Days passed with an ease that both bothered and comforted her, the mundane moments are the ones that comforted her the most. The local masked loons doing their best to rob all from banks to the liquor stores and most if not all being stopped by the team, the closest thing to family she, Raven has ever had. So when Cyborg spent close to the third night well in to the night she wondered.
"Cy, what are you doing?" Raven asked after the second night in a row she found him well in to the night staring into the overly large screen in the commons room
"Yearly head count, seeing who is still doing what." Cy answered, happy to have some company as he does the mind-numbing task of finding and confirming every honorary Titan both location and progress as well as how they are coping with the 'hero life'.
"Ah, anything good, or is it just paperless paper work" Raven asked, sipping tea to pass the time.
"Well Red Star went MIA after some unconfirmed reports of possible survivors in Trnoble (?) but we believe its self-isolation due to his constant radiation output so we need to see if he has gotten dangerously desperate and may sell us out to whom ever for a possible cure. If he becomes a threat to security then we shut off his com and call it a day" Cyborg spoke as he skimmed several maps and diagrams of various bits of information that would give someone without a processor in there brain more than likely an aneurism.
"I say give him some support, I know what it's like to be a death sentence to the people you are supposed to save, exile is a painful choice to make and if he made it his heart is in the right place but make sure he doesn't go astray. Some people love it when a human weapon is trying to find some way to better humanity." Raven spoke in an almost hushed whisper, fully knowing that none but the two were up at the time.
"Oh, is that you busting out some life lesions? Stop the presses, is that the melting of a heat I see?" the metallic man joked.
"Keep it secret gods forbid Beast Boy finds out I'm not all death and despair, he'll blow a gasket." Raven joked, abet in dead pan.
"Oh, well I did my quota for the night; Ol' bird boy can suck it. Night, see yea." Cyborg spoke it with a yawn and walked off to his room, leaving Raven with just her thoughts and an empty cup in the dark.
The morning was of one of many before it, rising second behind Robin and hearing the squabbling making its way to the kitchen with her able to drink a cup and a half of tea before the headaches began. This morning it was Beast Boy's debate on the lack of good single ladies in the "whole hero-ing thing" to witch Cyborg promptly ignored, knowing Bumble Bee had ears and eyes in the tower.
Robin first words set the tone for the day, this was no different. "Cy, the reports, anything I need to know?"
"Yes, the Red Star thing, I will monitor and let it be known that we know what he's doing and see if he shares any info, Oh yea another thing. Kid Flash, his reports are a hair away from being unbelievable, he claimed that Jinx was a triple agent and fought to destroy the Titan from the inside out. I looked into it, they had a short relationship, and I use relationship loosely. As they were being seen throughout town together Kid Flash never once stopped his pre-Jinx womanizing. So it could be Flash taking the dumping a bit too hard and is being vindictive about it or he could have a nose for trouble and I don't see it. Who knows?" Cyborg explained, busy to get back to his meal.
"Anything you have in mind to find out the truth?" Robin asked, knowing full well he did.
Cyborg was hesitant; it didn't really work out that well the first time. "Well we can do the undercover thing again to find out but… I don't think it a real good thing to do; our track record for things like this isn't that good."
Robin thought about it for a second before speaking. "Well you and Star are out, Jinx knows your Victor and I don't think Star has the English skill to really sell it. That leaves BB and Raven… And well Terra but let's keep her out of it."
"What the hell did I do?" Terra yelled from across the room.
"Anger, you will snap and might throw a stone then blow your cover. " Robin looked at her as he spoke to drive the point home. He went to leave before stopping.
"Raven, BB's paper work is spotty at best; I am leaning towards you on this one just so you know." Robin continued.
Raven looked to Cyborg for support as she spoke to Robin. "You know how I feel about playing with people's emotions; interrogations are one thing and being a lie detector is another but no. This is the line in the sand and I will not do this, it is not right to do this when me and Cy both know she is doing her best to do the right thing."
"So you're saying that someone who was emotionally compromised as he was under deep undercover and then when rogue for a bit has the right to keep people on this team or is it one person's last ditched effort to be a good person struck a chord with you that gives her special privileges?" Robins tone was tact yet devoid of understanding.
