Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans or anything in this fic except my OC Shadow.

Summary: This fic is about Robin's twin brother shadow and his interactions with the Titans at least the first chapters are if I get enough reviews I have a story planned for it. It will eventually be a RobxRae but not until I reach about the time of Haunted. For a short while there will be RobxStar.

Last Chapter Recap:

"What will your names be?"

"Robin."

"Shadow"

'It has been almost two years since I left my brother to his own devices. A little over a year, since I sent Raven to find him with instructions to keep silent about who informed her of him. And it has been one year to the day that I met the grass stain known as Garfield Logan in the plains of Africa. Funny, I had no idea the future hero would grow on me so much. It's just something about how he acts around me that makes me think of him as the little brother I always wanted.

Now Raven is an interesting character. In many respects she is very much like me. On the outside cold, bored, and uncaring, but underneath her outer shell she's a bundle of confused emotions that only teenage girls can possess. I met her shortly after taking my leave of Gotham and my uncaring foster-father. Unlike my brother, I didn't allow him to adopt me, not that my real parents were any better. All they ever thought about was Richard this and Richard that. Tssech, it makes me sick how no one except my brother and two other teenagers always think that I'm worthless. Why will I always live in my brother's shadow. Oh, there's that giant 'T' better put my mind at the task at hand. Ever since I made those vows that I would do anything to make sure that the ones I cared about would be safe, happy, and content I had developed an acute empathy ability with those people. Even over long distances, I could feel any major amounts of distress or emotional turmoil they were experiencing. It could be quite annoying at times, such as when Beastboy feels like Cyborg cheated on a game, but at other times it was quite useful. Now was one of the useful times.

Earlier that day I had been racing along when I suddenly had to stop to wrestle the overwhelming sense of guilt and betrayal, mixed in with a drowning sense of failure when I realized that something was seriously wrong in Titan's Tower. So I immediately changed my course and sped towards the Tower. Now after eight hours of straight driving, I'm finally able to see the island with the obnoxiously shaped tower. Better put my head in the game and leave my thoughts to a better time.'

A jet-black bike swerved expertly in and out of traffic as it made its way towards Titan's Tower. The bike itself looked like something out of a science-fiction movie, and yet no one seemed at all disturbed when it shot past them at the dangerously high speeds it's owner pushed it to. It was as if it was completely invisible to the naked eye.

When it finally approached the tower the bike seemed to morph open till it looked like a bike that had had the body coverings split open as a figure dressed completely in black jumped silently out. Anyone looking at him would have thought he looked like some phantom out of a horror movie. In fact, he was exactly the opposite of what the generalized view of what heroes were supposed to look like. The suit he wore was pitch-black allowing him to easily blend into any shadow. The part of the suit that clung to his lithe frame was completely black without any device or insignia to identify who he was, as most super-heroes are wont to do. His long cape was tattered and torn which only added to his ability to disappear at will. The only part that wasn't black was the white eyes of his mask, which only added to the terrifying effect his costume had on people. He made no sound at all while he quickly ran towards the entrance to the tower.

Despite all of the miraculously advanced defense and security systems that protected the tower from any intruders the masked shadow quickly infiltrated the tower and with knowing steps made his way to the evidence room where he knew the person he was searching for would be. With ridiculous ease he slipped past every security precaution Cyborg had invented to stop all intruders as he silently stalked through the quiet, dark, and deserted halls of Titan's Tower. To the observer it would seem he knew the twists and turns of this maze of metal as if he had lived here for a long time. But that observer would be wrong. He had never lived here. In fact, he had never actually set foot inside this fortress of justice. Yet, he knew the ways because he had helped design this very model of the tower.

