A/N: I don't own them. Honest I don't, nor do I own any references to Batman. Sorry it took me so long to update, I have been busy. Okay so here it is.

******************** Chapter 2: -The plot thickens.

As Robin entered the main room he felt that something was out of place. A box sat on the table in front of the other Titans. It was a usual looking parcel but they regarded it carefully. He went up to it and read the label. "To the Teen Titans. From Slade." Was all that was written. The writing looked somewhat familiar, but it was impossible to put exactly.

As he read it the other's watched him even more carefully then the box, they always were skittish around him if Slade was involved, they had a right to be. Robin opened the box after Cyborg nodded his approval that it was safe. In the box was a substantial amount of shredded paper but underneath it was a model ship and what looked like a farm house.

Raven was the first to speak. "The docks." Robin nodded; he thought that the paper was signified as water, the ship is obvious and the house might be a warehouse. "But which one?"

Beast Boy picked up the ship and looked it up and down. "What the 'Wayne express'?" Beast Boy asked quizzically. Then he looked like he got hit with an anvil (I had to add a cartoon reference.) "It doesn't mean the millionaire Bruce Wayne does it?"

Robin looked at the ship. "It does." He said scowling. "The ship is going to have its first sail today and Bruce Wayne is coming down from Gotham City especially."

"We should go check it out." Cyborg said. "He might get hurt." Robin looked at him oddly; he knew that Bruce could protect himself. "What do you think Robin?"

He nodded. "We should make sure nothing goes wrong." In truth Robin was invited to it as 'Dick Grayson.' But hadn't wanted to be part of Bruce's life anymore.

Starfire picked up a newspaper. "I had been informed that Bruce Wayne had a son." She lifted up the paper to show a photo of Bruce and Dick in front of Wayne Manor. Robin scowled at the picture.

"No he hasn't." He said spitefully. "That is his ward not a son." He turned away from Starfire and looked at the boat. "We should get going or we might not be there in time." They all followed him to the door.

"Dude." Beast Boy said. "There was no need to be like that to Star. She was only saying something." Beast Boy looked like he was thinking. "That ward of Bruce Wayne's might be the one in danger, he might need are help." Robin shook his head.

********************* +At the Docks+

Starfire looked sad. "Sorry Star. I didn't mean to snap at you." Robin said somewhat reluctantly. Starfire turned back into her happy self after that. They where now standing near a warehouse after talking to the guards and getting a pass to watch the ceremony.

So far nothing had happened that seemed in the slightest bit wrong. Robin was getting very bored with the proceedings; he had been to things like it a thousand times, it was all the same. The others where interested. Robin was more interested in the reason Bruce came up with for why his ward wasn't there, apparently sick. Every now and then he saw Bruce look at him.

After it was nearly over and the mayor was finished saying his thing and all that was left was a special interlope, Bruce Wayne and the mayor came over to them. Robin groaned at it but the others were excited. Starfire was jumping up and down at the prospect of meeting a famous self-made- millionaire.

Bruce Wayne looked all of them over as the mayor introduced each of them and he shook there hands. Robin was last, "Nice to see you again boy wonder Robin." The others stared as Bruce said it. Robin just nodded, Bruce turned to the mayor. "The young crime fighter used to work with Batman in Gotham City, so I have met him once in a case with an extravagant villain. I believe it was The Riddler, am I right?" Robin nodded understanding what he meant. He was referring to the first time they ever faced a baddy.

The mayor seemed shocked. "The Riddler!" The mayor cried. "You have seen the Riddler. Isn't he in an insane asylum thinking that he is Batman." Robin nodded. "In that group wasn't Two-Face included?" Robin scowled.

Bruce smiled. "Yes he was however I only knew him as Harvey, which is his real name." then he frowned. "Unfortunately they have discovered that he didn't die. And much too there dismay The Riddler has escaped just as he was starting to remember himself."

Robin gave a start at that last comment. "He didn't die. No. I saw him fall down that hole and into the rocks and water. No one could have survived."

"Well I'm afraid he did." Bruce surveyed him. "Can I speak with you privately." Robin looked at his team-mates, they all nodded. So he let Bruce guide him away.

"What is it?" He asked. The news of his families' murder had shocked him and he wanted to get revenge.

Bruce frowned like he knew what Robin was thinking. "I don't want you to go looking for him." Robin turned his back on him. Bruce took his shoulder and turned him around. "You might think you are some big shoot now but I knew, know, you as Dick Grayson the circus acrobat."

Robin sighed. "I want to go back to that. I loved it there with my family. I like all of this but I would give anything to have them alive. You told me not to want revenge but I do and I will get it. He will pay for it."

"I thought I taught you better then that." Bruce looked very disappointed.

"Yeah well I'm not a kid anymore. You obviously taught the wrong person. I have grown since then."

"Anyway," Bruce said like he didn't hear Robin. "They might pick you as a target. They might think that Batman would come for you. And you know he would. So I want you to come home."

Robin stared at him. "No." Bruce raised an eyebrow at him. "I like it here and you can't make me."

"Look I am still your legal guardian so you will do as I say. You are going to come home with me." Robin just stared at him. "Don't give me that look. I don't care if you are a Boy Wonder; you are still just a boy."

"No, I am not going. Deal with it." Robin said turning away.

"Fine then maybe I will get Batman to give you a call." Robin ignored him and walked over to his friends.

********************* + Titan Tower +

Nothing happened all the time they where at the docks. However they were all interested in what Bruce Wayne had said to Robin, even Raven was slightly interested. It was dark when they saw a silhouette of a bat, a very large bat, in the window. Then a black figure entered the room. It was Batman, cape, mask, utility belt and everything.

"I see you have gotten better at entrances." Robin said meanly. "However I for one am unimpressed by it." The others looked at him weirdly. So he introduced them all.

Batman turned to Robin. "You know why I'm here." Robin nodded. "So you might as well come."

Robin shook his head. "Yes I know why you're here and no I am not going to leave. No matter what you say. You wanted me gone so I went and not going back with you."

"You getting out of control." Batman said. The titans watched amazed for some reason. "Not like you were ever in control. Your going to try and get revenge, you family wouldn't have wanted that."

"You didn't even know them." Robin screamed. "And I can never know what they wanted. The only reason I didn't kill him and get revenge before was because you where holding me back. He was meant to be dead when he fell."

"My parents died at the hands of a maniac too." Batman put a hand on Robin's shoulder. "He will come after you and since you are the closet thing I have to a son, I don't want you to have the same fate as your family."

Robin pushed him away. "It was meant to have been you. It was your fault there was a bomb. . ."

"You can't blame that on me. I would have given my life for them. It was not my fault." Robin turned around ignoring his mentor. "Don't turn your back on me." But Robin was gone.

The Titans looked at Batman; they had never seen Robin so mad before, not even with Slade. Batman gazed at them, put a small box on the table for Robin, and then left through the window and back to Gotham City. The Titans just looked at each other in shock, then went to check on Robin.