AN: I have noticed that there aren't a lot of stories with Tim in the center without the story being about angst, like seriously Tim is an awesome character and we only ever see him unloved and suicidal? We barely see him in Young Justice as well so I'm doing my own thing here.

This is set after season 2 but Nightwing doesn't leave the team and Wally doesn't die, like a year since season 2 ended and it disregards season 3- well some of it. I'm pulling around characters and changing some stuff so its not canon anymore also no one knows who is under the bats mask, not even in the League.

In season three we saw Jason for like 60 seconds (or less) on Infinity Island and he was amnesiac and trained by Talia so what if Talia put him in the pit and trained him but he still didn't remember? So she takes him back to Gotham and leaves him there, hoping he will remember. She would have been keeping tabs on him but then someone recognizes him and takes him away, foiling all of her plans and creating a whole lot of chaos.

Chapter one

Tim Drake also known as Robin to the team and the League sighed as he worked on his holo-computer. He was currently upgrading some tech that the team would be using when he sensed Cassie staring at him and he resisted the urge to face-palm.

So much had changed yet remained unchanged in the past year. Batman had been operating for ten years before the League had even been formed, not that they knew that however Batman never told them his name, mostly due to paranoia and the fact that he didn't know how long they would keep him around. B was sure that if he refused to share his identity they would kick him out due to that or maybe because of his many contingency plans.

However it never happened, the League still trusted him so he came close to telling the League but then he adopted Dick and he ended up being Robin and B refused to out himself because that would mean outing Robin and Dick wasn't ready for everyone to know about his past, he didn't want them to pity him so he waited until they were both ready and then the team had been formed.

B had thought about giving Dick permission to tell his friends his name and they had discussed it but then Barbara Gordon started going out as Batgirl without permission and he somehow ended up training her. He had to admit she had saved his life multiple times and she was a good ally to have but then if he told the League his identity then he would have to out her as well and that had to be her choice, so they pushed it back and waited for her to be ready.

A couple months in and they went back to the topic of revealing themselves however B and Dick soon met Jason Todd when he tried to steal the tires of the Bat mobile and the identity thing got pushed to the back burner. Babs always insisted that Dick who had been Robin at the time laughed the whole time that B made the kid put the tires back on.

Dick became Nightwing and Jason became the second Robin with the blessing of Dick but before Jason could even start going on missions with the team he had been killed. Jason had only been Robin for a year and he found Cassandra Cain who went by Blackbat now and she didn't want to go to the team. There were too many people for her to deal with and she preferred to work alone. B and Nightwing shut everyone out when Jason died and Barbara had basically shut down. They all were in mourning, none of them cared about revealing their identities and then Tim came around and gave them back balance.

They were talking about revealing their identities again when Spoiler came onto the scene not long after Wally reappeared from the speed force. Wally returned a few hours after they all went to back to the Watchtower but he was faster than ever so he ended up taking over for Barry as the Flash and Artemis stayed on the team. Spoiler had hit the streets of Gotham that night while the rest of the Leaguers and the team were taking a break, she stopped the Riddler back in Gotham and B had been impressed.

B still wasn't sure about her since she had a villain father but was trying to do good and he thought she had potential. She had been working on her own for three months, well more like Robin stalked her on and off and gave her some of Babs old equipment just to see what she was made off when B told Babs to work with her and let him know what she thought.

Babs liked her and so did Cass when they worked together once or twice so B was thinking of bringing her into the team. Once Babs had told B that she approved of the girl B let her into the cave basically saying that she was accepted as one of them. She had been working with them for like a year and a couple months. B even made her a good suit and let her into the cave and she knew their identities.

He and Steph were friends however they also had a secret and he knew that he was going to be in a world of trouble when B found out. Cassie snapped her hand in front of Tim's face breaking him out of his thoughts and the chaos that was going to follow when everyone found out.

"We have a mission. Lets go Tim." Said Cassie as Nightwing briefed them on their new mission in Gotham of all places.

Tim sighed when she walked away, Cassie was still cold to him even though she had dumped him about two months ago. He knew that it was practically his fault, he had been really busy with Steph and he rarely spent non mission/ non training time with her and he kept secrets from her.

