Got Your Back, Always

II.XV

Dick says to everyone, "I lied. I lied to you guys because I was afraid you'd leave this place. And me. And if that happened, there would be no Titans." He looks over at the older Titans, "And I lied to you, too. I told you that Jericho was dead when I got to the church, but he wasn't. He was alive. He died trying to save me from his father. I'm sorry. You all deserved more."

Cassie grimaces and looks away from the group, not wanting to see their reactions towards Dick.

Hank leans forward, gets up, and punches Dick in the face, making Cassie flinch. Dawn springs up and rushes over to pull him back, "Lying sack of shit!"

Dawn makes him look at her, "Hey."

"How many other fucking half-truths have you told us?" Donna spits at him.

Rachel softly speaks, "At least you got a half-truth."

Rose glares at Dick, "My brother's dead because of you." She gets up, "I'm out."

"I'm going with her," Jason stands up.

Dick tries, "Jason, you-"

"Look, you don't decide what I do anymore. What anybody does." He follows after Rose.

Donna fully stands, "I'm out, too."

Rachel gets off the counter, "I'm going with Donna." Donna stops. "Can I go with you?"

"Sure," Donna looks at Dick and Cassie in confusion.

Gar asks quietly, "Rachel?"

She looks at him, "I can't stay here." She follows after Donna.

Hank looks at Dawn, "Let's go." The two of them leave.

Gar says from his spot in the kitchen, "Kind of messed up, Dick."

Kory's phone vibrates and she looks at the text. She exhales and looks up.

"You're leaving now?"Dick looks at her.

"I got a loose end to take care of. Sorry. At least it's out now. The truth. I'm sure they'll get over it soon."

He nods at her and she leaves.

Dick looks at Gar and sighs. Gar gets up and goes to his room, giving the two adults time to talk.

Their friends all leave and Dick watches them from the balcony, Cassie is with him watching.

"You're leaving aren't you?" Cassie looked at Dick.

He sighed, "I have to Cass, I can't stay here after what I did."

"Just tell me where you are going ok?"

"I don't know, far away from people, but besides that, I don't know."

"Well, I want an update when you decide. Don't make me shoot a tracker in you when you aren't looking."

"You wouldn't."

She raised an eyebrow at him, and he nodded actually believing that she would now that he thought about it.

"Why aren't you leaving Cass? You should be angry just like the others, I lied," he sighed and wouldn't look at her.

Cassie scratched the back of her neck, "Um well I kinda worked past my anger four years ago." Dick looked at her in confusion, "I may or may not have found surveillance footage of what happened in the church, for some reason it was still working, one of those battery-powered ones that take forever to die. Um and I saw everything that happened." She glanced at him, "I didn't know until everyone had left the tower. I was curious if there was any, and if we could use it to maybe track down Deathstroke and follow him and take him down for good, but all I found was that footage. Don't worry I deleted it and made it look like the camera had died weeks before, I doubt anyone would miss it anyway."