Chapter 10
Broken
"Robin! Robin! Are you okay man?"
Robin jerked up in his bed.
"It's five in the morning! What do you want?" he yelled.
Cyborg and Raven jumped back.
"We were just wondering what was wrong. You were yelling in your sleep," Raven calmly explained.
"Is that an excuse to come barging into my bedroom?" he asked sternly.
No one answered.
"Well?" he asked again.
Raven finally gathered up enough courage and stepped up.
"Well, if you say it like that, I guess we'll leave," she smarted off phasing out of the room.
Cyborg quickly left, not wanting to be left with the angering boy wonder.
Robin growled getting out of bed. He walked into his bathroom and looked in the mirror-his hair hung over his eyes and the back almost reached his shoulders. He pushed the hair out of his eyes and pealed off his mask. Icy blue eyes stared back at him.
Robin grimaced when he saw his costume and quickly changed into a pair of black jeans and a dark grey shirt with a black serpent on the front.
Jogging down the stairs he slipped on a pair of mirrored sunglasses.
He stopped outside the door-hearing his name. He quietly put his ear against the door.
"This is getting ridiculous!" he heard Cyborg yell, "Robin is getting out of hand!"
"There has to be an explanation for his strange behavior-people do not just choose to be this way." Starfire retorted.
"Star, so you think criminals are criminals because someone made them-no-They choose to be that way!"
Cyborg began to raise his voice. Raven tried to calm him.
"But Starfire's right, Robin's change in attitude was sudden maybe-"
"Maybe he finally snapped," finished Beast Boy.
Robin felt anger boiling in his chest.
'Snapped? They think I snapped?!' he thought angrily.
"Maybe its best if we demote him as leader-to let him cool off a bit."
The Titans jumped as the doors flew open
"YOU WANT TO WHAT??"
They cowered under Robin's deadly glare; Cyborg was the first to recover.
"We think you should step down as leader for a while-take it easy-you've been stressed out lately-a-and you're not wearing your uniform?" Cyborg realized.
"Really? Well, you would've changed too if you looked like a traffic light!" he yelled back.
"You've been wearing that costume since I met you, why did you just now change?" asked Beast Boy.
"Maybe I wanted to-you got a problem with that?"
"I was just asking!"
"Well, it's none of your business!" yelled Robin.
"Robin, please calm down, he was just asking a question," defended Starfire.
"Whatever, I'm going for a walk."
Robin began to walk towards the door.
"Not yet, we have to talk," said Cyborg blocking the door.
"Now?" sighed Robin.
"Yes, now."
Robin sighed again and sat on the couch. The other Titans stood in front of him.
"Like you overheard us saying earlier-we are removing you from leadership."
"You have no right to-"
"No Robin," interrupted Raven, "We have every right."
"You have been failing as a leader since we brought you home from the hospital. You've gotten to the point where we're wondering whether you should be on this team or not," explained Cyborg.
The team waited for Robin to burst out-but he didn't-he was quiet-
"YOU CAN'T REMOVE ME FROM THE TEAM!!"
Everyone took a step back. Even Raven looked scared at the sudden explosion.
Robin was furious-scratch that-he was livid.
Starfire felt the anger radiating off of him.
"WHY DON'T I JUST SAVE YOU THE TROUBLE?
I QUIT!!"
