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"What do you mean he doesn't remember us?!"

"I mean he doesn't remember us! How much more simple could I possibly make it?!"

" … What did you say?"

"It just sort of happened. I brought up the Titans and he asked who we were, so I told him we were heros. At that point I didn't know it was him. Before I left I asked his name and he told me that it was Richard, but that Slade called him Robin." Beast Boy fell to the couch behind him that had been subjected to his and Cyborgs argument for the past twenty minutes, a hand in his spiked, silky soft green hair, and a sigh escaping passed his lips.

" … It sounds like it's him … at least he's alive."

"You can't tell Star."

"She deserves to know too!"

"Cy, she'll go crazy again!"

"No. We'll explain that he doesn't remember us, that he - maybe he's faking?" Cyborg offered hopefully, cutting himself off mid sentence.

"There was no one there but us, and I didn't see any camera's. I wouldn't put brainwashing beyond Slade. He does have brother blood working with him after all, doesn't he?"

"Star still deserves to know."

"She will. Later. Cy, you know that we can't tell her right now. You may be the boss but you're not thinking straight." Beast Boy stood up again and put a hand on Cyborg's shoulder. "You should take a break. All this … it's getting to you. Don't try to be Robin. You don't have to do it all alone. I'll take over for a bit. Okay?" The green boy gave his friend a reassuring smile. He knew that the position of leader was hard on the other teen, but he also knew that if it hadn't been for Cyborg, things could have been a lot worse. Currently they were all in an abandoned warehouse. It had become the Titan's secret HQ once the tower had been destroyed. All of the remaining honorary Titans and Titans East met there regularly but only the original Titan team stayed there permanently. That had been Cyborg's idea, if ever the enemy found out about their base they didn't want everyone to be in one place if there was an attack. They hardly saw Speedy anymore. He and Batman had been pretty much AWOL since Robin's disappearance. Kid Flash seemed to keep tabs on them, but he was only slightly better than Speedy about stopping by. The first week, once they had told Batman, they had had to tell the other Titans around the world. Wonder Woman had suggested telling Kid Flash in person … she had been right. It hadn't been easy and if Speedy hadn't been there to slap some sense into the speedster who know what might have happened.

"So you're going to tell Batman, Speedy, and Kid Flash that we found him then? After all, we're the only ones who know where they are." Beast Boy had surprisingly been the most stable of them all next to Cyborg, so he had been elected second in command. Raven had commented that he had matured much quicker than she thought he would have and didn't mind giving him her place if he could handle it when the decision had been made. The question seemed to make him falter though.

"Yeah … I can do that … go take a nap or something." BB sighed. Cyborg patted him on the shoulder.

"You sure?"

"Yeah. I found him. I'll tell them. I'm sure Batman will want every detail and if you go then you'd just have to call me back anyways." His friend nodded and gave him a pained "good luck", smiled, and walked out of the room. His features showing just how tired he was. The emotional and physical strain of being leader … he hadn't realized that Robin had put up with all of this until it all fell on him.

"How did he do it?" Cyborg groaned under his breath as he opened the door to the office he'd converted into his room. He hadn't put too much thought into customizing it, instead leaving it as they had found it; the wallpaper peeling and the lights flickering. The windows were painted pitch black and the walls had holes in them in some places. The building looked like shit in some places, but the bulk of it was fine. Cyborg sat down on his bed and shook his head. Robin was alive. Before now there was hardly any hope that they'd ever actually find him, let alone find him alive. But alive was really only a state of mind if he couldn't remember his life with them. And that was what hurt Cyborg the most. Robin had been his friend, his teammate, his leader. They had been close, they played games and had arguments, ate meals together … and for that all to be gone just like that … it wasn't right.

It had taken three days to get from Jump to Gotham, and Best Boy had been flying all night, hardly sleeping at all until he had crossed city borders. And then on top of that he still had to find the entrance to the Batcave. He yawned as the lack of sleep started to catch up with him and started to fall, expecting to make contact with the hard surface of the earth, he was surprised when the impact never came. He looked up and came face to face with someone who he had never seen before. He was wearing Robin's colors though. That made him mad.

