Chapter: 11
Waking up to the pounding headache caused by chloroform was sadly a common occurrence for Dick. Waking to being bound, gagged, and blindfolded was also a sadly common occurrence for him as well. However, waking up with a killer headache, bound, gagged, and blindfolded while lying down on a comfy plush couch was sadly not a common occurrence. Being quite content with where he was and already having a pretty clear idea of whose hands he was in Dick didn't bother with trying to free himself from his bonds.
"I see you've awakened." A voice sounded and with the faint rustling of cloth he could see again. Taking a brief moment to survey he found that he was in a bedroom, an unconscious Damian was laid out on the king sized bed and across from him was a table with a vast array of foods.
"Talia, always a pleasure to see you." Dick drawled, squirming himself up into a sitting position. "However, next time I'd appreciate it if you didn't involve sedatives and brute force. Speaking of which, what did you do to Dami?"
"Richard, I suppose I should apologize for your mishandling. But enough of that, let's eat." She untied him and guided him to sit in a chair. "As for Damian, I am afraid the extent of his sedative immunity made brute force the only viable option. Though I must say having my son back is very nice."
"You lost the right to call him that years ago." Now free to move around, Dick ignored the food and crawled onto the bed besides his brother. "Dami. Come on Dami time to wake up." Shifting to his hands and knees the acrobat gently poked and prodded his brother, slightly frowning when he found a rather large bump on the back of his head. "Dami!" he shoved at his shoulder only to have his brother scowl at him in his sleep. "Oh well, you've brought this on yourself." Disregarding Talia's questioning glance he stuck his two pointer fingers in his mouth and jabbed them into each of his brother's ears.
"Gah!" Damian jolted awake and reflexively had Dick pinned.
"Morning big D!" the acrobat said cheerily, shifting slightly in order to lessen the pressure on his injuries.
"Grayson." Damian instantly eased off, letting the younger to regain his sitting position. "How many times must I inform you not to awaken me in such a way?" he sighed and softly rubbed at the bump. It didn't take long for his eyes to land on Talia.
"Good evening my son." Her honey voice caused his breathing to speed up and soon he looked as if he were hyperventilating. His heartbeat was pounding loudly in his ears and his grip on the sheets below tightened painfully, his vision started narrowing.
"-mi, Dami, Damian! Snap out of it!" small arms encircled his neck and soon Damian's breathing was back under control and his vision cleared. As his heartbeat slowed he was able to return Dick's embrace.
"Yeah, yeah…I'm okay Grayson. Thank you." Talia watched the scene with bored eyes, not moving towards them in the slightest.
"I must say Damian, I am disappointed." She popped a red grape between her lips. "I sent you to stay with your father in hopes that you'd learn how useless his ways were and come back ready to begin a new extensive training. However it's already been more than two decades and you have chosen to take your father's legacy over your grandfather's. You've grown weak and I have no use for a son like that."
"Relax Dami, don't let her get to you. You'll just be giving her what she wants, a rise out of you." Dick warned, placing a hand on his arm.
"We are leaving mother. I don't know why you have taken us here in the first place but we refuse to remain. Come along Grayson, we need to find a plane." Damian hoisted Dick onto his shoulders since the eight year old was more injured than him. "How are your stitches?"
"…I think Alfie's gonna be angry again." The acrobat murmured into dark hair.
"How bad is it?" Damian started making his way to the grand doors of the room.
"I don't think the stitches are really attached anymore, maybe to one side but I doubt it's keeping anything together much." Frowning at his brother's assessment he quickly sat Dick back down on a chair and scowled at the sight of blood seeping through the boy's shirt.
"What exactly caused this wound Grayson?" he asked trying to distract his brother as he examined the wound.
"Oh, umm…it may or may not have been…a uh….knife." Dick mumbled, head down and eyes drooping.
Biting back a curse Damian ran to grab the bed sheet he quickly tore it into shreds and started bandaging the wound, ignoring the disgusted look the female Al Ghul gave.
"That was specially imported. Now it's gone to waste on that Romani trash." Talia sneered. Damian's blood started to boil again and he was faintly surprised that his teeth had yet to crack from the pressure he was applying to them.
Dick tugged at his sleeve meekly. "Let it go Dami, she's not worth it."
"She's not, but you are Grayson!" Damian's shout silenced the room and biting out a Tt he finished the task at hand and repositioned Dick back on his shoulders, moving him more carefully this time around. "The pressure will help slow the flow of the blood but this is just buying us time, we'll stitch you up when we arrive back home."
Dick was silent for a moment and Damian refused to acknowledge the panicked skip in his heartbeat. "Thanks big D."
Fighting back a growing smile Damian strut towards the doors once again. Dick lifted his head when is brother's movements halted suddenly. Before he could question what was wrong Damian swiftly made his way back in front of his biological mother.
"We are leaving Talia. Unlock the doors." Dick's eyes widened. Never before had Damian referred to his mother by her first name.
