He hasn’t. Being that scared of rejection for something over which he has no control made it very hard to see what may already be known in his family. So now he feels stupid, and he wasn’t feeling too bright before this particular anvil clanked on his head.

Tim hugs Dick hard because maybe muscle tension hides the way a body shakes when it cries because the dam is leaking and about to bust. “I screwed up so bad. I kept trying to course correct, and I just keep making it worse so I left. And then I tried to talk to Kon about the homeless thing, he started saying he could set me up with people.”