Doors

[Locked to Oracle]

Oracle?

[Comm to Damian]

[Ping, ping, ping until he picks up. If he waits too long, he also gets a text from Helena to his cell phone: a picture of a huge pile of Valentine's Day decorations mostly in the form of magnetic stickers.]

[batfam + comm]
[After a few weeks of being completely turned off, Batgirl's comm turns back on. After a few minutes of hesitation, she clicks to the batfamily's channel. Upbeat and chipper and as if she hadn't been gone for weeks.] So, who do I have to call to get some good waffles around here? IHOP is closed.

[Locked: Helena W/Tim D]
You head back to Wayne Manor?

[Comm Ping: Batman/Red Robin]
We need to talk, when you have a minute.

[Comm Ping: Oracle/Red Robin]
Hey, how're you doing?

[Stephanie's Apartment]
[He stops by and cleans up.  He stops the mail, puts her on medical leave with Gotham U, cleans out the perishables, and does her laundry, putting everything away neatly. Somehow, he manages to stop himself from reorganizing everything.]

[Call to Gabe Reed]
[The phone in his motel room rings early on Saturday morning. Big Brother's watching, Reed. Ring.]

[Locked to Laura D]
I'm unpacked, but there's some complicated work shit going on. Raincheck on beers until midweek?

[As soon as news of this hits.]

Oracle. [He's calm, but... there's something off about the way he sounds.] Are you on this side?

[Private to Selina K.]

I found Grayson. In case you were worried.

[Batfam Comm]

Grayson contacted me. En route to pick him up now. The pit is still in his system, so you do not try to talk to him unless it's through the journals. You do not surprise visit him at the apartment. You do not even send flowers. I'll be monitoring his condition and he will contact the rest of you when he's ready. If he ever is.

[Private to Jason T.]

I need information.

[Over the Bat Fam + Comm]

Roll call.

[Over the Batfam comm]

Oracle, are you sure the shipment was coming in now? This place makes a ghost town look hopping.

[Locked to Laura D]
[A link to a Willows floorplan.] I'll take downstairs, you get upstairs? Guests and overnights stick to each of our floors and that private staircase?

[Comm to Corvus]
[Beep. Beep. Beep. Until he patches her in.]

[Email to Walter M@FBI]
Moore,

It gives me absolutely no pleasure to inform you that your name just crossed by desk as my new FBI liaison for cross-organizational investigations. Who'd you screw over to get that job?

Main

[Call to Jimmy's]
[Ring.]

[Obliviously, from New York.]

[Locked to Helena W]
Hey, kid, she's gone.

[Locked to Laura D]
Hey, Daniels. Still living in a hotel?

[Locked to Jack C]
Catch me up.

[Locked to Dick G]
[After her comm pings to Bo go unanswered.] Can I borrow my ex-handler for a minute?

[After talking to everyone else.]
[Locked to Luke H]
Hey, kid.

[locked to damian w.]

You're back?

[locked to jonathan c.]
[As Batgirl]

Sorry for bailing on our date. More important things came up. I'm sorry if you were heartbroken.

[locked to death.]

Do you hate it? When it's used. Do you hate it?

[locked to barbara g.]

How are you doing?

[locked to selina k.]
[During this.]

Are you planning on letting him take all the blame?

[Public]
I hate my Vegas person.

[Batman]
Sorry
[Not Posted]

[Barbara G]
Hi sweetheart.

[Helena W]
You okay, kid?

[Within an hour or so of this, and the cure being distributed. Fuzzy timelines ftw.]

[isolated comm: oracle]

[Very, very tightly controlled anger.] There was a break-in. The Cave. Dick's body is gone. What have you managed to find out?

[batfam+ comms]

Status? [...] Have you all been vaccinated, and for those who were infected, received the cure?

[locked to selina k.]

[It's a long shot, but he has to try.] [...] Selina?

[locked to damian w.]

[Before crossing back through.] Tim tells me you've returned.

[Oracle, Batman, Tony S]

[Late Wednesday night a very tired Bruce Banner sends over yet another packet of information, scanned notes, test logs and results. It's another huge file]

Hey so, I think I found something that is, well it's a cure. Of sorts.

