FighterChick: rae, slade has a plan

AzArAtH: a plan? what is he gonna do??

FighterChick: hes going to destroy starz powers

AzArAtH has signed off

Alex paced through her room, panic twisting through her abdomen. She glanced at the computer, her brow furrowed on worry. How could Raven do this, now, when she needed her most? She viciously kicked at the base of her desk, pain throbbing through her bare foot.

The minutes passed on to hours, and still Alex paced through her room, throwing worried glances at the computer.

"I can't do this." She muttered, chewing at the inside of her cheek. She looked up, "I CAN'T DO THIS!" She shouted up into the ceiling, "I CAN'T!" She crumpled into a heap on the floor, her shoulders shaking. "c-c-an't d-d-o this! Will never be able to... n-never. Never... Never.... Never...

"Never do what?" A voice called from behind her. Alex stumbled clumsily to her feet and whirled around.

"R-robin? What are you-" Her voice broke off.

Robin stepped into the light of Alex's bedroom, brushing off dust from his hands. "The power went out at the tower..." He said, hesitantly, looking around, "And Raven said you knew what Slade was planning... so... I came to find out what it is."

Alex fought back the tears that clung to her throat. Since when did she have nervous breakdowns and start sobbing unexpectedly? Since this, Alex thought, Since the day I became Slade's Intern, since the day I started training to defete the Titans, the only family I ever had.

"Alex?" Robin asked uncertainly, wondering if she was off in her own world or just forgot he was there.

Alex snapped to attention, her eyes blinking rapidly.

"What's wrong?" He faintly remembered the night Alex came to the tower... and spent the entire time crying in Beastboy's arms. Will I ever be her shoulder to cry on?

She shook her head and sat down on the bed, "You have to leave, they'll find you here, they'll come, and then our whole plan will be exposed."

Robin sat down next to her, fiddling around with a birdarang, a bad habit he only did when he was nervous. "So? The worst thing that can happen is you'll be exposed. They can't do anything. It's not like they want to kill us."

Alex jumped up, "BUT THEY DO WANT TO KILL YOU! THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY STARFIRE'S POWERS! THEY WANT JINX TO KILL RAVEN AND GIZMO TO KILL CYBORG, AND MAMMOTH TO KILL BEAST BOY AND THEY WANT ME TO... they want me t-to.. to... k-kill you."

Robin's eyes widened in poorly concealed shock, "But, they can't do that, can they?"

"YOU DON'T GET IT! THEY WANT TO DO IT, THEY CAN DO IT, THEY WILL DO IT!"

"Shhh," Robin said, puting his hand on her shoulder to comfort her. She shrugged it off, "They will... they will..." She looked up at Robin, "I can't do this anymore, Robin. I can't. I quit. I'll leave today. I can't keep pretending to be this tough villain girl with a bad attitude, I can't keep watching my friends fail, I can't train and befriend the people I hate and am sworn against, and I can't kill some one I lo-" She paused, catching herself on the word "love", "care about, some one I care about."

Robin tossed his birdarang aside, "You can't quit, you can't, we're depending on you."

"THEN DON'T DEPEND ON ME! I AM NOT SOMEONE YOU SHOULD DEPEND ON! I CANNOT SAVE YOU!" She screamed through her tears, "Now go, you know what's going to happen, get out before they kill you."

A rustling could be heard at the door, "GET OUT!" She shouted, and shoved him towards the window.

Robin began to climb into the night air, "Please, Alex, after this, you can go, I promise, but just- you can't-" He sighed, "Don't leave us forever, Ok? because, I mean, you mean alot to me, and I tried to tell you before.. that... I-"

The door began to open.

"Go!" Alex hissed, and shut the window quickly.

"Alex?" Jinx poked her head in the door.

"Yea?" Alex asked, wiping at her face

"Who was that?"

"Hmm?"

"Who was that?"

"who?"

"The person you were talking to..." Jinx said, walking halfway into the room, "The one you were shouting at..." She looked slightly suspicious.

"No one... just the TV" Alex said, a little to hastily.

"Hm.." Jinx left, a look of aprehension on her face.

Alex sighed and plopped down on her bed, her hand brushing against something sharp. She drew her hand back, realizing Robin had left one of his birdarangs behind, but something about the birdarangs shape was wrong. As she looked closer, she realized why. Entwined around the blades of the weapon was a blood red rose.

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