"No..." he said hoarsely as the rope ripped further. "No, no no!" Robin started yelling. He tried to swing to the next bar, but before he could let go of the current one he was swinging from, the rope snapped. "NO!" Robin lost his grip and started to fall. Robin screamed and clenched his eyes shut. He felt the air rush past him as he plummeted to the ground below. He hadn't set up any nets. He heard a voice yell out, but his body had gone numb, he couldn't see, he couldn't hear, until he felt himself land in a pair of arms.
".....-bin...-obin...ROBIN!" a voice, familiar to Robin shouted. He opened his eyes but quickly closed them due to the harsh, bright lights on the ceiling above.
"Ugh...wha-..." Robin mumbled sitting up clutching his head.
"Dick, are you ok?! You almost gave me a heart attack!" the person shouted. Robin froze for a moment from being called his real name. He opened his eyes to be met with a pair of bright toxic green eyes.
"D-Danny?" Robin said. Danny sighed in relief.
"Jeez Dick, and you warn me to be-" Danny was cut off by Robin clutching him tightly in a hug. "...careful." Danny said. He hesitantly wrapped his arms around his brother, relaxing into his grip after a few moments. "Mind telling me what happened?" Danny asked after a few moments.
"I-I wanted to try the trapeze, and see if I could get over my fear....since the accident...you can see how well that turned out..." Robin said sadly.
"Hey, as long as I'm here, I won't let anything happen to you. Family stick
together right?" Danny said with a small smile. Robin smiled back and nodded his head. He then realized Danny had finally come back, and proceeded to punch him in the shoulder, hard. Danny let out a yelp.
"OW! Hey what was that for?!" he asked annoyed, rubbing his shoulder.
"That, was for being gone for so long! I missed you!" Robin said. Danny rolled his eyes at him and grinned at him playfully.
"I told you time works differently in the Ghost Zone. I was there for two days...how long was I gone for here?" Danny asked standing up.
"About a week. Still, it's been boring without you around." Robin said standing up. He wavered and would have fell if Danny hadn't grabbed him.
"Woah there bro! You took a nasty fall so take it slow." Danny said worried. He slung Robins arm over his shoulder and walked out of the gym, guiding him to the living room. "You stay here while I get you some water." Danny said helping Robin settle into the couch. He floated away to get water for Robin, who was deep in thought. He was thinking about his parents when a yell and a crash was heard from the kitchen.
"Danny?!" Robin shouted. He stood up and ran into the kitchen area and saw his brother on the floor clasping his side. Glass shards were strewn across the floor and water was everywhere.
"D-Dick, s-something's wrong!" Danny said through pants of pain. He let out another agonizing screech of pain. Robin carefully avoided the glass on the ground and picked Danny up who had tears streaming down his face from the immense pain he was experiencing. Robin ran to the medical bay with Danny in his arms, which wasn't hard since the boy was still very much underweight, and placed him in one of the beds. Danny was still crying out in immense pain. Dick lifted the shirt Danny was wearing and saw black veins coming from the right side of his abdomen.
"Danny I need to call Batman ok? I'm going to give you some morphine and an anesthetic to knock you out until he gets here.
"F-Fine! J-Just hurry!" Danny gasped, his eyes glowing green. Robin grabbed a needle and filled it with the correct amount of morphine and filled another with anesthetics. He injected the anesthetic into Danny's arm first to knock him out. After a few seconds his screams became whimpers which turned to moans of pain. Robin then quickly administered the morphine to at least make Danny's pain more tolerable. Once he was sure Danny was ok for the moment, he ran to the communication hub and dialed Batman. He picked up quickly.
"Robin, what's the issue?" Batman asked. By the look on Robins face, he knew something had happened.
"It's Danny, he needs help, now. It's bad and I don't know what's wrong." Robin said worriedly.
