Chapter 7: Breakdown

Disclaimer : I don't own the Teen Titans or anything that isn't new to you.

A/N OK this chapter is specifically dedicated to Zako Lord of Randomnesness just because she is a sweet and loyal reviewer whom everyone should praise.

Arrendi

The celebration was a grand one. Beastboy had rented movies, Starfire and Raven had cooked, and Cyborg had made electronic decorations all over the tower including a huge sign saying 'Welcome Home Audra'. The Titans had been seriously bored while Robin and Audra had this adventure and done this in their spare time. Halfway threw the party however Audra slipped out to the roof, she didn't say anything to anyone but Robin noticed. He fallowed the girl up to the roof where he found her sitting behind an air vent staring at the sky.

"Did you ever just sit here and think of all the possible times in your life where you could have done something that would affect your life forever?" Audra whispered to Robin knowing he was there without looking. Robin took a leap of faith and sat down to talk with Audra.

"More then you'd think."

"When I do I just think of the times when I could have made a better decision then I did. Like when you offered me a position on the Titans. I should've just said yes and then told you about Weiser, but I was too embarrassed that I had been in Juvenile Jail for a month because I stole for a gangster. I thought you guys would reject me."

Robin just sat there. Her words had caused him to think of his own past which could be rather dangerous. However he had not stopped listening to her.

"We would probably have held you under suspicion for a while, but we would never have rejected you." Robin whispered.

"I know that now." Audra said and started to silently cry "You all have been so nice to me and all I've done is cause trouble. I mean what if this Slade guy had gone off on some murdering rampage while you were in Gothem saving me? What if all the Titans were captured because you were off saving some nobody who happened to get kidnapped the day she was offered to be a Titan?"

Audra was about to go on, but Robin alarmed at the girls tears cut her off.

"First of all I highly doubt we wouldn't notice if someone tried to in anyway harm the other Titans, secondly Slade unfortunately doesn't do murdering rampages he messes with our heads, third I again highly doubt anyone could capture the Titans the person or persons would probably be very injured in the end, and third you are not some nobody who just happened to get kidnapped."

"Who am I then?" whispered Audra looking into what would have been the Boy Wonders eyes. The question startled Robin; he had never contemplated just exactly who she was. His mind just didn't think that way, he thought of what she could bring to the team, good and bad, and ways to test her abilities but he had never thought of who exactly she was. The silence was uncomfortable and soon Audra stood up to leave.

"I think I am just a little emotionally unstable right now. I'll umm make sure I clean up after any little rain storms I have." She said a little guiltily and started towards the door.

"You're a Titan." Robin whispered just loud enough for her to hear.

"What?" she said turning around to face him.

"You're a Titan. That's who you are, you're not a juvenile delinquent, or a thief, or a nobody. You're a Teen Titan, and you've got people who care about you. Remember that." Robin said looking into her blue-green eyes. Audra smiled at him, a brilliant smile which showed true happiness in a girl who almost never showed happiness.

"Thanks Robin." She whispered and disappeared down the stairs. Robin stayed on the roof looking at the stars and pondering her very first question 'Did you ever just sit here and think of all the possible times in your life where you could have done something that would affect your life forever?'.

He sat down and began to think over the night his family was murdered. Every way he looked at it there was nothing he could have done, nothing. He had been on another wire, doing another brave thing and they had been the cost of the rest living. The ring master had finally died last month, he hadn't told anyone, only Bruce knew. In all technicalities it was the ringmasters fault his family was dead, yet Robin still blamed himself. Every day he got up and played dress up, no one knew anything about him, and somehow he was beginning to feel alone. Alone; the word reverberated in his head. His family had been alone, without him, when they died. He had been alone the first couple days at Wayne Manor. He had been alone when he built the Titans, and he still was alone here. The thought of being alone angered him even more, but instead of doing something about it Robin did what he always did. Put his emotions away and locked them in and continued on with life.

A golden haired women and a brown haired man stood in front of a little girl and a little boy protecting them from an unknown evil. A cold voice spoke of how the little girl was special and was his. The parents refused to give the man the little girl and a shot rang out fallowed by a scream. The two little children watched as their father fell to the ground dead. Now the little girl could clearly see the man before them. He had cruel eye and was dressed in a fine tailored suit of black cloth. His cap sat a shadow over his face scaring the little girl into her big brothers arms. Her father's eyes stared at her, glassy and unseeing. The gangster again order for the child to come here but the little girl wouldn't budge. Another shot rang out and the women fell to the floor her eyes staring at the little girl in the same manner as the fathers. Now the gangster spoke directly to the little girl telling her if she came with him, he wouldn't harm her brother; her brother could even come with them. The boy however stood his ground threw his own tears.

"You can't have her. She's not yours, she's my little sister and Audi's not going with you!" the boys strong words made the gangster laugh and say "What are you gonna do about it pip squeak?"

The gangster smiled and shoved something in Audra's face that made her feel dizzy and sick. She tried to scream but her voice never came out, the last thing she saw was her brother fall to the floor clutching his side where blood ran threw his fingers and on to the floor.

