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Roy POV
The bright sun woke Roy up. He groaned, rolled over and got up, throwing a pillow at Wally and putting clothes on before leaving the room. The smell of cooking food made Roy hum in desire as he walked into the kitchen, went to the medicine cabinet and brought out a bottle of vitamins. He sighed as he sat down in one of the wooden chairs, watching M'gann and Artemis cooking breakfast and waited for Bruce to come out and say that Dick had woken up.
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Bruce POV
Bruce woke up when he heard footsteps in the kitchen. He stretched before he got up and took a shower. By the time he got out and got dressed, a mouth-watering scent was leaking from under the door. The bright clock shone 10:45 through the pitch black of the room. Bruce walked over to where Dick was still sleeping and stroked his hair. "Dick? Dickie? It's time to wake up." Dick let out a quiet moan before he turned and buried his face further into his pillow, pulling his arm over his face. Bruce smiled and let out a quiet chuckle. "Dick, it's time to get up. You need to eat something. C'mon." Bruce stroked the side of Dick's face as Dick opened his bright blue, sleep-filled eyes. Dick just lifted his arms at Bruce and grunted. Bruce smiled and maneuvered Dick so that he was being carried on his back.
Bruce carried him up the stairs, out of the garage, and into the kitchen. He set Dick down on one of the chairs, got a protein shake out of the fridge, then caught the bottle of vitamins Roy threw to him. He walked over to Dick who was slumped in his chair, looking languidly at the set table, fighting sleep which was obviously trying to overwhelm him. "Here." Bruce said, handing Dick the pills. Dick took the pills and Bruce helped him take a gulp of the protein shake. Roy ruffled his hair and scooted his chair over so that Dick could lean against him while he helped him take more sips of the protein shake.
By the time Dick finished the protein shake, the team and the mentors were all assembled in the kitchen. Wally carried all of the food to the table at superspeed, then grabbed two small cups of blood and sat them on either side of Dick. Everyone sat down and began to serve themselves, except Roy who put food on Dick's plate before putting any on his own. Dick sleepily grabbed his fork and clumsily took a bite of eggs. After one bite he started to quickly shovel food into his mouth. Roy, Wally, Bruce, Ollie, and Barry all laughed as Dick finished one plate and filled it up again. Wally and Barry finished their plates soon after and refilled their plates too. Everyone else ate at a much more normal rate until they all finished about forty-five minutes later.
Most of them had eaten about a plate and a half of food, but Barry had eaten eight plates, Wally had eaten seven plates, and Dick had eaten six plates. Dick was slumped back in his seat, lazily rubbing his very stuffed belly. His eyes were drooping closed again as a considerable amount of his blood went to his bloated stomach to help digest the immense amount of food he ate. Bruce smiled, adoringly, at him before picking him up and carrying him back to the garage. He set Dick on his bed, tucked him in, and rubbed his fingers through his hair as he fell asleep. Bruce pressed a gentle kiss to his forehead before walking back to the main part of the mountain house.
He met the rest of the team in the living room and sat down on a lone chair. "He asleep?" Roy asked.
Bruce nodded. "He's exhausted, as always."
"So, what exactly is this place?" Artemis asked.
"A mountain cabin I had built after I found out about Dick, Roy, and Wally. They come here every full moon and we all come every other month. Where they used to go was too small; they could have been discovered but I own about 700 acres around the house so it would be a lot less likely here." Bruce responded.
Wally grinned "It's awesome! HD, big screen TV, gaming systems, computers, and even blood!"
Roy rolled his eyes and smacked him over the head. "The blood at our houses is from some of the League's old blood bags, so no drinking from people. Usually we're fine with just drinking once a month from what Dick catches, but near the end of the month we need a pick-me-up or we get weak."
"We used to just deal with it or catch a squirrel or raccoon or something, but keeping the blood in the house is the better option. Especially because of our superhero jobs, weakness is not a good thing." Wally said.
"Since you all are on winter vacation from school, you all are welcome to stay here for a week. I think we will." Bruce said.
Kaldur looked around at the team, then back at Bruce and nodded. "I think a vacation would be good for the team."
