Author Note: I didn't expect to update this so soon . . . but I also didn't expect any story attention, either. So I suppose I was inspired by the fact that people actually read this. ;p Enjoy !

Robin swished his pool of soggy Cheerio's around in a circle until they made a milk whirlpool. He almost never had cereal for breakfast-bacon and eggs was more his preference, but he didn't feel like wasting time preparing food. He needed to get back to the evidence room as soon as possible.

"He and I are kind of alike right now!" came a voice from what seemed to Robin as out of nowhere. He whirled around in his seat and then laid eyes on the television.

"We're both nervous but we're in this together. That's why I love him. I think we'll make a perfect couple."

It was a smiling young woman in her bridal dress being interviewed on television about her wedding experience. On the couch in front of the TV was Starfire, fully occupied with the show.

Robin chose to ignore his paranoia. Of course it was the TV, he thought. It wasn't what he expected: his thoughts about Slade reentering his head.

"Her dress is quite beautiful, yes?" Starfire asked once she noticed Robin had come back to life and taken notice of the television.

"Yeah," Robin agreed mindlessly. He began to go over the evidence he'd found in his mind. Familiar robots outside an old warehouse . . . they were disarmed and broken, but wore the Slade mark. Several supposed sightings of figures that matched Slade's description: "tall man in a mask," "Large but dark figure, masked. . . ." "One eyed mask." Recently strange mechanical devices had been showing up all over Jump City with the Slade mark on them, but none of these findings were good enough for the newspapers and reporters to even glance at. That was why no one else but him knew . . . until he told Terra. Actually, it was more accurately put as when Terra walked in on him researching and didn't tell him she was there until she saw enough to realize what was going on. He, unfortunately, remembered it well.

"So . . . he's back?"

Robin spun in his office chair and his eyes grew a little wide. He expected Starfire, since she was the most likely to try and help him with every problem he faced. When he recognized Terra instead he let himself breathe again. "How long have you been standing behind me?"

Terra shrugged and glanced away. "Long enough."

"I guess you're going to tell everyone now," Robin said. He narrowed his eyes and thought about last time this happened. Red X. "About how I'm off on Slade again and I should be watched over so I don't make any more mistakes."

"Is that what you think I'm like?" was Terra's instant response. She wasn't quite frowning at him, but she wasn't smiling, either. Her eyes were on his desk, just past him. "You think I was spying on you so I can go tell everyone else what you're doing."

Robin tried to interrupt her, but Terra continued before he had a chance to think of the right excuse for what he said.

"I'm not." She looked at him with a tiny frown. To her own surprise, her voice had stayed calm and steady the entire time. "I'm not going to tell anyone, especially not if you don't want me to. If you wanna research Slade, go ahead, I don't care." She moved some of her long hair from her face.

Robin watched her even though she turned her head so Robin couldn't see her completely. "I can tell you want information, just like I do. It's because of what he did to you. It's the same reason for me. I . . . I can't figure out how I fell for it. I should've realized."

"No," said Terra.

"If you want, pull up a chair and help me." He gestured towards and extra chair in a corner of the room. "I could probably use some informed help, whether I want it or not." He trailed off at the end of his sentence. His teammates had always reminded him he needed help but he was always too stubborn to take it. Maybe if he got over himself just a little bit this time things would turn out better.

He didn't really understand what happened after that. All he knew was that after about five minutes Terra brought the chair over and sat in it besides him with her arms folded and without another word.

If it means you'll trust me, thought Terra, then I'll . . . never mind. You guys will never trust me after that, what am I thinking? Useless. She knew what she was and she understood her place. She was an ex-traitor, a known liar and an overall untrustworthy person. She had no choice but to be fine with that, because when you made such large mistakes people didn't forgive you for it so easily. Why was she even allowed back as a Titan? Her answer was "no idea." She didn't say anything out loud to Robin until he started asking her questions.

"Robin? Robin? Robin, will you not answer?" Starfire tilted her head to the side and her crimson hair spilled over her shoulder.

Robin returned from the haze of memories and tried to reconnect with reality. "Sorry, Star, what did you say, again?"

"I was wondering when you would be finished with your business today, as I would like to do something. Perhaps all of us can go to the mall of shopping, or . . ."

"I just woke up. I haven't had a chance to start on things yet." He stood up, washed out his bowl in the sink and scrubbed off the spoon with a sponge. "In fact, I'll get right on it." He left.

Outside the clouds were parting to reveal a warm, sunny day. There was a quiet breeze, strong enough to create small ripples in the bay water. Spring was settling in without much rain so far. But everyone knew, there would be no spring flowers without showers.

"Hey, Star!" Cyborg was the next to come into the operations room-more often known as the room with the huge TV. "You seen Robin anywhere? I added a new security feature to our system, I wanted him to check it out so I can explain how it works."

Starfire turned around to look at him and her face resembled a wilted flower petal. "He was here not so long ago, but he has departed on account of starting something." She turned back to her television program.

"Busy again?" Cyborg shook his head to himself. "This isn't looking good. You know, last time-"

"I remember what happened last time." Starfire cut into his sentence before he could explain. She didn't want to hear it.

"Well, I'll go look for him. I mean, he's probably in the evidence room or something, digging through who-knows-what to find information on who-knows-who." Cyborg wasted no time and set off to find and pull Robin out of whatever spider web he'd climbed into now.

Five minutes after Cyborg left, in came Terra, hungry. "Hey, Star," she said upon arrival.

"Greetings, friend Terra," chirped Starfire. She stood up from the couch and offered a smile. "Do you know what our friend Robin has been so busy doing for all these days?" She hoped that Terra knew and then would tell her. Robin was too stubborn too, but Terra usually would let her in on things.

"No idea," Terra said as she swung the refrigerator door open in the kitchenette. "I think he's trying to figure something out . . . or something." She wasn't thinking about her word choice and didn't realize she sounded repetitive. After searching under a few things and moving containers of mysterious things out of the way she found the leftover pizza.

"Something of what?" Starfire asked, assuming Terra just hadn't heard her right. She would answer her, wouldn't she? Why wouldn't she?

"Something of what?" Terra repeated with a dumb look of feigned misunderstanding on her face. She tore the pointed end off of a slice of cold cheese pizza.

"I was merely requesting to know if you, unlike the rest of the Titans, have discovered some information about what Robin has been so busy with recently." She smiled again, hopeful.

Terra frowned and instead of faking, she actually looked sorry, edging on dreadful. She removed her eyes from Starfire's and examined some crumbs of breadsticks from last night on the floor. "I'm sorry, Starfire . . . I don't know any more than you do." Liar, she thought, stabbing herself with her own knife. She brought the pizza back up to her mouth and took off an amount suited for a mouse this time instead of her usual huge chunk. She suddenly remembered that everyone had heard her tell Robin she would help him yesterday, so she added "I said I'd help him today because I wanted to know what he was up to also, but now he won't let me."

The alarm system in Titan's Tower went off and the room flashed red on and off. The usual "BEEP, BEEP, BEEP" went off along with it.

Terra glanced up at the operations screen to check out which villain was causing the trouble and dropped her pizza when her eyes scanned over the symbol. A big orange S inside an orange circle with a black background.