Robin had never been alone from his team for this long in some time. It wasn't that it bothered him but it was who else was staying in the tower with him, it was some fourteen year old kid who had been accidentally transported into their dimension by a blip in Raven's powers.
Robin ran his strong fingers through his gelled hair, rubbing his hands together to rid them of the moisture that had collected from his hair. His dry skin soaked up the water gratefully.
The kid had refused to speak to Robin before the titans had left but now he would talk with robin when needed. He spent most of his time pent up in his room sitting there sullenly with his long hood draped far over his eyes. Robin had found a name tag on the kid but it only read, Darkened Master. Robin had taken up calling the kid Dark.
Behind Robin the doors to the common room hissed open. Robin turned to face the kid who was near a few inches taller than he. He had a certain confidence of motion and slid around rather than walked. The titans had been gone for near a month now and what seemed even stranger was that Dark knew near everything that had ever happened to them.
Robin by now had figured out a lot about Dark now and they shared a lot of moments talking about life. Dark had no problem fitting in to Jump city as he already knew so much about it. Robin thought it as somewhat eerie and decided that he had absorbed some of Raven's memories during the accident.
Dark stretched his fingers as he mulled into the room greeting Robin with a blank stare. The sun had just come up when a familiar voice cackled over the TV. screen. Dark span around a look of fear in his deep blue eyes. Robin caught Dark's gaze, realizing that Dark knew who it was and fully understood the man. Robin turned slowly. The lights cut out and the room went black save for the TV.
"Robin, long have I left you alone, tonight you will learn pain," a drunken voice hiccupped, "my old apprentice. You escaped me so now, when all your petty friends are gone, I come for you!"
Someone behind Robin threw a kick, Robin hit the wall unconscious, dark span around, his hair pushing his hood off.
"Dark, you come next."
Dark saw a shadow, flipped over the counter backwards and waited, waited, waited,
And waited
And waited.
That's when the pain began. A glint of Slade's mask was before Dark and then Dark and Robin were at his mercy.