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Two Days Later
The team had been having a great time. It had been lightly snowing the whole trip but the land was flat enough and Dick, Wally, Roy, Barry, Ollie, and Bruce knew the land well enough that it wasn't dangerous to go outside. Dick was a lot more awake now and was having a great time with the team, now that they knew who he was. He was flipping and doing other acrobatic tricks everywhere. Every night though, he changed into werewolf form.
Roy and Wally seemed to be having fun too, but they seemed a bit uneasy. They shot looks at each other, then looked at Dick. They always made sure that one of them was with Dick at all times. The team and mentors had noticed the knives that they both carried around at all times now.
The team and mentors, excluding Bruce, thought that Dick seemed oblivious to it until, one night, they heard Roy, Wally, and Dick all talking in hushed tones.
"Why now? Why did he suddenly come back now after all this time?" Wally.
"I don't know Wally! Malum is nearly impossible to understand and I don't know that I want to try. I've tried to predict what he will do next, but I'm always wrong. I have no idea." Roy.
"W-what if he comes back? I have this feeling that he's not as far gone as we think he is. W-what if he t-tries to take m-me again?" Dick. The team's hearts broke at hearing the usually fearless Boy Wonder's voice shaking with fear.
"He will NEVER get you again Dick, I promise. If he comes back, we'll kill him if we have to; he will not get you again." Roy.
"Same. I will put my knife where the sun doesn't shine. He tries to get you, I'll cut his freakin head off. We won't let him get you." Wally.
"C-can I sleep in here tonight?" Dick.
"Course." Roy.
The team heard two beds creaking then a third seeing as Dick probably just got to the top bunk. Then the light from under the door was turned off and the team went to bed.
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The Next Morning
A loud boom woke everyone in the house. Everyone ran to Roy and Wally's room where the noise had come from. They were greeted by the sight of one wall missing to outside with Wally and Roy fighting off about twenty-five vampires. The team and mentors all jumped in, wearing the vampires down before pushing them towards Roy or Wally, who slit their throats with their silver knives.
Roy jumped at the last vampire that was alive and held a knife at his neck. "Where. Is. He." He growled.
The vampire spit his own blood out of his mouth before grinning and saying "Nowhere you'll ever find him."
Roy pressed the flat of the knife against the vampire's neck. The vampire hissed as the silver burned him. "Where. Did. Malum. TAKE. HIM!" Roy yelled in the vampire's face, pressing harder with the knife.
"T-the f-fight ring! H-he took him to t-the ol-old f-fight r-ring! He's g-gonna th-throw him in a-and i-if he d-doesn't d-die, he'll k-kill 'em!" The vampire said, now looking scared and in pain. Roy growled and slit the vampire's throat.
He sat on a wooden chair that was in the room and pressed his hands against his face. "No, no, no, no, NO! I promised him… I promised Malum would never get him again; that he wouldn't ever go in the fight ring again; that we would protect him." Roy looked up, eyes fierce, "I will get him back."
"Ditto. No one messes with our little brother, much less him." Wally growled, anger radiating from his eyes.
"What are we waiting for? I'll kill that bastard when I get my hands on him. Good thing we keep silver weapons here." Bruce said, rushing out of the room, quickly followed by the team and mentors. In the office, he slid a wall panel aside to show a hidden cupboard filled with silver knives, arrows, small swords, and a few other weapons. Bruce grabbed some silver batarangs and two knives. Oliver, Artemis, and Roy each grabbed a bow, a silver knife, and a quiver of silver arrows. Barry and Wally each grabbed two knives. Superboy grabbed a pair of silver knuckles. Kaldur grabbed two swords that looked like katanas. M'gann didn't grab any weapons, deciding to use her telepathy and telekinesis instead of weapons that she was never trained to use.
They all got on the bioship and M'gann said "Where to?"
Roy and Wally looked at each other then back at M'gann. "4797 Portland, Oregon. We have to hurry though. It's near the solstice so the full moon comes up for three nights. Malum will put on a fight tonight, and we have to get there before it." Roy said.
M'gann nodded "Buckle up, she's gonna go fast!" she said as the bioship lifted off the ground and sped off west.
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