The Birthday Surprise

Ch. 11: Terrible Aftershock

It had been two weeks since Batman was critically injured. Wonder Woman was sitting next to Bruce's bed reading a book, well holding the book. She couldn't concentrate on the words and found herself re-reading the same sentence over and over. She had too many thoughts going through her head. She couldn't stop thinking about Dick and the look on his face when they arrived at the Watch Tower, Bruce the way he looked lying on the medical bed looking dead to the world, or the way Dick screamed when Superman forced him to go back to Wayne Manor.

She finally decided to put the book down and rested her head on her hands on Bruce's bed.

'Oh, Bruce,' she thought then lifted her head up to look at the sleeping man, 'You've been asleep for two weeks now. Your son needs you. We all need you.'

"J'onn says he's fighting something."

Wonder Woman turned around surprised to hear someone else in the room, but then relaxed when she saw Flash standing there. She turned back to Bruce and then responded. "Yeah, I know, but what could he be fighting that would keep him out for two weeks?"

Flash sighed then walked over to her. He placed a hand on her shoulder. "He'll pull through, he always does. Look, why don't you go get some rest. I'll stay with him and come get you if he wakes up, ok?"

Wonder Woman shook her head. "No, I'm fine."

"Diana..." he looked down at her then sighed, "What about Dick, maybe you should go see how he's doing. Supy said he tried to go see him, and Al said he wouldn't come out of his room, won't even eat."

Diana looked up at him surprised then back at Bruce. "Well, at least he learned something from him."

Barry chuckled then got serious again. "Diana, we all know how much you care about Bruce."

Diana looked at him a bit surprised. She hadn't really thought about it that much, but she knew he was right. She did like him.

"Why don't you go and see if you can get him to at least eat something. Al said he tried everything he could think of, he even said that he was worse than Bruce when it came to eating."

Diana stood up and turned to Barry. "Alright, but if he even stirs I want to know about it."

Barry smiled. "I promise."

Diana smiled then headed toward the door. She turned back around to look at Bruce then sighed and walked out the door.

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Tiffany was sitting in one of the spare rooms of the mountain thinking about what had happened because of her. Robin got captured, Batman and the whole young justice team almost died, and now Robin was not even heard from. Last she had heard about him was that he wouldn't even come out of his room wherever he was. And the worse part of everything, the team wouldn't let her go back to Wayne Manor. She missed Dick, Bruce, and Alfred, but she couldn't figure out why they wouldn't let her go back there.

She was interrupted from her thoughts by a knock on her door. She got up off her bed and went over to the door and opened it.

"Hi, Tiffany," M'gann said with a shy smile on her face.

Tiffany gave her a small smile in return. "Hey, Meg."

"Ummmm... Can I come in?"

Tiffany thought about it for a few seconds. She didn't really want company right now, but she wanted answers too. "Sure," she said as she opened the door wider and stepped aside so M'gann could enter.