I stand outside the mountain, on a perch over the deep sea, looking up to the heavens, salty tears running down my face. The next mission with my team, I will die. Or at least, that is what every-one will think. I don't want to do this to my friends, no, my family, but this is not optional. Something big is going to happen in Gotham, I don't know what and I don't know how long for, but what I do know is millions of people will die if someone doesn't intervene. I want to get to the bottom of the matter, before it gets out of hand. I'm going to have to go in deep. I'm going to have to step out of the light and go back into the shade.
No-one can no. No-one can see. If they had any idea what I was doing they would be ashamed, I would no longer fit in. Then again, if im honest, I am not one of them. I am not a child. My head involuntarily snaps round as the door opens behind me and light engulfs me. It's too bright, so I leave it. "Rob come on buddy, it's cold" I walk over, sticking to the shadows. "it's okay rob, you're only 13, way too young to take care of yourself." Oh poor wally, he has no idea. So child-like and innocent. I'm jealous.
Mission briefing
Mount Justice
15th January
20:00pm Local time.
"You are to watch and get information on the drug shipment, no more". This is perfect, Stanicos warehouse district is right next to a cliff. I will need the equipment and supplies ready, but it's possible. "you will depart tomorrow at 23:00pm, team dismissed." And with that the group disperses but Bruce grabs my shoulder and turns me around, our masked eyes meet. "I have a mission of my own, so I will not see you leave. This is a dangerous mission….just don't die, okay?" I nod looking at the floor, tears threatening to once again spill over my bottom eye-lid. "Good night Robin." he leans down, I feel him kiss my forehead and I remember the moment, knowing it may never come again. Without another word he leaves. I don't have long to prepare. I leave for the manor.
Wayne Manor
Richard's room
11:34pm- local time.
I pull out my old rucksack, still covered in my blood. It takes me a while to stop staring, to stop remembering. Taking a deep breath I walk towards the wardrobe, and I break the padlock on the bottom draw. Cautiously I pull it open. There's only four items in the draw: My black hoodie (once it was too big for me, now it should fit perfectly), my knife, my first gun (I never pulled the trigger, it still has its original bullets) and my wallet chain. Still covered in blood from the day. The day I found a home, the day I got a life. I'm going to leave everything I have, to go back to everything I had. I stuff it all (and a pair of black jeans and converse) in my bag and pick up the final item, teddy. I'm running out of time, so I leave to set up.
Stanico city
Beach-side out-skirts
The next day
00:00
The fight is going Badly, this is perfect. The cold rain batters upon my Kevlar as I fight alongside my team. I know what's going to happen. I can't pull this off until someone attacks me properly! Then I see him, a huge obnoxious man with bulging muscle and sweat dripping from him like the rain falling from above. He pulls out a machine gun, this is perfect! Rapidly he fires and I dodge every bullet fired, until one hits me. It ricochets off my bullet proof vest but everyone's to far away to see, they think it hit. "Robin!" Wally's voice is laced with fear like my own is laced with regret, I start running, pretending the bullets are to strong. I stop at the cliff edge. If this goes wrong I will die, no ones there to catch me this time. "Robin what are you doing?" What I have to. "Wally I'm going to have to jump" what I need to. "I'm going to fall. What I was born to do. "Tell batman I said thank you." I stare down into the liquid abyss below, where waves crash against the rocks. "I'm sorry" then I jump. In the distance I hear my name being screamed like whispers in the wind. I pull out my bat-line, swinging into a whole I blew into the cliff side earlier. I land in the cave I pull the line in and do the final step. I had placed my back-pack in the mini-cave earlier. I yank a knife out of the sack and take the final step, I cut of my arm from the elbow down. My lip bleeds where I bite it, just to not cry out in anguish. They won't need a body now. Then I throw it into the waters below me "ROBIN!" I'm sorry "he can't be dead" I'm sorry. "Why?" I'm sorry "h-he was my baby brother" I can't listen anymore. I pull my hoodie and clothing out of my bag, I get changed, but I don't put my hoodie on. Grabbing my cape I rip it, then I tie it around my now stumped arm, it stops the blood flow and it numbs the pain. Then I tie up one sleeve of my hoodie using a hand and my teeth. I slip around me and do the zip up. Then i attach the wallet chain, fully becoming him. I will have to wait here till they're gone. It's a long wait so I sit there and I cry. I was never a hero, I was always a villain. I was always a fake. I was always a shade.
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