As he walked through school his mind was caught up with thoughts and questions. Where am I? How did I get here? How can I get out? Then as he raised his head, he saw Bruce's car, with him inside. He waved at Richard happily and he rolled his eyes.

Oh great.

He was not mad at the fact that he had to go through a ride home with the Dark Knight, but the fact that he didn't know who he was. Maybe in this place, he wasn't dead pan, serious, Bruce, but that kind of dad who gets excited with an A+ on a test. That kind of dad that takes thousands of pictures of you before leaving for prom. That annoying kind of dad. There was only one way to find out. As he walked to the car he saw Bruce's smile grow wider, almost like the joker's.

A wave of memories flooded to his mind, but he managed to control it as he entered the car. A wild weather changed, from warm to extremely cold and the air conditioning slapped him in the face. He inhaled some times to adapt to it and then felt Bruce's hand on his back.

"You okay buddy?" He said. Concern drew in his face.

"Yeah I just… The weather change was.." His finger drew random lines on the air, trying to explain his dilemma, Bruce's eyebrow joined in confussion.

"Never mind." His eyes narrowed and his lips came together to form a round shape. Bruce's eyes widened and then he shifted back to his initial driving position. As he drove out of school, Richard felt something vibrate inside his pocket, it was a text from Victor.

Dick, can we meet up at your house tonight to study Spanish?

Richard turned to look at Bruce. Then, taking notice of his gaze, Bruce turned to him with a questioning look.

"What is it?" He inquired.

Richard blurted out the words quickly. "Can my friends go home tonight to study together?"

Bruce thought for a moment.

"Sure thing sport, Clark invited us to a dinner tonight, so the house is yours, as long as you don't destroy anything." He chuckled and Richard smiled. This Bruce wasn't that bad, the ride home wasn't bad either. The more Dick thought about it, he noticed something.

It isn't that bad.

Afternoon passed quickly. The only thing Richard did was to search for anything in his room that told him more about his team, any single thing. He found some stuff that acknowledged him of how different it was.

Like a photo album full of pictures of summer. They apparently went to some resort hotel and hit the beach every day. So it was all five of them having fun.

He also found some picture's of Raven's birthday party. She looked happy, this time, because it was a surprise, and Gar took that opportunity to tell Kory what he felt. He did find a picture or two with them together holding hands and doing fishy faces and acting dorky. They seemed to be so alike.

Richard sighed as he closed his cupboard and looked at the clock. It was almost five thirty, figuring out his friends would be there soon he walked out the door and a strong scent of female perfume hit him. The door to his parent's room opened and cool air conditioning poured out, after that, a Bruce wrapped up in a tuxedo walked out and fixed his tie.

"Where are you going?" Richard said. He was still curious by the fact that Clark was giving such a formal event by his means.

"I told you, Clark invited everyone to some dinner. No one really knows what it is about." He said, looking quite irritated. It was probably Selina who made him wear the tux.

Richard shrugged and walked down the stairs. As he reached the kitchen and opened the cabinet he heard faint high heels pounding on the hard wood floor and he turned around.

An elegant Selina stood in front of him wearing a long black dress that made her every curve stand out. His mouth couldn't help but drop, which was awkward, because she was his mom. At least for now.

Bruce smiled inwardly and walked to her taking her hand. She looked at her watch and then at Richard.

"We'll be back late, can you be good with that?" She said.

Richard collected himself and spoke. "Sure, I'll be fine."

Selina smiled as Bruce lead her down the hall and out the door. Before he heard the door closing, Victor's voice was heard.

"Well Mrs. Don't you look beautiful!" He said. His voice had a hint of happiness and Richard smiled to himself. Cyborg hadn't changed that much.

"Thank you Victor! Richard's inside." He heard her say.

"Have a great night." Victor said. Then the door closed and Richard finally got to see him. His hand was pointing to the door and he had his mouth opened, in a huge smile. His gaze turned from the door to Richard, and he caught the concept immediately.

"Vic, he's my mom." He said setting a bowl on the counter, and trying to act like if she really was.

