A/N: Wow, I suck at this whole "time management" thing. Stupid attention spa…., ooooh, shiny!

Whatever that was. I don't own anything.

Chapter 3

Obviously, Titan's Tower could never remain so clean, it would be a crime against every teenage stereotype in existence. Nor could the stifling silence continue.

So now, where there were once pizza boxes and empty drink cans piled in an obscene mess, there were files and papers piled in an equally disturbing mess. Also pinned to the walls, spread over the couch, and in the laps of the four teenagers still searching for their lost friend.

And on the television was turned on to the news in place of the video games and movies, really just for background noise. No one was talking any more than before except to ask for the next file. The remaining Titans were going through all the paperwork again, just make sure they hadn't missed something in one of the John Doe reports from the hospitals or in some of the criminal activity near the river.

A sigh finally erupted from Beast Boy from where he sat in the floor, closest to the T.V.

Starfire, sitting on the floor across from him looked up," Have you reached the end of your stack, friend? Or do you require assistance?" she asked. Her weird English still made Beast Boy smile a little.

"No Star," BB stretched," Just takin' a quick break," he stared at the T.V. and listened to the news lady who wore too much make-up.

"Ya'll we've been at this for hours, I don't think we're getting anywhere," Cyborg dropped a ton of files onto the coffee table and sat back into the couch.

"Oh, Cyborg, we cannot give up yet, we will surely find something soon," Star starred at him with wide, pleading eyes.

Cy smiled at her," I didn't mean we should give up, Star. Maybe just try something else. As much as I hate to admit it we should probably give Bats a call, see if he's found anything. I know he said he'd call us but I don't really see that happening in the near future."

"He did seem rather -- well, for lack of a better word -- possessive of anything concerning Robin, didn't he?" Raven rubbed her eyes.

"Yeah," the human half of Cyborg's head scrunched," Ya know, he was the only one who went in Robin's room."

"Only one brave enough to," Beast Boy said, still staring at the news.

"Rob always kept a few files in his room, bet their still there," Cy continued slowly.



Raven looked up at him," Yes, what's your point?"

He hesitated," Well, maybe we should take a look at 'em. Might give us something to work with," he shrugged," I know it's a long shot but let's just see if we can find some enemy that would want him to disappear."

"That narrows it down to about all of them," Beast Boy piped in.

Cy shot him a look," Yes, but one might stand out. We're just not getting anywhere this way. Time to try new tactics." He looked at them all for some support.

Raven hesitated, for a moment she briefly wondered if Cyborg had some other reason for going in there. His excuse sounded a little lame to her. Then she wondered if she was just scared to go in.

Starfire spoke up quietly," Perhaps it is time we -- tried new tactics."

Raven and Beast Boy glanced at each other and gave a single nod.

There they were. Congregated outside the door with Cyborg's finger posed over the button to open it.

"Ready?" he said softly looking back at his teammates. The three standing behind him nodded.

"Here goes," and the door slid open with a swish. They all stared inside.

Cy's first thought was how Robin ever found the bed. It was like a slightly neater version of the common room in its current state.

There were papers and news clippings pinned to every wall and laid on every flat service in the place. Stacks of files and computer readouts piled next to what looked like a rarely used filing cabinet. A desk sat against the far wall, next to the floor to ceiling window, overflowing with weapon parts, wires, tools, a lamp, and a laptop if you could uncover it.

"Where shall we begin?" Star asked starring at the impossible mess," it seems the files you wanted are a bit . . . unorganized."

"Well, maybe we should start by going inside," Raven deadpanned with an impatient edge in her voice.

Cyborg nodded and took the first step inside, like he was testing a rickety old set of stairs so he didn't fall through. Then he walked ahead as if deeming it safe. Beast Boy was next then Star and finally Raven, who shut the door behind her. The swish startled everyone else. They jumped and looked at her.

She gave them all a withering glare," What is with all of you. Look if we're going to do this we can't be walking around like there's a ghost chasing us. Get a grip."

"Say's the girl who's whispering for no reason," Beast Boy shot back, also in a whisper.



Raven opened her mouth to deny that but realized she had been, and just continued to glare at him.

"She's right though, guys," Cyborg said in a normal voice," BB, Raven if two will start with that stack over there, Star can start with taking things off the walls, I'll see if I can hack his computer."

They did as he said. Since Robin had disappeared Cyborg had been taking pretty good care of them. Of course there were the things that it seemed only Robin knew how to handle. Not just organizing the team in a fight or figuring out how to stop a disaster, but stuff Cy never thought about before.

Like breaking up a fight between Beast Boy and Raven, and keeping Star's cooking under control or humoring her when you couldn't. Matter of fact when Cy thought about it Robin could even find a way to tell Beast Boy he was being stupid and make it sound supportive.

That was part of his reason for coming in here, really. Yeah, Cyborg was anxious to find some clue to this mystery, but also to find out about Robin. What made his friend tick?

"Got it," Cyborg said quietly. He had finally hacked into Robin's personal files. Mostly it was stuff he'd already seen, files that were still sitting in the common room. Lots of stuff on Slade, but of course he had been their first suspect. Unfortunately, Slade was the kind of psycho who found you, not the other way around, so they gave up on that till further notice.

