The next day was some what event full, He had woken up in the middle of the night with a splitting head ack, went down to the cave to practice his attack`s and ended up being late for his first day of school.

He had chosen a normal school nothing fancy, no dress code with working computers. He ended up walking into five kids before making it to his locker and breaking the lock when he saw barley noticeable pink stains on the tips of his fingers. Jason had pushed James to the back of his mind, where his friend would stay.

James didnt deserve that. He knew he should talk to someone but the fact was, no one knew James excpet him. Who would understand? Bruce would brush it off. Alfred would pat his shoulder and give a insparational speech, Batgirl would tell him to think about it and how it made him feel while Dick would say and I quote: "Ask Alfred." He was alone on this and being only fourteen and not knowing how to handle it he would ignore it and take it out on the criminals he fought at night.

The rest of the day went less than swiming, he banged his knee on the desk in Science, he tripped at lunch falling on his mystery meat and he got disqualified for throwing a basketball in a kids face at gym. He diserved it, Jason was pretty sure that kid tripped him at lunch. Last but not least he was given a mountian of homework before he was finially able to treck to the car where Alfred was waiting to pick him up.

"Have a nice day sir?" Alfred asked.

"I hate life." Jason spat.

He barley finished his homework when Bruce called him into the cave and sent him on a mission with the team.

"Nice to see you could join us." Beast-boy smiled. Robin only nodded. If he spoke his words were likly going to come with a fist.

"Who do we got?" Beatle asked, Nigthwing looked over his shoulder, "Klarion." he stated. M`gann, Beatle, Nigthwing and him jumped out of the bio ship. In frount of Klarion. He was skinnier than he thought.

Klarion threw a large spark of magic at M`gann, Beatle flew at the "boy" only to be flisked aside by Klarion.

"Your boring now that you have new team-mates, I think they need to go back to school and let the big boys handle this one. Aye, Nightwing?" Klarion crackled.

M`gann growled and threw Klarion into the side of a bus, witch he recoverd quickly from, but Nightwing was right beside him and punched him making Klarion stagger the opisite way, "Your no fun any more," The two locked eyes, "Not after what happened with Aqualad."

Jason jumped behind him and used the distraction to grab Klarion`s head and slam it into the bus. The boy slumped to the ground, unconscious. "Shut the hell up." he spat. M`gann helped the police load Klarion up into a secure armored car while Jason walked over to the others.

He was a blunt person, he said like it was and if he was curious then he would ask,so he did, "Who`s Aqualad?"

Nightwing and Blue beatle stared at him in shock, Beatle bit his lip, "I think I`ll go and see if M`gann needs some help." he raced away like he had the powers of Flash. Robin was left with Nightwing, who pinched the bridge of his nose. After a heavy sigh:

"Come on, lets find somewhere privite to talk." He said, Jason nodded.

XXX

"So, who is he?" Jason asked kicking his legs as they hung over the edge of the building, Nightwing sat beside him, "Aqualad was the first leader of the team, before me."

"Then he betrayed us." Nightwin sighed, "Tula, Aquagirl, died during one of our missions and he found out his father was Black Manta, it was a hard year for him." Nightwing said rubbing the side of his face.

"It was a hard year for him? What about you, the team?" he asked.

"We were broken, before, we were closer than family and when he left, we kind of fell apart, even M`gann and Conner grew apart, he kept us together, I took role as leader but Aqualad was the real leader." NIghtwing said.

"That`s bullshit Nightwing!" He growled Dick turned and glared at him and Jason sent it right back, "He betrayed you and your acting like he had no choice. Like your second best to him. You say you were like family? Well he obviously didnt see it that way. Stop makeing him out to be innocent when he`s not, It`s his fault that happened to the team."

"You dont know, you`ll probably never know," Dick growled standing up, "When you have someone so close that it kills to see them walk away from you and what you`ve done."

Jason clenched his fist, he knew exactly what that felt like, but he wasnt about to say it. "Is there more to this story than you telling me?" he asked. He couldnt see past Nightwing`s optic lenses but he did catch his jaw clench. What was he hiding?

"I think it`s time I went home." he sighed.

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Jason sat on his bed an gazed at the picture of his family. he could feel his stomach clench and his breath catch. This was to hard, being Robin or being him, he didnt know. He slipped the picture into his drawer and got up. he needed to beat his thoughts outs.

Between the traing room and his room his thoughts bombareded him. He walked in running a hand threw his hair and threw on his favorite song to block out his own thoughts before he started on the punching bag.

The music hit his ears and he started to punch harder, his thoughts raced faster and faster and faster.

"Stop!" He yelled and punched right threw the bag making the contents spill out. He looked over to see Alfred at the door raising his eyes brow. "Sir, Master Bruce needs you."

Jason meantally slapped himself, get a grip! He burried his thoughts the best he could and took a deep breath, "Two-face?" He asked. Alfred shock his head, "Penguin."

"On it." he said and headed down to the Cave where Batman was waiting. Jason put on his costume and walked over to him, "Here." Bruce said, he handed him a baton. when he grabbed it his thumb found a small button and he pressed it. The stick lit up with electicity.

