Okay the conversation between Speedy and Robin, taking place after the oneshot between Raven and Speedy in 'Why?' I am not sure I got everything I wanted to say in this, but I am fairly pleased at my first attempt of a conversation between the two. I hope you enjoy it.

"You won," The voice and comment came from the doorway behind him, "You don't even want her and you won."

"Speedy," Robin turned from the computer screen to view the archer. "I don't know what you are talking about."

Walking into the room and taking a chair some distance from Robin, Speedy sat. He knew if he got too close, the pain and anger he felt would explode into violence. "Raven would be yours if you would only say the words."

"I have no words to say." Robin replied dismissively, ignoring the stab to his gut at the other man's words. "I would never do anything to come between the two of you anyway."

"You don't have to do anything," Speedy responded in frustration, "You just have to be."

"There is nothing between Raven and myself, there never has been." He insisted.

"There is everything between the two of you," Speedy sighed at the deception that Robin allowed himself to live. "You think because you don't speak of it that it isn't there? That the rest of us can't see it, that she doesn't see it?"

Standing quickly and moving to the large picture window in the control room, an action that unconsciously mirrored the one that Raven had made not so very long ago in her own room. "I would never say anything or do anything Roy." He said quietly.

"She dreams of you, she doesn't want to need you, to love you, but she does," Anger once again the surface emotion, he stood and stalked to Robin, spinning him around and glaring into his face. "You are going to kill her." His statement was said with cold anger.

"I've never done anything to her, nothing that could be perceived as love." Robin replied quietly.

"You went to hell for her," He shook his head again and backed off a foot, before he placed his fist in Robin's face. "You believe in her, you have a connection that goes beyond the bond that was created years ago." Shoving his hand through his hair he looked out the window behind Robin, seeing only their reflections in the darkness.

"I don't know what I am supposed to do," Robin's face was full of the torment that filled his heart, but his decision was still the same in the end. A relationship wasn't for him, it would never work, and it was too dangerous. "She knows me, she knows I will never say or do anything. She knows I can't be what she wants."

"She knows," Speedy agreed, "That doesn't mean that she won't hope, after all you are the one that taught her how to do that."

"Maybe it's time I left the team." Robin mused sadly, "In time, without me here she'll learn to not hope for me."

"Leaving won't change her heart," Speedy turned to him his voice shard as a dagger's edge. "Leaving will only make it so you can't see her torment. You will stay and you will see what you are doing to her."

"I suppose you think you can make me." Robin said with heat, wondering if a fist fight with one of his friends would make him feel better.

"If I have to," Speedy shrugged and look back out the window, he had promised himself when he came for this conversation that he wouldn't hit Robin, but his patience was wearing thin and his emotions balanced precariously. "You will be here to watch as the love she holds for you destroys her."

"I can't allow those emotions and you know why." Robin defended himself against the onslaught of images that Speedy created.

"Because you're an idiot," Speedy stated darkly, no humor indicated in his reply. "You'll both die alone because she can't do without you and you won't go to her."

"You're not being fair."

"Who the hell said anything about this being fair," Speedy's voice shook with his rage, "I lost the woman I love to a man that won't even say the words she needs."

"She'll get over me; she'll go back to you when she realizes that there isn't anything for her with me."

"You're not just an idiot, you are deluded Robin." Speedy quickly spun on his heel and left the room before he did anything he might regret later.