Road Trip

A/N: Inspired by Spring Break with my BF and friends. Haha, and all their crazy stories about their families. xD

My first CP story!!! Hahashhhh We’ll see how it goes <3

“I’m so excited!” Dick told them in the car, nudging his brother, accidentally, during the act.

He was mostly excited to get a whole weekend away from Bruce, who had been extra demanding lately, and he’d never been rock climbing, but as an acrobat, he was sure he’d be great.

“Asshole, keep your limbs to yourself” Jason muttered, annoyed, pushing Dick back. He hated being in the middle, but it’s not like there were that many place to go. Normally, Oliver’s Kia Sorento seemed fun to go off-roading in, but that was when it was just Oliver, Roy, Jason and Dick.

The back was filled with all of Dinah’s stuff that hadn’t fit in the back (how many bags did one woman need?) and Connor in his booster seat, who was kicking the back of Roy’s seat. They’d been in the car for hours, and yeah, it was becoming annoying.  Dinah looked at Oliver and glared. It had been his ridiculous idea that a road trip to Arizona would be “fun”, and maybe it would have, if they didn’t live in Star City, 14 hours away. And especially not when Dick and Jason had already travelled to visit them.

The first 10 hours, where the teenagers and Connor had mostly slept, or watched movies had been alright, but now, the kids were restless, annoyed, and hot.

“Say something” She told him, she was sick of having to be the only ‘authority figure’ while he got to play ‘fun dad’ and ‘cool adult’ and ‘haha I’m so funny, I can totally relate’

“Jays, don’t be a little douchebag. No swearing” Oliver told the 13  year old, and Dinah groaned. Hopeless.

“Are we there, yet?” Roy asked, annoyed,  turning his whole body to smack his brother’s leg.  “Stop kicking!” He yelled, and the little boy was immediately crying.

“Owwww!” He yelled, exaggeratedly, Roy thought, he hadn’t hit him that hard…

“Roy hit me!!” He cried, with big, fat tears rolling down his pink cheeks, and if this wasn’t his 100th time crying about something, maybe the other passengers would have been more sympathetic, but honestly, they were all pretty sick of it.

“Connor, stop crying, geez, I’m so glad Damian didn’t come. Can you imagine?” Jason told his brother and best friend.

“Don’t wish that awful demon child on us” Roy told him, while Dick just laughed.

“Stop, both of you. Dami isn’t that bad, and Connor isn’t either. Are you okay, Con?” Dick asked, like only Dick Grayson could, and the child stopped crying immediately.

“Yeah, Dick, can you tell my mom that Roy hit me?”

“I’m right, here, honey” Dinah rolled her eyes, before turning to look at the boys from the passenger seat. “Roy don’t hit. Connor, don’t kick his seat.” She told them before turning back to look at the road.

“Are we almost there yet?” She whispered to Oliver, who let out a hearty laugh.

“Three more hours Pretty Bird, Three more hours…”

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They had finally made it to their condo, and the teenage boys were off as fast as they could to the pool downstairs, while Dinah had to deal with cranky and whiny little boy.

Oliver was happy to just find his bedroom, and crash in to the bed. He had done most of the driving, and yeah, he did regret the decision to drive down. They should have flown and then just rented a car.

He’d ‘only’ been resting for about an hour, when Dinah came in to the bedroom, with a look of annoyance, spaghetti noodles in her hair, and Connor grabbing on to her shirt with one hand, and arm floaties in the other.

She slapped Oliver  hard on the arm.

“What the hell?” He asked, not very calmly as he opened his eyes and looked up at her- and laughed.

“Babe...I think you missed your mouth” He told her, getting up and fishing the noodles out of her hair.

“Very funny, Oliver. Are you going to help with the kids or not? Roy and his friends haven’t come back, no one has unpacked, I need to go grocery shopping if we’re going to eat, Connor wants to go to the pool, any help you want to give me would be great”  The woman said, somewhat upset.

It was all good and great that Oliver had planned a trip for them, but if he wasn’t actually going to act like a responsible adult, things were not going to end well for any of them. She was already imagining him sleeping on the couch. Forever.

“Pretty Bird…”

“No! No ‘Pretty Bird’, no ‘babe’, no ‘baby’... Are you going to help, yes or no?”

