I hadn't had a real Conversation with him yet, so the mission briefing when we got back from the circus was somewhat nerve wracking . For reasons unknown Aqualad asked me to join him when he briefed batman. I was both sad and relived to be back from the circus, but to be honest I'd been hiding there just as much as I was here. I stood in front of batman, Aqualad by my side
I felt twelve years old again like this man still held control over my life. But standing there staring
him down I relized he didn't. He did not have control over my life, I was my own man and he had absolutely nothing to do with it. So I looked him in the eye, not as his sidekick but as hero in my own right and I gave him my mission briefing . I did not blink, I looked directly into the bat glare
and I did not back down. He was the embodiment of my inner demons and I faced him.
I did not blink.
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Under the Mask
FanfictionDick Grayson was fed up with Batman, that's true, but he was also tired, tired of always being treated like a kid, tired of keeping secrets, tired of fighting his inappropriate feeling for his best friend, just tired. At sixteen Dick left Batman, an...
