Eric Grayson played idly with his pen, tuning out the teacher and letting his thoughts wander.

Leaving the Titans

If there was one thing that made the decision for him it was that. Leaving the Titans, leaving Eagle behind. They all knew that it would be impossible for him to continue with his vigilantism in another country , especially not with an entire society of metas keeping an eye on him.

There were other magic users, people whom they trusted, who could teach him. But even they admit that magic was volatile, and that each different brand of it worked in different ways. Even if he sought the help of other magic heros, they might not be able to truly harness his power, they might not even manage to teach him how to fully grasp it.

They had contacted Raven first of course, She was a lot closer to his father than the other magic users and she had shaken her head and simply said "His brand of magic is different from mine, I can teach him to control his emotions, to stop unexpected bursts of power, but how to use it is a different matter.

It was why they started him on Raven's brand of meditation.

Eric thought it would be easy, never showing your emotions was a batclan policy when on the streets, but keeping a poker face was completely different from not feeling at all. Each time he felt himself getting angry he had to retreat to the back of his mind, somehow he had to remove himself from his anger before coming back to himself.

He wasn't good at it of course, he actually needed to think of phrases that would eventually calm him down.

Didn't help that Raven refused to translate Azarath Metrion Zinthos for him.

So now he was stuck trying to figure out exactly HOW to calm himself down. He was pretty sure that screaming Nachos, PS3, soda wouldn't work.

"Mr. Grayson, care to tell us what the answer is?"

Crap.

"Umm…" Thank God he had already taken up Advanced Math ages ago, his Math class was easy in comparison "Two hundred and fifty-six sir"

The conference room was in chaos, with many of the world's teen heroes muttering amongst themselves.

"But you can't leave!"

"Itsnotfaircan''tleavebecausebecau-

"Come on Eagle, you can't just up and move away!"

Oh for the love of- "SHUT UP ALL OF YOU!"

Silence

"Now, I don't like this just as much as you do, but I don't like thinking that this magic of mine isn't in my complete control. Everyone else is still figuring out if Zatanna or somebody else could teach me, but no one has ever heard of a society of metas like this and we can't be completely sure. But that doesn't mean I'm moving away alright?" Eric looked around the room and breathed a sigh of relief, now hopefully they could go back to work.

"So you aren't leaving?"

"I don't know KidFlash"