Batman busted through the window of the warehouse near Gotham Harbor. Black Mask spun around & wasted no time in firing off his gun at the Dark Knight. Batman lunged at Black Mask and knocked the gun out of his hand and gave a good old upper cut to the Masked Villain. Batman tied up the criminal drug lord. He could hear the police sirens in the distance. He climbed to the roof of the warehouse but not before falling over in pain. Batman checked his body and found that he had been shot in the lower abdomen. God, how could he have been so stupid. He had to get to the batmobile. Bruce slowly got up off the ground of the roof of the building and slowly made his way to the other side, but failed and fell on the ground. He was bleeding, very badly. Batman tried to pull out his communicator, but everything was becoming blurry. He was going into unconsciousness. Bruce heard someone landing on the roof; he pulled out a batarang from his belt, prepared for anything.

"Oh, this is rich, the mighty Batman stopped by a bullet. You know I think it's about time you retire."

Bruce knew that voice all too well, he tried to turn his body to see the person, but the pain was unbearable. Bruce grunted in pain, trying not to create too much noise.

Jason ran to Bruce, assessing his injury.

"Shit, this is worse than I thought."

Bruce was going into unconsciousness; Jason slapped Bruce in the face.

"Come on big guy, you gotta stay awake okay?"

"Don't call me that", Bruce gritted.

Jason grabbed ahold of Bruce, and lifted him up off the ground.

"Where'd you park?"

"Across the street."

Jason lugged The Bat across the roof. He fired the grappling hook and swung to the ground.

Jason dragged Bruce across the street to an alley where Jason saw the familiar car. Bruce unlocked the car and weakly gave Jason the keys.

"Gonna let me finally drive huh?''

Bruce didn't respond. Shit, he's unconscious. Jason dragged Bruce to the car and put him in the passenger seat and then got in the car and started it. He raced out of the alley, and made his way to the batcave, speeding down the Gotham highway.

Jason finally reached the Batcave, and quickly pulled Bruce out of the car.

"Alfred!" Jason screamed, he needed the butler. Alfred rushed down the stairs as fast as he could; Jason had put Bruce on the medical table and removed the cowl.

"What happened?"

"He got shot in the lower abdomen."

"Get the medical supplies."

Jason went to the cabinets and grabbed the huge medical kit, and carried it over to Alfred.

"Good, now leave Master Jason, I need to concentrate"

Jason didn't even try to argue with the old man. He excited the batcave, as Alfred began sterilizing Bruce's wound.

Alfred came up out of the batcave roughly an hour later; Jason was pacing the living room. Alfred walked over to the young man.

"I've successfully removed the bullet, but he lost a good amount of blood. He's stable though.

"Can I see him?"

"He's sleeping right now Master Jason."

"Can I see him?"

Alfred nodded. "Don't disturb him though, he needs his rest."

Jason walked into the cave, and saw Bruce resting on the medical table, there was gauze covering his fresh bullet wound. Jason walked over to the case, his case. He wondered why Bruce hadn't taken this down in light of recent events.

"Oh Bruce, why do you still keep this up?"

"A daily reminder of my greatest failure."

Jason turned around and saw Bruce awake, still lying on the medical table.

"I never did thank you for saving me back there."

"Don't Bruce, it doesn't suit you."

"Why are you back in Gotham Jason?"

Jason honestly thought about that question, it had been a few months since he had left the Wayne residence.

"I guess I just wanted to see family."

Jason looked at Bruce to see his response. Bruce smiled weakly.

"You are staying for long? Alfred can prepare your room for you."

"That'd be nice, but I'm only staying for a few days, I heard about Black Mask starting up another drug cartel, you beat me to stopping it though."

"What have you been up to? I haven't heard from you in a few months."

"I've just been traveling; I needed some time to think about what I want to do with my life."

Bruce stared at the boy, "You find what you were looking for?"

Jason smiled weakly, "More or less."

"Good. Well like I said Alfred can prepare your room for you. He can always prepare your room, you're always welcome here Jason."

Jason smiled at that comment; it was good to know he had a place to go if he needed.

Jason smiled and started to walk out of the cave.

"Well see you around Bruce; you should really take that case down."

Jason left the cave, Bruce smiled.

He was never going to take that damn case down.