Hey, sorry for not updating. Highschool and health issues, but I'm good now. Now gangster Tim. Kaldur, Artemis, Wally, and Jaime are with the team. Warning: drugs, lots of cussing, mentions of and allusions to rape, abuse. This is part 1.

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Megan POV

Megan was worried about Robin. She'd noticed several bruises and cuts that obviously hadn't been cleaned until he came to the Mountain. Right away Nightwing would run over, obviously worried, and make sure he was okay. One day, she decided to confront the rest of the team, excluding Nightwing, Batgirl, and Robin, about it.

" Have you guys noticed it?"

"Well, yeah, but we don't know why. For all we know, he could come straight from patrol." Kaldur pointed out.

"Why would Nightwing be that worried about it though? Wouldn't Robin call if he got seriously injured?" Superboy pointed out.

"Maybe his dad beats him." At the weird looks Artemis adds, "I mean, when Robin leaves the Mountain, Nightwing always tells him to be careful and says goodbye like he won't see him when he goes home."

"What do we do? Oh! We should follow him! Just to find out…" Megan suggested.

The gathered part of the team, excluding Kaldur, all nodded their consent.

"Alright, we go tomorrow."

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Next Day

"I'm going to go home. I'll see you guys next week!" Robin yelled as he zeta'd away. Jaime immediately goes over, brings up the coordinates, and zeta's the team, all in civvies, to the coordinates. They come out right next to a dumpster in a dark, grimy, smelly alley. Gunshots are echoing off the walls and the alley smells like weed. The team immediately walked to the street, noticing Robin's figure in an unfamiliar, torn, dirty sweatshirt walking away, hood up.

He seemed perfectly calm, even as a man with joker-style face paint on came running down the street, holding the head of a man, and yelling "Down with Two-Face!" Not five seconds later, machine gun fire knocked the man over, dead. "Two-Face, bitches! Dumbass, coming to our part a the 'hood!" A large man, holding a machine gun, laughed.

Robin just kept his head slightly down and kept walking, the team following a bit behind.

"Heya, pretty." A man grabbed M'gann, who tried to free her arm. The man yanked her into an alley and pinned her against the wall. "Now, wha's a nice, pretty bitch like you doin' out here? Ya don't look like you's from around here. Maybe you'd like me to… show ya 'round." The man laughed, moving one of his hands to go under her shirt.

"Get off of her!" Superboy yelled.

The man slightly turned, "Or what, pretty bitch? Ya don't wan' me takin' your boyfriend 'ere, too fucking bad! You ain't in the gang. You couldn't stop me if ya wanted." The man smirked at Superboy, who took a threatening step forward.

Another voice said "He ain't in the gang, fucker, but they're with me!"

They all turned to see Robin, in civvies with his hood still up. The man froze and immediately let go of M'gann. "C-course Raze. I-I didn't realize t-they were you're bitches. T-they s-say you ain't into takin' bitches like that.

Robin glared and said "What would ya do if your daddy wanted ya to fuck someone, or he'd kill ya?" He took a step farther into the alley and backed the man against a wall, taking out a knife and putting it at the man's neck. "Look, fucker, they're mine, got it? And I don't like dumbasses like ya touchin' my stuff, got it?" The man vigorously nodded. "Good, cuz I hear 'bout shit like this happenin' again, you fuckin bitch, you're dead." He pushed the knife in just enough to draw blood then pulled it off. "Now, scram you worthless piece of shit and remember, you're jus' lucky I'm in a good mood."

"Thank ya, thank ya!" The man yelled as he ran out of the alley.

Robin walked over to the team, sheathing his knife, and hissed "What are you doing here?!"

M'gann was still trembling as she whispered weakly "I-I saw you had a bruise. Nightwing always seems so worried about you, but why would he be if he saw you when he got home? A-Artemis thought the bruise might be from your dad."

Robin let out a harsh sigh. "Look, you guys need to go back to the Mountain, now. It's not safe here-"

"Then why should we let you stay?" Artemis asked, leaning in.

She backed off as Robin glared "I'm used to it. I've lived here my whole life. I know how to survive here."

