Chapter 15: Revealing the Past

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"How did you move on?", the young boy asked Slade at Iron Heights.

He gave Dick a hard look.

"I became stronger...", he answered simply yet mysteriously.

The boy blinked.

"Can I become stronger, too?"

"Yes... yes you can", the man answered knowing well where this is leading.

"Can... can you... help me?", he asked barely audible.

Slade gave him his most sympathetic smile, hiding his devilish grin.

'This shall be interesting...'

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"Believe it or not, two months later I killed my first target... Tony Zucco..."

"How did you felt that moment?", the person on the other side of the table asked him.

"How was I supposed to feel at this moment?", Robin shrugged nervously.

"..."

"Okay, fine!", Robin said, "I felt good killing him, pretty good"

"Why?"

"Because this bastard killed my parents, Dinah, that's why!"

"Didn't you want to... bring Justice over him? Hand him over to the police?"

"No..."

"..."

"Laurel...", he surprised her using her second name, "I was heartbroken, I just listened to the wrong guy and made some... okay many big mistakes"

Black Canary remained silent.

"You of all people should know how it is to make some big mistakes when you're sad and all..."

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Tony Zucco... gangster, mob leader, his parents' murderer... was standing right in front of him. Tied up like a Christmas present. His Christmas present.

Dick Grayson stood there, clothed in his Renegade uniform, gun pointing at Zucco's head.

"Please!", the man pleaded pathetically, "I have a wife and children!"

"Oh, please!", the boy laughed amused, "If this were true it would totally be cliché though! But it isn't, is it, Zucco?"

The man looked terrified at the boy holding this gun and tried freeing himself from the ropes tied to his limbs.

"Oh Tony...", the child started laughing again, "I'm kinda disappointed that you haven't anyone close to you"

He leaned down to Zucco until his wide opened eyes met Renegade's masked ones.

"I would have enjoyed doing the same thing to them I'm gonna do to you", he said sadly disappointed.

"No!", the man screamed, "Please! Don't!"

"You know what they're saying about people you love..."

"Please!"

"Shut up!", Renegade smacked him with his gun silencing him immediately, "I'm in the middle of my evil guy monologue! How rude! Okay... where was I...?"

He stroked his non existing beard trying to remember.

"Damn it! I forgot! You happy now?", he exclaimed angrily loading his gun and pulling the safety off, "But before I kill you..."

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