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Who: Jim Kirk and Dick Grayson
When: Sometime after Bruce kicks Dick out of the family.
What: Bruce is adopting again.

Jim was in that awkward place where he was loyal to Dick and wanted to help him in anyway that he could, and at the same time, actually not fighting with Bruce for once (this whole mess with Dick aside) and not really looking to make that any worse. So he generally took the stance of not talking about it, and hanging out with Alfred, the other neutral party in all of this and kind of ignoring Jason. Which was kind of easy, since you know, he didn't do the cape and mask thing.

Only now Bruce was trying to adopt him too and Jim couldn't really ignore that. Couldn't stay silent about it either since Bruce hadn't adopted Dick and had only adopted Jim because the state wouldn't let him stay otherwise. It was adoption or a Starfleet sponsored orphanage.

He was pretty sure the same option didn't exist with Jason. This was just Bruce being an ass or a crazy person or a crazed ass. And since he was also going to be stupid about this, it would be up to Jim to tell Dick. Something he planned to do over lunch with his brother.

Jim ordered an appetizer while he waited for Dick, trying to figure out if the restaurant would bend it's liquor rules by six months for Bruce Wayne's kid.

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Dick scowled at him, annoyed that he was poking at fresh wounds and old issues, and annoyed with himself for still wanting to defend Bruce, to point out all the ways he showed he cared about them, because really, even if they hadn't gotten into a screaming match the last time he'd seen him, he was still furious and hurt over what had happened, and his instinct shouldn't be to defend him and yell at Jim for putting himself down like this.

"Jim, shut up. I don't want to talk about it anymore."

Jim shrugged. "Fine." He'd let the topic drop if Dick really wanted, even if he thought Dick was being stupid after all the times that he spent trying to convince Jim that Bruce wasn't an overall bad guy. Except until he was by doing some asshole thing.

"So how about that weather?"