Chapter one
Title: to have you once more.
Author: Angee
Rating: M
A/N hi all this is my new story...I know i'm still writting Royal Slave but i had to post this one...I hope you like what i did here. I haven't seen anything quite similar to this plot that i have come up with and i hope i'm being original here. Hope you enjoy it.
Somewhere in a far away future a man rocked back and forth on a bed.
Nightwing sadly smiled at the picture in his hands. The lonely moonlight shone into the small bedroom he currently resided in. He was not happy and with good reason. Why had it all had happened the way it did? Why had she been the one that had suffered? It was supposed to be him not her. The tears rolled down his cheeks even with the mask on they did not relent their journey down his pale face. A sudden jolt of pain went through his chest and he brought the picture close to his heart "why my love? Why did you leave me?"
There was a shadow by his window and he lifted his eyes to look at the interloper "what do you want Batman?"
Bruce Wayne a man of few words entered the small room and was saddened to see his surrogate son looking defeated and broken, but he could understand what the man was feeling at this very moment. He too had gone through some similar circumstances, but Nightwing's current problem was far more hurtful. The shot was meant for him and not his love "Richard it's time that we get to work"
Nightwing sharply looked at the aging man and then back to the picture "Work? Work? Is that all you think about? Do you not understand what I'm going through here Bruce? I lost my love, my wife my best friend to a crazy man and also my child. Do you think that I want to work? All I want is the right to mourn them for as long as I want and work is the least of my problems. Let the people of gotham fend for themselves for once in their pathetic lives"
He was angry and he was going to make sure that everyone knew. Nightwing was as dark as the night when he wanted to be and if the people of gotham could not take care of themselves among all the pain he was going through, then he really didn't care. Bruce frowned not that you could tell with his mask and walked up to the younger man. Taking the picture from Richard's hand Bruce examined it and smiled "you two looked great in this picture. She was very important to me as well Richard I loved her as a daughter, but you can't mourn her forever. She would have wanted you to fight and protect"
Nightwing walked over to a wall and punched it hard "she would have been happier alive and here with me. Both of us awaiting the birth of our child, she was so happy when we found out Bruce. Do you know how it feels to lose not just the woman you love, but a child you both created?"
Bruce placed a hand on his shoulder "I know how it feels to lose someone you love more than life itself. But mourning will get you nowhere. Besides, Slade is still out there and you have to stop him from killing other heros. I'm sure she would have wanted you to continue"
Nightwing shook his head as more tears spilled. He dropped to his knees and leaned forward onto his hands "I can't go on without my Raven. How can he have taken her from me and killed her? How could he have taken both of them from me?"
"I'm the least one to tell you this Richard, but if you want to avenge them then do it. Take his life if you have to. God only knows that I did not hesitate when it came to the joker. There are times when you must take the life of your enemy"
Nightwing was going to respond to him only to find the batman gone. He smiled to himself picking up the picture of Raven and him on their secret wedding day "I will avenge you both my loves, but I'm also going to bring you back to me. He was stupid enough to leave one crazy scientist alive and I will take advantage of his knowledge of time travel. I will find you and bring you to me again" and with that he began to laugh among the tears that spilled from his eyes.
Two nights later, he was making his way into Archium Asylum, well more like sneaking in. After finding out where the best underground labs were, he set to work on getting his scientist. He had installed a camouflage device on his suit and was able to infiltrate the hospital full of Gotham's evil doers. He had to be careful, if word got out that one of the biggest super-heros was going to kidnap a scientist and then use him for his own personal agenda, then he was as good as dead. Passing some rooms he was counting down till he got to the right room. Some guards were making round and for a moment he had forgotten that he was invisible.
Chuckling to himself, nightwing found the right room and began to mess with the lock. Careful not to let the alarm sound, he sound found himself walking into the room. The crazy scientist was working at a medical table, no doubt trying to invent some crazy shit. He made his way towards the scientist and watch with interest as the man blah to himself. Closing the door and turning back to the man, Richard disabled his camouflage and tapped the old man. The man yelped and Richard had to cover the old man's mouth with his hand "listen old man I'm not here to hurt you"
The old man nodded and Richard let go of his hand "what do you want? Last time you put me here remember?"
