SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG. I just went to college Orientation. WOO. Officially a college student, yeahhh. SO. I'll get back to updating now. SORRY. I'll also be moving in a week or so, so that will be another slow time for me. THANK YOU FOR READING. AND ENJOY THIS CHAPTER. :D
Drake just sort of slumps over. Damian's heart is in his throat. Vicki Vale is being practically pushed out the door just as Dr. Wilson is brought in. Grayson is up the stairs and looking at Tim during all of this. Damian registers it far more slowly than it is actually occurring.
Todd is freaking out because, as Grayson has just announced, Drake's pulse is going in the direction of "bad." Todd is murmuring about how Drake doesn't eat, how he needs to eat. Grayson scoops him up and almost falls backwards. Damian thinks it is because he used too much strength.
Grayson begins heading to the Cave, Todd and Damian following him. Alfred, calm as ever though Damian's sure he's worried, asks what to do with the doctor.
Grayson doesn't pause, "He can come with us if he'd like." Damian's insides knot because his father would surely disapprove of a stranger coming into his sanctuary. But Alfred says nothing so neither does Damian. Now is not the time to start something.
Grayson lays Drake down on what looks like an autopsy table. Todd goes a little white.
Drake's eyes are moving beneath his eyelids, as if in panic. Damian wonders what he's seeing. (He wonders if he can guess.)
Grayson cuts his shirt open, on the chance he needs to use the defibrillator (of course, it has only needed use a couple times and not on either of them, as of yet). Damian takes a step back because all he can really see are ribs and bones with skin stretched over them.
Dr. Wilson gasps a little bit from behind him. Todd runs hands through his hair.
Damian is confused. Drake always says he is not hungry and yet he obviously should be. He should be starving. Obviously he is.
Grayson gets two syringes. One, Damian assumes, is glucagon, to get Drake to absorb the last vestiges of glucose that are hovering around in his body. He guesses the other is glucose, because the cells need it and it looks like Drake wouldn't have much.
Silence hovers around like a spirit of death waiting to whisk Drake away. Damian feels a little sick. Grayson injects both syringes.
It takes quite a few moments for Tim to start moving, but it seems like he's panicking when he does. His eyes open and flit around the room. He makes a strangled sound. This scene makes Damian nervous. The blood still trickling from Drake's nose is horrifying.
And then Drake moves.