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Magykal: The Tally marks came from Victor Zsasz. He's a serial killer in Gotham who carves tally marks onto himself as well as his victims.

When the others finally made it to the large lap pool, they found Robin sitting on the edge of the pool with his feet swishing back and forth in the water. He was wearing red and black swim trunks and a black shirt; both were soaking wet like he had just climbed out of the pool. His wet hair had been raked away from his mask covered eyes. He didn't look up from the water when they came in, he just sat there.

Wally being the first in the room stared at his best friend for a second longer before ditching his towel nearby and running and jumping into the pool with a shout of "CANNONBALL!"

The splash was enormous and nearly hit everyone. Most of them laughed, but Artemis shouted at him and then dove in after him. Soon everyone followed the others example of running to jump into the salt-water pool. They were all happy and laughing but it didn't stop them from stealing glances at the Boy Wonder who was smiling as he watched their antics.

"The water feels fan-tastic, why in the heck weren't we here before?" Raquel asked as she bobbed to the surface.

"The water always feels like that Raquel, but ignoring the air conditioning situation would have been problematic in the long run." Kaldur commented with a half-smile, but glanced Robin's way for a second before looking back to Raquel.

"Wait, so you're telling me we didn't come here because you wanted us to fix the AC first?" Zatanna asked as she pulled herself out of the water to sit near Robin.

"Dude, we just got played by our team leader!" Wally hollered from where he floated like a starfish nearby as he looked at Robin.

"Correction, you guys got played by me and Kal." Robin said with a smirk.

"Seriously, you were in on this conspiracy of 'not reminding us about the pool and letting us shirk responsibility', lame~" Wally whined. During this conversation M'gann and Connor were having a psychic argument, but kept looking at Robin while doing so.

"M'gann, Connor is everything okay or is there something you wanted to ask me?" Robin asked without looking their way.

M'gann started to speak only to be cut off by Connor's demanding voice "Why haven't we seen your scars before? Last year at the beach you didn't have any of these."

Robin let out a long sigh. After several seconds of silence Robin looked up and spoke "Actually, I did have them, I was just covering them up at the time."

"How? We were at the beach any makeup should have washed off?" M'gann questioned gently.

"No makeup, Bat's and I use a spray on synthetic skin. Stuff's really difficult to get off, but it's better than getting my cover blown in gym class." Robin commented with a laugh.

"What do you mean? How would your cover be blown?" Raquel asked curiously.

"Robin the Boy Wonder got these scars from fighting the good fight in the streets of Gotham, but my secret identity didn't. The public can't see my scars or else the cats out of the bag, so to speak." Robin replied casually.

"You got those just from fighting in Gotham?" Artemis asked in disbelief "I use to go on patrol from time to time, but I don't have any scars like yours."

"You've never seen Gotham at her worst." Robin remarked quietly.

"Like hell I haven't! I grew up there with the freaking League of Assassins breathing down my neck for over a decade!" Artemis snapped back.

"You haven't been kidnapped and tortured; they didn't give me the nickname Boy Hostage for nothing." Robin said offhandedly.

"What?" Zatanna said alarmed.

"Most of my scars are from torture after being kidnapped by the villains and serial killers in Gotham." Robin said in the same tone as before, but as he continued his voice darkened a little "And Artemis no, no you haven't seen the bad side of Gotham."

No one spoke, the only sound came from people treading water to stay afloat. After several minutes of near silence, Robin finally spoke "Sorry guys, I didn't mean to stun you into silence." his smile back in place as he looked around at the others.

"Why did you not tell us about your hardships in Gotham?" Kaldur asked calmly.

Robin shrugged "I try to keep Gotham stuff in Gotham. 'Sides, you guys don't go whining about every little thing that happens in your cities. Plus the stories behind some of these" Robin touched his chest "aren't really rainbows and sunshine so... I'm just not overly fond of re-living them."

"You must have a couple stories that aren't so bad? You know like scraping your knee when you fall off of a bike or something." Zatanna asked with an eyebrow raised.

Robin cackled "Falling off of a bike; Seriously, Zee?"

"Shut up, you know what I mean" Zatanna elbowed him while she spoke.

"Yeah, I've got a few that aren't all bad." Robin said with a smirk.

"Well, let's hear 'em Bird boy" Raquel chimed in.

"Since when did it become story-time?" Robin inquired.