"Who are you?" He asked. Trying not to let the anger into his voice. The boy laughed.

"Is that really anyway to talk to the guy who just saved your life?"

"Why did you go out of your way then?"

"Batman told me to keep an eye out for any suspiciously green animals or a black half machine man, Cyborg, I think he called him." the teenager grinned. He didn't seem perturbed at all by the current emergency state the world was in.

"Batman?"

"Yeah, you're Beast Boy, right?" Beast Boy changed back into his human form and pushed the boy away once they landed on the ground. The Robin imposter gave him a once over. In the last year and a half Beast Boy had changed. He wasn't that plucky little gamer movie nerd anymore. The teen took in his larger than expected build and the fairly well pronounced muscles, whistling while he did so. "Guess you guys in Jump aren't just sitting on your asses all day twiddling your thumbs." He sniggered. Beast Boy growled.

"The hell is that supposed to mean?! We're ground Zero! You think we just gave up or something? Jump is head of the underground resistance against Deathstroke, against Slade. Just who are you anyway?! You're not Robin."

"How very perceptive of you. You're right. I'm not the original Robin, but I am Robin. Batman needed a new sidekick, so that gotham didn't know the first Robin left. I've been acting in Dicky-bird's place for a while now."

"Dicky-bird?" Beast Boy momentarily forgot that he had been angry at the imposter.

"It's just a little nick name, I like teasing my little brother after all." Beast boy scoffed at the words. Robin didn't have a brother … at least, he didn't think he did. It had never really bothered him until now that he really didn't know that much about Robin. They had been best friends, teammates, family for God's sake! Robin knew everything about him. His name, the doom patrol. He didn't have a single secret from the former TItans' leader. And yet, He didn't know a single thing about Robin. Not even why he had left Gotham!

"Whatever. I doubt he even remembers you though." He hadn't meant to say it. It had just sort of … slipped out.

"You found him?! He's alive?! Does he have amnesia?" Beast Boy turned his head away as the other Robin asked him frantically, his tone worried. It almost sounded like he was going to cry.

" … I need to talk to Speedy, Kid Flash, and Batman." The Robin imposter nodded and called for his bike, gesturing for Beast Boy to get on.

"You're tired right? Get on and I'll drive." Any other time he would have declined, but after his anger had dissipated a bit he could hardly keep his eyes open. He was vaguely aware of the passing scenery as he held tight to the older boy, his head resting on the teen's back and drifting in and out of consciousness before finally succombing to his desprate need for sleep. The first thing he noticed when he woke up was that he was in the Batcave. The second was that he had five people staring at him intently. One was an ancient looking older man. The others, Beast Boy finally noticed, were the three he had come to see and the Robin impersonator.

"Jason said you found him?" Kid Flash announced hopefully, but still made sure it sounded like a question as the changeling was waking up.

"How long was I out for?" Beast Boy groaned.

"Ten hours. You're killing us here, did you find him or not?" The other Robin finally snapped.

"Ten hours? Damn. Wait … Who's Jason?" Beast Boy asked looking to KF questioningly. The other Robin sighed.

"Nice KF, fine. Me. I'm Jason. Jason Todd. Now get on with it!" Jason demanded. Beast Boy shook his head, the dizziness starting to ebb away.

"I think I found him. He's alive … I guess … He said Slade calls him Robin, but that his name was Richard."

"That's him." Batman nodded his head solemnly.

"What do you mean he's alive you guess?" KF asked carefully, trying not to let on just how relieved he was that his best friend was alive and that they had found him.

"He's alive in the sense that he's still among the living … for now anyway … But he doesn't remember us, the Titans. He didn't recognize me when I found him in the Mountains behind Jump. He asked; "What's a Titan" when I mentioned us. I don't know if he remembers you all or not. I didn't have a whole lot of time to talk to him." Beast Boy sighed.

"So, Amnesia then?" Kid Flash asked again.

