Robin was scared. She could feel her heart in her chest, it felt like it was about to explode out of her chest as she ran. James was not moving very much, he looked like a dead body, just hanging off of her brothers arms, she could see that there was blood coming from his head, already matting into his black hair. She knew that she was shaking as she raced over to the two of them but she could not feel her body at that moment, she could only focus on James. She pulled the hair out of his face to find that it was only a minor wound – it kind of look like a punch - , that he was somehow knocked out, but then she noticed something else, something that made her shriek as she pushed her brother away from James. His arm, the metal one, it had electric sparks coming from it, now that was something that could not be taken care of at a hospital.
" What. . . what happened?" Robin asked as she pulled the man up from the ground, wrapping his metal arm around her neck, and was barely able to keep him in a near standing position as Cecilia finally ran to them.
" I. . . I don't know! He was standing near him, watching me do a trick, and then I crashed. . . the next thing I hear it. . . well it sounded like a fight, and then he was on the ground when I ran up. I mean I think that there was a blood trail for where they went but. . . I just don't know, I'm sorry Robin." Simon said, she could tell that he was scared too. " Is it going to be okay?"
" Take your sister and get home. Run if you have to, just get home and you call me when you get there. Lock the doors, do not let anyone in, even if you think that you know who it is, you do not let them in." Robin said as she started to drag the man away from the park.
" You sound like Mom when she was on a mission." Simon mumbled as he picked his sister up off of the ground. " Are you guys going to the hospital?"
" No. . . It's his arm that needs to be worked on, and I think I know the person who can work on it the fastest." Robin stated, groaning with the weight of the man on her body she didn't even know if she would make it there, she also had to hope that Tony was going to be at Stark Tower.
She had barely made it there, basically dragging the man the whole way there before he awoke in a haze, just barely being able to lift his feet as she pulled him inside of the building. It must have looked like she was dragging a drunk back to their apartment because no one stopped them. Robin did not have time to stop for anyone or care which Avengers where on their different floors in the tower, she pulled out her card from her small wallet and nearly slammed on the button that lead to the second to highest floor in the whole being, the living space for the Tony Stark. She kept a finger on the close door button, now allowing anyone else to even try to get into the elevator as they kept rising. Robin tried to keep James awake, to keep him in a state where he would be able to tell her what was happening, but he just seemed to keep going in and out of consciousness. She knew, whatever had happened, it must have been bad, for a man who had fought of five guys for her, no, she was going to make sure that whoever did this was going to pay.
" Pepper!" She screamed as the doors opened.
" Welcome back, Miss Blake." JARVIS stated, this somehow awoke James.
" Pepper!" Robin screamed once again as her boss ran out from an unknown area on the floor, gasping as she ran over and helped to hold up James. Robin hadn't noticed before that how much pain she was in from carrying the man that was over twice her size.
" Tony!" Pepper screamed louder that Robin, as she drug James to an area of the floor that Robin had never been in before, Tony's lab area.
" What. . . what happened?" James asked his head bobbling a bit.
" Someone attacked you." Robin said as her and Pepper lightly placed him in a chair as Tony came running in. " This is Tony, he's gonna fix up your arm."
" What, no!" James yelled, trying to get out of the chair, forcing Robin to sit on top of him to keep him in the chair and not run out of the place.
" James, your arm is sparking like a bad Christmas tree! You need to get it fixed up, Tony's really good at this type of stuff, its shouldn't hurt that much." Robin asked as she looked to Tony who just shrugged, starting to pull out different things to see what was wrong with the metal arm.
" No! I won't let them take you from me, they wont take you from me. They always take everything from me when I'm like this, I wont let them take you from me, I can't have them take you from me!" James stated, nearly pleading as he placed his hand on her face, nearly begging her not to leave.
" They? Who are they- no one is going to take me from you. I'm right here, James I'm not going anywhere. I promise that. I'm going to stay right here, straddling your lap, the whole time. I'm not going to let anyone take you from me. They will have to pry me from you before taking me from you, James." She whispered lightly, pushing the hair out of his face, trying to keep him calm.
