A/N: So, how are you guys? Good yes? That's great. Oh, you want to read what happens next? Well, I guess you can do that, I mean, if you really want to….

So Kidding! I know I tortured you guys w/ that ending, people were quite hysterical in their reviews…which by the way, thanx to all you guys. You're friggin awesome!

Some people actually wanted to know who the two figures were, I thought I had made that sorta clear, but I guess I was wrong.

You know the narratives at the beginning of every chapter, yea…okay then.

I'm probably killing you guys… MYUUHHHAAAHHHAAAA!

ahem Sorry about that, work sucked monkey balls today, I'm a little crazy right now…anyway...onto the show!

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Chapter 10: Recountings and Redes:

He couldn't see where he was. All around him was darkness, a suffocating emptiness that stretched as far as he could see. There was no one there, only his troubling thoughts, doubts, and memories to keep him company in his solitude.

He was alone.

He thought he heard voices coming from somewhere, but it was barely a whisper, like the wind rustling across the grass plains of the mid-west. There had been pain; he definitely could recall a vast amount of pain, but that had long forsaken him, leaving only a numbness that did not seem to lift. He wanted to give in then, wanted to leave and see his family again, for he missed them so much and didn't want to live with the pain inside anymore. He closed his eyes, and asked the darkness to take him away, take him to a place free from murder, guilt, rape, racism, hardship, and nightmares. A place where he could find peace on his own terms. It was so easy, all he had to do was…

" It's not your time yet."

He opened his eyes, and was lying down in the middle of a lush meadow, covered in lilacs, bluebells, and daisies. He pushed himself up to a seated position, and looked around, the emptiness still within him, but the numbness gone; it was now replaced with a sensation he hadn't felt in over seven years, contentment. He looked over at a large Willow tree, pushed himself up, and walked towards it. He then saw her, a beautiful girl with long black hair, and piercing blue eyes, a girl who looked strangely familiar, someone who looked like…

" Starfire?" he croaked out, suddenly remembering.

The girl looked over and smiled a very mischievous smile and gently shook her head.

" Nope, but you're close," she answered with a laugh in her beautiful voice. She continued dancing around the tree, singing a song in a language he didn't understand.

" A Atar e thonetiel

Silivren penna le miriel

o menal aglar elenath

Na-Chaereds pelaen direail.

Fain galan de remmin lais

O Linnathon le Ennorath?

Nef Aear, Ciare, si nef siadea

Medai jan nofa, es chaeris."

Before he could ask what she was singing, she started singing in English, walking towards him all the while.

" Bright Silverlarks and Golden Child

Whisked away upon the Dawn.

Of Kind and Mercy Mild

To Stay the Evil's Spawn.

Yet is this child of who I sing,

Of both Darkness and the Light?

He is the Seeker, Searcher, and will bring

Us to that Morning bright.

When she finished, she was near enough to hear his ragged breath, and could sense the confusion in his voice when he asked, " What does that mean?"

" It means what it sings," she replied with a wave of her hand. " It is rather haunting though isn't it? A child who can both create and destroy mankind. That is why you can't give in to the dark just yet, you have yet to accomplish your purpose. It will need you, you have much to live for."

" Do I? The boy asked sorrowfully. " What do I bring to the world besides pain, hardship, and destruction? How will my being on Earth solve any problems?"

The girl then wrapped him in a hug, one filled with warmth and hope only a loved one could give, and said, " What does your heart tell you? You will cause her pain, and will that help society? No. I don't believe so. You will find your peace, but help them find theirs as well."

The girl broke away, and looked straight into the boy's eyes, and he saw something about the girl he hadn't noticed before. Her eys were a deep ocean blue.

His eyes.

" Who are you?"

" Are you ready?" she asked as she touched the side of his face, and then, his whole world seemed to spin, and he lost himself once more. The last thing he saw was the girl's smiling face as she whispered, " I am called Bry'andr," then, he knew nothing more.

