"PLEASSSSSE!"

"No. Freakin. Way."

"What man, you afraid of clowns or somthin'?" Cyborg smirked, wondering if their 'fearless leader' had fought the Joker one too many times.

"I… I just am not a circus person…" anymore…

"Dude! We even got Raven to say yes! And this place is so cool!"

Cyborg chimed in. "Yea! There are bumper cars, and an all you can eat buffet…mmm..."

"…and psychics, and magicians, and, and dude! The place rocks!"

"And the many rides to go on seem most amusing! There is a rollercoaster, and the giant cups of dizziness, and even a Ferris Wheel!" Starfire squealed in delight just thinking about the glorious place they had been invited to visit. That morning, they had been sent tickets to the mysterious carnival by an unknown name.

"There is no way by any means of nature that you can get me to step within 100 ft of the Haly Circus ever again." Their stubborn leader sat down and crossed his arms, showing them that the conversation was over.

Raven looked up from her book. "Ever again?" Raven thought. "Seems to me you've been there before. Maybe there are criminal memories there?" Raven gave him a meaningful look, and Robin scowled back, being fully aware Raven knew somthing about what had happened there from being in his mind. She was trying to figure out what she had seen. The boy had been to concerned as to what the conversation could lead to her discovering, so he always avoided it.

"Just… well… uh… um… it just sounds fishy! I mean, last time we were sent an anonymous package us three got possessed, and you and Starfire switched bodies!"

Starfire shuddered at the memories of their encounter with the puppet king. "You do have the good point friend Robin, but a circus is a public place is it not? And unless we can be possessed by the strange tickets sent to us, we would be perfectly safe! So will you come?"

The boy wonder just scowled. "No." he left the living room with Raven trailing behind.

"Please, what happened, what did I see in your mind? I need to know." Robin sighed.

"I don't know. You tell me. What did you see."

"I saw the vision from your point of view, but even that doesn't make sense, because I saw from up high… I saw a trapeze, and a spotlight. From the light, I saw the shadows of a man and woman falling. That's all I saw. What was it? Why were they falling? What happened to them? Who were they?"

Robin sighed, and said simply, "You just saw the death of the Flying Graysons," And walked into his room.

Raven went back to the living room, and met the expectant stares sent towards her. "What?"

"So, what's up with him? Why isn't he big on the whole circus experience?"

Raven tried to explain without explaining, not sure what Robin wanted to reveal. "While at a circus in Gotham, he witnessed the death of the Flying Graysons'."

"That is terrible!" Starfire gasped. "Why was Robin there and what happened?"

"I…I don't know. That's all he said." Raven didn't like lying to her friends, but she needed to learn more. "Let's just wait and see if Robin feels better about the idea in the morning. After all, the tickets are for next Saturday." The titans all disbanded to their rooms.

When Raven got to her room, she took out her laptop and searched – Flying Graysons. She was freaked out when she found out what had happened to them, and the thoughts that came to her mind afterwards.

They were a world famous trapeze act. Mary and John Grayson were the best trapeze artists on the planet. The third member of their act was their son, the youngest trapeze artist in the world, also be one of the best, Richard Grayson.

The night before their last act, a man working for a big time maffia boss came to their rehersal with his two brothers. They offered their services to protect the circus family, but for a hefty amount. They didn't take no for an answer, and started to attack John Grayson. His son promptly started to help protect his mother, and got punched in the stomach and almost stabbed.

Richard Grayson outsmarted the men, and had called the police. The Batman apeared about ten minutes after the fight started, and they captured one of the men.

The two remaining men had plotted revenge, and since they had 'lost' their brother to the police, they decided it fitting to make the family also suffer. They had taken the bolts securing one trapeze off, and sat in the audience as they watched two of the Grayson's fall. All was silent, except for the quiet sobs of the remaining Grayson- Richard, who had only been 12 years old.

Weeks later, Batman made his first aperance with his newfound sidekick Robin. They found and stopped the mafia leader, and put them all in jail for murder.

"Oh my gosh!" Thought Raven. "If Robin witnessed the murder, and saw it from up high... Richard was the only one of the Grayson's not killed. He hadn't gotten onto the ropes yet, so he was still safe... Robin didn't apear until weeks later, so he wouldn't have been Robin yet, and if he wasn't Robin..." Raven gasped, piecing what had happenedd together.

"No wonder Robin doesn't want to go to the circus! The place where Richard's Grayson's parents... Robin's parents had died."