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Dick wasn't sure how much time had passed since Wally had saved him, Gar, Conner and Krypto from Slade's surprised attack but he had a feeling it was longer than he thought. After coming to and finding himself being somewhat carried by Wally into the Watchtower, he suddenly found himself being helped by Bruce to lie down on an examination table in the med-bay. He never passed out or anything, but there were definitely times that he seemed to zone out. The next thing he was fully aware of was that he was now sitting upright on the table and Dr. Mid-Nite was standing in front of him, pressing butterfly band-aids onto the right side of his face.

"Minor concussion, but no stitches are needed. And there was no damage to your ear. You're very lucky." Dr. Mid-Nite informed him and the others in the room as he finished bandaging the cuts on Dick's face. A few feet behind him, Bruce, Gar, Conner and Wally all breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thanks Doc." Bruce said, coming over to stand in front of Dick.

He had been terrified when he saw Wallace dragging his barely conscious son with his face covered in blood in the Watchtower. Now that Dr. Mid-Nite had cleaned him up, he saw that the blood had come from three cuts on the right side of his face. One on his jaw, another on his cheek bone, and the other on his eyebrow. Knowing from Wally that the injuries came from a bullet that Slade had been trying to get through Dick's head, Bruce was beyond grateful that it wasn't anything worse.

"No problem." Dr. Mid-Nite replied as he took off his plastic gloves and started cleaning up the medical supplies he had gotten out.

Looking over at Bruce, Dick asked, "So what now?"

"You are going to get some rest. I'm going to track down Slade and see what I can find out about Cadmus." Bruce responded. Dick wanted to argue, tell him that Slade was his responsibility, but he could tell from the look in his adoptive father's eyes that he wasn't going to budge on this. Not until he actually got some rest at least. And from the expression on Wally's face, he was in agreement with the Dark Knight.

Glancing over at Conner, who was clearly distracted by everything else in the room, Dick whispered to Bruce, "You should call Superman."

"I will. But you, rest." Bruce gently ordered, then turned and started making his way out of the room.

Before he could reach the door however, he heard the boy, Garfield, ask Dick, "What do we do?"

Turning back to face him and Conner, Bruce said, "I'll show you and Conner to the rec room and the bedrooms where you can stay. Don't touch anything unless I say you can."

"Okay." Conner quickly agreed and moved to follow Bruce. Dick, seeing the excited looks on both his and Gar's face said, "Gar?"

When Gar turned back to face him, Dick continued, "He's serious. Try not to touch anything. The stuff up here is really expensive."

"You got it!" Gar said, giving Dick a thumbs up and followed Bruce and Conner out of the room. Despite the promise, Dick had a feeling that there would be at least one thing broken by morning. As much as he liked Gar, he had a tendency to get over excited and when that happened, he was a bit clumsy.

"I like him." Wally stated with a wide smile as he plopped himself down on the table beside his best friend. Nodding, Dick said, "Yeah, Gar is pretty likable."

For the next few minutes, the two were quiet. Dick wasn't really sure what his best friend was thinking right now. Normally he could easily predict what was on Wally's mind, but he was too exhausted to even try. The painkiller Dr. Mid-Nite had given him helped stop the pounding in his head but he was fairly sure it was about to wear off and he should get some sleep before that happened. Luckily the ringing in his ear caused by the gun going off so close was disappearing. Hopefully it would be gone soon.

"How are you feeling?" Wally finally asked, breaking the silence.

"I'm fine." Dick automatically answered, keeping his head lowered. Wally opened his mouth, planning on calling out Dick's obvious lie, when someone else shouted, "Dick!"

The two looked over to the doorway to find none other than Roy Harper coming into the room. Dick couldn't hide his surprise at that. Wasn't it still the middle of the night, or did a lot more time pass than he realized? If not, then what did Roy do with Lian? Did he really have a babysitter that would've been okay with being called in the middle of the night? How did he even know that he was here?

"Roy? What are you doing here?" Dick asked as the archer quickly came to stand in front of him and pulled him into a tight hug. Dick had to bit back a groan when Roy's hold on him put pressure on his sore back. He didn't want to make him more worried than he clearly was.

"I tried calling you, but you didn't answer, so I called Wally and he told me what happened." Roy answered, pulling away to get a better look at the younger hero. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine. Just a scrape and a minor concussion. Nothing serious." Dick assured him. Roy's eyes squinted as he looked him over, clearly not fully believing him. He then looked over at Wally who gave him a nod, letting him know that Dick was telling the truth. Dick shook his head slightly at his two friends' antics then moved to stand up off the table.

"What are you doing?" Roy immediately questioned, holding his hands out as though he was getting ready to push the former Robin back down.

"Standing." Dick replied with a grin, clearly annoying Roy.

"Dr. Mid-Nite said you needed to rest." Wally reminded him, also standing up and looking like he was about to help Roy force him to sit down again.

"Yes, but he didn't say I had to do that here." Dick pointed out.

Roy and Wally exchanged looks, then both sighed and Wally, putting his arm around Dick's shoulders, said, "Come on."

Dick let Wally and Roy lead him out of the med-bay and down the hall. He had figured that they were probably taking him to the assigned room that he stayed in on the rare occasions he had to spend the night but instead they went to the rec room. That didn't surprise Dick. He was pretty sure that they wanted to talk and if they did that in his room, he'd probably fall asleep.

