Disclaimer- I do not own Young Justice
As Robin headed towards his room he began thinking of what had led him to this point. Yesterday he hadn't noticed anything off about himself, other than that he was a little more tired than usual. That was to be expected though, since he had, had a pretty difficult patrol the night before in the rain.
This morning was torture to him though. He had woken up late with a pounding headache that only seemed to increase as time went on. HIs throat was sore, his body felt heavy, and he couldn't think straight. Robin didn't want to admit to himself that he was sick but once he got kicked in the butt by Superboy, of all people, he resigned that maybe it would be a good idea to get some rest and take Canary's advice.
He trudged slowly to his room, his hand trailing on the wall to make sure he didn't fall over right then and there. His head was mess and soft coughs kept coming from the small boy.
Once he reached his room he was tempted to just get on the covers and never wake up. Batman would have his hide, though if he slept in his Robin costume. He grudgingly peeled the spandex from himself and threw on an overlarge t-shirt and some sweatpants before lying down on his bed. He didn't even have time to pull a blanket over himself before he was out.
"That will be it for today," Black canary told the team. They were all covered in sweat as much as they were bruises when she was done with them. She had mercy upon them today though and let them out a few minutes early so then she could go check on Robin.
He hadn't looked at all well the last time she saw him, and hoped that he had listened to her, and went straight to bed.
Dinah took one last look at the training room, to make sure everything was in its place, before she headed to the little birds room. She knocked softly on the door, and when no response came, walked right in.
She saw the young boy asleep on his bed, curled up in a little ball, shivering. He didn't have any blankets on him and Black Canary's motherly instincts went into alert.
Dinah approached the boy and gently shook the boy.
"Robin, Robin," she said. He only groaned and curled tighter into himself. "Come on you need to wake up so you can get under those blankets and I can take your temperature."
Black Canary shook him a little harder, and with a harsh cough he woke up. His eyes were glazed over with fever and his cheeks bright red. He must have taken off his mask before he fell asleep and trusted his teammates enough not to disturb him, when he was sick.
"Alright, Robin, under the blankets and get warm while I go get the thermometer," Canary told him as she tucked him in nice and tight. He only mumbled some unintelligibly words, still half asleep.
"And you better not be asleep when I get back," she said as she walked out the door.
Robin only moaned and ended up only irritating his throat and causing a coughing fit. The harsh sounds echoed around the room and continued until Canary appeared again, thermometer in hand and a glass of water.
"I thought you might need this," she said as she helped him gulp down the water, stopping the coughing.
"Thanks," Robin gasped falling back onto his pillows.
Dinah then held up the thermometer and Dick opened his mouth obediently. He couldn't remember the last time he had been sick. It had to be a few years ago because he hadn't known Wally at the time. The thermometer beeped and Dick released his hold on it from under his tongue.
"102 exactly," she said reading it. "That's defiantly a fever and so you better stay in bed and rest. No computer, video games, or cell phone either," she said as she picked up the objects and placed them out of his reach and out of his line of sight, so as not to tempt him. She saw Robin about to interrupt her and continued on. "And no buts. I will have all my young charges in perfect health and you are no exception. Since Batman is gone on a mission this week you will be staying here and in the case I am called off for a mission, Wally will come in and check on you since he already knows your secret identity," she said before tucking him in more snug, giving his head a good pat, a soft smile touched her lips and she left the room.
Robin, now nice and warm, quickly fell into a light slumber.
Wally was bored. He was really bored. Artemis had gone home earlier after training so he couldn't go pick a fight with her. Megan and Conner had gone exploring Happy Harbor, so he couldn't go flirt with her. Kaldur was believed to be in his room doing something boring like reading or going over strategies. He had already flipped through all the channels on the TV about a dozen times and nothing was on.
The last thing he could come up with was to hang out with Robin. He couldn't that right now though because Black Canary said not to. He wasn't really absolutely positively sure why she said that though. He had watched Robin leave the training room right after he was owned by Superboy, which was a surprise in itself. She had said something to him and the Boy Wonder had left without another word.
Maybe something was wrong with his best bud and it was his duty to find out...
Wally quietly crept through the hallways of Mount Justice, pretending to be a very dramatic police officer. He did a few army rolls and had his pretend gun out in front of him as he made it towards Robin's door.
It was locked up tight as usual but Robin had given Wally his own secret code so that only he and Robin could get in. He opened the door and busted in.
"Freeze and put your hands where I can see them!" Wally yelled to the room at large. When he got no response in return and took a better look around. That's when he saw Robin, without his mask on, curled up in his bed fast asleep. Wally crept up closer to get a closer look at the sleeping boy to make sure he was still sane. Robin skipped out on training to sleep? He must be really tired or something to be so unlike himself. He was usually the last one to bed and the first one up. Who knows how much sleep the kid actually got in one night, obviously Wally didn't know.
KF didn't want to disturb Robins sleep and took to entertaining himself by wondering about Robin's room and looking through his stuff. This plan didn't exactly work when he brushed by a table and ended up knocking everything that had been on top of it, onto the floor. It made a loud crashing noise and made the boy in the bed to awaken with a jolt.
"KF? What are you doing in here?" he asked yawning with a slight cough at the end.
"I was bored and went to see what you were doing," Wally said nonchalantly acting like he wasn't about to snoop through all of Robins stuff.
"Yeah, sure you were," Robin said sarcastically, sitting up and shivering slightly. Wally saw this and questioned him.
"You alright, man, you don't look so good," he said with concern in his voice.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Robin said trying to hide a cough and ended up failing, coughing for a few good minutes.
"Well you just proved yourself wrong right there," Wally chuckled.
"Shut it, I don't feel good," Robin snapped, lying down again.
"Well you are in luck then. I happen to be one of the best care takers on the planet. I'll be right back with my supplies," Wally said before speeding away leaving Robin to doze off.
Authors Note- well hope you guys liked it. Next chapter should be Wally taking care of Robin and I also have some angst in store for you guys! Yah! Anyways please review and hope you guys all have an awesome day :)
