Only thing that kept me writing this story was reviews! This is a litttlleee bit of a filler chapter. and i know i try to keep all the couples as cannon, but i MUST have the few odd birdflash couple moments. theyre just too cute!

Another source of inspiration for this chapter was being in the hospital for a little while. That is my main excuse for not updating in so long.

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The First Hour

They've moved me into a proper hospital room now.

Well, proper for a kid with superpowers, anyway.

It's still white as hell but at least there's some color variation - the floor is different shades of speckled blue, and a random pillar that sits the middle of the room has blue tiles scattered across it. There's a desk in right next to the pillar, but patients basically get body slammed onto the lovely blue floor if they so much as start spinning on the chair. It's not worth it, especially since the computer doesn't even have pacman.

The 'normal' hospital is on the watch tower. They gave me two rounds of needles before I could come, just to knock me out, because the last I visited with Barry I vibrated through the floor.

Come one, it's exciting. All these guys in capes and the really good treadmills that don't break when I run on them. And enough food to feed me double for years.

I'm in a bed next to Power Girl who supposedly got stabbed with some alien crystal thingy. She got stabbed in the chest, and the doctors have to change her dressings whenever they hurt, or once every half an hour, because she won't stop bleeding. She told me this before they came in to 'wrap her up'.

Except they forgot to pull the curtains around.

They were getting the fresh bandages when she caught me staring and started screaming her head off. She even made J'ohn J'ohnz come in to erase the memory. So she doesn't hate me anymore, but Batman came in and glared at me for twenty minutes. He told me Barry would be coming in and I was tempted to hide under the center desk, except my uncle simply leaned against the wall stating I wasn't the first to stare at Power Girl... There.

Hal - Green Lantern - got admitted about half an hour ago, and asked me why he had heard Power Girl screaming. I explained and he laughed so hard the doctors had to come in and give him about a dozen needles. When he finally calmed down, he showed me his arm. Some villain - I think it was the guy who has the yellow ring or the chick with the pink one - had attempted to cut his ring finger off, but missed by a lot, instead slicing his arm from his wrist to his elbow.

"I'm fine," he had said, "It's just a bit of a paper cut. Healed in a day or two."

If that was a paper cut to him, I didn't want to see a knife wound. That'd probably be an amputated lower body or something.

Hal picked me up with his ring while I has having a cat nap and dumped me on the spinny chair. When I woke, I just assumed I'd be able to go on the computer - yeah, I soon found out that was wrong. When I woke up Hal was still laughing.

"I hate you." I hissed.

"Aww, I love you." he grinned.

When they brought in lunch, I ate six serves and burped so loud Power Girl screamed.

Hal broke into a slow round of applause, a smile spreading across his face.

"I like you kid." he stated, then pressed the Nurse Call button so he could hit on Black Canary.

Rob came in at forty minutes and did some kind of weird handshake with Hal.

"Dude, thought you came to see me," I whined, and Rob rolled his eyes.

"Sorry, I have to go look after the child."

"You're already looking after Hal," I smirked and Rob came over to my bed dumping down an armful of newspapers.

"This is what you missed." He stated, turning.

"Don't leave me! I'm so bored!"

"Hey!" Hal protested.

Rob flicked me in the head. "I'm getting the rest of the newspapers."

"Yeah," Hal added, "Calm yo tits"

"Shut up, Hal. Go back to hitting on Canary." I said.

"I wasn't hitting on her. I was wooing her"

"Keep it up and she'll be suing you" Dick muttered.

"PWN!" I exclaimed, sitting up suddenly. My head filled with cotton wool and I quickly eased my self back down. "Okay. That hurts. That hurts."

Robin came back into my room a few minutes later with another armload of newspapers, dumping them on my legs and brushing his hands off. " That's the first few weeks anyway."

I picked up the first newspaper and groaned loudly. "You guys went to Themyscira without me!"

"You were unconscious."

I lowered the newspaper, and looked Rob in the eye. "Where's my pancreas?"

"What?"

"Where is my pancreas?"

Rob pointed to a spot on his stomach. "Why-"

"Why couldn't you have waited another couple of days!" I yelled, grabbing my stomach and poking the spot where my pancreas was supposed to be.

I sat back, growling softly. "The girls must've been really hot. You get kissed at all?"

"No, but Connor did."

"Lucky bastard." I muttered, picking up another newspaper. "Your first space mission and I'm fricken unconscious? Who's this?" I asked, pointing to a girl with tinted skin and green eyes. She had a long mane of flowing red hair that looked like it was being lifted by the wind. "Some alien model?"

Rob scratched his chin. "Yeah, I guess. That's Koriand'r. Kori. She's the princess of Tamaran."

I analyzed the picture. "You guys totally snogged."

"Hmmm. I guess."

I was a few pages into the third newspaper when I realized an awkward silence had filled the air.

"Dude, if you're offended by me saying you made out with her... It's a compliment, dude. She's smoking."

Rob considered this, but didn't speak. Hal coughed softly from the other side of the room.

"Wally?" Rob looked deep in thought, and was tapping the edge of the hospital bed with his fingers, as if he was playing the piano.

"Yeah, Rob?" I looked down at the newspaper. "Atlantis? Why were you in-"

"What does your pancreas have to do with your being in a coma?"

"I was wondering the same thing" Hal whispered, barely audible. Eavesdropping bastard.

"Nothing it's just-"

"Batman said you hit your head."

"I did."

Dick's lips pursed.

"So what does that have to do with your pancreas?" he hissed, standing up.

"Nothing!"

"Then why did you say it!" Rob walked backwards towards the computer and sat down, typing furiously.

"I didn't- Rob, it's nothing. Just a joke. Nothing. What are you doing?"

Rob clicked the mouse. 'Access Denied'

"Rob! Don't-"

'Access Accepted'

I pulled the sheets up over my face as Rob scanned the screen. "W-Wally?"

"Rob I-"

Rob tiptoed over to my bed and pulled the sheets off my head. "Why'd didn't you tell me? Why'd didn't Batman tell me? I get him not telling the rest of the team... But I'm your best friend. I- its not true. You hit your head. The files... They're wrong. Please, tell me they're wrong."

I turned my head away. "They... I was unconscious because my blood sugar dipped went too high. I- I have di-diabe-" I choked on the word.

"You have fourteen hours" Rob whispered, looking back the screen "if you fall back unconscious..."

"I'm not going to wake up" I whispered.

Rob covered his face with his hand and stood again. "I- I can't-"

He didn't finish his sentence. I reached my hand out towards him, but he was out of the room, leaving my arm dangling in mid air.

"I thought you guys were best friends" Hal murmured.

I rolled over and watched the digital clock's red numbers change. One hour down, thirteen to go.

"So did I"


I had a lot of trouble writing the 'where is my pancreas' bit. I kept on thinking of the incredibles: "HONEY, WHERES MY SUPER SUIT?"

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And im updating perfect tonight if anyone is interested!