With practiced ease he quietly walked in so as not to disturb the leader of the team that lived here. The notorious Robin, former apprentice of Batman and one of the world's greatest detectives, the same Robin who had just lost his team's trust while trying to catch the elusive Slade, the only one to ever outsmart him. He was standing there, staring at the very source of all this commotion that had wreaked havoc on his team mentally and emotionally. A suit, not much unlike the one the shadowy figure next to him wore, except this one did have other colors mixed in with the black. A gray form of a skull was plastered onto the mask, along with gray boots and gloves with a tattered appearance that added to the stealth capabilities. The most striking difference in the suits though were the length of the capes, the one Robin was staring at only coming down to the knees, while the others went down to the figure's ankles, and the red X's that were on both sides of the hand, a large one on the chest and a slightly smaller one on the mask almost like a scar covering one eye.

Finally the mysterious figure decided to comfortingly put his hand on the Boy wonder's shoulder, instantly jerking Robin out of his thoughts as he whirled around to face the intruder in a practiced attack stance. Robin relaxed when he saw who had interrupted his brooding.

"Why are you here Shadow! Don't you think I got enough grief from my friends about this matter?" He said in a venomous tone.

"I came because I felt something was extremely wrong and to see what had caused my twin brother to feel so much anger and regret." Shadow simply stated in a gravelly, raspy voice, obviously disguised.

"It all started when that madman Slade first came into the picture and I wanted to stop him from causing anyone harm." Robin said while his eyes trailed back towards the costume on the wall. "I wanted to catch him before something went horribly wrong. So, I created an alter ego that could get closer to him than Robin ever could, but it backfired. Slade was always one step ahead of me the whole time yet again. Then my friends found out that I had gone behind their backs By not telling them about my plan and that it was because I didn't trust them to still fight as hard as they could even though they knew it was me behind the mask. None of them had been trained to mask their fighting styles to not actually harm the person they're fighting while still looking like they don't care if he gets hurt."

'So that's why I can feel so much anger and betrayal coming from Raven and Gar. He didn't trust them the way they felt they had earned. It's beginning to make sense now.' Shadow thought. "In case you're wondering about my take on this I think you need to give your team mates more credit. They feel they have earned your trust and have a right to know what your plans are. I personally agree with them." Shadow stated calmly as Robin weighed his words. "You place very little trust in the people who care the most about you. If you feel they need to work on something, then tell them, and help them work through their shortcomings. That is the role a leader has to play Rich, you have to help your team not leave it in the dark. If you tell them to improve on something and how to do it, they will work. That's how families work and you need to take in the fact that most of these kids you work with see this team as their family. They may not realize that yet, but they do. Learn to trust them and they will be more than willing to follow your orders and advice."

"You may be right, but what if you're wrong? What if they will never trust me again?" Robin questioned doubt knowing at his insides. 'Why did Starfire have to say that Slade and I are similar? What right does she have to make that kind of observation? Why does she think she know how my mind works?' Robin questioned himself about a comment made by the alien earlier that evening:

"But Robin you and Slade are similar," she had said with a sad tone in her voice. "He did not trust you just as you did not trust us."

'He's not telling me all that's bugging him there's some other factor playing into this. He won't willingly tell me though, I'll have to weasel it out of him.' Shadow thought as he listened to Robin skeptically. He decided to change the subject he knew his brother would be more than willing to talk about. "What can this oddly familiar suit do." He said putting emphasis on the words "oddly" and "familiar" to remind Robin that he doesn't enjoy anyone trying to imitate the hard work he had put into his own suit.

"Heh heh, sorry about. Look I know you take pride inbeing a separate breed of hero, but I knew that if there was anyone capable of getting close to Slade it was you, and since you insist on working alone I decided that I would need to find a replacement. So, I took what I remembered about your suit and did my best to imitate it." Robin chuckled nervously as he tried to read his younger brother's response. 'Why does he have to be so damn hard to read? I mean, he could give Raven lessons on just staring emotionlessly at you while plotting a horrible death in your near future.' Robin audibly gulped, here was the moment of truth.

"Fine, but you still haven't told me how you made it." Shadow said in a cryptic tone. He knew Robin would break down and tell him if he caught him off guard.

