Chapter #6Time To Come Clean by: Baby Tai   Wally looked over to Dick, who continued to scream in agony and terror. He looked over at M'gann and nodded solemnly. He was hesitant about M'gann diving into Dick's mind, he had a good idea what the night terror was about and if M'gann read his mind it would reveal his secret identity, but he couldn't let Dick suffer any longer, Dick's identity wasn't worth the pain he was experiencing. M'gann floated towards Robin and placed her hands on the side of his head, suddenly her eyes began to glow, as did the boy wonders, a moment later M'gann was propelled backwards, everyone looked over to her, she was completely motionless, eyes wide as if she had seen a ghost, a stream of tears escaped her eyes as she continued to stare into nothingness. Wally bit his lip and grabbed onto Dick's screaming form.
"Dick, Dick, it's me, Wally," the speedster pleaded, "listen to me, focus on my voice." Everyone watched in amazement, they were all banking on Miss M's telepathy to snap Robin out of his dream but when that didn't work they had lost hope, Wally continued to talk in a surprisingly soothing voice, he recounted events that he remembered alongside the bird, in and out of costume. Suddenly, Dick's eyes closed and his screams stopped, a second later he slowly opened his eyes.
"W-Wally?" Dick asked, groggily coming into consciousness.
"Yes, Yes, it's me," Wally cheered, as he hugged the boy tightly, ignoring the moist feeling around the boy's crotch.
"Robin, what happened?" Zatanna asked, concern dripping from her face.
"You gave me a heart attack," Wally informed as he gripped the boy tighter, tears in his eyes.
"I saw, a circus, acrobats, blood, so much blood," M'gann recalled, trying to shake off her vision. Everyone looked towards Dick with confused and concerned expressions. Dick and Wally shared a glance before Dick sighed.
"I've been having Night Terrors," Dick informed, "about my parent's death."
"How long?" Kaldur asked. Dick took a deep breath before sighing.
"Five years," Dick replied, Wally gasped.
"But, that's..." He went to say.
"How long my parents have been dead," Dick finished, "I know."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Wally asked.
"Forget that, why didn't you tell anyone!" Artemis added. Dick looked down at the ground.
"I couldn't," Dick replied, "I didn't want to inconvenience any of you."
"YOU IDIOT!" Wally shouted, much to everyone's surprise. Everyone looked on as Wally began visually shaking. "All those years, all those years you've been suffering and I WASN'T THERE!" Tears were forming Dick's eyes as Wally shouted. "I WASN'T ABLE TO PROTECT YOU, I FAILED YOU!" Dick broke down crying and fell into Wally's arms.
"I'm sorry," he cried, "I-I can't handle it anymore, I can still hear their screams, see the terror on their faces. Please Wally, don't let me go back, I can't fall asleep every again, I need you to protect me." Everyone else in the room could do little more than stare at what was happening before them, they were far to confused, Robin had never acted this way before, and out of everyone he could have pleaded to pleaded to Wally?
"So, what are we going to do about Robin?" Artemis asked the group, Dick had gone to take a bath to clean up and the group moved to the briefing room to talk. Wally kept his eyes fixed on the table below him, he was devastated for Dick.
"Seeing him like that," Zatanna shivered, "I know how it feels to lose your parents, but to watch them die? Even in my worst nightmares I couldn't experience the trauma he must be feeling."
"When I tapped into his mind, I felt everything he was feeling for a second," Miss M informed, "Compared to that, Failsafe was nothing more than not getting the toy you wanted from Bat Burger." Everyone shuttered at M'gann's comment.
"We need to do something," Kaldur decided, "we can't let Robin suffer any longer."
"But to help him we need to know more about him then just acrobats and blood," Artemis reasoned, everyone turned to Wally. "Earlier you called him Dick, you know more about him than any of us, we need to know." Wally winced as he felt the glares on him.  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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