Pain

Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice

A/N: okay for most of my original stories I write freakishly dark and I'm really in the mood for it. I'm just gonna say the rating of this will probably go up.

Chapter one: Pain, Abuse and love

Roy Harper looks down to the sobbing boy in his arms. He feels his heart wretch and break at the sight. Richard Grayson finds himself like this so often these days. Hidden beneath his civvies are dark bruises and bite marks.

For almost six months now Dick has been in a relationship with an unknown person a person who has gone from rough to abusive. Roy doesn't know why the younger hero stays with this person (Dick hasn't actually told Roy because he knows Roy will kill him).

Things have been going downhill for weeks now. Roy always wonders how Dick manages to hides his disaster or a body, one that is bruised and unnaturally thin, is hidden from the world's Greatest Detective; Batman.

Dick lets out a particularly loud sob that shakes his boy and Roy tightens his grip. Dick's pain is so apparent. And it hurts Roy so deeply. Even more than this, he thinks he loves Robin in a way that is more than brotherly. He views it as wrong, Dick is thirteen, and he is eighteen. But still there are soft kisses, lying together while they sleep. Simple comfort that comes out as a little more than friendly.

The archer knows the younger returns the advance, however soft, for comfort. He doesn't love Roy the way Roy loves him. In fact he is clearly in love with someone else, someone who Roy blames for this entire mess.

Wally West aka Kid Flash. Robin's best friend and his cause for broken heart and drive into the arms of whoever is abusing him. It was six months ago that Wally entered a relationship with Artemis. In the relationship they do nothing but argue but they stay together, possible for the sexual aspect but since them the little ebony has become invisible. It hurt Dick more than anything.

Roy lift's Dick's face from his chest looking into his beautiful tear filled red eyes the red head's thumb lightly brushes a trail of tears from Dick's cheek before leaning down and genially, carefully steals a kiss from the soft pink lips. Robin kisses back drawing in all the feeling of someone who can love him without hurting him. Roy breaks the kiss and looks down at the boy in his lap.

"You need to tell Bruce," he says softly more urging then an order, Dick madly shakes his head.

"No," he says in a voice thick with tears. "He can't know! He doesn't even know I'm gay!"

He can't know how weak I am.

"Dick this is going too far," Roy whispers. "I can't stand to see you like this! Please Dick let me help you!" Roy stares pleadingly at the hero lunches himself into Roy's arm's burying his face in the crock of the archers neck.

"I'm sorry," he sobs. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry…" he repeats himself over and over until his breath isn't coming out right and he's begun to hyperventilate. Roy rubs the boy's back and rocks his body until his breath has calmed and he is swayed into sleep.

Roy lifts him bridle style and carries the thirteen year old to his bed room, laying him down as carefully as possible, like he is made of glass ready to shatter. Roy stares down at him in misery not knowing what to do. No clue how to save him.