I know It's been a while! I've been on a kind of hiatus for a few months. A cousin of mine passed away which kind of killed any creativity inside of me for a while.

It wasn't until recently I started writing again, and surprisingly it happened because my Auntie succumbed to a heart disease. But before she died she had been asking me about my books and my writing and she told me to keep going with it. So I guess that's why I'm back and writing.

So enough of the morbidity...is that even a word?

So this is another Robin story. It's a little different to what I have written in the past but hopefully it turns out ok. Enjoy :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice...sadly.

Robin!

Kid Flash landed with a heavy thud, the word fail flashing above him. Robin let out a strident laugh.

"Just face it KF, you can't pin me! You owe me five bucks!" Wally huffed loudly and pulled himself up facing the teen.

"Third time's a charm." He said smirked before running at his full speed towards his acrobat friend. Robin had seen this coming of course, he knew Wally back to front. Robin launched himself into the air away from the speedster. Wally stopped quickly looking up at the boy who gracefully flipped further away from Wally dodging him once again. Wally moved again rushing at the boy who this time remained still. Just before Wally reached him Robin jumped up over him using Wally's shoulders as a spring board, he landed a kick into his friend's back sending Wally flying forwards to the ground again. The flashing words "Kid Flash Fail" illuminated Wally's stressed face.

"FINE I admit it ok, I can't pin you!" He yelled towards Robin who smirked at him before turning towards the onlooking team. Wally quickly stood and ran at Robin who jumped just as Wally reached him again, Robin quickly landed behind him pulling Wally's arms around his back.

"Not even when my back is turned West." He laughed at his struggling friend. The team laughed at Wally's pouted face. Robin let his friend go who tripped over his own feet making the team laugh even harder.

"His too quick even for you Baywatch!" Artemis laughed at her red faced boyfriend.

The team had all been training when they heard Wally's loud voice gloating to Robin about how he could take the fifteen year old down in a second with his speed. Robin just laughed his trademark cackle and encouraged Wally to try and bet him five dollars that Wally would fail. Hence their fighting and now Wally's disappointed scowl.

"I trained with Batman Wally. He made me fight all the league members, including your Uncle Barry! I'm used to fighting a speedster." Robin said proudly to the grumpy seventeen year-old "And he made me do all that at the age of ten, so you can say I'm pretty well versed in your way of combat."

"Yeah yeah wonder boy, no need to show off!" Wally laughed accepting Robins hand and been pulled to upright position "One day I'll get you." he chuckled.

"If you two don't mind the rest of us would like to get back to training now!" Super Boy yelled at the duo. M'gann laughed at her boyfriend's eagerness looking past his attitude as usual.

"Come on Conner, we can train over here, you can fight me." She said giving Conner a look that said 'I want you all to myself'. Artemis looked to Kaldur who was listening to something in his ear piece.

"Do we have a mission?" She asked keenly, her shoulders sagged when Kaldur shook his head.

"No, sorry but my King is calling for me, he needs me in Atlantis." Kaldur spoke quickly walking to the zeta beam. Robin looked concerned watching after him.

"Is everything ok Kal?" he asked before the Atlantean could leave. Kaldur tuned to the team and smiled,

"He probably just wants to gloat about his baby son, which is all he talks of these days."Kaldur laughed waving as he left the cave in a yellow flash.

Robin watched at Superboy and Kid Flash fought. Wally zipped around avoiding all of Conner's attacks; it was obvious to everyone that Conner was getting very frustrated with red head.

"Stay still!" Super Boy yelled angrily after Wally who just yelled back jokingly.

"What's the matter Supes can't keep up?" Robin held back his grin to avoid been yelled at by the already angry Superboy.

Conner finally grabbed a limb of Wally's as he sped past him. He crushed the red head to his chest not using any of his true strength but enough to subdue the runner. Wally thrashed around in Superboy's arms.

"Calm down Wally, you can get out of this." Robin called to his friend who kept flailing around like a fish out of water. Wally was just about to tap out when the computer caught all their attentions.

"Warning intruder alert." The team stiffened and readied themselves for a fight. "Location: Zeta Beam Tunnel A"

"Whoever it is, the're coming in through the Zeta beams, be ready." Robin called to the team. The bright yellow flash filled the cave.

"Robin!" the team watched as a masked girl ran unsteadily into the cave almost falling forward. They all glanced at the boy wonder who took in a small gasp.

"Batgirl how did you-" Robin started to say, he watched as she stumbled forward a bit looking at him with desperate eyes.

