As always, I'd love to hear what you think. Took a little bit to get it done to my satisfaction, enjoy!

The sunrise slowly inched its way up the side of the tower. At around 8 o'clock it would have crawled up Robin's face and slid through his mask, waking him. Instead a figure stood in its path and knelt, running her hand under his face to lift it gently. There was a soft grunt as the hand began to glow and Robin slowly drifted back into consciousness.

He came to with a start. Tried to stand and crumpled. He saw the black wings, he knew who this was.

At first I wasn't certain what to make of the crumpled form on the floor. The sun was rising and he wasn't making any moves.

I had decided to come to the tower after not hearing from Jump City Police. It was rather simple to get in, I won't go into the details. Mainly, I slunk from corridor to corridor in the hopes that I wouldn't be seen. From the looks of things I needn't have bothered.

I knelt near Robin's head and reached out with my essence. Looked like extensive bone fractures in the right thigh. Lots of blood loss and - oh. He had a bad concussion. I was surprised he was still alive. I braced myself and went in to heal the damage. I couldn't help a small grunt of pain.

I rocked back on my heels as he came around. After sustaining that amount of damage he's going to wake up with a terrible head ache and no idea where he was. I'll be lucky if he remembers who he is.

"Robin?" I said softly. "Can you hear me?"

"No, Starfire!"

I jumped back quickly at his sudden response. Unbalanced I fell back to sit on what looked like a crescent moon couch. After his outburst the boy - or more like man, he did seem to be fully grown, about 19 from the look of it - crumpled to the floor again.

Robin cracked an eye open and slowly tried to move his head. He gritted his teeth against the rising nausea and slowly pushed himself into a sitting position. He tried to rise but fell back to the floor as a red flash and sharp pain knocked him out of consciousness for a split second.

Staying where he was he looked around him cautiously. He remembered dreaming about someone in the tower and he wasn't about to rule anything out at this point. From the fabric scratching against his cheek bones he knew he was still wearing his mask, a quick inventory showed that he had all of the gadgets that he had left after the fight with Blood and from the look of the sun it was nearing noon. Using the cover of his mask he looked around and noticed a figure sitting on the couch watching the tv. He was content to observe for a while until he was interrupted.

"Don't take it to heart that I know you're awake. You didn't make a sound the whole time and that's impressive, considering the pain you're in right now. I had a fracture once, took a whole year to heal," the girl on the couch commented.

"Who are you?" was Robin's reply.

She turned to look at him and said; "Ariadne Embridge. You remember me from the photo shoot. I also attempted to contact Koriand'r through the green one with no more success than with you or the Jump City Police, although I don't really blame the officer, it looked like he had more than enough on his plate already. So, I snuck in here to try to find her. I wasn't sure if you were friends or enemies or else I would have rung the doorbell. Too often have I been fooled by someone doing great works only to have them turn around and stab me in the back."

Her gaze grew distant for a moment and she had a bitter smirk on her face. Then she seemed to come back.

"We need to get that leg set."

"Why should I trust you?"

"Simple, I could have killed you by now. Even better, you would have died if I hadn't healed some of the damage to your brain. And before you ask, no I can't help the broken leg."

Robin scowled as he lay limp on the floor. Any part of his body that was uninjured, which wasn't much, was coiled and ready to fight. He scowled at Ariadne as she drew nearer. She stopped walking and cocked her head to the side. And blinked. And waited.

Robin sighed. It seemed he didn't have any choice but to be pragmatic. Damn her, she had a point, he had no chance of helping any of the Titans without her help.

He almost growled the next words; "Do you have a plan?"

"You have a suspicious array of powers, I'll give you that," Robin's voice crackled in Ariadne's ear.

After setting his leg Robin had insisted that she not leave without a plan. Apparently running into a building with four hostages with guns blazing didn't qualify as a plan. Or at least not a good one.

So they worked with what Robin knew for sure: Brother Blood wanted him to come back for his friends or else he wouldn't have left him alive; his friends were completely incapacitated or else they would have freed themselves, but would also be alive if only so that Brother Blood had an audience; and Brother Blood would be waiting for him. So the best plan was for it not to be Robin that went. He had outfitted Ariadne with an ear communicator - rigged to explode on command from him - and a belt with a very limited arsenal - also rigged to explode via wireless. No need to be completely trusting, the little Batman on his shoulder commented.

Ariadne glowing and suddenly looking exactly like him in every detail was extremely disturbing. He had originally offered her a holo-ring which she had promptly refused.

Everything was set. Ariadne had left at 13:00. Robin was situated on the gurney with remote access to the Titan mainframe and the other half of the two way communicator in his ear.

"Look I told you already-" Ariadne started.

"Coincidence. I don't really believe in it. You have thirty three seconds until that light turns red."

Ariadne sighed and revved the bike into a higher gear. She ran the yellow and pulled a sharp turn onto a bridge. Minutes later she found herself in the shadows by Warehouse 42.

"Four, three, two..." Robin fell silent as two completely mechanical guards walked by the entrance to the alley Ariadne was crouched in. She flicked a birdarang at the base of one of their heads and it's lights immediately dimmed. The second swung towards her and was skewered through the eye by the unsheathed bo staff.

There was a moment of silence where nothing seemed to be happening. Ariadne inched forward and tapped one of the robots with her steel toed foot.

"We're missing an alarm here Robin."

Before Robin could respond the chest compartment of the first robot opened and a old fashioned police light appeared and started flashing. The second robot's chest disgorged a speaker that began screeching.

"Now the fun begins." Ariadne grinned wickedly.