CHAPTER 11: DICK'S P.O.V
I woke up and a shocked nurse came over and asked me something I couldn't understand, since my hearing hadn't come back yet.
"Can you write that down?" I asked, she nodded and left.
I fully opened my eyes and looked around the room. The walls were a bland white and so was everything else. 'At least it's a private room. Wish they gave me more comfortable clothes' The nurse walked back in and I read her nametag 'Claire Rodley'.
'Surprised Leslie isn't here. Oh wait isn't she down in Australia?'
Claire walked over to me with the notepad and wrote down a question "Do you need water?"
I nodded my head and she handed me a glass.
"That is much better. Doesn't help with the rest of the pain though"
"You seem pretty happy for someone in your position" She wrote.
"It's not the first time something like this has happened to me. It's more like the twentieth"
Claire's eyes widened and my hearing was starting to slowly come back on. "Your family is waiting outside" She wrote down.
I was about to reply when I thought of a perfect way to get revenge against them for that prank they pulled on me last month. I had been stuck on the best way to get them back and now I had the perfect opportunity.
"How are your acting skills?"
"I take night classes"
"Good, can you tell my family I'm dead?"
"What?" Claire forgot about writing it down, which was fine since I could hear everything again.
"Tell them I'm dead, just for a couple minutes"
Claire blinked "Uh, why?"
"I want to get them back for something they did to me. Nothing would satisfy me more than to see their reaction"
"Family rivalry?" She sighed "Fine"
"But first could you get me some, uh, normal clothes"
Claire nodded and walked out again. She walked back in with a red shirt and jeans. I carefully lifted myself off the bed and changed in the bathroom, it was painful. I walked back out and Claire told me off for standing up.
"You shouldn't be standing! Your leg hasn't recovered from the bullet or the infection! Sit down, now!" She commanded.
"Sure thing, mother"
She glared at me just like a disapproving mother and I held back from laughing. I sat down on a wheel chair.
"So, you going to tell them now?"
"I suppose" She walked out and I followed to the hallway and watched through the doublesided glass.
I took my phone out and started recording.
"Dick is...uh...he-he passed away" Claire explained and a few tears fell out of her eyes.
'Wow, she is good'
Damian just collapsed and tears streamed down to the floor, Jason needed to use the wall to support him, Tim fell onto a chair, the bandage wrapped around his head not going unnoticed by me, Bruce just froze, Alfred looked shocked and Barbara was just staring into space.
Then I laughed and Claire was trying to stop herself. Damian looked up and Jason slid down onto the floor. Tim looked excited and Bruce remained the same, Alfred looked annoyed.
I opened the door and wheeled in.
"You should have seen your faces! Of course I can always show you, since I took a video of it" I smiled.
Damian growled "You jerk! If you weren't injured so badly, I would beat you up for this! And to think I cried over you"
I laughed "Oh, you need to lighten up!"
"Lighten up? You nearly gave me a heart attack!" Alfred looked really mad.
"Sorry Al, but I still think it was funny"
Tim chuckled "It was kind of funny"
"See! Thank you Tim"
"Don't ever do anything like that again" Bruce growled.
"Heh, sorry Bruce, but I just couldn't help myself"
"You JERK! What were you trying to do? What in your twisted mind made you think that would be funny!?" Barbara shouted.
"You said it yourself, my mind's twisted" I grinned.
"You are the single most aggrivating person I have ever met" She clenched her fists.
"Yeah, I know"
"You got the nurse in on it? Really?" Jason asked shaking his head.
"Don't tell me the thought wouldn't have crossed your mind"
Jason was about to say something but closed his mouth.
'Exactly' I thought smuggly.
"That's what I thought" I rolled toward my 'dad' "So, am I allowed back home? Or am I banished for life?" I asked him.
"I'll let you back home, but do this again and you will be banished for life" Bruce tried to sound threatening but he just sounded relieved.
"Yeah right, you'd miss me too much"
"I doubt it"
I laughed and looked over at the nurse with my 'puppy-dog' eyes.
"No! I went along with telling your family that you were dead, which is bad enough, I am not disobeying the rules, you have to stay here for another three days at least"
"Isn't there a rule against telling people that their family member is dead when they are perfectly fine!?" Jason half yelled while shooting an accused look at me.
"No, not as far as I know, and it was all his idea so blame him" The nurse pointed to me and smiled before walking away.
I sighed. 'Now that the nurse is gone they are really gonna lose it'
"WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT!?" Damian practically screamed.
"Payback for that prank all of you pulled on me"
"It was pretty good payback, if you ask me" Tim responded.
"Well nobody asked you, Drake" Damian was somewhere between ready to kill and I need a hug.
I decided on the second option and quickly lifted Damian up to hug him.
"What are you doing!?" He tried to squirm away but eventually gave up and huffed "I hate you" he muttered.
"Then why did you cry when you thought I was dead?" It was supposed to be a rheatorical question.
"Because, Grayson, I would miss having the pleasure of annoying you"
I rolled my eyes "You have an answer for everything don't you?"
"Tt. Always"
I rolled my eyes again.