Terra set up and looked over at the masked figure; he was starting to come around. Good she thought the sooner he wakes up the sooner we can leave this place. There was something see was forgetting though, something about that figure. Terra knew she had seen that costume before but couldn't place it. She dismissed the thought, if it's important it will come back.
Robin's eyes fluttered open and then closed again. The light was far too bright. Robin squinted against the light, where was he? Slowly sitting up Robin looked around; the overhead light was so bright and so focused that it blinded him to the rest of the room.
"Hi." A voice from the corner called.
Robin spun around quickly and immediately regretted it. He stared down at the floor until his head stopped spinning.
"You don't really look so good you should take it easy." That voice it was familiar but from where? Robin focused on the corner where the speaker was, she was outlined in the dark but Robin couldn't make out any features.
"I don't think we've met my name is Terra." Robin gasped and scrambled backward, as Terra stepped into view. Terra not being able to see this strangers face stopped advancing and knelt down, the way someone calls to a frightened animal.
"I won't hurt you but I need you to put on that." She pointed to the bundle of clothing that Robin had been using as a pillow for the past half an hour.
"Terra, what are you doing here?" Robin demanded finally regaining his voice and his feet.
Now Terra took a step back as she recognized his voice.
"Robin is that you?"
"How did you get free and why are you back with Slade." Robin circled her warily obviously believing she was a threat.
"So I guess it is you Robin." Terra let him watch her; she was wearing a new suit so he had every right to think the worse. "Slade freed me and brought me here, he wants you to put that suit on."
"Never." Robin stopped circling her but eyed her still watched her warily.
"If you don't Slade said he'd would just keep us here."
"Why should I even trust you?"
"Robin, I need to know, Slade never told me. How long was I like that? Weeks, months." Robin stopped and looked at her.
"Why does it matter to you, you haven't changed at all."
"I was aware of every moment of it trapped in my own dark world."
Robin just looked at her.
"Please tell me."
"Just over two years."
"So long, I been alone for so long, I know you don't care but I'm sorry Robin." Robin didn't respond.
"For everything."
"Yet here you are again in his service, you could have fought him." Terra pulled back as if slapped, Robin's words had cut her deep.
"I tried, I simply can't."
"You started a volcano and yet you're powerless against Slade." Robin laughed; it was not a kind laugh.
"My powers there gone, I can't do anything now." Terra set down on the floor she started to cry. It was a bad, no worse than the many nightmares she'd had. Not only would Robin never forgiver her he felt the need to punish her and revel in it, he hated her. She wouldn't have blamed him either, but two years. She had been frozen in time for two years and he had not made peace yet.
"Terra." She looked up at the disguised hero. "Look, Terra I'm sorry for yelling and just being an ass. I just have a lot on my mind now."
"Will you change into that suit?"
"No. Slade will have to force me to do anything for him."
"Please Robin? If you go to the opposite corner I can't see you change."
"Why do you want me to put that on?"
"Because Slade promised me, promised us food and other things needed to survive if you got dressed."
"I can go without food for awhile." Deep down he knew he couldn't, he had skipped a meal all day today and had eaten very little the day before.
"But I can't, I haven't had anything to eat or drink in almost three days." She didn't mention that she hadn't used a bathroom in two days. "Well I guess it's technically longer."
At this point an idea came to Robin, why a powerless Terra was here, if it was really her and not just another robot in a holographic disguise. She was here so that I will do whatever he says, or he would torture the weaker one.
"Fine." Robin picked up the bundle and walked to the corner. Terra turned around, and after Robin checked to see she wasn't looking he changed into the new suit that was for him. Not surprisingly it was a perfect fit. The suit had a mask but Robin didn't want to wear something by Slade if he could help it. But he didn't want to reveal his face to Terra, if that was her. Robin grudgingly pulled the mask over his head and turned back to Terra.
"There, now what?"
"Now, you can begin." Slade's mocking voice was echoed through the room. Terra searched vainly for the source but Robin decided to address the light.
"What do you want with me Slade?"
"Oh Robin it's always about you isn't it." A door seamlessly, and silently slide open behind Robin.
"Behind you is your new room, you two will stay there until I say so."
"No, not until you tell me what's going on."
Terra slowly got up and went to the door.
"Don't Terra we don't know what's behind there."
"If you want to do things the hard way, 'sigh' so be it."
At that electricity coursed through Robin's body shocking every muscle numb. He dropped to his knees in pain and gasped for air. Terra experienced the same pain and fell to the floor. The pain lessened to a dull roar and Slade was once again heard over the intercom.
"Have you had enough yet or do you need more?" Slade once again turned up the voltage. Robin could take this but not for long, then he looked at Terra. She was unconscious and still shaking. At this rate she might die from this treatment.