"BATGIRL?" Wally yelled "They're more of you?" Robin shot his friend a look telling him to be quiet and rushed to the girl who had just fallen to her knees. Her uniform was ripped badly and she was bleeding heavily from a cut in her shoulder. She clutched her arm, blood dripping down her fingers.

"Batgirl, what happened to you?" Robin anxiously asked the exhausted girl, she shot a look at the others who all watched curious to what was going on. M'gann moved forward.

"She needs medical help." She said gently. Batgirl pulled out off Robin's hands and stood quickly.

"I'm fine." She said sharply before wincing and almost falling backwards. Robin grabbed her before she hit the ground.

"Stop been so stubborn and tell me what the hell happened!" Robin ordered. The team could all hear the urgency in his voice. "Where's Batman? You're supposed to be with Batman!" Batgirl hesitated in answering once again looking to the team apprehensively. Robin turned suddenly.

"Get out!" he ordered them standing quickly. They all looked at the boy shocked.

"Rob, what's—" Wally began to ask.

"This is a confidential matter you all need to leave us be! Now please go away!" Robin shouted desperately at them. Wally understood. This so called 'Batgirl' wasn't going to tell Robin anything with them there; it must have had something to do with their secret IDs. He nodded to his friend.

"We'll be in the kitchen if you need us." He said leaving the room with the others following him not so willingly. Robin heard Artemis complaining when out of sight "We shouldn't be keeping secrets from each other!"

Robin turned his attention to his friend in front of him. He peeled of his mask and knelt down to Batgirl; who stared at him worriedly as he reached forward gently removing her cowl. Dick inspected her face; she had a nasty cut above her eye and a split lip; blood dripped down past her eye, he cradled her head in his hands looking at her wounds with worried eyes. Barbara closed her eyes leaning into Dick's touch. She had not been ready for such an event. She had only just been aloud out of the cave for patrol after a year of training.

"What happened to you Babs?" Dick asked slowly. Barbara pulled out of Dick's touch and looked down to the floor ashamed, and began to talk quietly.

"Bruce and I were training down in the cave. We had just gotten back from a patrol and I kind of forced him to fight with me, I just wanted to get better. I don't really know how long we were fighting for but we stopped when there was a loud explosion-" Dick went ridged but didn't say anything to interrupt his friend. She began shaking slightly; Dick placed his hand over hers. "It came from upstairs. We ran up to investigate and when we got up there the whole living room was on fire, it spread so quickly. Bruce told me to go back down to the cave, when I asked him what he was doing he said he was going to find Alfred. He left me. I would have done what he asked but I saw people in the house they were looking for Bruce...and you." Barbara let out a shaky breath. "I didn't know what to do. Bruce always told me to follow his orders but these men out numbered him big time and the house was on fire! And to top it all off we had no idea where Alfred was!" She said hysterically. Dick squeezed her hand.

"You didn't go back down to the cave did you?" he asked softly trying to calm her down. She shook her head looking up at him.

"I couldn't...I ran after some of the men I saw, the whole house was on fire. It was so hot and I could hardly breathe or see anything. Someone jumped me from behind. Slashed me with a sword a freaking sword! I was knocked down. The bastards winded me, like it wasn't already hard enough to breathe!" Dick could see a fire in her eyes, his Babs was coming back to him "I tried to fight them but they were really good...I thought I had it under control but more of them came in and then more and more. I just couldn't keep them away from me. They all had swords but none of them even tried to kill me. That's when Bruce came out of nowhere and started fighting them. The house was falling apart and it was getting so damn hot in there."

"Was Bruce ok?" Dick asked worriedly, she shook her head,

"I didn't get a good look, I was half unconscious. He picked me up and ran me to the bookcase, threw me into the elevator and told me to come here. The last thing I heard was a woman calling Bruce and then he shut the bookcase. It took me forever to hack into the Zeta Beams like you showed me but I'm not as good as you!" Barbara looked at dick and shook her head. "I'm sorry Dick, I should have done better." Dick's stomach was a knot of worry. Three things where obvious to him, Talia Al Ghul had been in the manor, she was looking for Bruce and himself, and Bruce was in some serious trouble.

Dick placed his mask back over his eyes as Barbara pulled her cowl over her head. Dick was worried. Worried didn't even begin to explain what he was feeling. His father was missing his grandfather was missing and his house was most likely nothing but rubble by now. What was getting to Robin the most was that he didn't know the fate of this second family. Barbara's revision of what happened had shaken him to his core, but as much as he wanted to zeta back to the cave and see for himself, he knew he had to help Babs first. She was badly injured; the cut in her arm was the least of her injuries, Dick could clearly see what she had a broken rib by the way she was holding herself. She also had a few minor burns and a twisted ankle.