Nothing else was of any real importance or interest, so he got up and wandered to where the others sat. Raven looked up and shook her head, they hadn't found anything new either.

Cyborg sighed and looked around, and his gaze fell to the closet. He walked over in three short strides and opened it.

"Don't tell me your going to try on his clothes again," Raven raised her eyebrow.

Cyborg shook his head not bothering to give her the scowl that crept onto his face. He scanned more carefully he had the last time he'd been here. In the top shelf, above the numerous copies of uniforms and masks were several boxes. Nothing special about them just plain old cardboard boxes.

Cyborg reached up and took one down.

"What is it?" Star asked, curious. Cy shrugged and set it on the bed (the only place not completely covered in chaos) and opened it.

At first they thought it was just more jumbled up papers but then Beast Boy reached in and pulled one out. It was a picture, a very happy picture of couple on their wedding day. The bride was stunning in her white dress even though it was simple. Both she and the man had huge smiles plastered on their faces looking as though nothing could go wrong. They both had dark hair but the man's had a stubborn piece hanging over his forehead.

But where the groom's eyes were a chocolaty brown, the woman's were a beautiful blue, happy and warm. Almost purple, really.



"Why would Robin have this?" Beast Boy asked as if it weren't obvious, well, it may have been for him.

Raven gave him her patented glare," Think about it, grass stain. How does everyone in the world get here?"

He starred for a moment not comprehending, then," What! You mean these are his parents!"

"We've got a regular Sherlock Holmes on our hands here," Cy said dryly.

Star giggled as pulled out another picture. The photos were odd. They were mostly of the wedding and random events of the same couple, but it all had circus stuff in the background.

"I always figured Robin was from some weird genes," Beast Boy said under his breath. Then they came to the picture that they had silently been searching for, the one of a little boy with black hair.

Starfire was the one who found it," Oh, look friends!" she squealed," Is he not the most adorable thing!" she held out the photo for them all to see. It was a tiny version of Robin, with no mask, just a normal kid sitting on his dad's shoulders, laughter on his face. The back of the picture had Richard's 5th birthday handwritten on the back. He had his mother's eyes.

Then Beast Boy reached into the bottom and pulled out an old flyer," Hey, check this out."

They all leaned over to see the colorful poster proclaiming Haley's Circus staring The Flying Graysons in bright bold letters. Under it there was a picture of the same family, of Robin's family, smiling from the top of a high wire.

"Wait a second," Cyborg said suddenly pulling the flyer closer to his face," I saw this act. My grampa took me to see it when I was a little kid. It was amazing," then he paused and frowned.

"What's wrong?" Beast Boy asked.

"They died," Cyborg explained pointing to the adults in the picture," Now I remember, their names were John and Mary Grayson, my gosh, Robin's that Richard Grayson." He was almost talking to himself now, then he spoke up so they could each hear," not long after I went to see them they went to Gotham City and were killed in one of their performances. Their son wasn't in the act. That old mobster . . . uh . . . Zucco I think poured acid on the wires. It was all over the papers, I remember cuz I was really upset. They were best circus act I'd ever seen."

"What happened?" Star asked," What was little Robin or, um, Richard to do with no parents?" she leaned closer to him.

"He was adopted. By that rich guy in Gotham, um, Bruce Wayne, yeah, that's right. The papers didn't write much on it after that, Wayne like his privacy."

Raven hadn't said anything yet, Cyborg figured she already knew most of this and didn't feel it was her place to tell them. But now as he sat there mulling it over, Cyborg caught her staring at him as if waiting for him to follow up one more conclusion. Then he saw it.



" Oh, man," he whispered," that must mean that Bruce Wayne is. . ."

"The Batman," Starfire finished for him.

They were sitting in the common room again, this time looking at the pictures they'd found, handling them carefully. The news was still on in the background but no one really noticed it, until Beast Boy looked up to stretch. He never had been good at sitting for too long.

He watched the lady with too much make-up again as she spoke of happenings outside of Jump City.

"In Metropolis, this afternoon, Superman made an appearance at the scene of a terrifying collision," she said as a helicopter camera panned over a school bus unnaturally connected to a semi and other unlucky cars that couldn't stop fast enough.

They switch to an on the scene reporter," The bus full of children were actually on a two day field trip from Jump City," he said," luckily the man of steal was here to pull out the remaining passengers . . ."

The camera showed Superman kneeling by two kids on the side walk. A boy and a girl.

Beast Boy froze," Guys," he whispered. No one heard, " Guys," he said louder, and everyone looked up at him. He pointed at the screen.

Starfire gasped, Raven said something in Latin, and Cyborg uttered a," Man."

They were looking at the blonde girl standing next to Superman with a head wound looking worried. They recognized her immediately. Terra.

Then Superman shifted and they saw who she looked so worried about. Starfire looked back down at the pictures in her hand, and back up at the screen. She laughed and almost started crying," Robin."

"Guess I wasn't so crazy after all," Beast Boy said quietly.

A/N: Someone let me know if I'm really messing up one of the character's. I feel like I'm not writing someone right. Heh, that sounded funny. and I promise if you keep reading this will get better.