He was actually surprised that it lasted as long as it did since Dick and Zatanna ended up being broken up about four months after they tried to give it a go. Dick had been a more attentive boyfriend but he also kept secrets and Zatanna wasn't going to put up with that. Cassie actually stuck around a lot longer than anyone else would have.

He cared about her, but in the long run he sought of knew that it wouldn't work between them. He liked Cassie but he knew who he loved and that was a can of worms that he just did not want to open because it was complicated okay?

Cassie on the other hand was ten kinds of hurt that the relationship ended because she hadn't wanted to end it. She was in love with him but she couldn't deal with being second place in his life. The hero gig would always come first, she knew that but even when he was with her, Robin wasn't really there. His mind worked so quickly that he never stopped thinking, genius kid, people called him but at the same time she should be able to give him so kind of peace and he was never at peace with her and it hurt and she wanted to know why. She deserved that much or maybe she was just looking for excuses to hold onto feelings that he didn't have for her. She didn't know anymore.

Alpha was made of Robin, Artemis, Wondergirl and Kid Flash (Bart). Their mission had actually been successful. Batman had a lead on drugs being smuggled through Gotham to where he believed would be Santa Prisca. They were meant to plant trackers on the drugs and steal whatever information they could have because they believed that the buyer would be meeting these guys on the Island would be Lex Luthor. If they could prove this then they could get him tossed out of his seat as senator even if the charges didn't manage to stick the press would eat him alive.

The mission went of flawlessly and of course Tim just had to think that and everything went shit up as the rest of Alpha ran across roof tops to catch a zeta out of Gotham. KF was the first person to notice the red helmet and suddenly he called it in.

"I see the Red Hood, he looks like he's running after someone. I'm going in."

Robin shouted out, "Wait." But no one listened as they moved on the target. He cursed, he was still at the docks, talking to a commissioner Gordon who had signaled him when he saw Robin to pass on some information. He had been meant to go out on patrol after planting the trackers while the rest left.

Cassie flew ahead and Artemis fired a couple arrows at him. He dodged them and shot at them. Robin's eyes widened as he cursed under his breath as he heard the gunshots and started moving faster. Kid Flash moved to attack him and the Red Hood caught him around the neck and pressed a gun to his head.

"Stop whatever the fuck you're doing or I put a bullet in him and I don't think his healing factor will be able to save him."

Everyone landed on the roof while Robin grappled towards them as Hood backed away from them when a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, wearing sweatpants and an oversized hoodie ran onto the roof, after climbing up the fire escape. Cassie took the distraction to try and wrap her lasso around KF and get him out of the hold when the Red Hood caught the lasso and swung her around before letting go. Cassie and KF had painfully collided with each other before KF hit a wall and fell into unconsciousness.

The girl moved towards them and Hood's attention was on her. Artemis took a running leap hoping to catch him off guard since his attention was on the stranger when he ducked in an almost impossible way and crashed into Cassie who had moved forward to get the girl out of the way.

Cassie felt herself wrap a hand around the wrist of the other girl when she hit the concrete, and she scrambled to her feet in horror when she realized that she had pulled too hard and when she let go the blonde stranger she went flying over the roof when Cassie lost her grip on her.

"Tim." Screamed the girl as she fell and before Artemis or Cassie could move to help her, Red Hood, threw his guns down and jumped off the building. He wrapped his arms around her body, trying to shield as much of her as possible when Robin went flying down after them both and caught the belt of the jeans Red Hood was wearing and deployed his grappler. The line pulled taunt and they slammed through the glass windows of the building below them.

Tim heard her scream his name and he saw Hood jump off the building without a grappler to save her so he went down as well after both of their dumb asses and he felt his shoulder pop out of place when they slammed into the building. He muffled a scream as he hit the side of the wall, at least they crashed through a window.

The rest of Alpha took the stairs down as he limped into the room where they had crashed. It was an abandoned building, Hood had taken most of the impact and the girl was lying on his chest, pressing both hands on a wound that just would not stop bleeding. Neither one of them noticed the rest of his team enter the room or gasp at the sight.

"Its too deep. We can't, we have to take him."

Cassie narrowed her eyes and Robin threw the girl some gauze, "Wrap it up as best you can. We don't have a choice." He replied to her and he turned to the team.

"What part of wait did you guys not understand? This is Gotham. You could have gotten yourselves killed and who knows who else?" she shouted at them and Artemis narrowed her eyes.

