A/N: Tim is slowly recovering from being in Devlin's clutches a second time. With Samantha now part of the family, and Tim determined to marry her, Jason and Dick have taken it upon themselves to teach Tim how to please a woman without Bruce knowing about it. Something powerful happens and two brothers are in hot water with their father. Dick and Jason decide they had better keep out of Bruce's way for a while by taking a case that leads them out of Gotham. The case however has to be interrupted when word reaches them that Tim has a life threatening illness or is it? And has that case actually come to Gotham?
New Life, Death, and Soul Easters
by
AJRedRobin and JasonToddLover
Part 4: Breakfast Talk and Doctor's Dilemma
"Up and at um Golden Boy," Jason said as he threw the curtains open to flood the room with light. "Man, am I glad Bruce has a small apartment here for business trips. I'd hate to explain to a hotel manager why I had to carry you up the stairs."
"…shut up," Dick complained as he stretched and yawned. "You would probably come up with some weird explanation anyway."
"I suggest we order breakfast. I'm not much of a cook, and this cupboard is barer than old Mother Hubbard's."
"Sounds like a plan. You'd probably burn this place down."
Jason glared at Dick.
"What! . . . You're a bad cook."
"Nah, Alfred wanted to teach me, never had the patients for it. I know you can cook."
"What do you eat when you're out by yourself on a mission? Junk food?" Dick questioned.
"Hey don't knock it," Jason replied. "Junk food rules the world . . . You should try it some time."
"No wonder you're so heavy. You need to eat healthy food, too Jason."
"I do. It's just that junk is easier to get your hands on out there when you're in a rush."
"When is the last time you had something healthy?" Dick admonished. He had seen Jason eating a honey bun the other day.
"I don't remember," Jason confessed. "Besides, you should be getting on your little brother. He barely eats enough to survive. Come on, let's get breakfast then start researching on that case. I'm itching to bust some heads."
"Great."
JD
"Thanks Leslie for coming," Bruce stated. "I just don't understand what's wrong with Tim. He seemed fine yesterday."
"It's no problem Bruce," Dr. Leslie Tompkins said. "I'll take a couple blood samples run some tests. We'll find out what it is."
"He's asleep. He's running a fever about 100. Very little appetite as well. He's dropped weight again."
"Good to know." Dr. Leslie went into Tim's room and sat on the bed and took one of his arms to take some blood. Bruising? She checked his lymph glands. They weren't swollen, which was puzzling. She knew Tim was susceptible to infections.
'Doctor?" Tim had slowly come awake and spotted her.
"It's okay Tim. I'm just taking some blood to see what's going on. Your father is very worried about you."
"Uh huh. Don't feel so good. Feel weak."
"We'll find out what's going on. Hopefully we can catch it early and take care of it."
Tim gave Doctor Leslie a slight smile and closed his eyes."
BLS
"Samantha, are you all right? You've been looking out that window since we got in the car."
"No...I'm not all right," Samantha don't want to lie to her. They were family now, or she would soon be family once she married Tim. "I have this strange feeling that Tim is not okay."
"What do you mean?"
"His aura...it's...fuzzy. Like he's getting sick."
"I know your a healer, you can heal broken bone. Can you heal illness" Sasha asked.
"I don't know...I tried to connect with him but...his aura was so weak."
"If Tim is sick, perhaps we need to know what it is before you can help. If it turns out you cannot help him, he may need a doctor for that. You might be able to strengthen his aura, but the sickness may have to be cured."
Samantha nodded in reply. "I know I can heal people, but this...this sickness...it can't be right. It doesn't seem human almost."
"There is a lot of sickness out there; Cancer for instance. It grows in the body like an inhuman thing, and yet it isn't a disease that humans can get. It's not something that's contagious. It's like a genetic mutation. Some people are genetically predisposed to getting it. There is no cure for some forms, others are more easily cured, and yet, it still invades."
Samantha kept her thoughts to herself and hid her aura. 'She doesn't get it. Inhuman...that sickness has an aura...like someone has left a mark on him.'
Sasha mistook Samantha's silence as worry. "Whatever Tim might have, he's got us, his family to help him through it. He's a survivor is he not?'
Samantha nodded her head then rested it against the window.
Continues with Chapter 5