Stuck With You

By

Angelina

Day Five: Morning

Robin woke with a small groan. The lights in the infirmary were dim and the clock on the wall said it was 5:17 in the morning. Whether it was the next morning or some days later Robin neither knew nor cared.

He looked around him to see his teammates sprawled in awkward positions around the room. M'gann, J'onn, and Conner were all occupying the same row of chairs. J'onn was sitting very straight backed in what looked to be a very uncomfortable chair. M'gann had fallen asleep with her head on her Uncle's shoulder and her legs over Conner's lap. Conner only had half of himself on the chair, his shoulder and arm dangling off of one side dangerously close to scraping the floor. Wally was spread eagle on the floor; it looked like he hadn't moved since he fell off of his chair sometime in the night. Aqualad and Green Lantern, ever the sensible ones, were currently curled up in some of the extra beds. Batman was asleep in the chair next to Robin's bed one of his large hands just a few inches away from the boy's small one.

"Robin."

The sing-song voice of Artemis sounded out. He looked over to the bed next to him but saw no sign of the archer. "Oh no." He was sure that she was still in his mind.

"Robin, over here."

He looked to his other side to see Artemis in a bed next to him. He gave an audible sigh of relief. "How are you?"

Artemis chuckled. "Glad to have my own body back."

"And my mind." Robin concurred.

The conversation of the two drifted through Batman's exhausted slumbers and he stirred in his chair drawing Robin's attention away from the blonde archer.

"Robin?"

Robin looked up into his father's eyes and gave a small smile. Batman sighed in relief and flashed Robin one of his rare smiles. That was all of the interaction that seemed necessary for the two.

Artemis snorted when she remembered how they had the uncanny ability to have whole conversations with a look.

The noise woke the others and they were soon crowding around Artemis and Robin's beds.

"You're awake!" Miss Martian was floating with a large smile on her face.

"We were so worried."

"You two gave us quite a scare."

"Glad you're okay."

"Never scare us like that again!"

Many voices overlapped each other as the heroes hastened to add their own heart felt relief and joy that their teammates were going to be alright. Robin clutched his head as they continued to talk over each other; after the experience he had just been through the noise was giving him a killer headache. Batman noticed his son's distress and growled. "Silence!" Everyone in the room went silence as he gave them the DaddyBats-Glare. Silence hung heavily in the room for a few minutes until Wally decided it was up to him to break it.

"How you doing beautiful?" He held the blonde archer's hand as he asked.

Artemis blushed.

Robin rolled his eyes, his cheeks darkening slightly as he remembered what had taken place just before he had lost consciousness.

The rest of the team, and even Martian Manhunter, laughed. Batman scowled.

Robin turned his head to look at J'onn and M'gann. "Thank you."

The two martians nodded.

"Would you two like a moment alone?" Green Lantern spoke for the first time.

Robin looked over at Artemis and nodded, they had a few things to wrap up.

"Hello Megan! I should have thought of that."

Robin had to restrain a giggle at the irrepressible martian.

The team left the room one by one; Batman was the last to go. The older hero lingered at the doorway gazing at his son before he gave a nod and left the two alone.

A somewhat awkward silence lingered between the two heroes before Robin broke it.

"So you know who I am now." It was a blunt statement, no question was in his voice.

Artemis nodded unsure of where he would take this.

"You can't tell anyone Artemis Crock. Otherwise you will be getting a visit from Batman in the dead of night."

Artemis shuddered at the thought.

Robin smirked his signature smirk at the look that crossed Artemis' face.

There was another awkward silence as both of them tried to think of something to say.

"You're not that bad Artemis Crock." Robin was first to break the silence again. He gave her a dazzling smile.

"You aren't that bad either kid." Artemis leaned back into her pillow with a small smile.

Silence filled the room again, but this time is was a comfortable one. And though a lot went unsaid between the two they had found a respect for each other.

A/N And that's the end of it. I had such trouble with this chapter… didn't know how to end it, so you get stuck with this.

Oh well. This was over faster than I thought it would be so I think I am going to move up the closing of my poll some. I will probably give it another week and then start on my new series.

Thank you to all of the wonderful readers who stuck with this story until the end :D You guys are awesome!