Dick: 29

Lilly: 25

Conner: 25

Jason: 22

Tim: 19

Damian: 13

Crisis pt 3

The steady sounds of rhythmic beeping woke me hours later. I was aware that I was laying down, my right arm felt heavier than it should have. My eyelids fluttered as I struggled to open them.

"Take it easy." Someone instructed as they gently squeezed my arm. I was finally able to open my eyes after a moment or two of trying. I was laying in a hospital bed, my right arm was hooked up to a series of wires and tubes. My fingers were wrapped individually with layers of thin bandaging and the beeping sound that woke me was coming from a heart monitor on my right. I attempted to sit up , but small hands forced me back down against the pillow. "The doctor said you need rest. So rest." I gently lifted the hands off my shoulders, aware for the first time of the pain in my knuckles.

"Dami," I told the owner of the hands. "It's alright for me to sit up."

"Not on your own." My youngest brother insisted. "I'll fetch your husband. He and the others went to find food." Damian moved towards the door, but quickly rushing back to my side."I can't." He remembered suddenly. His face was full of worry and his eyes were red like he'd been crying. "I promised Grayson I wouldn't leave you."

"Alright little bird, I'll stay laying down for now then." I reached out and took one of his hands. "Why don't you just tell me what happened then?"

"You had a heart attack, apparently."

"A heart attack? No, that's not possible Damian I'm only twenty five."

"Which is what I said." Damian agreed. "But Drake says anyone can have a heart attack."

"I never really thought about, but I'm sure Tim's right." I let go of Damian's hand as my own stared feeling uncomfortable.

"Are your hands hurting?" Damian asked seriously. Without waiting for me to answer, Damian leaned forward and pushed the nurse call button. A plump friendly nurse bounced into the room a minute later.

"Oh Mrs. Kent, you're awake!" She smiled. "My name is Lanie, I'm your on duty nurse today. You're call button went off at the nurses' station, did you need anything?"

"Tt. We called you because we needed something." Damian snapped.

"Damian be nice!" I whispered back to him. "My hands sort of hurt." I told the nurse.

"I imagine they would!" She said reading some information off my electronic chart. "You're hands were pretty damaged with you came in. I have your list of medications here...let me get you something for those hands." She left the room as quickly as she'd arrived.

"You're awake!" Someone said with relief as they entered my room.

"Conner!" I called out to my husband who quickly crossed the room to stand by my side.

"Don't touch her hands!" Damian ordered as he barely stepped out of Conner's way. "They are hurting her and an idiot nurse just went to fetch medication for her."

"Thank god that's the only thing that's hurting her." Conner said as he massaged his temples. "You scared the hell out of me Lil. Not the yelling and screaming part, you do that when you're mad. The punching isn't much like you so it was a surprise, but then you just collapsed. Lilly I couldn't process what was happening, I didn't catch you in time, you fell. You fell down the whole flight of stairs...Dick says it's not my fault but..."

"Not your fault? Conner what are you talking about?"

"Damian, could you maybe, give Lilly and I a minute to talk? Dick and the others should be waiting in the waiting room. Can you find them and bring them back here in five or so minutes?"

"You'd better not let anything happen to her while I'm gone Kent. If you do, I'll kill you. And I know at least forty-five ways to kill you right here in this room." With a final warning Damian ran off to find the rest of the family.

"Before you continue, can you help me sit up? Damian won't let me move on my own."

"Of course!" My husband rushed to my aid but propping me up and resting me in a sitting position. Now that I was sitting, there was enough room for Conner to sit beside me. He did just that before wrapping an arm around me. "Lillian..." Connor took his left hand that wasn't around my shoulder, and gently sat it on top of my own damaged left hand. "You had a heart attack and fell down the stairs. We got you here as soon as we could but oh Lil...Lilly, we lost the baby."

"We lost the..." I could feel the tears brewing again.

"Lilly, I need you to stay calm. Dr. Thompskins said that you're in risk of having another heart attack within forty-eight hours."

"Is my dad here?" I asked leaning my head on Conner's shoulder. "Conner can you get Bruce for me?"

"You don't remember?" Conner sounded worried.

"Hey there she is!" Dick smiled as he pushed Barbara into the room. The two of them were followed closely by Tim, Stephanie, Alfred and Damian. They filed in one-by-one, eventually surrounding my bed in a semi-circle.

"We've been so worried." Barbara said as she rested her elbows on my bed and held my right hand between the two of hers. "How are you feeling?"

"My chest feels tight and my hands feel sore." I told her.

"Where is that idiotic nurse?" Damian hissed.

"Damian it's ok, really. I'm actually kind of tiered so if you guys don't mind I might go back to sleep. But first I want to see Bruce. Is he in the waiting room? Could one of you get him please?"

"Lilly, You don't remember?" Barbara prodded gently. "Bruce is...dead. That's why you had the heart attack in the first place."

"Breath slowly hun, you have to relax." Conner whispered into my ear. Now I remember. I groaned.

"You guys should go home." I told my family. "There's nothing for you to do here but watch me sleep. Someone has to notify the company, find his Will...plan a funeral service."

"If I may, Miss Lilly, I think I speak for all of us when I say that we respectfully decline your invitation. Family should come together during trying times." Alfred said as he placed one hand on Damian's shoulder and the other on Tim's. "You should be together." Before I could argue, a loud ring cut through the room.

"I'm sorry, it's my Dad." Conner said digging his cell phone out of his pocket. " Hey Clark...Yes Lilly and I are still with her family. No none of us are at the house. Where are we? We're at the hospital...No, we only had minor injuries from last night...it's Lillian she...yeah I'll see then." Conner looked back at me after hanging up the phone. "Clark, Lois and Kara stopped by the mansion and he wanted to know where everyone was. He insisted on driving over to the Hospital. so I told him I'd meet them outside."

"If it's all the same to you Mister Kent, I shall fetch your family for you. Your wife needs you here." Alfred insisted before slipping out of the room.

"Well, if you all insist on staying, will you guys sit down or something? It's weird having you all standing there staring at me." Dick took one of the flimsy hospital chairs and dragged it next to his wife before sitting down. Stephanie perched herself on the right-side foot of my bed and Tim did the same on the left. Damian wedged himself between Conner and Tim and grasped my left arm gently. I continued to rest my head on Conner's shoulder as we waited for Alfred to return with the Kents.

"Where's Jace?" I asked only noticing then that he was missing.

"We haven't told him anything yet." Tim confessed.

"We haven't thought of the best way to break it to him." Dick explained.

"I don't think there is a good way." I said sadly.

"Tt. I still don't think he's dead." Damian huffed with crossed his arms.

"Damian , not this again. Not right know." Dick ordered.

"What makes you say that little bird?" I asked. Before Damian could answer me Clark, Lois, Kara and Alfred entered the room.