'Blah'- Thought
Teen Titans
We who fall
Chapter 3: Written in Blűd
Robins POV
How long has it been? Oh yeah I remember now, it been five years. Five years since I left the Titans five years since the night Robin died and Dick Grayson saw the light of day after so many years of living in the shadows. I left the tower in the dead of night I didn't really want to say goodbye to the others in case they tried to talk me out of leaving so it seemed like the best.
I headed back to Gotham and decided to do what I always planned on doing before Boss Zucco murdered my parents, before Batman took me under his wing, before Robin go to collage, get a job maybe meet someone settle down have a family, and it worked out fine for the most part, I met up with Barbara Gordon again and we hooked up a year later he were engaged life was sweet. It couldn't last, whilst I had buried Robin and spat on his grave Barbara continued on being Batgirl which really put a strain on our relationship, I tried to warn her but she was too stubborn to listen and a year into our engagement Barbara was shot by the Joker crippling her and confining her to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
Not long after she was released from hospital the problems started it got so bad it wasn't long till we reached the point where we couldn't open our mouths with out yelling at each other. Three months later I woke up one morning and found she was gone. I really feel into depression after that I did love her and when she left it hurt. Don't remember much after that its all kind of a haze only that I woke up one evening in a bar in Blűdhaven.
Sometimes I wake up and wonder what the hell I'm doing here, I mean come on of all the places I could have gone I had chose Blűdhaven. The place is a mobbed up, drugged ravaged, morally bankrupt, piss hole drowning in corruption, injustice and violences, sounds like home already. I have vague recollection of arriving I'd been here two minutes and I already wanted to take a shower with clorox and sandpaper. But no matter how shitty things are I still got bills to pay and I do have a job at a local Bar called Hogans Alley, its a cop bar where they drink beer and shots all day and as well as indulge in other such activities that wouldn't look good if word got out, like I care as long as it pays.
There are other days however when you wake up and you find something you just weren't expecting. A loud knocking at the door rudely drew Dick out of his slumber his head pounding, rolling out of bed and grabbing a pair of pants off the floor he staggered over to the door
"Alright, alright I'm coming." he groaned opening it he found himself looking at someone he'd not seen in five years someone he'd not expected but somehow wasn't surprised that she'd tracked him down
"Raven."
"Hello Robin."
"Robin is dead."
"Richard then."
"What do you want."
"I came to talk, may I come in."
"No."
"Very well then." she then pushed passed him and entered his apartment taking in the sight of empty bottles, dirty laundry, dirty dishes and cutlery and other assorted trash littered about the place she then turned to him "This place is a mess and so are you."
"Don't like it then leave." he replied indicating to the door
"Where's the wife?" she asked "I read about your engagement but hadn't heard anything recently, we all figured the two of you eloped."
"Didn't happen." he replied
"Oh." Raven said simply.
Raven had been sitting with Dick in his apartment for two hours now neither one speaking to the other not counting a moment about half an hour ago when he'd made her tea telling her she was very luck that he'd had any at all, well at least he was still a considerate host that had too be a good sign
"Richard," she said the silence becoming to much for her "You are on the verge of becoming what I fear. Right now standing at the edge of the abyss and ground beneath you is beginning to crumble, if you do not step back and return home with me it might be too late to save you."
"And what if I don't want to be saved Raven?" he replied "Your the fucking psychic read my mind find your answer and leave."
"The Titans are falling apart with out you." She said forcefully "We've tried to keep the team together but it keeps falling apart and each time its harder to convince everyone to return. The team needs Robin, we need you." 'I need you.'
"That's pretty interesting seeing as I fired you all before I left."
"Yeah well your not Robin any more so there was little point taking orders from a person who doesn't exist."
"Then why are you even here?"
she stared at him he could feel she wanted to tell him something but couldn't bring herself to say it instead she grabbed her jacket
"I see this isn't going anywhere." she then made her way to the door and opened it but before she left she turned to the former boy wonder "I'm booked into a local hotel for the rest of the week and I don't plan on leaving Blűdhaven without you." and then she was gone.
It was now late evening and Dick was staring out the window as rain pelted against the window deep in thought when someone began knocking at the door
"Damn it Raven." he growled as he crossed the room however when he opened the door
instead of finding a young woman with grey skin and lavender hair he found a twelve year old boy with pale blue eyes and black hair and clothes that were competently soaked from the rain
"Your Dick Grayson right?" he asked
"Yeah," Dick replied "Who are you?" the kid looked up at him and a small smile appeared on his face
"My names Tim, Tim Drake."
AN. Chapter 3, I hope your all liking it. I hope the fudging between the Teen Titans cartoon and Batman/Nightwing comics is working well but alsois also original. There will be chapter four which I get to work on soon and an epilogue. See y'all later same bat-time same bat-channel.