"Robin, this would be an excellent way for the team to learn more about you without you having to tell us anything too compromising for your identity." Kaldur commented a small grin on his face. This was met with a chorus of agreement from the other heroes, with a grunt from Connor.

"I've been out voted" Robin grumbled "Okay, how about this one" Robin lifted his leg out of the water and pointed to a scrape on his shin. "I got trapped in a collapsing building with a bunch of civilians. I had to pull myself free of the rubble and scraped my leg in the process. There were 6 other people in the pocket of un-collapsed building; one of them was a very pregnant woman who just went into labor."

"No freaking way, Rob what'd you do?" Wally asked.

"Maybe if you're quiet Kid Mouth, he'll tell us." Artemis said she wanted to know what happened next just as much as the others.

"I played midwife, since no one else had any sort of medical training." Robin commented with a shrug. The other gaped at him.

"You helped deliver a baby in a collapsed building when you were 13?!" Raquel exclaimed.

"No." Robin replied "I helped deliver a baby in a collapsed building when I was 11. And she had a beautiful baby girl, which she wanted to name Robyn with a 'y', but I asked her not too."

"Why didn't you let her name the baby after you?" M'gann asked.

"'Cause it was silly, but she asked me what I thought the baby's name should be when the search and rescue team finally got a whole big enough for us to get out. I told her 'Mary'." Robin stated with a small smile.

"Mary?" Connor questioned.

"It was my mother's name, Con'." Robin replied softly a little sadness in his voice.

Connor was about to ask another question, but Wally touched Connor's arm and sent him a look not to ask about it anymore. Zatanna seeing this interaction ask a question instead "So got anymore wicked tales, about wicked scars?"

Robin snorted and was pulled from his thoughts "Wicked? More like nasty." He quipped.

"What? No way, scars are the proof that you lived. They're the physical evidence that you survived and learned and moved on." Zatanna commented.

Robin raised his eyebrow as he leveled a look at her.

"Don't give me that look, I'm serious. Scars are important, and they prove that even if you screwed up somewhere in life you, survived to fight another day." Zatanna said.

"Huh, I never really thought about it that way. It just got to the point where it looks like I have more scars than skin and I just didn't like looking at them. I never really thought about it much past that." Robin commented thoughtfully.

"For a Boy Wonder, sometimes you're as dumb as Wally." Zatanna said while shaking her head.

Both boys shouted indignantly.

"Enough of that, I'm a still a little curious about some of the stories behind the other ones." Raquel remarked.

Robin smirked, but lifted up his left arm and pointed out several pale claw marks on his forearm and wrist. They looked as if something with claws had grabbed him. "I got these when I was nearly leapt off of a building in order to catch me."

"Why is having a super-villainess save you a good memory?" Connor asked.

"Catwoman might not walk on the right side of the law, but she's not a villain." Robin replied with a half sigh "'Sides it was the first time I realized she actually cared about me."

"And that's important to you because..." Artemis retorted.

Robin opened his mouth, but closed it. After several more seconds of silence Robin final said "You don't have to know all of the reasons why, but to me it does."

"Give us one of them." Zatanna said.

Robin thought about it for several more seconds before he began "Well, she was one of the only people I knew at the time to actually take me seriously, like Batman. When we fought it was more like sparring, she wouldn't hesitate, but she would tell me or show me how to properly counter a maneuver. Everyone else had written me off, the League included, they all thought I'd either be dead in a few months or that I'd just give up. Catwoman took the time to take me seriously and then to mentor me. But even with that I still had doubts as to her intentions; I mean seriously why would she help me train to capture her? So when she dived off that ledge after me, only then to lecture me about being more careful and not to strain myself when I was already hurt, while she bandaged up the cuts she left on my arms... I guess I finally received my answer. She genuinely cared about my well-being."

"What is she like the Mommy Cats to your Daddy Bats?" Wally asked incredulously.

"Wally, what have I said about not calling Batman that, but yeah I guess that's kinda what it's like." Robin said with a snort.

"Daddy Bats?" Kaldur inquired dryly.

Just as Robin was about to reply, Connor interrupted "The zeta tubes just activated and several league members entered the mountain."

Everyone groaned, but got up out of the pool. "Let us go and see why they have arrived." Kaldur said albeit begrudgingly.

"Looks like story-time is over, maybe I'll tell you guys a couple more some other time." Robin added with a smirk as he padded out of the room silently, the others following behind him.

~Fin~

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