Young Justice Trash

A Hell of a Late Night

12:34am

The team collapsed on the couches, having just finished an objectively awful mission.

"What time is it?"Robin asked, having gotten permission to stay there until Batman was back on world the next day -well, later that day, since it was Past midnight.

"I dunno, past twelve." Conner sat down, and then stood up, finding it more comfortable. "Let's shower."

"Fine, one sec." Wally caught his breath. "Okay, Let's go." The girls and guys seperated toward the showers. The league wasn't there, and without the league, it was hard for them to pull themselves together, Kaldur was trying to keep them functioning.

After showering and changing into civvies, M'gann showed the others where they could sleep. Artemis and Kaldur got the main guest rooms, Robin and Wally were very close, so they were put on the couches on opposite sides of the living room. They were granted blankets by the sleepy Martian, and left alone. Dick got some water and took his pills, he offered Wally Melatonin gummy vitamins, the boy took one, even though it would barely affect him.

Dick slept well for the first hour or so... until things went south.

Wally awoke with a start and Dick sitting upright on the couch across to from him. "Dick...?" He squinted at the boy, it took a few seconds for his brain to catch up. Dick was prone to nightmares and terrors, he especially had a rough time sleeping in unfamiliar paces. "Dickie, you good?" He didn't answer. "Dickie, get over here." He stood up and stumbled blindly across the room, reaching out for the kid. He had a mask on, still, and was crying silently. "It's okay, you're okay. We're just going to..." he dragged Dick off the couch and carried him to Wally's makeshift bed.

"They- I-the," Dick panted, staring into the dark. His brain was a mess of things that'd woken him up, but his mind was having trouble distinguishing them from each other. He couldn't even distinguish his English words. Eventually he managed to gasp the word, "Wha- Wally?"

"Yeah, it's me, Dick, do you know where we are?"

The black-haired kid glanced around, scared and confused. "No."

"We're in mount. Justice, remember? We just got done with a mission?"

"Where's Bruce?"

"He's off world tonight, remember?" Wally tried to bring back his memory. Dick snapped out of his trance a little and pulled his arm around the redhead, refusing to let go. "You wanna talk about it?"

"Mnm!" Dick shook his head.

"Okay, how about we just put something on for now." Wally turned on the tv, at low volume, skipping through channels. The two sat, falling asleep, on that couch watching UP.

02:04am

Artemis couldn't sleep, she'd lay on her phone watching tiktoks, unable to sleep. In a moment of irritationality, she'd downed three shots of Nyquil. It hadn't kicked in yet. She went downstairs for water. 

To her surprise, she wasn't the only one awake. The TV was on, Wally and Robin were wrapped around each other on the couch, snoring a little. kaldur was on the opposite couch, cradling a cup of water and watching them wearily.

"Sup." Artemis leaned on the back of the couch, next to him.

"Good morning." He groaned, exhausted. "I heard a noise." He explained, he'd heard a crying, but when he got down there, things seemed to have calmed down, The boys were cuddled on the sofa.

"You good?" She sipped her water.

"I'm alright." Kaldur did the same. "I think they are, too, but." He repeated the action. "I feel better making sure."