He helped Batgirl to her feet holding her around her waist while she put her arm around his neck leaning into him. She gasped slightly when they began walking. She was coming down from her adrenaline rush and was beginning to feel every single one of her injuries. Her rib was giving her the most trouble. She kept begging Dick to stop for a second, her side was screaming at her. Dick ignored her pleas and kept moving towards the med bay.

When Robin and the girl limped into the kitchen the team all stood around quietly. Wally jumped up to help Robin but was stopped by the boy shaking his head. Wally looked after him a little crestfallen that he couldn't help his friend. The team had been discussing the turn of events after been kicked out of the cave.

"We shouldn't be keeping secrets from each other!" Artemis had complained as they entered the kitchen. Conner scoffed.

"Robin is the pinnacle of keeping secrets we don't even know his real name yet!" Wally rolled his eyes at the Kryptonian. He had known Dick's secret ID for years but that didn't mean he would go blabbing. However that didn't stop him feeling a little hurt that Dick hadn't told him about Batgirl.

"So there is a new bat in the family then." Artemis stated slumping to the floor. "What do you think happened to her, she looked pretty cut up?" Artemis looked to M'gann as if to ask her if she knew.

"I didn't read her mind so don't ask me." She said slightly defensive. "I did sense her emotions though; she was worried, scared and ashamed. Not only that but she didn't trust any of us, from the moment she ran out of the tubes she was uneasy but when she saw Robin she calmed down."

"What does that tell us?" Wally asked the green girl who shrugged slightly. "Did you get a read on Robin?" Wally asked again with a little more force behind the question.

"I didn't read his mind either; it's an invasion of privacy. You all taught me that...But he was feeling very anxious for this girl and confused and angry. His emotions are always very loud."

"So that tells us something." Artemis spoke up; they all turned to her expectantly. "Obviously they have known each other for a long time. Or she wouldn't have calmed down as much as she did when she saw Robin and he wouldn't have been freaking out so much about her. She must have been with Batman and Robin for a long time."

"No." Wally shook his head. "I've been friends with Rob long enough to know that she's newbie. She would have only just started in the game. And it would make sense to why for the last year I have seen less and less of Rob outside of the team. He is always busy. I bet he was training her." Wally summarized.

"It's a little worrying how much you notice that stuff Baywatch." Artemis laughed. Wally gave her a stern look.

"I'm serious, he is my best bud. I notice these things! I just never ask; if he wants to tell me something I'll wait for him to tell me."

"Yeah well I'm not as patient as you are when it comes to waiting for answers to questions." Artemis said standing up and walking to the computer in sitting untouched in the corner.

She opened it quickly and accessed the caves main frame. The team looked to her in shock. "What? Robin showed me how to do it when you guys were trapped by the reds." She opened the security feed from the cave. The team watched over her shoulder at what the two bat teens were doing. Wally knew it was wrong but it was a new member of the bat family how could he not be curious about it? Robins back was too the camera but they all saw him peel of his mask and put next to him. The team all leaned forward a little in anticipation; could they be about to see Robin's face? Wally reached forwards quickly and slammed the computer shut.

"Wally! What are you doing?" Artemis asked annoyed trying to open the computer again. Wally just snatched it up and walked to the couch.

"We can't do that to him. Robs ID is important to him." Wally said simply.

"He told you." Conner said slumping down into one of the seats.

"Yeah and he got into serious trouble off Batman for it." Wally snapped "if you want to know who he really is you should wait until he is ready to tell you."

"Wally's right." M'gann said smiling at the red head sitting down next to Conner. Artemis sat next to her boyfriend.

"Give me a little hint?" she whispered in his ear seductively.

"Don't even try it woman." Wally laughed pushing her away slightly but interlocking their hands. Artemis pouted childishly but smiled at her boyfriend.

"Ok, ok, I'll let it go."

They had made little conversation until they saw the two walk back into the kitchen. The girl looked as though she was in intense pain. Wally had just thought he could help Robin in the med bay and even get a few answers for once. Wally noticed the colour had drained out of the boys face, and it was obvious how worried he looked. Wally sat down again and sighed; if Dick didn't want to tell him just yet that was ok. But this time Wally wanted answers.

So that's the end of that chapter. I don't know when the next one will be ready but I am writing to now! I promise it wont take long!

Let me know how you liked it or hated it! TELL MEEEEE :)

I would just like to say a thank you to some readers who wrote to me telling me to take as much time as I needed after what happened. I really appreciate that you can all understand my lack of creative energy. So Thank you :D Hopefully I can keep this up and not disappoint you all!