The past few weeks for Dick had been better than expected. He was healing at a fantastic rate. The doctors guessed it was just his positive attitude and his willingness to sleep. But if you asked dick, he would have told you a different answer.

Dick was willing his body to get better because he wanted to find her. He wanted to find that abomination and teach her a lesson. Over these past few weeks dick had become more and more angry at her. He missed his old life, he missed being strong and fast, and dare he say...handsome. He missed being a stud, and now he was just a weakling. He hated this girl. He was ready to seek his revenge.

But revenge was still about three months off. If it weren't for Bruce and Alfred, he would be on suicide watch because of boredom. He had to rest as often as he could. That meant most of his time. He was always looking forward to physical therapy, and when Bruce's doctor came over to check up on him. It was nice to see people but he still missed some of his friends.

One day Dick got onto his laptop, the one that Bruce had provided him, and gotten on his long abandoned Skype account. He looked through his list of friends and saw one on.

"Bart?" he immediately called him.

Dick waited, but seconds seemed like years. Finally Bart answered the call.

"What up yo!?" Bart's happy animated face splashed across the screen.

"Dude oh my god! Its been so long, how are you man?" Dick asked.

"Shit man, don't even ask...if you know what I mean," Bart, A.K.A. Kid Flash winked.

Bartie had always been a lady killer, Dick knew that things wouldn't have changed over the last year while they hadn't kept in touch.

"So dude, I hear you got hurt or something, details man, deets." Bart egged him on.

Dick re accounted his tale, regaling Bart with as many gruesome details as possible. Bart was more than just intrigued, he had to see Dick for himself.

"Well now I'm living at Bruce's..." Dick ended.

"Dude, hold on, I'll be right there, okay?" Bart asked, but didn't wait for a reply.

Just about one second later Bart was at the door. The doorbell rang throughout the house. Dick rolled his eyes and laughed. He walked over to the intercom and got in touch with Alfred.

"Hey Alfred, I think that may be Bartie, I couldn't be positive though." Dick's voice cracked over the intercom.

"Oh it is, I sent him up, he should be up soon."Alfred paged back.

A knock at the door. Dick walked to the door and turned the knob. Almost immediately Bart was sitting on the luxurious couch.

"Nice place man, same as usual, the best for the Boy Wonder." he said and laughed. He got up and walked, yes walked, to Dick.

"Lemme see your battle wounds man." Bart pleaded.

"Yeah nice to see you too Bart," Dick huffed, and then gave his friend a hug.

Dick raised his shirt to show Bart.

"Ouch man, that looks like it hurts like hell..." Bart said.

"It does, they have me so doped up that I can barely feel anything though." Dick laughed.

They retired to the custom game room Bruce had built in just for Dick a week or two ago.

"Dude, it gets no better than this..." Bart said in awe at the holographic wall.

"Tell me about it." Dick replied.

They sat down and turned on the brand new XBOX360.

"So where were you anyway?" dick asked.

"Good ole 'Bama...you know me." Bartie smiled back at Dick.

"Hows the family?" Dick asked.

"Don't ask." Bart laughed.

"Yeah yeah." Dick replied.

They played video games for at least an hour. Then they got an unsuspected visitor.

"Well hello again Bartholomew. Its wonderful to see you again!" Bruce's voice boomed from the doorway of the game room.

"Mr. Wayne, I'm sorry I didn't call ahead, but I knew that Dick needed a friend. I apologize sir." Bart said.

"Oh Bart, you know you are always welcome here, and you know I'm glad you are here, I've been worrying about Dick being here all by himself. You are welcome here for as long as you want, I'm sure Dick will allow you to have one of the other bedrooms in his wing." Brice joked about it being Dicks wing of the house, but he wasn't too far off.

"Well thank you sir, I really appreciate it." Bart said with enthusiasm.

"Well I don't want to keep you boys, have fun." Bruce said and then walked off.

"Dude, Bruce is the shit man, he's way cool." Bart said.

"I know, I hate feeling like I'm using him though, I should be out on my own...not having him babysit me." Dick concluded.

"Whatever man, hes like you dad, don't worry about it, when he wants you gone he will tell you." Bart laughed.

They played video games until it was time for Dick's physical therapy. Then afterward they had dinner and ended up back in the game room.

"Man, remember how we use to party back in the day?" Bart asked.

"Oh back in the day...like a year ago?" Dick asked.

"Well yea I guess. Dude, remember when Rose and Donna, and Roy, and everyone came over, and we partied hard man, that was right after we did something important or something, its all a blur to me dude." Bart said.

"Yea well you are a blur to everyone else dude, and yea I remember...do you still have a thing for Rose or what?" Dick asked, a smile across his face.

"Well yea, but man, that bitch is crazy...yea..." Bart was very unsure in his answer.

"Oh I know you love her man, I know, you don't have to hide it." Dick laughed out.

"Shut the hell up man!You are just jealous!" Bart yelled out.

"Yea man, I know...I am pretty lonely." Dick admitted.

"Well this Vivisection girl seems to be the first female interaction in ages." Bart said, his eyes fixed on the screen.

"It sure seems that way, man I've been having problems with this whole thing...its starting to freak me out a little."Dick spoke.

Bart paused the game and put the controller down.

"Tell me man, whats up?" Bart was serious now.

When it came to his friends, Bart was always serious, he didn't want to see any of them hurt. He made sure they all made it out alive on their missions.

"Well man, when she kidnapped me and took me into that old warehouse, she like undressed in front of me, and like I saw her naked and everything." Dick started.

"Was she attractive?" Bart asked.

" Yeah, she was, I mean she...she had a pretty bitchin' rack, and a fine ass, but she was covered in these white scars, they covered her whole body, it was so disturbing, like, it was bad man." Dick said.

"Okay, go on,"Bart replied.

"Well...when she strapped me to the table, she like got on top of me, and started making out with me, and man I'm not going to lie...it was hot. She was hot, she seduced me, she played me. And for like, a split second, I didn't care, all I wanted was her against me, no lie, best kiss ever...if it hadn't been followed up with some seriously fucked up mutilation."Dick ended.

"Dude did you tell Bruce this? This may help..." Bart suggested.

"Nah man, I don't think it would. I mean we need stuff like what did her face look like, and shit like that...I dunno I'm too embarrassed to talk to Bruce about this stuff anyway...I should have taken better care of myself." Dick said.

"Dude you can not beat yourself up over this. Shit happens, we just have to live with it. Remember when I got my ass handed to me by that big brute mother fucker like two years ago, I slipped up, and I made a mistake, that's so much worse that what you went through. Don't worry dude, no one thinks any less of you." Bart said.

"Dude you don't know the worst part." dick said.

"Whats that?" Bartie asked as he resumed the game.

"I'm dreaming about her."