"You're hiding something." She said and Robin shot her a look so full of anger that she nearly took a step backwards, "You have no idea what you guys have done. The can of worms you have opened or the wounds. This wasn't supposed to happen yet and you ruined everything. Next time I say 'wait' KF, you fucking wait especially inside my city. Now get out of here, go to the Watchtower, debrief Nightwing, tell him to call Batman and I'll follow. I have to deal with this."

Back in the Watchtower Nightwing did as Robin had asked him too and called Batman. Most of the League were already in the Watchtower, waiting for the news from this mission, hoping that they could kick Luthor in the teeth. They all listened as they explained everything that happened and Batman, Nightwing and Batgirl, all looked confused and angry.

"Who is this Red Hood?" asked Wonder Woman.

The team had been briefed on Gotham criminals for this mission, it wasn't surprising that the Leaguers wouldn't know of him. He wasn't that important before he disappeared.

"At best we can describe him as an Anti-Hero. The Red Hood appeared about eleven months ago and was only active for one. He killed every murderer and rapist that he came across and then disappeared. He wasn't much of a threat at the time but we took notice to investigate him further if things escalated and then he disappeared so we didn't have much information on him." Replied Batgirl.

Green Arrow raised an eyebrow, "You just let him murder people in your city?" he questioned and Batman sighed, "The Red Hood wasn't a priority. In the month that he had been active, most of the Leaguers were on trial, the team were dealing with the Reach and patrolling the city and making sure no one knew that we were short-handed. We were going to investigate him, his training had been impressive but we didn't have the time to run around Gotham to find him and then he just disappeared." Replied Batman and then Robin came in with two other people that no one recognized.

They were both carrying the man between them, an arm slung over their shoulders and a wound bleeding somewhere under his leather jacket. The man was big at least 6'2 with black hair and an odd grey streak on the fronts. He was wearing jeans and biker boots and no one could see his face but they guessed he was unconscious.

The girl was beautiful, that was the first thing they all noticed even under the oversized hoodie and sweat pants with long blonde hair and pretty clear blue eyes and high cheekbones. She was gorgeous and she wasn't even trying to be.

Robin shuffled them over to the med-bay and immediately stitched the wound. The girl stepped back and turned towards the League and blushed faintly. She looked at Batman and barely hid her wince, "You can tell them if you're ready, I don't mind but when you find out, you need to know that it was me who found him and we were just trying to help. We were going to tell you but only when he was ready."

She stepped away and Superman's jaw dropped when Batman ran to the bed and hit his knees. He didn't even bother to care when he pulled off the cowl and revealed Bruce Wayne to everyone. Eyes widened when Nightwing and Batgirl unmasked and Megan couldn't help gasp.

"I recognize you guys from that one magazine, you're Richard Grayson-Wayne and Barbara Gordon." She said and neither one of them said anything when Robin peeled off his mask to reveal Tim Drake-Wayne, the youngest CEO of Wayne enterprises.

"What happened?" asked Batman in his normal voice surprising many.

Tim shook his head, "You don't understand B." said Tim as he unclipped his cape, pulled off his utility belt and stripped off the red part of his costume with the iconic symbol of R on it. He wore a plain white vest underneath and his pants and boots.

Several people took a second to take a look at the youthful face on the bed and several people were confused by the faint scarring on his cheek that looked like the letter J.

B moved to touch him when the man awoke with glowing green eyes and roared, the sound an animal would make and he wrapped his hands around Batman's throat. He shouted about betrayal, about being replaced and forgotten and being left unavenged.

Several heroes moved to stop him but Nightwing hit his knees and tears ran down his cheeks, no one knew what to do with that reaction but Tim wrapped his arms around the man on the bed and pulled him away while the girl threw a leg over his waist, grabbed a hand and pressed it against her heart before muttering something in a language they didn't know but it calmed him down.

As he calmed, the green bled out of his eyes and she soothed him back to sleep. They both looked at the other bats sadly, "I told you, it isn't what you think."

Batgirl spoke, "Pit madness?" she questioned and Tim ran his fingers through his hair and nodded yes.

Batman turned on them, "Explain." He growled out and the girl nodded her head tiredly.

"It's a long story, but we'll show you. We saved most of the footage, we knew that this day would come but we didn't think that it would be now. He still isn't better, not completely, not where we wanted him to be when we brought him to you."

