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"Guys... we need to talk...about Robin."
"I agree something is wrong and, as a team, we should try to help him," Kaldur said. With how Robin had been acting it was starting to affect the whole team and if it kept up it would probably be disbanded.
"He has seemed very angry and sad lately. I can feel it radiating off of him," Megan added with concern.
"That's exactly my point. He's my best bud and you all know he won't talk about anything unless we have some sort of blackmail, and sometimes not even then, but I just want to help him," Wally exclaimed plopping himself down on the couch. "Sometimes I feel so detached from him and like he doesn't trust me to be able to confide in me with his problems."
"Maybe we should just give him some time. I wouldn't want everyone prying around in my life, you could just make it worse," Artemis added, thinking about her own home life. She would hate it if someone forced her to talk about it and so why be a hypocrite and force Robin to?
"But this isn't the normal wrong, something is seriously wrong and if we don't do anything it could also get worse," Wally said trying to keep his voice calm so as not to start a fight with Artemis.
"Well what do you propose we do, Wally, if he won't talk about it willingly?" Kaldur asked knowing Artemis was bound to start yelling at the speedster.
"I know this is going to sound bad but... I think we should have him followed. Who knows where he goes when he wonders off alone!"
"That goes way over the line! There's probably a reason he goes alone, he doesn't want anyone else to know! What about his secret identity?" Artemis yelled, outraged at the idea.
"Wally, I agree with Artemis. Robin has his identity a secret for a reason we-"
"We can't go sneaking behind his back just because we are curious and use "being worried" as an excuse! He would never forgive us!" Artemis interrupted.
"What about the whole Romanian thing? Did anyone know that that was his first language? What if it had happened and Batman wasn't there?"
Silence only greeted Wally.
"Yeah, that's what I thought. That was just a wakeup call telling us that we know diddly squat about Robin! What about his nightmare too? Who knows what that was about? I have seen Robin go against the Joker and other villains completely fearless, and if that didn't scare him what did? We can't be a team if we don't know each other's strengths and weaknesses! It just doesn't work like that!" Wally explained. All of these things had been circling around his mind and it was about time he got them out. He was Robin's best friend and he didn't know anything about him, where Robin knew everything about them.
"As much as I hate to admit this...Wally has a point about the whole weakness thing. What if Batman wasn't there, we wouldn't know what to do," Artemis sighed. "We can't be a team if we don't know the limits of each other," Kaldur nodded along.
"Thank you, Artemis," that was a first for Wally. "Robin probably knows everything about us. I wouldn't put it past him to watch security tapes and hack into our personal stuff. He's a bat and that's what they do, so why can't we do the same to him?"
"Wouldn't he catch us though?" Megan asked the first thing she had said in a while.
"Robins off his game right now, so this is practically out only opportunity to find out the secrets of the mysterious Boy Wonder."
"I thought we were doing this to help him?" she asked innocently.
"We are. It may sound harsh but it's for his own good. He needs to learn that we are his family and that he can trust us."
The team looked at him in silence. Conner then spoke up for the first time during the conversation.
"I think we should. I've heard him when he has a nightmare at night and that's the only way I knew what was happening when he was injured. He is injured now, though not in the same way, and I want to help him," he said very serious but he had a strange look in his eye that none of the team members had seen before, worry and concern.
Seeing that Conner agreed Megan did also and slowly Kaldur nodded too. The last was Artemis.
"I still feel like we are over stepping ourselves. If he finds out then he may never grow to trust us completely ever. He is a friend and teammate, he doesn't deserve this from us," she said.
"You are either with us or you can get out of the way," Wally told her.
"Fine," she resigned. Maybe she could prevent them from doing something they would regret later...
Authors note: yeah, it's a bit short but next chapter will for sure be longer. Batman and Robin will also have an appearance. This chapter was mainly the team trying to show concern and then get the whole show going. Hope you guys liked it, even if it wasn't the best. Please review :)