Just another YJ story. This is my favorite TV show, it's so addicting. This one is totally Robin-centric. I love Robin so much, Dick Grayson is the most amazing fictional character ever. I wish he was real.

Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice. Because we live in a cruel world that lets the best shows end too soon.

Robin's P.O.V.

"Never seen these guys before. Must be new in Star City." Artemis mocked the gang of thieves.

The team had them surrounded, all of us but Artemis were hidden in the shadows. There were about ten guys. They looked up at the sudden intruder. One of them, a large bald man with pure white skin spoke. "Oh, you must be Green Arrow's little sidekick. Where's your mentor? We don't have time to waste on a little girl."

"He's not here. And I don't need his help to take you down."

The man laughed, he seemed to be the leader. "Take us down? What law have we broken? You say you've never seen us before, so what makes you think we're criminals?"

"Because I know you stole some of the United Nations new defense weapon secrets. We tracked the missing case back to this warehouse, and to you."

"We?"

The rest of us stepped, or in my case dropped from the rafters, out of the shadows. "Allow me to introduce you to my friends." Artemis said. The gang looked shocked to see us. "This is Zatanna, Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Rockette, Miss Martian, and Superboy. And they are here to help me take you in."

The gangsters gathered in a circle. The leader laughed again. "You think that a group of children can defeat us?" He shook his head disbelievingly. "Now let me introduce you to my friends. They call me albino. This is Lion," The guy had a lot of hair all over his head and face. "Eyebrows," who had no eyebrows. "Baldy," he was bald. "Snake," who wore snakeskin boots and vest. "Temptress," She wore a tight, revealing leather bodysuit. "El diablo," his entire body was painted red. "No name," was clad entirely in a black morph suit. "Nyx," her outfit was a black and silver cloak. "And Kakaraska."

"The Raven." I translated. He wore a mask like a birds face and a spandex suit with a feathery pattern. The suit covered from his neck all the way down to his ankles, he wore black boots and gloves with talon-like pieces of metal on the fingers. He appeared to be the youngest of the group, only 18 or 19.

He turned to me. "You speak Kalderas?"

"Hai." (yes) I responded.

"Impressive. You're smart. So I'm guessing you know that a robin will always lose to a raven in a fight." He challenged.

I smirked. "We'll see about that."

We jumped into action. Aqualad took on Albino. Zatanna took on Nyx and No name, who worked together. Superboy took on El Diablo and Lion, the two biggest guys. Miss M took eyebrows, Rockette took Baldy. Artemis and KF teamed up against Snake and Temptress. I accepted Kakaraska's challenge.

I jumped into the rafters after the guy. The two of us grappled and flipped across the beams. We traveled all through the building getting separated from the other's. He was as agile and balanced on the rafters as easily me. I had to hand it to the guy, he was a great acrobat. And I would know.

We both jumped onto a worn out beam which nearly gave out beneath us. He had to grab onto another beam to keep from falling. The distraction gave me a chance to get the upper hand. I didn't think he had been at the criminal thing very long. I kicked his ankle and he fell. He turned the fall into a flip. End over end four times. A quadruple flip, something only the people in my family had ever been able to do. I was shocked, to say the least.

The Kakaraska landed on his feet graciously. I didn't give him time to move before I jumped onto his shoulders. He went down underneath me and suddenly I was straddling his chest. "Where did you learn to do that?!" I demanded.

He was so surprised that he stilled underneath me. "Huh?"

"That quadruple flip!" I clarified. "Only six people in the world were ever able to do that. And four of them are dead."

"Well then I must be one of the other two." He replied.

"No! You're not!"

I grabbed at his mask. He was too slow to stop me. I got my fingers under the edge and pulled. It held for a moment and I pulled more. The string holding it broke. As the mask came off suddenly I fell backwards. The young man sat up and pushed me off of him. I rolled to my feet and faced the Kakaraska as he stood as well.

His face was the last thing I was expecting. Short raven hair topped the young man. His skin was lightly tan and his features akin to Indian. (I really do mean India, not Native American) His eyes were a rich dark brown, I hadn't seen eyes like his in nearly five years.

I found myself stupefied at the sight of who could only be a Grayson. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He looked so much like my family, and he was the right age to be Jonny that I couldn't help myself when I said the name.

He looked at me very confused for a moment, then took a step closer studying my face. "Dick?" He whispered.

I dropped his mask out of my hand and the two of us stared at each other dumbfounded. My cousin was alive! I had watched him fall to his death, yet here he was now standing in front of me. I couldn't believe he was here. By the way he was looking at me I knew he must feel the same about me. I guess it's not every day you find out your long-lost family member is a superhero.