Tim hacked brought up his computer as he opened a recording, "This is how it started. Almost 10 months ago. Steph called me."

Flashback

Tim was sparring with Cassie and every time they could they would sneak in a kiss or two when his phone rang and he stopped sparring to answer it, ignoring the look of confusion on his girlfriends face because there were only a select amount of people who could reach someone inside the Watchtower and all members of the Batfamily were here.

"Tim you need to get here, right now." Said Steph and Tim narrowed his eyes.

"Are you injured? Did something happen?" asked Tim

"No, I'm not hurt, its not that. I found something and I don't know if I'm right or not but I need you here right now because I know for a fact that I am in over my head. Just track me." And she cut the call and Tim went running to her without giving anyone an explanation.

Flashback ends

Stephanie spoke before anyone could question her, "Red Hood had been seen going into a warehouse, at least that was what some thugs told me when I caught them jacking a car."

Cassie interrupted, "You're a hero?" she questioned and she blushed when everyone realized that none of them knew her.

"Yeah, I've been at this for a year now, I go by Spoiler. B said I could join the team when I was ready but I kept making excuses. Anyways, I was still starting out, so I kept it low level so that B would see I was responsible and not getting in over my head. The thugs thought I would let them go in return for the information so I checked it out after tying them up. I wasn't going to go after him, he was well trained and I wasn't good enough to take him on, I knew that. I was going to call B if I found him but he wasn't wearing his helmet and I recognized that scar on his face so I called Tim. I didn't know if I was right or not and I couldn't do that to B especially if I was wrong."

Dinah took a step forward, "Do what? Who is this man? Listening to you it sounds like he is the criminal Red Hood but you all seem to care for him."

Tim stepped forward and gave Steph a glass of water, "Nightwing also known as Dick was the first Robin. Jason Todd was the second Robin. He took on the mantle for a year and just before he could join the team he was beaten by the Joker with a crow bar, he was then left in a warehouse with a bomb and died from smoke inhalation when it exploded. He was fifteen years old."

Several eyes widened, some jaws dropped and none of the Bats could bare to look at each other when Tim continued, "B went off the rails when Jason died. He nearly killed the Joker, but Dick stopped him but he couldn't deal. He got violent on patrol and reckless, nearly killing himself or someone else. I knew who Batman was, I knew who they all were, I figured it out due to the fact that Dick was an acrobat from a circus I went to as a kid. He did a certain move, a move only a Grayson could do. I told him to be Robin again but he couldn't so I took the mantle to keep B sane, because Batman needed a Robin, he needed hope."

Wally gaped for a second before snapping out of it and saying, "That doesn't answer anything. I mean thanks for answering many of the questions that we had but that doesn't answer the question that Dinah asked."

Tim sighed, "That is Jason Todd. Steph recognized the J carved into his cheek. The Joker did it when he kidnapped him."

Diana felt her eyes widen, "You said he died."

Tim nodded his head, "He did die but Talia Al Ghul stole his body and placed it inside a Lazarus pit. It brought him back but he didn't remember. When he came to Gotham he had been trained, League of Shadows trained and every time he came across a crime he killed the people responsible. We believe that Talia left him here to remember and he did, sort of. He started wearing the Red Hood and killing criminals but he still didn't remember not properly. Steph found him when he remembered something, it triggered pit rage as we call it and then he fainted. I showed up and we kidnapped him, took him to place where he couldn't escape and waited for him to wake up while we ran DNA. We hadn't figured it out then."

Clark stepped forward, "Hadn't figured out what yet?" he questioned and Steph rubbed her temples.

"When we first found him, I saw him raging, breaking things, hurting himself and then he fainted but I didn't know why he was like that. I wasn't even sure if it really was him. I never met Jason before, but that scar, I would recognize it anywhere and I freaked out. If I was wrong it would bring up so much for B and I couldn't disappoint him like that so I called Tim."

Tim brought up some footage and said, "This is footage from my suit, we all have cameras in our suits in case one of us is captured."

Video starts

Tim landed softly before padding over to a girl dressed in purple and black and they all watched as his eyes widened when he looked at the figure on the floor.

"Is that who I think it is?" asked Tim and Spoiler pulled her mask off her face.

