Dick closed his eyes against the beating inside his head. It hurt.

"Dick are you alright?" he could hear Barbra talking to him but her voice was kind of swimming, he opened his eyes to met hers but felt a wave of nausea swepted over him and the pain in his head increase as the light hit his eyes.

"Yeh, Babs I'm fine" he said quietly and they began walking to class again.

Throughout the lesson Dick found himself sinking lower and lower in his seat as the pain increased, it was becoming to much, he felt like crying.

"Mr Grayson, are you listening?" he raised his eyes to meet those of his teachers and saw her take a step back "Richard are you alright?" she then asked in a more gentle tone, the boy was as pale as a ghost and she could see beads of sweat starting to form on his forehead.

Dick nodded "I think I just need some fresh air" he said and thanked her when she let him out. He made his way through the classroom, aware that the eyes of all his class mates were on him.

Just a few more steps.

But as he neared the door the edges of his vision started darkening, he felt his legs starting to grow heavy.

He didn't make it to the door before he came crashing down to earth and everything was black.

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Barbra ran from the bus station and up the hill to Wayne Manor, Alfred answered on her third knock.

"I had a feeling you would be round Miss Gordon" said the old man

"How is he?"

"Master Bruce has Dr Leslie round, ah here we go" both looked at the stair case to see both Bruce as Leslie coming down the them. Barbra ran forward to meet them.

"Is he alright?" she asked

"He'll be fine" said Leslie "He's suffering from a migraine and a powerful one at that. I've given him to migraine medicine which should take the edge off. Just let him sleep and he should be back to normal in a couple of days".

Bruce thanked her and she left.

"A migraine?" said Barbra is disbelieve "He fainted in English because of a migraine?"

"Migraines can be extrememly painful" said Bruce but he could see the young girl wasn't convinced "If it makes you feel any better I'll get Leslie to check him over again in a few days to make sure he's better and until I get that comfermation he's benched from patrol. Alright?" Bruce smiled and Babs nodded feeling a little more reassured that he best friend was in a safe hands.

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3 days later the pain had subsided slightly to a mild headache, but he still felt exhausted and slept for more than 18 hours a day.

Bruce, good on his word, got Leslie to check him over again. She checked his eye sight and his reflexes which were both good.

"Right, I'll just do a quick check around the back of your eyes and were done" she brought out the light and started shining it in his eyes. After a few minutes she turned the light off sat back a frowned.

"What's wrong?" asked Bruce

"I don't know, it could be nothing. But the nerves at the back of his eyes are swollen"

"Could that be because of the headache" he asked growing concerned

"No, it's more likely that this was the cause of the headache, but the question is whats caused this?" they both looked at Dick, who didn't look too concerned, in fact he looked like he was dropping off.

"Dick" Leslie said quietly but it brought him back to attention

"Yeh"

"How much do you sleep normally?" Dick shrugged
"About 6 hours a night"

"And what about recently?" Bruce straightened

"He's been sleeping most of the day, but when he gets up he's still exhausted" Dick looked from one adult to the other. What was going on?

"What about your vision? Does it keep swimming every so often?" Dick nodded and Leslie pursed her lips.

"I'm going to send off for a glasses prescription, that should help with the vision and might help with the headaches, it might just be a case that your eyes are straining too much"

"But my eyes were fine until my headache" Dick piped in and she nodded

"I know, which is why I'm also going to send off blood to be tested. Just to be sure it's nothing" she smiled but Dick could see the concern behind it. Something was really wrong.

He gave her his arm and she tied the band around it and inserted the needle taking the blood. Dick just stared into space. What the hell was wrong with him?

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It wasn't often Wally was granted permission to visit Dick at his home. But today was one of those days, Batman had told him that Dick was feeling under the weather and he thought the speedsers company might cheer him up.

Robin hadn't been to the mountain in over a week so Wally happily accepted.

When Wally entered the manor he was led to the living room where he saw a small figure curled up on the big sofa. Drawing closer he saw that Dick was asleep with his new glasses slightly askew on his face.

Bruce went round the sofa and started shaking the boy awake, Dick moaned and tried to turn over but with a bit more shaking he was awake. He sat up and smiled at Wally but the red head could see the pain in his blue eyes.

Bruce disappeared but returned a few moments later with a glass or water and some painkillers for Dick and a large bag of salted popcorn for Wally.

Wally watched as Dick slowly took the 4 pills, two were small and round the other two were oblong.

"Better?" he asked after Dick had swallowed the last one.

"Not really, the pain never goes away, the paracetamol and ibuprofen just dull it slightly".

The speedster looked at his friends tired eyes and sighed "Come here" he said and let the 13 year old rest in head on his lap and in a few moments he was asleep again.

Meanwhile Bruce had a call from Leslie.

"What did the results say?"

"We tested from Anaemia, Diabetes etc. and we also tested for cancer" Bruce held his breath, please not cancer.

"All were negative"

"So what do we do now, he's in so much pain"

"I know, but I think this is out of my league Bruce, I'm going to refer him to an ophthalmologist. They can getting a better idea of what's causing his nerves to be inflamed, until then we can try putting him on 600mg of Aspirin, see if that eases the pain".

"What do you think's wrong with him?"

"I don't know Bruce, I really don't know".

A/N Well here is the first chapter, please let me know if you would like to continue. Review Karin xx