7 pages, that's my usual average, but here's something you might not have to wait too long for this chapter. ;D Enjoy~

It started to feel cold here. Now, I began to wonder one of my other reasons of leaving Gotham city, but another question would be this: why wasn't Syler in bed with me and holding me?

My eyes opened up and found myself alone in bed. I jolted up and panicked. ItotallyhopedIdidn'tmissedourdate. I gulped and turned my head over to the clock. I sighed. It was only nine in the morning and still the right day. I breathed again and my head dropped back to the pillow. I heard a soft ruffling and turned my head over to my right as I spotted a paper on Syler's pillow.

My hand reached out to it and began to read it:

Hello little robin-kin,

I hope you're not mad or worried or scared about me. I took myself out so you have time to make yourself look good. I needed to arrange our date and prepare it for us. I will pick you up at twelve…hoping you won't skip time again. If it did, I can always put it to a later hour. We're going to somewhere fancy, but it's a little out of this city too. I hope you like it, it's amazing- okay, I'm totally shutting up before I ruin the surprise for you. Now, get yourself ready and I figured you'd wake up by nine thirty at least. I put your boiling water up and running, but the burner is very low. I know how you want your tea right again, so do not fret.

Dress nice, please? I only ask that much and I am going to show you the types of restaurants I prefer to take Gari out to. Still, no excuses. I love you, little robin-kin! I will see you twelve o'clock sharp!

Love from your boyfriend, X~

I blinked and couldn't believe he was this serious. I gulped, the way he made it sound like we were going to have a wonderful time there, and I wasn't too sure what to expect. I hoped off to bed and rushed into shower. I only did it quick with my shower for in and out for the matter of five minutes. I made sure my hair turned out so nicely, but I forgot that I needed a haircut last month. I shrugged and didn't really care right now. Who needed haircut when Syler can put those fingers through my hair? I liked it a lot when he does it.

I grinned and fixed up my hair nicely for a change. I put on deodorant, a little cologne, and brushed my teeth to be fresh and cleaned. I hurried into the closet to my side of the clothes and tried on some suits he gotten me. I wasn't too sure how fancy it was, but it was making me more nervous than ever!

I tried them all on, but some of the pants wouldn't exactly fit in right. Maybe they might a little too small. The last pants finally fit right and reminded me the time Starfire and I had our little prom date one time. If it wasn't for that total bitchy villain we had to put up with. I shuddered at the horrid memory of her…whatever made her think I'd be into her? Luckily, she was arrested at the end with her criminal boyfriend. They were better off with each other instead!

I noticed most of the blue tie had a similar color to my eyes, but different shade of turquoise and never thought he'd be into my eyes before. It made me felt warm inside of me and good to know the fact he cared about me this much. My fingers felt the ties and how silky they truly were. I could tell they were the best of the best out of this world and he would want me to have it. It made me smile anyway. I joined by the mirror and saw myself definitely in the right suit.

I chuckled, "Trying to make sure I'd wear the right ones, why don't you, Slyer?" My head shook slowly, but I was definitely in a good mood.

A few knocking on the door and I went to answer it. Gari smiled and noticed a few things. She was holding something in her hands and one of my eyebrows went up.

"Good morning, Dick, guess what?" She grinned.

I chuckled, "Good morning, Gari and what is it?" I pointed at her hands.

She revealed her hands to one typical stone, "This stone represent time, I thought it might help you today. I did a lot of research to be sure of it."

I knelt down and observed this gemstone she spoke of. It was a little familiar, but why couldn't I figure it out? It was smoothed looking, black, and roundish. I knew it was common among girls, but what was it?

Black…black…black…

Onyx! Of course, but why this one? Gari handed it over to me and I felt them. She was just happy to help out anyway.

"So how does it work?" I looked at her.

Gari giggled, "You just have it with you. This one can enhance self-controlling, which is you'd probably need."

I blinked, "Oh, hm, that does seem helpful." I patted her head, "Thanks, kid."

Gari nodded and drifted off to her room to do whatever she was up to now. I shrugged and shoved the black onyx into my pocket which wasn't noticeable. I was glad at least. I headed straight to the kitchen and begun to hear the teapot whistling. Weird…must be a long time to boil it. So, I helped myself some tea and cooled it down first before taking a sip. I checked at the clock and realized it's an hour left.

I helped myself some water cracker and it helped to have something for my stomach. Actually, my stomach finally quit with the nausea thing and felt much better. Maybe that's all I ever needed, water crackers and it's been such a long time I had them. They're soft and almost like bread to me. I wanted to have a couple of more, but a little flavoring. So, I ended up adding jelly on it. In fact, that sweetens things up.

After having a little food inside me, I ended up making another set of tea and much nicer to have my mouth not having to be all dried up. My hands were curling around the cup and thought about what Syler wrote today. It sounded so romantic too, was he the romantic type of a man? I never thought of those things before.