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And that’s how Oliver Queen had ended up at the 3 feet section of the pool, watching Connor swim with his arm floaties, and keeping an eye on the boys. He could see Roy, Dick and Jason off in the distance talking to some girls.

“So yeah, we’re gonna spend the week here, just climbing and hiking” Roy swaggered, as one of the girls blushed. The boys were incredibly cute.

“That’s so cool, there’s a dance competition happening too, actually, so that’s why there’s so many girls around” The blonde told them, the group had become fast friends.

“Oh, that’s freaking cool. So, are you both in the competition?” Dick asked, politely. Jason just stood back a bit and rolled his eyes. He wasn’t as much of a ‘ladies man’ as Dick and Roy. As a matter of fact, he wasn’t much of a “people person” at all. He had few friends, and hated when Dick, Mr. Charming, and Roy Mr. Reckless, met other people and basically blew him off.

The taller girl, Tiffany, giggled. “Just Sophie is, I’m here for moral support, but we want to do some hiking too. We heard about this creepy cave, called ‘The Narrows’ where you have to go in sideways and force yourself through, it’s definitely not for anyone that’s claustrophobic”

Jason scowled. That was definitely not something he’d enjoy. He could feel his whole body tensing up at the thought.

“That sounds awesome, I want to go too!” Roy loved any kind of adventure.

“You guys should totally come, we’re getting a little group together and going at 7, you know, when it’s a little creepier”

“Is that dangerous at all, though?” Dick wanted to know, seeing Jason’s apprehension.

“No!” The black haired, brown eyed girl giggled, shoving him playfully. “It’s totally not, nobody’s died there yet…” She laughed, trying to be funny, but Jason hated the idea, and her, immediately.

“Well, we can’t go, we’re going rock climbing at Camelback Mountain…”

“The Narrows is totally just like 5 minutes from there!” The blonde girl, Tiffany, explained, to the excitement of Roy, and total and complete horror of Jason.

“So, we’ll meet you guys at Camelback Mountain?” Sophie batted her eyelashes at Dick, and he immediately nodded and shined his pearly whites at her, exchanging phone numbers.

After the girls left, Jason glared at them both.

“Okay, what happened to, hey Jays you and Dick should come spend Spring break with us, Hey Jays, it’ll be a guys trips, Hey Jays don’t worry, we won’t blow you off for two dumb bimbos…”

The two older teenagers looked at each other, back at Jason, and laughed.

“Why are you always so dramatic? it’ll be fun…”

“Jason, not everyone is awful. Let yourself enjoy life” Dick told him, putting an arm around his brother.

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Some hours later, Dick and Roy were having the time of their lives, rappelling down a mountain, while Jason just sat miserably on one of the boulders, holding a stick as  Connor played with the dirt next to him.

Oliver and Dinah were standing on the bottom of the mountain, making sure the boys were safe, and giving them pointers as they came down.

“Are you sure you don’t want to try, Jays?” Ollie asked him, smiling at them.

“....No”

Dinah looked over too, happy for the free babysitter, at least.

“It’s okay, Jason. You can take your time an--” She was interrupted by Roy and  Dick coming down at the same time.

“That was awesome! That was crazy cool!” Dick beamed. “Jays, you have to try, don’t be a chicken”  He ‘encouraged’, but of course the was totally the wrong thing to say.

“Don’t make him mad while he’s holding a stick by my baby!” The ‘adult’ of the group told him, while Dinah, thinking the same, but of course not saying it, went to grab Connor’s hand and help him in to a harness.

“I am not a chicken first of all, if you would have seen or lived through half the things I have I’m sure you wouldn’t be so fucking happy-go-lucky all the time!”

“Dude…” Roy went to try to calm Jason down. “Just be cool, okay? You don’t have to try...it just sucks that me and Dick are having all the fun and you’re here playing ...with dirt with my little brother”

“Oh, go to hell, Harper” Jason frowned, pushing his green eyed friend a little. He loved hanging out with Roy, the dude was definitely his best friend, but whenever the three boys hung out, Jason felt like he had to compete with his brother for Roy’s friendship. It was stupid, yeah, he knew that, but he still couldn’t help feeling that way. And everyone liked fucking Dick Grayson, better. Everyone did. Including stupid Bruce. And Oliver. And Dinah. And Roy.