"I don't know is it?" replied the girl before she explained how she found him. They were so busy trying to figure out what to do that neither of them noticed that the figure on the floor had woken up.

He attacked Tim, punching and kicking while screaming out being replaced and betrayal and Robin and a clown of some sort and Stephanie hit him on the head with a brick. He crumpled to the ground and Tim rubbed his neck where Jason tried to choke him.

"His eyes were glowing green." He told her and she raised an eyebrow, "So he's possessed?" she questioned and Tim shook his head.

"Your eyes only look like that if you bathe in a Lazarus pit." Replied Tim and Stephanie scoffed, "Those things from the legends? Like made from the essence of slaughtered angels and has healing powers?"

Tim shrugged, "Ra Al Ghul is the leader of the League of Shadows and he keeps his youth by bathing in the Lazarus pit but not even he knows the full extent of its powers. He has been searching for answers to how the waters work for centuries and he still doesn't fully understand its powers however he has used it to bring himself back from the dead many times but every time you use it, it infects your mind."

Stephanie eyed the unconscious man on the ground, "So he has some sort of pit madness?"

Tim shrugged, "Ra has never been dead for more than a couple hours whenever he used the pit to bring himself back. Jason had to have been dead for days before he managed to steal the body. There's no telling how much of Jason is back or how much madness there is in him. He already killed people and it seems like Talia trained him but he doesn't seem to be very aware. He is moving on instinct and he seems to be pissed at Batman and the new Robin meaning me."

Stephanie narrowed her eyes, "So do we tell B or Nightwing or BG?"

Tim ran his hands through his hair and groaned, "Tell them what? Hey B, you know your son, the one you still mourn for? Well I think your crazy ex threw him in a magic pit that brought him back with glowing green eyes and he's 10 shades of pissed at all of us and he killed several people and I don't know how sane he is currently so when's patrol?"

Stephanie winced, "Yeah, lets not say that. How about we take him away from here and you take off that costume and meet him as Tim?"

Tim looked confused and Steph sighed, "Look, he is pissed at Batman and Robin and everyone else related to the bats, so lets take him out of his rat infested warehouse and somewhere safe and hygienic. We'll take of the masks and try and figure out how sane he is. If he doesn't fight us when he isn't triggered maybe we can help him."

Tim nodded, "I know a place we can take him. You stay with him while I run fingerprints and DNA and try to determine if he isn't completely homicidal all the time."

Stephanie raised an eyebrow and Tim shrugged, "We have met many clones, shape shifters, pod people and other flavors of crazy. We need to know if this really is the resurrected Jason Todd or someone's really poor attempt at a joke because if it is, I am going to be breaking bones and wrecking lives."

Stephanie nodded, "You run your tests and stuff and then when we're sure of what we're dealing with, then we'll tell B."

Video ends

Tim sighed, "We took him to one of my safe houses, a one bedroom cabin a couple miles outside of Gotham in the middle of a forest. It took two days but I was able to find traces of the Lazarus waters on him and I even checked his grave. I sent a bug down to get a sample of DNA from the corpse in the grave, it wasn't human. It was a doll."

Stephanie yawned and everyone suddenly realized how late it was.

Batman sighed, "Everyone go to bed, we'll continue the debrief tomorrow. We still need to send our data to a judge so the team will be here and whoever wants to hear the rest can come back in the morning if you can."

Tim grabbed Stephanie's hand and pulled her to one of the many rooms that the Watchtower had installed when the team started working out of here. Many of the teens crashed here and no one said anything when the two teens decided that they were going to be sharing a room even though Cassie narrowed her eyes at them both.

Once all the bats had left the room, Cassie, Bart, Kaldur, Artemis, Connor and Megan were the only ones left in the room.

"They're sharing a room." Muttered Cassie and Artemis looked away from her, it was obvious to see that everything that was happening hurt her but at the same time it was obvious what Tim meant earlier. They opened a can of worms, brought the fact that Batman's second son was an insane killer out in front of the entire League and it was obvious to see how much pain and hurt and confusion this was causing the Bats.

"We should have listened to him." Muttered Bart.

He gestured to the man in the med-bay, "Whatever we're going to find out, its going to be painful and awful for them and just like they said. They weren't ready yet and we forced their hand."

Megan sighed, "All we can do is listen and figure out what to do when the time comes."