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He slowly opened his eyes, blinking like mad due to the harshness of the light to his eyes. His uncovered eyes he noticed right away. But, not to concerned about that, he tried to push himself up, only to have pain go lancing through his entire abdomen, the forgotten pain, causing him to grimace, and let out a small grunt. He laid back down, discerning then that he was most undeniably not in the lab he last remembered. As he tried to perceive his surroundings, he noticed he was not alone in the room after all, and instinctually started feeling around for his mask.

" Well, well," a feminine voice with an Irish accent said. " Looks like you finally decided to rejoin the realm of the living. About time, I was about to diagnosis you as comatose, but you beat me to the punch."

" Where am I rea-"

" Why," the girl interrupted as she turned around from her table to face him. " You're in the Titan Tower infirmary, where you have been for the past five days in a coma-like state. You have quite a lot of injuries, so I wouldn't try to move around too much. You're teammates have been awfully worried about you, and your name is Robin, if you happen to have amnesia."

It all came rushing back then, at least, all that he had been conscious enough to remember, and it gave Robin one hell of a head-rush. As he raised his hand to his head, he quickly cursed that idea, seeing to that the movement caused his abdomen to burn quite painfully.

" WHAT? OWW!"

" I told you not to move," the girl answered back, a grin sneaking onto her features. Robin could see her clearly now, the sudden pain jolting the rest of his body back to clarity. She was rather pretty, with long brown hair and a slim, delicate figure. And her eyes, well, Robin had never seen eyes such a vibrant shade of lavender before for Raven's eyes had a much darker shade.

She walked over to his bed, pulled up a chair, and sat beside him as she whipped out a stethoscope and pressed it against his chest to hear his heartbeat. He involuntarily shivered at the icy coldness of the round metal, and saw her smile grow more pronounced.

" Well," she said after a minute. " Your heartbeat is stable, and you still have feeling in your thoracic cavity! Which means, you are not paralyzed. But, you'll still have to stay still for a couple of days, and then, you still have to remain less active than usual as your body heals itself. Frankly, I'm surprised you even survived that kind of injury at all, abdomen usually equals death, but you are a rare exception apparently. To stubborn probably."

Robin continued to stare at her when he suddenly asked, " Umm, not to be rude or anything, but who are you? What happened? And where are my teammates?"

She gave a little peal of laughter, and rose from her chair asking, " My name is Lily, and would you care for some tea? I'm kind of having a craving, and Raven has the best tea."

Robin gave Lily a confused look and started to reply before she cut him off.

" What you are asking me to tell you could take awhile, so if we have some tea, I wouldn't have to leave in the middle of telling you from lack of liquids in my system. Besides, tea is a most calming concoction, one that I think can cure just about any type of problem you may have."

" Umm, sure I guess," Robin answered slowly, not really sure of this "Lily" character.

" Okay, I'll be back in a jiffy," she answered as she headed out the door, pausing for a second to fish inside her coat for something, and toss it to Robin.

As he watched her leave, he looked at what she had thrown at him, and found himself looking at his black mask, crumpled up in his hand.

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" Mmm, doesn't that smell great boy-o?" Lily asked as she reentered the infirmary, carrying two steaming cups of herbal tea. She took her seat next to Robin, now wearing his mask, and set his cup down on the table that was closest in proximity to him. He found that he could reach for the cup and not be blinded by sudden pain, so he took a sip, looked at the clock and saw it read 3:27 AM,and waited for his nurse to tell him what happened.

" So," Lily began after a few quiet moments of tea time. " I suppose I should start at the beginning, why Ahren and I even came to Jump City in the first place."

" Who's Ahren?" Robin asked immediately, treating Lily as if he was interrogating her.

" He's my boyfriend, and partner," Lily answered the demanding question. " And this is a recounting, not an interrogation session. Don't treat me as if I am a criminal or something. I'm your ally believe it or not."

He just looked stonily back at her, not betraying any emotion on his face at her reprimand.

