Got Your Back, Always

II.XII

Cassie and Dick watch as a man catches Jason just in time. The two of them take off towards the ground floor, Kory following just behind them.

Dick reaches him first, "Jason?"

They find him near a car, holding the guy who caught him. The man had been shot.

"What happened?"

Jason looked at Cassie, then to Dick, "This guy just saved my life."

The man was gasping and trembling in pain.

Cassie got a closer look at the wound, "Come on we need to get him back to the tower. I need to get this out of him as soon as possible."

Jason walks off to his room, while Cassie rushes with Kory to the infirmary to begin working on the injured person.

Kory sets him down and Cassie sets to work. She knew had some medical training, taught to her by Alfred of course, so she acted like she was just removing a bullet from a regular person, but Cassie had her suspicions that this wasn't a regular old bullet. Kory was with her the whole time watching her as she worked. Cassie had gotten the bullet out of him and patched him up. He was stable, but his vitals were not improving.

"Is he going to be ok?" Kory looked at her friend.

"He's stable, but I don't know. He should already be improving, but he isn't. Makes me think that whatever he was shot with wasn't normal."

"What could it have been?"

"I'm not sure exactly, but I'm going to run a couple of tests, and see what pulls up." Cassie grabbed the bullet, careful to clean the blood off, "Oh and it's good to see you, Kory."

The women smiled at each other, "Maybe I should have picked a different day to visit?"

"Nah, you were right on time."

The two gently chuckled and Dawn walked in ready to help where she could. Cassie told her to change his bandages since they were already soaked while she ran some tests. Dawn agreed and Kory helped her while Cassie walked out of the room.

Cassie heads to the tech room and places the bullet in a special box that will scan it for any elements and compositions it may contain. It takes a while so Cassie left to check on Jason in the meantime.

Jason had his door open but was wrapping his hands so he could let his anger out on a punching bag.

Cassie tapped on the door not wanting to have him snap at her.

"Cassie I'm fine," Jason sighed.

"I'm not." He stopped what he was doing and looked at her, "I almost lost you, Jason. I-I can't lose you. I-"

"Cassie, you won't lose me. Luckily he was there to catch me, and don't forget you almost fell out too. I saw that."

"It doesn't matter what almost happened to me, Jaybird I can't lose you." She grabbed his shoulders, "I'm serious. I know you are angry right now so I'll give you your space so you can work through it, but do not shut me out ok? I need to know that you'll come to me when you need me."

"I will Cassie. I will. I just need to punch something right now."

"I know. I'm just really really glad that you're not seriously injured or worse. I really don't know what I'd do if I lost you."

Cassie hugged him without warning. Jason gave her a half hug. He didn't want to say it out loud but he was really grateful for Cassie, and her constant check-ups and hugs.