Masks of the Robin
Robin walked down the poorly lit street with silent tears streaming down his face. He couldn't help but just slip back to the moment when his teammates had cornered him after the training simulation.
Flashback
He had run straight down to the training room to stop anyone from seeing the tears streaming down his face. As soon as he had reached the training room he had collapsed crying on the floor in a heap. He has sat curled up in a ball with his arms around himself with just one thought running through his brain 'what have I done'.
After a few minutes it was made clear that no one was coming after him and he couldn't cry anymore. Checking one last time that there were no more traces of tears on his face he has carefully schooled his face into to blank mask and had walked into the living room. There he had been confronted by his teammates. As head opened his mouth to apologise for what had happened during the simulation he was quietened by his teammates
"You bloody idiot, how could you knowingly send us all on suicide missions. And I know that it was just a training simulation but how can we trust you on the field when Aqualad stead down from leader" yelled Wally furiously shaking his head.
"I had thought you had been ready to take charge and lead the team but obviously I was wrong" Aqualad had said disappointedly standing there with his arms across his chest looking at me with an angry look in his eye but not once raising his voice. That is some ways had been worse than the abuse being shouted at me.
"We shouldn't have trusted you with owe lives and the lives of millions of others anyways. I mean how we can trust someone who doesn't trust us with his own secret identity" hissed Artemis glaring at me.
"For someone who doesn't want to become Batman so desperately you sure are awfully like him" Conner had said crossing his arms. He more angry that I had sent Miss Martian to her death than his own.
I opened my mouth to respond but no words had come out. I had expected that they would be angry at me for the simulation but I would have never guested that they would invade my privacy like that. They were supposed to be my teammates not my enemies. Couldn't they see that they had defended all of earth despite that fact that we had died. They also seemed to forget the fact that I too had died not long after they were all dead.
With these thoughts running through my head I simply took a step back and turned around and entered the zeta beam sending him to Gotham.
Flashback end
Their words kept repeating in his head; 'I wouldn't become him … I just won't' he thought furiously. Soon he had reached the Wayne manor and made his way up to his room falling asleep hoping that he would just wake up realizing that the day had just been a terrible dream and that his team didn't hate him.
Sadly fate seemed to be against him that day because he woke up with barely an hour of sleep as he was plagued with nightmares all night seeing each off his teammates dying before reliving the night his parents had died. He rubbed his eyes and looked into the mirror with his refection gazing back at him. His skin was deathly pale with dark shadows under his eyes looking like bruises.
He quickly washed his faced before putting on his Gotham Academy uniform on walked down the long winding stairs trying to regain his usual bounce in his steps. As he entered the kitchen he was greeted with the sight of Alfred cooking wearing a frilly apron. Smiling at the sight he slid into one of the dining tables chairs.
"Good morning Master Richard, I trust you are ready for school today" said Alfred.
"Of course whenever have I been not ready for school" replied Richard (aka Robin) slowly regaining his cheeking attitude shoving the pancakes into his mouth.
"Good to see you are feeling better" Alfred stated with a small simile, "now why don't you go and retrieve you bag and met me by the car".