Sighing, she said, " Oh forget it. Just please, let me tell you my tale without incessant interruptions. You will figure out who is who as it progresses."

Giving a silent nod of agreement after a moment, Robin relaxed and waved a hand to let Lily continue with her story.

" So," she said after giving the boy a glare. " I should probably start why we came here in the first place. You see, it all started about four months ago in Gotham, when Ahren and I were walking down an alleyway and saw a dark figure fighting off a bunch of hooligans…"

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Gotham, probably the most dangerous city in America, perhaps even the world, where some of humanity's scummiest creations live. It was renown as a dark, foreboding city, a place that was home to villains like: The Joker, Two-Face, Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, and countless others. It also was pretty dirty a fact that Lily was beginning to support full-heartedly as she and Ahren strolled down a street for what seemed to be the fifth time.

" Ahren," the purple-eyed girl said exasperatedly. " I think that maybe, just maybe, we're lost. Or, at last going in circles."

" How do you know that?" a black-haired youth asked in response.

" Maybe because we've passed by that brothel at least four times already, going on five when we pass it in a few seconds."

" There are tons of bars in the city," Ahren defended. " How can you tell this is one we've passed by?"

" I think with a name like 'Busty-Topless Wenches'" she answered tersely. " It's probably the same one."

" Oh," Ahren said as he looked at the scandalous sign outside the bar, recognizing it immediately. " I guess you're right. Maybe we should ask for directions or something."

Lily waved her hand dismissively, feigning indifference as the couple continued to amble down the street in a less favorable part of Gotham City. As Lily looked at all the trash in the street, the prostitutes on the corners, and the smog rising of the street she wondered what on Earth they were doing there in the first place. I mean, she wasn't used to this kind of lifestyle or way of living, AT ALL.

" We are here because a trusted friend told us to find the well-known hero here," Ahren said. " He is supposed to help with something important, so we came here."

Lily gave her boyfriend a look and said, " I hate it when you do that. Reading my mind and all, it makes me feel like I have no personal thought."

" I didn't need to read your thoughts," Ahren answered with a laugh. " It was practical projected into my head! Besides, I don't think I could make you have no free thought even if I tried. Anyway, what's so bad about Gotham? There are worse places. I know you know all about human nature and western civilization, so don't pretend like you live that far disconnected from the rest of the human race."

" Just because I understand it," Lily replied with a smirk. " Doesn't mean I have to agree with it. And yes, I may live close enough to the world to know these things, but I do not fully comprehend why people disrespect the Goddess or whatever deity they believe in so recklessly."

" Yea well," Ahren responded with a shrug. " That's human nature for you at it's finest. I mean we…hey…"

Ahren stopped walking, and looked down an alleyway to see a lone, dark figure fighting off a horde of gangsters. The man seemed to be holding his own, but Lily saw one of the hooligans sneak up behind the man, and raise a crow bar over his head to smash the man's head in. She gripped Ahren's arm, and pointed his attention to the scene unfolding before them. He lifted his arm towards the gangster, gathered his energy and focus, lifted the man off the ground, and fling him across the alley onto the street. The man, a tall, menacing stature dressed from head to toe in black, and wearing a mask with pointed ears on his head, finished off the gangsters, now a mound of unconscious men, and turned his attention to the two teens. He knew that he was facing children with gifts, for the boy's brown eyes were still glowing in a faint white glow.

As the police arrived, the man directed them to the helpless thugs, and made his way to Lily and Ahren, questions surfacing in his mind.

" Hello," the boy said congenially. " I'm Ahren O'Brien, and this is Lily. And I think we came here to seek you out, you're Batman right?"

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" You should've seen the look on his face," Lily said with a laugh to a bewildered Robin. " You would've died! He was so surprised that we didn't know who he was, but the mask was a dead giveaway. Oh, it was priceless!"

Robin gave his head a skeptical shake and said, " So, he just agreed to help you out, and trust you? Sorry, but I'm not buying that. Batman is the most secluded, distrustful person on the planet. And he just decided to trust you?"