"It's more likely Stockholm Syndrome. When a captive is constantly with someone and there's no escape, the brain will repress memories that it deems too painful for the body to remember and gradually you will come to actually like the captor, or feel sympathy for him at the very least. You become attached. That's probably why he can't remember the Titans." Speedy spoke up for the first time since Beast Boy had woken.

"Poor Master Richard, he must have been put through a lot for his mind to just give in like that." the older man finally commented and Batman put a hand on his shoulder.

"It's okay Alfred, for all we know, it could just be an act." Beast Boy shook his head.

"He looked too happy talking about Slade. I could see it in his eyes, It's not an act."

"You saw his eyes?"

"Yeah … so what?" Beast Boy asked carefully, giving Kid Flash a strange look. He seemed slightly miffed for some reason.

"That's not fair! Do you know how long I had to wait for Robin to show me his eyes?!"

"What? All of two weeks, Kid, he showed us both pretty soon after meeting him." Speedy rolled his eyes as he gave his two cents. BB could have sworn he had just heard Batman give a disapproving grunt when Speedy had said just how long it took for Robin to cave.

"So? That's not the point!" Speedy gave Kid Flash a flat look, as if asking "really?".

"KF. He didn't show Beast Boy because he wanted to. I bet Slade took Robin's mask off himself."

"That's almost worse." the ginger boy pouted, seeming more and more depressed as the seconds passed by like hours, and the minutes like days. Beast Boy felt like he was missing something. He hadn't really realized that the two boys sitting in front of him now had been closer to Robin than his team had. The thought had never even crossed his mind. They hardly ever saw Speedy or Kid Flash, it didn't make sense for them to be best friends with Robin. Of course … if KF and Speedy were Robin's best friends, or close enough to see his eyes anyway … what did that make him? What did that make the rest of the original Titans team? Cyborg, Raven, Starfire … they were all best friends, how could he go back and say that they were anything less? And then there was that Jason boy. He claimed to be Robin's brother, but he was just Robin's replacement! His Robin had left and so Batman had gone out and gotten a new sidekick to replace him, as if it was really that simple. That didn't seem right, not fair at all … maybe that was what their fight had been about?

"So what's the rescue plan then?" Jason asked, eager to get on with things.

"We don't have one as of yet. We've only just now located him, and if he doesn't remember us, it'll be too dangerous to try and get him to leave. He seems genuinely fond of Slade right now."

"Fuck that! He'll remember us." Jason protested. Beast Boy could feel his patience waning, thinning even more with every word that the Robin imposter spewed.

"That doesn't matter! Speedy, you were there, you remember what Slade said; if we go after him, we die. We have to have a plan, something foolproof."

"He's right Jason, we can't just barge in like we own the place and demand Slade return him. We'll all end up dead at that rate."

"Then what's the fucking plan?" he growled angrily.

"I'll tell you as soon as we have one." Beast Boy answered just as his communicator went off.

"Cyborg to Beast Boy, BB, do you copy?"

"Cyborg this is Beast Boy, what is it?" Beast Boy asked carefully.

"It's Star, she's gone. I can't find her anywhere!"

" … Does she know about Robin?"

"I don't think she does, I didn't tell her, did you?"

"No, of course not, only you and I know on the team! … Oh God, do you think she heard us talking a while back and went to look for him?! Cy, she's gonna get herself killed if she goes after him!"

"I know, I'm on my way to the site, but so far I can't find her, she's turned off the trackers and she left her comm at the base. If she's there, I don't know where."

"Let me go, I'll zip around and look, give me the coordinates." KF offered. "I promise, I won't try to take back Robin if I see him." He added as an afterthought. Beast Boy sighed.

"It's your call capitan. You heard him too." there was silence for a while before Cyborg finally agreed with a sigh.

"Fine, send him. He's faster anyway."

"Great! On my way Cyborg!" The speedster sounded a bit more happy than the green changeling would have liked to hear him be, but there was nothing he could do about it now, it was out of his hands.

"Don't mess with him if you see him. Just bring Starfire back to the base if you find her, if you don't … then come back sooner. Don't stay to see him, he won't recognize you." Beast Boy warned.

