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AN – And I'm back with another AU of the second half of season 2. Again, this story starts right after everyone leaves the Tower, and while this story will still have some things in common with my other two stories, but it won't be exactly the same. Chapter title is taken from the song Down to Nothing by Siddharth Menon. Hope you guys like it!

Enjoy!

The sun was now beginning to dip behind the city of San Francisco, but Dick didn't move at all from his spot in front of the large window that overlooked the city. No one disturbed him, not that there was anyone left to do that. Only Gar and the boy who had saved Jason, Conner, remained in the Tower with him. Everyone else had left after he finally confessed the truth about how Jericho died all those years ago. Honestly, Dick didn't blame them and wasn't all that surprised. Donna, Hank and Dawn had left him before and that was before they knew he lied. Jason and Rose were both hurt by Slade because of what Dick did, so their anger was completely understandable.

Rachel and Kory though, he wasn't that sure about. Since he met her, Rachel seemed to cling to him, wanted his help. After everything that had happened, he didn't think he was the best person for that though, which was why he had planned on leaving her with Hank and Dawn. But when she was kidnapped, he had to rescue her. And he had planned on going after her, Kory and Gar once he had visited Donna, and then after everything with Trigon, he couldn't leave her. She had wanted to stay with him and he decided he would do his best to help her. But he had failed, so it made sense that she would want to go with someone better than him. With Kory, he wasn't sure what had been going on with her the last few months, but whatever it was, he couldn't expect her to stay and help him with his problems.

He wasn't that surprised that Gar stayed. He somewhat expected him to leave with the others, but Dick had known since he revealed that he was Robin that Gar was a superhero fanboy. One of the ones that put them on pedestals no matter what they did. Dick felt pretty bad about that actually. He knew from experience what it was like when your hero failed you, and yet Gar didn't seem to care. He seemed surprised by what Dick said and taken aback, but after everyone left, he reminded him that he had apologized and said that the others would come back. Dick somewhat wished that he had the sweet teenager's faith, but he had seen enough to know that that wouldn't happen. Since then, Gar had left him alone to think, until now apparently.

"Dick?" A voice suddenly pulled the police detective from his thoughts and he glanced over to see Gar was standing beside him with a worried expression. Seeing that he now had his attention, Gar asked, "You okay?"

"Sorry, stupid question." Gar quickly said before Dick could even think of a response, which brought a minuscule smile to his face.

"It's fine. Did you need something?" Dick wondered, completely changing the subject.

Gar shook his head before replying, "No, I just, you've been standing here staring out the window for almost three hours now."

Dick frowned, then looked over at the clock hanging on the wall. It felt like he had only been standing here for a few minutes, but the clock confirmed that Gar was right. "Oh."

"Is there anything I can do?" Gar questioned looking a mixture of hopeful and worried.

"Um, no, I don't think so." Dick told him. When he saw Gar's face fall though, he quickly added, "Unless you want to check on Conner."

"Yeah sure." Gar responded, then turned to head down the hall to the infirmary.

Dick watched him walk away before turning back to the window, about to get lost in his thoughts again. However, he knew he couldn't do that. Gar's interruption reminded him that he still had kids to take care of, things to do. He couldn't just shut down, no matter how much he'd like to. But, he knew this wasn't just something he could brush off that fast. He needed someone to talk to. Not wanting to talk to Gar because he was just a kid, he pulled out his phone from his pocket and without thinking twice, he scrolled down to a contact and clicked it. He then brought it up to his ear and waited for the person to answer.

"Hello?"

Dick felt a small smile come upon his face at the sound of Roy Harper's voice before he said, "Hey, it's me."

"Dick. It's been way too long since I've heard from you." Roy told him. Though he could obviously not see him, Dick could tell from his voice that the archer was also smiling.

"Yeah, I've been busy." Dick replied, moving to sit down on the nearest couch.

"I gathered." Roy said.

After getting himself a little more comfortable on the cushions, he asked, "How's Lian?"

"She's good. You should come by. She misses her Uncle Dick." Roy informed him, his voice getting lighter at the mention of his daughter.

"I miss her too." Dick told him. He hadn't seen Roy and Lian in over a year. Though Roy was semi-retired and Dick had somewhat tried to quit being Robin, he tried to keep in touch with his friend, one of his best friends. Lian was now five. He missed her birthday, though he did send her a gift. He really should make some time to go visit them once this whole thing was over with.

Roy suddenly changed the subject and asked, "What's wrong?"

Dick wasn't surprised at all that Roy was able to pick up that something bad had happened. When he first started going out as Robin, the first fellow hero sidekick he met was Donna, and they became super close very fast. However, he didn't get to see her as much due to her constantly going back and forth from several countries and Themyscira. The next sidekick he met was Wally West, also known as Kid Flash. Roy Harper, Speedy at the time, followed soon after. The three of them were practically inseparable growing up. Along with Donna, they were Dick's best friends. Roy was one of the few people Dick felt comfortable letting his guard down when he was around him.

