[Kon doesn't go after him. It's pretty clear he hadn't want to be touched and he can only imagine how much worse his reaction would've been if Kon had outright hugged him, held him the way he wanted to.]
[He doesn't have long to feel terrible about it before he feels the tug on his phone and knows that yes, he had reason to keep a tight hold on it.]
[ Anger flares on top of the guilt of making Tim cry. ]
[ Is this really where they're at? ]
[Why is this so hard? He thought all he had to do was get back home, with his family, and with his friends, and then everything would be okay again. It'd be like it was before. Or at least a different he could adapt to like he had to adapt to everything.]
[But it hasn't been like that at all. The world forgot him and moved on. The thing he'd been waiting his whole life for, had dreamed about, got handed to someone else and it seemed like it happened without a thought. (Someone more legitimate, someone who was actually wanted.) And things with Tim are...fraught sometimes. Hard.]
[It's easier with Bart because he and Bart don't have multiple timelines bouncing around their heads. Things have changed over time, especially after Bart became Kid Flash, but navigating the new Bart isn't impossible even if sometimes it's deceptively more difficult than it seems.]
[Also, most importantly, Bart wasn't the one left alone in his grief. He felt one loss, but he was the second. (Or really, the fifth, when you count the others like Steph and all three of Tim's parents.) ]
[Kon stands there, shoulders drooping, too angry to just cave into Tim's demands or forgive the boundaries he crossed, but also not wanting to make him more miserable.]
[So he just...lets him go. Without a word. Instead he bends off to clean the shreds of the application off the floor.]
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[He doesn't have long to feel terrible about it before he feels the tug on his phone and knows that yes, he had reason to keep a tight hold on it.]
[ Anger flares on top of the guilt of making Tim cry. ]
[ Is this really where they're at? ]
[Why is this so hard? He thought all he had to do was get back home, with his family, and with his friends, and then everything would be okay again. It'd be like it was before. Or at least a different he could adapt to like he had to adapt to everything.]
[But it hasn't been like that at all. The world forgot him and moved on. The thing he'd been waiting his whole life for, had dreamed about, got handed to someone else and it seemed like it happened without a thought. (Someone more legitimate, someone who was actually wanted.) And things with Tim are...fraught sometimes. Hard.]
[It's easier with Bart because he and Bart don't have multiple timelines bouncing around their heads. Things have changed over time, especially after Bart became Kid Flash, but navigating the new Bart isn't impossible even if sometimes it's deceptively more difficult than it seems.]
[Also, most importantly, Bart wasn't the one left alone in his grief. He felt one loss, but he was the second. (Or really, the fifth, when you count the others like Steph and all three of Tim's parents.) ]
[Kon stands there, shoulders drooping, too angry to just cave into Tim's demands or forgive the boundaries he crossed, but also not wanting to make him more miserable.]
[So he just...lets him go. Without a word. Instead he bends off to clean the shreds of the application off the floor.]