Well... this is a little overdue... I meant to update last weekend but then things got a little busy... sorry (hides) but at least I'm updating now :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice
Black Canary pulled out the thermometer and looked at it before her expression only grew more worried.
"What is it?"
"105."
Wally just stared at her in disbelief.
"Are you sure?" he asked. He knew what a fever was and he knew when it could kill a person.
"Of course I'm sure! We need to cool him down fast!" Black Canary shouted, losing patience with the speedster.
"What do you want me to do?" Wally said trying to stay out of the way as Dinah went about the room filling a bowl with water, grabbing a rag, and all sorts of other things.
"You can stay out of the way, call Batman, or stay here with him," Dinah said completely serious and absolutely in no mood for any sort of joking. Batmen had left Robin in her care and now look where he's at. She had trusted Wally to look after him for just a few hours and now her butt was hanging in the balance, not to mention Robin's life.
"I'll...uh...stay here with him," Wally stuttered taking the wash cloth from the very worried and pissed women.
"Try not to make anything worse," she growled at him as she went to go contact Batman.
Wally looked nervous as she left but then when he turned back to his friend and it instantly turned to one of guilt.
"Ah crap, Robin, I didn't mean for this to happen. Just please be okay," he said to the unconscious bird, who made no movement that he had heard the speedster.
Wally dunked the rag back into the bowl and began to wet his friends sweaty a flushed face. He moaned a little as his eyes darted back and forth beneath his lids. Robin's dreams weren't good on a normal basis but having a fever probably didn't help much. Wally just hoped that maybe his presence would help put the bird at ease a bit as he grabbed his hand.
"Its okay, Robin, I'm right here and you're going to be okay, I promise," Wally whispered.
"W...wally?" a weak voice asked. Wally looked down and noticed to bright blue, bloodshot, and glazed over eyes gaze at him.
"Dick!" he exclaimed causing the younger to wince. "Oh, sorry," Wally whispered.
"Where am I?" Robin asked softly causing him to go into a coughing fit. Wally looked around the room and spotted a pitcher of water and a cup and helped the boy wonder drink a few sips.
"You're in the infirmary. You have a fever of about 105 so just try to get better, okay?" Dick only moaned some more and his eyes fluttered closed. Wally only looked regretfully at his friend. It was his entire fault! He should have been trying to make him better, instead of making him worse! Why wasn't he there when Robin needed him? He could have prevented this! Why-
"Don't eat the snowman he's my friend!" Robin shouted throughout the room. Well, that's at least what Wally thought Robin said, since it was a little slurred and sleepy.
"Shhh, no one's going to eat the snowman," Wally tried to calm the bird down.
"But, he's so tasty and delicious and no one can resist him!" Robin cried. Just then Black Canary walked in.
"Is he awake? What is he talking about?" she immediately spurred out questions about as fast as any speedster.
"He was for a few seconds and now he's talking about some snowman," Wally explained having no other way to explain something so strange.
"He must be hallucinating," Dinah said as she sat down and took the wet cloth from Wally. "If we don't get his temperature down soon..." she let that go unfinished.
"He's going to be alright though, right? I mean he's Robin, he's probably the strongest kid I know!" Wally said.
"I don't know. I just don't know," Canary said sighing and shaking her head.
"What did Batman say?" Wally asked.
"Well not much, since he is Batman, but since he's on the other side of the world right now he won't be back until tomorrow."
"Hopefully that's soon enough," Wally sighed and tried to hold back a yawn.
"Go to bed, Wally, you need your sleep," Dinah commanded him.
"No, I'm staying with him," Wally said stubbornly. Black Canary only nodded knowingly and dropped the subject.
Wally woke up to loud beeping noises. He slowly blinked his eyes opened and saw Black Canary fussing over Robin. Robin was struggling in his bed as all the monitors were going berserk. Wally just looked at the room around him before he suddenly sprang up, comprehending what was going on.
"What's happening!" he shouted over Robins moaning and screaming.
"He's having a nightmare and his fever has gone up!" Canary shouted back, trying to hold the child down as he continued to scream.
"Mamica! Tati!" Robin yelled at the top of his lungs. Wally could only look on with sadness feeling completely powerless.
"Wally, help hold him down!" Black Canary yelled. They each took a side of the boy wonder and waited painfully until the boy was only left to loud sobs that filled the room.
Both Wally and Dinah released the boy.
"Wally, you can leave now," Dinah commanded. Wally just nodded and left. When he did Dinah began running her hands through the ebony hair and singing a lullaby her mother once sang to her. As the soothing tones spread through the room Robin finally settled down into an uneasy sleep.
Black Canary walked out of the room a few minutes later to be ambushed by Wally and now the rest of the team.
"We heard Robin was in the infirmary. Is he alright?" Kaldur asked.
"Do you require any help?" Megan immediately asked.
