Author's note: So to start with, things get really condensed on the computer. This took a one page front and back and another page front and half the back. Then on the computer it aint even on page. Anyways, the inspiration for this is just a couple little screen shots from TT. I hope you enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I own nada, just the idea.
"You've done well my apprentice." Slade's words echo in Robin's head. He'd returned from a mission where he'd encountered the Titans. In the past he's hesitated to fight them, for obvious reasons. But this time something had changed. He wasn't worried about hurting them. After a year of being forested to work for Slade, being his apprentice, Robin had lost hope of escaping.
As much as he hates it he's started enjoying it. The thrill of being a thief, or when Slade needed, an assassin. For the most part Slade was set on causing havoc, for Jump City and the world. Robin doesn't know what Slade has planned, but he's always got a plan.
When Robin wasn't on a mission he could pretty much do whatever he wanted. Just as long as he didn't try to talk to the Titans. To begin with he went out to the edge of the city. He avoided the tower at first, not wanting to get into a fight. But now he goes looking for a fight. He doesn't go near the tower but he does go to his old hangouts. Never when the Titans are there, if they did show he'd vanish. Just an instinct from when he did worry about fighting them.
Sometimes though he'd just hide rather than leave. He was curious about how his former team was doing. Raven was more secluded, Starfire hardly talked, hardly ate and never smiled. BB and Cyborg were as well sober. What he wondered about most is the blonde girl now with the Titans.
Being the former protégé of the world's greatest detective it should be easy to learn about the girl. But she had no history. Just random places she'd been over time. She was shy, probably felt out of place due to not knowing Robin, aside from stories and battles. She certainly wasn't a replacement, just and addition. The biggest observation he had about the new girl, Terra is what Cyborg had called her in battle during his last mission, is that she was rather clingy to BB. A piece of information that could be used against the Titans.
In Steel City, at Titans East not much had changed. The whole team is mourning the loss of a member. Speedy's taking it the hardest, sense he was closer to Robin than the rest of Titans East. Robin can't help but think they're acting like he'd dead. He may have betrayed them all, Titans East and his ex-team, but he's not dead. Maybe betrayed is as bad as him being dead, maybe it's just how they cope. Starfire overall seemed to take it the hardest. She'd loved Robin, probably still did, so having to fight him was killing her. Something that Robin found himself enjoying. More and more he could see just how much Slade was rubbing off on him.
After a year of being around him it makes sense that he's rubbed off on Robin. Not only has he rubbed off on Robin but he's also opened up some. Robin's learned Slade had three kids, two boys and a girl. He learned that one of his sons died and that's part of Slade's anger. Perhaps if Robin had learned this before he started enjoying his situation he may have used that info to help escape.
Robin himself was even starting to open up about his past. He told Slade about his life with Batman, though he never revealed who Batman really is. He wouldn't do that, not yet. Some of Batman's teachings were still there. But most were things of the past.