Robin was sitting in the mountain's living room with Impulse, Superboy, Blue Beetle, Wondergirl and Bumblebee. They were all taking care of their own things. Superboy was playing video games with Jaime and Bart. Karen, Cassie and Tim were reading. That is until the computer voice announced someone:
Nightwing B01
Wait, wasn't Dick at work today?
Red Hood B09
What the hell was Jason doing in the mountain? Hadn't he wanted that his return from the dead to stay secret? The others hadn't really paid attention to the announcements. Nightwing appeared on no regular schedule and sometimes there were glitches in the system that caused false announcements.
When Tim jumped up and his book fell to the floor he didn't see the others following him.
„Hood, what are you... Shit, Dick!"
Tim arrived at the zeta tubes to see his oldest brother in the arms of his once-dead brother. Jason was in his Red Hood uniform and Dick in his police uniform. However, the most noticeable part of the scene was the bullet wound in Dick's shoulder and his pale face.
„Tim, call Manhunter!"
Tim bit his lip and got his communicator out as quickly as possible. Jason ran down the hallways to the medical bay and the rest of the team stared after him. They only moved after Tim had made the call and begun running after Jason. He didn't really seem to notice the other's presence.
It only took 30 seconds for Martian Manhunter to arrive in the medbay. There he took care of Dick with the help of Karen.
Red Hood and Robin sat down in the hallway having been thrown out by J'onn. Conner, Cassie, Jaime and Bart stood a few meters away, obviously unsure of what to do.
„Jay... What happened?"
„He called me for information on a case. Told me to meet him in an alley in the Haven. We were getting to the whole ‚I'll help you if you don't force me to come to family dinners' part when a sharpshooter shot him. We were lucky there was a zeta tube in that alley."
„Did he get to tell you what the case was?"
„No. You know that happens after..."
„Family dinners?", Cassie asked incredulous.
„It's probably far too late for the whole forget what happened part, right?", Jason asked resignated. Tim nodded.
Jason took his helmet off „Hi, Jason Todd, second Robin, now Red Hood." And leaned forward to pull off Tim's mask before he could do anything about it. „And your lovely Robin III is Timothy Jackson Drake."
„Jason? How are you...", Superboy said with wide eyes.
„Alive? Long story. I was dead though. And don't blame the replacement or Wing. I asked them not to tell anyone..."
An eerie silence lay over the hallway. Then Tim cleared his throat:
„Anyways... Since none of you have said anything I guess you haven't gotten to the conclusion that the police officer in the medbay is Nightwing aka Richard John ‚Dick' Grayson."
A stunned and worried silence replaced the eerie one from before.
Some time later, neither Tim nor Jason knew since they had fallen asleep after about ten minutes, the surgery was concluded. Dick would be alright. And if they were lucky he wouldn't even get a photo of them sleeping leaning against a wall, Tim's head on Jason's shoulder and Jason's head on Tim's head.
But of course that picture hung in his room in the mountain two days after he had been allowed to leave the medbay.
God this is becoming too fluffy. I need hurt.