Richard took in a deep breath and walked over to the old man's table "I need your help Hercules, and I'm not taking no for an answer"
The old man scoffed "oh so now you need my help? No way in hell"
Richard held up a photo of a young girl with blonde hair "if you don't help I will make sure that little Susie here goes to reform school for all her experiments she has conducted on her poor classmates. Not to mention that you have given her some of those 'experimental' drugs"
Hercules bowed his head "fine, what do you want?"
Richard threw a manilla folder on the floor before Hercules "I want you to make your time machine run once more. I know that you have it hidden in a very remote place. I will get you out of here and no one will know where you are after helping me. Not even Batman. All you have to do is send me to the past and then tell me how to come back"
Hercule's eyes widened "but that's dangerous. No one has ever gone back in time and then back to the present. You can alter many things if you did this"
"I don't care. All I want is to go back to the past"
Hercules sat down on the floor taking the envelope "what's this then?"
"That's your new identity and money to last you forty years, given that you live that long old man. I'm giving you my personal royalties and access to more of my money. You also get a new lab far away from America"
"Is this because of your wife's death?"
Richard scowled "you worry about sending me and then helping me come back and I'll worry about the next. I'll come for you tomorrow night"
"How do you know I will agree?"
Richard turned to leave "because of your greed. See you tomorrow Hercules".
The next night he did the same thing to get into the place and this time he would be leaving with an extra passenger. Not taking his time Richard went into the room and grabbed the old man "put this on" he told the man handing him a suit with the same camouflage mechanics "hurry we have to go before they check your room soon"
The machine was running perfectly, the old man was working fast and Richard was taking off his nightwing suit. There was no way he was going to go as he was. Taking a duffel bag into his hands he shoved the suit inside and pulled out a pair of shades and the wedding ring placing each item on his person (meaning on himself). Then he looked at the picture of his and raven's wedding and traced her face with his finger "we will see each other soon and I wont let anything or anyone take you away from me this time. We will be happy my love"
"It's ready" he looked up as the old man smiled at him "thank you. Even if I did wrong things I know what you feel. I too lost my wife to some crazy man and I had planned on using this to get her back, but I couldn't go through with it. I hope you succeed where I failed"
"Sure old man. See ya"
"Now remember, this can alter reality or another time I can't guarantee that you will be taken to where you want. I set it for the year 2015 when you and your wife decided to marry, but other than that I can't assure you anything more"
Richard nodded "no problem" giving a small wave he entered a chamber and smiled "soon Raven you and I will be once more together"
The old man hit the button and was setting up other buttons when he tripped on the wires making his hand land on the time dial. Not realizing sooner what had happened, he hurriedly tried to get Richard out "wait...something is wrong...don't" Richard tried to make out what the old man was saying but it was soon too late. He was encompassed in a blinding light and then gone. Nothing was left of the young man. The old man ran to his work station and realized the mistake "oh shit" it read year 2005 and that was about ten years earlier than the set time "I hope this doesn't mess anything he had planned" shrugging he decided to leave the country.
The room was dark and the person laying on the bed was content sleeping away her worries. It was no lie that Raven loved to enjoy relaxing baths and naps. She turned onto her back and brought her hand to her face.
Richard landed near the T tower and smirked to himself. It had been so long since he had been there. He had expected to land in the day, but it was night time. Taking out one of his devices he decided to walk around the Tower looking for the window that belonged to his wife's room. Being careful once more that the alarm systems didn't detect his movements. If memory served him right, there were about twelve different alarms. Finding the window he smiled to himself and shot the (what's that string thing called again? Well that's what he shot).
He slid the window open and softly entered her room. Dropping the duffel bag to the floor he found her asleep on her bed, curled like a child into the warm sheets. He walked over and leaned down. The mere thought of seeing her was making his body react. He wanted to have her in his arms, to kiss her...to fuck her senselessly as he often did when they were both in the mood. Which was practically every day. Bruce had caught them once and they toned it down a bit.
But here she was, oblivious to his presence and here he was itching to hold her. Brushing a way her hair he let his fingers caress her cheeks.
Her eyes twitched. Why was she suddenly feeling like she needed to wake up? What the hell was bothering her. She raised her hand to push away the offending digits and when her hand was caught in a grip her eyes shot opened. Before her stood none other than "Robin what are you doing in my room?" she asked with mild surprise even with the shades she could recognize him. But she was giving him that monotone voice of hers that was also annoyed as she sat up.
