Hello world! Ugh, I've been having some trouble writing this, writers block I suppose.

Tears of the Moon 17: No one deserves to hurt, especially a great kid like Robin. :3 But I've set Batman to the task of making the hurt go away, and we all know Batman never fails.

Zomnom: Hey man, you gots the cash? I need the money man, I got my own habits to feed -twitch-

InvisibleNinja1234: No judgment here, just a beg for food, I'm hungry...

ChiKa-RoXy: Well the man isn't exactly all there if you catch my drift, I think I'd be a little insane if I saw my parents die...Then randomly decided to dress up as a bat and proceed to kick major tooshie including Superman's butt.

Dextra2: Ah...Hm, he was out of town? Working on that little detail.

Flying Jay: Ah my friend we have the same dilemma. I'm madly in love with a fictional character -cough-Robin-cough- and yet I know I can never have him...Yet every time YJ comes on I sit on my bed and continuously reply to his every comment with some slutty sounding comment. That boy can hack my motion censors whenever he wishes ;)

And this is why everyone at school thinks I'm a weirdo...

Don't own YJ, if I did Robin would be hacking a different type of motion censor...I'm such a creeper...

Enjoy your meal of Robin turmoil, with a cup of DaddyBats on the side. Whats that? You want a tall glass of Wally West? I can do that too. ;3

Chapter six

"Why are we even searching for this kid?" Superboy growled as he walked alongside Kaldur.

The team had been called in on a search and possible rescue mission, they hadn't been to informed on the situation or exactly who they were searching for. That is until they arrived at the scene. When they arrived there was a mess of blood on the ground, Wally aka Kid Flash sitting against the Bat-mobile looking like a kicked child. Then there was Batman who was talking to a withered looking man, they heard Batman call him Gordon several times, The Bat-hound wasn't to far off, sitting in the street absently sniffing at a spot on the ground. They had been filled in on what had happened...Well not entirely.

From what Superboy had been told by Batman, Robin had been no where in sight when he and KF rolled up on the scene, in fact as a almost after thought Batman had added that the place had been completely deserted. Not a soul in sight. But from the snip-its of conversation he could hear from Batman and Gordon he knew well that some other man had been there. He just didn't catch the man's name, but they were discussing what exactly to to with the man.

"We are looking for Robin because he has been lost, he might be hurt. By what Batman said a bit of the blood had belonged to the boy..."Kaldur paused a moment. "Besides it is the right thing to do. No matter who is in danger we must save them, that is what it means to be a hero."

Superboy huffed out a sigh. "Why couldn't that dog just track him down right then and there?"

"I do not know. I asked Batman a similar question and he told me that we should not rely on a limited source for all the answers. He does not wish for us to grow dependent on the dog, to learn how to find something or someone on our own. Plus he mentioned how the rain had washed away the scent trail so the dog would be of no use to us..." Replied the Atlantian as he peered down the vacant street they had been walking along. The pouring rain had made it a bit hard to see, but they were managing. He worried for M'gann though. The martian had volunteered to take the bio-ship, along with Artemis out and see what they could find from the sky. Kaldur was not sure if the heavy rain would affect the Bio-ship.

"Tch, stupid weather... "Superboy grumbled as he clenched and unclenched his fists, he was a bit peeved at the moment. A: because he was out in the middle of bad weather. And B: he was looking for some kid who had bitten him and called him every name in the book. He was not a happy camper at this point.

"Yes well, all we can do about it now is locate Robin quickly. Which we might do seeing as how Batman decided to join us in our search."

"What about that other guy, Wally?"

"I'm not certain on his status, I believe Flash showed up and was speaking to him privately when we left. Either way it is not our concern." Kal finished the conversation there, he didn't want to have a even angrier Superboy on his hands. Though the clone had become a bit more docile since the league had broken him out of Cadmus after discovering secret projects going on (thanks to Batman finally looking in on the strange goings ons there at the lab). But still, Superboy had a temper that didn't take much bending to break.

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Batman zoomed through the streets. Even though it didn't look like he was doing much 'looking' he was actually looking in every crevice of the city for the lost boy. He was upset though, and add that up with heavy rain and it makes for a bad chance of actually finding Robin.

Batman wasn't sad upset. No, he was angry, angry at himself. He remembered Tony Zucco, and by what he had heard Wally say he had placed the pieces all together. Robin was really Richard Grayson, the last Flying Grayson. Batman recalled the night of the Grayson accident very clearly.

He had been Bruce Wayne at that time, he was been out of the city on a business trip to Metropolis. He had seen the story on the news. When he had seen the footage of a small boy weeping as he was lead away by one of the police men who were trying to clear the scene he had felt something tug at his heart. For a while there he had wanted to do something for the boy, but something had stopped him. At the time he had actually felt fear at the thought of facing the child.

