Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice

"So we know that Robin has a thing with circuses," Wally said continuing the conversation while absentmindedly tapping the pen on his chin.

"Why would you say that?" Connor asked.

"Well, for one he flipped out at the sight of the Haley's circus commercial and then when he was there he wasn't acting normal," Wally said pacing back and forth, "And from that whole experience, since he knew all the lingo and how to make a routine and what not, we can conclude that Robin has a thing with circus's."

"Maybe he was just being prepared. We don't know all that much about Robin, maybe Batman trained him for those things," Megan suggested.

"I don't know. It all seems a bit too coincidental," Wally argued sitting down again.

"Would it not be like Batman to train his protégé in all things related to the mission. Robin did not become an amazing acrobat from nothing," Kaldur reasoned," Would it not be similar to the way that Robin knows how to hack?"

"I guess you do have a point there Kaldur, but I just can't imagine Batman doing the flips that Robin can do. Can you?" They all shook their heads. "Isn't it hard to teach someone when you can't even do it yourself?"

"Who said Robin can only be taught by only one person?" Connor asked, as blunt as ever.

"Like, at high school, I encounter many teachers every day," Megan contributed. "Hello Megan!" she exclaimed slapping her forehead playfully," We know what High School he goes to. Gotham Academy. I heard him say that when we were fighting Amazo."

"Good point, Megan, I-" and Wally was interrupted by the computer announcing the arrival of Artemis, "We'll continue this later," Wally said before zooming out of the room and hiding the list.

Artemis walked in just as Wally left and saw them all sitting there, not doing anything that she could see.

"Hey, guys whatcha up to?" she asked sliding into a seat and flipping her ponytail over her shoulder.

"Oh, the usually, I was just about to make some cookies," Megan said bouncing up and making her way to the kitchen.

"Great! Do you want any help?" Artemis asked, in a pretty good mood and felt like some quality time with Megan wouldn't hurt anything.

"NO! I- I mean that's okay, Artemis, I have everything under control," Megan said before suspiciously scurrying into the kitchen.

"Well, that was weird," Artemis commented before grabbing the remote and flipping through channels. She had just switched through about twenty different shows before she made a revelation about something.

"Hey, guys, you weren't, like, you know discussing Robins identity right before I came in here right?" They all stared at her, and since none of them were the best of liars, she saw it plain on their faces.

"No..." One of them said, not that Artemis paid any attention.

"I told you guys this whole thing is a terrible idea. I wouldn't want to be on the bad side of Batman, but enough of me scolding you. You've heard it all before and I now wash my hands of this. If you want to discuss Robin, go ahead. I'll just go train a bit and we'll pretend this never happened. I know for sure that Robin won't be here for a few days so get all your crazy plotting out of your systems now, before he comes back," Artemis ranted before spinning on her heal and exiting the room and quick as she had entered only about five minutes prior.

"Wait!" Wally called after her and sped right in front. "How did you know that?"

"Know what?"

"That Robin wouldn't be here for a few days?"

"Well, he told me," she said with a "duh" expression written all over her face.

"When did he tell you?" Wally asked as he moved closer to her.

"Lay off! When did this become an interrogation?" she said pushing him back and continued on her way to the training room.

"Because he didn't tell me about it or where he was going. Can't I be concerned for my friend?" Wally yelled, calling after her.

"I don't think Robin would consider you guys friends if he knew what you were up to. And, if you must know, Robin told me when we exited the zeta tubes last night in Gotham," Artemis added before opening the door and slamming it behind her.

"Did you guys hear that?" Wally said excitedly gazing around the room at all of their shocked faces.

"Yes, but what's so great about it?" Connor asked crossing his arms with a glare.

"It means that Robin doesn't directly zeta to the Batcave, which then means that we can track him!"

"That's great!" Megan shouted coming from the kitchen, "Then we can find out where Robin goes while he's in Gotham."

"Exactly! Now we just need to wait for Robin to come back to the mountain."

