CH 18
After the mission.
I sat on the waiting seat with my knees close to chest. My head was throbbing from the anxiety about Nightwing's being. After the doctors brought him to operating room.
It had been 2 hours...
I looked at the clock on the wall above where I sat. By the time, I brought Nightwing and the others to the Mount Justice. It's 7: 15 PM. Now, it's 9: 15 PM. I hope he would be alright. However when I recalled the sound of his ribs being crushed by those monsters, it sent chills down my spine. Ironically, my body was cold like the ice but I still believed that it was normal...
How fool you are, Rou...there is no way you can live among of people...
" Hey..." The voice of someone snapped me from the thought. I looked and saw tired look of MissMartian who gave me a weak smile. When I saw her, it remind me about Superboy until I remembered he said he wanted some sleeps to recover up his body from kryptonite, the green thing that cuffed his hand. And, he told me about the new information about the mission before dragged himself to his room as same as Beastboy was patched up and went back to his room after telling about new information.
" Hi...how do you do?" MissMartian shrugged a little before pressed her lips together thoughtfully as if she had something to ask me.
" You know. For reading mind person like you. You are easy to read." MissMartian looked at me surprisingly.
" It clearly showed on your face. Like when me and Conner tried to talk back at your boy friend." I said at the-matter-of-factually.
" Actually, Lagoon and I are not dating. We are just doing that to make Conner jealous." I gaped at her confession and my anxious feeling about Nightwing had been forgotten temporarily.
I'm so sorry, Nightwing...But I have to clear the love problem of your teammate...
" What?! Making him jealous? MissMartian, Conner he really loved deeply. And I can say that you are the luckiest girl in this universe! So go back and make up with him." Now, it's MissMartian turned to gaped back at me.
" But, I saw how he looked at you! Don't you see that?!"
" Well..Then he was jerk enough to leave such a great girl with great cooking skill. If I were him, I would ask you for marriage already. Not gonna let that boy snatch you away.." I rolled my eyes at her for being so jealousy. MissMartian was quiet and looked down to her lap in thought.
" So you and Conner weren't going out.." She looked at me directly, demanding the truth
" Nope...All I care is about Nightwing and my unclear past." I said firmly to her with my determined eyes. I inwardly let out my breath a little, sinking further into the seat.
Finally, one problem was solved...now, there is only one l-...
' Two. How could you forgot about the rune?!' Morana growled at me angrily.
Oops...
I thought and gave her a dry laugh mentally. Note myself to go back and look for the rune. But when I thought about Nightwing, my heart was dropped.
" He'll be fine. He had faced the worst one before.." MissMartain reassured me and told me about the new information about our mission that we had just done. I used to hear a lot about how great Nightwing is even he was just a normal human with skill and marvelous acrobatics but those words that they said about him didn't make me feel better because I knew that he was still a human. Human who can get sick, cut, bruise, and anything you could get in normal life or superhero life.
" By the way, I will go and get some sleeps. It has been a long night. You should get some too. Using a lot of power like that could drain your energy a lot." She said before let out a yawn in her hand.
" You go. I wanna stay here overnight." I said and before looked at the door of operating room. Hoping doctor or anyone would come out.
" Okay. Just don't be so hard on yourself." She said sleepily and walked away. Then, Batman who was already patched up walked out from the shadow and looked at me through his cowl with his stoic expression which made me fear that he might be angry for what I did.
" I'm so sorry if my power almost got you kill at there." I apologized to him. However, Batman's face still calm but his jaw was tense a little and he didn't shout at me. I gulped my throat that suddenly dry for some reason.
" Besides from the wound we got from those terrorists and getting a cold from the quick change of temperature in that room. I may say that we are alright." he stated.
" The clothes. Who helped you?" Batman asked, looked at me narrowly.
" Doctor Fate. He said the cycle of life and death is unbalanced. I need to make it right." I answered.
" Unbalance? By whom?" I shook my head from side to side.
" Wish I could know, too." Batman seemed to ponder for something and walked away without a word.
" Aren't you gonna stay overnight for your partner?" Batman stopped in his track by my question and looked at me over his shoulder.
" Thing has changed..." He said quietly before walked away.
Things has changed?...
what happened between two of them? Last time, I still saw them work together...
I sighed a little before tapped my fingers anxiously, wondering if there were anything I could fix the thing between them.
30 minutes later. The doctors came out and dragged the medical bed which Nightwing was in. Then, one of them walked to me and smiled.
