The thing I like most about your writing is how it always feels so plausible.

As though right this moment, Tim is real and covered in soda and turning bright red because as you described in another comment, Kon just basically said, "I'd do you."

You catch the teenager in all of them, and also Dick being Dick when drunk -- always amusing. That you didn't have Tim follow Kon's advice and 'go for it' with Dick was very Tim and also very human at the same time; he just got his brother back and he doesn't want to upset that apple cart. Tim's final observation that in some contexts the next best thing is also the best is so very true. ♥