Lily shook her head and answered, " No, not really. You see, Ahren is telepathic mostly, with a teeny sprinkling of telekinetic gift. So, he let Batman into his mind, and proved that we were both trustworthy, for the mind never lies…not even to itself. Besides, we saved his life; he owed us the benefit of the doubt. After all, even super heroes slip up sometimes."

Robin just stared at her in response, still not entirely convinced in the story, but asked, " So, what made you come to Jump City?"

She fixed him with a serious gaze and answered, " Do you know what else Ahren can do? He as visions, as strange as that sounds, and he had a particularly violent one while looking at one of your old uniforms in the Batcave. He saw a snake, a cobra to be precise, attacking and eating a robin; this robin happened to be on a circus tight-wire, and was singing a mournful tune, like most robins do. The cobra had a girl behind it, and the robin had a falling shadow behind it, a shadow that was joining two other shapes on the circus floor. After that, he was shown a picture of a city in flames, a city with a huge 'T' in the background.

" Following the recounting of this vision to Batman, he told us to go to Jump City, for that was where we would find the songbird in the vision. You. So, we arrived, and were immediately encountered with the snake from the vision, and we knew we were in the correct area. So, we waited until Ahren had the same vision again, signaling the events were about to come to pass. So, we headed towards the base, where you all were currently at, and we witnessed part of a battle before we had to head inside. I was told the rest of that story by Raven. You see, when we first arrived, we saw a pretty alarming sight happening outside the entrance to the station…"

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After the second vision, both Lily and Ahren rushed over to the large, abandoned warehouse where the battle was raging on. Just how did they know where the base was? Well, it was the only a matter of two choices, and Ahren was sensing more brain waves at the second one, so that was the one they picked.

Villains are notorious for picking hideouts that aren't really hidden aren't they?

As the pair arrived, they saw a tall cybernetic teen, a small pale girl, and a green boy watching a red-haired girl raise a sword on a masked man on the ground. The girl was shrouded in a greenish flame, and her sword looked as if it would probably kill the man, Slade, if the couple's memory served them justice.

The two raced over to the three unmoving Titans, and Ahren yelled, " Hey! How do we get into the base!"

Raven looked over at him, surprise now etched on her face, and asked, " Get in? Are you crazy? We just got finished destroying it! You aren't going to be able to save the base now."

" No," Lily said impatiently. " We need to get in to help YOUR friends inside! We aren't your enemies, they are long gone from here, all except two. One you are taking care of, the other is still inside. Please, we promise we'll tell you everything once this is over, but we don't have time right now!"

Raven looked over to Cyborg, who nodded his consent, and then gave a quick nod to the couple saying, " There is a small door near that North wall building, right there do you see? Yes, that's it. Hurry up and get back out here."

Lily nodded and headed into the building and Ahren following, but he first stopped and looked back at the scene in front of him. The alien, Starfire, had swung the blade, and chipped off a piece of Slade's mask, revealing silver hair underneath. As he rolled out of the way, Starfire went flying after him, determined to beat the man who had caused the person she loved so much pain.

" Watch out for her," Ahren said as he turned to follow Lily. " She is running out of fuel fast, be prepared to catch her if needs be." And with that, he had dashed into the building and out of site.

Raven, her mouth set in a grim line, turned back towards the Slade/Starfire battle, and started to levitate off the ground. " We need to go help Star," Raven said to both Cyborg and Beastboy. " So, let's show Slade what the hell we're made of."

And with that, Raven went flying at Slade, and hit him with a black zap of energy, and in addition to Cyborg' blue laser cannon, the two forces hit the madman with a good enough force for him to feel it. All the while, Beastboy had transformed into a wolf, and with a shocking amount of ferocity, he began attacking Slade with everything he had. And, let's not forget Starfire's super-charged up starbolts, which were still being battered into the villain. And, as all these things went on, a great amount of smoke was created, and blocked out all of the Titans' vision, and when it cleared they saw…

Nothing! Slade had escaped yet again, but they all knew he wouldn't show for awhile. They had given him a pretty good beating.

