Hello!

Right I decided I was going to start bouncing around a bit - this is set about the 3rd/4th year of the gap (There is a very brief scene at the end but I felt like it needed to be included set in season 2.) Pretty much all you need to know is Tim is Robin, Dick is Nightwing, Jason is dead and Gar/Beast Boy is on the team. Superboy and M'gann have recently broken up. Wally and Artemis are only on the team sometimes, but visit the cave, Zatanna and Rocket are part of the League and Kaldur is still on the team and the leader.

The original team know Dick's identity as I skipped forward but they won't mention it. You will see when they discover it though (later).

The team had started to drift apart and there is a lot of pressure on Nightwing's shoulders already, so go with it.

There is a mention of Teen Titans as in my mind Robin created them then eventually went back to the team with Beast Boy in tow after two years still friends and helping to expand the Titans which still existed. This is set recency after he has returned.

What is this chapter about? - Dick teaching a downtrodden Tim and Gar his old words which be wrote down in the Dicktionary. Yes. That's all I have to say. Basically it's Nightwing being an awesome big brother. With a plus of trolling.

I own nothing and the characters are most likely OOC.

Sorry about the long authors note.

Anyway hope you enjoy.

Robyn out.

The Dicktionary

It started with a failed mission. Well, technically they hadn't failed the mission, they had just complicated things then had to call the older team members for help. Which was admittedly very embarrassing for everyone, although out of the team of five younger heroes involved; Garfield Logan aka Beast Boy and Tim Drake-Wayne aka Robin had taken it worse. It was never fun letting down your mentors and both Robin and Beast Boy were fairly independent heroes with more practise than most of the younger heroes on the team, so having to rely on the older team members left them feeling a bit disappointed and embarrassed with themselves.

It had been their first real mission without help from the original team and they had flunked it. Both of them decided to sulk away from each other and the rest of the team, trying to spend some time on their own to deal with their disappointment.

Luckily for both of them Nightwing had been watching and had seen the poorly concealed disappointment on Gar's face and the better hidden, yet still obvious to a Bat, disappointment on Tim's face.

Nightwing had a plan. One the two boys hopefully would love, a bonus was the rest of the original team would hate it, allowing the boys to get over their embarrassment. With an evil smirk on his lips Nightwing set out to start his plan. The original team had thought they had seen the last of the troll, but they were wrong, very wrong indeed.

He found Gar first, he was sitting in the rafters in the training room as a green monkey. "Hey Gar, can you come down? I have a surprise for you." Nightwing called up, knowing that being vague would help make Gar curious enough to come down from his hiding spot. He'd had practise finding Gar and convincing him to come out of strange places during his time as the leader of the Titans.

"Why?" A quiet shaky voice came from above. "Are you going to tell us off for failing the mission?"

"Why would you think that? You didn't fail nor am I here to tell you off, Gar. Besides you should have seen the original team when we first started, we did worse than you. The whole League came to shout at us once which was very embarrassing. Anyway, can you please come down, I promise it will be worth your while." Nightwing prodded on the edge of singing the last sentence, a grin on his face.

A second of silence, then a flap of wings as Beast Boy had turned into a parrot and flew down from his hiding spot. He landed on the floor and quickly turned back into his normal green self, looking at Nightwing with apprehension.

"What's the surprise?" Beast Boy asked as he tried to hide his wet eyes and red tear marks on his cheeks. He knew he could do better than he had on the mission, he'd worked so well with the Titans but this team was different and newer.

"Come on, we have to find Robin first." Nightwing gently replied as he pulled Beat Boy into a comforting hug. A few seconds went by before he pulled away with a more composed Beast Boy following him closely.

They found Robin on the other side of the Mountain, standing in front of Robin II's statue in the memorial cave. He appeared to be talking but anything said couldn't be heard by the pair and will remain a mystery (although Nightwing knew it was most likely to do with the mission).

"Hey Robin. You okay?" Nightwing asked knowing that his little brother was not quite alright. He'd started talking from half way across the garden to give Tim a chance to finish his conversation without being overheard.

"I'm fine." Robin replied, Nightwing raised an eyebrow to tell his little brother he really didn't believe that but would let it go at the minute. He moved so he could look at both younger heroes, offering a reassuring smile.

"Okay, well seeing as you two are a bit disappointed by how well the mission went, I have a task for you. I think you two are the best qualified to keep the legacy of the original team going, especially you Robin, I thought know could teach you both something." The older hero announced with a grin rarely seen by any one anymore, it was starting to get a tad mischievous.

As he announced his intention he brought a little black book from behind his back. The younger boys could just make out the words 'Robin's Dictionary' in fancy silver text (To all who knew Nightwing's real name it would later become known as the 'Dicktionary', but they couldn't keep that on the book as it would lead to awkward questions about his identity or about why they were wearing. no one would ask about his identity or why they were swearing).

"Emmm...'Wing, what is that?" Gar questioned as he raised his hand like he would at school to ask the teacher a question.

