Heya!

I'm so sorry for how long this took.

Towards the end of the school year I was swamped with work! And then I got a job, and then I finished my Sophomore year of school, and then soccer practice started up again. I really do apologize!

Thank you SO much for all of the reviews and for sticking with this story despite my terrible updating! ;)

*PLEASE READ THIS NOTE*

Due to the lack of time I've had to work on this, this chapter is sort of acting as a preview for the next, which is why it's so short. The rest will be up soon, I just felt like you deserved at least a short chapter.

Here we go!

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Wally had been sleeping peacefully before he was abruptly awoken by someone screaming. It wasn't a little whimper, nor just a small yell. No, it was a horrifying, loud, full on scream. The Speedster was out of bed before he could even really open his eyes; running straight to Robin's room. It sounded like his best friend was having a nightmare. He'd had them before around Wally, but the Speedster never got used to them. He stopped outside of Robin's room desperately trying to open the locked door to no avail. Suddenly there was a loud thump and silence. Wally's eyes widened with fear.

"Rob? Rob!"

By now the others were running towards the door, Kaldur and Conner in the lead.

"What has happened?" Kaldur asked.

"I don't know!" Wally shouted. "He started screaming and I couldn't open the door and then I heard a loud noise and he just stopped!" The Speedster had to pause to take a breath. "The thing is, his door is locked, and I can't freaking get it open!"

The scowl on Conner's face deepened, and he quickly kicked in the door. The young heroes filed into the room to find their small friend on the floor lying on his side next to his bed. Wally ran over to him, gently turning him over. Robin was crying silently, but due to his mask, Wally couldn't tell if he was even awake or not.

"Rob?"

The Boy Wonder stirred. 'Looks like he was asleep...' Wally thought to himself.

Robin groaned and sat up (with some help from Wally). The Boy Wonder wiped at his face; his expression turned to shock when he realized he had been crying.

"Whoa," Robin whispered, "what happened?"

Wally gave an emotionless laugh. "You don't remember anything, huh?" He became a little more serious, his eyes looking at the floor. "You were having a nightmare."

Robin's eyes widened at the thought of possibly giving away any information about his identity, but Wally reassured him.

"Don't worry, you didn't say anything. Just gave us a scare, that's all."

Robin nodded, sighing in relief. "Sorry bout' that, guys. I can't even remember anything or why I was screaming at all... I don't even remember falling out of bed," the Boy Wonder's gazed dropped to the floor. Wally saw that he was slightly uncomfortable about something.

"Hey, do you guys mind if I talk to Rob alone for a minute?" Robin gave the Speedster a confused look, but he just ignored it. Kaldur nodded, putting a reassuring hand on Robin's shoulder, and one by one the others filed out of the room.

As soon as they were alone Wally looked at Robin seriously.

"I can tell there's something else that's wrong. You can tell me, you know."

The Boy Wonder hesitated for a moment, but eventually gave in.

"Well I wasn't lying about not remembering anything about the dream," he started, "but something did happen." Wally urged him to go on.

"Well... Around two this morning I felt really sick... And I kind of threw up." Robin quickly continued when he saw he was about to get yelled at. "But don't worry! I don't feel nauseous anymore."

Wally just stared in disbelief at his best friend. Really? He got sick and didn't say anything? It was really predictable for the Boy Wonder to do such a thing, but he was still mad.

"Dude! You should've told me! Don't you remember? There's *poison* in you. You can't keep these things from me because I'm your best friend and me and the rest of the Team are seriously worried and scared about what might happen to you!"

Robin sat in shock as he tried to process his friend's sudden outburst. Wally was really that worried? Were his teammates really that worried? Obviously it was true, he just wished it wasn't. All this time he was telling himself he didn't want his Team to treat him like a baby, but they weren't. They were just concerned and afraid of losing someone they loved.

Just like a family would be.

Tears welled up in the Boy Wonder's eyes despite his efforts to not cry. Wally was there in a millisecond, hugging his best friend.

"I'm sorry Wally, I am," The ebony cried into Wally's shoulder. "Honestly, I'm sc- scared about what will happen but I didn't want you guys to think I was weak. I'm so sorry I kept it hidden fr- from you..." he cried. Wally hugged him tighter. He wouldn't let anything happen to his best friend.

"Dickie," he said. Robin looked up at the sound of his real name; tears still streaming down his face.

"You have every right to be scared. But you know that we- the Team and the Justice League- we would never think of you as 'weak'," Wally said.

Robin nodded, wiping the tears off of his face. "M' sorry."

