In the original order, this one went before the last one... but it doesn't really matter, does it.


Title: What's Truth and Lies

Theme: #27- Betrayal

Claim: Robin

Words: 234

Rating: K+ or T, I really don't know.

Warnings: If you close your eyes and look away from the monitor, there might be a little CrocxRobin. Maybe.


By now, Robin would have expected that she would be numb to the constant betrayal and lies. Over and over again, for twenty years, countless of people had lied. They said they would protect her, give her food, shelter, a life.

It was never that way.

Robin had lied to herself, believing that she simply didn't care anymore that no one wanted her. She had pretended as hard as she could that she didn't give a damn that everyone was out to kill her.

Was it so wrong that she still felt a stab of pain whenever someone betrayed her? Was it so wrong that all Robin wanted was someone she could trust?

Of course, in this case, the stab of pain was real. There was real blood, and a real wound, and soon there'd be a real scar that would never go away.

And no matter how many times she insisted to herself that she had expected it for these four years, Robin could still feel the pain- no, not the pain from the hook- of knowing that Crocodile was yet another heartless bastard who betrayed her. He had promised her food, shelter, protection...

It wasn't supposed to hurt anymore, that sharp pang whenever someone betrayed her. Robin was supposed be... used to it. Accustomed. Numb. Uncaring. Whatever.

But, Robin supposed, no one could ever be used to being hated by the world.


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