Mourn for the egg, mourn for the flock

Raven was pacing the room, looking at the others as they waited, patiently, for the meeting to begin "O.K!" she said, standing right in the middle of the room "Robin had to see someone, about his… problem. However, it seems that he left, and he didn't come back here. Any ideas of where he could have gone?"

BB blinked and raised his hand, raven nodded for him to talk "Maybe he went back to Batman? I mean, Robin we like his son, right? Maybe he went back."

Cyborg shook his head "remember how he acted the last time he saw Batman? It was pretty bad."

"No, BB's actually right, Cy, I mean, think about it, maybe he regretted the way he treated him or something. We won't know for sure unless we ask the Dark Knight himself. So, who's going to make the call this time?"

BB ran to Robin's room and grabbed the communicator "why not?" he smiled and pressed the button.

Batman didn't answer for two long minutes, but when he did, there were police in the background of his face "Oh, the green boy, Beast Boy, right?"

Beast boy grinned "yep!"

"What do you need?"
Beast boy looked at the communicator "We were wondering, you know if you'd seen-"

Robin turned his head, his eyes narrowing "Hold on, BB, It looks like the Joker escaped again." He started talking to one of the officers, and then turned back to the communicator "I'm sorry, you were saying? "

Beast boy blinked "the joker? You just fought the joker?!"

Raven glared and nabbed the communicator from him "Hey Batman, it Robin with you?"

At this, Batman took a deep breath "no."

The silence after that was deafening.

Beast boy lost all of his humor, replaced by seriousness and depression "He's gone again, it's been a few days this time."

Batman looked at Raven "have you tapped into his emotional waves?"

Raved closed her eyes and shook her head "I… I can't."

"Why?" Batman asked.

Raven looked away "if it was at all like last time, I could very well kill us all. " She looked at the communicator "Robin is my best friend, his pain affects me the worst."

Batman nodded "I see. Don't press yourself." He looked away "I can't come to jump city right now, The Joker is on the loose. Once I catch him, I promise to come assist you."

Raven nodded "we don't think there's anything shady going on here, he may have run away, worst case scenario."

Batman thought on it "Wouldn't be the first time. Alright, keep me informed."

Raven nodded "Will do, sir." She closed the communication "alright, let's collect some information on the streets."

They took off in all different directions

()~()~()~()~currently()~()~()~()~

Robin was poking at his omelet "Slade is it ok if I train again today?"

He nodded as he ate his own "as long as you want, just come up for meals, ok?"

He nodded and ate.

As soon as he hit the training room, he pressed the button on the wall that Slade had shown him, it would release three Slade bots at a time, for hand-to-hand combat. As soon as he turned, three robots were on him. He took them out in about five minutes. He pressed the button twice, three, four more times; twelve came out to fight him.

After a few hours, he came up for food. Slade was on the phone "I see, and when will they be coming over?" he waited, listening to whomever was on the other line "Alright, I'll be ready." He hung up and turned to Robin "hello, my little bird. After you eat, I need you to take a shower, then go to my bedroom, and promise not to come out."

Robin blinked "why?" he sat down

Slade tilted his head "I have… company coming over, and I don't think you should meet them it would be unpleasant for all of you."

Robin sighed and ate his soup and sandwich.

*later*

Robin went into Slade's bedroom and lay on the bed. He was almost asleep when he heard two gunshots, one right after the other. He jumped up and ran out the door "Robin, don't come downstairs." Slade called calmly up to him "Let me clean up this mess first."

Robin shuddered and crept down the stairs. Slade bots were carrying away two large black bags, and one Slade bot was mopping up what looked like blood. Robin looked at him, pail and horrified "you… killed people?!"

Slade nodded "yes." He set the gun down on a table "They were trying to cheat my client, so he sent them here with the fifteen thousand dollar fee I charge for double assassination. This was only too easy, they even paid for their own deaths." He chuckled darkly and turned to face him "I told you to stay in my room, Robin, did I not?" he hissed coldly

Robin swallowed down the lump building his throat "why… Why Slade?!" he yelled, anger, sorrow and fear bubbling up as one in his chest. "What is wrong with you?! You invited men over so you could kill them?!" he ran at him, only to receive a rather painful blow to the gut before Slade pinned him face first on the ground, straddling his lower half and pilling the boy's arms behind his back

"It's all in my job description, I am an assassin. I kill for money. All the way from presidents and dukes to common lowlifes like them." He forced Robin to look at the black bags that were being dragged out

"I… I hate you." Robin said

Slade laughed "you should go now, Little Bird, their blood is getting to me." He climbed off of him and stalked away "hurry, though. You are rather tempting at the moment."

Robin closed his eyes and ran to his room and locked the doors. As if that would do any good. If Slade had wanted in, he would just break the door down.

Robin shuddered and climbed on his bed, shaking and sobbing.

He wanted Batman, he wanted Red, and He wanted his long since dead parents.

He wanted to disappear. No one would suffer AND he wouldn't have to be with a murderous sick twisted experiment gone wrong.

He cried himself to a troubled sleep.