Hi there,
On a recent trip to the plot bunny farm I was bitten by a plot bunny and contracted Plot Bunny Syndrome. Since then I have had way too many story ideas and too few ideas for stories I was already working on. This story will help me get some of the Plot Bunny Poison out of my veins because it combines about 5 ideas that kept pestering me to get on paper. Worry not; while I am writing this I will still update my other stories. I just really need this story to help me get back on track. Plus I think you will really like it.
Note: Later chapters will contain spoilers to the movie 'Batman Begins' which is very good by the way, go see it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans, if I did plot bunny syndrome would be a good thing, not a nuisance
On with the show….
The Pendant
Intro
Circuses are usually very happy places. Circuses are great places to see exotic animals and awe worthy stunts. Circuses are great places for popcorn and cotton candy and other delectable treats. And most of all, Circuses are usually great places to see young children smile. To see them laugh and cheer. Most Children love the circus. Most.
But not Richard Grayson.
Blood laced the floor of the center ring. Popcorn lay a strew. The animals had run off or had been caged. Cotton candy lay everywhere, lacing the ground like the clouds lace the sky. Everyone had gone home. Rodger the candy vender had gone home. Mike the janitor had gone home. Lulu the amazing bearded woman had gone home. Even BoBo the clown had gone home.
Everyone but Richard Grayson.
Blood laced the trapeze. There was blood on the corners of Richard's adorable acrobat uniform. The big G that had stood for The Flying Graysons had ripped off. The green shoes had blood on every inch. The sleeves on the red shirt had fallen off and burned up. Richard could have cared less. He was trapped behind a fallen pillar. It would have been no great obstacle for someone, say, 2 feet taller. Richard was 3 foot 4 inches. Richard was 4 years old. Richard had had two loving parents who did everything they could to be sure their little Richard was having a good life. And now the little boy with dark hair, pale skin, and bright blue eyes was an orphan. Tears streamed down from his eyes as he kicked at the pillar.
Struck with an idea Richard grabbed at a dangling cable hanging from the burnt ceiling of Haley's Circus. He swung over the pillar and ran to the center of the ring, to the two bodies that lay motionless in the middle of the floor.
"Mommy, Daddy" He said, shaking them. They were gone. Richard knew.
He found the patches off of his parent's uniforms; the big Gs. Richard slipped them in the almost completely burned pocket on his green pants. He then reached for the Robin shaped pendant that lay around his neck. It had been his birthday present.
It read: "To our dearest Richard, you will always be our Robin. May you always be happy, whatever happens.
Love,
Mom and Dad"
Tears formed in Richards's eyes as he clutched tightly to his pendant.
Sometime a few minutes later a young Billionaire named Bruce Wayne picked Richard up at the circus and became his guardian.
Richard wore the pendant every day until he lost it while packing his things to live in Titan's tower.
It didn't matter. He never listened to the Pendant's inscription anyhow.
The R was a G.
Richard was no longer a Grayson. He was just Robin. But not the Robin his parents had always wished for him to be.
That's why when Starfire had made an innocent suggestion to go to the circus nearby Robin had yelled at her.
That's why when Starfire found the Robin pendant in a pile of boxes from the first day they all had moved in to Titan's tower she had wrapped it in a piece of tissue paper and left it by his bedroom door.
And so it begins.
To be continued….
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