I haven't tested it obviously but if you look at the work and specs you can see that while it doesn't attack every bad thing present it attacks the worst of it giving the body time to heal itself of the "easy" stuff.

Cures aren't exactly easy to come by, which is obvious or you'd have all found one by now. But the reality is that we don't really live in a "cure disease" world anymore. We live in a vaccinate, and treat disease world. So I took that approach, we have the vaccine, and we had the treatment plan so I kept going that route for a while, until I started messing around with possible methods to do with blood of someone with antibodies already, it was a lot of science. It's all attached I won't go into it here, I'm kind of rambling off as it is.

Some of the blood samples that came through with this information were pretty simple to navigate - There were two types, one worked better than the other so that's the one I attached to the actual model. Basically it's the blood plasma. Just look at the attached and let me know if you can move to testing with that. If not I can try and deliver hard copies of everything and actual samples to you instead of just the work.

But [...] guys, I think we're there. I hope

Bruce Banner

[batfam+ comms]

[Early morning. There's a distinct delay before he speaks, during which his line is very clearly open but silent. Hollowly.]

I-- [Pause. A breath, and he starts again.] Dick is [...] he's dead. [Something muttered, too quiet to he heard. Rustle of movement. Then, silence again.]

[Public; Anon]
This fucker needs to shut the fuck up ASAP before I do something drastic. He needs to get it through his fucking head he's not going across. You'd think fucking adults would grow the fuck up about it.

[Text: Morgan/Nico]
Coming back soon?

[Text: Adrian R/Nico R]
How're you doing?

[Locked: Anon/Barbara G]
Consider this a fuckin compromise. He ain't comin through but he wants to know if you're okay.

[Tony S, Batman, Oracle]

[Attached is another gigantic file of information relating to the vaccine including all of his notes, how to make it and basically just a finish up on everything Tony had already done.]

I think we're there with the vaccine. Obviously I can't test it on anyone, but from this end it looks good. Tony, if you want to double check it would be great.

Let me know if there are any questions.

Bruce Banner

[comms: batfam+]

Allies through the Marvel door claim they are close to a vaccine. No cure yet, but a new treatment plan has been released. [Pause.] Are any more of us sick? And for those who already are, status? If you can.

[isolated comm: oracle]

[With audible weariness.] What is the death count now?

[locked to riddler]

I need to know where the Lazarus Pit in Wonder City is located.

[Oracle, Batman, and Tony S]

[Attached are treatment plans for the first few phases of the disease - there is a point where everything just stops. Take everyone off of antibiotics, and absolutely nothing that thins the blood. Treat for symptoms individually as they present, as well as further developed quarantine instructions to limit the spread - though worldwide is a bit disappointing he's hoping the Batman and the Oracle have the capability to blast this out where necessary. Also attached is all of the work he's been doing on the vaccine and the cure he's looking for.]

This isn't a cure, this isn't a vaccine - but we're close on the vaccine I've got one more trial I want to do first. Treatment is not guaranteed but it's guaranteed to save more lives than fighting it blind. No more antibiotics, no anti-inflammatory treatments that isn't steroid based, no aspirin, nothing that thins the blood at all. Take patients off of blood thinners if it won't kill them. It's presenting like a bacteria but it's a virus. I'm testing a combination of antivirals right now, receptor antagonists and things like that similar to what they do for Hep C. It's a starting point at the very least. I'll have something to you later. For now this is what they should be doing at the hospitals and for sick people who can't to the hospitals.

I'll be in touch when I have more.

Bruce Banner.

[Bruce B.]

[JARVIS transcribed text.]

I need some help.

[Batman & Oracle, by encrypted file.]

[His progress so far. It's substantial. Notably he has ruled out the possibility that they're dealing with an actual strain of the bubonic plague--the big kicker is that it's a virus of some kind, but he has not yet been able to develop a vaccine. A vaccine would be a preventative measure for those not infected, and he's closer to that than he is to anything like an effective antivirus or treatment for those already infected.]

[Pepper P.]

[Voice connect to her office. Definitely no video. For the first time, he doesn't sound good. It seems to be hard to put long sentences together, as he's short of breath.]

I hope you got some sleep.

[Thor.]

I think I've got a way to get you the hammer, as long as it can withstand a serious sterilizing.