"Why was that guy so scared of you and who is Raze?" Jaime asked, flinching as another round of shots sounded in, what sounded like, the next alley over.

"Look, that's what they call me here: Raze. They're scared because sometimes, I have to do things I hate." He looked away and M'gann flinched as visions of bullets going into heads and chests; people falling dead; a knife slashing through a throat; a TITAN thug roaring and running at her. Next came sounds and smells: weed, a man's high, drunken laughing "You're sold you fucker, have fun bein' a whore, just like your mama!", flesh punching flesh, piss, sex, blood, drugs, gunshots, soft hopeless crying, "Raze, c'mon kid, fight like ya mean it. You're gonna get killed by some fucker if you don't fight!". Then feelings: drunkenness, highness, gunshot wounds, knifes stabbing, hopelessness, unloved, pain, so much pain, depression, self-hate, fear, worthlessness, hands pulling down pants and touching and- please stop! Get off, please dad! STOP!

She jerked back, gasping and falling over. When her vision cleared and she could breathe easily again, Robin was kneeling next to her. A sad, guilty, pitying look adorned his face, his eyes showed the same, but also with something different: hopelessness, tiredness, resignation, weariness. He seemed defeated, yet determined to keep others from the violence, pain, and hopelessness he knew.

"I'm sorry. You shouldn't have had to see that, M'gann. You okay?" Robin asked.

Tears started to cloud her eyes, "Oh, R-Robin!" she lunged forward and hugged him. "That was h-horrible. I'm so sorry you had to go through that!" M'gann broke into sobs.

Robin gently hugged her back before he slowly began to tremble. He buried his head in her hair and began to quietly sob.

He pulled back after about two minutes, wiped under his eyes, and stood up. "We have to get you guys out of here."

He helped M'gann up as Lagann asked "Where are we, anyways?"

"Suicide Slums, Gotham City, worst hood in the world. Welcome to the ghetto of the ghetto." Robin pulled his hood back up and motioned for them to follow him as he walked out of the alley and back towards the zeta location. He walked to the dumpster, crouched, and hit under it. Nothing. After doing it a few more times he said "Damn. Call 'Wing. Tell him the zeta in SS is broken with you guys on the wrong side of it."

Kaldur made the call. At first Nightwing said he was working on it, but once Kaldur mentioned they were on the wrong side, Nightwing said he would have everyone available working on it, but to stay with Robin until it was fixed.

Kaldur repeated this to Robin who spun away and swore, "Shit, fuck, fuck, fuck, damnit!"

"What, you think we can't survive one night?" Artemis asked, sounding confident and arrogant.

"Crime Alley? Maybe. Here? No way in hell. Ya gotta do anythin to survive, and by anythin, I mean anythin." He looked at the assembled team, stopping his gaze at Artemis. "Even kill."

"Y-you kill?" Beast Boy asked shakily.

Robin gave him a sad, grave nod. "Ya don't, ya die. Simple as that. I die, Dad made it fuckin clear he'd have his guys shootin everythin up! Everyone. In. Gotham." He sighed and turned away. "I can't let him do that. I've got enough blood on my hands."

Superboy put his hand on Robin's shoulder "Self-defense. And even if it wasn't, you are doing it to survive. In this case, I guess we can make an exception considering you are saving hundreds of innocents."

"Th-thanks." Robin gave a small, shaky smile. BANG! BANG! The team flinched. "We should probably get you all somewhere safe."

"Where? From the way you were talking, your house isn't exactly safe." Artemis said snippily.

"Who said anything about going to my house? There're some guys- Spazz, Domino, Colt, and Crow- that have an apartment. They're safe. Hell, they basically raised me. Domino taught me to read and write when I was 10. He couldn't read until I was six. He always says he only walked the six miles to the library and the six miles back cuz they all knew I'd be needin medical treatment cuz of my dad. Since there're no schools anywhere near here, that library is the closest place to learn. He taught me what he could, and taught the others the medical stuff. They took care of me. Now let's go." Robin began walking out of the alley with the team following.

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The end for now. Please review! Prompts and suggestions are appreciated!