Stalked

SladIn

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It started off as dreams.

Well, most people would call them nightmares. But Robin hadn't had any sort of "normal" dream for a long time. So to him, that was what they were. Dreams.

It'd begin with him standing in a large, dark room. Sometimes he was nude, sometimes he was not. Either way, his hair stood on end. Robin could always tell when he was being watched. He'd hear a sound and whip around, only to find nothing there but darkness.

"Robin. So slow, as always." And then he'd hear those words and turn around, to find Slade standing only five feet away. The massive man's face showed no emotion, as the mask made certain. Robin's heart would start to race.

"What do you want, Slade?" Robin's voice was always calm and collected whenever he said this. But his dream room would start to grow very warm, and he'd begin to sweat.

Slade would begin to step closer, his one eye trained on Robin, keeping him frozen in place. The tall man would stop barely a foot away, and lean down into Robin's face. "You know what I want, my boy," he'd whisper. And Robin could feel his hot breath through the slits on his mask, and his heart would beat even faster –

And then he'd wake up, sweating and riled up and no longer able to sleep.

The Titans started to notice Robin's strange behavior. He had become fidgety and quiet – absorbed in his own thoughts. Thoughts of Slade and of his dreams. He had started to hear Slade's voice at the back of his head, speaking in the calm monotone that made Robin's skin prickle. Raven had approached him at one point, sensing something through their connection.

"Robin," she started, almost hesitantly. "Is everything alright? You seem a little…jumpy."

"I'm not jumpy," he immediately snapped back. Robin tried not to let on the fact that he was seeing black shadows at the corner of his vision. He felt bad when Raven narrowed her eyes at him. "I'm just not getting enough sleep. Don't worry about it."

Starfire and Cyborg had approached him with the same thing. Robin always tried to soothe their worries, even if he saw Slade around every corner, beckoning to him with hunger in his eye.

Robin could not let them know that he was being stalked by his age old enemy.

And he could definitely never let on that he liked it.

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A/N – I'm not a big fan of this pairing, which is why it's a little short. But I hope it works for those of you who do ship this! :D Yay!