"Your grandfather has requested your audience and it'd be most unwise to refuse."
oOo
"Are we going to talk about how those two knows each other?" Tony loudly whispered to the others.
"Where would we start? They're obviously avoiding any explanations." McGee whispered back.
"In case you two have forgotten, my brothers have been kidnapped, and you two are over there gossiping like old ladies!" Tim's face turned red from repressed rage even though his voice was kept at an even indoor level.
"That's quite enough Master Timothy." Alfred sounded from behind the group.
"But Alfred-!" Tim started to protest only to have a thermos shoved into his hands.
"I have noticed that you have yet to allow yourself a decent sleep Master Timothy and took it upon myself to bring you some coffee." Alfred continued, undeterred by the interruption.
"You're the best Alfred." Tim instantly began guzzling down the caffeine laced liquid, not paying much mind to how the butler gently eased him down into a nearby office chair. "Alf…did you…" but his sentence never finished and soon the techy Robin was fast asleep, his thermos swiftly saved from spilling out on the floor by the culprit.
"A mild sedative always does the trick to help him sleep." Alfred threw the team a wink as he rolled the sleeping young adult away and into the elevator.
"Shut your mouth DiNozzo." Tony jumped as Gibbs and Batman materialized behind him.
"B-B-Boss-!" but his stuttering only earned him a head slap into silence.
"We've deduced where the Wayne boys are being held." An image of a desert base was pulled up one the monitor.
"Unfortunately the Batwing can only carry two." Batman broke in looking out of place in the brightly lit office. "We can leave now, I assume you won't mind a quick stop by the Batcave to stock up."
A small smirk tugged at the corner of Gibbs' lips, "You still have that dinosaur in there?" he lightly teased as he followed the caped crusader to the elevator.
"And your beloved coffee maker as well." They heard Batman retort before the doors closed.
"Gibbs has been in the Batcave before?" McGee asked in gawking wonder.
"Gibbs has a coffee maker in the Batcave, I say he's been there more than once." Tony pointed out.
oOo
"I can't believe I'm stuck with the guy in long underwear." Red Hood grouched over his headset as he twisted himself out from the bottom of the helicopter, it was one hell of a long ride and his legs had gone numb.
"It beats being alone though doesn't it?" The Flash asked cheerily. Unlike his companion, it took the Fastest Man Alive mere moments to get where they were now.
"I'm starting to think I'd be better off otherwise." Jason murmured to himself, rechecking the darts in his gun.
"Enough with the bickering guys, Batman and Gibbs will be on their way after a quick stop by the cave. Meanwhile why don't you guys map out the vantage points and escape route options. Heck if you can try patching me into their computer systems and maybe I'll be able to see what we're up against." Tim's voice crackled back at them.
"Yeah, yeah, don't get your PDA in a twist Replacement. Wait, how are you even managing this? Aren't you under lock and key by the Naval brigade?" Hood asked as he climbed the side of a nearby building, glaring up at the red speedster that stood above him fake yawning into his hand.
"Thanks to Alfred's sedatives they expect me to be out until tomorrow, I wonder what they would do if they knew I would only be out for less than an hour."
"Uh-oh, how did you piss him off this time?" usually the butler didn't pull out the sedatives unless they did something especially bad.
"He might've noticed that I haven't been sleeping much since Dick has been missing. I thought I was doing a better job at hiding it but I should've known better. Anyways, are you going to find me a terminal or what?"
"Already plugged you in Replacement, in the meantime however I'm going to go and have a little fun with some explosives. Find me if anything goes wrong." Jason waved over his shoulder at the Flash before jumping off the building onto the top of a passing by canvas vehicle.
oOo
"I do not answer to you anymore Grandfather." Damian stated as soon as he was forced into the council room. "I request that you allow Grayson and I passage to leave at once."
Ra's Al Ghul didn't bother with turning around when he addressed his grandson, "Must I remind you on how you are to address me? No matter, there's still time yet to reinstate manners into you. Your concern for the circus orphan is interesting however. Wasn't it not too long ago that you tried killing him? You had such potential back then."
Damian's eyes darkened and he was suddenly upset with himself for finally breaking his habit of carrying poison laced blades around with him everywhere. Even if Grayson was the one to insist on it, look at where they were now. "I will not ask you a second time Grandfather."
"Do you know why I had you two brought here Damian?" Ra's finally turned and faced his grandson head on. The small gasp that drew itself from the blood son was more from shock than worry.
"It's time for the next Demon Head to inherit my legacy, and I will have a successor. One way…or another."
A/N: See! I told you better updating schedule…ish. Though I will admit, this is a backup one, but it's still a chapter nonetheless. Next chapter will be a glimpse of our two favorite stoic males. However the next chapter'll probably be a while cause I'm taking Anatomy and Physiology this semester, already dying, though not the same dying as in chemistry (thank God) just a LOT of stuff to memorize in such little time. Anyways THIS CHAPTER IS DEDICATED TO:
Grizzlybear2000
For winning the "who got the weirdest thing for Christmas challenge".
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