AN "Blah"- Normal speech
'Blah'- Thoughts
"Blah"- Dreams, memories

Teen Titans
We who fall

Chapter 1: Cycle
He lay there in the darkness in the comfort of his bed but given his current mood it may as well have been a bed of nails for all he cared. Closing his eyes he tried to escape the thoughts that plagued him but no such luck, they came at him tenfold placing him back in the place that was causing his distress. He was back in that warehouse he had been separated from the others but frankly he didn't care wall that mattered was who was the person in front of him, Slade. Robin was lying on the ground breathing heavily blood pouring from the wound on his head

"Don't you tire of this Robin? You can not defeat yet you put yourself through all this pain and punishment in a futile effort to try." Slade said mocking his fallen opponent

"I swear I'll take you down Slade even if I had to die trying." Robin spat

Slade gave a small chuckle

"You would die and I assure you Robin your death would be in vain." he said with a smirk behind his mask

"What are you talking about?" Robin asked

"Haven't you realize no matter how hard you fight things will never change, even if you somehow defeated me no doubt someone would take my place."

"Shut up."

"You know I'm right Robin. No matter how many people like me you put away someone always arises to fill the void left behind."

"No."

"I offered you a chance to become then you are and you spat in my face, but its not too late I'm offering you one last chance to join me Robin. Together we could bring this city to its knees."

"Go to hell Slade."

"You know I'm right Robin."

"Fuck you." that was the last thing that happened before Slade knocked him unconscious.

Robin awoke with a start sweat pouring off his brow, looking over to the clock by his bed side he saw it read 2:00am

"You know I'm right Robin. No matter how many people like me you put away someone always arises to fill the void left behind." toughs words came back to him they'd been haunting ever since he'd re gained consciousness but kept shrugging it off as Slade trying to mess with his head but know he couldn't stop thinking about it

'What if Slade's. What if nothing that me and the Titans have done made any real difference at all. No, I can't think like that. Trigon we stopped Trigon from taking over the galaxy and...'

He looked over at his clock again 2:01am instead of trying to get back to sleep grabbed some civilian clothes, his leather boots and his long black leather coat and removed his mask he needed to go for a walk.

Even at this time of night or morning if you prefer the streets were still pretty packed with people all except the more seedier bars would be shut now but there'd still be a few clubs and other such places where a guy could get a drink would be open especially in this part of town.

It reminded Robin of a place in Gotham called the Narrows which housed the infamous Arkham Asylum where alot the worst criminals in Gotham city were sentenced including many in his mentors, the Batman, rogues gallery The Joker, Scarecrow, The Riddler, Two Face these guys made the villain's in Jump City look like a joke.

As he walked he took in all that was going on around him drug addicts looking for their next fix and plenty of dealers ready and willing to supply them, for a price, rival gangs sizing each other up ready to go to war with each other at the smallest sign of trouble, thugs and muggers looking for their next victim and prostitutes finding their next mark, some were women illegally smuggled into the country in hopes of a better life but they have to find someway to pay the people who got them here whilst others live in such poverty they have no other choice.

This is what he and the other Titans and even the police had neglected sure they could take down all the H.I.V.E.s and Brother Bloods and Slade's of the world but in the end this was what was causing the cities decay. Slade's words once more echoed in his ears but as before he didn't ignore it

'No matter what I do it doesn't end, it never ends the cycle simply continues as it has always done.'

Walking along he came across a liquor store which surprisingly was still open considering it was nearly three in the morning, entering he searched the shelves which filled with bottles containing pale orange or clear alcoholic liquid till he found what he was looking for a bottle of Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey and headed for the counter

"Aren't you a little young to drink that?" the shop keeper asked

"Just ring the bloody thing up." Robin growled the shop keeper sighed whilst the uncostumed hero him twenty dollars before snatching the bottle and the $2.01 change.

Robin headed for the door when three men wearing black ski masks burst in two of them carrying pistols whilst the third had a shotgun which he pointed at the shop keeper whilst his two companions started grabbing and many bottles and packets of cigarettes as they could

"Open the register and give us the money. " the guy said "Now and if you press that silent alarm and alert the cops I swear I'll blow your head off." then cocked it and fired a shot just missing the shop keepers head and causing constants of the small cabinet filled with mini bottles to explode.

The shopkeeper shakily opened the register and put all the money including small change into a small bag that the guy with the shotgun had thrown to him and when he handed it back the guy with the shotgun knocked him unconscious with the butt of his gun before he and his companions made a break for it and all this time Robin just watched,

he exited the store a few minutes after the crooks had scampered stooping down to pick up another bottle of Jack that they'd dropped and headed for home.


A.N. Well this is the first chapter of my first full Titans story which hopefully should run for another 3 or 4 chapters, I just hope I can make this as dark as I envisioned it. Well later.