"Great…I need a book on how to be gay one-oh-one." My eyes rolled, "Because doing this all on my own is ridiculous." I scoffed.

Or maybe try spending more time with the girls. Honestly, I felt bad that two girls were singled out by boys. Maybe it's time I'd start getting one female member or something. Of course, we had a little issue with Terra, but I hoped Beast boy doesn't go falling for them again. Raven gets a little too jealous to the girls who date him. They're perfect for each other, honestly.

I slowly took a sip and thought about it. What about Starfire? She has no…actually; she's been talking about her friend from her planet lately. She seemed to like him a lot more than I have imagined, but I get a little worried and overprotective if anything happens to her. Cyborg was definitely into Bumblebee or what he calls her, Bee. Kind of made me wondered what would happen if she was on our team. Constantly mixing up Beast boy and Bumblebee and causing problems for everyone. It wouldn't look so good; then again, she's running the Titan East anyway. Why make anything worse?

My eyes checked up at the clock and realized it was finally getting close. Before I was going to head over to the door, I head myself over to the bathroom and mind my own business there while whistling. I joined over to the sink and washed up my hands.

I walked over to the front of the house and felt him nearby. He had to be waiting and I opened the door. He leaned against the other door, but he smiled right up at me. He wore a fine suit with silver silk tie around his neck. It fit him perfectly well. His hair was neaten and definitely a gentleman looking. Perhaps this might be a good date for us today. Syler extended out his arm and I linked my arm with his as I cuddled up with him. He gestured over to the ride and I smirked at him. It was a black and long limo, but he knew how to ride in style for occasion.

"You looking dashing, Robin, absolutely dashing." He kissed my forehead.

My cheeks felt so warm, just hoping not to have one of those disappearing moment because right now was wonderful, and riding in a limo with him was almost a perfect. My mind was wondering where he'd be taking us tonight.

"Thank you," I whispered.

Syler cuddled up with me in the ride and we chatted about small things like typical things we were into. His favorite color was black, mine was red. Favorite place in the world was Italy and mine was Spanish, but it was funny how we're right in the same continent. Syler's favorite car was a jeep and my ride was motorcycles. His favorite type of genre reading was romance and mine was mystery. Our favorite dessert was anything with banana or cheesecake. I never thought we'd find something to actually have in common!

The limo slowed down and parked in front of the restaurant I couldn't see yet. I was so eager to see it all with him. Syler patted my shoulder and I tried to calm down a bit.

"Hehe, sorry." I said.

Syler grinned, "It's okay, I assumed you're very hungry."

The limo driver opened the door for us and Syler led the way. I could smell the fresh ocean not far from us and noticed the lovely restaurant above the ocean. I awed at the beautiful weather we're having today and how sunny and very light wind. It was a perfect atmosphere around me and Syler enjoyed my reaction.

"I thought you might like it so far," He chuckled.

I nodded and awed at this beautiful place. I spotted the restaurant's name and it said, "Island Prime" and it's so…perfect.

We headed in and how divine and elegant the place was. The windows were widely open and clear glass to see the perfect view. The waiter recognized Syler immediately and took us over to our table. We were right up against by the window glass and I could see the whole city standing tall. I admired the beautiful city since I never got to see it as a whole before. Syler pulled the chair out for me and I gave him a thankful smile. I sat down and he started to take his seat. The waiter set down menus for us and left us in gracious peace of our moment.

"Thi-this is something else, Syler." There was no way I could find a better place than this.

He grinned, "I'm glad you like the style, your reaction is perfect."

I gushed up and picked up the menu to see what to eat. I was nearly starving since it has been about half an hour ride in the limo. The restaurant wasn't so busy either and gladly to take its silence. The menu had many choices for us to decide from and how they explain things out what was in some of the food. They all sounded so good and having lobster was something else. Of course, that kind of turned my stomach once I saw it. So, I focused on meatier meal like steak or ribs. Prime ribs sound so good. One of the foods caught my attention and was definitely looking forward since it's very tasty from the way I viewed it.

The waiter returned with preparation, "Are you ready to order, gentlemen?" He looked at both of us with equal attention.

I nodded, "Yes, I will have garlic & rosemary crusted ribeye and on the side, I'll just have one of those mac n' cheese. For drink, I will just have water." I kindly smiled.

The waiter nodded, "Alright sir, how about you?" He turned over to Syler.

Syler nodded, "I will have herb crusted albacore and on the side of mashed potatoes. I will have water as well."

The waiter nodded and left us knowing it would be here as soon as possible. The menus were put aside and Syler rested both of his elbows onto the table and rested his chin on one of his palm. He was looking at me, dreaming away whatever he has in his mind, and adored me every second of it. I had to be redder than last time and had no idea how to even react to this.

"The blue tie is a perfect match for you, Dick, it really does." He complimented me.

My eyes narrowed down, felt totally awkward here, and definitely in an open public. My cheeks had to be hotter than ever when he said that.

"Th-thanks."