Raven floated down to the ground, and Beastboy, who had turned back into his usual shape, went over to make sure she was all right. Cyborg stood beside Starfire, supporting her, for her energy had finally depleted itself. The four teens looked around the devastation of the battle, just as the police and paramedics arrived, to help villains, civilians, and heroes alike.

" Oh," Starfire said as Cyborg led her to a bench to sit down. " I do hope Robin is well."

Too bad that was the furthest from the truth of how Robin was doing. As he lied in a pool of his own blood, and as Viper leaned over him menacingly with her sword, it looked like the end of the poor fallen songbird.

But, redes are often subtle and hidden, and while they seem to mean one thing, the mean something else all together.

For, Lily and Ahren came bursting into the room, and Ahren immediately sent a mental blast at Viper, driving her away from the dying Titan. Now, if you are wondering what kind of pain Viper is in right now, lets just say it was like someone was trying to split open her head with a jackhammer, (I hope some of you feel a little vindicated with that!) and she couldn't fight back her screams.

Meanwhile, Lily had rushed over to Robin's side and immediately began creating a healing force in her hand, muttering a mantra similar to what Raven's does, and began to heal the wound. Or, at least stop the bleeding. She was not having any luck in either of those departments though.

" Jinx," she yelled at the girl standing near her. " I need your help! Can you find me some cloth, and maybe a spare shirt if you can?"

Jinx nodded, not caring that the girl somehow knew her name, and immediately went to work to find the requested items.

Ahren, now wrapping up Viper in metal bindings to ensure that even if she did regain consciousness, she would not get away, and rushed over to Lily. Jinx came running back then, the objects in her arms, and set them next to the purple-eyed girl.

" Okay," Lily said as she took a knife from off a nearby counter and began cutting off the boy's shirt. " I need you, Ahren, to wrap that bit of cloth there around the wound as tightly as you can, we need to stop the bleeding or he'll die regardless. Jinx, I need you to chant a spell with me, say 'Vandar'le evec a vancha' with me five times. Okay?"

Jinx nodded, and the two girls gave a chant as Ahren wrapped the boy up as tight as he could muster. When both of those things were done, the three individuals backed away to see a sickening blob of blackish material rise up from Robin's body. Jinx gave a gasp, and Ahren started to put the extra shirt on the Boy wonder.

" We bought him enough time to get to a medical facility," Lily said as she started to get up. " We raised the poison out of his body, which was probably causing him to bleed more rapidly. Is Titan Tower well-stocked with medical supplies?"

" Yes," Jinx answered meekly, still worried beyond belief for her wounded leader. " It's only a couple of minutes away in the T-car. But, I think I can get an ambulance for him."

" Then let's go," Ahren said as he picked up Robin gently, and started to walk out of the Lab, and out of the complex. Lily and Jinx followed in suit, all hurrying to find the other Titans.

Beastboy was sitting on a different bench from Starfire, but he was still sitting on a bench. He had apparently taken a pretty nasty cut to the head, but in the heat of the battle, he hadn't seemed to notice. Even so, he just had a huge grin plastered on his face, for he never quite got a feeling like Raven healing him! He glanced over at Cyborg, who was filling a disgruntled police chief on the situation, and felt a twinge of dread as fifty or so reporters finally made their way through to the Titans.

" How did this event even come about?"

" Were there any casualties?"

" How are the Titans going to explain the thousands of dollars that will be needed to fix this damage?"

" How do you feel about getting civilians involved in this affair?"

The four teens just ignored the questions, as the police tried to herd the media away from the heroes. But they still rattled off their incessant questions.

" Do any of you Titans have a comment?"

" Still single ladies, Raven and Starfire?"

" How come you...oh my God…"

All the reporters suddenly stood stock still, all looking at the destroyed base behind the teens. Curious to see what had drawn the media's attention away from them, the Titans all turned around to see what was wrong. What they saw. Would haunt them for the rest of their lives.