My joy only lasted a moment. Albino ran into the room carrying the case. We both turned to him startled. As he ran passed he yelled at Jonny. "C'mon Kakaraska." My cousin was a criminal.

I had tuned out all the voices of my friends inside my head during my fight and reunion with Jonny. Now they got my attention back when Aqualad ordered, "Robin they got the case and our coming your way intercept them and we will help you retrieve it."

It took me a few seconds to get my head back in the situation. The mission… I didn't care about the stupid mission anymore, Jonny… was running after his crew. He kept glancing back with a troubled look on his face. I took off after him.

Their helicopter was waiting at the back of the warehouse. I was out the door only a second after them. Artemis was on the roof shooting arrows at them. She spotted me closing and yelled encouragingly, "Yeah! Catch him Robin!"

She didn't know I wasn't going after the case. I was close enough now. I could've reached out and caught it, I could've completed the mission. That was Robin's top priority. But in that moment I wasn't Robin. I was Dick Grayson. I had switched persona's as soon as I had seen his face. And Dick's top priority was to get my cousin. I lurched forward and grabbed hold of Jonny's arm. We both stopped in our tracks. His eyes were full of pain and indecision. He kept looking back and forth between where his crew and the helicopter were taking off and me. While Artemis yelled curses at me from above.

"Jonny." My voice was weak and begging. I wanted, needed him to stay. "Prosil." (Please)

He shook his head. "Nikako." (No) He slipped into our native tongue as well. "Nikako, keisavol Dick." (No, I'm sorry Dick.) He wrenched his arm from my grasp and ran to the chopper.

The chopper was off the ground before he jumped in. I had too many emotions running through me. There was too much happening inside that to make up for it nothing happened outwardly. I stood there completely still.

Artemis came running at me yelling furious. I didn't hear the insults and curse's she screamed at me. The rest of the team was all made their way out to where we were. KF was first naturally. He told Artemis to stop yelling and tried to get my attention. I could hear M'gann trying to reach me telepathically as well.

When everyone was gather Artemis explained, in her own extraordinarily angry way, what had happened. "…He had a chance to grab it and he didn't."

Aqualad cut off her rant and asked me what had happened. I gave no response. Even if I had wanted to, I was forbidden by Batman to tell them anything that had to do with my identity. Also, none of them could possibly understand if I did. All of them took their turn trying to demand answers from me. I was never forthcoming.

They eventually gave up when Batman contacted us to find out if we had succeeded. "We failed." Aqualad informed him.

"Get back here now and we'll talk about this." Batman commanded.

KF practically had to drag me to the bioship as I was still rooted to the ground staring at the horizon where I had last known my cousin to be. I sat in my seat with my back to the other seven of the team. I didn't say a word the entire trip and none of them tried to make me. They just watched me with wary and worried expressions.

Wally's P.O.V.

Back at the mountain the eight of us stood in a line getting a lecture from Batman. Robin hadn't said a word since before the fight. He didn't contribute to the story at all. Which was highly unhelpful as none of us could explain to Batman why Robin had gone after the other guy.

When we reached that part of the story everyone turned to him and waited once again for an explanation. He lowered his head, refused to make eye contact with anyone, and remained silent. Artemis kept talking about the way she had seen him 'purposefully' let the case get away. I could understand she was angry, but she was going a bit far.

Batman thought so as well. He told her to be quiet. Before refocusing his attention on his protégé. "What happened out there today? What did you do?" Batman demanded.

Robin shifted uncomfortably. I was positive I could guess how he would react, depending on his mood. He might make sarcastic comments. Or make excuses for what happened. He might get angry at Artemis. If he was really mad, he might tell Batman off. I never expected, never could have guessed what happened. Rob cried.

I had only seen him cry one or two times in the three years I had known him. None of the rest of the team ever had. One droplet of water escaped from beneath his mask. Then another. It was enough to stop even Artemis in her rant.

He began sobbing unexplainably. Batman didn't seem to know what to do either. He placed his hand on his protégé's shoulder. The fourteen-year-old boy stepped forward and wrapped his arms around his mentor. Batman stood shocked for a moment.

"R-robin? What's wrong?"

"Se kuterika ek mulani." (It was like a ghost) His voice was weak and shaky. "El dicol zuvindo. Numa em serel lel aminte el merel." (He was alive. But I remember watching him die.)

"Kon?" (who?) Batman said. Then decided different. "Em angrel tu kheresko."(I'm taking you home.) I didn't know what they were saying, but I was sure they were speaking Romani, Robin's native language. He reverted to English to address the rest of us. "The rest of you are dismissed, we'll discuss what happened on this mission later."

He swept out of the room, taking Robin with him. The zeta-tube announced their departure a moment later. None of the rest of the team moved for a few moments, still in utter shock of what had occurred. "Um? Is that normal?" Rocket asked.

