I turn around sharply and I see Slade before me. I glare at him as he continues to hold my arms.
"What are you doing here?" I ask coldly.
"You have found your ache," he replies, smiling an evil smile.
I gasp at him and feel myself slipping towards the ground.
"I think you forgot that the psychic link goes both ways," he says, still smiling. "Now where is dear Robin?"
I don't say anything. His smile wavers for a minute.
"I said, where is…"
"I'm not deaf. I just don't want to answer," I say, finding my voice.
He stares at me with a fiery look but I match it with a cold stare. He raises his arm to hit me but I hold me finger up.
"You know why you can't do that, Slade," I say.
"I can take the pain," he says back.
He hits me on the side of my face, hard. I hear him grunt at feeling it too. I turn to him and spit at him. He looks enraged. He raises his hand to hit me again.
"You know I'll never talk, so why are you doing this to yourself?" I say angrily, loudly.
He thinks about that, and then he grins. I become afraid from his grin, because I know that if Slade is happy, chances are, the world won't be.
"There is more then one way to catch a fly then with honey," he says quietly to me.
"What the…" he cuts me off by dragging me towards the door.
He heads in the direction of the living room. He bursts through the doors and the Teen Titans jump. They see him holding me and immediately react. Starfire flies up and charges her star bolts, Raven picks up the entertainment center, Beastboy turns into a leopard, Cyborg charges his cannon and Robin gets out his fighting stick.
"Let her go, Slade!"
Surprisingly, this comes from Raven. She looks angry enough to beat the shit out of someone, which, hopefully, will be Slade. Slade answers by getting out a knife and holding it against my throat.
"Don't even try that, asshole," I say, smiling. "I told them all about that."
He grimaces and seems to be thinking.
Then Robin makes his big mistake. He charges Slade. As Robin gets closer, Slade stands there waiting. As Robin gets his closest, Slade pushes me away from him and grabs Robin instead. He whips out a tranquilizer needle and shoots Robin with it. Robin struggles, but the injection becomes too much. Slade grins triumphantly and points at me.
"Let's go," he says.
"You're not leaving, Slade," Raven says.
"Ah, you would be a useful member to my team," Slade says. "But I think I'll wait until your birthday."
Raven goes paler then her normal self and whispers, "How do you…"
"I'll explain it all later," he says. "Nice to see you all, but I really must go now."
He pulls out a smoke grenade and launches it. He grabs me as it goes off and the three of us disappear.
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We reappear in Slade's lab. I'm coughing from the smoke and Robin is still unconscious. Slade delicately takes Robin and sets him in a chair.
"I always knew you'd pick a nice one for me," Slade says.
"What are you talking about?" I say.
"Didn't you wonder what that ache was all about?" he says, turning to me.
At my silent response he says, "Your ache was a terrible thing because that would send me a signal of who was to take over my little," he chuckles, "business."
I bow my head and weep softly.
"You cry too much," he says. "That was your mother's doing."
I shoot towards him. My fist connects with his face and the force pushes him back. He has made his mistake.
"Now I'm angry," I whisper, very dangerously.
He glares at me with a bleeding lip. "Don't mock me. You couldn't kill me even if you…"
He doesn't finish his sentence. I make sure of it. I pick up a metal drum and throw it at him. It hits him on the head and he falls to the ground, unconscious. The drum spills open with the precious metals as it hits the ground. I ignore them and head towards Slade, welding a knife.
"Don't," says a voice.
I turn and Robin is coming to.
"Don't," he repeats.
Looking at him, my anger melts away and I rush towards him, dropping the knife.
"Are you okay?" I say, worried. "Are you hurt? Do you feel woozy?"
I continue pestering him with annoying questions, just as I wished he wouldn't do. He smiles at me, still groggy from the tranquilizer. Then he looks around.
"What happened?" he asks.
"Slade came to the Tower and got me. Then he went to the living room and you rushed him. Stupid! You never rush Slade! Anyways, he shot you with the tranquilizer and you went down. Then he made us disappear and reappear here and then he made me mad so I threw that drum at him." I finish, pointing at the drum.
The precious metals are still there, waiting to be discovered. Robin gets up slowly and walks towards them.
"These were stolen from the jewelry shops," he says, unable to speak louder then a whisper. "But what does he want with them?"
"Robin," I whisper.
He turns towards me and I point at the giant screen. He turns towards it and gasps.
On the screen are photos of the Titans. Cyborg, working on his car. Beastboy, grooming himself. Starfire, cooking something from her planet. Robin, practicing his moves in the training room. Raven, meditating. And me, howling at the moon.
Robin walks to the computer and types in a few commands. More shots of us come up on the screen.
"He's been stalking us," he says, flipping through more photos.
We both gasp as we come across pictures of Robin and I kissing.
"Why did he take those?" I ask, astonished. "It's not like…
Robin is quiet as he stares up at the screen.
"Where's the knife?" he asks, sounding pissed off.
"Oh no!" I say, grabbing it. "If anyone gets to kill him, it's me!"
"And why is that?"
"Because he killed my mother!"
"And I had a good time doing it too."
We turn towards Slade and he gets up.
"You bastard…" I whisper, getting angry once again. "You should be on your knees thanking Robin, or else you'd be dead by now!"
He answers by walking to the computer.
"If you don't mind," he says to Robin.
Robin stays where he is and Slade shrugs. He punches in a few commands and the screen goes black. Robin and I stare at it, trying to analyze it. Then Slade turns towards us.
"You do know it's rude to snoop in other person's belongings, don't you?" he says. "Now you'll have to pay."