Okay, sooo… This is different from my usual fan-fiction, but hear me out alright? This is just a prologue and there will be more to come. Click 'follow', click 'fav', click review… Pleeeaaase, just click SOMETHING, so that I know my writing doesn't suck as of yet! Ahem, thank you… ;-)

Prologue

"Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age

The child is grown, and puts away childish things.

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies."

― Edna St. Vincent Millay

This wasn't supposed to happen…

Such was the only thought that continued running through Robin's mind, over and over.

This was never supposed to happen…

He should have seen this coming. He should have known. Where did he go wrong? He took every precaution he believed was needed to help get the job done, but it was not enough. He ought to have learned by now that simply taking precautions is never enough. He should have also tried following his gut, what his feelings were telling him- one would think he ought to have learned that by now, as well.

But no- this time, it was too late. And so right now, all he could do was look on helplessly, into the numerous pairs of eyes that would have once reflected his as a young boy: Dull… distant… devoid of all liveliness and just, well, frozen; frozen in that one moment of pure unadulterated horror that haunted each individual's dream when those eyes would close. The eyes moving towards him now, they were all frozen- trapped in their own personal nightmares (whether these nightmares were ever real like his, or not) and there was nothing he could do to help them escape their hallucinations.

Nothing he could do… Just as there was nothing he could do that day when he lost his parents- when he lost his childhood… If he never escaped this tragedy as it repeated in his worst nightmares, how could he help anybody else escape from theirs?

This wasn't supposed to happen… This was never supposed to happen…

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