"Stop I'll do what you want."
"Very good, let this be a lesson for you." The electrical assault stopped and Robin regained his feet. Robin hurried over to where Terra was sprawled on the ground. She was breathing but was defiantly out. Robin picked her up and carried her through the door, letting his suspicions about her drop. This was Terra, no robot could fake the pain she must have felt, and no robot could feel this real. As Robin walked through the door it closed and sealed behind him. The room they were in now was about the size of the last room, perhaps a little bigger. It was well lit but sparsely appointed. A single bed was in the right corner closets to where he entered. The bed was larger than a twin but smaller than a queen; Robin laid Terra down on it and took in the rest of the room. Past the bed there was a table set into the corner with two chairs. Next to the table was a dispenser of some sort, water maybe, with two cups on it. A door in the upper left corner of the room opened when Robin tried the release. Like the other doors he had seen this one slid into the wall. Inside was a simple bathroom, shower, toilet, and sink.
Terra sat up her head was still ringing from thee attack she'd just endured.
"Are you ok?" Robin asked.
"Yeah," she stood up, her legs threatened to collapse but she ignored them. Terra didn't look ok in the least.
"Are you sure you are alright?" Robin stopped inspecting the bathroom and walked back into the main area of their prison.
"I'm fine, is that a bathroom?"
"Yeah."
"Excuse me." Terra pushed past him and quickly sealed the door.
Robin walked around the room trying to find anything that could aid in his eventual escape but there was nothing. He picked up one of the plastic cups, it was red, and placed it under the dispenser. Yeah it was a water cooler of some sort. Robin sat down in one of the chairs and waited, and waited. Soon after drinking a cup he remembered he had to go, but Terra had been in there for a while now. Robin crept to the door and listened in, but could here nothing the shower was on. So he sat back down, he could hold it in for another few minutes. Terra took another twenty minutes in the bathroom.
When Terra finally opened the door, Robin really had to go. Terra had showered and done her best to comb out her hair, it had been disorganized and frazzled when he'd first seen her. At the moment her blond hair was still wet and clung to her face. Expression wise she looked a lot better than she had earlier. The bathroom was steamy and uncomfortable; if this was what sharing a bathroom meant he'd haft to escape all that much faster. Robin had gotten so used to having a private bathroom, first with Bruce Wayne and then in the Titans Tower. As he thought about the titans a pang of regret and remorse washed over him. Cyborg and Raven had been right and he did not listen, for the love of him he didn't understand why it had seemed so right at the time.
"Terra?" She looked up from the table; she had been sitting drinking some water.
"Yes."
"What's with the panties hanging from the shower door?"
"It's personal."
Robin, having all the tact recently shocked out of him continued to pry.
"As I have to share a bathroom with you isn't it kind of my business?"
Terra looked at the floor.
"If I tell you, you have to do something for me."
"What kind of something?"
"You haven't taken off a mask once since you got here I haven't even seen your face yet."
"And."
"If I tell you, then you take off that mask."
Robin stopped for a moment.
" 'Sigh'…Deal."
Terra kept looking at the floor, she was obviously embarrassed but Robin didn't notice.
"I hadn't used the bathroom since I guess it would be almost two years." She paused and sighed before continuing. "When Slade shocked us I lost control." Her voice trailed off; suddenly Robin understood why she took so long.
"I'm sorry."
"What." Terra looked up.
"For prying, for provoking Slade, for not believing you, 'sigh' for all of it."
"That wasn't your fault."
"Yes it was everything that happened today was my fault."
"You shouldn't beat yourself up over things that can't be changed."
Robin removed the mask of his uniform and left in hanging behind him like Terra had, he wished he had something to cover his eyes but he'd rather not wear the full mask that Slade provided.
"There that's me without my mask."
Terra just stared at Robin for a moment.
"Robin your…"
"The scars nothing."
"I didn't mean the scar I meant your eyes." Terra pointed at Robin's eyes, which were blue. But not any blue the same cerulean as Terra's eyes.
"Oh, you're just interested in my eyes."
"Robin I've traveled over half the country, I have never seen anyone with eyes just like mine. Could we be related?"
"No."
"How do you know?"
"The thought came to me when I first me you so I did some digging."
Now Terra regarded Robin almost crossly.
"What kind of digging?"
"Your parents were Alicia and Stefan Markov right?"
"Yeah, but I didn't tell anyone that. Not even Beastboy."
"Like I said I did some digging. Your parents were single children and you were a single child right?"
"Yeah, look I'm not sure where you are going with that."
"Terra if neither of your parents had blue eyes, there's no chance that you got them from you parents. So there's no chance that they gave blue eyes to anyone else."
"How did you learn all of this?"