"Where did Gar and Conner go?" Dick wondered when he saw that the room was empty. Bruce had said that he was going to show them their guest rooms and the rec room, and Dick thought that they would've been so excited at the sight of the TV system, the pool table, the mini fridge and more that they would've stayed to explore it all.

"Maybe to their rooms? It's past midnight." Wally suggested while Roy just frowned. He had completely forgotten that Wally had also gotten the two teenagers and a dog apparently, out of the Tower with Dick.

"Oh." Dick mumbled, flopping down on the nearest couch. Roy and Wally immediately sat down beside him, but he didn't look at them. He just stared at the ground.

"So, what happened with the others?" Wally asked. He had been wondering what had happened when he realized that the boy with Gar wasn't Jason and where the girl, Rachel was. He hadn't talked to Dick in a while, but the last time he did, he had said that he had opened up Titans Tower with Jason, who was the new Robin, and the two new teenagers. When he had talked to Roy only an hour ago, he had figured out that Dick had talked to him very recently and knew more.

Dick glanced over at him, then at Roy, silently asking him to tell the speedster what all happened. It was hard enough having to tell Roy already today. Was it still even the same day? He was so tired he was surprised that he wasn't still hallucinating Bruce like he had been the majority of the day. And, he had no idea how Wally was going to react to what Dick all did. At least he knew that Roy was on his side and would hopefully keep Wally from doing anything stupid. Roy nodded and proceeded to tell Wally everything that Dick had told him only hours earlier.

"I'm going to kill them!" Wally shouted when Roy finished, bolting off the couch in anger, noticeably vibrating on the spot.

"Wally, don't." Dick said, leaning against Roy a little.

"Come on Dick, you can't serious you tell me you think they were right?" Wally asked. Dick didn't even have time to think of an answer before Wally added, "Of course you do. Sorry, I forgot who I was talking to."

Dick didn't bother trying to come up with a response to that. It was pretty obvious to him. Wally then sat back down beside and as he put a hand on his shoulder, he said, "Dick, this isn't your fault. Not yours alone anyways. The others agreed to it. And if anyone is truly to blame, it's Slade. He didn't have to kill Garth, didn't have to attack Donna, didn't have to become an assassin in the first place."

"One question though." Roy spoke up when Dick nodded in acknowledgement of what Wally said. When both the acrobat and speedster looked at him, Roy asked, "Why weren't you honest with Hank, Dawn and Donna in the first place?"

Dick thought silently for a minute. He didn't really want to answer that, but this was Roy and Wally. They were the few people he ever felt comfortable with being vulnerable around. As comfortable as he could feel with being vulnerable at all. And they have shown that they weren't angry at him or anything, and he was still too tired to put his wall backs up, so he whispered, "Because, I, I didn't want them to leave."

"Dick," Wally said, moving to hug him, but Dick quickly clammed up as tears started filling his eyes.

"No. Don't. I'm fine." He insisted, beginning to feel extremely embarrassed. The last thing he wanted was to break down in tears even though it seemed like he wasn't going to be able to stop it. He wanted to run to his room and hide, but Wally and Roy quickly wrapped their arms around him. At that, he couldn't keep from crying and just let his friends hold him.

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Gar didn't mean to eavesdrop. He really didn't, but he needed to go to the bathroom. As amazing as the guest rooms were, they didn't have bathrooms attached or anything. Thinking that a bathroom had to be nearby, he went out searching and heard voices. Quickly recognizing one of them as Dick's, he headed down the hall towards them and found himself entering the rec room.

When he reached the room, he saw Dick with Wally and some other guy that he didn't recognize. And since he wasn't wearing a superhero suit, he wasn't able to which hero he was, if he even was a hero. Seconds after he arrived, he realized that they were having a private conversation and turned to leave, but then he heard what Dick was saying. Then he heard him start to cry.

Gar hadn't known Dick for very long. Only a couple of months, but during that time, he had seen him as a hero, a protector, a leader, a teacher and at times, a parental figure. He had never seen him like this. The most he had seen the older man off his game was the few times he got sheepish or a little embarrassed when they were living at the Tower with Rachel and Jason. He had never seen him lower his guard so much, never seen him cry. It broke his heart and filled him with rage at the others at the same time.

If Dick knew that Gar was here, he never would have opened up like he was to Wally and whoever the other guy was. While that also upset the teenager a little, he wanted the former Robin to feel like he could depend on him and trust him like he did him, he did understand it. He was younger than Dick and they weren't as close as he obviously was to the two who were now currently hugging him. Older people had a hard time opening up to younger people about their issues, especially if they were responsible for them. It sucked but that's how it is.

Now though, Gar was aware of how badly Dick was hurting. And though he didn't hear the whole conversation, it didn't take a genius to figure out what was upsetting Dick. However, there wasn't anything he could do about it right now, so he quietly snuck away and resumed his search for the bathroom. Tomorrow though, and from now on, he'd do whatever he could to help Dick out and protect him, just like Dick has done for him.

AN - In case you guys were wondering, I'm picturing Colton Haynes as Roy Harper and Keiynan Lonsdale as Wally West because I love them. However, I am trying to use more of the comic-verse storylines not the CW. Also, just a random thought, but since season 3 is apparently going to take place in Gotham, is anyone else kind of wondering if we are going to get introduced to the Court of Owls? Cause I lowkey want to see that. See you all next time!