The other day, Connor heard someone on TV say 'Chivalry is dead', and wasn't quite sure about his full grasp on the concept but didn't quite understand why it was dead either.

...

"I'm cold."

Robin had no problem complaining, as it was Wally's fault that he was cold. And probably would get sick. Possibly get pneumonia. Is it really that hard to find out the correct store hours?

"Here, take my jacket," Wally said, taking it off and wrapping it around his small grumpy friend.

"Well we're all cold too," Artemis pointed out, annoyed as per usual. It was another 10 minutes until the store opened, and the wind was freaking freezing.

"Well damn Artemis, I can't control the weather!"

Kaldur took his jacket off for Artemis, and when she began to refuse, he insisted; "I am used to cold temperatures in the ocean's depths; it is fine."

Following his friend's example, Connor hurriedly took off his own jacket and wrapped it around M'gann, who smiled gratefully.

"Half Kryptonian - I'm fine," he responded when she asked if he was sure.

"Aren't you cold, Wally?" M'gann added,

"Nah sweet cheeks, I'm a speedster. We're always hot."

"Hell yeah you are," Robin said, laughing as Wally winked and requested a high five.

Anyway. Who said Chivalry was dead?

"This is stupid," a statement which was repeated for what seemed like the twentieth time by a certain blonde archer.

"Like we didn't hear you the first nineteen times," Robin grumbled under his breath.

"Aren't we done yet?"

"Artemis, it's Team Building Day," Wally offered, enjoying her misery just a bit; "Would you quit complaining?!"

"Black Canary did say it is mandatory," Kaldur reminded.

"She's been complaining all day, what makes you think she's going to stop now?" Wally continued, readjusting the bandana he was wearing around his head.

"At least it's better than Simon Says!" M'gann interjected, trying to shed some positivity on the situation. Despite their best efforts, most everyone had sucked at that game.

"Well you all have a problem following instructions, am I wrong?" Robin said, smirking as he started helping Wally with the bandana.

"Pot, Kettle. Have you met?" The speedster asked, mentally tallying the best examples of Robin disobeying Batman so they could be brought up later.

"Still, this is stupid." Artemis felt necessary to repeat. Again.

"Does the League ever do this stuff?" Connor inquired, genuinely curious.

"Why don't you ask them; alright everyone ready?" Robin responded, giving one last tug to the knot on Wally's bandana.

So far the team had done trust exercises, an escape room, Simon Says, 3 Truths and a Lie, and half a dozen other team bonding activities. Some things had turned out to be kinda fun, but nobody was going to admit that.

Anyway, apparently it was time for Follow the Leader. Everyone had been taking turns being the leader of different activities, creating some interesting results.

"So what, now we're just supposed to do anything Robin does?" Artemis asked incredulously, "What if he jumps off a cliff?"

"If Robin were to jump off a cliff, he'd have done his due diligence regarding the height of the cliff, the depth of the water, and the angle of entry." Wally countered, "So, yes, if you see Robin jump off a cliff, by all means, jump off a cliff."

*A couple weeks later at school*

"Connor, it's very important that you be able to think and make decisions for yourself. Would you follow if one of your friends was to, well, jump off a cliff or something?"

"It depends."

"I'm sorry, it depends? On what?"

"Who's jumping."

Connor enjoyed learning about space, the solar system, aliens…. half of his DNA was alien, after all. He knew a lot from his Cadmus programming, but still managed to gain a lot from the classroom setting too. Sometimes it was nice to know that his friends shared this passion as well.

...

"Hey Wally, is Robin okay?" M'gann asked, a little concerned.

"Yeah, why?" Wally plopped down on the opposite side of the couch that Connor was on.

"He won't come out of his room."

"It's fine," Wally placated, munching on the bag of Cheese puffs he brought with him.

"Weren't you in there a few minutes ago?"

"Yeah," The speedster offered Connor the bag, who refused.

"Can you go get him?"

"Uh, nope." Wally gave Connor the bag anyway, miming with hand motions.

"Please? I need him to come out here, I have a surprise for the team but need everyone here."

"Just knock on his door and tell him I said something." Acknowledging the mimed request, Connor threw a Cheese puff at Wally, who caught it with his mouth. Connor sighed.

"Like what?" M'gann asked.

"Anything factually incorrect."

*Two minutes later*

"Did you just say the sun is an effing planet?!"

I am sick D:

Hence the time to write this chapter, yay! lol