Over the next few months, Dick spent the daylight hours either with his friends or with Bruce. A few days after he had come back from Jump he had explained everything to both Young Justice and the Teen Titans. Both teams had been shocked, to say the least; Dick had answered their questions as much as he could, but there was so much he, himself was trying to work through. During the night he stayed in close proximity of Christine, staying at either the Batcave or the Watchtower.

To most of the world, Christine looked as calm and as collected as ever. But Dick could see the tightness in her jaw, the way her eyes were constantly sweeping the room once the sun had gone down. She had taken to the cliche vampire sleep schedule; sleeping through the daylight hours when she knew Dick was safe, then stay awake and alert throughout each night.

As strange as the set up was, they soon fell into a rhythm that started to feel normal. Feeling safer, Dick returned to his post as Robin; taking on smaller missions with the team during the daylight hours. It felt good to be back with them; as much as Robin had loved being a part of the Titans, the stress of being their leader was intense, especially while worrying about Batman all the while.

This routine continued without problems...until Dick reached his seventeenth birthday. Three days after his birthday, Robin had been training with the team, sparring with Superboy as Canary looked on. The fight had been evenly matched, Dick had to admit that Connor had gotten a lot better at controlling and channelling his anger in the time that he had been with the Titans. Robin flipped over and around Connor, dodging his attacks. Then Robin back flipped, using Connors forearm to spring himself back. When he regained an upright position, he saw that Connor had been sent flying back, already he could see the purple bruise blooming over the clones arm. The room was silent, everyone looking from Superboy to Robin and then back; even Black Canary had her eyes wide with shock. No one moved until Connor rubbed his arm slowly: 'Ow!' he said.

That single word broke Dick out of his trance. He ran to his friend's side, apologising all the way. When he looked up over his glasses, the clone blanched.

'Robin, your eyes, they're purple!'

This seemed to spur everyone else into action. M'gann and Kuldur hurried to check on Connor. The clone was unharmed, safe for the bruised forearm, it had been the shock of Robin being able to hurt him that had stunned him. Canary went to Robin's side and slowly lowered the glasses from his eyes. Robin let her, looking into her face for confirmation. Dinah kept her face neutral as she saw the purple orbs where she was so used to seeing brilliant blue. The more panicked Dick's breathing became the deeper purple his eyes turned. Canary could see all of Dick's muscles tightening, she had seen this many times in Christine during her and Batman's fiery arguments. Like a wild animal, his muscles were preparing themselves for fight or flight.

Robin closed his eyes, taking a deep breath and slowly letting it out. After repeating this a few times his body began to visibly relax. Canary watched silently as the young boy took control. When he reopened his eyes they had returned to their sparkling blue.

'I'm impressed.' she said.

Robin nodded at her: 'I won't let this control me. I know who I am, that's not going to change. Just because I have the ability to be stronger, doesn't mean I'm going to give in and let it take over.'

A few months ago the boy had been devastated at the news of his true heritage. This change in attitude just proved to Dinah that Dick really was a Boy Wonder.

'I'm sorry Connor, are you alright?'

'I'm fine.' Connor cocked his head to the side, 'You're pretty strong now.'

'You have no idea.'

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Three days later saw the team on a recall mission. It was pretty simple, they were split into three teams and set to different locations to collect intel. Miss M and Super boy were together in Metropolis, Aqua lad and Artemis in Star, and Kid Flash and Robin were in Central. It was the middle of the day and the mission felt very relaxed; the two heroes made their way through an old mine on the outskirts of the city. Rumour had it, this was where the people they were following were stashing their drugs. The plan was to find the drugs and get out, simple. After a few hours, there was no sign of any drugs.

'I feel like this is a wild goose chase.' said KF. Robin nodded.

'Come on, let's get back, the sun will be going down soon.'

The speedster came to his friend's side and they began walking back along the wooden structure, to where they had hidden Robin's bike. A groaning made them pause.

'Did you hear that?' asked Wally. Robin nodded, they both listened. The noise was heard again. Suddenly Robin jumped into action.

'Crap, it's the...' before he could shout the word, beams, they collapsed, sending the two teens tumbling down a mine shaft.

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When Robin cracked his eyes open it was dark. His head was pounding and his body ached.

'Robin?' the voice was shaky with pain, 'Are you awake?'

'Yeh, I'm alive. Are you alright?'

'I...I think my leg's broken.'

As his eyes adjusted to the gloom, Robin could see Wally's pale face, he was gritting his teeth hard. Robin knew they had to get the speedster help fast before his bones started healing in the wrong places.

'How long have we been down here?'

'I don't know, I've been trying to wake you for at least an hour; you hit your head pretty hard.'

Robin reached up to the pain in his head and felt something wet and sticky, blood. Robin suddenly was brought back to his senses. He looked up, the shaft was deep but he could still see the sky above them.

'Wally.' he whispered, 'It's night. The suns gone and I'm bleeding.'

Wally paled as he realised what his friend was insinuating. They were sitting ducks.