Note: I am very sorry that it takes me so long to update. I have been away from home for the past few months helping out with my grandma. I am not even in the same state at the moment and since being gone there has been a lot of missing home and my laptop charger died so I am stuck with using my Uncle's comp and at first I didn't want to update the stories on here but after seeing the reviews I caved.

Also I want to say that Teen titans is one of the only cartoons I could watch and actually liked it, I found it funny and creative and I happen to love ALL the characters which has never happened for me before.

So here is the next installment LONG overdue.

Batman to the rescue

Chapter two: Talk with the Titans.

Robin had worked things out with his friends and was looking forward to going back to Titan tower but Batman invited the Titans to stay the night. They of course readily agreed and Robin rolled his eyes at the hero worship his friends were giving to his crime fighting father. There was a time when he too would blindly do whatever he was told. Now that he was older he sometimes felt like he shouldn't have to need Batman to save him anymore, but as usual he was wrong and Batman was right. He was just glad his friends had forgiven him and Batman wasn't mad at him anymore and though his butt felt blistered he felt better, like he had paid the price and now he could move on. He laid in bed in his old room unaware that his friends were in the batcave with Batman.

Batman was talking with the Titans.

"Look I'll let him go back with you, but I'm warning you now I bugged the tower and I can hack into that cities Camera's at any time. I'm gonna be keeping an eye on you guys. Don't get me wrong, I trust that you can handle yourselves and look out for Robin but after today I need to look after him too. Tell me now if you have a problem with that." Batman said looking at each teen in the room.

StarFire was the first to speak "We are most pleased that you will be watching over Robin. Perhaps with you around he will not stray again. " she said hopefully.

"He's not going to like this." Raven commented knowingly but she had no real problem with it. It didn't matter to her weather Batman was watching or not.

"Yeah man. Robin ain't gonna be cool with this." Cyborg said but also not objecting.

"You let me worry about Robin. " Batman advised. "Trust me, Once he figures it out he'll get over it. You guys are just kids. I want to monitor you just in case something goes wrong, that way I can do what I can to help. " he said

Later that night they were asleep and Raven went to find Batman again and found him in the batcave.

She felt connected to him. Like the darkness inside them both made them the same. "Look, I don't want to be disrespectful or anything but why now? Is it just because of the suicide attempt or because you're really worried about him ?" Raven asked

He turned in his chair to look at her "Raven let me make one thing clear, Richard is my son and I care a great deal for him. When he left I was hurt because honestly I liked working with him. We were quite the team. But I never stopped worrying about him. I didn't check on him but maybe if I had this wouldn't have happened. I need him to know that he's not alone and that he has family. He already knows he has friends but along the way he forgot something very important. He forgot to be Richard Grayson. Being a hero is fine, but you are just kids. And he wasn't always Robin. There are times when he has to put Robin aside and be Richard. I'm afraid that after going so long as just Robin he's lost himself. He's allowed the Robin persona to rule him and his life. But he can't just bury who he was and pretend like none of it happened."

Raven got a bad feeling now "What do you mean by 'what happened'? " she asked

Batman gazed at her "He didn't tell you?"

"Didn't tell us what?" she asked curious.

"Never mind. Go back up and go to sleep. You'll need your rest for the journey back." Batman said turning back around and Raven stared for a moment but then left.

The next day they made it back to Titan Tower with Batman safely back in Gotham.

Raven went over to the computer and researched the Gotham news archives searching until she found it and when she found it she gasped. Everyone turned and went over to look at the article

Two face strikes again, this time killing an entire family. A mother, father and two of their three children. The flying Grayson's of the circus are no more. The only survivor Richard Grayson orphaned only hours ago in this terrible tragedy has found an Angel among the ashes of this chaos. Bruce Wayne of Wayne Enterprises will take in the boy as his heir.

"Dude, That poor kid. " Beast Boy said sympathetically.

Robin glared a bit "How did you find this?" he asked

"Yeah, Why'd you look up Two face?" Cyborg asked

"I didn't. I looked up Richard Grayson." Raven said looking to Robin "I'm sorry. I just wanted to know what Batman meant. He told me something happened, something he thinks you're running away from. I never thought that it was this bad." She said.

"I do not understand." StarFire said confused.

"Richard Grayson is me StarFire. I'm grateful to Batman for many reasons. One of the main reasons is because he chose to care about me. He took me in and helped me at a time when I didn't want to live anymore. My family was dead, I wanted to die too. I also wanted revenge on Two Face. Bruce wouldn't let me. After I found out about Batman I became Robin. But the first thing he taught me was that I this hero business, It can't be about revenge. It has to be about helping people. Anger clouds your judgment and you have to keep your head during a fight. You can't afford to lose it. There were many times when Bruce threatened to take Robin away from me. It was only when I took risks though. Sometimes if I didn't listen on patrol he wouldn't let me go the next night. But weather I was Richard or Robin I never once doubted him. Even when I left, I did it because I needed to feel like I wasn't in his shadow. He called the shots and I just got tired of him being the boss. I didn't leave because I thought he didn't care, I knew he did care. I just wanted to prove that I could do it on my own. But then I met you guys and I was fine with being a team again. " Robin explained opening up to his friends to help them understand more.

Robin spent a lot of that night talking about some of his adventures with Batman and by the time he went to bed his backside still smarted a great deal, but he was happier than he had been in a long time. Sometimes it did help to get things off your chest.

TBC…

Wasn't gonna do more then two chapters but I have at least one more chapter in me.