An Angry Mercenary, A Lonely Girl, And An Innocent Robin

Chapter 7: Just A Child

Part 3: Change Of Plans

Description: Its been a week since Terra came to Jump City and joined the Teen Titans, but what can she do when her and her leaders personalities are such opposites? As things look bleak for the pair, a certain masked mercenary kidnaps the two to be his loyal apprentices. Will the two children learn to get along in order to stay safe, or will they still fight? Can all three of these people learn to form a bond that will push past the borders of good and evil? Also, when Wintergreen bets that he can care for Terra far better then Slade can care for Robin, who will win?

A/N: You wanna blame my depressing writing? Blame the show Buffy The Vampire Slayer because that show is a one way trip towards lies, love, heart break, depression and torture! Sorry, lost my cool there.

Robin- When haven't you lost your cool?

Me- Aren't you in the middle of an identity crisis here?

Robin- Tushe.

Me- Is that how you spell it?

Robin- No idea to be honest.

Oh well, back to actually writing since I spent half my day at the Renaissance Festival of Michigan, oh yeah, I was the short kid in the bandit mask and Batman T-shirt. Actually, a troll called be Ben Affleck while there, get it? Okay, back to business.


Terra bolted after Robin, ignoring Wintergreen and Slade, who just so happened to be heading towards the two kids room and was slammed into a wall by Terra, as she ran towards her and Robin's room. By now, she was well aware of how unstable the kid was, now she had a better idea of why he was like that, and she had mostly thought that Batman did or said something horrible to the bird. Those thoughts were barely there as the earth user slammed open the door to the bedroom, she looked around both sides of the room until she heard a choked sob from Robin's closet. Terra kept quiet as she walked towards the door of the small storage space, hands ready with a few floating rocks to trap the bird by if he decided to bolt again.

The girl opened the door to see Robin, except now she figured calling him Dick or Richard would be fine, but the strange thing was was that he was snuggling her stuffed bear. She sighed as she squeezed in next to the crying younger and wrapped an arm around him. Surprisingly, this had not been the first time either of them had cried in front of each other, it was now common for the two to wake each other and just... talk, which more or less lead to sobbing and crying and eventually sleeping on the floor of closets. But in either way, this seemed like a major emergency at the moment, personally, Terra could care more or less who knew her identity.

But then again, this was Robin, he had been RAISED to trust no one (That one wasn't working well for him) and hiding his ID from everyone he loved to 'Protect' them. She could understand that to a degree, but again, she really didn't have an identity to uphold now adays. However, Terra fully understood that Bruce Wayne had adopted Dick Grayson and was more then likely to be Batman, so it was natural that they keep those lives apart. Said Terra stared with wide eyes as she was brought back to the present by a certain Robin tackle hugging her and sobbing into her chest as he felt everything pound on him at once, the bird looked up at Terra with tear filled baby blues and coughed as he held on for dear life.

"I'm so sorry, Ter. I... I should have told you... who I was." Dick whispered.

Terra sighed. "Ro- Richard... its okay, Slade was just being a major pain in the hole. So what if you have a sad past, we all do. And you know what... I don't care."

Dick nodded before frowning a bit with a soaked chuckle. "You know... people only call me Richard when I'm in trouble." He admitted.

"Really now, that's so weird." Terra responded.

The two sat there as time ticked by, not daring to break the silence with talking and crying, although there were still many tears falling. Its was odd really, how much had changed after a mere two weeks, but alot had. They had stopped fighting as much now, and had even started to call each other by bro and sis on both accident and because it felt right to do. Terra stared at the younger child next to her, she rarely saw him lose his cool this badly unless it was a nightmare or a panic attack which both, sadly, were frequent in these types of situations. But now, he seemed... smaller maybe? It was nearly impossible to tell since it was so dark in the closet. Terra held back a sigh as she pushed open the old closet to see a plate of cookies on the floor with a small note. Wintergreen.

Dear children, I am sorry for what Slade has done, we'll all talk soon. Sincerely, Wintergreen.

The note was written in clear cursive with a certain fragrance of hazel and pine trees attached to it, typical. The two children sighed as they stood up, grabbed the food, and pulled out Monopoly. It was times like this that a small game could help clear the air.

MEANWHILE

Will Wintergreen was raging mad as he followed after Terra, it wasn't her he was mad at, it was Slade. Of course, he had expected Slade to at the very least slap Robin since he was, well, Slade, but no, he had ripped off the child's mask and walked away from the whole situation with no problem. So, Will was finally going to say something, screw the dang contest this was child abuse for gods sakes! The elderly man stomped to Slade's door and didn't even knocking, not flinching as Slade held a sword to his neck out of surprise.

"Will? My god... knock next time, please." Slade said as he put the sword down.

Wintergreen would have chuckled if he weren't so pissed off, he had a serious issues and it was no time for Slade's issues with knocking.

"Listen up, Slade Wilson. This is too much! I have waited and played along hoping that you'd come around without my pushing but your too stubborn and dense to see the harm your causing, have you even seen what you did? Robin's having a panic attack, Terra hates you and you just decided to walk away when you ripped off the child's mask. Are you even sorry?" Wintergreen said angrily, he nearly yelled. "Its one thing to beat a child physically, but your messing with both of there minds!"

Slade sighed. "Will... they'll come around."

"No Slade, they won't 'Come around', they'll either drag themselves through depression or commit suicide! You've gone too far this time... we need to end this contest and do what has to be done. You know... I think that this is worse then beating them... now its just torture."

Slade nodded, but still seemed to doubt Wintergreen's words. "Well, what should I do then?"

Wintergreen sighed as he relaxed before giving Slade a war,m smile. "What anyone would do, end this contest and try to be a father for those two, lord knows they need it."

Slade sighed as he lurched to the door, before turning to Wintergreen. "Fine... but your there mom, got it?"

And with that, he headed to there room.


A/N: Here is the update, hope you like it. Wow, you guys got PISSED at me for that Cliffhanger, but it figures I guess. And please, you guys are so cute its tearing me apart! AH! Okay, please review, I need the inspiration.

~Supercasey.