Syler nodded, "Don't be nervous, I arranged privacy for the both of us. Gari is going to be with her friends for the sleepover party she has going."

Syler was comfortable about dating, but it relaxes me knowing no reporters or paparazzi. What worried me more was the gemstone not doing its job, but I trusted its power or ability to prevent any random skip timing. It would be harder enough to explain to the people about all of that.

Somehow, Syler started talking about how he gotten his favorite into the cheesecake and it was hilarious how his best friend, Kayla tricked him thinking it was a fine vanilla cake and he fell for it. Even her son, Kyle was able to see it and he took pictures of that day. I wanted to see it so badly and he was not exactly into showing it off so easily. I had to remind myself somehow see Kayla again. Eventually, I started to explain my boring part where I was given the cake and eating it as I questioned myself if it was cake at all. Then, that's when my mom told me it was cheesecake and I would just continue eating it as if it's my dinner or something. Syler laughed, though, he thought that was funny too, but I didn't see how exactly.

The dinner was definitely sweet and delicious! It was well cooked for the main meal of ribeye. The mac n' cheese had a good flavor with a hint of bacon and I admired that a lot. I ought to run this by for Cyborg and see if he could cook this up. Syler enjoyed his dinner too and devour the treasuring flavor. While I stared at his food, he somehow snuck into trying my mac n' cheese!

"Hey!" I kept at bay between us, "That's my dinner!"

Syler chuckled, "As for some hero, you don't catch on."

Somehow, while he was talking, I snuck onto his mash potatoes and he realized it this time. He smirked at me.

"Now, tell me what got you into thievery business since you were able to get my mash potatoes?" Syler was obviously curious.

I finished on eating his side dishes and gulped it down, "Well, I supposed that suit I made was the fault of mine. I was on my personal mission to get onto Slade's side and figure out who he was. So, I became X myself and did whatever the man needed, I asked no question to him, and betrayed my team." I sighed, "I almost lost them over being a criminal, but I needed to know who he was since we couldn't stop him so easily. He's worse as the Joker." My head shook, "But, I guess it's because I used to take things back out of the regular thieves like it's nothing." I chuckled, "I guess I'm good as you are, only you do it so…unexpectedly."

Syler chuckled, "I supposed, but I'm not all that evil. I steal, then return with an excuse saying I detected a tiny bomb and saved everyone sort of a thing, and everyone's happy. Stealing and returning is always a hobby to me. I just never been caught until you did."

Syler was right, but we moved on talking about what we did in our childhood and avoided personal issue. Just pointed out what we did as a child before we lost our parents. He avoided any subject about his mother since she left him with the father, but I was glad he was raised by his father. In the back of my mind, his ghostly father still bothered me the most.

Somehow, we finished our lunch and Syler ordered us one of those amaretto cheesecakes here! It got banana in it and it's cheesecake. He pointed out that banana was also helpful for stomach issue.

"Why are you bringing up about stomachache?" I blinked.

Syler sighed, "I know you're still having nausea moments. That and I can check into your health through the bracelet and monitor it."

I stared at my bracelet, "Creeps." I commented, "That's just a little too weird."

Syler chuckled, "Sorry, I love you this much to know this much. I want to know everything about you."

Syler has said the same thing someone has said to me in the past.

'…I want to know everything about you, Robin. Your every moves, thoughts, habits, and secrets. Things you do not even know about yourself.'

It made sense now. All this time and my head shook. Syler stopped chuckling once he realized something was wrong.

"What is it?"

I touched my forehead to hold my head up, "Slade is after me because he has a sick fetish with me." I gulped and took some water to ease off the strange tension.

Syler lightly growled, "He's not going to have you or anything else. Slade is just going to have to find someone else to be obsessed with."

I chuckled awkwardly, "Yeah, but I think he does it because I'm the only real challenge around unless he starts going after Bruce." I shrugged.

Syler shook his head, "How about the Joker instead? I think they ought to get together."

I almost spitted my water and sipped it all down. I chuckled at the thoughts of those pairing and could definitely imagine that all.

"Oh, my, they'd be perfect for each other! Him and the comical. It would be so much easier to deal crimes then!" I commented.

Syler lightens things up, "True, and he wouldn't chase after you anymore."

The cheesecake pieces finally showed up and we had the best date of the night. We were comparing some good match between people, even with criminals to heroes or regular people. It was so much fun to relate to someone on this case and I even pointed out Raven and Beast boy, he agreed the most on that, and wished they'd get together. Unfortunately, it's complicated for them. In a way, I knew Raven was struggling to try in a way she can make it work for herself and she shouldn't give up. Beast boy was always onto her every day unless she's very pissed off, then he'd try to make it up later.

Syler and I were feeding each other the cheesecake like a couple naturally and it was fun. The dessert was amazing and delicious as ever! It was definitely a worthy date here.

By the way, the restaurant is real. They're mainly around in San Diego. ;D I already mentioned the names. Warning: I am not responsible for your hunger. ;P

Next chapter, possibly later.