"Dude! Just saying, I'm happy she's not a decrepit old woman that can barely walk by herself, like other mom's I've met." He plopped down on the couch, his legs dangling upright as he sat upside down. Robin rolled his eyes at his position.

"Where were you anyway?" Richard said. He noticed Victor had a strong scent of floral perfume, almost like Starfire's.

"Oh, I got to visit Karen before getting here. She's having a really hard time lately." Victor said, shifting to and upright position

"Why's that?" Richard said, scratching his head and trying to remember what he was going to pour into the bowl.

"Her uncle died." Victor said, then he turned to look at Richard.

"Oh.." Richard mentally slapped himself.

"Yeah." Victor understanded and stood up walking to Richard.

"You know something I don't understand about girls?" He said sitting down, crossing his muscular arms over his chest.

"What?" Richard inquired.

"Why do they cry so easily. I mean remember the other day when Raven's grandmother fell ill and she received a call. Her eyes were bloodshot all day." It was more of a whisper now, like if someone else was listening.

"Yeah, I remember that." He knew Raven had feelings, but didn't let them show that easily, at least, not before he appeared here."I guess they believe that building barriers to your feelings isn't a good thing." Richard shrugged and returned the bowl to the cabinet.

Victor's mouth turned into a frown and a questioning look appeared on his face. Then the doorbell rang.

Richard ran down the hall and opened the door to be greated by a brown box.

"We brought food!" Gar said rhythmically, walking inside.

"And drinks." Raven went inside, her headphones on.

"What a surprise." Kory smiled and planted a kiss on Richard's cheek as a salute. Her scent was of strawberries, just like the other her. He touched the place where the kiss was planted and stared at her walking down the hall. Then he closed the door and went inside as well.

He found Gar slapping Victor's hand out of the pizza box and Kory and Raven staring at the now active television.

"Ow, dude!" Victor said, massaging his hand.

"It's for study time Victor!" He said snapping the box out of the counter and placing it on the coffee table placed at the middle of the living room.

"Gar actually said that?" Raven took out her headphone and looked around. Kory rolled her eyes and sat beside him on the couch.

"Let's get started then." Victor said.

"Donde esta la baño?" Gar said, his pencil sitting above his ear.

Raven grunted and Kory sighed.

"No, Gar. Donde esta el baño. You're saying it as if it was a female." She pointed out.

"Oh." Garfield said. "My bad."

Victor laughed and munched on his pizza. "Well, I guess when the bathroom turns into a female means Garfield has had enough."

Raven giggled darkly and Richard rubbed the tiredness out of his eyes.

"Not really, we still need to study numbers from one to thirty." Kory said, putting her notebook down.

"And the days of the week and months." Raven said, turning pages on her book.

"Aww man, what if we take a break?" Victor whined. His foot stomped the floor, almost like a tantrum.

Gar squeezed Kory's hand and looked pleadingly at her. Kory kept her face serious. Gar's lower lip dropped and his eyes shined.

"Fine. Just twenty minutes, you are the ones interested." She said.

A two minute party departed fulfilled with Victor's booyah and Raven's sarcastic wooho.

Richard opened his eyes to see something that broke his heart apart.

Gar was leaning on the couch looking up at Kory. He couldn't really listen but he read his lips. 'I love you.' Kory half smiled and Gar kissed her. He was fuming inside but trying to hide it hurt so much. Kory has a sincere smile on her face. He knew it was real, she smiled like that after they kissed in Tokyo. I guess some things don't change after all.

He stood up, the corners of his eyes watering and went to the bathroom. As he slammed the door he fell to the floor, hugging his knees. Who could ever thought something like this made the boy wonder so weak? He didn't make any noise, because his friends were just a door away after all. He stood up and stared at the mirror.

It wasn't Robin anymore. Not the boy wonder who fought against criminals, not the acrobat with a dark past, not the one who was trained by the dark knight. This was Richard Grayson. A normal teenager, with normal friends and normal trouble. And he hated it.

He punched the mirror, breaking it, and inhaled trying to control himself.

Whoever brought me here. Will pay, hard.

His fists clenched at his sides and he blushed from fury. Trying to recover from the mental battle he was having he touched the door knob and opened the door.

