No More Mistakes

As Robin walked through the halls of Titan's Tower he thought about the missions of the last few days. He thought about how they really affected the Titans.

The betrayal of Terra weighed heavily on all of the Titans. And secretly Robin knew who it weighed the most on. Not him, not Beast Boy, not Cyborg and certainly not Starfire. No it rested the heaviest on Raven.

It was she who had the empathic sense to tell what people were really feeling. It was she who is able to see past the lies that humans weave and see the truth; see the deception that they really meant.

He paused before entering his door. Looking around carefully he listened for the footfalls of any other Titans before slowly pealing off his mask. He pushed a 16 digit number onto the key pad by his door. An eye scanner popped out of the wall and scanned his eyes. A minute later he was let into his room.

With meticulous precision he stripped down to his boxers and climbed into bed. He body screamed for rest, while his mind demanded that he go and talk with the distressed sorceress down two floors.

After an hour, his mind was starting to win. Knowing that Raven would literally decapitate him if he came near her right now, he sighed heavily and went into his bathroom to take a shower. As the hot water splashed over his muscles he tried to relax.

But relaxation did not come easy to the Boy Wonder. His mind would not let it. Another hour passed as he stood in the shower. But it was to no avail, he just couldn't get Raven off his mind.

Sighing heavily he quickly dressed back into his uniform and found himself in front of her room. He listened hard and he could hear her chanting.

It was only a few minutes that he stood there before Raven realized his presence. He heard her walk across her room and the door slid open a little.

"What do you want Robin?" she asked in her normal monotone voice. It betrayed nothing of what Robin knew what she was really feeling.

"To talk. Mind if I come in?" he asked. Not giving her a chance to reply or react he flipped over her head and into the room, nearly knocking over a candle that was sitting in the middle of the floor.

"Sure," Raven said sarcastically.

She sat on the edge of her bed and just started at Robin. "Why did you come here?" she finally asked him.

"To see if you were all right," he replied.

"I'm fine."

"You're lying to me."

……….

"I know that you think it was your fault that she got away with what she did, but its not."

Raven was still silent.

"It's not your fault. What you sensed within her was good. She was, at the core, good. Look at the sacrifice that she made for the city and for us. She had a dark stretch on her path, but she was shown the light once again by us. She tried to betray us and she tried to be in the darkness, but she was good. She was good, so she couldn't go through with it. If she was truly bad then she would have betrayed us in the end and we, nor the city, would still be standing."

There were a few more minutes of silence before Raven spoke.

"The thing is Robin, I sensed the betrayal in her. I sensed the inner battle between the good side of her and the dark side of her. Whenever I was around her she was happy and her good side was winning. The only times when I could sense the betrayal in our mist was at night and I foolishly thought that it was my own inner conscience. I was wrong Robin. I made a mistake by not fully looking at her. I let my emotions and those of the people around me, take control of me."

"So, we all make mistakes. I make them and so do you. We are human Raven. There is nothing we can do about it. We are destined to make mistakes and screw things up. The only thing we can do is learn from those mistakes and hope for the best. The future is what we need to look at, not what has happened in the past….. The past is just that. The past. We can't change it, we can only learn from it. Learn from this mistake and then go on. Make new ones, learn from them, and then do it again."

Robin stood and walked to the door. He paused as he opened it.

"Raven, if we never make mistakes then we aren't human. Mistakes are part of our nature. I made a mistake. We all did. But we will be more careful next time. Don't worry, it will all work out in the end."

With that he stepped out and started back to his room.

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As Robin walked out of my room, his last words stuck to me. "Don't worry it will all work out in the end."

I hope that he is right and that it will, for if it doesn't than if fear for our team and our world.

We all make mistakes, this I can't deny. But I can't afford to make mistakes any more. That was my only one.

I let my emotions take control.

But not anymore.

My emotions will forever stay locked away. Where I can keep the world safe from the evil that is inside.

For what Robin didn't know, was the other mistake that I almost let out. My emotions became too much and I almost let Him out.

If I had let him out, then we would have far larger problems than the ones we had with Terra.

I am just thankful that this mistake was not committed. For if it was, it would spell the doom of the earth.