A/N: Alright, You've had to wait a whole week, but here it is! This took me a while to write, so I hope you all like it!
P.S: Double Post! Yeah, I'm real proud of myself for these two chapters. ;
Warning: Yey! I'm getting explicit again. There's some yaoi lorange in here (pretty much a lemon but...ehh, you'll see). You can proably skip over most of it if you want but..Okay, just a quick warning. On with the story!
Lorange (For all of you who don't know): Not a lime and not a lemon. Pretty close to a lemon though...but not a lead on! XD
xXxXxXx Robin groaned and opened his eyes only to close them again against the bright spotlight. His lips formed to a deep grimace as he went to scream, but found a cloth tied tightly around his mouth. A hand reached out from the shadows beside him and removed the cloth, offering him a glass of water. He drank greedily and then looked in the direction the hand came from. There he saw two piercing violet eyes staring at him.
"W-Where am I?" He stammered out.
Drusilla steapped into the light, keeping her eyes firmly on him. "You're in Slade's hideout..."
Robin choked on air as he saw her. "Your..."
"Yes, I'm Drusilla...You know my parents, right?" Her eyebrows raised to him in question.
He nodded. "Yes...I'll tell you about them if you get me out of these chains..." He pulled foward only to be bound by the rusty, bolted cuffs.
Her face set in a deep frown. "I...I'm not supposed to..."
Robin's eyes pleaded her. "Please, I can...Help you..."
With a deep sigh, her hands went foward to the bounds. They lit up with her fire and she began to try and melt them off.
"Dru! What are you doing!" Aiden shouted in a whisper.
Drusilla jumped back and looked at Aiden as he walked into the spotlight. Robin glared at the boy, he was the one who drugged him and brought him here.
"I'm letting him go, he can help us escape.." She hissed at him, going back to undo the bindings.
Robin kept his cold glare. "I'm not helping him! He's the one who brought me here!"
Aiden's hands curled into fists. "Look, I do what I do so he doesn't...I'm just looking out for myself, alright?"
Drusilla ignored him and began to melt the chains off, it was a slow process but was beginning to work. Aiden sighed and went to the other bound, placing his hands around it. He closed his eyes and with a loud grunt, he ripped it clear from the wall and threw it behind him. Robin's hand flew foward and landed limply at his side. Drusilla looked at Aiden, eyes wide.
He took no time to rip the other remaining bonds off in the same maner. Drusilla finally burned the one bond to ashes and Robin fell on his hands and knees to the ground. Aiden helped him up and all three of them looked around worridly. No sign of Slade thankfully.
Robin rubbed his wrists absent mindedly and looked at Aiden. "Thanks..."
Aiden merely sighed and walked back towards his room, signiling them to follow. They were sure to be quite, for when Slade awoke, they'd all have a price to pay. Aiden was far ahead of Robin and Drusilla as they walked together, talking quietly.
"So...What do you know about my parents?" She whispered.
He thought about it for a second before saying, "Everything really...I lived with them for years upon years. Both of them are my good friends...So, whose the boy?" He asked, reffering to Aiden.
She sighed, keeping her eyes upon the boy wonder. "Oh...That's Aiden. He works for Slade too. He was taken away from his parents a long, long while ago. We're both hoping to get out of here."
"Glad I'm here then...I know Slade very well and I think I know how to get us out of here..." The boy wonder got a sly smirk on his face.
Drusilla's eyes widened slightly, she began to question why her mom had married the green boy and not this charming man...
Aiden opened the door to his room and all three of them slipped in. Robin looked around and took a seat on the chair that rested in the corner while Drusilla took the desk seat and Aiden chose to stand.
"So, boy wonder, what've ya got?" Aiden asked, crossing his arms.
The both of them focused in on Robin as he thought for a second. Realizing he was still in his uniform, his hands darted down to his belt. Slade had taken his communicator, of course, but not his belt that was full of gadgets and other devices.
"I've got a belt full of escape tools and a detective's mind. You?" Robin asked, raising a masked eyebrow.
Aiden walked over to his desk and pulled out his map. The pieces were taped back together, but it was still readable and in good condition. Robin tilted his head and nodded, leaning back in his chair.
"A map of the whole hideout...nice work." The boy wonder stood up and went over to the desk, pulling out a pen and scribbling something on the map.
