I'm a horrible person...XD


Nightmares

"C'mon Robin, the only thing you have to do is tell us who Batman is and we'll let you go!"

The Boy Wonder glared at Penguin, he turned his head and spit out the blood in his mouth. "No," he growled.

Penguin nodded at the guard next to him, the guard smirked and clenched his fist; knuckle braces shining menacingly in the light even if it was coated in Robin's blood.

He punched him in the face, the Boy Wonder only flinched and hissed, he didn't cry out in pain. He wasn't going to show weakness, not now; not ever.

His eyes narrowed when two other goons entered the room, carrying a huge bucket filled with water. They set the bucket down in front of him and his suspicions rose when Penguin smirked.

The elder man leaned down. "Now, Bird Boy, I'm gonna ask again. Who is Batman?"

"A better man than you."

Penguin glared and whistled. Almost immediately, two guys walked up to Robin and cut the ropes that tied him against the chair. Immediately the Boy Wonder started struggling, he was weakened a great deal, but he still put up a fight.

The goons still managed to push his head into the water.

It took everything in his power not to move, not only were they drowning him as a form of torture; they boiled the water too.

Robin gasped and coughed when they pulled him out, his hair falling in his eyes and blocking his vision as he tried to get as much air as possible.

His masked eyes snapped up and he smirked when he saw his livid mentor hiding in the shadows.

"What're ya smirking 'bout?" Penguin growled.

Robin looked at the villain, and grinned. "Just wondering if you ever poked someone's eye out with that nose of yours."

He went under again.

Penguin glared and pulled out a gun as Robin's head got pulled out of the water for the second time. "I think I'm done with you, boy."

Before he could pull the trigger, a batarang landed at his feet and Robin smirked when the man who threw it jumped out of the shadows and kicked the villain to the ground.

Robin jolted awake, his mind and body fully alert as he looked around the room; relaxing when he realized he was in Titans Tower.

He dropped his head in his hands and clenched his fists around his hair, wondering why the hell those memories started coming back.

With a frustrated growl; he ran a hand through his hair and put on his uniform. Not caring that it was three in the morning as he went to go to the gym.

-mini linebreak-

"Robin? You okay dude?" Beast Boy asked when his leader finally walked out of the gym and into the living room.

He nodded. "Didn't get much sleep, so I trained," he explained casually; as if nothing was wrong.

The alarm went and he didn't even have to say anything as his team took action.

-mini linebreak-

"Riddle me this, what's yellow, red, green and dark red and is about to get electrocuted? That's right; you!"

"Uhmm...Boss? Where did the dark red come from?" One of the goons asked.

Riddler rolled his eyes; clearly irritated with the question. "The blood, the dark red stands for the blood all over his face!" He growled before lowering his voice and muttering "Idiots, I'm working with idiots."

Robin stayed silent and only let out a cry of pain when God-knows-how-many-volts shot through him.

Robin jumped awake again and punched the wall in frustration, not even noticing the slight crack in the wall he caused.

Years, for years he had managed to sleep without nightmares of all the things that happened in Gotham! Why now?!

He sighed and closed his eyes, counting to ten silently to keep himself calm. He needed to remind himself that as long as he didn't have any nightmares of his parents or Two-Face; he would be fine.

Someone knocked on the door and he could hear Cyborg's voice. "Rob?"

The Titans leader stayed silent for a minute to make sure his voice wouldn't betray him. "Yeah?"

"You okay in there? We heard you scream."

Shit, he screamed? That's it, he needed to make his room soundproof.

"I'm fine, Cy, don't worry," he assured. "Something just...startled me."

It was clear that Cyborg didn't believe him, but thankfully, he dropped the subject. "If you say so," he walked away and Robin only relaxed when he couldn't hear any sound from the mechanic teen.


"Heads up, Bird Brain!" Harley's shrill voice called before swinging at him with her abnormally sized hammer and hitting him in the face.

Two-Face tossed his coin casually. "Kill them, or not?" He muttered, catching the coin and grinning when he saw what side it was. "Drop 'em boys!"

The lights flashed on, and the Boy Wonder's heart stopped.

His parents, hanging from trapezes and carelessly swinging around; smiling and looking happy. Completely oblivious to what was happening around them.

"Such a pity to ruin such a happy family," Joker muttered in fake disappointment.

Catwoman raised an eyebrow, her eyes focused on a diamond in her hand. "Really? I find it purr-fect."

"Come on, Silena, stop the puns." Poison Ivy remarked, petting one of her plants affectionately.

Killer Frost nodded and let out a cool breath, the air freezing instantly. "Ivy's right, your puns are giving me the chills."

Ivy glared at the woman.

"Time for the big finale!" Joker let out a maniacal cackle as he pulled a lever, Robin watched in horror when the trapeze broke and his parents fell to their deaths...again.

He stiffened when he heard Batman's voice. "You failed, Robin."

"Friend Robin, watch out!"

He managed to snap out of it and jump away just in time to avoid Adonis charging at him. Starfire took the opportunity to fly in and drag her leader out of the field and out of danger.

The Boy Wonder shook his head to clear his thoughts before going back to the fight; although half of his mind was still set on the strange dream he had. The last time he saw all of those villains together was when there was a great breakout in Arkham Asylum, how come his mind decided to torture him with that many villains plus the death of his parents?

That was just plain cruel.

Raven blasted the villain and glared at her boyfriend.

"Get your head in the game," she hissed, flying past him and pulling a little girl out of the way as Adonis threw a car. The half-demon created a wall of black energy, shielding herself and the girl from the car before bringing the child back to her mother.

A loud growl came from Beast Boy that made shivers run down everyone's spine as they heard the all-too-familiar growl of the Beast himself.

He could control himself, it was just Adonis that ticked him off.

As Beast Boy charged, Cyborg blasted Adonis to catch him off guard and giving the changeling enough time to attack. Robin threw in some discs here and there whenever the villain tried to play dirty while Starfire and Raven worked on keeping everyone safe.


Raven was not amused.

The moment they entered the tower, her eyes glowed white and a black tentacle wrapped itself around Robin; dragging him with her whether he wanted or not. It wasn't like he was going to fight back against her anyway.

The half-demon led him to his room and locked the door; dropping him on his bed as she glared at him.

Robin raised an eyebrow and looked at the locked door. "You know, you could've just asked if you wanted-"

"What the hell is going on with you?" She hissed, momentarily forgetting to keep her emotions locked away as she stared at him.

She was glad she defeated Trigon; everything would've exploded by now if that wasn't the case.

She didn't miss it when his breath hitched and he stiffened once the question left her mouth. "I don't know what you're talking about," he denied.

Raven rolled her eyes. "I don't know why you even bother to lie to me. I can sense your emotions, we have a bond, I know you, I also know that you haven't had a decent amount of sleep for months, and it isn't because you have a lead on a case. So spill."

He raised an eyebrow, well, wasn't she forceful today?

"It's nothing," he sighed. "Just...nightmares."

Her expression softened and her posture relaxed. She understood what he was going through; she was basically the Queen of Nightmares.

"Memories or nightmares; they're in the past. That's what you always tell me, right?" She smiled.

He pulled her into a hug and buried his face in her neck, loving the feeling of comfort he got by just being with her. "Right," he agreed.