"Speedy?" Dani asked, the person unknown to her. "He's a member of Titans East. The Green Arrow ex-apprentice." Robin said biting his bottom lip. Who the hell would take Speedy? "Ex-apprentice?" "Yeah, from what I hear they had a fallen out and The Green Arrow took on this new girl as his apprentice." Robin said as Dani pulled into the parking lot of a truck stop motel.
"Any chance it was the new chick?" Dani asked as she parked. "It's possible but I highly doubt it." Robin said grabbing his back pack from the back before getting out. "Can you think of anyone else who'd want him then?" Dani said doing the same thing. "Not specifically, I don't really know any the the villains running around Star City." Robin said shaking his head. "Wait...hold on." Dani said leaning on the top of her car. "You said ex-apprentice?" Dani questioned, giving him a strange look. "Yes." Robin said nodding.
"Kinda strange don'tcha think, both Speedy and Starletta disappearing with-in weeks of each other?" Dani said. "You think there's a connection between them?" Robin asked. "Well they're both ex-apprentices and they're both now missing." Dani shrugged. "Yeah, but I'm an ex-apprentice too. By that logic, I should be missing too." Robin said shaking his head. "It was just a hunch Robin." Dani said shutting her door. "Dani I didn't-" "Whatever." Dani said walking towards the motel.
"China Drag-" "Luther! It's me Dani. I need you to do me a favor." Dani said glancing over Robin, he was checking them in at the front desk. "Oh, hey Dani. Sure what is it?" Luther asked. "I need you to do a search on all known missing ex-apprentices, anything you can find would be helpful right now." Dani said turning around. "Sure, but it'll probably take me a day or so?" "That's fine, call me if you find something. Bye." Dani said hanging up quickly as Robin neared her.
"Who was that?" Robin asked, noting the way she quickly ended the call. "No one, I just ordered us some Chinese. You got the room?" Dani asked stuffing the phone in her butt pocket and changing the subject. "Yeah, here." Robin said handing her a silver key. "I call shower first." Dani said grabbing her bag off the floor where she had dropped it. "I'ma go grab something from the car okay? I'll catch up with ya later." Robin said heading for the front door.
"Hey, keys." Dani said digging her car keys from her leather jacket and tossing them to him. "Thanks." Robin said catching the keys and pushing the motel door open. "I hope they have shampoo." Dani said walking down the hall.
"Robin?" "Yeah, Cyborg can you do me favor." Robin said looking around; he didn't want anyone over hearing the conversation and blowing his cover. "Sure man, what?" "Can you find out the last number Dani called?" Robin asked unlocking the cars' passenger door.
"Yeah, uh…the last place she called was…China Dragon Cuisine." Cyborg said typing something in. "Are you sure?" Robin asked frowning, he was sure Dani had called someone else. Something about the way she quickly ended the call just irked him. "Yeah. Man why do care about Dani ordering Chinese when Speedy's missing?" Cyborg asked, a hint of annoyance in his voice.
"Yeah, uh sorry. Um, start making a profile of every criminal that might want Speedy, I'll review it when I get back okay?" Robin said rubbing his forehead. "I already did, I'm finishing it up now." "Ok, thanks Cy. Bye." Robin said hanging up.
"Damnit." Robin muttered under his breath. He frowned as he closed the door. Robin started towards the motel when something caught his eye. It was a ghostly pale boy, with short short black and amazingly bright yellow cat eyes. In his right hand was a limp toy of some kind.
"Hey, kid. You shouldn't be out this late." Robin said cautiously stepping towards the boy. Something about this entire situation was giving him a bad feeling. "Where's your parents?" Robin said taking a few more cautious steps.
A strange and creepy smile twisted across his mouth as he held out the strange toy thing he had been holding. Robin's eyes widened before he quickly regained his composure. "How are you?" Robin asked falling into a defensive stance. The boy gave an odd chuckle before a high wind picked up.
"Shit." Robin cursed as he lowered his arms. He quickly turned to where the boy was only to find no one there. "The hell was that?" He questioned to himself as he looked around, the boy having seem to disappear with the wind.
Robin sighed when nothing moved. All was quiet now. His eyes narrowed as they fell towards the spot where the boy had been standing. Nothing was there except the charred remains of a dead bird. "The hell is going on?"
"Anything good on?" Robin asked as he stepped out of the bathroom, wearing nothing a pair of black and gray plaid boxers and a towel around his neck. "Porn. Lots and lots of porn." Dani said flipping the t.v. off. "It's a truck stop motel. What'd ya expect." Robin smirked as he unzipped his bag. "Dani rolled her eyes as she grabbed a magazine off her nightstand. "When's the food gonna get here, I'm hungry." Robin asked pulling a muscle tee on.
"It already did." Dani said pointing towards an old wooden desk, stacks of brown paper bags filling it. "I didn't hear the delivery man knock." Robin stated as he took the towel from his neck and started to towel dry his hair. "Hmm." Dani murmured as she stopped flipping thru the magazine, which she discovered was a porn magazine to the floor. "You already ate?" Robin asked taking a bite of an egg roll. "Yeah, I'ma just crash." Dani said stretching her arms high above her head. The small movement pushing her perky breasts up and out.
"Night." Dani yawned crawling under her covers. "Night." Robin said before shoving the rest of the egg roll into his mouth.