" They'll wipe my mind, they'll take everything from me. They always do, they'll make me forget about you, I. . . I can't forget you!" James begged as he tried to hold back tears. Robin wrapped her arms around his body pulling herself in as close as she could to the man and feeling his free arm wrap around her body desperately.
" No one, is going to take me from you. I promise that, no one is going to be able to pull you from me. James, I am not going anywhere and Tony is not going to do anything to your memories. He's not that cruel. He's just going to fix up your arm, which is still sparking." She whispered, she could feel the man place his head on top of hers as she started listening to his heart racing.
" Promise?" James asked through her hair, she could tell that he was still trying to take in every bit of her as if this were their last few moments together.
" I promise it on my life." She whispered as she nodded for Tony to get started, feeling James wince up at first.
Robin hated them, whoever they were. She was going to find them and she was going to make them pay for whatever they had done to James. They were the reasons why he could not remember much of his past. They where the one thing that James was frightened by, the one thing that was able to hurt him. Robin didn't know if they had hurt him in the park that day, but she was still pretty sure that it was them. Whoever they were, for whatever they had done to James in the past, she was going to make them suffer, she didn't know how she was going to do this, but she was going to make them suffer. For the way that James trembled, his arm wrapped around her body as tight as he could without breaking anything, for every moment that James was afraid, Robin was getting angrier and angrier.
Tony had been able to figure out what was wrong with James's arm and within the hour it was all fixed up, though it took James awhile to figure out that it was all said and done, that he was still the same person and that nothing had happened to him, for this Robin just let him hold tightly to her. She had felt her cellphone go off about five times before Pepper had pulled it out of her pocket and told the kids that everything was fine, having to listen to Cecilia talk to her for about ten minutes before it was placed back into Robin's pocket. When James finally came down and slowly let go of Robin's body, he just starred at her, his eyes still wide and full of fear, as Robin gently stroked his face, before jumping off of his body and moving to Pepper who was simply smiling near the doorway of the lab.
" So what happened really?" She asked as they looked back to find that Tony was already talking to James, but James just kept starring to Robin.
" To be honest. I have no clue. All that I can tell you is that I thought that he was off with my brother and the next thing I know is my brother is running to me with James hanging off of his arms." Robin sighed as Pepper did a double take from James to Robin.
" That. . . that is James?!" Pepper asked, trying to keep her voice low. " He has a metal arm! Like it just goes straight into his body!"
" Why is it that everyone gets stuck on the metal arm thing?!" Robin hissed, dropping her arms down to her sides. " Yes, that is James, it's not like I would bring a stranger to you guys to fix up and then straddle the guy for awhile!" Robin sighed.
" Well he does seem pretty cute and very focused on you." Pepper nodded as if she were rating him.
" Well I think that your robocop boyfriend will be just fine." Tony stated as James got up from his chair.
" Robocop?" James mumbled to Robin as she snickered.
" It could be worse, he just called me legs for the first few months that I worked her." Robin muttered back, but somehow Pepper had heard it.
" Tony!" She yelled at Tony, making is so that Robin had to hold back her laughter.
" Well thank you, Mr. Stark. I really don't know what I would have done if you wouldn't have been here or if you would have just turned us down or something." Robin said as she stuck out her hand and shook Tony's.
" It's fine." Pepper said with a smile as Robin felt James's fingers lace up with hers as they left.
" Tell me everything right now before I just burst." Robin stated as they got into the elevator, hitting the button for the lobby.
" Someone tried to shoot me." James stated as if it was something.
" What?! Why?" Robin yelled, trying to bring her voice down with each word.
" I think that it was something I had done in the past. He is someone that I actually remember." James said as Robin chuckled.
" So wait, there are people in this world that you remember? And you didn't think of telling me this? Seems like those are the people that you should have been hanging around with instead of saving damsels in distress." Robin said, this time making James chuckle.
" They're not the type of people that would take so kindly to having me near them, hence them trying to shoot me." James said as they left Stark Tower and headed towards her apartment.
" So, who was it then?" Robin asked lightly, trying to keep the conversation low so that no one else would know what they were talking about.
" I. . . I don't know his name, I just now his face, we've. . . we've met before." James said through his distant look, he was trying to remember and from the way that it looked, it seemed like it hurt to remember.
