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Jason skulks in the alleyway behind his apartment, dressed in civilian clothes and ready to go get some food before he goes on patrol as Red Hood. The outing is, however, crushed when a blue and black vigilante tumbles into the alleyway from the sky, landing with a loud clang on the nearby dumpster.
Jason freezes, hand immediately reaching for his (hidden) knife before his eyes adjust enough to make out the figure sprawled gracelessly on the dumpster's hood. Oh. Eugh.
"Nightwing?" Jason hisses, hastily checking that no one was nearby or drawn by the loud noise. "What the fuck are you doing here? Cause I swear to god, if you're trying to rope me into something stupid-"
"Jasonnnn." Dick slurs, the name rolling off the man's tongue slowly, and Jason pauses, squinting. "Where...?"
"Are- Do you have a concussion?" Jason looks up, half expecting to see whoever roughed Dick up to jump down from the roof. He looks back to Dick, who's struggling to lift his head and mindlessly pawing at the dumpster, and-
Jason lunges, catching Dick with a grunt before the man rolled right off the dumpster, lugging him to the nearby wall and propping him up. Any slower and old Wonderboy here would have cracked his head open on dirty pavement.
Closer inspection of the man reveals no obvious head injuries, though that might be something hidden underneath that mop of black hair. There is, however, a stab wound in Dick’s leg, blood flowing slowly out of it.
“Wow, the great Nightwing got stabbed, huh?” Jason snarks, straightening.
"Head foggy..." Dick murmurs in reply, not answering what wasn’t really a question anyways, drooping to one side. "Sleepy..."
Jason squints at the stab wound; it doesn't seem to have nicked any arteries and didn’t seem very deep either, bleeding sluggishly as it was.
"Probably drugs, then. Hey. Don't fall asleep, c'mon." Jason tugs uselessly at the man, before giving up and hauling Dick to his feet. The vigilante was fairly light, and Jason's bigger, so he manages to get them both onto the fire escape with some not so gentle lugging, and making it into his apartment.
Jason parks Dick on the couch, jabbing a finger in the man's face. "You're gonna stay here while I call someone to pick you up. Don't try to move. I'll patch you up later."
"Noooooo!" Dick whines, trying to grab Jason's arm and failing miserably. "Gonna get laughed at... not poison. Just. Sleepy drug."
Jason squints at Dick, unsure of how much he can trust the man's words considering their coherence.
"I refuse to take care of you. I'm not a babysitter, for fuck's sake." Jason growls, and notes how Dick is dripping blood onto his (thankfully) cement floor. "Fuck. Y'know what, fine. Where the fuck is the first aid kit…"
Jason stalks off to his bathroom, flinging cabinets open at random and finally finding the white box as he returns to Dick's side.
"Stupid. Can't believe you got stabbed and drugged, like a loser." Jason grumbles, pulling out cotton swabs and bandages as he crouches at Dick's leg.
"There was, more than one person!" Dick huffs, indignant, one hand gesturing aimlessly. "Like to see you...try..."
"This close to throwing you back out onto the streets." Jason warns, uncapping the disinfectant. Dick lifts his head, peeling off his mask to reveal glazed over eyes. They slowly find their way to him, and Jason holds up his fingers obligingly in reference to his earlier statement.
"Your fingers are touching, Jay." Dick points out before his head flops back onto the couch with a muffled thump.
"Exactly." Jason deadpans, turning back to his task even as his heart squeezes a little at the old nickname. There's a patch of quiet, broken only by Dick's occasional wince. Eventually though, Jason gets Dick's stab wound all nicely bandaged up.
"Blood test time. I got an analyzer in my room." Jason sighs and Dick gives him two thumbs-up in acknowledgement and maybe thanks. The man was fluctuating between coherence and insanity, so no different than usual, he supposes.
Jason manages to find a disposable syringe and waits for Dick to woozily give him an affirmative before taking a blood sample after a swipe of a disinfectant wipe.
"Hold this." Jason instructs, and Dick moves his hand slowly to hold the swab to the pinprick hole oozing blood on his other arm. Jason moves to set up the analyzer, hoping to see that the results are actually some sort of sedative that he has an antidote on hand for. Tall dreams, maybe, considering how Jason just wanted a burger tonight and instead got Nightwing.
The thought reminds him to shoot Oracle a text that he's got Nightwing, mostly safe and sound. Knowing Barbara though, she's probably already tracked them down to his apartment. Jason returns to the living room to find Dick staring at the ceiling, aimlessly kicking his uninjured leg back and forth.
"How you feeling, Dickface?" Jason asks, nudging Dick's hand off the swab and pasting a bandaid on before plopping down onto the small patch of couch not taken up by Dick.
"Doesn't hurt much anymore." Dick hums, eyes still a little unfocused. Jason wagers that the drug is already working its way out of Dick's system, and will probably be out after a quick nap. "Thanks."
"Yeah, you better thank me." Jason scoffs, shutting the first aid kit with a click. "I went through so much trouble hauling your drugged ass here and patching you up. You owe me like three meals." He's not really sure how he ended up here playing caretaker to his former-older-brother-turned-ally(?) either, frankly.
"Mhm." Dick's eyes slide shut, finally giving into sleep. Jason wonders if he came all the way here because he believed that Jason would get him somewhere safe enough to pass out at. Wonders when this apartment was regarded as safe by Dick.
Jason heaves a sigh, runs a hand through his hair, and decides to skip patrol for the night. He gets up, stretching and lingers next to the couch, observing Dick's peaceful face.
"...Night, Dick." Jason says before he turns off the living room light, heading for his room. Jason flops onto his bed, adjusts to the fact there's another person in his apartment, and finds it pretty easy to fall asleep despite that.