Hi, just read the fic 'A look into a Troubled Past' by BookLover223 and this story just hit me. I am meant to be studying for a chem test I have tomorrow but instead I'm writing this, so thankyou BookLover, you just fuelled my procrastination.

This is inspired by the lines about John always checking the ropes and about Dick in Juvie. Oh, and I own nothing but the loss of study time ;)

Paranoid

By KrC

None of the others understood Robin's habits. They couldn't understand why before every mission he would bring out his grappling gun, check to see if it worked four times and then check it five more. 'Just in case.' He would always say.

They would never know why he always left a room first and entered it last. They wondered why he always triple checked the lock on his door or why he always had his back to the wall but still had a direct route to the nearest exit. 'I don't like to be snuck up on.' Was the younger boy's explanation.

They thought that he had just inherited the Bat's paranoia.

Wally didn't.

Wally knew that Robin constantly checked his grapple because every time he used it he was terrified it would snap and he would fall, just like his parents did.

Wally knew that without Bruce there to convince him otherwise, the thought that being left alone with someone else in a room meant that he would be beaten and that at any moment he could be jumped from behind was always in the back of his mind. Juvie tended to do that to a kid, especially at nine.

They thought that Robin the most paranoid kid they knew.

Wally thought he was the strongest.

I don't know what to think of this, turned out to be more of a drabble than I expected. Actually, it turned pretty differently to what I had in my head, although I only had the first couple of paragraphs planned out and the rest just wrote itself.

Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for reading! I try to respond to my reviews so please leave one, I really want to know what you thought of this!