Light in the darkness

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Nightwing doesn't wait to see who's in the teleportation room. He doesn't stop to talk to anyone as he tears through the Watchtower's complex corridors. He has only one thing on his mind since he got word from Oracle.

Mary.

Infused with a new energy, he reaches the infirmary in record time. And one of the first things he hears even before he steps inside is the crying - oh, God, the healthy crying - of his daughter.

He stands near the doorway for a moment, and opens his private comms. His voice is barely above that of a whisper.

Do you hear that?

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[-nightwing-.livejournal.com]

He's grinning up at the ambivalent lens of the camera.

Twenty-nine minutes and counting, hot stuff.

[oracle-watching.livejournal.com]

"Hold the com up to her ear again?" Barely waiting, she starts singing:

Speed, bonnie boats, like a bird on the wing
Onward, the sailors cry
Carry the lad that's born to be king
Over the sea to Skye....

[-nightwing-.livejournal.com]

Gently, he shifts his weight from foot to foot, swaying gently in time to the familiar song. Mary's breathing deepens, and slows. For a moment, he has to bow his head and check, some part of him freaking out - but she's fine; both middle fingers of her right hand shoved into her mouth as a kind of pacifier, her face turned away from the harsh lighting of the infirmary.

To think, just a short time ago, he muses, that he wasn't sure he'd ever get to hold her like this again. And he knows his wife is desperate for their return so she can do the same.

[oracle-watching.livejournal.com]

"How is she sleeping?" his wife whispers. "Is she breathing all right?"

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A pause, as he doublechecks. Just in case.

She's fine.

Another pause, and then, just so she can hear alone:

I love you.

[oracle-watching.livejournal.com]

"I love you," she whispers back, "te'sorthene."

[-nightwing-.livejournal.com]

We'll be home soon, miri kushti. Soon.

[oracle-watching.livejournal.com]

"You'd better, or I'm coming up there myself to drag you back home."