"Look, I know that you're second in command of your team, but I'm not on your team, I'm on my own. I'll listen to you only as far as finding your missing teammate, but if I see him, I want to see with my own eyes that he doesn't remember me."

"Kid Flash, I'm going to have to agree with Beast Boy on this one. It's too dangerous to interact with Robin at this point. If you see him, make sure he doesn't see you." the speedster scoffed as Batman lectured him.

"You want to know too don't you? I can ask about all of us! Speedy, Jason, you, me, Alfred … He has to remember us. He just has to! We've known eachother since forever!"

"Nine years old is not forever KF." Speedy interjected, trying to calm his friend down.

"It is for a speedster! Now, give me those coordinates Beast Boy. Now."

"And then I met a talking green squirrel named Garfield! At first I could hardly believe that a squirrel could talk, let alone be green and not dead, but he seemed nice." Robin smiled as he went on about his day over dinner with Slade and William.

"What else did your squirrel friend say?" Slade prompted calmly, he was sure it was the Titans, but he didn't want to cause a scene at the dinner table and worry Robin.

"He said he was a Titan" Slade had guessed as much, but at least now he didn't have to tell the boy "… I know I've heard that word before but … I just can't quite put my finger on it."

"Never mind that Robin, if Garfield comes around again, tell me or Slade right away, alright?" William told Robin as he noticed the small twitch in Slade's eye. Robin nodded and went back to his dinner, The rest of the evening passing in a daze. And though he didn't really look it, the teen could tell that hearing about the green squirrel had put Slade in a rather … testy … mood for the rest of the night and so, made sure to be on his best behavior.

That had been three nights ago, Robin hadn't given it much thought … that was, until he was face to face with an orange, crying girl who could fly.

"Oh, friend Robin it really is you!" She cried happily, throwing herself at him, tears streaming down her face. "You must leave this place at once with me! Everyone will be so happy that you are alive and well!"

"What? Who are you? What are you going on about?!" To say that the crazy flying girl was freaking him out was totally an understatement. She should be admitted to a mental institution! She had obviously lost her mind.

"It is me; friend Starfire. Do you not remember me Robin?" She asked carefully. "So it was true? What friend Beast Boy and friend Cyborg were talking about? … You do not remember us? You do not remember your friends, your comrades?" The tears began to grow and soon she was all out bawling, still clinging onto him as if her life depended on it.

"I don't know any Starfires, get away from me! Slade, William! Help!" He would have tried to fight her himself, but the girl was stronger than she looked and he could hardly move at all, let alone fight the girl off. The girl gasped and looked at him with hurt eyes.

"Slade? Why would you call for him? He is the man who did this to you, he is the enemy!"

"No! Slade is my master, he takes care of me! He's nice to me! You're crazy!" Robin shook his head, as he tried wiggling out of the girl's grasp, but to no avail.

"Come! I shall take you home, I shall show you your friends!"

"NO! I don't know you, I don't want to know you! Slade! William! Help!" No sooner had the name slipped off his tongue did the man himself appear. The look on his face was hard as he glared at the strange girl holding Robin to her fairly well endowed chest.

"Let him go." Slade growled low and deep in his throat. Robin was glad that it wasn't him that that threatening glare was pointed at. Robin tried kicking at her again, as if flailing whatever appendages he actually could move would solve the problem. It didn't. But it did seem to make it a bit more difficult for the girl, Starfire, to hold onto him.

"No! I shall not. You have stolen our Robin away, and I am here to take him back!" Starfire shouted, the tears in her eyes not deterring her in the slightest. Slade's eye narrowed and pulled out a gun from behind him. He always had it, Robin wasn't entirely sure why, but at this point, he was glad he did.

"Put him down and I might decide to let you live."

"I will do no such thing!"

"Star! Put him down." That voice. Robin knew that voice, but how? And where had it come from? Robin ceased his useless struggling and looked over the orange woman's shoulder, spotting a boy who couldn't be much older than himself with stunning ginger hair in a red and yellow form-fitting suit.

"But why? Kid Flash, it is Robin, our Robin, we must take him back!" the girl pled. The boy shook his head.