Roy pushed him back, because he was 13 and he didn’t like being pushed.

“Roy, don’t push your friends”  Oliver muttered, trying to hook Connor on to the rope so he could try to climb up a little.

“He’s not my friend” Roy frowned, though it was less to hurt Jason, and more to poke fun at Oliver’s demand, but it made Jason eye’s widen with hurt, and he pushed him down, with both hands. Roy hadn’t been expecting it at all, and he fell back in to some sharp rocks.

“Hey!” Oliver yelled, though he couldn’t get near them, because he was still hooked up to his harness  by the the mountain. Whose bright idea was it to bring a ton of cranky teenagers to the wilderness?

Dinah and Dick were there in an instant, Dick pushing his brother back and yelling at him, and Dinah crouching down to check on her son’s scratched up  hands. The palms were bleeding a little, but nothing some spit couldn’t fix...

“I’m fine” Roy told her, getting up, and dusting himself off. He was annoyed, but it wasn’t a big deal. When Oliver got Connor and himself unhooked, he carried the little boy over and walked next to the boys.

“What’s going on?!” Oliver asked sternly, though he didn’t look super menacing with a 4 year old in his arms. Connor glared at them too, but he just looked adorable.

“I didn’t do anything!” Roy immediately defended himself, because he was sure that Oliver would just yell at him no matter who was at fault.

“Jason pushed him first, Ollie. He’s being stupid!” Dick was embarrassed by his brother’s behavior. Dick was the golden boy wherever he went, liked and admired, he couldn’t even begin to relate how Jason felt like he had one friend, and that he could lose the friendship as fast as he’d made it…

Jason was about to respond, but he knew he was too angry, so he just stuffed his hands in his pockets, and let himself get angrier and angrier…

“Maybe you guys should lay off on all the name calling” Dinah “suggested”, as she grabbed Connor from Oliver.

“Jays...is everything okay?” The blond man asked, in an incredibly understanding tone, and Roy was immediately jealous. Yeah, Ollie was a cool guy, but he didn’t really do a lot of ‘coddling’, and to see him be so nice to his friends naturally irked Roy.

“He’s fine,he’s the one that pushed me, why don’t you ask how I’M doing?!” Roy yelled, kicking rocks and starting to find a path back to the car….which didn’t get him far because he didn’t actually know the way.

“Roy William Harper, get your ass back here right now!” Oliver yelled, ready to make a sprint if he needed to.

“I didn’t do anything!”

“Then get over here!” Oliver frowned, “You have 10 seconds or I’m--”

Roy immediately looked around and noticed that while there weren’t too many people around, there were enough that he’d be super embarrassed if Ollie finished that sentence.

“Okay, alright, stop. O. I’m coming” He practically ran back to the group.

Oliver rolled his eyes. Not minding the nickname, but really, hearing ‘Dad’ from the teenager every once in a while wouldn’t hurt…

The teenagers were basically done for the day, they’d climbed and rappelled (Except for Jason…) and they wanted to sneak off to the Narrows (Except for Jason…)

Realizing the boys were tired , Oliver and Dinah started actually doing some of the activities themselves. They each climbed and went down the mountain, and then finally, the two adults hiked up the mountain so that Oliver could rappel down with Connor attached, so that the little boy could experience it too.

“You’re no fun” Dick told his brother, as they all laid around, drinking water and waiting for the adults.

“Shut up”

“Why didn’t you even want to try, Jaybird?” Roy asked, much more relaxed, but Jason still hadn’t found his chill.

“Why don’t you both just fuck off, and go with your dumb bimbos, already?” He got up, angry and started walking away.

“Your mouth…” Dick started, but stopped when he heard ‘Bruce’ in his words. Yuck.

“Where are you going? You don’t know where to hike back up!”

“Who cares? I’m not stupid, I can find my way to the stupid car!” Jason couldn’t even begin to explain that he was embarrassed that he’d been to nervous to try any of the stupid activities, and seeing how easy Dick and Roy did everything, and how easily they made friends. It sucked. It made him feel like there was something so wrong with him…

Stupid Spring break. He’d wait in the car…

“Jays!”

“Jason!” The two teenagers yelled, unsure if they should follow him, or wait for Dinah, Oliver and Connor…

To Be Continued...