#I wrote this in a rush because I'm sick rn and busy with prepping for Christmas but it's Bernard's 20th anniversary!!!

[bernardsunglasses]

“Uh,” Bernard said.

“Hi,” Tim said.

“Hello,” Darla said.

Bernard dug his heels in a little bit. Tim gave him a serious look, and Bernard’s chest twisted.

“Dude.” He let himself be yanked down the hall through the slowly-thinning crowd. “If you’re about to tell me you’re here with an important message from my future self, or that you’re stuck in a time-loop, or that you have a tiny, sick alien living in your house that we have to load up in a bike basket—”

A birthday fic for the 20th anniversary of Bernard's first appearance in Robin #121

Relationships: Darla Aquista & Bernard Dowd & Tim Drake, Pre-relatinoship Bernard Dowd/Tim Drake

Characters: Bernard Dowd, Tim Drake, Darla Aquista

Additional Tags: Bernard Dowd-centric, birthday, Tim Drake is a Good Friend, Pre-Relationship, fluff, high school, Chef Bernard Dowd references, pre-War Games (DCU), insecurity

Word count: 3,411, chapter 1/1