"No Star, that's not him. That boy just looks like our Robin, he's not the same person." He seemed sad almost as he locked his piercing emerald green eyes onto him. As if he could see right into Robin's soul. He didn't know why, but somehow, that hurt him.

"I am positive it is him! You did not hear Beast Boy and Cyborg, they know that this is indeed our Robin. He just can not remember us. He does not remember you, do you not wish to see him again?" And Robin felt it, it was just the slightest change, but her grip had weakened just enough for Robin to slip out of Starfire's arms and run back over to Slade. Hiding behind the larger man, he glared at the girl.

"Of course I want to see him again, but that's not him Star. As much as you really want him to be, that's not our Robin … and I fear that it never will be. Let's just go, before-

BANG

His words died on his tongue as the shot rang out, his eyes going wide as he watched Starfire fall to the ground, the blood pouring from her head where the bullet from Slade's gun had hit her.

"Starfire! Starfire no! Why did you shoot her?! She was going to leave! I was going to make her leave!" Kid Flash zipped over to the dying alien, trying as hard as he could to stop the bleeding, but he knew that it was pointless, that she was already beyond help. Even being an alien, she couldn't live after a shot to the head. Slade pushed Robin to William's side as he came out late, upon seeing the dead girl several yards away, William promptly took Robin and pulled him back into the house. Robin could hardly take his eyes off of the scene before him. That voice. He knew that voice. How did he know that voice? The ginger boy started to cry, sobbing over Starfire's dying body.

They had lost so many and it had taken all the Titans had had to keep Star alive this long, and to throw it all away like this … "Why did you shoot her?" the boy steadied his voice as he looked up to meet Slade's glare with one of his own.

"I warned her, I warned all of you; if you come after Robin I will kill you. Since you seemed to have only come to stop her, I will let you live, but only if you leave now." the tone in Slade's voice left no room for argument, but Kid Flash was not one to back down so easily.

"What makes you think I'll listen to you?" He demanded.

"Wally …?" He hadn't meant to say it out loud. It had just slipped out. He didn't even know why he had said it. But the boy with the beautiful red hair and amazing green eyes stood still. Almost frozen. William looked over to him quizzically.

"Who's Wally?" he asked gently.

"He sounds like … but he's not … I don't think …" Robin looked back over to the boy, around Slade and straining in William's grasp. Slade's glare intensified as he watched the other teen fall to the ground, a shocked smile beginning to form on his lips. He took off his mask and ran over to the raven haired boy, his best friend. He still remembered him!

"No! It's me, Dick, it's me." he cried as he hugged him. "It's Wally you remember me?" Wally cried happily, not caring that he could get shot for this. Robin just stood there for a moment, not quite sure what to do, looking to Slade as if asking permission to embrace his friend. Slade sighed and begrudgingly nodded his approval.

"O-of course I remember you Wally, why are you so clingy? It hasn't been that long … and what are you doing in that ridiculous outfit?" Robin chuckled.

"My uniform you mean? I've always worn this, you used to like it." Robin hadn't noticed Slade pointing the gun at Wally's back, but William did, giving the man a very disapproving look.

"Richard, why don't you and Wally go inside to the parlor, and I'll make you two some tea, alright?" the older man smiled. Robin nodded his head enthusiastically and pulled Wally to the back door.

"Thanks William!" William smiled and nodded at Robin as he walked over to Slade.

"You can't kill that boy, not if Richard recognizes him. That's one of the boys he talks a lot about. I very much doubt that it'll make your end all goal much closer if you kill one of his best friends." He sighed. "What would it hurt to let him visit every now and then? We can keep them in the sitting room when he's over to keep an eye on him if you would like."

"It seems he doesn't remember that Wally is a hero … if that starts to come back, then I'll do something about him, but until then … I suppose you're right. Let's go." Back inside Richard and Wally were talking animatedly about this and that, but Slade wasn't paying it much mind, only listening when he heard names pop up every now and then that he knew.

"Really? Jason is worried?"

"Of course, So is Alfred and Roy … even Bruce is worried about you."

"But they shouldn't be, I'm just fine, see?"