"I really screwed up Roy." Dick responded, doing his best to keep from getting choked up. However, Roy wasn't fooled at all.

"Tell me." Roy practically ordered and despite his fear of how Roy was going to react, Dick's mental and emotional walls weren't strong enough to keep himself from telling him everything that happened.

Roy listened silently as Dick revealed everything that happened. About how he got Jericho involved to find Slade, how he actually died and how Dick lied about it. About Slade coming back and kidnapping, and nearly killing, Jason. Then how he finally came clean to the others of how Jericho actually died that night. He even told him how the others reacted, including Hank punching him in the face before they all left, except for Gar and the unconscious boy in their infirmary. It wasn't until Dick finally fell silent that Roy said, "I'm going to kill them."

"What?" Dick was a bit surprised by Roy's response. He had mostly expected/feared that Roy would get mad at him and would side with the others before hanging up on him, but the exact opposite had happened.

"Donna, Dawn and Hank were part of it from the beginning Dick. They are just as responsible as you are and they should know that, especially Donna. They can't ask you to do something, then have you do it with them going along with it and bail and put all the blame on you when it goes bad. It wasn't your fault." Roy explained, his tone getting angrier with each word that left his mouth before he added, "I'm going to call them and give them a piece of my mind."

"No Roy, don't. Don't make this worse than it already is." Dick immediately protested. The others were already furious at him. If Roy had called them and yelled at them, they would get mad at him as well and would get even angrier with Dick. It wouldn't solve anything.

"It's not your fault Dick." Roy repeated his earlier statement, his tone far gentler than it had been during the entire conversation.

"I," Dick started, but stopped when he heard Gar shout, "Dick!"

"I got to go. I'll talk to you later?" Dick asked Roy, standing up and making his way to the Tower's infirmary.

"You better, or I'm coming over there myself." Roy threatened, causing Dick to chuckle.

"Noted. Thanks Roy."

"Any time little bird." Roy replied. Dick then hung up the phone and slipped it into his pocket as entered the infirmary room where Gar was.

"What's going on?" Dick asked, somewhat worried due to Gar's earlier shout, but as he examined the room, he quickly realized what was going on. Gar was standing a few feet away from the hospital bed where Conner was laying. Or, was actually sitting. He was upright and was looking at them. Dick stopped in his tracks and simply said, "Hi."

"Hi." The young man, still a boy actually, said back, staring at him.

"Conner, right?" Dick questioned, wanting to make sure he got his name right. Due to everything that was going on, he hadn't really been around since they brought Jason and his rescuer back to the Tower but he had heard in passing from the others that his name was apparently Conner.

"Yeah." Conner confirmed, nodding his head.

"I'm Dick, and this is Gar." Dick introduced them to the newcomer before asking, "How are you feeling?"

"I'm feeling okay. Kind of hungry actually." Conner answered, his head turning to look back and forth between Dick and Gar.

"Okay. Gar, you find him some clothes and I'll go see what food we have." Dick told the green-haired teenager. Though Conner was covered by the blankets, it was clear that he was naked underneath them and they did not need a naked teenager walking around.

"Sounds good."

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Slade sat silently in the small hotel room that he had booked after the new Robin, Jason, got away, cleaning his weapons. Though he had made sure that the boy had no idea where he had been held before moving him to the skyscraper where he was supposed to die, he didn't want to risk the others figuring out where he had been hiding. It turned out though he didn't have to worry about that. With Rose's help, they had thoroughly driven a wedge between Dick Grayson and the others, leaving him alone at the Tower. Well, there was still the boy with that terrible green-dyed hair and the unknown boy who had saved Jason, but that didn't matter.

Dick Grayson was now far more vulnerable than he had been before with the others there. Now was the perfect time to take care of him. Actually the perfect time to take care of him was that night in the church five years ago, but Jericho, now in his body, managed to force him to leave the Robin alone. After that night, Slade made sure that his son was never able to control him again. He wanted to go after Dick right after that, to make him pay for what he did to his son, but when he saw that the Titans had split up and Dick had somewhat gone off the radar, Jericho managed to convince him to leave them all alone. So, to please his son, he did.

Now, after five years, Dick Grayson and the others came back and made a new team of so called 'heroes'. It was time for his vengeance against the man who hurt his son. Jericho tried to talk him out of it, but he didn't understand. He was still a boy after all. A boy who seemed to worship the Titans and didn't see the damage they had caused. And Slade was determined to make sure that not only did they all pay for what they did, but that they did never anything like it again. Starting with Dick Grayson.

AN – So, I had Roy have Lian in this story because from the little I've seen of Roy and Lian in the Young Justice series, I completely love and given Dick's age and that Roy is older than him, I figured he'd have Lian by now. Plus I love the idea of Dick being an uncle. But I'm not doing the clone storyline. Hope you guys liked this chapter! Next update will be in a week. See you guys then!