Robin led the way into the room, face unreadable, and Batman came in behind him, looking like he'd been carved from stone. Robin returned to the titans, turning to stare at his mentor defiantly.

"You're really happy?" Batman asked.

"Happier than I've been in years," Robin replied.

Batman sighed, then strode forward and pulled Robin into a hug, to general shock.

"Don't scare me like that again," he murmured, "And if you don't come back for Thanksgiving I will fly out here and drag you by the ear. Bring your girlfriend, A will love her."

Robin had gone stiff when the hug had started, but relaxed, throwing his arms around Batman and squeezed just as hard. "Thank you… Dad."

They stood like that for a moment longer, then Batman took a step back, nodded once, and swept out of the room.

For a moment, no one spoke. The Beast Boy said what everyone was thinking. "Was that it?"

"Yeah," Robin said, half disbelieving himself, but then he smiled, "That was it."

Cyborg blinked. "Well okay then. Who wants waffles?"

Raven pulled Zatanna aside while everyone was eating.

"Robin told me about what happened to your father," Raven said, holding out a book stuffed full of sticky notes, "I've been doing some research, and…"

Zatanna reached out to take the book with trembling hands, "Th-thank you. Do you really think…"

"That he can be saved?" Raven finished, "Yes."

"No one else does," Zatanna admitted, "I've been searching for years."

"Nabu might be ancient and powerful," Raven admitted, "But my father was thousands of times more ancient and powerful than he will ever be, and I already defeated him. We can defeat this so-called Doctor Fate too."

Zatanna's lip trembled, and she threw herself forward to tackle Raven in a hug. "Thank you."

"So, how's it hanging?" Kid Flash asked, reappearing in the tower kitchen like he never even left.

"And where did you go?" Artemis demanded.

"Date night, I told you," he said, apparently not even noticing her irritation, "Or, well, closer to date afternoon."

"We're not staying too much longer," Jinx said, hopping down off of his back, "I've got some things to do this evening."

"Visiting them again?" Cyborg asked sympathetically.

"Don't you dare tell me it's stupid," she warned him, "Don't you dare."

"Hey, I get it," he raised his hands in surrender, "I just don't think it's gonna work, you know?"

"What's not going to work?" M'gann asked.

"Erm, Megalicious, kind of a touchy subject," Wally said out of the corner of his mouth.

"No, it's fine," Jinx said, nudging his hand off her shoulder, "I was thinking about going in for double membership like you now that the titans don't have to be a secret, depending, and if I'm going to be their teammate I'm going to need to be honest with them."

Wally pulled her into a sideways hug, looking immensely proud. Jinx took a deep breath and grabbed his hand.

"So the thing is, I used to be a supervillain," she said, staring at the team like she was daring them to judge her, "Between my powers and my parents sending me to supervillain training school before I could even walk, I didn't think there was any other option, and I convinced myself I was satisfied with that. Kid here's the one who gave me a way out," she favored him with a small smile, "But my old team are all in the same boat as I was, rotting in the juvenile wing of the superhuman detention facility, and Mammoth is going to get moved to adult prison soon. They're a bunch of idiots, but if Kid hadn't helped me I'd be right in there with them. So when they're in prison I visit and try to convince them to give heroism a try, the way I did. It'd get them lighter sentences, support from the hero community, and keep them from being used by various scumbags who take advantage of them having the attention spans of mayflies to make them scapegoats and fall guys."

"That is very noble of you, Jinx," Aqualad nodded, "And we would be more than happy to have you on the team. I'm sure you would be a wonderful teammate."

"Thanks," Jinx looked down, refusing to blush, "Most of the titans don't really want teachers or oversight, that's why they're titans, but I admit, it might be nice to have teachers who didn't want to use me as an assassin, or brainwash me, or take over the world."

"Yeah, see, now when Kid Flash takes you to the league, you just need to say exactly that, in exactly that way, and every single female leaguer will crawl over each other to get dibs on you," Robin told her with a chuckle, "Plus Batman."

Everyone laughed, and Artemis leaned over with a smirk, "You know, for a while I was worried that our relationship didn't work out because I was too much of a bad girl, with my entire immediate family being supervillains and all," she said, "But apparently I just wasn't bad enough. Who knew our Kid Mouth was so fond of the wild side?"

"Artemi-i-is!" he whined, but she and Jinx had absolutely no pity on him, laughing hard enough they started to choke.

"What on earth?" Robin muttered to himself as he squinted at his computer screen.

"Something wrong?" Zatanna asked.

"I don't think…" Robin began, but trailed off eyes going wide, "No way. He only left a few hours ago, how on earth would he have done it this quickly?"

"Done what? Who?" Zatanna questioned.

"Batman. He's…" Robin started to laugh disbelievingly, "He's made identities for Raven and Starfire."

"What?" Beast Boy yelped.

"Really?" Starfire gasped.

"Take a look," Robin swiveled his laptop around so they could see it.

Raven leaned forward to read it aloud, "Thought your friends might like having the option of anonymity. If there are any other titans who need this, send a list and I will take care of it. IDs are in the mail, parts for league issue holographic projectors to follow."

"Hey, congrats!" Cyborg told Starfire and Raven, "Wait, how'd he even get this information? I'm gonna have to overhaul our security again, aren't I."

"He'll take that as a challenge," Robin said absently, now scouring the blueprints that were attached to the email. Starfire swiped the laptop from him and went to confer in the corner with Raven over their new identities.

Robin smiled and brushed a soft kiss to Starfire's hair, "Congratulations, Korrina Anders and Rachel Roth."

"I believe I was wrong before," Aqualad told Robin as the team was getting ready to leave, "When I said you were born to lead this team. You were born to lead, there can be no doubt, but more than that, you were born to build. Seeing what you have built here, I'm proud to have had even a small part in your journey."

"Thanks, Kaldur," Robin said, smiling, "That means a lot."

Zatanna pulled him into a hug, "I hope you're happy," she whispered, "And thank you for everything you did for me."

"My pleasure, Zee," He told her.

"See you soon!" Megan waved to Starfire, "We'll have to get together sometime and have that double date!"

"I am looking forward to it!" Starfire called back, grinning wide enough to split her face.

"Nice meeting you guys," Cyborg said, "If any of you ever get tired of the league bossing you around, you've all got an open invitation."

"Same goes for you," Superboy told him, "Team's always recruiting."

"Hah! Not likely," Cyborg laughed, "But don't be strangers. See you around!"

Finally, the team all loaded onto the bioship, but before Miss Martian could close the door, Robin called, "Hey!"

He tossed something small and round to Aqualad. When he looked down at it, it was another of the round yellow communicators Kid Flash and Robin had used.

"When there's trouble, you know who to call," Robin said, "We'll come."

"And we will come for you as well," Aqualad said. He sat down and strapped in, and soon the bioship was lifting off and flying away.

Robin watched it go, then the titans turned and went back inside.

END

And that's the end. I hope you all enjoyed the ride as much as I did!