"Nightmare"
It had been one night of senseless passion. Robin had cheated on Raven with his former love, Starfire with hungry mouths and slurring words. And she had gotten pregnant.
Her belly had swollen and rounded despite their panic and horror and heartbreak of the collective team. They had moved out of the now too cramped Tower and back to Gotham and civilian lives.
'Fight.'
Now, here he was.
Bruce Wayne's personal assistant t nineteen, missing the mask and thrill of the hunt and his former friends that he'd been forced to give up along with the alien princess in order to support their family. Starfire stayed home to raise their daughter in a quiet sadness.
The alien princess no longer flew despite how hard she tried.
Raven, he knew, still lead the Teen Titans with the help of Cyborg. They recruited his replacement, Robin #2: Tim Drake. He wondered if they remembered him. And then he winces, because he highly doubts that they remember him fondly.
'Robin.'
Cyborg had been the one to calmly and coldly tell him he was no longer able to keep his position. Robin had admitted defeat when Cyborg told him harshly that Starfire needed someone to care for her and the baby since Earth was still so strange to her and if he didn't want to do it, he shouldn't have screwed around with her to begin with. The unspoken "And broken Raven's trust." passed between them and had been the final nail in the coffin.
Even now as he filed the papers and called all of Mr. Wayne's appointments to reaffirm them, Robin feels hot shame creep up his neck past his white collar.
'Listen to me.'
When he gets home, Starfire's eyes are glass and wet. He touches her arm gently before letting it fall. He no longer has the heart to comfort her. She's heartbroken that most of the team refuses to speak to them due to them being civilians; they claimed it'd lead dangerous villains to them and their small vulnerable family. He also had a sinking suspicion she missed her home world more now than ever and wished she could go back. He wishes she could back too.
"Hello," She greets him. Her eyes are dark and flat, but a smile (no matter how fake it is) is on her lips.
"Hey," he nods. He didn't know what else to say. The words had dried up months ago.
'Fight!'
This life was mediocre.
He went to the baby's nursery, to look at the one face in the world that loves him unconditionally and he feels bile in his throat. She has his black hair and his blue eyes and her orange skin. She's…
'This isn't your life! Fight!'
"–I'm gonna kill the sick sonvabitch." Cyborg growled.
Robin blinks against the heavy glare of the med-bay's white lights. The room smells of Raven and he wildly wonders where she is. He has so much to apologize for. So much forgiveness to beg for.
"I—I want your trust back," he slurs.
'I'm right here,' a voice in his minds reassures. 'I never stopped trusting you.'
He allows his body to relax slightly and take the scene in better. Cyborg is analyzing a chemical on the computer and Beast Boy is also on a med-bed. He's shaking hard, sweat breaking on his brow with Raven at his side, deep in a trance. Starfire is sitting on a chair between their beds, her body giving every sign of being tired with Oso butting his whining head against her knee.
"What happened?" Robin asks and his voice is hoarse but better.
"Jinx and Gizmo, man." Cyborg answers and the response doesn't make the situation any clearer to him.
"They created a nightmare world for you and Beast Boy using chemicals of mysterious origin and Jinx's power," Starfire answers uncharacteristically solemn when no other answer is forthcoming from the busy cyborg. "We almost lost you." Starfire's eyes swell with tears. "Raven had to pull you from the nightmare world first. The powder was going to put you in cardiac arrest." Starfire's sobbing now and Oso is whining in earnest now.
Robin quietly processed the information, not looking at the crying alien. Seeing her as such in his nightmare would haunt him for a long time.
"How's Raven?" he asks because Raven is unable to answer.
"She's could be doing better." Cyborg finally speaks. "When you and Beast Boy first went under, she was dragged into it too. She said it had something to do with your guys' link." Cyborg grins. "But since she has higher mental psi than the rest of us, she was able to fight it off quicker."
Robin nods, once or twice, his eyes on the Dark Witch. She does look tired. But he can't help but want to smile at her, so he does and before his heavy eyes fall once more, he sees her violet ones.
'You are safe.'
In this one, all the tenses drove me crazy and I couldn't seem to get it just right. But this was what I had in mind, even if it isn't as funny as usually. :)