"Oh, right it's really just something I threw together in a few weeks. Just a never-ending arsenal of thief tricks and weaponry, that, along with a short-range teleportation engine and high-end cloaking technology with the ability to slip into almost any facility in the world undetected. The only setback, the only energy source capable of energizing that kind of technology was a xinothium engine." Robin stated with embarrassment evident in his voice.

While his body didn't show any expression at all, Shadow's mind was screaming bloody-murder. 'Just how smart is he? A short-range teleportation engine? How did he manage that? Does he always have to prove that he is better than me at everything?' Though while staring at the schematics and blueprints, he gestured towards Robin asking, "You have to give yourself credit, this is impressive. In fact, it's far more advanced than my suit. I know for a fact the Army would do almost anything to not only find a use for xinothium, but with all of this stealth tech you could easily retire and live happily for the rest of your life." Even Robin could tell there was a small hint of sarcasm in the retiring part. Shadow knew his brother well enough to know that he would never dream of retiring from the hero business, at least, not yet.

"Don't even joke man it's no where near as good as yours." Robin exclaimed with disbelief threaded into his voice.

"No, it's beyond my tech. The problem is you don't enjoy using the kind of Strategy required for this kind of suit. So you can't use it properly. I tried for months to invent a teleportation engine but always failed. You are by far the smarter between the two of us." Shadow stated emotionlessly in his raspy voice. Robin involuntarily shivered. It was always way creepy the way he talked. Even before he had disguised it, people would be creept out of his monotone statements, even Batman.

'Wait a minute, he's probing me for what's really bothering me. I might as well tell him, he always finds out in the end." Robin wanted to slap himself for not seeing it before then. "All right, I see what you're getting at now. And I'll tell you since you're the person I trust most in this world. I'm upset about something Starfire told me earlier tonight."

'So, it's something the pretty alien girl told him. I should have known, he always did hate it when a pretty girl said something he didn't like about him.' Shadow imperceptibly smirked, "What did she say? What did she observe about this incident that makes you feel like trash?"

"S-she said t-that I was like S-slade." Robin finally managed to choke out. He wasn't used to revealing his emotional problems. And he hated crying, but Shadow was probably the only person to see this side of him since the night their parents died.

"I know you think highly of this girl, but I'm going to be blunt and strait-forward." Shadow said slowly and calmly. He had to break this slowly to Robin because he would resist this view at first. "She is a naïve little girl who sees the world through rose-colored glasses. You have to realize that her observations are those of a narrow-minded girl. She hasn't seen what we have, and she has no idea what we've been through so she can't judge us. You need to understand this Rich, She can't tell the differences between you and Slade because she doesn't know your thoughts or reasons. To her there are no gray areas, but I'm glad that you finally realize that everything isn't black and white. You're finally beginning to see the world in the way I have since we were seven. You have to draw your own lines and stick to them. Others cant choose for you."

Robin slowly pondered the way his brother was saying, he finally realized that he truly was seeing the world the way Shadow had always tried to show him. There were gray areas and you had to make your own choices and learn from your mistakes.

After a silent while Robin finally spoke. "I think I will take your advice on the trust part and just keep trying and hope my friends can forgive me." Hope was beginning to surface in his voice again.

Shadow smiled, knowing that he had once again helped one of the people he most cared for see the light he would never witness. "Don't even ask if I'm gonna stay here for a while cause you know I won't."

"I know, I guess I'll see ya later?" The Boy Wonder asked hoping that this wouldn't be a one time thing. He hadn't realized just how much he missed his brother until just now.

"Don't worry kid, I'll always be here when you most need me." With that said Shadow simply disappeared into the shadows he was so at home in thinking, 'now to try and convince Raven and BB to try and see Rich's side in all of this. It's gonna be one of those nights. Well no to Rae's room.'

Hey everyone. Hope you enjoy this chapter. The next chapter will have a deep and hopefully interesting talk between Rae and Shadow, who by the way I've decided will secretly harbor feeling for the sorceress. Please review and tell me what you think. Thanks!