Wally shook his head. "There's no reason to be sorry. I'm going to go out and let the Team know you're alright. Come out when you're ready." His eyes flashed (no pun intended) up to the clock next to Robin's bed.

"Well, it's already eight in the morning, so no point in going back to bed. We have training with Black Canary at eight-thirty, anyways," the Speedster added so Robin wouldn't feel guilty. With a quick pat on Robin's back, Wally left.

Robin picked himself off of the floor and headed to the bathroom. Looking at himself in the mirror was somewhat frightening- he was even paler than before and when he removed his mask, red, puffy eyes were revealed due to his lack of sleep and because of the crying. There were dark circles around them too, almost like someone had given him two black eyes. His body ached worse than ever before; even worse than when he had had a long mission or when Batman had him training for hours. He walked out of the bathroom and changed into some sweat pants and a white t-shirt, and that's when he realized how cold he was.

'Did someone turn the air on? Geez, it feels like this place has been freeze-blasted or something...' he thought to himself as he grabbed an oversized sweatshirt and walked out of his room. His friends were waiting on the training room floor, waiting for Black Canary. Robin gave them encouraging smiles when they looked at him with worry.

"Are you alright?" Artemis asked.

They Boy Wonder laughed. "Don't worry bout' me. I'm fine."

Black Canary walked in and he took a seat to the side of the glowing floor; slipping on his sweatshirt when the chills refused to leave. He watched Wally and Kaldur step onto the floor first. Quite honestly, he was grateful he wasn't allowed to train. His body ached so badly, he knew training would have made it worse.

"Alright Kaldur and Wally," Canary said. "No powers-" she gave Wally the 'look'- "Just sparring. You may begin."

The match started out just like any typical sparring match where Wally was fighting- the reckless Speedster ran ahead at Kaldur at an average speed, and the Atlantean easily saw it coming. Kaldur dodged Wally's first punch, spun around and tripped the red head in less than three seconds.

Artemis' laughter could be heard by everyone as the floor announced Wally had failed.

"Keep going!" Black Canary said.

Robin smirked from the sidelines as Wally angrily got up and got back into a fighting stance. The Speedster glared at the Boy Wonder, and he just laughed.

Wally gained the upper hand the second round and gave a quick attack of hits to Kaldur's face. Kaldur blocked every one except the last and fumbled backwards. Wally ran full speed (without using his powers) back towards the Atlantean without a second thought.

Robin could tell what was about to happen- Kaldur would use Wally's momentum to thrown him over his shoulder. He almost laughed at the thought of Wally flying through the air, but a yell brought him back to reality. He looked up to see Wally being thrown over Kaldur's shoulder-

-directly at him.

He would normally roll out of the way, but this wasn't a 'normal' situation. Robin's reflexes were slow due to being sick and because of his lack of sleep, and Wally was practically a human cannonball heading towards him. His muscles randomly tensed up, and his body felt like it weighed a million pounds. Things went in slow motion- he could see each of his friends' shocked expressions and wondered what his face looked at the moment...

Time sped up as Wally painfully crashed right into the Boy Wonder. Robin heard something snap- a loud, disgusting sound- as he and Wally rolled a few feet away from the training floor.

"Robin!" He heard Artemis and M'gann scream as his friends ran over to assess the damage. Robin's entire body was pulsing with pain; his body aching like he had never felt before. He doubled over on the floor, his right hand clenching his left hand in pain. Wally was by his side in an instant.

"Rob! Man, I'm so sorry! Did I hurt you?" The Speedster said, worried. Honestly, Robin was in too much pain to answer. He was practically rolled up in a ball on the floor trying not to cry for the second time that morning.

He had never felt pain like this before- plenty of people/aliens/strange creatures had done worse damage than someone simply knocking him over, yet this hurt so much worse. It was like someone had simultaneously torn every muscle in his body and then broke his hand. Oh, and his hand- Robin was positive he'd broken it, but he'd never had a bone break so easily.

Black Canary was suddenly by his side. "Robin? What's wrong?"

The Boy Wonder managed to whimper out, "M'okay..."

Canary wouldn't have it. "No you're not. This obviously has something to do with the poison. Let's get you to the infirmary. Can you walk?"

Robin attempted to stand but didn't even manage to stand up straight before the pain came back and he went crashing to the floor. Thankfully, Wally caught him and scooped him up bridal-style. He didn't object- he was in too much pain.

"I got him. Let's go," Wally said grimly and headed towards the infirmary.

Yeah, once again I'm so sorry for the short chapter! I hope it was enough for right now… I'll get the second part out as soon as I can.

P.S- Don't you love how I beat up Robin even though this is extremely short? Gah I'm so evil… ;)