"Hurry up! Get this damned thing open, Robin!" Kid Flash yelled, pounding furiously on the steel and lexan sarcophagus.
"I'm working on it, KF, but Cadmus has some serious securities on this system." Robin responds roughly, pulling a wire from his wrist and connecting his wrist computer to the mainframe. Though outwardly calmer, Robin was in a panic. They had been investigating the fire at Cadmus, and found a young man sealed in a sarcophagus-like tube holding a handsome young man in stasis. A very handsome young man. Only outwardly was Robin calm. Ever the rational one, Robin would have told you that there is no such thing as love at first sight. But seeing the handsome and well built youth in the tube, Robin had to quietly eat his own thoughts... and he had a lot of thoughts. This boy was imprisoned, enclosed... caged. No one should be held in such a manner, especially... Robin had to force his mind away to focus on his task with the Cadmus computer to open the pod.
With a triumphant cry and a fist pumping into the air, "Yes! That's got it. Wally, free him, quick!"
Aqualad settled into a combat stance, awaiting the inevitable. But the young man awoke... his eyes opened, and looked on Robin. Robin looked back, transfixed. Blue... his eyes were blue, the curulean blue of a coudless spring sky. Beautifully blue. The misguided and tortured lad swung at Wally, sending him into the next wall and Aqualad hammered away on the unmarred pure flesh with aquatic maces... and Robin stood still...looking at the blue eyes.
For the first time in his life, he did not want to be Robin, a role he had sought throughout his young life. He only wanted to be Tim. No baggage, no secrets. Something about this boy they freed compelled Robin. Neither would ever forget it.