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The water was warm and inviting as he lay in it, relaxing his muscles that used to be there. It made quiet splashing sounds as his bare chest rose and fell with each breath he took. Slow and steady, in and out.

He ignored the feeling of Venus' eyes on him from her place in a chair a little ways from him, a small bundle of fresh clothes in her lap as she toyed harmlessly with the button and zipper on the jeans she had for him. He focused his attention on the soothing sounds of the water gently lapping at his skin. It singed his infected cuts and cleansed them, feeling bad but good at the same time.

He could feel his eye lids gently flutter closed, falling into the bliss that was a peaceful and well-deserved rest. The tendrils of sleep were fluttering in the corners of his eyes when suddenly the door to the makeshift bathroom slammed open, an enraged garden girl standing in the doorway.

"Okay, bird boy. You're going to tell me what Catwoman knows right now." She commanded, angrily stepping towards the relaxed boy. He barely heard or realized her entrance until she roughly grabbed his hair and pulled him to a standing position within the porcelain bathtub.

He hissed in the pain from waking from his blissful rest as he was yanked up, the water splashing rapidly back into the pool off his boxer shorts and disrupting the peace he had. His hands immediately were gripping her wrist in a vice-grip that once would've pried her hands open, but now was a childish action. Robin's head leaned back so as to make the force on his hair slightly less, but his efforts were in vain.

"Tell me what she knows." Ivy growled. Venus sat by quietly, praying Ivy wouldn't hurt him too bad. The girl had learned long ago that Ivy would do what she wanted to Robin, and the more she whined or complained the harsher Robin's punishment would be. To save Robin, she allowed him to be hurt.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Robin hissed through his teeth, wishing for nothing more than to lie back in the comforting water.

"Catwoman." Ivy said, her patience thinning. "I know that she knows."

"How could you possibly know that!?" Robin ground out, anger filling his voice. Venus began to shudder with the horrid thoughts of what Ivy would do to him.

"Don't test me, Boy Wonder!" Pamela shrieked, slamming Robin's face into the wall behind the tub. He groaned, his brain now going slightly fuzzy. The women in the room swirled around him, while hot blood gathered in his mouth, making it feel swollen. Noises bounced around in his head loudly, but not loud enough to penetrate the severe ringing in his ears.

"I don't know!" Robin said quietly, but his voice urgent. "If you're so convinced, why not ask Catwoman?"

"Because I can't torture her." Ivy said simply, digging her thorn-like fingernails into Robin's neck. He hissed, the unpleasant scratchy feeling of the nails penetrating his skin more painful than he'd like to admit. "Now," she said, leaning uncomfortably close to Robin's strained face. "Tell me who Batman is."

"Make me." Robin spat. Quite literally, he spat the blood that had gathered in his mouth after being slammed face-first into a wall right into Ivy's face. He smirked, his teeth stained with blood. Ivy growled, her hold on Robin's neck tightening.

"I won't have to." She said, her voice gone from sadistic and angry to bittersweet. She ran her free hand over Robin's face almost gently, caressing him like a mother would to her child when it had a night terror. He could feel his muscles tense, knowing she was about to hurt him severely. "You'll do it willingly."

Robin was about to retort when he felt a rough jerk on the back of his neck before his face came crashing down with extreme force into the water he so craved. He tried not to gasp, but the surprise of the situation shocked him, and he found his jaw dropping open only to feel a large flow of dirty bath water running down his throat. He instantly closed his mouth, trying to remember Batman's training. Don't waste your energy struggling, think about a tactical way to get out of the hold.

There is no way; she's got both my wrists and my neck.

Small bubbles formed around Robin's nostrils as he struggled to remain conscious. He tried to remain still, not to struggle and waste his energy, though his muscles were taught and twitching more frequently.

Robin only began to panic when he felt a small prick in his neck, then the feeling of a foreign substance flowing through his veins, into his head. He could thrash about, struggle to get free. There was still a needle in his throat, threatening to rip open the vein should he move at all. He couldn't risk it. Besides, the serum or toxin or whatever Ivy pumped into him was already inside, there was nothing thrashing about could do for him at this point.

Though his eyes were closed, he could feel his brain going fuzzy. The warm and happy feeling that laced in his every thought, tampered with his mood, was almost overwhelming.

Or whelming, he thought. I've got to stay focused. I can't tell them…

He let out a whimper of pain when he felt his head being roughly jerked back, his limp body following numbly. As he stood, droplets of bloody water fell from his torso. Now that he was cleaner (he wouldn't dare call himself clean yet), one could see the source of a majority of the blood he had lost.

"There, there, Bird Boy," Ivy crooned, roughly helping him out of the tub, smiling wickedly as she saw how her drug was taking effect. "Let's go play a game."