Richard couldn't take it and leaned forward stealing a kiss from the dark princess. She gasped within the kiss and tried to pull away. When his hold on her tightened her powers got out of control and the lights in the Tower went out and the alarm system went crazy. They could hear the rest of the titans scurrying to see what was the problem and she was trying to pull away.
Richard pressed his fingers on her wrists and this made her calmed down a bit and then with a sudden impulse she kissed back. Come on someone kisses you it's only a matter of time before you either slap them or return it. She moaned and Richard was pleased. Leaning more on her made Raven till back letting her body hit the bed once more. His hands released hers and they went to her hair. He had almost forgotten how nice it felt to touch her short hair. After they got married she let it grow, but he told her that he liked it better short. Messaging her scalp made his Raven moan against his lips once more. That's when there was a whoosh noise and four different gasps.
"What the hell is going on?" her eyes snapped opened when she heard the voice of none other than Robin. But she was kissing Robin wasn't she? Richard pulled away from his wife and turned to glare at the intruders. His eyes landing on his younger self. Robin was speechless as he looked into the eyes of a man that looked just like him but was older. Likewise, Richard watched confused. These were his friends and wife and his counterpart, but they were younger. Was this what the old man was trying to talk about?
Raven sat up once more and pulled the sheets closer to her body feeling a bit exposed. Beast boy was wide eye as was Cyborg. Kori was looking from one robin to another. Her 'beloved' was in front of another 'beloved' "Ah friend Raven do you what's the matter?"
Both men turned to Raven who at that moment wanted to scream or jump...she looked from a set of blue eyes to a covered pair "I don't know star"
"DUDE THIS IS WEIRD" Cyborg nodded mechanically, no pun intended and Robin cleared his throat.
"This is a trick and I bet Slade is behind this" at hearing that name Richard grabbed robin by the throat and pushed him against one of the walls of the room "what?"
"Don't you name that son of a bitch to me. I'm not some trick that bastard sent here and I'm not some clone either. My name is Richard Greyson and I'm or rather was Robin leader of the titans. I was supposed to travel to the year 2015 but obviously this isn't that time" he dropped Robin who began to wheeze. The others were too stunned to do anything and just watched as Richard turned back to raven.
She didn't know what to say or do. He was from the future? But what that even possible? Who was she kidding there were many things that were possible and time traveling was probably one of them. She watched as he walked over to her once more and knelt down "I'm so sorry for frightening you Raven"
"Er...ah...er..." she was speechless. Robin stood once more. Well it seemed that he could trust this guy because he could see the enormous hate that he posed for Slade as well as himself.
"Okay, this is totally weird" said Cyborg "I think I'm still sleeping"
"Dude if that's robin and he is here, what does that mean?"
"it means that he came from the future idiot"
"Shut up"
"No you shut up"
"OUT OF MY ROOM" screamed raven. Both boys shut up instantly but did not move. She rolled her eyes and looked at Richard.
"Why are you here?" she asked him and he grinned.
"To get you my wife back with me" at that she fainted and so did beast boy and cyborg. They did not just hear what they did. Chuckling to himself he turned to a stunned kori and a very confused Robin "I'm going to take her with me and I don't want anyone interfering with my plans"
Robin fisted his hands "you are not taking my team mate and friend from here"
Yawning he crawled into bed with Raven "take those two with you while my wife and I sleep. We will discuss this later"
Robin clenched his fisted hands "you are not staying here. Get. Out. Now." Kori could see the defiant glares both were giving each other and decided to stop them from going any further with their imaginary fight.
"We should leave Robin. Perhaps in the morning we can all have this talk" picking Cyborg and dragging beast boy she walked over to the door "come on I'm sure friend raven will be just fine" but she was seething on the inside. Raven had a Robin with her and she did not understand what this meant, but it did imply in her mind that Robin at one point in their near future will pick Raven over her. Sadly she left the room. Robin was hesitant at first, but there was a strange sense of security knowing that his version of him would not try something on his friend. But raven was his first. Did I just think that? Oh god I can't think like that. She's my best friend that's all. But I wont let anyone else have her...dam it all.
Richard smirked as Robin walked over to the door "good night Richard I will keep a good eye on my raven" grinding his teeth robin walked out of the room.
Richard sighed "great I should have known that I would have to face my younger self eventually" he looked at his wife and caressed her face "but I'm going to face whatever I have to in order to have you in my life my love" kissing her soft lips he drew her closer to himself and began to fall asleep.
A/n How was that for a beginning. Should i take this down? you let me know.