Threats of futures past

Chapter 3

Robin pov

Artemis helped me into my bed before she smiled and walked out. Soon after, I looked at the celling and start to think. With the amount of time's I've been hurt and injured lately. Was I right to take up this crusade. Am I really suitable for this, I mean, what was the point of all this, like, if I was meant to be just Bruce Wayne's ward, then why did he allow me to take up the mantel of Robin. Am I really a valuable asset to the team. Do I belong among them. Do I?

Artemis pov

As I walk into my room. I think back over my time spent with Dick. Is he really a brother to me, or is he more. I feel something more for him then just brotherly love, but I can't exactly pinpoint the exact thing. It's almost as if I love him but that would be impossible. How could I love him, he's like a brother to me. Yet he doesn't feel like a brother to me. So why would I see him as one. He's something more to me, I know it but I need to figure it out. Maybe Canary can help me with this feeling. Sighing, I take a shower and look in the mirror. My father and sister are out there, and most likely after me. But I feel as if the death of my mother was the message my father wanted me to receive. But I couldn't give up on my crusade now. Not with how far I had come. As I got into the bed. I layed down and felt the warmth grow as I fell asleep.

I woke up the next morning to the sound of footsteps running and shouting. Getting up, I open the door to my room and walk out to see Bruce holding his head and Alfred walking around. Diana was there with Bruce. Looking around, I walk over and speak. "What's going on?" Bruce continues to hold his head and Diana then speaks. "It's Dick, he's gone" "What!" Diana nods and I walk into his room before looking around and seeing a note on the bedside table. Walking over to it, I pick it up and begin to read it. "Dear Bruce, Alfred and Artemis. I leave this letter on the table to explain my disappearance. After my encounter with Kevin, and the eventful mission yesterday, I felt that I am not suitable to take on the mantel of Robin or to be your ward Bruce. Artemis, I'm sorry you had to be dragged into this, but you were the only source of hope I had till yesterday when all my doubts came. I decided that it was best I leave the team and the life of a hero and playboy ward behind. Alfred. I know you care for me but you need to let me go. As for the rest. I have a lot left to explain with my past. I've left a recording on my bed explaining it all. Love Dick Grayson" As I lay the note down, I feel a tear in my eye as I walk over and pick up a hard drive. After a few minutes, I speak. "Guys, Dick left a hard drive with a video recording on it along with a note that you may want to read" Bruce comes in seconds later and picks up the note and reads over it before he picks up the hard drive and walks to the Batcave. With the rest of us following. We walk over to the Batcomputer and wait as Bruce uploads and brings up the video. He then starts playing it. "If you are watching this, then it means I've left and you've read the note I left on the bedside table. I have much to explain about my past and it's time I reveal most of it. My parents were not murdered by accident, Sportsmaster had worked in conjunction with Kevin to bring them down so that my skills might be used for the purpose of their own goals. Zucco was hired to bring them down so that they might approach me afterwards. As this plan failed, they attempted many other plans and after many of them failed, decided that the best way was to get at me from a different approach, first by having my secret revealed to the team, which failed at best but succeed in some form by revealing it to Artemis where Kevin then, in turn told Sportsmaster who went on to kill your mother. It was there goal to bring Artemis to live at Wayne Manor where they could then ambush us both and take us both in. But hadn't planned the time nor had they managed to gather the wits to do so. Thus they opted for a different approach by having Clayface and Ridder draw out the team so that I might be gravely injured and start to question where I truly belong. And it was this plan that succeed. I am long gone by now. But you must understand that I left for good reasons. If you attempt to search for me, you may have some luck but I know you will fail. By the time you are watching this, I will no longer be Gotham. But I have a few words to say to you all. Alfred, you were a third father to me. You treated me in ways in which Bruce didn't. Bruce, you were a second father to me, but you often made rules for me that often weren't the best. And Artemis. From the day I first saw you, I knew there was something special about you. And I feel as if I now know what that feeling was. Love, you are not a sister to me, you are more. But I may never be able to tell you in person. But I love you." The video ends and I feel more tears in my eyes. Why did this have to happen, why did this have to happen to us, to me. This isn't fair, not fair at all. "Diana, can you please care for Artemis, I need time to grief over this loss" I move forward as Diana takes me away. I now know what it was I was feeling, it was love, I loved him. He was more then a brother to me and it took this to make me realise it, but it was too late, he was gone. I may never get to tell him what I truly felt for him.

Unknown pov

But I can tell that this will be fun, for they will never know who truly hit them. I laugh as I stare down at the broken boy before me. It will be the end of them, he will end them and it'll so glorious to watch as he guns them down, his friends, dying at his hands.....