" He's alright." He said. My heart was warm when I heard those words. All those anxious feeling in my gut and heart were melted away like the ashes. I let out my breath and found myself smile relievedly.
" How long does he have to stay for recovering?" I asked after I found my voice to speak up.
" Well, not too long as we thought. Actually, it was miracle. MissMartian said his ribs were crushed violently but when we looked at his x-ray film, we found nothing besides the deep bruise and serious cold from being in very cold weather." He explained Nightwing's condition surprisingly. I looked at him astonishingly before he showed me the x-ray film of Nightwing's ribcage.
" But, well...since we worked with aliens, wizard, and god, anything could happen." The doctor shrugged before walked to some room and came back with some pills in small cup.
" These are for cold and relieving the pain but, he was very headstrong about these. Believe me, we had to a hard time in giving him anesthetic. " He handed the tray to me challengingly. I sighed out and took it from him before walked to Nightwing's room.
When I opened the door to Nightwing's room. I found him sleep on the new medical bed on this room soundly with the mask while his superhero outfit were changed into hospital gown. I set the cup silently on the nightstand beside him but something had caught my attention. There was a plastic bag with the written tag ' Nightwing'. I sat the cup down and took it before I put the chair to sat beside his bed. I opened the bag and took the necklace with the half symbol of Yang. At the back of it was some Chinese alphabets written at the back.
Suddenly, there was a moaning sound from the bed which made me look up and saw Nightwing trying to got up. I put the necklace and the bag on the nightstand before helped him up.
" Where am I?" He asked groggily because of anesthetic's effect.
" The ward in Mount Justice. I made a portal from there to here." I answered before pour him a glass of water. Nightwing groaned as he stretched his arms and legs before winced.
" You got deep bruise and caught a cold. By the way." I said before handed him the glass and a cup of pills.
" Don't need it." He said stubbornly.
" Eat or I took your mask." I said with my best strong voice that I could make.
" No. don't even think about it" Nightwing said as he touched his mask, making sure it was still on his face securely.
" Why. Thinking that I gonna poison you and revealed your true identity?" I asked, feeling hurt when I realized his thought.
" Every heroes deserve some secrets and this is one of them..."
" Heh. Really? Including keep someone in the cave forever?" I asked him sarcastically.
Nightwing sighed and set his knees up to rest his arms on them. I looked at him, crossing my arms in front of my chest after put things down.
" Talk out. Get it off your chest." he breathed.
And I did...
" How could you keep these things away from me?! They are what I'm looking for! Did you expect me to forget it and join in your squad? Nightwing, They might have my family. And I'm fear for them. Fear what could happen about them before I lost my memory. And, The fact that you hide them from me just pissed me off! You are the most selfish, rudest, and self-absorbed guy I ever met! "
" Me? Arrogant? Selfish? Do tell me. How?" He interrupted.
" First, You are always show-off about your acrobatic. Second, your power in making your ex-girlfriend stayed in good relationship with you which is obvious. You are the most handsome guy in the group. And, you skipped our practices for many times and be happy that at least I always keep practice my power. Why are you smiling?" I stopped when I saw his smile...that most annoying I ever seen if you didn't count that Derek's disgusting smile.
" Nothing~!" His smile widened more until it looked like Cheshire from Alice in Wonderland.
" You just said that again..." He said in sing-a-song tone.
Oh boy...change the subject now, Rou..
" Heh. Don't think I would forgive you." I turned my head away, trying to act coldly to him.
" I'm so sorry, Rou" He whispered and walked to me closer until I could smell the anesthetic from him faintly.
" So am I..." I said after I was calm down.
" I'm so sorry that I kept you in the dark. It's just...I can't bear to see you suffer again! That's why I kept you in the cave and tried to solve the case about you." I looked up at him astonishingly.
Why? Why does he have to care about the woman like me?
Why does he have to make me feel in love with him over and over again even we had just known around 2 months?
I hugged Nightwing gently, afraid that I make it worse for his condition. Nightwing seemed to be hesitated a little but he decided to do the same.
" That's sweet, Nightwing. But please, let me help you. I'm happy that you felt for me about what I had been through but at some point, I need to stand up with my own feet. And, I glad that I met a nice guy like you even I never your true face under that mask." I whispered to his ears softly, feeling thankful how fate sent such a good man like him to me.
"Rou..." I touched his lips softly, quieting him. But, Nightwing frowned at me.
" Please...you had done a lot of things for stranger like me. Let me take care of things like a big girl." I pleaded before I tiptoed to kiss him softly on his lips.
" Get some rest and don't forget about the pills."
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