Without knowing why, Robin was awake at four in the morning. No matter how much he tried, he just could not fall asleep. Finally, he had given up on resting and had begun to wander the halls, thinking over everything that had happened. 'So Slade is gone, Raven is safe, the rest of the normal troublemakers are secure, and the Teen Titans are left with helping out with the few normal people who are stupid enough to commit crimes in our city. Everything seems pretty good.' He thought. Finding himself at the entrance to the living room, he stepped inside, wishing the sliding doors were quieter.
Inside was a surprise. He found the lights on and Beast Boy digging in the fridge. Even though it had been several months since he had first allowed his friends to see him without his mask on, Robin still felt self-conscious when it was off. He quickly found a spare in his utility belt and slipped it on. Feeling confident once more, Robin walked lazily towards the couch, calling a greeting to Beast Boy as he went.
"Hey Beast Boy, what's up?" Robin smiled a little as he heard spluttering and a yell of surprise from the green skinned boy. He leapt over the back of the couch and flipped on the television as Beast Boy walked over.
"Robin. What are you doing up so late. No early. Late? Whatever. What are you up for?" Robin flicked through the channels, scanning for anything good as he answered.
"It's early, and I've been asking myself the same question. I just can't sleep. What's your reason?" Beast Boy shrugged nonchalantly.
"Just hungry. Hey, we're almost out of tofu, will you remind Cyborg to pick some up next time he goes to the supermarket?" Robin glanced sidewise at Beast Boy and nudged him with his steel-toed boots.
"Why don't you just ask him when he gets up? And since when does Cyborg do the shopping?" Beast Boy immediately became upset.
"Cyborg does the shopping since Starfire started bringing home nothing but mustard and ice cream! How does she even eat that stuff?" Robin ignored the fuming and raving pointy-eared teenager, knowing he would calm down and forget about it in a few seconds. Sure enough, as soon as he finished his tirade, Beast Boy was asking if Robin wanted to play video games. Never one to refuse an offer at beating someone else at gaming, Robin agreed and the hours leading up till daylight were spent with the two boys elbowing and shoving each other and yelling about how the other one had cheated. Robin liked it; it was nice to just hang out for once instead of always being on missions.
By nine o'clock, both Robin and Beast Boy were exhausted. They had just agreed that they had tied when Cyborg burst into the room.
"Good morning good morning, what a beautiful day outside. MMhhmm, I'm hungry who want pancakes?" He stared eagerly at the two exhausted figures in front of him then frowned. Looking behind them he saw the game station out and the television still on. He faced them and whimpered slightly, amazement and hurt in his eyes.
"You two… You two…" Suddenly his eyes started to blaze. "You two pulled an all nighter on gaming and you didn't invite ME? Man I aughta whoop both of y'all!" He grabbed Robin in Beast Boy, one in each hand and was just putting them both in headlocks when the sliding doors opened again. Raven walked in, dressed as usual in her dark blue cloak. She glanced once at the trio, the passed them by and walked into the kitchen. Pouring herself a glass of orange juice, she said a quiet and monotone good morning, then walked over to the couch and began reading. Cyborg Robin and Beast Boy stared after her for a moment, then Cyborg snapped out of it and began squeezing his arms together, choking the two in his hold.
"Oh yeah, that'll teach the both of you to do fun stuff without me, yeah, how you like me now!" Cyborg was just getting cocky when Robin suddenly slipped out of his grip and Beast Boy morphed into an anaconda and began wrapping his coils around his former captors waist and arms, but making sure to steer clear of his neck. Robin playfully sweep kicked the now struggling Cyborg's legs out from under him, causing him to fall to the ground. Beast Boy yelped, as his tail got caught under the half-ton weight of metal, which had just fallen, and quickly morphed once more into his original shape, rubbing his backside and yelling at how unfair they had been. Cyborg and Robin laughed and tackled him to the ground, disallowing him from continuing his complaints.
Once more the sliding doors opened and in walked Starfire with a cheery good morning.
"Good morning friends! Is not the sun very bright today?" Then she caught sight of the three boys tangled up on the ground. Her face became the image of confusion. "You are… angry with each other?" Robin sat up quickly and assured her that it was all play, causing her face to once more break into a joyful grin. She looked like she would've liked to join in, but she caught sight of Raven sitting on the couch and decided instead to go and join her friend.
Robin finally wriggled free of the other two boys and got up.
"Alright, that's enough for me. I'm tired so I'm gonna go and see if I can't salvage a few more hours of sleep." From the tangle of metallic arms and green gorilla fur came an "Okay" and a grunt of some sort, which Robin guessed, was gorilla for all right. Even just walking to his room seemed difficult. The wide awakeness he had felt the night before had completely left and all that was left was exhaustion. He barely slipped his heavy boots off and unlaced his cape before falling into bed.