Robin couldn't deny that Raven had made him feel the slightest bit better, but nothing could take away the nervous knot in his stomach. The faux determination left his eyes. He walked into his room. He would give up everything to save his friends, his family. Raven might have made him feel better, but she was wrong. Slade always won. Sure the Titan's rescued him from the apprenticeship, but the Slade went after Terra. Sure Terra killed Slade, but Slade came back from the dead. There was really no way to beat him. Heck the guy even found a way to hurt him when he was dead. Robin hated to admit it, but he was terrified of Slade. The guy scared him worse than even Joker.
Robin grabbed his laptop. He sent a com-link call to the Batcave. He listened to it ring a few times before someone on the other line picked up.
"Dick I'm busy right now can you call me-"
"Bruce."
Bruce heard the desperation in his son's voice. He focused on the pain filled sapphires, the ashen skin and the trembling limbs.
"What happened?"
"Slade."
The name came out as a whisper, barely audible. Bruce's eyes narrowed.
"What did he do?"
"He played camera footage of them falling Bruce. He knows. He knows everything and it's all my fault."
"How is this your fault?"
"I should have protected my secret better. I-I should haveā¦."
Robin just hung his head trying to hide his tears from his father. Bruce resisted the urge to punch something. He was going to make Slade pay for ever laying eyes on his son. No one messed with his kid without getting away with it.
"Dick listen to me, none of this, and I mean none is your fault. I am coming to Jump. I'll be there by tomorrow. I'm not going to let him hurt you."
Robin's head shot up his eyes wide with panic.
"No! You can't come. You have to stay in Gotham. That way it'll be harder for Slade to hurt you, or Barb, or Alfred."
"Richard. John. Grayson. Barb is 18 years old she can take care of herself and as for Alfred I'm bringing him with me. Everything will be fine. I promise."
The look on Robin's face resembled that on a frightened child's. Now that Bruce thought about it Robin was a frightened child. There was another reason , though that Batman could place as to why Robin was so scared of Slade. He would find out though, because whatever this man did to his son, he would pay for.