They saw Jinx come sprinting out from the building and to the paramedics, and she ended up with the keys to the ambulance in her hand. Next, they saw A brown-haired, lavender eyed girl marching out a defeated Viper, a girl who happened to be covered in blood. And finally, they saw a black-haired,brown eyed boy come out, carrying a very unconscious, very pale looking Robin.

They then noticed that both the boy and Robin were also covered in blood.

And, if any of you has ever lost a loved one, then you understand the feeling the Titans were going through. If not, then there is no possible way to imagine the absolute terror of seeing someone you love so much, so close to death.

Jinx then got into the driver seat of the ambulance, and motioned the other Titans to do so as well. They all heard Jinx yelling at them, and they all knew that the purple-eyed girl was shouting as well, but none seemed to be able to move. As Ahren walked by, he stopped in front of Cyborg, and looked straight at the teen's eyes.

" We need to go back to your tower," Ahren spoke softly, but firmly. " Lily bought him some time, but us all standing here will not, I repeat will not, help him at all. If you care about him as much as I think you do, then you have to view him not as your leader, but as your friend. Take charge Cyborg, your best friend is depending on you."

Cyborg looked away from the boy's gaze and down at the wounded boy in his arms. He looked so weak, so helpless, Cyborg had never seen Robin so incapacitated before. Sure, they had been hurt, loads of times, because that was part of the super hero gig; you had to make sacrifices to save the city you loved. But, none of them, the Titans, had ever dealt with this before. Then, Cyborg noticed something he hadn't noticed before, something that should've been obvious in different circumstances.

Robin didn't have his mask on, he was a normal human at that moment, nothing more.

" Okay Titans," Cyborg yelled, getting all the other's attention. " Let's move out! Back to the Tower now!"

He, Beastboy, and Raven all started toward the T-car, while Ahren loaded himself and Robin into the ambulance. Lily, after making sure Viper wasn't going anywhere but a high security prison, saw that Starfire was still sitting in the bench, her arms wrapping around her body in an anxious way. Lily helped the girl up, and started leading the weeping alien to the ambulance.

" You need to be strong Starfire," Lily said to the crying girl. " Be strong for him, he needs you by his side."

Albeit she was still leaking tears, Starfire put on the bravest face she could muster and wrapped her hand around Robin's unmoving one, and tried to drive her own warmth into his body. She was amazed at how small his hand seemed at the moment, a hand that often saved her, was now in need of her saving. It was so cold.

" I am here my cheir," Starfire spoke softly, her voice still struggling to not crack. " Do not go into the darkness, please stay where I am able to locate you."

And the ambulance drove away, towards the Tower, the T-car following closely behind. And all the witnesses, police, reporters, and anyone else nearby the site all watched the two cars propel towards the iconic Tower, all praying that a much needed miracle would occur.

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" So," Robin said with a worn out tone to his voice. " Slade got away, again?"

Lily gave him such a funny look, that he almost started to laugh with her, knowing all to well that only he would say something like that after just being told on how close he was to the ninth gate!

" My, my Robin," Lily was able to spit out amidst her guffaws. " You are truly one of a kind!"

He gave a shrug, smiling in light of the serious situation he was still in. But then, a question assailed his mind. " Why did you take my mask of the first time? I mean, was there any purpose? I kind of need to keep who I am a secret, hence the whole 'secret-identity' thing."

" Oh that," Lily replied with a wave of her hand. " It helps with the spell if I truly know who it is I am trying to save. Just a stupid technicality. But, you really need to learn how to trust people, you know that? I mean, it's one of the rules."

" What rules?" Robin asked, intrigued at the girl's comment.

" You know," she replied as she took another sip of her now cold tea. " The rules. Life's rules. The first one is to trust others, even if you do not trust yourself. I thought everyone knew about those…I bet Starfire does."