"GAAAAH!" Garfield fell to the floor and scrunched up in a ball on the floor, whining from pain.

"Gar…" Kory moved from her spot to help the teenager up.

Victor and Raven exchanged glances and then looked at Richard.

"What?" He said.

They shook their heads and crossed their arms acting normally, or at least they tried.

Then Richard looked at Gar still on the floor.

"Are you okay?" Richard asked helping Kory to maintain his legs from wiggling.

"No, are YOU okay?" Garfield said, fixing his sunglasses on the top of his head.

Richard's heart stopped. Had they heard him crying?

"Y-yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" Richard scratched his head nervously.

Kori let go of Gar's arms. "You've been acting a little off lately." She said, concern in her voice. Gar looked at her and then crossed his arms, waiting for a response.

Richard blurted out the words."I'm just not in the right place." He slapped his palms over his mouth and Raven furred her brows in confussion.

"Whatever do you mean." She said.

"I don't know, it's just…" He tried to cover up. "I messed up." He grabbed his hair stressfully and started pacing back and forth. Kory and Gar exchanged glances and Garfield shrugged.

"Richard if anything is wrong you can surely.."

"EVERYTHING'S WRONG STARFIRE!" Richard screamed. His eyes widened when he saw what he just did. Raven and Victor mumbled.

'Starfire?' They looked at each other, and then at a shocked Richard.

He screamed to Kory, and called her Starfire.

OH GOD

Kory's lips trembled. Gar stepped in front of her.

"What the fuck Grayson?" He said. Richard ignored him and kept his gaze locked with Kory's watered eyes.

"If you ever scream at her like that..!"

"I know. I won't" Richard said calmly. Gar's eyes narrowed, full of empty threats. He smoothed his jacket and walked to where Kory was standing. He wrapped her in his arms and walked outside, giving Richard a killing look before leaving. He heard the footsteps die, until he heard them no more.

Victor and Raven looked at him. Raven's eyes closed and she walked outside, looking rather disappointed. Victor just shook his head and left with the others.

Richard made sure all of them were outside and took the opportunity to slam the front door. He went running to his room, and locked himself up. Allowing his body to fall over his mattress.

He let the tears flow as he heard the roaring of Garfield's car and Victor's cycle. He was mad at himself. He couldn't control his emotions good enough for anyone. He was never good enough. Kory was hurt because of him, and he didn't even know how he was going to go to school tomorrow, maybe he didn't have to. As he brought his head up he saw a shadow over his room floor. Bruce was back and his face was full of shock.

"Son? Is everything okay?" He said coming into the room and hoping Selina wouldn't notice.

"No." Richard said sincerely. Batman was that kind of person that hid his feeling behind the mask, but here, everything was different.

"What happened Richard?" He walked towards the troubled teenager as Richard covered his face with a pillow and let out a frustrated groan. Bruce ignored this and sat down beside him, awkwardly patting him on the back.

"Will you talk to me?" His voice was full of concern, but still serious. Only Bruce could pull off that. Richard straightened up and sat on his bed staring at his hands. The words found their way.

"My friends hate me." He muttered.

Bruce's eyes widened and his face softened a bit. "If they did, they wouldn't be your friends." He sighed heavily. "What happened?"

Richard's eyes narrowed and his hands balled into fists. All the images came back to him and he felt his heart burn inside his chest. "I, accidentally screamed to Kory." He said.

Bruce seemed to relax in his spot. He didn't think it was that bad, after all, it was just Kory, to him.

"Why don't you just go apologize?"

Richard looked at him. "Because Gar will probably punch me if he sees me talking to her again." Bruce narrowed his eyes and his lips pressed into a thin line.

"Talk to her, in private." He said.

Richard thought about it. It might work, Kory could never say no to something like this, especially when it was about one of his friends, or well, ex-friends. On the other hand, she would be too scared of him, and Richard would be too.

"What if I mess up again?" He said.

Bruce stood up, fixing his tie. "You won't, I trust you Richard." He walked towards the door and before closing it behind it he said his last words.

"Tell me how it goes."