All us original members of the team shook our heads. "He was so upset. I could feel it." Miss Martian said.

"I've never seen him cry before." Zatanna voice was small.

"Me neither." All of Artemis's previous anger was gone. "Wally?" I looked at her. "You know him best."

I shook my head sadly. "I have, but never as Robin."

There was a hesitant pause. "You know Robin's secret identity?" Aqualad asked.

"Yes."

"Do you know what that was about then? What they were saying?" He asked.

"No. I don't understand Rob's native language. Which is probably why they used it. But I'd bet anything that whatever happened has to do with his secret identity."

"So we're on the 'not' need to know list. As usual." Superboy growled.

"Wait a minute, English isn't Robin's first language?"

Bruce's P.O.V.

I never thought I would see Robin cry in front of his friends. He was sobbing into my Kevlar suit heavily. His words didn't make sense to me. I had dismissed his teammates because I was sure he wouldn't want them to see him like this. It took only a second to program the zeta tube to take us to the Batcave. Normally I never used the Batcave zeta tube. It was behind many locked doors and secured with many traps. I would use the one in crime alley and just go through Gotham. But I didn't want anyone to see Robin in such a weak state.

I pulled Dick into the main part of the cave and reset the defenses around the zeta tube before I spoke to him again. His tears had slowed but still not stopped. He stood shaking in his boots. I pulled my cowl off my face as I walked to him. He didn't need the Batman right now, he needed Bruce Wayne. I gently pried the mask off of his face.

His blue eyes shone with a deep sadness. I held him in my arms a moment and let him sob himself out. Alfred called down from upstairs to confirm that we are home. I told him we would be down here a little while and asked him to make some cookies for Dick.

When he was done crying Dick leaned his head into my chest, trying to get his breathing in control. "What happened Dick? Your teammates said you blew the mission by giving up the case to go after one of the thieves. I need to know why." I knelt down and made him look into my eyes. "Who was the man? You called him a ghost. You said you watched him die."

He looked like he might start sobbing again as he tried to choke out the answer. "It was Jonny, mina vero. (My cousin.)"

"Dick, that's impossible. Isn't he dead?"

"I-I thought so. But it was him, I saw him. He was there. It was his face."

"Maybe it was someone who looked a lot like him. It's been five years; you don't know what he would look like."

"But I do. He looked like kako Rick and like a Grayson. He spoke Kalderas Romani. And he knew me. Recognized me. He called me Dick."

"Okay. So he's alive. That's a good thing."

Dick shook his head. "But I watched him die. I watched him fall. With Dadiko (Daddy) and Daji, (Mommy) and kako Rick and bibi Karla. How can he be alive?"

"I don't know. Is it possible he didn't fall?"

He looked lost, trying his hardest to remember. "I'm not sure."

"Then it's possible he didn't. This should be a happy thing. He's alive and you found him." The tears returned. "What's wrong?"

"He left me. He ran away from me. He…"

I held him tightly as he sobbed once more. The elevator opened to reveal Alfred with a tray of cookies. He seemed slightly surprised to find Dick crying his eyes out in my arms. Dick looked up as he heard the old butler come in, and no doubt smelled the cookies. He wiped at his tears embarrassed. "Are you quite alright Master Dick? Whatever is the matter?"

The small teen looked down in shame and stuffed his mouth with a fresh baked cookie. I too took a cookie. "Just a mission gone very bad, Alfred. It turns out, his cousin Jonny is alive."

"What? That's extraordinary!" Alfred exclaimed.

Dick just stood with shaking hands and tried to keep back a fresh wave of tears. He stuffed another cookie in his mouth. "Get out of your costume Dick." He walked quickly towards the changing rooms.

"Isn't this a good thing Master Bruce? His cousin, alive? Why is he so distraught?" Alfred was quite worried for his 'grandson'.

"It's been five years, and Dick never knew Jonny was alive. He got to see him today. But Jonny was with the gang of thieves that the team was going up against and when they recognized each other, *sigh*, he ran away from Dick."

"Oh the poor child. Why would Jonny run away from Master Dick? That must be hurting the boy deeply."

"Yes." I sighed.

"You should get changed too Master Bruce. I shall go start dinner."

I nodded. "Do you think you could make xaimoko for dinner?"

"Of course Master Bruce. With sarma and pogacha on the side?"

"Yes. Thank you Alfred."

This is one of my favorite stories to write. I haven't struggled with writers block at all on it. And I got to learn some Romani. The Romani in here may not be proper grammar but the words are actually in Kalderus Romani. Xaimoko, sarma, and pogaca are Romani dishes I thought could be a comforting childhood food for Dick.