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Ch. 11-I Will

(Robin)

"Jay...you're alive?"

The words seemed to echo through the black world we both occupied, bouncing off of nothing and swinging back at me, hitting me with their full force as my eyes refused to leave Jay's figure. She stood only several feet from me, and with a few hesitant steps moved closer.

"I am," she spoke softly taking another step. "Even though I might not look very alive," a slight chuckle came with her words, and time seemed to freeze as she smiled.

I had forgotten her smile.

"Your hair?" I whispered and took a step closer to her, closing the small gap between us. "Your eyes?"

"The unfortunate consequences of being shot into space and landing on another planet filled with intellectual but nevertheless alien beings," Jay explained.

This was all too much to wrap my head around. Jay was alive, she was really alive. Looking at her, I couldn't help but smile, seeing the first friendly face in a long time.

"Permanent?" I finally pushed out. "Are the effects permanent?"

"Once I get back to Earth I should regain my old appearance," she replied, and stopped moving. I hadn't registered it until now, but we were only inches apart.

"When are you coming home?!" I cried suddenly unable to hold in my excitement, shock, pain, and joy. "The world needs you, I need you! I'm losing to Slade, he's winning, I can't keep fighting..." Holding my head in my hands, my mind was swarmed with visions, memories, flashbacks, and feelings. The darkness seemed to swirl around me, and for a moment I felt lost and alone as usual.

"Robin," Jay's clear voice rang out and snapped my focus back to her. "Listen to me. I don't have much time. Our connection is going to break soon, and I have so much to tell you. I'm alive. Your team is alive. We're separated at the moment, but soon I'm going to find them and then we're going to do everything in our power possible to return and save you. But you have to keep fighting! Promise me you'll keep fighting!"

"I will," the more Jay spoke, the more her words comforted me, and somewhere deep inside me the old Robin was sparked to life. My voice sounded stronger than it had in months, and my body tensed as adrenaline coursed through my veins. Jay and the Titans were alive. They were coming home.

"I'm sorry Jay," I clambered. "I'm so sorry for hurting you. It was my fault-

"No, Robin, it wasn't," Jay assured me. "It was Slade's. It's too complicated to explain everything to you now, but know that nothing you did was wrong. Nothing."

"Well, alright Jay, I believe you," I decided, anger coursing through me as I heard it was Slade. How could I have been so naive? How could I have ignored the obvious, that it was Slade who destroyed my life and was now trying to destroy my soul?

"That is all I ask," Jay declared with a bigger smile. The darkness around us was beginning to intensify, and I could only assume that that meant our time together was coming to a close. Quickly, I reached out and hugged her, pulling her into a warm embrace that I could remember in the coming days that would prove to be my hardest. Returning the hug, Jay whispered in my ear,

"Don't let him win Robin."

Before I could utter a word, Jay was pulled from my arms and I was falling, hurtling back towards reality and slamming onto the ground, back in my physical body. Darkness and light and Slade filled my vision, but for a moment, all I could feel was Jay, and all I could see was her smile.

(Jay)

As I made my way off my spaceship, my eyes scanned the area, unsurprisingly finding it to be just a vast sheet of ice in every direction. My ship had managed to form a firm hold, so I didn't have to worry about it sliding away. Now I could focus on the mission at hand, finding the Teen Titans and coercing them into coming back with me so that we could all save Robin.

Unfortunately, I was at the difficult part of my mission now. My ship had managed to pick up Cyborg's weak microwaves, but it couldn't pinpoint the exact destination he and the other Titans were located. It was my job to comb the surrounding sheets and caves of ice to find my team, my friends. Hopefully I would find them soon, because they might be close to death like I was upon arriving on Jayren, and I only had an hour before it would start storming again and I'd have to find shelter. But as I carefully moved a few steps across the ice and nearly slipped, I realized this was going to be difficult. That had never stopped me before though, and pushing my doubts aside, I began to move across the ice, sliding my feet across the sheet so I was sort of skating across the frozen ground. It felt almost like flying, and for an instant, I was happy. Happier than I had been in a long time. Not only had I gotten to see Robin, but in the moments I was pulled by the darkness back into reality, I had come upon a realization, a light of truth that now shone brightly in front of me and guided me.

Slade was going to die. I didn't know how I was going to do it, but there was no doubt in my mind now that I was going to the sick criminal for causing Robin so much pain, so much heartache. The breaking boy in front of me did not have much time left, despite his confident tone and renewed promises. His soul's brilliance was slowly dimming, and Slade was trying to shine in a new light, a hideous light that filled me with undeniable rage. I no longer cared about Kayda and his version of justice, or for that matter anyone's version of justice. No one would get in my way when I got a hold of Slade. No aliens or Titans, fears or virtues.

It would be me and him. Slade and Reyna, one last time. Only this time, Slade would be the one who fell.

I know you guys have been waiting for this one for a while, so enjoy! Sorry for the eternity! Much thanks to everyone's continued support! -LJ