to begin with, and Rory was not ready for that conversation. 

"Yeah, what did he do that made you so mad this morning?" Cass asked, crossing her legs as while she was sat on Rory's bed. 

"Wait, is she blushing?" Steph grinned. 

Quickly, Rory grabbed a pillow and threw it at her face. "Shut up Steph," she warned, her face still red.

"Wait, did he walk in on you and Tim doing something?" she grinned, leaning on the edge of the bed with wide eyes full of excitement.

Rory scoffed. "I don't have to answer any of you." she crossed her arms and turned away looking at the wall behind her. 

"Oh my god! That's why you were so pissed and Tim was so flirty!" she laughed. "He walked in on you guys doing it didn't he!?" 

Rory's face flushed darker. Even when she and Roy still lived in the same house, he never pestered her about her relationships like these three were. But then again, Rory had never really had close friends that were also girls. She missed out on that teenage girl talk that most normal girls had growing up, but Rory was never a normal girl. Even when she had her rebellious phase, Rory wasn't normal. 

It was always Roy she talked to about everything, but after moving to the manor she had gained more people she could trust with her secrets; three of them were in the room with her. They had seen Rory at her lowest when she had that scare months ago and it had brought them closer together. 

"Tim and I were not doing it," she snapped, turning to look at them. "We were just kissing. A lot," she said slowly.

The three girls looked at her and laughed. "It wouldn't be the first time it's happened here, those boys have no idea what knocking means. When Dick and I were still dating, Jason and Damian had a habit of not knocking at all. We just waited until it was just us in the Manor, but even then." Barbara chuckled.

With the knowledge that the two of them dated, Rory could see the lingering effects of their relationship. Dick and Barbara were as close as two people could be, they had grown up together and it was obvious that they still cared for each other deeply.

For Tim and Steph, it wasn't weird for them at all. They were kids when they dated, Tim was still Robin and this was before Damian came around. But as they grew, it was clear that they were better off as friends and not lovers. It was something Rory was grateful for because that meant that she and Steph would never have that kind of bad blood and heaven knows that Rory had enough of that in her life.

The girls had spent the next almost two hours just talking and gossiping about different things when there was a knock on Rory's bedroom door. Rory watched as Steph got up and answered it, seeing that it was Tim on the other side of the door.