"Bruce Wayne," the nurse called out to the waiting room. Bruce looked up from the magazine he was reading, slapped it back down on the coffee table, and made his way over the attractive blonde. Maybe Bruce Wayne could arrange a date...

"Just head over this way to his room. The surgery was successful without any complications," she said with a chirp as she opened a door to a plain, white room. "He should be coming off the anesthesia any time now," she continued as she walked out of the small room and back to the nurses' station.

Bruce looked back as she closed the door and, realizing he was alone with his son, made his way to the plastic, and uncomfortable, chair next to it, to wait for his ward to wake up.

He didn't have to wait long.

"Bruce," came a slurred voice. Bruce looked over and saw two bright, slightly sluggish eyes, just flickering open.

"Hey, Dick, how do you feel?"

"Tired," was the only answer he got as he tried to sit himself up, only to flop back down on the pillows.

"Well, I would imagine," Bruce said helping his son to sit up and fluffing his pillows a bit. "The nurse said everything went well so I would expect you to be out of here, hopefully, by tomorrow."

When Bruce didn't get a response he looked back at the boy, and he knew that look. He quickly grabbed the nearest trashcan and put it under his chin and the boy vomited.

"Now I really don't feel good," the poor kid said, once he had finished.

"It's just from the drugs. It will pass," Bruce tried to console him as he patted his back.

"Yeah, I know. I'm gonna go pass out again," Dick said before his eyes shut and his breathing slowed.

Seeing that his ward was now dead to the world he made his way out of the room. He had a few things to take care of and a phone number to get.

It was a week later that Robin returned to the mountain. He was still a little sore from his surgery and would be out of commission for a few more weeks, but that didn't mean he couldn't visit the mountain. After being stuck in his bed for seven days he was ready to play some pranks, maybe a few video games, and get back into the normal everyday things of life, if you can consider being a teenage superhero normal.

Once the computer announced his arrival Wally came running in. The breeze fluffed Robin's hair back, which was his only warning before the speedster crashed into him with a crushing hug, causing them to both tumble to the ground.

"Ah!" Robin cried out in pain. "Wally get off!" he said pushing his hands up.

"Oh, come on, Rob, can't I be happy that my best buds back! You've been gone for a week and I feel like I haven't seen you in like FOREVER!" Wally said picking himself up off of the floor and chewing on, what seemed to be, beef jerky.

"Dude, I had surgery. I told you this before I left," Robin said looking at Wally like he was crazy. He knew that Wally was one of the most oblivious people he knew, but you would think he would at least pay attention when it was something as serious as this.

"You had surgery! What for?" Wally yelled, throwing his hands in the air dramatically, and putting his best concerned look on his face. How did he not know?

"Yeah, I specify remember telling you because that was the time you lost your new shoes and I was helping you look for them. And we found them in the girl's locker room. Do you remember now?" Robin asked taking a seat on the couch with a slight wince.

"Um, oh yeah, forgot about that. Had me worried for a second. What was it for again?" Wally asked even though he couldn't remember a thing Robin was talking about. He remembered that he got new shoes, but he gets them just about every week from running everywhere.

"I noticed that my stomach was bugging me for a few weeks and when we went to the doctor they said it was a benign tumor. The surgery was just to get it out, so nothing too serious," Robin summed up.

"Oh, well at least you're okay," Wally said with a fake grin in place. How did he not notice that his friend wasn't feeling well and that he had a TUMOR. His best friend could have had cancer and he, his best friend, didn't even notice. Maybe Artemis was right and he should just let this drop, because if Robin ever did find out, not that Wally was planning on letting him, they probably wouldn't be as close of friends ever again.

So while they played video games for the rest of the day, like old times, Wally dwelled on these thoughts, debating whether it was worth it anymore.

A/N So I've had some serious writers block for this story so sorry if it didn't turn out that well. I know the surgery thing was kind of random, but I needed Wally to feel kind of guilty about the whole thing. Sorry about the lack of updates, but thanks for sticking with me :)