#i think tim drake should get sick yearly: a thesis

[notfeelingthyaster]

so, imagine tim goes to the amazon in a mission with young justice, maybe something related to that spider guy in the rr comics? who knows

he thinks it's ok to put on the short sleeve robin uniform. he's wearing mosquito repellent, he is covered in sunscream. it's fine.

the mission ends no problems, and the team goes back home... a week later, tim is at the batcomputer fighting a very surprising headache. caffeine withdrawls?

one would think so: one would be wrong. that night, he gets a 40°C (104°F) fever.

he tries and work through it, but he gets caught pretty easily, bc when he goes on patrol, his joints lock up and he almost falls from a building

it's dengue fever. now, it's nothing lethal: he just has to rest and drink a humongous amount of fluids, but he can't do ANYTHING for a week or so.

bc he doesn't have an immune system (or a spleen) so there's big worries about it becoming a hemorrhagic fever, and such, tim cannot even get a tablet to work from. just... liquids. loads and loads of liquids.

there's need to tie him up to the bed. there's need to call conner kent to supervise. there's need to exact vengeance upon all the mosquitoes of the world.

it passes. next year, he catches malaria from a mission in southern asia.