Disclaimer- I do not own Young Justice
Black Canary was waiting in the training room for the young team to begin their next session. It was to begin in the next fifteen minutes and no one was in sight. Usually Robin would be in the room already warming up and doing all sorts of gravity defying stunts. Kaldur would then show up and they would start warming up together. Then Conner and Megan would show up together, which they seemed to do every day, strangely. Artemis would then come running in with freshly shined arrows and begin stretching. Last but not least Wally would run in with a wind storm just in the nick of time, but today there wasn't so much as a peep, in the quiet room.
Where is everyone?
Just then Kaldur walked in with a yawn, acknowledging Black Canary as he walked over.
"Black Canary," he addressed her. "Sorry for arriving late. I had a busy morning. Megan and Conner should be here soon though, I passed them as I was walking in," Kaldur explained before he began stretching.
Black Canary only nodded to the boy, accepting his explanation. There was no need for him to apologize, since he wasn't actually late in the first place.
Once Kaldur finished his stretching he looked around and only then realized that Robin wasn't there yet.
"Do you know where Robin is?" He asked Black Canary, surprised.
"I'm as surprised as you are, Kaldur. He is usually here, training, before I even arrive, but he hasn't showed."
"Well that's strange of him," Kaldur thought as he used a punching bag as his new partner.
Megan and Conner walked in then. Megan all bright and cheery as she always was and Conner being all stoic and depressed as healways was.
"Good morning, Black Canary how is your morning?" she asked joyfully.
"Okay, and yours Megan?"
"Pleasant as always," she said with a smile before pulling Superboy along with her to start stretching. Superboy gave Dinah a nod before following Megan.
Artemis came running in next and just set to work without a word. She wasn't much of a morning person.
When everyone seemed to be warmed up and it was about ready to begin, Wally arrived with a huge yawn.
"Hello my pretties, sorry for my tardiness," he said in a mock formal way.
"By now we're used to it. One of the fastest guys around and you never get anywhere on time," Artemis grouched. Wally knew better than to say anything to the girl. He had once started an argument in the morning with Artemis and the rest of the day had been a blur to him.
"So let's get started then. Who's going first?" Wally asked eagerly.
"But Robins not here yet," Megan said. Wally then looked around the room and noticed for the first time that his best friend was, indeed, not there.
"He's usually the first one here though," Wally said shocked that Robin, the one person who has never been late in his life, was late.
"I guess we could wait a few more minutes for him," Black Canary said looking at the clock on the wall and getting a worried feeling in her stomach. "He did sleep here last night didn't he?"
"Yeah, last I checked," Wally confirmed.
"Alright, if he's not here in five minutes I'll go check on him."
Five minutes passed and still no sign of Robin, but just as Black Canary was about to exit the room the kid himself showed up.
"Sorry I'm late," he apologized, slightly out of breath. Black Canary then took a good look at Batman's protégé. She saw a pale and drawn face with flushed cheeks, his movements were a little more sluggish than usual, and his hair was slightly matted down with sweat.
"Are you okay, Robin?" Dinah inquired looking at him with concern.
"I'm fine," he said shortly. Dinah wasn't about to call him out on a cold, but he would learn the hard way about trying to accomplish things when sick.
"Okay, let's begin then. Robin and Superboy you are up first," she said.
The two of them stepped onto the training floor and faced each other, both in fighting positions.
"Begin!" Canary yelled and Superboy charged.
Robin easily dodged the attack and sent a few swift punches at Superboy as he went flying by. The punches didn't affect him in the least as the larger of the two came at the smaller one again.
Superboy charged and when Robin went to dodge him again Superboy switched tactics and instead slid on the floor, taking Robins feet out from under him.
"Good move, Superboy, it's nice to know you listen when we train," Dinah encouraged him.
As Robin scrambled up from where he lay on the floor, slightly embarrassed at having been taken down so easily. He should have seen that coming, it was a common maneuver that he, himself, had used. He adjusted needed to focus, but with the pounding in his head it was getting difficult.
Robin decided it was his turn to go on the offensive. He rushed Superboy and instead of any physical contact slipped through his legs and climbed the back of him, like a human ladder, and ended up in the rafters.
Superboy was angered that Robin had slipped right through his fingers. He had an idea form in his head though and jumped up suddenly to where the boy wonder was at, and as Robin was moving to dodge the punches that were expected, Conner grabbed his cape and sent him tumbling to the floor.
His breath whooshed out of him as he made contact with the ground. He couldn't suck in any more breath and instead ended up coughing. He didn't care about the now read circle saying that failed around him, but just about somehow getting air back in his lungs.
Seeing Robin fall and not land in some kind of handstand or somersault brought Dinah over instantly. She noticed his hard coughing, that went on longer then would be normal when someone got the wind knocked out of them.
She put her hand up to his forehead and, just as she had expected, found it warm. Robin leaned into the touch, relishing in her cold hands. His coughs had died down and he was no panting on the floor.
"That's enough for you today, Robin. You are going straight to bed now, and I don't want to hear any more nonsense about you being, fine. When I check on you later I expect you to be in bed," Canary told the small boy as she helped him to his feet. He wobbled slightly for a second, dizziness overwhelming him, until he started walking out of the training room, without as much as a peep in rebuttal.
"He must really be sick,"Dinah thought as she watched him leave. She would check on him later once she was done with the training session.
Authors Note- well since I can't sleep tonight I decided to write this for all of you. This should only be a few chapters long but I guess this would be something of a fluffy story with probably some angst in it, since I can't help myself. I am open to suggestions too, by the way if you have any great ideas about Robin being sick. Anyways hope you all liked it and please review :)