Breaking the habit [Olivia]

[Olivia Levine]

Smiling slightly, Olivia let her guard down. She watched as Tim sat with Ruby and became somewhat the father figure in Ruby's eyes. She then started to try and fold the clothes with one hand. It took forever, just to do one top. She smiled, watching them out of the corner of her eye. She made her piles of her clothing, and Ruby's clothing, to be put in their respective places.

Ruby, as fun as she was having, then noted the presence of a certain news caster, and started to hide, crying into the arms of Tim, and hiding from Guy Smiley like he was the Texas Chainsaw Assassin. She cried into his chest, as Olivia bolted up to help. "is she ok?" She asked.

[Tim Drake]

Tim bounced Ruby on his knee some until Guy Smiley came on and when the tiny blond started to cry and pull at him, and hide her face in his chest, he took that as the cue to change the channel...

Stroking her back and head gently, he shushed her and pointed at the TV set; "Shhh... It's okay Ruby, he's gone now, see? It's just Babar." instead, on the TV was Qubo, and currently playing was Babar the elephant, the kindly king telling his own little ones a bed time story.

Looking over to Olivia he whispered with a slight smirk; "I think Ruby's scared of Guy Smiley on Sesame Street..."
But Tim couldn't blame her, he handn't been that fond of the loud over the top "news reporter" either when he had been small enough to watch that show...

[Olivia Levine]

Nodding, Olivia continued to fold clothes. "Yeah, shes not so fond of him. Shes more of a Elmo, and Abby Cadabby, she loves Abby Cadabby" Olivia noted of the small pink fairy. "What does she say Rue? Thats So Magic!" Olivia made her way over to Ruby, a small stuffed Abby in her hand, taken from the laundry basket. Ruby then started to "dance" Olivia smiled. "I know i'm just a little fairy, but I got a big vocabulary" Olivia giggled, giving Ruby a kiss on the cheek, before going to the DVD player, and pressing play. "She may want to watch this over and over again, and it gets easier not to shoot yourself the fifth or sixth time.

[Tim Drake]

Tim nodded and smiled back at her, before he set Ruby down on the floor to "Dance" and sing along with the DVD, as Tim moved over next to Olivia by the clothes and the basket; "Can I help?" he asked kindly, giving her a questioning gaze...


More than anything, Tim understood that like all people, Olivia had her pride, and while it was centered more around Ruby and caring for her than her own self, it was still there, and he had no wish to crush it, and thus wreck the now growing relationship between them. That would be just plain stupid.

No the thing to do was to allow her to let him in, little by little, and that would take trust and care on both of their parts, lots of it, as well as time to adjust, this was after all, not the most common of situations now was it?

Adding to that the fact that this would be a relationship with not just one person, but two, and the number of pitfalls grew exponentially, and Tim was still somewhat of a rookie in this department of life and the world...

[Olivia Levine]

Olivia paused, thinking though her options. If she said yes to him helping her, she was showing her weakness. She was showing him she couldn't do it on her own. She could though. She could do it, and very well, The blond ran a hand through her hair. "Uh, yeah, can you get her a cup of water? her sippy cup should be in the drainer" Olivia looked to him. That was her way of asking for help. He would do something she really didn't need done.

Ruby turned her head, and started babbling what seemed like an intire essay, in another language. Olivia then responded with "Really? Tell me more Ruby!" Ruby then went on and on babbling, and making grandiose movements.

[Tim Drake]

Tim smiled at her and then nodded, getting up and walking to the kitchen and getting the small plastic cup and filling it with some cool water from a pitcher in the refrigerator, then he clicked it down tight and walked back, handing the tiny tot the cup before he sat down next to her and leaned against the couch and mindlessly watched the TV for a little bit, a tiny contemplative smile on his lips as he sighed and just enjoyed the moment, as calm, simple, and normal as it was, it felt good, and he realized that he liked it, and wanted it to last, even when he knew that soon enough he would walk out the door and don the mask and cape, and once more be the boy wonder, Robin the protector of Jump and leader of the Titans...


"Are you worried?" He asked absently as he rested a hand on Ruby's back and glanced over at Olivia, as she slowly folded a shirt of hers, it clear to him that she had figured out how to mannage and had the task down almost to a science.

[Olivia Levine]

Looking up, Olivia blinked. Was she worried? The blond looked to the clothes, and then to Tim. She was worried, now that she was becoming so close to all the Titans. She didn't want to loose one, Especially since she was almost completely dependent on them. Biting her lip, she looked up to him, and nodded. She really didn't want to loose Tim. She was falling in love with him.

"A little" Olivia nodded. "I don't want to loose you, or Will and Vi, Ruby really loves you guys too, Just like I do" She finished folding clothes, and put them back in the laundry basket for an easy transport to the bedroom. She walked over to Tim, and sat on the Opposite side of Ruby. "Don't Die"

[Tim Drake]

Tim watched her, his powers of reasoning and observation working hand in hand with his training in reading people, not because he was trying to figure Olivia out, he trusted her as much as he did Violet or Will, but even then, it was something that happened automatically and he could hardly change it or stop it...


"I know, I worry all the time, its one of the weights of leading, but I also know that we're all trained, and taught well, and we're all extra tough, and careful..." He leaned over and kissed Olivia's cheek softly and smiled at her as he hovered over Ruby; "I don't plan on dying anytime soon..." he leaned in again and kissed her soft, sweet and warm cheek once more before he lifted Ruby into his lap and then scooted closer to Olivia and hugged her closely, a sense of calm, peace and happiness settling over the room, even as he knew that soon, he would leave the house, and done his alter ego's trademarks, and dash along the rooftops, watching over not just the two blond headed girls in the room with him, but over all of the city...


{THE END}