"Is he okay?" Wally asked the loudest of all. Black Canary rose her hands up as a signal for silence.
"I don't know if he's going to be okay right now. His fever hasn't been going down, only worse, but, for now, he's stable and you guys can go sit with him."
The team said their thanks and went into the room to sit with their youngest and little brother.
It seemed that Black Canary had just laid down for some shut eye when Megan came rushing into her room. Dinah sat bolt upright when she saw the panicking girls face.
"Black Canary, you have to come quick!" Megan shouted before flying out of the room. Dinah quickly pulled on some clothes since she prefers to sleep in her undergarments. She ran down the hall towards the infirmary.
Dinah saw the whole team standing around Robin, who looked way to small in the large hospital bed, and saw that he was struggling against the blankets.
"What's happening?" she demanded as she rushed into the room, taking in the sight.
"He was doing fine but then his temperature went up and he started hallucinating again!" Wally panicked; he still was trying to blame himself.
"What's it at now?" Dinah shouted.
"106.5!" Wally shouted looking close to tears. He knew how bad this was. Science was the one class he actually liked and paid attention too. This could actually kill Robin, the Boy Wonder. He would be so bummed if he learned that a stupid fever killed him.
"Superboy, go get a cold bath ready!" Canary shouted above everyone.
"Couldn't that send him into shock though?" the clone asked.
"Mamica!" Robin shouted.
"It's the only thing we can do!" Canary shouted back and Conner went to do as he was commanded.
Everyone else in the room was still shouting and freaking out until Black Canary couldn't take it anymore.
"All of you get out! If you're not going to help then get out of the way!" she screamed at them causing the room to go into complete silence except for Robin's moans and screams. The team looked at her blankly and then Kaldur ushered them out of the room, being the leader and all. Wally protested though, and tried to stay.
"Wally, I meant you too," Canary glared at him.
"But...but," Wally looked at her with sad and worry filled eyes.
"Now!" he bowed his head and made his way out of the room. Conner then decided that moment to make his arrival.
"The waters ready," he said in a monotone voice.
"Carry him in there," Dinah commanded following after the clone and little bird.
Conner gently laid the feverish boy into the cold water; he immediately started to struggle and flinch away from the icy water. Conner dropped him in anyways and Robin continued to shiver.
After about five minutes Canary told Conner to lift the boy out of the water. She had a few towels ready to wrap him up in. It was a good thing Robin didn't go into shock her only worry was that his fever was still there.
Now bundled up in blankets Robin was placed back onto the hospital bed and hooked back up to the heart monitors, IVs, and all the other medical equipment. Throughout the whole ordeal he had still been muttering things in his first language, but the screaming had stopped. Black Canary looked to see what his temperature was and was surprised to see it only went down half a degree.
"Why isn't anything working!" she screamed at herself and not thinking of anything else to do she climbed into the bed with him and did what any mother would do, and comforted the small boy. She lay beside him and pulled him close, wrapping her arms around him, while also brushing his hair with her fingers. She hummed the same lullaby from before and tried to rock him into a resting sleep.
Robin gave a contented sigh and murmured "Mamica," with a soft smile on his face.
Superboy looked at her questioningly but from the glare he received he only walked out of the room quietly, he still didn't know enough about regular human activities.
Batman came early the next morning, waking up the whole mountain with his arrival, as the computer announced him. He dashed through the mountain towards his son.
When he made it to the only occupied room in the infirmary he was met with a very heartwarming sight.
There was Black Canary, looking very motherly, holding Robin close in her arms, rocking him back and forth, while humming a tune. She looked up when she saw Bruce in the doorway. She put her finger to her lips and looked lovingly at the sleeping boy, before whispering.
"His fever has finally gone down and he's sleeping peacefully now," she told him softly.
Batman approached and pulled up a chair before brushing his son's cheek, happy to see that he was okay.
"What happened?" was all he asked.
"At first it looked like the flu but now I'm beginning to think it was a type of fast acting pneumonia. He's okay now though so that's all that matters," she sighed and then yawned.
"How long have you been down here?" Batman said looking slightly concerned for her, well as much as a Batman could.
"For the night. By the way do you know what mamica means? He kept moaning it and then once he looked at me and said it?" Black Canary asked curious.
"It's a Romani word for mommy or mom," Batman explained looking at the young boy surprised, he had never thought that Robin would ever call someone that again. Black Canary gasped in surprise and then smiled down at the child in her arms. Robin only shifted slightly in her grasp and murmured two things "Mamica and Tati," with a soft smile on his face as he enjoyed the presence of his two foster parents.
Well hopefully that wasn't too cheesy at the end. My whole inspiration for the story was seeing Black Canary holding robin and him calling her mommy. Sorry for the late update, life got in the way, but hopefully this long chapter was worth it. Oh and this is the last one, I hope you guys all liked it and didn't think it was too bad. Thanks for all the reviews and have an awesome life :)
