A/N: I was struggling with this one more than you would know. For the record, what information I know was obtained from Wikipedia. So sorry if not all of it is 100% correct. I did the best I could to cross-reference and everything…

Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice or any associated characters. Once more, I apologize for the length.

The red-haired speedster read it all, his teammates standing alongside him. Well, not exactly alongside him, but they were all there, each reading with horrified expressions painted on their faces. Wally was just having a hard time comprehending it all. This couldn't be real. There was no way. It couldn't be.

These sources all had the same name printed on them, Richard Grayson. For some reason, Wally couldn't see this boy as Robin. He was too dark, too tortured. When Wally compared these notes to the obvious facts he knew about his best friend, none of them added up. But the evidence led a trail straight to the name of Richard John Grayson. He had to accept that this was the true identity of the dark-haired boy; Kid Flash would also have to accept that this was Robin's past.

It was simple at first, so innocent. The first few articles were just the stuff about him being born to John and Mary Grayson, two acrobats in Haley's Circus. That was so point-blank that Wally figured the rest of it would all be simple. The circus part made enough sense. Robin was a world-class acrobat, nearly putting his mentor to shame sometimes with his flexibility. It was almost too innocent for the ginger to believe.

But then it started going downhill.

The next article that the clone at the keyboard pulled up was one on his parents' death. This was the one that started the horrified faces.

The Dark Knight's protege had apparently been only eight years old when he witnessed the death of the two that had raised him under the big top of Haley's Circus. The wires of the trapeze had been sabotaged; there had been evidence of that. This was what caused the death of the Grayson boy's parents.

Then the whole thing began to mellow out again, but the fact that the boy witnessed the death of the two who had trained him and raised him and loved him... The rest of the team couldn't fathom the thought of it. They had all been raised by family for so long that it was instinctual, Wally especially. He was trained by his uncle, lived with his parents, very close with his grandparents... The redhead couldn't dream of a world without his family around him.

Superboy was an exception, but even he knew that witnessing a death of people that important to someone would leave scars on the heart and mind. He might've been a clone, but he still had a soul. Even he knew the effects of ripping away any loved one, Superman being his case and point.

After the death of his parents, the life of Richard Grayson had leveled out a bit, being adopted by Bruce Wayne, being enrolled in the highest ranked schools within the Gotham city limits. It was looking like things had gotten better for a long while until all the Bruce Wayne parts of the world had caught up to him. He'd been kidnapped at least once as the ward of the billionaire. At least. That didn't even count the dozens of times he'd probably been kidnapped as the Boy Wonder. Articles were everywhere of Dick Grayson's being taken by some sick, twisted criminal for the ransom of a million dollars or so.

And between all the kidnappings and near death experiences, there was a scarred, injured child. There was the boy who had watched his parents fall from the trapeze. Traumatized. Devastated. Scarred. Richard Grayson had been scarred for life and that was that.

Wally was still trying to get all of this straight. Part of him still wasn't believing the entire story. Could one kid really be this tortured? Was it possible? And Robin had always seemed so... so strong, so normal. There was never a moment in time when Wally considered his behavior to be strange or different. Robin was Robin, and it was something that Wally had grown used to and respected. The kid was so good to people, always smiling, always laughing.

He didn't want to accept it. This couldn't be right. This couldn't be. Richard would be a dark, tormented child, not a smiling, maniacally cackling Boy Wonder. It just wasn't plausible. It wasn't. Wally refused to believe it. They had gotten the wrong identity, that was all.

Then his mind raced back to the heart-pounding moments of when the younger teen's foot was about to smash into his face and the sharp bark of "Richard" escaping the lips of the Dark Knight...

Wally didn't want to accept it, but this was the right kid. Richard Grayson was Robin. Robin was Richard Grayson. But Wally wasn't satisfied with this. It wasn't possible. There was no physical way that such a broken boy could manage to be the sidekick of Gotham's winged hero.

But something told him that this was right, no matter how much he hated this newly revealed truth. The speedster looked to his companions, seeing each of them having finished read the same things as he had. Then Kid Flash finally made the comment, "I don't get why he didn't want us to know."

It was the eyes of Kaldur'ahm that first flashed to give the ginger boy in the room a fierce glare. "We invaded his privacy," said the team's leader, voice harsh and fierce. "This was wrong. We should have stopped with his name. That was all we had wanted, was it not?"

For a long time, no one spoke up, but all of them were suddenly feeling horrible with themselves for reading into the files. All except for Wally, anyways. He timed his next comment until he figured he wouldn't get anyone to refute his opinion. "He's just a spoiled little rich kid now," remarked the redhead, slightly aggravated that Robin had kept that minor detail from him. "There's nothing really there to hide, dude. Sure, he's seen a lot, but he's turning out fine, right?" The redhead was trying to push away the idea of the trauma. He didn't want to imagine the pain and suffering that Robin had gone through in watching his parents plummet to their deaths. He could never imagine seeing it himself with his own parents... He would rather die than have to visualize it.

"He doesn't want our pity, that's why," said Superboy, rising from the chair that he had planted himself in to work the keyboard that would control the cerulean screen of the massive computer. "And maybe he doesn't want us to see him as a spoiled rich kid." The clone's azure orbs were throwing a glare in the form of daggers directly at the team's speedster, all anger intended. He was starting to get a little fed up with Wally. Superboy actually had to side with the apprentice of the Dark Knight on this one. He didn't want to be seen as a weapon, but rather as a person.

"It's not like we helped at all," murmured Megan from where she sat, her brown eyes glittering with tears as she looked to Kid Flash. "We just ruined his life again. We know who he is now. He didn't want us to know. We made things worse for him."

Wally hated that the rest of the team was right; he hated it with every fiber of his being. But the fact of the matter was that they were right and that they did ruin his secrecy. And the speedster was guilty of contributing to the crime.

Before any of the team had any more time for reflections on the subject of their screw up, the cave announced the arrival of Aquaman. The group was soon split up to go home for the night, Wally going with his uncle to Central City and Kaldur heading back to Atlantis. But it was strange that neither mentor mentioned anything of Batman or Robin, both of them acting as if it were any other day. Maybe they were unaware. Maybe they weren't acknowledging it. Either way, the team was fearing the consequences to come.

A/N: Not completely satisfied with this one, but I knew this chapter would be a bear to write. The next one will be a bit more fun for me, but more irritating for you. Haha. So review please! And yeah, Wally sounds like a complete jerk. That was my goal. His ignorance is a mask of bliss…

~Sky

P.S. Thanks to anonymous person for pointing out last sentence not finishing. I must not have hit save after I did the final edits... Whoops... My bad!