Chapter 2: Friends
Still Robin's P.O.V
When Bruce opened the door to what was supposedly my room, I had another weird flash. Me, walking into this room, holding onto a backpack's strap. There was only the furniture. "This will be your new room, Dick," said Bruce. I blinked and I remembered Bruce had mentioned I was adopted. That must have been when I first saw the room. It sure had changed. Now it had, at least, a dozen hooded jackets and jumpers, a bunch of jeans in a pile on the floor and the waste paper basket tipped over. I took one step inside and looked around. There was a desk with 3 thick books opened on it and above it was a pin-board with photos pinned on it. I took a step towards it and looked at the pictures. There was a black-haired boy with shades in a bunch of them. There was one of him with a redheaded boy, one of him with the redhead and a bunch of other teenagers that were all taller thus older than him. I looked at one of the pictures of the black-haired boy pinning the redhead's arm behind his back.
"That's you and your best friend, Wally, when Wally annoyed you last year," said Bruce, seeing what I was looking at.
I then noticed a strand of my own hair in my eyes and I realized the black-haired boy was me.
"What about this one?" I said, pointing at a group-shot.
"Remember I said there were other super-heroes with kid-partners?" Bruce said, I nodded "Well you're all friends. That's you," Bruce pointed to each one as he named them "Wally West A.K.A Kid Flash, or K.F as you call him. M'gann M'orzz A.K.A Miss Martian, but you call her Miss M. Conner Kent A.K.A Superboy, or S.B. Raquel Ervin A.K.A Rocket. Artemis Crock A.K.A Artemis the Archer. Kaldur'ahm A.K.A Aqualad, but for some reason you don't call him A.L. And that's Zatanna Zatara A.K.A Zatanna the Magician, but you've nicknamed her Zee,"
I looked at the pin-board again and saw there were other photos of Zatanna. Ones of just me and her. My eyes widened at one. I was standing behind Zatanna with my arms wrapped around her waist, she was leaning back with her head on my shoulder, her right hand was on my entwined fingers, her left hand was cupping my cheek and my head was lent over her shoulder as we... I looked at Bruce for answers.
"Is Zatanna my-"
"Yes," Bruce answered without letting me finish, something told me he did that a lot "You 2 have been dating since New-Years which was 5 months ago,"
"Huh. No wonder I thought she was pretty," I said and Bruce laughed.
"You'll have to tell the Team that Master Richard has amnesia, Master Bruce," said Alfred "Perhaps they could help him remember things,"
"I suppose so, Alfred," said Bruce "But I'm in no hurry to have 7, hormonally raged, teenagers in my house. I'll ask them tomorrow,"
This response told me that what Alfred had said back in the Batcave, that the Team were 'rambunctious', was an understatement.
"But for now," Bruce looked at me "You should get some sleep, Dick. It's 4 in the morning,"
"When you wake I'll have breakfast ready in the kitchen," said Alfred "Which is just down the stairs and through the left archway,"
"Alright," I said, nervously.
Kid Flash's P.O.V
Conner pushed me down, onto my back, onto the floor.
"Ow!" I exclaimed.
"Sorry," said Conner and he helped me up.
"I prefer it when Dick's your sparring partner and I get to watch," I said, cracking my spine, then it hit me "Hey. Where is the Boy Blunder?"
Everyone looked around, expecting him to do the ninja-thing and give us all heart-attacks. I went and sat down with the others.
"The only heart-beats I hear are our own. He's not here," said Conner.
"And I don't sense him," said M'gann.
"Weird. Dickie-bird's never late for training," said Artemis "Except for when he's out helping Batman,"
"And he always calls to tell us if he's doing that," said Raquel "Weird,"
"Eh, there's a first time for everything," I said, although Dick had never been late the 4 years I had known him.
Recognized: Batman, 0-2
We all expected the computer to announce Dick's arrival as well but it didn't. The way Batman walked over to us I could tell there was something wrong.
"Bats? Is something up?" I asked.
"What makes you think that?" Artemis hissed in my ear.
"Batman?" Zatanna said, nervously "Is something up with Dick?"
Batman looked at us.
"It's a long story," he said "We were trying to stop Two-Face when..." the story lasted 10 minutes but it shocked us all "The bottom line is Robin has amnesia. He doesn't remember anything before waking-up in the Batcave,"
"Let me guess," I said "You need us to help jog Dickie-bird's memory,"
"You are his closest friends," Batman said.
"Does Dick know me and him are-" started Zatanna.
"Yes, he does," Batman interrupted "But doesn't remember,"
Zatanna looked down. I felt sorry for her. It was obvious she was in love with Dick and now he didn't remember he was in love with her. Harsh.
Artemis's P.O.V
We zeta'd to the Batcave and took the elevator up to the mansion above. I hadn't been in Wayne Manor since Dick's 14th birthday party. We walked down the hall and went through the archway on our left. We saw Alfred doing the dishes while Dick sat at the island counter, looking down at his folded arms.
"Hey Dick," I said, putting on a brave face.
He jumped in his seat and stared at us.
"When did you get here?" he asked.
"5 seconds ago," said Wally "So we hear you've got amnesia, eh? Don't worry. We're here to help jog your memory,"
"Um... ok," Dick said, doubtfully.
There was something different about Dick... his eyes... they were... different... PAIN! That's what was different! Dick couldn't remember what had happened so he didn't feel the pain anymore... until we helped him remember that is.
"C'mon!" said Wally, pulling Dick out of his seat "Let's get started!" he practically dragging Dick out.
"Why does this seem familiar?" Dick said and we all muffled our laughter.
Wally dragged Dick to the living room where he sat him on the sofa.
"Well I'm outta ideas," said Wally "I was hoping he'd remember all the times I'd dragged him or something,"
I slapped Wally over the head and he cringed.
"I have an idea," said Raquel, and you could tell by her smile she wasn't serious "Maybe Zatanna should kiss him. That should bring back some memories!"
We all groaned and both Zatanna and Dick blushed.
"Hey. Don't we all have that DVD thing?" Conner said "Ya know. A DVD of all the clips we filmed on our phones over our first few months,"
"Oh yeah!" said Wally "Ah, memories,"
"Well go find it, Kid Moron!" I said "Dick's gotta have his copy somewhere!"
"Why me?" Wally asked.
"Because you're the fastest," I said "You've got flipping super-speed!"
Wally pouted but disappeared in an instant. We all looked at Dick, who was silent. IT WAS SO WEIRD!
"Do not worry, Dick. We will help you remember," said Kaldur.
"Thanks um..." Dick trailed off, trying to remember Kaldur's name.
"Kaldur'ahm. Kaldur for short," said Kaldur.
"Yeah. Thanks Kaldur," Dick sighed, his arms crossed and leaning on his lap.
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