"When the team first started I used to use a collection of words I made up as English wasn't my first language, and despite the fact that I had been speaking it for years a lot of it made very little sense. Eventually the original team joked that I needed to record all my words. What they don't know is that I actually did. I am going to teach them to you and you will become my trolling apprentices! Now are you ready my young students?" Nightwing explained cackling evilly.

"Is he okay? I've never seen him laugh this hard in all my time with the Titans or here." Garfield whispered loudly to Robin worried about his friend/older brother's strange behaviour.

"Yeah it's just been a hard week in Gotham, this is his way of coping. It doesn't help that Batman has been leaving him to look after us as he is always working or on missions, despite the fact he lives and goes to college in Bludhaven." Robin whispered back, but sighed with a slight smile, if this helped his brother than he would go along with the insane plot. "Sure Nightwing." He answered, nodding at his older brother.

"Okay so first word is Asterous, you see ..." Nightwing and the two younger heroes spent two hours learning the words and stories behind them. Despite their initial doubts, they did actually enjoy themselves and it did its job of distracting them. He hadn't told them to use the words around the team but he knew what both boys were like.

Originally the boys weren't going to do anything about their new education, but Nightwing had had a terrible week and the original team seemed to make it worse. Both had had enough of watching Nightwing get worn down and taken advantage of by everyone, so they decided to get a little revenge on his behalf.

It was a day later that the first person heard the words. The words that younger Robin had come up with, the ones that he slowly stopped using as he grew older and the team fell apart. Conner was the first person to hear the words that he thought he would never hear again.

The first one of the words, he ignored. He thought maybe it was his imagination but when he heard it again in a voice that wasn't Nightwing's none the less, he turned around to investigate the source. To his surprise it was Beast Boy and the newest Robin (not the original Robin, as much as be liked the new Robins they weren't the same as the Robin that had become the whole team's younger brother).

"Hey BB, feeling Whelmed?" Robin asked like it was completely normal. They then proceeded to have a conversation, a completely normal one at that, all while slipping in those words as if they used them all the time.

Superboy stood frozen unable to do anything as those words brought back happier memories. The escape from Cadmus, missions with the old team, Halloween, Christmas, New Year. Subconsciously his hand went to his neck where, when they weren't on missions, his old jigsaw piece necklace lay.

Unseen by Superboy, the pair had retreated.

"Operation Troll the Team is a go." Beast Boy whispered as the boys hi-fived. "Just remember don't tell Nightwing we're using his words for evil!"

They continued to do this to everyone in the original team. M'gann was the next victim, they only felt a bit guilty when she nearly started crying (it hadn't been a good week for anyone). Then Aqualad was after her, he got a sad look in his eye before telling the boys he had to go somewhere suddenly (when they clearly knew he didn't). After that it was Artemis, she looked ready to shoot the boys and cry at the same time. Finally Wally, the poor guy practically broke down (which did make the boy's feel a bit bad, but they decided they didn't feel that bad after hearing Wally shout at Nightwing for seemingly no reason at all).

They even started using the words around the newer members of the team, which confused a whole lot of them. They had never heard any of the words before but it seemed to get a reaction out of the original members of the team and no one would explain what they meant or where they had come from.

Their plan of not telling Nightwing was destroyed two weeks later when Beast Boy accidentally said asterous in front of the whole team, including Nightwing, and Mal finally snapped and demanded to know what the words meant and why they kept using them. At that demand both boys turned sheepishly to face Nightwing who was staring blankly at them. His face was wiped of all emotions. Then to the pair's surprise he burst out laughing.

"Your faces...hahaha...I knew the whole time...hahaha...thanks...haven't laughed like...hahaha...this in ages!" Nightwing managed to squeeze out between laughter.

"Wait you knew about this?!" Artemis exclaimed glaring.

"Yeah, who do think taught the boys all of them?" Nightwing giggled, yes giggled.

"Yeah, he wrote them all down in a little book." Tim announced trying not to be on the end of one of the angry archer's arrows.

With that the whole team descended into chaos demanding answers. They would eventually get them but Robin and Beast Boy had achieved their secondary target: get Nightwing to smile.

During Season 2 - After Impulse arrives

"Hey Nightwing! I think we have to add some words to your dictionary. You know, the ones that Impulse keeps saying? Crash and mode and stuff." Beast Boy suggested as he bounced towards said hero. Robin, who was also in the room had heard the announcement and made his way over to join the pair, nodding his head in agreement.

"What do you mean dictionary? And what about my words? Why crash and mode? How do you know that won't affect the future? Or is the word effect? I always get those two muddled up." The future speedster had also heard the discussion and moved to join the group. He had started to speed his words up but Nightwing was able to understand from years of practice with Wally and Barry.

"I think that's a great idea, I'll do it. Why don't you two tell Impulse what we're talking about?" Nightwing agreed before quickly running off leaving the pair to explain.

The team all groaned when the next day Impulse started using the words as well as the pair, Nightwing once again laughed, happy for a silver lining to the dark storm cloud that seemed to be life at the minute.

And finished.

Anyway hope you enjoyed.

Thanks for all the support, sorry for any spelling mistakes.

Robyn out.