Dinah Laurel Lance (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
raptorcanaria) wrote2009-10-05 07:52 pm
raptorcanaria) wrote2009-10-05 07:52 pm
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Going to Japan was an impulsive, hurriedly made plan. It involves moving to another country - a whole other continent with a whole other language. And Dinah's already done stupid things while living away from home in a campus in the same city. It involves leaving a crime ridden Gotham city with only one active protector (two if you include Robin). It's something Dinah planned and decided on herself without any pushing from grownups.
Dinah Snr, of course, disapproves heartily and vociferously.
Alan offers to give Dinah Jnr a ride straight to Okinawa. she turns him down.
Ted (Grant) drives Junior to Gotham airport himself, leaving Dinah sr behind, apparently thinking that if she doesn't say goodbye to her daughter, her daughter will forfeit her flight. Ted drops her off at the door to the checkin, and helps her unload her bags.
"You sure you don't want seeing off, Junior?"
"Thanks, Uncle Ted, but I think I can show a passport and a ticket myself. Don't waste the parking money."
"Alright, your call."
He kisses her on the cheek and hands her a small bag she didn't pack. "This doesn't put you over your allowance, right? Just remember to say you packed it yourself."
Returning the kiss, she eyes him. "If you get me into trouble, Uncle Ted, I'm telling on you."
"Anything you say."
The flight lasts for long enough that she regrets asking Alan for help, and negotiating the Bullet train with nothing but a Japanese phrase book is a bigger challenge than taking on all the gangs in Gotham.
But when she reaches the Dojo, finds her pallet and finally unpacks the bags, it's all worth it. Under the boots and the leather jacket, nesting in a pile of blonde hair, is a note:
Just in case.
- I'm proud of you.
Mom.
(P.S. Ted made me do this. But I'm still proud of you.)
Dinah Snr, of course, disapproves heartily and vociferously.
Alan offers to give Dinah Jnr a ride straight to Okinawa. she turns him down.
Ted (Grant) drives Junior to Gotham airport himself, leaving Dinah sr behind, apparently thinking that if she doesn't say goodbye to her daughter, her daughter will forfeit her flight. Ted drops her off at the door to the checkin, and helps her unload her bags.
"You sure you don't want seeing off, Junior?"
"Thanks, Uncle Ted, but I think I can show a passport and a ticket myself. Don't waste the parking money."
"Alright, your call."
He kisses her on the cheek and hands her a small bag she didn't pack. "This doesn't put you over your allowance, right? Just remember to say you packed it yourself."
Returning the kiss, she eyes him. "If you get me into trouble, Uncle Ted, I'm telling on you."
"Anything you say."
The flight lasts for long enough that she regrets asking Alan for help, and negotiating the Bullet train with nothing but a Japanese phrase book is a bigger challenge than taking on all the gangs in Gotham.
But when she reaches the Dojo, finds her pallet and finally unpacks the bags, it's all worth it. Under the boots and the leather jacket, nesting in a pile of blonde hair, is a note:
Just in case.
- I'm proud of you.
Mom.
(P.S. Ted made me do this. But I'm still proud of you.)