Glad you aren't the timeline police come to haul me in :-) And I'm glad you liked the story! Hope you didn't mind too much that it was a little light on the sneezing.

I had so much fun writing their banter! I'm thrilled you got a kick out of it.

And I felt like Bruce was the only person Dick could be impatient and honest about regarding Jason. He wouldn't necessarily even show Jason his doubts, but he has to be honest with Bruce (partly because of their long relationship as partners and partly because Bruce can totally tell if anybody's trying to lie). So, yeah, he'll probably spend the rest of the night beating himself up internally for letting Jason hear that little bit of doubt. But the second he realized what was going down, he was definitely all about getting Jason home to recover.