"NO!!" yelled Audra waking up from the dream. Every night she relived the hours of her families murder except each time they kept dieing closer and closer together in time. No one here knew anything about it except Robin, he knew they weren't dead. Audra's breath started to slow down to normal and her tornado slowly diminished leaving her room incredibly messy and slightly soggy. She looked at her alarm clock to discover that it was eleven o clock in the morning. Sighing Audra got out of bed and went to her closet. There she found a note pinned to one of her suits.

"Audra,

I think you should wear this just so the others know what you look like in it. They'll be a lot more responsive then Bruce, Alfred and I were.

Robin"

Audra smiled and tucked the note in a storage compartment on her belt. Silently she prayed that Robin hadn't been in her room when she was dreaming about her family. That would surely cause some awkward moments to come. Audra pulled out the map of Titans tower and found out how to get to the main room on her own. It took her all of about twenty minutes because she made several wrong turns including one up the hallway towards Raven's room where she swore she would never go again due to the large amounts of things that occurred on her short journey up the hall. Finally she found the right place and tried to open the door. After several futile attempts Audra just hammered on the door and yelled "Somebody open the damn door!"

Inside the room Beastboy and Cyborg collapsed in laughter and Raven just growled at the noise. Starfire did not understand what was so funny and immediately called out "Do not fear friend Audra I will open the 'damn door' for you."

Once the door was open Audra came in and struck Cyborg and Beastboy with very low wattage lightening.

"It wasn't funny." she huffed at them making them laugh even more. Audra looked around to find Robin and noticed he wasn't there.

"Where's Robin?" she asked. The two boys stopped laughing and everyone went serious. Nobody spoke until Raven finally answered.

"We got a message from Slade. He's threatening to set off a bomb that could blow Jump City off the map if we don't hand over you and the tapes you've got."

"Why would he want me and the tapes? They've got nothing to do with him and I wouldn't be anything more then trouble. I'd die before working for another mad gangster." Audra exclaimed confused by this latest development "And that still doesn't tell me where Robin is."

"He's in his lab working on why Slade could want you and your tapes answered Cyborg "Robin's obsessive like that. Slade just really peeves him for some unknown reason and now he's after a team member and a brand new one at that."

Suddenly something dawned on Audra for she went flying from the room and down the hall towards Robin's lab. She didn't even here Beastboy whistle and Cyborg say 'By the way nice outfit.' Her mind had worked out two things one of which she needed to verify. When Audra finally reached the lab she burst threw the door to find Robin hunched over a small desk in a black room.

"Take off...take off your mask!" she gasped trying to catch her breath and get we she needed to accomplished. Robin's form straightened and he turned to her.

"Why?" he asked curiously.

"I already know who you are Dick I just need to make sure I'm right."

The silence that filled the room would be terrifying to a normal individual, but the two teens just looked at each other. Neither budged but each one considered the consequences of what Audra was asking.

"What if I just tell you your right?" Robin asked a little unhappily. Audra shook her head.

"Not good enough, if Weiser taught me one thing it was never trust somebody's word."

"Well then you'll have to wait." Robin answered and turned back to his work.

"Why?" said Audra impatiently "I figured it out and now your telling me I have to wait?!?"

"Yes." Robin said "I am because first of all I am very busy seeing as to why a criminal mastermind would want you and criminal information tapes regarding a Gothem crime lord and b only Batman has the remover."

"Well Slade wants me and my tapes because without those tapes Weiser doesn't go to jail and it leaves his twisted inventions open for use, and he wants me because I know all the codes to get in and out of Weiser's facilities without setting off a single alarm. With that information he could not only have something to blackmail Weiser with but he could also have all of Weiser's money and weaponry. That weaponry has enough acid to effectively disintegrate three quarters of the Jump City area into the ocean. And as to the remover issue ten to one says it'd come off with some nail polish remover or some rubbing alcohol."retorted Audra in a fast paste manner that made Robin's jaw drop.

"And how did you figure out the latter?" he asked curious as to how smart she really was.

"I just pieced two and two together and that was the logical answer. Otherwise he would just go straight for all of us right?"

"His mind is not that simple. He could want you for a variety of reasons although I will admit that is a very good idea." Robin said smiling a little at the girl. Audra smiled back and stuck to her first purpose.

"Now about that mask Boy Wonder. I think your eyes need a breath of fresh air don't you?"

An hour later Robin's mask lay on his bed and Audra got to laugh at the fact that Robin now had a red line around his face. Robin had indeed been glad to get his mask off for a short time even if he had been slightly blackmailed into it.

"I still don't understand how you figured out my name." said Robin sitting down in front of her.

"It was easy. I have a really good memory and when you couldn't say family after we visited the hospital it triggered memories of all the really nasty things where an entire family had died. A picture floated threw of the flying Grayson's in their uniforms and it matched yours almost exactly. I knew that a long time ago I just didn't say anything to anyone. And then I remembered that when you first started out with Batman Two Face was suddenly killed. Today Cyborg said something about Slade just really peeves you and I've seen pictures of Slade. His mask is half and half just like Two Faces face was. In a logical conclusion Slade ticks you off because he reminds you of Two Face who murdered your family."

"You know you might have to help me more often, your brain seems to be better then you think it is." Robin said smiling an odd smile "A lot more often in fact."

Suddenly Audra's face was stricken with an odd look "Robin..." she whispered and then passed out into his arms.