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Hey I decided to make more Robin and Artemis stuff so here it is. Enjoy. P.S. for those who don't know I got my last prompt from a Youtube video titled You're not special as I said in my last authors note. P.S.S this takes place right after failsafe.

Everyone was dead, everyone gone just like that. His friends, his family, the Justice League, in the blink of an eye they disappeared leaving him all alone again, to fight without them.

Then they weren't it was just a simulation, not real, a test gone terribly terribly wrong. But the feelings of it were real and the images in his mind, of them vanishing one by one were as clear of any other memory he had.

Vaguely he heard Batman talking in the background speaking to Martian Manhunter about Meghan's ability's that erased the truth from them. He tried to take comfort by his mentor's voice to prove that he was still with him, but still all he could see was him dyeing again and again in a fiery explosion as he and the other's tried to save Earth. Then failing and leaving the team to fight on their own.

Looking up he saw his fellow teammates each bearing a tormented voice of their own. Meghan was crying into Conner's shoulder muttering how it was all her fault, as Artemis rubbed her back trying to comfort the Martian. Kaldur and Wally were speaking to one another about what happened trying to remain composed and unruffled by all that they had seen. No one paid any attention to the anguished bird as he sat replying the deaths in his mind like a broken record.

Soundlessly Robin slipped off the cold table he had previously been laying on unconscious and silently he slipped out of the room. Not noticing a pair of pale grey eye's worriedly watching him leave. Turning down a hallway he made his way to his usually unused room, typing in the necessary numbers to unlock the door he sat down on his bed and allowed himself too finally, in solitude break down.

Tears fell rapidly from his usually bright cerulean eye's and passed from beneath his sun glasses making a wet track down his cheeks. A sob roughly racked through his body as all the emotions came up at the images of the simulation. A chocked noise erupted from him as he thought of his teammates, Batman, and his "Aunt's" and "Uncles" being killed by the invasion.

But what scared him the most of what he had just experienced wasn't the deaths, or the hopelessness of the situation, or the invasion itself. He was scared of how he reacted to it all, how he turned off his emotions as things started to go bad so that he could focus on the mission. He was scared of how he turned into Batman.

Since he was nine he had always dreamed of being like his mentor and now….now he feared the idea of it. He felt himself shiver at the mere thought of being that cold, automatic, distant shell as he led the team to failure after Kaldur "died".

As he mulled over his thoughts he remained unaware of a person entering through his open doorway. Not even batting an eye when the door shut softly behind her. It wasn't until said person gently laid a pale hand on his shoulder was he brought back to reality and jumped from shock.

"Sorry I didn't mean to scare you." The tear stained face of the boy wonder looked upward to his guest and raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"Artemis what are you doing here?" Artemis flinched at the broken voice of the usually positive bird and gently sat down next to him, wrapping her arm around his shoulders as she did so.

"I came to check on you…everyone's worried about you. Kaldur turned to say something to you and you were gone, nearly gave Meghan a heart attack." Robin looked down guiltily; he hadn't meant to frighten his friends.

"Sorry" Artemis looked down at the younger boy taking in his haggard appearance; she noticed the tears still falling down his face. It broke her heart to see him so…shattered.

"Hey, are you alright?" Wow dumb question of course he's not alright he's crying! Robin however either ignored her question or was too deep in thought to hear it. Another chocked sob came from his mouth and Artemis hugged him tighter shaking him slightly to get his attention. "Robin….try to stop thinking about it come on, think of something happy…." Robin looked up blankly.

"Something happy?" He said the words incredulously as though thinking something happy was impossible at the moment. Artemis however nodded slightly and pulled him closer.

"We're all still here….still alive and fighting….come on now… You're not alone" Slowly her words sunk through his walls of angst and sadness, she was right they were all alive; it was just some stupid simulation. The Justice League never fell, nor did his teammates and he hadn't lost another parent or another family. He wasn't alone. Turning to the archer he hugged her fiercely, burying his head into her shoulder.

"Thank you" Artemis pulled her other arm around him, running her hand through his ebony hair she smiled down at him.

"Hey I'm just trying to get you to feel the aster we can't have you not traught now can we?" Robin smiled at her usage of the words. Pulling himself out of her arms he slightly grinned.

"No we can't have that, come on lets go prove to Ms. Martian I'm fine." Standing up he made his way to the door with Artemis following behind him. Before he opened it however he turned back to the archer.

"And thank you….. again" Ruffling his hair she pushed past him out into the bright hallway.

"Anytime Boy Wonder, we humans have got to stick together." Walking out he locked the door back up and made his way back to the training room where the others waited, with Artemis at his side.

"That we do."

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