Aiden raised an eyebrow curiously at his actions and then understood, he was writing down possible exits and entrances. Drusilla noticed the small clock on the desk and gasped, tapping on Robin's shoulder.
"You really should get back...Slade will be awake soon..." She said hurridly, the clock read 5 am, sunrise.
The two of them stared at her and then Aiden finally spoke, "That man sleeps?"
Her eyes narrowed dimly and Robin took the point. He told them he would be back tomorrow and slipped back out of the room back to the bonds. There, he would have to pretend he had somehow broken free himself.
"I really don't like that guy. He's cocky and stuck up..." Aiden grumbled, sitting on his bed.
Drusilla raised an eyebrow. "What are you talking about? I think he's...mysteriously cool..."
Aiden's peered at her. "You think he's cute don't you?"
"Well..." She said, a smile curling on her lips.
Aiden groaned and pointed towards the door.
She laughed slightly. "Well, don't be jealous..."
The door opened and she slid out, leaving Aiden to shout, "Hey! I..No! Ah..."
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Raven put her head in her hands and sighed. Cyborg was typing furiously at the computer, trying to get some kind of lead on where Robin was. Beast Boy sat beside Raven, a comforting arm around her.
"Raven, what's wrong?" He asked, looking at her, concern filling his eyes.
She sighed and looked up at him. "We should never have done this...I thought Slade would choose me or you, I didn't want Robin to get involved...Slade might kill him for all we know."
Beast Boy cringed at the thought of that. "Don't think like that Rae, we'll find him, we always do. Even if we don't, I'm sure he'll find some way out of it...He did last time.."
Starfire sat next to Beast Boy and sighed deeply, the remainder of the team knew she was taking Robin's abscence the hardest of all. "I wish Robin would not have thought of this plan at all...We should be ingesting the pizza and watching a movie. Not assuming Robin has perished..."
Raven reached a hand across Beast Boy's lap to place a hand on Starfire's shoulder. "It's alright, he'll be back..."
The tameranian was still not assured though, she absent mindedly brushed her stomach with her hand and a tear ran down her face. If Slade did anything to Robin, she would kill him...
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"Best you can do?" Robin mocked, the blood leaking from his lip.
Slade's fists were littered with drops of blood from Robin after punching him so hard. "I'm growing quite weary of your insults..."
In a swift move, Slade grabbed Robin's wrist and pulled him foward, whipping Robin backward as he did. The boy wonder felt himself flop hard against Slade's steel like body and witheld a groan of pain. His arm was twisted in a way it shouldn't go and he was pretty sure his nose was busted. Slade bent down so his masked chin was on Robin's shoulder.
"So, you thought that I would pick up Raven, hmm? Then she would bust in here and save her daughter without a scratch? I don't think so...I'm much, much smarter than that, don't you see Robin?" The chuckle that Slade let out echoed through Robin's mind.
Every time Robin tried to move or kick backward, his arm was stabbed with pain from his shoulder to his fingertips. He gritted his teeth as he felt Slade's other hand slip around his waist, pulling him farther back into the darkness.
"How old are you now my little bird, somewhere in your twenties?" The one eye inspected the small scars and lines on Robin's face. "How the time has passed...you wear your age well you know. Still the same, handsome bird..." His voice was low like a calm thunder before an outrageous storm.
Robin ignored the pain in his arm and began to squirm against Slade. He knew what the masked man wanted to do and wasn't about to let it happen. "Let me go!" He yelled out.
Slade ignored him and Robin felt his free hand begin to travel up to his face. Gloved fingertips danced around the black cloth and slid across it delicately. Robin had to do something now, anything. He wasn't about to let Slade slip off his mask, no.
But before Robin could ready his leg to do a strong kick to Slade's knees, the black material was whisked off his face, revealing his eyes to the darkness around him. Robin gasped and shut his eyes tightly, trying to hide his eyes from Slade.
"Much better..." Slade said darkly and threw the cloth to the side.
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Drusilla was sound asleep in her bed. She snuggled herself closer to her pillow against the noises that surrounded her. Someone was screaming about being let go...it was quite disturbing. A small draft entered the room and she tensed, thinking it was Slade coming into the room. Pretending to be in a deeper sleep, she curled up her knees to her chest and tried to breath steadily.
The bed sunk in beside her and an arm slipped around her softly. She opened one eye to see pale skin around her and the blankets and realized it was Aiden. A small, flushed smile appered on her face and she turned over, facing him in the darkness.