" Whose they?" Robin finally asked, breaking the silence and the haze that James was in, as they made it to her apartment. " You kept saying that they would take me from you, who are they?"
" Hydra." James said, this time if was Robin would could have sworn that she had heard the name before, but could not place where she had heard it from.
She could not place where she had heard the name before, but she knew that it had been said time and time again. She could see her father saying the name, saying that it was something bad that had been taking care of long ago, but she could see that he was lying about the last part. It was something that had been in her family for awhile, something that. . . that she should have been able to just pull out of her mind but it felt like something was also holding it back. She kept thinking about the name Hydra all the way till the got to her door and she unlocked it, having to slowly push a chair out of the way as she did so.
The kids were, once again, sleep on the couch when they got back. The couch was dark and there was no sign of life in the house. They were huddled together, wrapped in a blanket with Simon protecting his little sister. They used to have to do this back when one of their parents missions would go south, though it had only happened a few times, Simon still knew everything that he was supposed to do when it came to an emergency. Keep the doors lock, if he heard someone trying to come in and it sounded like it was not someone in the family to barricade the door quickly, and to either run or hide as far away from the doors as possible. Robin knew a lot more, because she was older and had been through more of those types of situations than her little siblings, but she had always hated carrying those rules out. Robin flipped on the light to the hallway, instantly waking up Simon, who ran up to the two of them almost instantly.
" Are you okay? What happened? Are you going to be alright? Where did you go?" Simon's questions made Robin's head spin. Too many questions coming at her at the same time.
" Yes, I'm fine." James nodded with a smile, still holding on tightly to Robin's hand.
" Tony helped out with the arm. I still gotta clean up his head though, now common, you know that it's way past you and your sisters bedtime." Robin said with a smile as she went to pick up Cecilia, her muscles already getting extremely sore from dragging James around New York City.
" Here, I'll take her." James said as he lighted the girl as if she were a pillow.
" What about your side? And your arm? I don't want you hurting anything else!" Robin tried to fight with him but found that she was extremely tired from the day.
" What about you carrying me around? Consider this me repaying you." James asked as he started to take the little girl to her room.
" Well then maybe you will have to carry me to bed too, Hotshot." She whispered to the back of his neck.
" Gross! Just stop it!" Simon mumbled as he crawled into his bed, almost instantly falling back asleep as James placed Cecilia into her bed, before he spun around and picked up Robin and taking her out of the kids bedroom.
" Hey! I didn't mean right now!" Robin shrieked, kicking and squirming in the mans arms. " I still have to clean up your head! Besides, where the hell did this side of you come from?" Robin questioned as he took them into the kitchen area.
" I. . . I really don't know." James said lightly.
" Well keep it up, I kind of like it." Robin giggled as he placed her on the kitchen counter. She fumbled around in the dark, finding the different things on the counter that she needed to clean up his head as he went to the table and sat in the place that he had nights before when she had fixed up his side. She turned on the kitchen light so that she could get a better view of his head.
" So do you think that whoever shot you, this guy you know but you don't, is going to come back and try again?" Robin questioned, hoping that it was a one time thing, knowing that it very well could happen again.
" He knows that there are children with me, I. . . I doubt that he would try to do anything here." James said, wincing as she placed a rubbing alcohol wetted paper towel onto his head. " He. . . he doesn't seem like the type that would risk the safely of a child."
" Well then I guess that you are on house lock down." She smiled lightly as he gently placed his hand onto her face.
" Only if you stay locked down with me." He whispered as he pulled her in close, pressing his lips against hers.
She had always thought it sounded so stupid, when people said that it was like fireworks going off when people kissed, but at that moment with that man, if felt like the 4th of July. Robin pulled herself up from the ground, pulling herself onto the man and wrapping her legs around his body and the chair. She wrapped her hands into his hair, bringing him in closer and closer to him, needing the feeling of their lips together to continue, she needed that moment to just stay like that. James pulled her in closer, wrapped his metal arm around her waist and his other hand in her hair, keeping a tight grip on in that made her moan lightly. They were both desperate for one another, needing more but not knowing how far the other was was willing to allow this to go. Though she doubted that he remember having a girlfriend of even kissing a girl before that moment, she could tell, he was experienced and she was ready to test how far this experience went.