Being sick sucks

[notarrowette]

[RP with Roy (and Dick. And Tim!) Let's just say this happens after The Lube Fight?]

Cissie felt like crap. She was tired and achy and hadn't stopped coughing all day. By the time she got back to her room after classes, practice and dinner, all she wanted to do was crawl into bed under a million covers and not get up again until the weekend.

However, there were two chapters of A Tale of Two Cities to read, a history quiz to study for and twenty math problems to solve before she could. She put on her pajamas, plugged in her Christmas lights and settled in at her desk to try to work. One hour and five math questions later, she gave up and crawled into bed, huddling under her covers with Dickens.

She fell asleep halfway through the first paragraph.

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[father-archer.livejournal.com]

Roy opened his cellphone to call Cissie- even Batman didn't really care WHAT you did on monitor duty, so long as the monitors were monitored. So he called Cissie every Wednesday night at nine. And Friday's, too.

[cisskabob.livejournal.com]

By nine, Cissie had been asleep for over an hour. She blinked awake and fumbled for the phone. She had to try answering at least twice before she could make her voice work enough to manage a hoarse, "Hello?"

[father-archer.livejournal.com]

"Hi Ciss..." roy frowned at the way her voice sounded, "Honey, are you okay?"

[cisskabob.livejournal.com]

Cissie rubbed her eyes, frowning at her clock--was it nine already? Damn. She was never going to get her homework done now. "Hi Roy," she croaked. Great--she could add laryngitis to her list; she could hardly make her voice work. "I'm okay. Just a sore throat."

Which might have been believable if even that little amount of talking hadn't set off another coughing spell.

[father-archer.livejournal.com]

"Just a sore throat, huh?" Roy shook his head, "Baby, you're sicker'n a dog." he informed her as he opened his book of IOU's.

It was Ollie's unlucky night, he guessed as he opened his league cellphone and texted him 'family emergency- get your pants on and come watch the screens'.

[cisskabob.livejournal.com]

She shook her head, even though Roy couldn't see her. "M'okay," she protested weakly, despite having a hard time even keeping her eyes open.

[father-archer.livejournal.com]

"Oh, shush." Roy said gently. "Go back to sleep, little Arrowette." he hung up with her and read Ollie's reply. Good. He'd cover.

He texted Alfred, requesting chicken noodle soup, please... the man was always good to him, when Lian was sick he'd send over soup. Roy never was sure exactly how he knew. Or how he delivered it.

Roy then called Bonnie, reamed her out, and got her to release Cissie to him since she was sick.

Ollie came and Roy left, taking the transporter home and then driving to Elias, speaking to the sleepy warden and then headed for Cissie's room.

[cisskabob.livejournal.com]

Cissie hung up the cordless phone and was asleep again before she put it back on the hook. When Roy knocked, she woke again and called out, "Come in." Which just showed how out of it she was--she always asked who was there before inviting them in, and she had forgotten that the door was locked.

[father-archer.livejournal.com]

Roy tried the lock and chuckled "Ciss, it's locked." he called through the door. "If you don't wanna get up I can pick it."

[shortpantsrobin.livejournal.com]

Dick slipped into the window. Roy wouldn't be home yet, but Dick could do things while he waited for Roy to come home.

...or not. Dick walked over to the couch and looked at Roy worriedly. "You're home early. Everything okay?"

[father-archer.livejournal.com]

Roy rubbed his eyes and motioned Dick to sit down, "Things are fine. I had to go pick up Cissie. She was sick and stuck up at that goddamn school." he looked at Dick, "I couldn't just leave her there..."

[shortpantsrobin.livejournal.com]

Dick nodded. "Course not," he said. "So...she's here?"

[father-archer.livejournal.com]

"Spare room." Roy nodded. "Look... Dick I have to talk to you."

[shortpantsrobin.livejournal.com]

Dick gave him a worried look. "Is everything okay?"

[father-archer.livejournal.com]

"Everything's fine." Roy said, "Just... look. You know Cissie's a ward of the state and her mom's got visitation, right?" he waited for the nod, "I want to file for guardianship. She deserves better than to be in that damn school until she's eighteen. And, well, I needed to ask you what you thought before going ahead."

[shortpantsrobin.livejournal.com]

"You want to adopt her?" Dick asked, surprised.

[father-archer.livejournal.com]

"No... yes... oh, dammit, Dick, she's all by herself and..." Roy ran a hand through his hair, "I don't know, Dick. I was alone when I was her age. I know she's not dumb like me but I know she's just a kid, like I was."

[mrsarcastic003]

Tim frowned, hanging up the phone. Cissie hadn't answered when he called. She always answered, unless there was something wrong. God, he hoped nothing was wrong. He glanced at his phone, wondering if there was any way he could get in touch with someone who would know...

Oh--wasn't tonight one of the Roy phone call nights? Maybe Roy knew what was going on. He punched in the numbers and hit send.

[father-archer.livejournal.com]

Roy disentangled himself from Dick at the first beep of his phone... unlisted number.

Oh a League phone.

"Which Bat?" he asked as he answered.

[mrsarcastic003]

Tim laughed quietly. "I'm flattered. It's the Baby Bat. You heard from Cissie?"

[father-archer.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, hi, kid." Roy said, tucking his phone under his chin and stroking Dick's hair, 'it's your kid brother' he mouthed. "She's here... she's sick, and I couldn't just leave her there."

[mrsarcastic003]

Tim made a face at the phone. Cissie was sick--that sucked. "Is she all right?" Can I come over?--he didn't ask. Roy had things well in hand and the last thing he needed was another person underfoot.

[father-archer.livejournal.com]

"She's sick, so no." Roy said. "I was going to call you... got some free time to come over in the next few days? If y'do, go ahead and come over. Sure she'd like to see you, even if she is really sick. Dick's here, too."

[mrsarcastic003]

"I can make some free time--let you know who know where I've gone." He thought quickly. He'd get Bruce on the comm, and leave a note for Jason. That should take care of things in Gotham. He could e-mail his teachers later for homework. "You sure you don't mind?"

[father-archer.livejournal.com]

"Positive." Roy smiled, "So long as you're okay with the couch. Or the floor, your choice... and there'll probably be pizza when you get here so don't worry about it."