Just Robin Oneshots Part 2

cry time

What a story that's not a Villain or Talon Dick AU? Didn't know they existed

anyway someone's getting murked and Another_chapter will probably guess who immediately since we're apparently on the same wavelength because they always guess right

EDIT: TW MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH//BLOOD

It was yet another quiet night in the Batcave. Most likely due to it only being home to Tim. He wasn't due out on patrol yet and had some time to kill so he'd decided to get on with some mission reports. Batman was out on a mission with the League and Dick was God knows where. He didn't really care where he was. He still wasn't over him keeping such a massive secret. One that got Kaldur severely hurt and put Artemis in danger. The team wasn't over it either. Some were even blaming him for Wally's death even though Artemis insisted they didn't. She said it wasn't fair. They hadn't had much contact from the hero. Well, they hadn't before that night. Tim was interrupted from his work by a call from Dick. Unusually it wasn't on his personal cellophane but on the Bat computer. He didn't take much notice of it and after a silent debate decided to give him the luxury of an answer. "I thought you weren't going to answer then," Dick's nervous voice greeted. Tim furrowed his eyebrows. He hadn't face-timed. He'd just called. He hardly ever did that. "I get you're still mad at me but I need you to do me a favour," he continued.

"Depends on what the favour is," Tim replied suspiciously.

"I need you to patch me through to the team but keep me on call here, okay? Like a business meeting," he explained. He sucked in an audibly loud breath as he waited for an answer.

"Fine but they won't want to talk to you," the younger said. He tapped away at the keyboard and patched him into the speakers in the new home of the team. They'd all be there since this was their team bonding time. He didn't have to go. The perks of being a Bat. "Dick wants to talk to you. I'll cut him off if he does something stupid," Tim announced before letting the hero speak.

"Hey, so I messed up. Massively. Asterously. Well disastrously. Which would it be? I-" his sentence was cut off with a wet cough. "-I just wanted to say sorry, for everything. I didn't mean to do anything to hurt any of you. You're like my family you know?" he carried on. He didn't even acknowledge the cough which made it even more ominous. 

"Family wouldn't keep such massive secrets!" Lagoon Boy argued.

"Bat families do," Artemis defended. "Bats was the one to make the contingency plans against his own friends. Only makes sense for secrecy to be passed on." She didn't like the sudden villainization of Dick. All the blame had been put on him but he wasn't the only one involved. They'd all decided to go along with it and they all messed up but only he seemed to be the one blamed. Everyone saw him as the mastermind but it wouldn't have gone through had he not the people to do it. "No, he's right. I'm not much of a good family member for someone who talks about family a lot." He hissed subtly like he'd pulled the phone away whilst doing it. "I get that none of you will forgive me for a long time but I just had to say sorry again."

"Oh a half-hearted apology over the phone, you're really making it difficult to stay mad," Bart commented snarkily. Dick chuckled darkly, following it with a bout of muffled coughing. They narrowed their eyes at the speakers. What was he up to? 

"He's probably just high on meds or something. He doesn't mean it," Jaime suggested. Though he didn't like the sound of those coughs and Dick didn't sound like he was high. Those two glaring problems were unfortunately overshadowed by his anger at the former leader and therefore shoved to the back of his mind. "I wish I had some meds right now. Some morphine would be good right now," Dick replied.