If he had brought Richard into his life he would have had to help the child face the terrible memory of his parents death, but that would also mean that Bruce would have to face his own horrid past. And at that time he didn't feel he could. Besides he was not father material, he wouldn't have been able to be there for Richard, he would have been floating between work and being Batman, no time for a child to look after in the middle. He thought it would be best if the kid went to an orphanage and was eventually adopted. But now all these years later he could see that he was wrong.

Now as Batman drove through the streets searching for Robin he couldn't help but feel guilty for the unimaginable pain that Richard must have been going through at that moment.

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Robin simply could not run anymore. He was shivering way to much to even stand. His brain was rattling inside his head, he couldn't think straight because of that and all the words and images that ran through his mind.

He didn't know where he was again, lost again, but at least no one else knew where he was.

Robin all but collapsed against the side of a weakly lit lamp post. He pulled his knees up to his chest and hid his face. He hardly even heard the patter of the rain, or feel the cold chill that raked over him causing him to shiver. But his body shook from more then just the cold. Tears streamed down his face. He couldn't help it. So many memories kept piling up in his mind.

He'd almost done it. He'd almost killed Tony Zucco. So many times had he played out some sick murder scene in his mind involving him holding a knife to the man who took everything from him.

A sob broke from his pale lips and he seemed to curl in on himself even more.

He was in pain. But not a pain that could be numbed with medication, a pain to great for even a mother's kiss to wash away. This pain was deep and could only be seen when it broke the very person who had tried to keep it locked away for years. Someone who didn't want anyone else to have to carry the burden that he had become. To have to lean on someone who was not strong enough to carry the weight of two people.

That was why now, after everything, Robin was collapsing under the weight he had created for himself. He'd let everything build up into one giant disaster waiting to happen.

A part of him felt like if he had just killed the man when he had had the chance that he wouldn't be feeling this way. Feeling so...Empty.

But then there was the better part of him that had won out. He couldn't explain why, but he hadn't been able to kill that man. Something inside of himself wanted to scream out at him that he didn't kill Tony because he was better then that murder. But yet, that thought seemed to just echo throughout his mind until it landed on deaf ears.

Through all his sobbing and the heavy rain, Robin didn't hear the car coming to a stop just a bit away from him. Nor did he notice someone walking up to him. He only noticed someone there when he didn't feel the bite of the rain, as if someone was shielding him from the weather.

He slowly lifted his head, and through his blurry burning eyes he saw the familiar dark and yet somehow comforting shape of a man with a long dark cape. Batman.

"Richard..."For once Batman's voice was not dark or imposing. It was almost a whisper, filled with concern and sorrow. Understanding.

For some reason the sound of his own name made him start crying again. Robin felt like such an idiot. He hated himself for playing out the angsty little boy and crying like a girl in front of Robin. He felt so weak.

"Just go away Batman. I don't want you to see me, heh, you probably already think I'm some weak cry baby..."Robin looked down again. Batman shifted a bit and caused the rain to fall back down on the boy on the ground.

"You are not weak or a cry baby, let people think what they want of you. But out of everyone in this world, you are the only one that truly deserves to have a weak moment, to be able to cry. For once in your life let it out, stop playing the little soldier and except the fact that you are hurting." Batman's voice was stern and strong, yet it still held that caring sound.

Robin looked up at the man again, Batman had a hand outstretched towards him, as to help him to his feet. No one had ever told him anything like that, he had always heard people yell at him to suck it up. Or to stop being a cry baby, or whining and how people out in the world had it much worse then him somewhere else. But they didn't understand how much hurt one could feel when they lost someone as dear as a parent, not just that but having to watch as they were ripped away from them. Batman understood how he felt, and Robin knew that.

Suddenly it seemed like there was a new light in his life. Wally had been his only light for so long, but he'd never truly known the same pain, he couldn't connect. But Batman...He was on the same level. And now that Robin knew that, he saw the man in a new set of mind. He wasn't scary or deadly, or creepy, he was a man in a mask with scars just like Robin's.

The last tear fell free of Robin's face, and no more followed. After a moment of hesitation he reached up and took hold of Batman's hand.

HE'SGOTTABESTRONGHE'SGOTTABEFASTHE'SGOTTABELARGERTHENLIFE

"I found Robin."

Yeah...No tall glass of Wally for you this chapter! But no worries! Next chapter I'll be focusing on the 'Flash showed up and was speaking to him privately' part so lots of Wally and some more mushy Robin for you!

...Okay probably not...I can't keep my characters all sad and angsty forever! I'm planning on adding some more biting...Haha, I love it when Robin bites people it just seems to make his day. :3