Inheritance

[0nightwing0]

Who:  Dick, Joker, Tim, Roy, Bones, and Matt Murdock ..Possibly Stephanie Brown
Where: Training room and moving to the Medical Bay
When:  afternoon
Summary: Dick's going to take up the Mantle left behind by his mentor..whether he likes it or not.
Warnings: Blood, Gore, Violence...its Joker, you know its going to be graphic

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[entro_pist]

So, outnumbered was he? One of the newly arrived voices belonged to Stephanie Brown, but the other, though he recognized it, he couldn't place just yet. The Joker tucked the barrel of his Glock into the top of his pants, no longer in need of it. To make this situation work to his advantage, he needed something a bit more explosive, and he had just the thing

[0nightwing0]

" m'still..ere..y..know..s'ok steph" Dick said rather slurringly from the swelling in his mouth and the bandages around his neck. With one good blue eye he turned his bloody face toward Tim's and looked up. He couldn't help but feel the guilt rise up in his chest from making the kid..no the man go through this again. " i'll sur..vive kiddo"

It didn't matter what Tim had to say about his eye but he glanced to Steph with a kind look despite his injuries. Spitting blood out from his mouth he glanced back up with the same look"you did good..still scared of two..face..myself"

[lilbrownrobin]

She bit her lip to keep from crying. The nicest, strongest people she would ever know and they had to deal with this on a nightly basis. How long could any of these men handle injuries like this? Maybe Tim had a point about this whole vigilante thing...

Steph hugged Bruce to her and patted his back before standing up and putting on her best smile for Roy and Dick. "We better get you to the doctor... everything will be okay."

wouldn't it?

She turned to Roy, "You're stronger, you should help Tim carry him. I'll make sure the coast is clear."

[niiroya]

Roy nodded with a smile to Steph, hoping it would help her see that even in this kind of situation with friends it didn't have to seem that bad.

"We've got Dick kiddo and he's gonna be fine, you'll see."

Red Arrow knew the older man wasn't going to be able to see out of that eye any more, but with the make shift bandage stoppig the bleeding from the wound in his nevk he was out of danger of loosing his life as well.

"Dicky's a stubborn git and a fighter, this isn't going to stop him." He tried to reasure her not wanting to say what was on his mind as the red-head walked over to Tim to prepare to move the wounded raven-haired man. "You wouldn't mind picking up my bow and arrow on your way out Sweety?"

[little_wing003]

Tim slid his arm behind Dick's shoulders, getting ready to help him up. "We're going to try to move you now," he said, trying not to look too hard at the bloody bandage around his neck. He remembered what that was like. "How're you feeling?"

[0nightwing0]

" like Kori's wrath finally caught up with me" dick hoarsely chuckled as he gripped Tim's arm and gave it a reassuring squeeze. He felt the world spin when he got up, the blood loss getting to him. While the eye wasn't fatal the neck had the potential until Roy had bandaged it up.

" I'll be fine kiddo..I promise" Dick reassured him, though he knew there was no hope in this left eye. Although he had hope in the shape of future medicine, maybe just maybe this could be fixed. No, it was best not to get your hopes up when it came to those things.

[niiroya]

"You'd be in worst shape if that ever happened." He quipped back hoping to keep Dick talking as he gently grabbed his friend's feet. "We're gonna lift ya on three, okay? One... Two... Three."

Roy lifted the black karate pant clad legs, instictively knowing that Tim would follow his lead with the injured man's upper body, they really had to get him to Bones.

"More scars to impress the ladies, though ya may want to change the story of how you got 'em."

[0nightwing0]

" no telling them I got..beat up by a psychotic clown?" Dick said weakly before choking out a cough from the blood that had seeped into his throat. The young acrobat hid his worry and fear under his quips, for he knew the stakes were high against him when it came to the future hope of working with his injuries. Bruce would keep going, work twice as hard to get back on his feet and up to his old levels, and so would he.

