Chapter 5: Meeting
The rain outside pounded on the Boy Wonder's head. He had been walking for over an hour, wanting to get as far away from Titan's Tower as he could. The once spiky black hair hung limp around his face. Deep in Jump City now, in the darker side of town Robin found a safe refuge. Down an alleyway under a rusty fire escape Robin, sat down. He began to have the odd feeling that someone was watching him from a distance. Peering around at the dark rooftops, Robin saw nothing. He kept his eyes fixed on the building to his right sure that someone was hiding just beyond his vision.
"Who's there?" he called but the only answer was his own echo. Finally after what seemed a decade he looked down his search to assess his injuries. Feeling down his side he stopped when his ribs gave a nasty twinge.
"Two broken ribs and a very, cut up hand, not bad for a days work huh, Robin?" he joked.
"You know, talking to yourself is the first sign of insanity" came a voice, almost conversationally from above Robin's head.
Red X sat on the fire escape, feet dangling over the sides, his head resting in his hand. Then grasping the railing in his hand he flipped over off the fire escape landing in front of Robin. Pointing at Robin's ribs he said, "You really should get that looked at by a doctor, you know..."
"I'll manage" Robin gritted his teeth as he shakily got to his feet. Seconds after reaching the standing position, his knees buckled under him and he fell to the ground with a moan of pain.
"Yeah I can see that." X leaned on the nearby building, watching Robin struggles with mild interest.
"What? Did you come all this way to laugh at me X?"
"No… I came to as you to become my apprentice"
"Are you serous? No way would…"
"Kid?"
"I ever work for…"
"KID! I was joking, ok? You shouldn't take life so seriously, it isn't perment."
Robin got again to his feet, slowly, this time and his knees didn't buckle.
"So you came here to tell me jokes?"
"No I came here to see how the leader of the Teen Titan's ego was taking the blow of his former friends not believing him, then getting booted out of his home by the same friends."
"How do you…?"
"Know about that? Do I look stupid to you? Don't answer that."
Something clicked in Robin's mind, he leapt forward grabbing the front of X's suit and shoved him into the nearest wall.
"You killed someone! When you robbed that bank a guard died!"
"Whoa, where did that come from sparky?"
"Don't joke about this! You're a murderer who needs to go to jail, I'm taking you there now!"
X pushed Robin off of him. Robin fell to the ground. "Yeah? You and what army? Your friends aren't here tonight, you decided to fly solo, so it doesn't look like you're taking me anywhere. capiche (sp?)?". X kneeled down so he was level with Robin.
"Rot in hell" Robin spat at X's shoes.
'Now that was mature' he thought looking into X's masked face.
"That wasn't very smart, kid, even by your standard" X hit Robin hard in the face then as Robin lay stunned, pulled a syringe from his pocket and jammed it into the boy wonder's neck emptying the contents.
"Sleep well, little bird" was the last thing Robin heard before drifting into the darkness of his mind.
I'm sorry it took so long to get this out. Work has been crazy. Writers block has set in so I am really sorry that that sucked. It didn't come out the way I had hoped. This isn't a X, kidnap Robin fic….I'm not sure where the ending came from.
Reviews:
Ninjamonkey: Whoot go Red X! I love him too! Kisses X Ok I kissed a cartoon, that is just nasty Starts kissing X and Robin
Eyeofthetempest: Thank you!
Greg: Romance is on the way! There will be more in later chapters but it is coming. Action I will work on, sympathy….well that isn't my strong point but I'll try.
Grey Rain: Whoa thank you so much! I LOVED your review! It made me so happy! does happy dance sees everyone staring at me oddly and stops dancing
Loveppears: Thank you and keep reading!
Hec13: Maybe Robin was on drugs….no only joking, don't worry Raven will live….at least for now rubs hands evilly lol only messing with you…or am I?
Shadow0015: Wow, thank you so much for correcting the grammar errors. I didn't realize how many where there until I looked back. Chapters 12 I proofread and hopefully now are pretty much error free. When I looked over it I saw that I had misspelled Grammar, how sad is that? Those cookies sound good Runs out to buy some
Babie A: Thank you for being such a good reviewer! hugs Babie A Babie A back away with a scared look in his (her? Sry) face, turns around and runs
Jaina 12: Thanks, yeah Robin was rather mean wasn't he? smiles because I was able to not hurt or scare this reviewer
Ok thanks everyone for reading and I hope I will update sooner than I did this time.
Ohh almost forgot! Hands all the reviewers (and readers) brownies (I'm out of cookies, and just made brownies).
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