"Ivy, you've already had him today…" Venus said quietly, trying not to upset the woman much more than she possibly could. Robin was already drugged, bleeding, and halfway drowned. She didn't want to hurt him much more. "Please, just let him rest."

"You shut up, you're lucky I let you stay here at all." Ivy growled, dragging the stoned Boy Wonder behind her.

Venus huffed in annoyance, following closely behind the love of her life. Instead of going back to Robin's chamber, Ivy brought him to the larger area of the makeshift warehouse the trio occupied. She shoved Robin harshly onto the floor of the warehouse, watching as he curled into himself and smiled goofily.

He's so cute, she thought, watching dreamily as he looked up at Ivy, his smile shrinking away.

"V-Ve-nus…" he said, his syllables slurring together as he tried to move his heavy tongue around in his mouth.

She almost went to him, almost cuddled him into her lap and stroked his hair and whispered soothing things to him. But suddenly, a light purple gas filled the area, all three choking on it.

Venus, the most inexperienced with drugs, fell into unconsciousness first. Robin was able to stay mostly awake, his vision blurring and his hearing muffled. He felt his head become heavy and fall with a thud to the floor, though the pain he'd expected didn't radiate through his brain.

He saw a pair of black heels land skillfully in front of his face, and after that, his vision was a mere mingle of black and green.

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"So, you said this was supposed to be a good lead…" Artemis quipped bemusedly, casually strumming her bow string as though it were a guitar. "And yet we've literally done nothing since we got here."

Batman didn't move, he didn't retort as she expected him to. He didn't comment on her impatience, or tell her to go home as he wanted to. He quietly observed; not only his temporary partner, but also his surroundings. Watching the wind, watching the warehouse.

He had a calm heartbeat, despite how much he was screaming on the inside. He refused his body the opportunity to react in the way a natural human man would react to having his ward taken from him. The Dark Knight was famous for being calm and collected in just about every scenario. This had happened before, and Robin would make it out okay. Dick would make it out okay.

He had to make it out okay.

"You're not a very good conversationalist, you know." Artemis said, glancing at the shadow that stood next to her. Batman had to suppress a grin.

In many ways, Artemis was much alike Robin. She was a skilled fighter, she was sarcastic, witty, smart, physically at the best stage a child of her age could be at. She was stealthy, and she almost made the Caped Crusader smile, much alike Dick tried to several times while they were on patrol. He didn't hate working with her, but there were also eerie differences which he missed about his own protégé.

Robin was silent when need be, he knew when Batman was trying to process things. And there was a whole dynamic with Dick that Artemis simply didn't have. Robin knew how to work around Batman, yet with Batman. The two had been partners for five years. They had each others' backs, and trusted each other completely.

Not that Batman didn't trust Artemis, but not nearly as much as he trusted Dick. Robin had proved himself more than Artemis had.

"So I've heard," Batman said, his voice void of any type of emotion. Artemis scoffed, wondering to herself how Robin dealt with this on a daily basis.

"Yo, Bats, check this out." She said, leaning forward on the edge of the rooftop. She knocked an arrow, aiming at the now open door of the warehouse they'd been monitoring. Out walked a girl with blonde hair, looking more than enraged. She had on some sort of vine dress and was storming out, shouting at Poison Ivy, who followed soon after her.

"Let's go." He said before shooting off to capture the two villainesses. He didn't have to check to see if Artemis had followed as the arrow whizzed by his head, a green clad girl soon following.

Batman grunted in a way that could've been considered humorous when Artemis released her line, planting both the soles of her combat boots firmly against Poison Ivy's face. The woman tumbled over, Artemis standing on her shoulders. Already the girl had an arrow aimed at Ivy's throat; a fierceness burning in her eyes that mimicked Batman's.

Venus moved to help her mentor but came face first with one of Batman's merciless fists. She fell to the ground, the spikes in Batman's forearm pressing roughly into her throat before she even had a moment to think about it.

"Don't move." He growled, baring his teeth.

"Woah, there Batman." Artemis said, dragging Ivy behind her as she approached him. She had already tied to woman's wrists behind her back and had to fight off a small army of bushes. "Try not to kill the kid, and let's take them back to our evil layer for torture and interrogation."

Artemis smirked at her own sarcasm, and ignored Batman's glare. That girl was much alike Robin, yet not at all the same.

"Get up, Venus." He huffed, pulling her up by her wrists. After thrusting her into a very uncomfortable arm lock, Batman handcuffed her.

"We don't have your sidekick, Batsy." Ivy spat, blowing her hair out of her face. "And you have no proof we took him at all."

"Shut up and walk." Batman hissed.

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SHORT CHAPTER.

I don't care. I updated.

I lied, I care. I care about you guys a lot. Sooooo yeah.

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