Absolute Zero [2/?]
Roy fidgets as he sits on the examining table in the Cave’s medbay, letting someone he vaguely knows extract a piece of shrapnel from his arm. It’s nearly eleven at night and he knows the babysitter is going to kill him, but he doesn’t have the money for hospital bills right now, even with Jade’s occasional, doubtlessly illegal monetary contributions. Ollie ensured he had a high school diploma but he can’t put his real job experience on a résumé (“running around at night in tight pants and shooting things full of arrows”), so his salary isn’t particularly impressive, and as it turns out parenting is pretty expensive.
Around the room, several other young heroes are being patched up. Roy recognizes some – there’s Nightwing’s replacement, the new Robin, whose dislocated shoulder is being tended to by Miss Martian, and that weird kid with the blue armor whose name he learned once but now forgets. There are others, but he doesn’t know them; it’s been a while. On the whole it looks like it’s been a hell of a day for the entire team.