"Hey..." She said with a slight yawn.
He gave her a weak smile, "Hey...Sorry to wake you...I just..Didn't feel like being alone.."
She furrowed her eyebrows, it sounded so unlike him to say that. To her, he was the king of being alone. That was all he was...perhaps he was growing weary of it?
"Aiden...What's wrong?" She pushed some of the blankets off her so she wasn't in such a cocoon.
He looked away for a second, thinking. He trusted this girl with everything...she was the only person he could trust in this place..
"It's...Slade..." He mummbled.
A frown lined her lips slightly. "God, did he beat you?" He didn't look all that injured...
Aiden shook his head and let out a deep sigh. "That's part of it...but there's more"
Drusilla looked down at her own hands, the bright white scars still stained her hands. "What do you mean?"
He swallowed hard and closed his eyes, choking back tears of painful memories. "Remember when you found me, without clothes on a night or so ago?"
Drusilla nodded and listened on carefully, what was he getting at?
"He had just finished with me...Slade, he's been abusing me for years...but it's beyond that damn switchblade...far beyond...He makes me do things for him that...that...are just wrong..." He shuddered thinking about it.
Drusilla caught on quickly and gasped. "Aiden...my god...Is that why you kidnaped Robin for him, so he wouldn't do that to you again?"
Aiden simply nodded and leaned his head farther into her matress with a sigh. She pulled the blankets out from under her and draped them around his shoulders. She pushed the pillow under his head and stared at him.
"It all makes sense now..." She said tieredly.
Aiden nodded and put a hand under his head. "Just go to sleep now...you need it..."
She yawned and her eyes fluttered shut. Aiden watched her drift off to sleep and placed his hand on her cheek, his thumb tracing the long, slightly faded scar. His own eyes began to sag and he sighed. His last thought before going off into a temporary sleep was, 'Where is Robin?'
xXxXxXxXx (Here's the Yaoi Lorange-Skip over if you wish...;..)
Robin screamed, hoping Drusilla or Aiden would hear him eventually. Slade was pulling farther onto his arm, causing the pain to swirl through his body over and over again. He tried to keep his eyes closed, not wanting Slade so see the pain and anger that was rushing through them.
"Your friends will never find where we are..." Slade said as he unhooked Robin's belt and threw it into the darkness.
Robin squirmed and kicked his feet, but Slade had him pinned down to the ground and had his knees jabbed into the back of Robin's. His stomach lurched as the room went pitch black. The bright light that had been trying to peek through Robin's eye lids had stopped now . Slade chuckled.
"So, you want my mask off do you?" He asked and Robin heard metal hit the ground with a small 'clank'.
Robin felt his stomach lurch when he felt Slade's teeth bite at Robin's ear playfully. Butterfly kisses that would've been enjoyable if from anyone else went down Robin's cheek and neck. A slight chuckle echoed through the room as Slade removed one of his hands from Robin's wrists. Slade's steel elbow clashed with Robin's temple, stunning him momentarily.
After Robin finally stopped seeing stars infront of his eyes he noticed that he was no longer in pants. With all his might, he tried to stop from spilling the contents of his stomach on the spot. A now ungloved and scared hand went down Robin's pale thigh.
"Are you ready Robin?" Slade said slowly and seductively.
Robin tried to fight but now it was quite useless. "Please don't..." He pleaded, shutting his unmasked eyes even tighter.
Slade gave a slow moan. "You pleading like that only makes this more fun you realize..."
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Drusilla shot up in bed hearing Robin's scream. She had finally realized what the screaming all night had been about. Aiden was sound asleep next to her, his hand had slipped down to her waist from her jolting out of bed. Her purple eyes wide, she turned on the light next to her bed and shook Aiden violently.
He groaned and opened his eyes. "Time to wake up already?"
She ripped the covers off both of them. "No! I think Robin is in trouble! Hurry!"
Aiden's eyes widened as she jumped over him and out of the bed. He rolled out after her and they stormed out the door, his feet beginning to hurt as he ran down the hall way at light speed. Drusilla stopped at the corner, her eyes peeking around the wall and then darting back towards Aiden. A grimace was set deep on her face.
"What's going on?" Aiden whispered, almost trippng over Drusilla's sudden stop.
