A Bat and Her Beginning

Chapter 15: Heat?

Barbara's POV:

Batman lets me explore the Batcomputer by myself while he busies himself with something else in the cave... I don't know what like I've said before this place is massive.

After exploring  for like thirty minutes Robin rides in on his motorcycle. He all but collapses as he pulls himself off of it. I see blood hit the floor and hurry over to him. I can't see where he's bleeding, "Lord Boy Wonder don't you need me or Batman to help you."

He rolls his eyes and snarls, "Nothing I cant handle." He drags himself over to the medic table and plops down on it I still can't see what's bleeding. He looks at me annoyed "Well you wanted to help didn't you get me something to stitch this up." I just stare at him his eyes narrow, "Lord just go get Batman."

I run down the hall that Batman disappeared down earlier. I'm kind of flustered from Robin's snippiness with me. I finally see Batman who's pounding away at a bag. I'm literally 3 feet from him and he hasn't even noticed me. He's obviously very focused on letting out some pent out aggression. I clear my throat, and he looks up.

He raises a brow. I unevenly shift my weight not knowing what to say at first. "Uh... your partener... er... Robin is back." He stares at me waiting for me to continue. "He um needs to be stitched up he asked me to get something so he could stitch himself up but I uh... didn't know where it was so he sent me to get you."

He smiles, yes the Dark Knight smiles, "He's so impatient sometimes he probably didn't even get past his bruised ego of you seeing him like that to comprehend you don't know where we keep the medical supplies." He begins to walk down the cave, and turns into a little cranny that has a some plastic bins where he gets a surgical needle and thread. He then continues to walk to where I left Robin and continues to talk, once we are close enough for Robin to hear, "But this is a great way for you two to learn to trust each other so there are no questions out on the field."

Robin raises a brow, looking like he missed something but I'm confused too. Robin looks to Batman, "What are you talking about?"

He smirks cockily, "You've already sewn her up,"  pointing to me, he then turns to me, "While he can be crabby and short temper as you've just seen he is more patient when it comes to stitching something up then me, I do a pretty sloppy job and get over it when it's for myself." He now directs back to Robin, "We can kill two birds with one stone, she can learn how to stitch and you can learn to trust her."

Robin is now obviously agitated, "Lord does my bleeding always have to be turned into a lesson. You used to use it to teach me how sloppy I was, and now you are going to use to teach a medic lesson."

Batman seems unphased by the obvious annoyance Robin is feeling, and continues, "So where's the gash."

Robin blows up now directing his anger at Batman but obviously has some built up tension against me, "No I'm gonna do it myself, let her learn on you. I didn't ask for another partner. I might as well bleed out if she does it. Look at her she's not even uncomfortable looking at blood," I relise that I am kind of curled back but part of that was because of the anger.

I still take this as a cue to take him down a notch, "Because I couldn't just be disgusted by your behavior. I mean hell your a hero in the town and you're acting like a child right now."

Now all his anger is locked on me, "Because you're so calm when you're bleeding. Last time I stitched you up you were woozy as shit even after rest and you hadn't lost half the blood I have tonight."

I rolled my eyes, "I'm new to this, Lord. And I don't remember asking you to sew me up, instead to two of you took me against my will..."

He cuts me off, "That wasn't my decision that was all his. And if we hadn't you would have had a hell of a time getting it taken care of yourself or explaining it to your family."