"But we didn't know that. Dick, you've been gone for almost two years now. You didn't call, you didn't write, you just left us to think that you were dead …" Suddenly the mood wasn't quite as light anymore as a wave of depression washed over the ginger boy. "A lot of people are dead."

"What do you mean?"

"You're "friend" over there killed them all."

"William?"

"No, Slade! He's killed hundreds of people!" Richard laughed as if he had just heard the funniest joke in the world. "Dick, this is serious! What are you laughing about?!"

"You keep talking about him like he's some evil mad man, Wally, Slade isn't as bad as you seem to think he is. He may have killed a few people, but I'm sure they deserved it if he did."

"What about Starfire? He shot her in cold blood right in front of you."

"She was crazy, and frankly, she scared me a bit. How do you know her anyway?" Dick asked, tilting his head a bit.

"Alright boys, let's take a tea break." William interjected cheerily just as Wally opened his mouth to explain, placing a cup of hot tea in front of them both along with two small cookies, the older man not missing the small smirk Slade was trying his best to hide. Robin grinned and snatched up the first cookie and bit into it.

"Thanks William!"

"You know the rules Richard, no talking with your mouth full." William smiled down to him. Wally seemed to have a somewhat … different reaction though. The thought of eating anything right now, while usually always the best idea to ever pop into his mind, made him sick to his bottomless pit of a stomach.

"Sorry." Dick glanced over to Wally, noticing that he hadn't touched his cookies, swallowed. "What's wrong? You're not eating … they're good, are you sick?"

"Yeah … something like that." He paused and pushed his cookies onto Richard's plate. "You can have mine." He picked up his cup and began to sip at the hot beverage, looking around deciding that he should get to know the area should he need to make a hasty retreat.

"KF, come in, did you find her? Are you okay? What's going on! Answer us! KF!" the sound of the vaguely familiar voice startled Richard, causing him to jump a bit.

"Jay, calm down, yeah. I found her. She's dead though." there was a gasp on the other end and then a pause before anything else was said. "I found Richard too." Wally answered eyeing Robin as he spoke, a sad smile tugging at his lips.

"You did? … You didn't say anything to him did you? Cyborg gave you orders -"

"He remembered me."

"He what?"

"He remembers you too." Wally held out his wrist to Richard, as if asking if he wanted to say anything.

"Don't fuck with me West. You haven't gone crazy too have you?"

"Wanna talk to Jason?" Wally asked softly, nodding to his wrist communicator.

" … C-can I?" He asked, not quite sure who he was asking, but turned to Slade nonetheless, he did have the final say after all was said and done. Slade sighed.

"It's late, I think your friend needs to leave now, say good night Richard." was the only response he got though. Robin gave a look of mild hurt before Slade caved. Really, that boy would be the death of him, but honestly, with how much progress they had made, he could hardly tell the boy no to anything. So sighing, he motioned to Wally's communicator. "You can say good night to Jason too." The look in the young man's eyes was that of pure joy as he asked Wally how to use the communicator, not wanting to waste time trying to figure it out himself. Wally held down the button as he spoke.

"Jason? It's me, Richard." Silence. There was nothing from the other end for almost a full minute, but it felt like so much longer.

"Dicky-bird? Is that really you?" Richard chuckled a bit.

"Course it's me silly, who else would it be?"

"Dicky-bird?" Slade asked, slightly confused. Wally shrugged.

"Dick is short for Richard and he's Robin; Dicky-bird is just what Jay calls him."

"And you remember me?"

"Of course, why wouldn't I? You and Wally both asked that. Have I forgotten something I was supposed to remember? Did I miss your birthdays or something?" He looked over to Slade and William. "Did I send birthday cards? … I can't remember …"

"No! It's not that. I just- It's good to hear your voice again."

Alright, so this was edited, by both me and my bestest best friend frostytrish, she is amazing and I loveles her lots and without her I wouldn't have been able to post this chapter just yet ^_^

Anyway, so how do you like it so far?

Oh and, if something is confusing, tell me and I'll either change it or try to explain it, depending on what it is.

~ Evi