" What are you exactly?" Robin asked again. This girl's sayings, mannerisms, and gifts confused him.

" Ah, the million-dollar question," Lily answered with a sly look on her face. " Can't answer that just yet boy-o. I promised Raven we'd tell the whole team at the same time…so you'll just have to be patient."

Robin gave an impatient sigh, and leaned back onto his pillow. He looked at the clock, and marveled that it now said it was 9:37 AM. It had been over six hours since Lily had first started telling her tale. It was then that he noticed a beautiful redhead asleep on some chairs on the opposite side of the room.

" How…when…why.."

" Just out of curiosity," Lily said, ignoring the startled young man's pointing and muttering. " How did you find your way back to the light? I mean, you had to have, or you would still be conked out."

Robin tore his gaze away from Starfire and looked at Lily.

" I don't really know," he began shakily. " I think I wanted to give in, I think I even did for a second, but then I heard a voice, and she told me that I couldn't. She led my back, and all she did was touch my face…it was all so extraordinary…

" There was also a song, or a rhyme, or something that the girl sang to me, first in a language I didn't understand, or even had ever heard of, and then she sang it in English. It was such a haunting song, but I only remember a few words of it in the weird language. One was Linnathon and the other was Ennorath. I think one meant Light, and the other meant Darkness…but I don't really remember."

" Umm, sound like you had a rede, or an augury sung to you in your mind. Those are kind of like riddles for the future…but are oft very difficult to decipher. I don't relly know hat the language was, it sounds similar to one I know well, but...I don't really know. And this girl, was she someone you know, or knew?"

" Uh, no," Robin answered slowly, not quite sure of himself. " At least, not really anyway. I felt as if she was a part of me, but I had never seen her in my life. I remember I mistook her for Star, but she wasn't. She had my eyes too…it was all really confusing."

" Sounds like it," Lily answered back. " Well, I think you should talk to Ahren abut this…after all, he would know more about it than I do."

Following a lapse in conversation, both Robin and lily were startled by the arrival of a black-haired boy into the room.

" Lily," he began. " I think you should go and, wait, WHOA! You're up! Omigosh, the team is going to be ecstatic! I mean…you know you were…and we were all…you…YESS!"

He suddenly yanked Lily out of her seat, and started to lead her towards the door to tell all the sleeping Titans (and yes, they are sleeping in late!) that their long awaited leader was finally up! Before she left, Lily shook Starfire awake, and directed the girl's attention towards a now smiling Robin. As Starfire's sleepy expression turned into one of rapture, she rushed over and GENTLY, keyword there,hugged Robin, her tears staining his hospital gown.

As Robin tried to hug Starfire back, he heard something whisper in his head, a message that he almost loss as all the other Titans came booming in, all awoken by their com-links after Lily held up Ahren. He was to excited to tell everyone, so he just sent out a message, and sure enough, the whole team came running! And now, Ahren was standing there,now smirking at Robin.

" She was here all five days you know," a male voice, one who Robin suspected whom it was.

" She was here by your side for five, straight, longdays."

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A/N: I hope you guys enjoy that as much as I liked writing it. The end!

SIKE!

Yeah, like I'm really gonna stop it here, I haven't even explained who Lily and Ahren are, what the song was about, who the girl in Robin's sorta dream was…ah hell, I haven't answered hardly any questions!

Oh, and sorry to you guys who wanted Slade to die, but it's not his time just yet!

Viper, as mean, vile, disgusting, depraved, and psycho she may be, is by no means out of the game just yet! But, her part in this tale as ended, so I will bid her adieu for now!

I think I have about two or three more chapters of this fic left, and then I roll right into the second installment of the series. So, be looking forward to that!

Oh, and a side note. The language that the rhyme was first written in, I take no credit for, it's all Elvish. Not Tolkien's, his is a little to coarse for me, but another author who I like sooo much! It's a little softer, so I like it soooo much better! Just in case any of you guys were like, what?

Remember to review you guys! So far, you guys have been awesome!

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