" Bones's going to kill me.." Dick groaned knowing his fatherly old friend was going to give him a good long lecture. Though it was making the man rush with worry..the look in his eyes he got when he saw one of the young capes injured, that made him feel the guilt rise up in his blood peppered chest.

[niiroya]

"'fraid not buddy, women want to hear something more heroic than you getting your ass handed to ya." Roy said, he was worried knowing that it was extremely bad if Dick was trying to make jokes.

The injured man's younger brothers carried him to the medibay and gently placed him on one of the infimary beds.

"Don't worry about Bones, he's gotta heal ya first before h!e kills ya. Yo, Bones!"

[ima_doctor]

Bones was not wrapping bandages, researching or cleaning. He wasn't even sipping his whiskey. He was sleeping on one of the hospital beds, a cloth flopped over his eyes, his boots kicked off and under the bed. He had been doing a bit of exploring lately, and had only just returned, glad that no one had been wounded in his absence.

Too good to last, of course. He sat up almost instantly when he heard his name. "Coming!" he mumbled, tossing the cloth aside and deciding to forget his boots a moment. He came around the corner to see.

"Mister Grayson!" he shouted despite himself. "Are you kidding me? Did you go and get yourself hurt again!? Get him over here!" he gestured angrily towards one of the beds.

[0nightwing0]

Dick looked at the older man with his one good eye, the other still leaking fluid and blood down his cheek. The wound reached vertically from forehead to the middle of his cheek, and had gone all the way through the tissue of the cheek. The punch after had ruptured his cheekbone and the blood pouring into his sinuses was making him gag up blood as it would drain into his throat. The knife wound just under his chin had stopped bleeding after Roy had put a pressure bandage on it, but it needed attention.

" Just help..I didn't have my... mask or I'd have been....fine" Dick choked up more blood as he was layed on one of the beds. His now long raven bangs fell back from his good eye but stuck to the blood covered skin of his wound like cling wrap.

[niiroya]

"He's had the shit kicked out of him, lost a hell of a lot of blood, there's a knife wound on his neck and you can see the rest." Roy told the doctor everything he knew about Dick's injuries, if only he had thought to try the training room first in his search for the older hero.

The red-head took a few steps back to give Bones the room he needed to work, still hoping that the ruined blue eye could be saved but with the seconds ticking passed if look less and less likely to happen.

"If ya need blood, take mine." The pair had found out they had the same blood type a long time ago, but this time Roy was giving it back.

[ima_doctor]

"You just be quiet and lie still," snapped the doctor, peering closely at the wounds, the gentleness of his touch and the concern in his expression belayed the harshness of his words.

He nodded at the other man's words as he confirmed the injuries. That eye looked terrible. "I'm going to work on that eye first, see if I can save it," he said, straightening. "We'll worry about giving blood later." He went to pull over his equipment cart.

[0nightwing0]

Dick let his body relax as soon as he felt the gentle touch of Bones's work worn but still steady hands. The guilt in his good eye was enough to tell the older man that he didn't intend for this to happen, or to even come into thought. Staring straight up he readied himself for the work that would have to be done. Though he knew that bones..well hoped..would give him a pain hypo.

The young vigilante didn't utter a word after he was told to be quiet. Moving his face might cause Bones to mess up. The pain though was throbbing, his eye still feeling as if it was on fire.

[niiroya]

Roy goes to stand opposite the good doctor and takes hold of Dick's hand, squeezing it lightly letting him know that he's there for him. The red-head knew that if he could Nightwing would have done the same for him when they removed the five bullets from his chest.

"I'm right here for you bro." He stated even though he knew he wasn't the only one in the room with a claim to their brotherhood.

[little_wing003]

Tim settled onto one of the other beds, and drew his legs up with him, watching silently. It was going to be okay. Bones knew what he was doing, and Dick was going to be fine.

Right?