Laceration

Prologue

"So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."

-T.S. Eliot-

Damian gently touched the glass leading to the room where Danny was sleeping. He knew this was going to be hard, and his father had told him multiple times that if Danny woke up, he might not remember them.

After the second day, they had to put Danny in a straight jacket after he would fight them off. He nearly took Superman out for a while during one of the attacks. Damian knew that when Danny woke up in this room, he wasn't going to be happy.

But Damian knew the fear he felt when Danny didn't return from the store. The fear when Danny went missing for four days.

"Damian, it's okay," Dick said as Damian paced the floor. They both knew that this was out of character for Danny to just drop off the face of the earth. He wasn't much of one to just disappear without a reason. Or without letting them he was going somewhere.

"You and I both know that something is wrong. We need to go out there," Damian demanded pointing out the door. "Danny could be in trouble. He's never late."

"I know, I'm worried too, but he'll turn up," Dick smiled hoping to lighten the mood.

"He's stable, and his powers aren't seemingly out of control anymore," Batman said looking at his son. "J'onn believes he'll wake up soon."

"I should have done something sooner," Damian growled glaring at the prone form of his boyfriend on the bed. "I shouldn't have believed Grayson."

Danny felt the prick of a needle in his back as he walked down the ally towards his apartment. He turned and seen a flash of white and red before his vision faded to black.

He woke up to the sound of someone pounding on the wall.

"Danny, I know you're there, get the hell up," he recognized the voice but couldn't place it. He slowly rolled onto his stomach and pushed himself up with a light groan. "Fenton, you better not be dead."

"I'm alive," he croaked out feeling the stiffness in his arms. He seen the white gloves of Phantom and wondered why he had changed forms when he was human when he went out. He looked up into the eyes of Valerie and choked.

"Good to see you too," Valerie greeted with a small smile glad that he was okay.

Damian slowly closed the door to Danny's room behind him. He knew that his father probably knew he had been slipping in here at night, but after two years of sleeping next to the hybrid, he didn't like sleeping alone.

"Hey, Danny," Damian whispered pulling up one of the chairs and sitting down. He gently rested his hand on Danny's arm that was strapped down to the bed. "I know you hate this, but you really put a dent in Superman's ego." Damian gently pulled up a little on the arm, but knew it wasn't going anywhere. Danny was going to be sore when he woke up.

"You should have seen him when we finally got you settled down," Damian smiled slightly. "He was not happy that someone could hurt him while unconscious." Damian looked over his shoulder at the window and seen a shadow move. "I know you're there, Grayson."

"Alright, you caught me," Dick said as he opened the door. "How is he?"

"Father doesn't think that when he wakes up he'll remember much," Damian said. "They found some files about wiping his memory. Father thinks they may have started, but never got the chance to finish before ARGUS crashed into their base."

"My question is why did ARGUS know where they were?" Dick asked looking at Damian sharply. "Bruce couldn't find any way for them to have tracked unless…"

"They tracked Danny. I know," Damian whispered hanging his head. "Danny knew they could. They had bought some of his parent's technology before they were arrested and disappeared. Danny told Waller that he would help her take down the Guys in White."

"I heard that they were holding one of her most trusted agents," Dick said as he pulled up another chair.

"Yeah, and it was one of Danny's friends from Amity."

"Valerie?" Phantom asked slowly standing up in the cell. "What happened?"

"It's some off set of the Guys in White," she said as Phantom walked closer. She watched as he tensed completely and closed his eyes tightly. "You okay?"

"No," he whispered feeling his body begin to shake. He couldn't deal with this. He thought he was finally free.

"Well, they wanted us for whatever reason."

"That's because young Daniel here has been keeping secrets from you and his family," Vlad said as he entered the room. Valerie glared at him.

"I know who you are and what you can do," she growled hoping it would make him leave Danny alone.

"Really, little girl," Vlad grinned as he tapped on the glass wall between him and Phantom. "I highly doubt that."

"I shorted his powers out permanently," Phantom said glaring at the man. "I thought you were still in jail after all that happened."

"Early release. I may not have Plasmius anymore, but that doesn't mean I can't make your life a living hell, and once I figure out the name of your boyfriend, Robin, then I'll destroy them as well."

"Good Night, Damian, and don't do anything stupid," Dick warned as he walked out. Damian looked back over to Danny.

He was taking Danny home as soon as he possibly could. This wasn't the place to let his boyfriend heal.

It never could be.

Damian felt someone pulling his pillow, or whatever his was using as a pillow. He blinked and looked up into startled blue eyes.

"Danny?" Damian asked with a smile. Danny stopped trying to pull his hand away. Damian felt his heart drop in his chest when Danny stared at him for a moment.

"Who are you?"

And here's the beginning of the second part.

Read and review and tell me what y'all think so far. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

Sidenote: I didn't realize that this didn't save my lines or italics, so this might help break it up and make a little more sense.

Also, this does take place a year after Incision. The next chapter shows it up a little better and well answer. I just jumped y'all into the mist of everything that went wrong.