Title: Fallen
Author: Rai Maroi

Fandom: Teen Titans
Genre: Romance/Angst/Tragedy
Rating: M, Mature audiences only!
Pairing: Slade/Robin, Slade/Robin/??
Summary: Sometimes all we really need is a way to vent. Both Slade and Robin find that out the hard way.

Note: The songs used are not my own. They are products of the wonderful Alternative Rock band by the name of Evanescence.
WARNING! THERE IS A WARNING FOR THIS CHAPTER! I WILL NOT REVEAL IT, BUT PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION! Please continue.

Chapter Ten: Imaginary

I linger in the doorway

Days passed slowly but surely, and everything seemed to blur and become all the same to him. He would eat little, sleep little, but he would train himself until he dropped from his feet to the cold floor. The others around him noticed his new habits. Beast Boy showed his worry outwardly, but Slade and Raven were the ones to keep themselves in check. They were already working out a way to help Robin.

"He is sick… or he doesn't care anymore. I probe into his mind, but he doesn't tell me to stop."

Of alarm clock screaming monsters,
Calling my name.

And he did not care. He wouldn't be able to hide what troubled him for much longer unless Raven already knew, but did not tell. What was she waiting for if she knew? Permission to tell Slade? She didn't need it! She could just let him know. Let Slade know what was really bothering Robin… Let Slade know that Batman still held so much sentiment for Robin that the boy was being haunted by that man.

"What would cause the effects from him? He barely responds, but…"

"He's so distant during sex!" The girl cringed slightly. Slade glanced to the shape shifter. Green ears drooped low.

"Thank you for that input, Beast Boy."

Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me.

Robin rocked back and forth, clutching his knees to his chest and silently mumbling to himself. He was on the bed he shared with his lovers, but he didn't realize it. He had blacked out once again while fighting a robot programmed to kill. The boy knew that if his older lover hadn't been there watching, then he would have been killed. Although he was glad to still be alive, he would have rather died only those few hours ago. In death, he wouldn't have to worry about Batman, but he would miss all the nights he could spend with the two he loved.

Voices whispered to him for all the things he wouldn't have to be troubled over. His conscious would counter with all the things he would regret losing. There was a war going on inside his mind and his lovers knew nothing about it.

Where the raindrops
As their falling tell a story.

'I don't care if you tell them, Raven. Tell them I'm troubled because of that old bat,' Robin would think repeatedly hoping she would hear him… and then pass it on. He hoped. And she eventually did. And Slade was the one to subtly hint at it one night. 'I don't truly wish to see him… I want to kill him is the problem. But how do I tell him without scaring him or Beast Boy?'

In my field of paper flowers,
And candy clouds of lullaby.

"Why can't Raven and I go meet 'the great Batman', again?"

"Robin doesn't want you there. Here. You and her may go fight in a spar or find something to do outdoors."

"Raven isn't fun. She's like a zombie!" Slade chuckled at the shifter's imitation of the walking dead. "Please let me go with!"

"No. Robin gets what he wants because he's my uke and your better."

"But—"

"The only butt in this conversation will be yours fucked well if you don't get it out of here," the man deadpanned.

I lie inside myself for hours,

"Fine. When you get back though, I want to be complete bottom for once. I'm tired of topping Robin."

"It's noted. Now go get Raven."

And watch my purple sky fly over me.

A regal man stood in the main room of the place they had agreed upon. It felt strange to see the man again after so long. Robin kept his hand in Slade's, their fingers laced. The man in all black narrowed his eyes at the linked hands, seeming to hope for an explanation of everything. Robin glanced up at the mask his lover wore, nervousness rolling off him in waves.

"Batman."

"Deathstroke. I believe you have something that doesn't belong to you."

"On the contrary, he came to me. Did you not, dear Robin?" Bright blue eyes shifted to look at Batman to confirm.

Don't say I'm out of touch
With this rampant chaos—your reality.

"It is true that I am with Slade, Batman… or should I call you Bruce instead?" Robin still clung to Slade by the arm. "I don't care about you or anything you do."

"I'm not going to let him take you away from the path of righteousness, Robin!"

"You let that happen long ago when you didn't stop me from leaving Gotham." The boy turned his head away from his old mentor up towards his lover. Blue eyes met a gray one in a pleading manner. With his free hand, Slade clicked his mask off and shifted to kiss the boy without revealing his entire face. Their lips met, but Robin didn't want an innocent chaste kiss. The boy parted his lips and deepened it. Tongues delved and tasted until the boy had to pull away for breath.

"If only the bat wasn't here… I'd have you on that couch and screaming in pleasure within moments, Robin," Slade whispered before replacing his mask.

I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge.

There was no time to react. It all went by so fast that the only one that really saw what happened was Slade. Batman was enraged with the show of affection between the two that he lunged. Raven and Beast Boy intercepted him to be struck down by a sharp blade to their stomachs. All Robin saw was Raven and Beast Boy lying side by side, gasping for breath, and then Batman falling to the ground to be still in a pool of his own blood.

"No. No. No!" Robin whispered. His heavy legs didn't want to carry him to the teens' sides. He couldn't move until Slade touched him. At that point, tears were falling freely from his eyes and he ran down steps to reach the girl and boy. He kneeled between them, staring shockingly at them in turn. "Don't die. Please!"

The nightmare I built my own world to escape.

"This is a nightmare. You can't die, damn it! Don't! Please don't leave me. Please. I'll never… I don't know. Please just don't die!" Robin screamed. He covered their wounds with a hand each, applying pressure to slow the blood flow.

In my field of paper flowers,
And candy clouds of lullaby.
I lie inside myself for hours,
And watch my purple sky fly over me.

"Robin. You can't save them. They'll die."

"I won't let them!"

"Don't be childish, selfish." Slade placed hands on the boy's shaking shoulders, but was brushed off.

"Don't touch me! Leave me alone if you won't help me save their lives!" Crying blue eyes turned towards Slade, his heart skipping a beat for a moment. 'So alike…' Slade kneeled in the shifter's puddle of blood. 'I'll help… just so I won't see that sad face again…' The man swatted Robin's hand away. The medic in him came forth. Studying with a critical and analytical eye, he knew the two teens wouldn't make it. He did what he could to help their passing a little easier for them, but couldn't keep Robin from screaming their names, telling them and pleading for them to come back, to wake up.

Swallowed up in the sound of my scream.
Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights.

The boy wouldn't stop his screaming. If he didn't cease, he would screaming himself hoarse for days, maybe even weeks. He was cast over the half-demon girl's body, crying and mumbling.

"Raven… I want that deep-sleep dreaming like you, my goddess of imaginary light… Please…"

Oh how I long for the deep-sleep dreaming,
The goddess of imaginary light.

Oh wow… I haven't updated in… almost two months… smiles sheepishly Sorry! I was finishing up school and trying to keep my grades up for the last two months. Got a C in Physical Science and that is understandable because it isn't my best subject… Sorry for killing Raven and Beast Boy! On to reviews now…

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