All she could do was swallow hard and point a pale finger next to her. Aiden stepped in her place and peeked his dark eyes around the corner only to pull them back a second later. His stomach almost emptied at the sight.
"We've got to do something!" Drusilla whispered hoarsly.
Aiden looked away. "But...He'll kill us if we do..."
Drusilla glared hard at him. "Can't you think of anyone besides yourself for once." She closed her eyes and they opened again, glowing orange. Her hands were smothered in flames.
Aiden's eyes widened and he held his hands up and shook his head. "Drusilla, don't, please...I hate to think of what he'd do to you..."
Her mouth was still set into a firm grimace. "Then help me!"
He closed his eyes and turned his face away. She wouldn't be able to take Slade by herself, he knew. But he had never fought with her before...He had to help her, there was no other way.
"Fine..Let's do this..." He whispered.
Drusilla smiled weakly and charged up one fist, the flame illuminated the both of them as she launched it towards Slade. It made a direct hit, burning Slade's back. Robin gasped and looked in their direction, happy as ever to see Drusilla step foward with her burning hands.
"Leave him alone you sick bastard!" Drusilla yelled and launched more flames.
Slade growled and pulled himself away from Robin, slipping back into the darkness. Drusilla ran over to Robin and handed him his pants.
"Quickly before h-" Her sentence was cut off by Slade giving her a firm punch to the back of the head.
Stars and darkness surrounded her vision and she let out a glass shattering scream. Slade went to strike again when transparent hands gripped around Slade's neck, restricting his breathing. As Slade went to grab the hands off him when they disappeared. His single eye narrowed and he turned around, looking for his attacker.
Drusilla regained her balance and vision and stood up shakily with Robin's help. Slade's back was to them, trying to find his disappearing attacker. Robin charged foward with Drusilla, but Slade whipped around in time to dodge each attack. As he went to retaliate, the hands appeared again and grabbed Slade's wrists, cracking them painfully.
"Who the hell are you?" Slade questioned loudly.
Nothing responded, Slade was just thrown backward, hitting one of his TV monitors with a shatter. Drusilla and Robin went to charge toward the fallen villian when they stopped dead in their tracks.
"No...Way..." Drusilla choked out.
Before Slade floated a glowing, almost invisable figure. The eyes were bright red as they glared down upon the masked man. Drusilla closely inspected it and saw some of the figures more detailed features. The hair, it fell softly above the glowing red eyes. The face it was so unique and well cut, the scars on it were barely visable...It was Aiden, she knew it.
Slade charged foward but so did Aiden, much faster than anything she'd ever seen. He kept disappearing and reappearing so Slade couldn't even touch him. A white hand connected with the side of Slade's head, causing him to go flying to the ground unconcious. Aiden waited a few seconds and didn't see Slade stir, except for his short breaths, so he floated down to the ground.
"Aiden...What...What are you?" Drusilla asked, stunned.
Aiden sighed. "Is it that bad?" He asked, but his voice sounded diffrent. It was deeper...
Robin swallowed, a lot had just happened in the past hour or so for him, "No..But what are you? A ghost or what?"
He gave a slight shrug, though it was barely visable. "Yeah, sort of. Part demon, part ghost...I know, I'm a freak...but we've got to find some way to get out of here while Slade is still out of it...He won't be unconcious for much longer."
Both Robin and Drusilla nodded. They all ran back to Aiden's room and pulled out the map, inspecting it. Aiden stayed in his ghost form the entire time, almost disappearing from sight once or twice as they zoomed down the hallway.
"Alright...We'll have to try this exit here, it's the most likely of them all.." Robin said, pointing to a door that had been circled a few times.
"Agreed...but what happens if it's not an exit?" Aiden asked, looking over at Robin.
The boy wonder swallowed hard, not looking back at him. "We'll deal with that when we get there..."
Drusilla scooped up the map as all three of them rushed back out of the room. They heard a loud yell from Slade, signaling he was awake again. Aiden growled to himself as they zipped through the darkness and heard Slade's heavy footsteps join them in their run. Drusilla let out a small yelp as she saw Slade's one eye glaring back at her. Her breath became heavy and her lungs began to hurt...Would they really make it out of here?
xXxXxXxXx A/N: MUHAHAHA! Cliffie! Oh, I'm so proud of this chapter. (grins) Love it? Hate it? Tell me about it! Read and Review peoples and I'll have your new chapter next weekend! -Emmery.