"Cool." he smiled, Batman headed to the car, "You`ll need it, Penguin was caught in a drug ring and we`ve go enought to put him in Arkham, But the problem is he`s had time to get more than a few gaurds. He also says he has an exsplosive that`ll blow if he see me, you or any cops. So no one can take him in" They jumped into the car and Batman pressed the gas, "Your job. dont be seen untill I disarm the bomb, then it`ll be up to you to clear the north side of the building and I`ve got the south, well make our way to the middle to take out Penguin."

"Got it." he nodded. It wasnt long till they got to the building and he ended up on the roof playing with the end of his cape, waiting for Bruce to give the signal.

"Robin, the bomb is deactivated take them all out." Batman growled.

"With pleasure, meet you at the middle bats." Jason opened the roof window an droped down in the middle of a large group of people. They didnt hesitate to leap at him. He side stepped and half of them chared into their friends while the others tried to punch him.

He jumped a high as he could and landed on his hands, he spun around spreading his legs and kicking a few hard bodied people. He fliped over and landed on a man`s chest. The one`s who were standing charged at him and he jumped up making them miss and fall on he one guy.

Robin landed on the piled of men as three others pulled out guns and started to shoot at him, he dougded easily and counted the bullets till he heard the slight click, they were out. He ran at them and jumped up and tackled one guy and quikly spinning aroung, kicking he sceconds man off his legs. Before he hit the ground Jason jumped on him pushing him down harder useing him to kick off a good attack at the last guy who looked like he craped his pants.

He jumped back to his feet and ran at the last of the men, truning on his Baton and stared aiming for sides and the joints. Jason stood in the middle of the room his senses alert and if anything even more ready than when he started. No one else was around or standing so he ran off to the room Bruce had showed him on the blueprint. He looked around and tried the doorknob :Locked. That ment Batman was still busy.

Robin bit his lip and took a step back before making his choice. His foot hit the door and he rolled in holding up his batons. Three men stood around the punty bird like man who smiled a toothy grin.

"I heard there was a new bird, now I get to see him for myself." Penguin smiled evily.

"Only thing you`ll be seeing is the inside of an Arkham cell you bird fetish freak." He growled. Robin charged and jumped over them and took out the guy behind Penguin and broke his gun and spun around.

The last two gaurds fired at him and he spun around douding a full round but caught one in the shoulder and on his side. He threw the two peices of the broken gun at the gaurds and it hit their guns. Jason grabbed one man and fliped on his back and smashed his face with his foot. He lept over the bird man and onto the other guy knocking him out instantly.

Jason grabbed Penguin`s shirt, "No more games!" he snapped.

"I agree boy." he smiled, three things happened, Batman ran threw the door, a cage dropped and something ran at Jason carrying him threw the wall and into the city streets.

"ROBIN!"

Jason strugged in the mosters grasp. He had studied this with Alfred, this was a Cadmus monster, the League supposably destroyed every venom contanier but every now and then a villian would have something like that up their sleave.

His wounds were stinging like hell and he tried to put his feet on the moster`s chest and push out of his grip, It worked. He tummbled on the ground gaing more cuts and brusies. He barly had time to doudge before the Monster ran at him again.

Something he wasnt acostomed to, something that only ran threw the people he fought ran threw his blood. He was scared...

No, right now, he was angry! He felt every moment of train come at him as he rooled out of the way and the monster ran into the building. JAson ran at him and scalled his back and wrapped his arms around the mosnters large neck. While the monster struggled to throw him off Robin pulled out a Batagrang and threw it up at a nearby fire hydrant and blew up spraying water in the air. Jason kicked away from him over to a dry spot.

The monster spun around and Jason turned on his baton and threw it into the water shocking the beast till he passed out and the baton shorted out.

Jason felt a hand on his good shoulder and spun around clenching his fist. Batman narrowed his eyes, "Good job Robin."

"Thanks," he swallowed the lump in his throat, "Did you get penguin?"

"Yes, I saw you get ready to take this thing out and warned Gordon, he`ll be here soon." Batman said. Jason smile, "T-That`s fantastic." he gasped his hand finging the bullet wound in his side. Batman frowned, "come on lets get home and patch you up."

"That`d be great." he smiled.

XXX

Jason growled holding up his arms in an X shape and bent on one knee under Bruce` attack. After he had the bullet taken out of his shoulder and his side healed he was determined never to have to deal with that again. Have you ever ha to have someone go into your shoulder with hot metal to take out more metal? It hurts. So he was ditermined to get better than he already was. Right now his shoulder burned and his stiches stung.

"You want to stop? You look tired." Bruce teased. Jason smirked and derected Bruce`s arms to the side and shot up and threw bruce on his back his hands to his throat, "Better." Bruce nodded his aproval.

They got up and Bruce walked over to the bench and threw him a water, "Your getting very good."

Jason smiled and took a large sip of his water. When he put it down Bruce had a serious face.

"Jay," he said sitting down, "You know you can tell me anything right?"

Jason frowned, "Of course I do Bruce, why do you ask?"

Bruce stood up and smiled, "No reason."