"I'm coming now." Batman said. The video chat was cut off and after a few moments, the zeta tubes announced his arrival. Both Batman and Robin ran to the medical bay to find Danny still asleep but drenched in sweat. Robin showed him what he found and Batman proceeded to check his vitals and check for any pieces of shrapnel from the GIW left in Danny's body. The scans showed nothing.
"What are we going to do?! The scans say there's nothing in him but from the way the black veins start on his right side of his stomach say otherwise. There has to be something there!" Robin said panicking. The zeta tubes sounded announcing someone had entered the mountain. A few moments later, Superboy walked into the medical bay.
"What's going on." he asked in a monotone voice.
"How did you...never mind, something's wrong with Danny." Robin said showing Superboy the black veins. He walked closer and looked down at Danny's stomach, his eyes widening slightly, and a look of worry passed through his eyes before disappearing. The brief look did not go unnoticed by Robin however. "What is it?" Robin asked.
"There's a small piece of metal or something located there." Superboy replied. "It's killing him."
Batman quickly grabbed a scalpel and asked where exactly the shrapnel was. Superboy took a black surgical marker and drew and 'X' exactly where the piece of metal was. Batman swabbed the area with iodine and made a small incision in Danny's right abdomen. He looked for the shrapnel but it wasn't in sight.
"I can't see it." Batman said. At that moment, Dannys breathing became harder and more shallow, his heart rate increasing rapidly, causing Robin to panic.
"Batman if we can't find that shrapnel, Danny's going to die!" Robin said, panic etched in his voice. Superboy walked over to the medical table and picked up a pair of medical tweezers. He walked back over to Danny.
"Move, I can get it out." he said. Batman stepped aside and watched with Robin as Superboy carefully inserted the tweezers into the small incision and pulled out a small shard of glowing green metal. He dropped it into the medical tray and looked at Danny's face. His breathing had begun to slow to a normal rhythmic pattern, his heart rate also dropping down to normal levels. Batman quickly came over and grabbed a needle and stitches along with a syringe full of saline, and proceeded to flush the wound out, dry the area, and stitch up the incision. He wiped the area down again with iodine and covered the incision with gauze. He's needed treatment like this before, so Batman was an expert, in a way, when it came to things like this.
(A/N It said alcohol before but I realized that was inaccurate. It's actually iodine. I think it's more effective than alcohol. I should know, I had to get something remove, awake, and they used iodine, not alcohol...I hate that day lol)
"He's going to need to rest. Lots of it." Batman said once he finished wrapping the wound. Superboy nodded his head and pulled up a chair.
"I'll take first watch." he said. Robin raised his eyebrow curiously.
'Could it be that...? No that doesn't seem like Superboy...but, what if?' Robin thought to himself. He eyed Superboy for a moment longer before sighing.
"Ok. But get me immediately if anything happens." he said. Superboy nodded, his gaze unmoving. Batman left the room after checking Danny's vitals one last time. Robin left soon after, glancing behind himself before leaving. Danny and Superboy were the only ones present in the medical bay. Danny shifted in his sleep to his side, shivering slightly. Superboy walked over to a cabinet and pulled out a blanket and proceeded to drape it onto Danny's sleeping figure. He snuggled into the blankets warmth. Superboy sat back down and watched Danny closely. He noticed some of Danny's bangs in front of his closed eyes.
'What I wouldn't give to see his bright green or ice blue eyes right now.' he thought brushing aside some of Danny's bangs. His hand grazed Danny's face slightly, and the sleeping teen let out a content sigh. Superboy paused for a moment, a faint blush dusting his cheeks, realization crossing his face.
'A-Am I, falling for him?'
Ooooohhh imma get LOTS of hate or love for this!!! See I planned on this happening, just not so soon!!! Hehe. Soooo, about the long delay, my only excuse is school. So much school work and drama and my laziness and writers block. BUT I'm BACK ON TRACK NOW! And man you all hated that cliffy! It was worth it in all honesty. THE SUSPENSE WAS KILLING EVERYONE!!! It was kinda funny reading all your comments. They make my day!
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