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Kidflashishot We're glad you like it. And we don't write very long cha

Pureangel They are good together. But Starfire can't have Speedy or Aqualad it's just not fair to punish them so much.

Chica de los ojos café She is very annoying, that's why she must die.

ArtemisRoseShadow We updated!

A Reader The keyword is almost. Besides she let him win.

Disclaimer We don't own the Teen Titans, but we do own an impressive collection of used Kleenex.

A/NI kind of mixed Robin and Batman's pasts. I don't know how they got together so I made it up. Oh well on with the show.

Later that evening he found Raven on the roof looking at the stars.

"Finally, I've been looking all over for you."

"Really, you were looking for me?"

Robin nodded.

"Why?"

"Hey, don't sound so surprised. I told you the day we defeated Dr. Light I like to spend time with you."

"Oh"

"Do you come here a lot?"

"Yes, it's very quiet and peaceful up here. It's just me and the sky." She tilted her head back. She point to a star near the North Star. "That's Azarath; it's where I'm from. Its beautiful there. But I haven't seen in along time. I miss it."

"If you miss it so much why don't you go back?"

"It's not that easy. I have a responsibility here, to the team, the city and myself. Even if I didn't I can't go back, there's no way back."

"But how did you get here?"

"Well, there was a way once. But after my mother sent me here, she closed the way forever. To protect the world from my father Trigon."

"Why couldn't you have stayed on Azarath with your mother?"

"She's guarding the gate that holds Trigon. If he were ever to get out he would come to Earth first. So I'm here to protect the Earth."

"That's awful to separated from your mother forever. I should know both my parents are dead."

"I'm sorry, how did they die?"

Robin paused, remembering that day. It was an awful day. It was one of the worst days of his life but also one of the best. It was the reason he went of live with Batman. He was one of the few who knew that Batman was Bruce Wayne.

"Robin?"

"I'm sorry I didn't catch what you said."

"You were quiet for so long I was beginning wonder if you were going to answer my question?" seeing the look on Robin's face she added, "You don't have to answer if you don't want to."

"No, its fine. I was just thinking about it. I was only nine years old when it happened, it was something I could have prevented but didn't. They were shot by a petty criminal. Because of it, I decided that I would fight crime to prevent that from ever happening to someone else. I wandered the streets for hours afterwards. I had no direction in mind I just walked. I remember that it started to get cold. I couldn't go home. I had no home. My family was part of a traveling circus. We were in town for the week. I couldn't go back there I would've been treated like trash. The guy who owned the circus hated kids, he only kept me around because of my parents. They were the best. I went to a park and found a bench. I just sat there, I didn't cry, I didn't do anything just sat there and wait I don't know for what, for something anything. I don't know how long I sat there. Long enough for it to get dark. By that time I was not only cold but also tired, hungry, and scared. I didn't know what I was going to do. I couldn't get a job and the only thing I know was acrobatics. I joined a gang. I know I was kind of young but it was food and shelter. They had me do things like pick pockets and other small crimes. The gang grew and became one of the biggest gangs in the city. One night something big was going down, I don't know what. They didn't tell me all I know was that I got to come along for a "special mission". It was about midnight we went to what appeared to be an abandoned warehouse. Inside there was a disk heavily guarded and they wanted me to steal it. It was an easy thing to do just knock out the guards, turn off the force field and you're home free. I didn't know it was such a big deal. I didn't that it was set up. That the guards knew I was coming. Batman was there too. He easily captured me.

"He said 'It's all right he's coming with me.'

"'No I'm Not!' I yelled struggling to get out of his grip."

"'You might as well stop struggling its not doing you any good.'"

"I decided that since he was too strong for me. I would wait for the opportune moment to escape."

"'Now isn't that better?' he asked after I had stopped struggling. He took me back outside; my gang was no where in sight. As it turned out they knew that Batman was going to be there in fact they were the ones who told him about it. You see I wasn't meant to be a gang banger. At first I hated Batman, but he helped me learn to place my anger in martial arts and other ways that didn't include crime. Eventually I came to respect Batman. After he let me help him fight crime and became Robin. That's basically my life's story." He paused and looked up at the stars.

"You know," Robin said, "they really are beautiful. I guess I never really looked at them."

He paused again then said, "Thanks."

"For what?"

"Just for everything, for listening to me and taking care of me. Thank for being you." He turned toward and noticed that she was blushing.

He reached up to place a hand on her shoulder be decided against it. He leaned back and smiled in the dark.