Thank you L! You're the best!
Jericho panicked.
Robin, however, was half dazed as he purred, his stomach full with human life. He hadn't even realized that his tail had been replaced with legs. Suddenly he slipped under the water and started to struggle.
"Oh no!" Jericho dove in, pulling the mermaid out. "Robin! Robin, can you hear me?!"
Robin purred, his eyes closed. Jericho figured he was high off the life force or the mermaid would have been trying to get away from him.
Pulling him out of the water, Jericho grabbed a towel, wrapping it around Robin's waist. After tying a knot, he scooped the mermaid up, running to the back where the medical room was set up before laying him down.
Standing back, Jericho ran his hands over his hair, looking at Robin's legs in shock. What the hell was the only thing running through his mind.
"Okay, okay, calm down, Jericho, and think..." he said to himself. "Robin has legs... yeah. Yeah, okay."
Robin rolled over, purring and looking around. One thing he knew for sure was that his father could not know about this no matter what. Looking around, he started to try and think of what to do when Jericho heard something clattering.
Looking over, he saw Robin attempting to crawl out a window. He was half hanging out the window trying to pull himself out. Running over, Jericho pulled the mermaid back in. After that he found he was having trouble keeping Robin inside, because he seemed to want to go somewhere.
Jericho finally took out a needle and pressed it to the small mermaid's arm. A few minutes later Robin was leaning against the wall trying to push the wall down so he could crawl on it. Jericho was pretty sure that Robin thought it was a rock.
"All right," Jericho said before looking around. "What to do, what to do?"
Scratch.
Scratch.
Scratch.
"Robin, stop scratching the wall."
Robin paused for a moment before doing it again. Jericho sighed again before looking around and remembering a book he had been given a couple years back by a girlfriend who had jokingly got him a book about mermaids who had legs.
He probably still had it.
"All right, Robin, we're going for a ride," Jericho said, scooping up the mermaid who had been scratching the wall. "Come on, buddy, play time is over."
Billy had snuck back into the Ocean Waters security room.
It had been easy to get inside the place since it seemed that guards liked being lazy today. Sneaking back to the tanks, Billy saw only two mermaids: one with a blue tail who Bruce had said was the oldest named Dick, and one with a red tail who was bigger than the other mermaid and who's name was Jason.
Wait.
"Where's Tim?" Billy asked.
The two mermaids' heads snapped towards him so fast Billy thought that their necks would snap. Jason started to growl angrily at him, and Billy was pretty sure that he was either cussing him out or planning just how he was going to kill this ten-year-old boy.
"Uh, hi!" Billy said brightly.
Jason growled at him.
"Bruce sent me." Billy waved him off. "I just came to tell you that Daddy Bats is working on a plan to get you guys out."
Dick seemed to laugh at the nickname and spun in a circle, a big grin on his face. Jason huffed and growled at Billy again. The two seemed to be having a conversion and Billy wasn't too sure but he thought that Dick kept pointing at his hair and eyes like it made a difference.
"Sooo…" Billy said, raising an eyebrow. "Where's Tim?"
Dick shook his head sadly as he cooed mournfully.
"Don't worry, I'll find him." Billy turned to run off before he stopped. "Oh, yeah, almost forgot!"
Running back to the tanks, he dropped items in.
"Good luck, guys, see ya later!"
Dick took the long line of small blue shells. Looking over at Jason, he saw that he had black ones. It seemed that they should be prepared. Wrapping the shells around his waist, Dick settled down. He wasn't feeling good. Not just about where his family was, but he felt… sick.
An hour later the door opened again, this time it was Wally. Dick grinned at him but paused when the bars were removed from both his and Jason's tanks. Looking at him, Dick titled his head.
"Come on, Dick, I read all about mermaid families but this woman who knows more than she should says that you guys need to heal up. So come on, I'll throw you into Mr. Grumpy Face's tank."
Dick laughed and Jason growled.
Jericho looked around his small house, looking for that book. He was tossing books off his shelf in his scramble to find it. It didn't help that Robin had decided to cling to his leg all while purring his head off. Maybe giving that drug to Robin wasn't such a good idea.
"Robin, let go, I gotta find something."
Clawed hands came up to clutch his shirt as the mermaid was dragged along.
"Come on, buddy, let go!" Jericho leaned down and pulled the boy/mermaid up. Robin grabbed onto his shirt, trying to curl up to him. "Sorry, Robin, I'm not your brothers. Hey, you want a fish? Huh, boy, you want a fish?"
Robin's purring picked up but whether it was from the promise of fish or the fact that the smaller one was wiggling his way around him trying to get on his back, Jericho didn't know. Picking up the mermaid, he placed him on the bed where Robin started to chew on the end of his pillow as he ran to the fridge.
Grabbing a fish that Jericho was going to eat on the grill, Jericho walked back to see Robin cooing sadly before it turned into wails of sadness. It sounded so heartbroken. Just like when Nightwing and Red Hood were crying for their families.
"Hey, shhh, it's okay, Robin." Jericho said walking over to pet his head. "Here, have some fish."
Robin chewed on it, purring loudly and biting a few pieces off. Jericho grinned before frowning. Where was that book? Where could he have put it? Getting on his knees, Jericho figured it wouldn't hurt to look under the bed. After all there was so much junk under there.
After moving a few things aside, he failed to notice that Robin was watching him very closely, having finished the fish, and was crouching low, shaking a bit. If Jericho had remembered last time, he would have known that Robin was after someone's back to sleep on.
Without much grace, Robin threw himself onto Jericho, who grunted as the small body landed on his. Groaning, his head hit the floor hard as Robin made himself comfortable, clawing at his back like he was pillow! Finally Robin snuggled down, letting out a deep sigh.
"Bruce."
Outside, Jericho's girlfriend heard Jericho's scream.
I will hopefully be done with the next chapter soon, but honestly I don't know. I've been a bit depressed lately.