Flashed by Science

“Geez, Walls. Look where you are going next time,” he said while the other sized him carefully up. Dick didn’t like it when his best friend gave him that look. And by the following question he knew that Wally was only worried about him because that is what best friends do; but he still disliked it. It meant he couldn’t handle himself; it made him feel… weak. He shrugged Wally’s hands off his shoulders as he turned a little to the side, “Yeah, despite the fact that you ran me over again, I’m okay. Why shouldn’t I be?” Robin opened the water bottle, which he still holded in one hand, and took several swigs from it, hoping Wally would drop the whole thing.

When Robin arrived at the mountain for a few training sessions in the gym this day, he already hadn’t felt well. After the long patrol in Gotham last night, which became almost routine for the last weeks, he hadn’t got much sleep, therefore school wasn’t foolproof like usual. In his math lesson tasks, he would normally solve in a twinkling of an eye, made him problems this time thanks to a growing headache and lack of sleep. The throbbing pain hadn’t subsided since then and at lunch it got even worse. A sickening feeling in the stomach was added to Richard’s indisposition, thus he barely touched his food. After the last slowly crawling school periods he immediately zeta’d to the mountain. There he was informed that M’gann was out shopping with Zatanna, what made Conner and him the only two residents at the moment (besides Wolf and Sphere of course). The super clone kept Robin company in the gym while he silently worked the punching bag. The Boy Wonder himself was on the asymmetric bars wearing his training attire which consisted of a blue tank top and black tight-fitting sweat pants. He swapped the sunglasses for the mask so that they couldn’t slid from his face when he did his acrobatic exercises. Previously Conner confronted him with the question whether he was feeling all right or not. He must have probably sensed something in the other’s body functions, because Dick was a really good actor and paid close attention to not to show any signs of his current condition just as he always had done. Robin shrugged him off with a simple ‘I’m fine’, but the bigger boy didn’t seem too convinced judging by the concerned look he was giving him. Now the acrobat was on the higher bar, ready to jump and preparing for the short moment he would fly through the air. He pushed away with the grace he naturally possessed, but realized too late that his balance was slightly off. He had caught himself before he landed and stand on the mattress as nothing was wrong. Noticing how Superboy looked at him he knew that he wanted to ask again about his well-being, so Robin decided to pretend that there wasn’t a problem and leaved the room quickly to make his way to the kitchen. He opened the fridge and was just going to grab a water bottle, when he heard the announcement: recognized Kid Flash B03.