Title: Red Like …

Author/Artist: sleepygeeky

Pairing: Barbara Gordon (Batgirl I/Oracle)/Dick Grayson (Robin I/Nightwing)

Fandom: Batman/ DC Comics

Theme: "Red" / # 19

Disclaimer: Barbara Gordon/Batgirl I/Oracle and Dick Grayson/Robin I/Nightwing belong to DC Comics/Time Warner.

It was red like the roses he always bought her on Valentine's Day even after promising he would not.

It was red like the teddy he'd bought and she'd refused to wear. Red like the god-awful groom's cake -- courtesy of Wally West -- and the sheets in their equally god-awful honeymoon suite.

Red like blood -- red like it had been a night forty-some years ago when an eight-year-old was left alone in an alley with two corpses.

Red like the blood that poured out of his mouth as they shared one final kiss before Dick slipped into oblivion.