The first sentence: Tim first realizes there's a problem when Barbara kisses him.
The last sentence: Smiling, Tim takes a deeper breath and turns around.
The thing that made me want to write it: I have a thing, in fiction and in real life, for people who don't realize how lovely they are. I like telling them.
The biggest problem I had while writing it: This wasn't a story that could end with Tim having a harem, as it were, though it hurt my polyamorous soul to admit it.
Why it almost never got posted: The entire Batfamily had an epic brawl inside my head over who got Tim at the end.
The scene that hit the cutting room floor: I really kind of wanted to end this with a fivesome, but there's gratuitous and gratuitous.
Anything else: BWEE. That is all. Also, see icon.