No denying it - Barbara knew there was something going on. It honestly couldn't be more obvious, but the question was, what exactly was going on?

Dick was acting a bit off, but little did Barbara know, it was for good reason. All evening, as they mingled with the party guests, he seemed to be more preoccupied with his phone than normal - enough for Bruce to take it away, but not before several warning looks. Dick and Barbara were conspiring on how to get it back through means of pickpocketing when Wally - dressed as a waiter with the stupid bowtie and all - came by carrying a platter of food. Barbara did not miss the looks exchanged. Dick seemed to be glaring, while the redheaded waiter was elatedly smug.

With just eye contact, the pair seemed to have an entire conversation. In fact they actually did - not through martian mind link - but through the language of glares that best friends have.

W: So this is the famous Babs?

D: Hit on her and I'll kill you

W: Wow, she's hot. No wonder you totally crush on her.

D: I am definitely going to kill you.

W: Get her number for me?

D: You're a deadman walking, Wally.

She raised her eyebrows as the waiter winked at her, smirked at Dick, then left, as the latter huffed in irritation.

After a few seconds of silence, Barbara asked, "Was that awkward eye contact, or were you two checking each other out?"

Due to her best friend's response, she guessed he did know the redhead.

"We're not a couple!"

Dick was waiting by the ticket counter at the Central City Cinema, annoyed with Wally, as usual. He dialed the redhead's cell phone, getting the voice mail message that Dick had made for him. In Gollum's voice.

"Please leave your name and number at the tone Precious!"

BEEP.

"I'm here, and you're late. This means you're buying the tickets. Hurry up or I'm not paying for the popcorn."

Ten minutes later.

"Please leave your name and number at the tone Precious!"

BEEP.

"You are so buying the popcorn."

15 minutes later.

"Please leave your name and number at the tone Precious!"

BEEP.

"What am I to you, some ditchable prom date?"

7 minutes later.

"Please leave your name and number at the tone Precious!"

BEEP.

"If you're not here in 5 minutes I'm leaving, and going to come toilet paper your house."

As he ended the voicemail, the hippie-looking 20 year old behind the ticket counter said, "Dude, thats the fourth voicemail, did you ever think he's just not all that into you?"

Fighting the urge to flip off the ticket guy who was now smirking, Dick started walking away, grumbling in a bad temper.

"We're not a couple!

Dick was talking to Wally on the phone as he hauled the cleaning supplies past the living room, arms completely full. Bruce, who was watching a news report on Bialya, looked over at his ward when the teen dropped the Ajax. With his phone tucked between his cheek and shoulder, he tried to clean up the powder and keep everything else from falling at the same time...

"Hey, Wally, I gotta go. Call you back in an hour kay?"

"Okay, you hang up."

"Ya, hang up."

"No, you hang up!"

"Quit fooling around, hang up."
"Seriously, my hands are full, hang up or I'm going to strangle you the next time I see you!"

"Stop trying to be funny with the whole 'you hang up' 'no YOU hang up' thing, and just hang up! I can't grab the phone right now."

"Wait, Roy's there?"

"So he's in on this too. Well tell him that he's a jerk, and then hang up."

A few minutes later, Dick had finished dropping off the cleaning supplies, and came back to finish cleaning up the Ajax.

Cue a look from Bruce, which triggered a bat-conversation, in which no actual words are spoken, but the two have a full blown discussion.

D: Don't give me that look.

B: Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't couples notorious for the 'you hang up' arguments?

D: What the bleep are you implying?

B: Nothing...

D: We're NOT a couple!

Well, look who's back from the dead! Just kidding, I was never dead :)

This is literally the first chance I've had all summer to write anything, I'm so sorry! Things happened and it's the most chaotic that it's been in a long time, but hopefully I can update again soon!

So this shoutout goes to...korben600! In response to your review in Trouble When You Walked In, I like the way you think, lol! Booyah!

There WILL be another chapter for this story, so keep a weather eye out ;)