Journey to the Center of... Robin's Mind?! (A Young Justice Fan Fiction)

Chapter 4

The group of heroes walked in silence as Enthusiasm led them through the last part of the 'land of hopes and dream'. They kept thinking about what he had said. 'Why would Robin be afraid he wouldn't see his 14th birthday?' this was the thought going through all their heads.

"Hey Joy!" they all looked to see Enthusiasm waving at a small figure on a trapeze.

"Enthusiasm!" the figure jumped down from the trapeze and ran to give Enthusiasm a hug. "Where've you been all day? You said you would come play with me!" Even when he was pouting the little kid had a smile on his face.

Enthusiasm laughed and ruffled the boy's hair "Joy these are Dick's teammates. They came here but can't get out so I'm helping them."

"Oh ok." Joy nodded "Can I come too?!"

Enthusiasm shrugged "I don't see why not."

Joy jumped for, well... joy! "Yeah!" he then hopped up onto Enthusiasm's shoulders.

With Joy on Enthusiasm's shoulders he led the group of heroes to their next destination. "The field of memories!" Enthusiasm smiled "I always liked it here. Although..." he turned back to the group "You might not want to look at all of them..." before they could ask what he meant the ventured into another hall of mirrors type room.

"Of look a circus!" everyone walked over to see Megan pointing at a mirror.

"Huh..." Artemis watched the group of acrobat's in the mirror. "Until today I didn't know Dick was in the circus."

Bruce watched the scene obviously until he suddenly realized what they were seeing. "Wait don't look!" But before the team could look away suddenly the trapeze wires snapped and the performers fell to the ground in a bloody heap.

Enthusiasm shook his head sadly as they all gasped "I told you that you might not want to watch all of them." He took his hand down from Joy's eyes "I would never let him watch them either. That was when Dick's parents were murdered."

The group mindlessly walked among the other memories. As they watched each one it seemed like the next was always worse than the last. By the time they had gotten to the last one Megan was in tears.

"What's this one?" the heroes watched as it showed Dick sitting on a hospital bed while a blonde haired woman examined him.

"That's Leslie..." Bruce observed "But I don't remember this happening..."

~ "What happened this time?" Leslie asked.

Dick held his head in pain. "Bruce and I were fighting the Riddler earlier. When Bruce wasn't looking I got hit with some kind of ray and now I have a killer headache. I didn't want to worry him so I thought I'd just come here."

Leslie rolled her eyes "The two of you get into the most trouble." She sighed "Well let me take an X-ray."

Once the X-ray was finished Dick waited for Leslie to come back with the result. He kept waiting... until he heard crying. He got from the bed and walked into the hall. He saw Leslie sitting there crying holding a paper to her chest. He knelt down next to her "What's wrong?"

She looked up at him and started crying harder. She handed him the paper which turned out to be an X-ray. He looked down at it and instantly stopped. "Th-that's a..."

"Tumor..." She finished. "At this rate of its growth you have roughly a month to live..."~

(A/N - hey guys... so... Robin's dying yeah! Oh wait... Will the team be able to save him?! Find out next week in the next chapter! :) STay whelmed and feel the aster!)