Robin wanted to play this game then fine. Raven took a breath before playing her trump card. "Fine, I am saying I can't handle the strain on my mind that a second persona would place on it. This is fact and you know how dangerous my shattered psych can be."
Robin seen that Raven would not budge on the matter, but it must at least look like a compromise in front of the team. "Fine but we work as a team so you will be Beast Boy's handler, your teleportation can be the difference of life and death. So to make up for what will become pile paper work you will read and organize his reports on the matter to better understand what he's doing to make sure nothing 'unethical' is going on."
Raven knew what this became, a battle of wills and work. "I expect to green light all things to ensure that nothing is unethical, for both Beast Boy and Jinx. Oh and chore and training relief, need time to read and sort all of this, deal?"
"Fine, but if I don't get results I will take over." Robin explained with a menacing smirk.
"Absence of evidence is evidence of absence in this case; I am looking to prove that she is not doing anything illegal. We will not need to see if she is still hero-ing to prove that she's innocent, letting that be known." Raven shot back.
"Does this mean I get a fake I.D.? If so I may need to get in to bars to properly blend in with Jinx's social crowd… And a holoring, yea I need one of them to." Beast Boy asked from beside Cyborg, the previous conversation now forgotten.
Robin simply looked at Raven, letting her know that all of this depends on Beast Boy's ability to do what he's told as he's told. "Talk to Cy, he's the in charge of the tech on this one… And Raven, she is in charge of everything else."
Robin could be an ass sometimes, but then again he has always been a sore loser.
"So… Raven, umm… Am I getting an I.D.? Or do I have to do this the old fashioned way?" Beast Boy asked in the most compassionate way he could muster in such short notice.
Raven knew she would have to get in Beat Boy's good graces somehow and this could be the best way. "Yes, but only because you asked, now remember try to be responsible about this. It could get both of us in trouble alright?"
Beast boy looked like a kid at Christmas. "Thanks, now I know you didn't want to do this but I wanted to so thank you, you need anything just ask. So Cy, when is my haloring going to be made?"
Cyborg had already been working on this on his communicator. "Well do to the fact that this literally just happened I will have to say about a week or two and plus we need to find out where in the world she is. This entire thing is because she is off the grid so I have to find her first."
Beast boy hopes just crashed down as fast as the shot up. "That sounds bad 'off the grid'; I'm not going to a farm am I… I have been to Utah once and that is one time to many, so much corn. My god the corn and cows then guess what? More cows and corn, kill me now."
One by one the room emptied, Robin was first and terra second, Cyborg unable to handle all this depressing "farm" talk was next to leave after threating to make some look like a drag queen. That left a melodramatic Beast Boy, irritated Raven and a few pieces of toast on the counter, soon it was just beast boy and the left overs.
As Raven went to insure Cyborg wasn't going to be funny and make Beast Boy look like a drag queen when it came to the haloring she found a mildly odder sight. Cyborgs room with monitors of faces all of which had pink hair .
"New hobby or are you stalking someone?" Raven asked with a grin.
He turned and grinned as he spoke "no looking for Jinx, traffic cams check for faces, made sure it was Jinx's so we can close in on her. Thing is… it has more glitches' than skyrm so I have to do a lot of the heavy lifting."
So between the flashes of pictures Raven tried to get back on task. "So about making BB look like a drag queen, could you not. I kind of need him to be not socially shunned."
The local tin man looked shocked "You thought I would throw him to the wolfs like that?
For shame Raven, I plan on hooking him up. Me and him both know what it's like to be shot down by being not really human looking."
Raven just gave Cyborg a look that said a lot.
Cyborg back tracked instantly "You were born different, treated different from the get go. Gar had family, Doom Patrol that made it seem normal to be green, I was just some dude until the accident. Then this happened and we look for chicks and … It kills him and this is his chance to be normal so he is going to be fine. It was just this perceived reality that we were normal was shattered, mine faster than his. Don't wake up seeing code and not feel like Frankenstein you know."
Raven let all but one thing go. "You know Frankenstein was the scientist who created the monster not the monster right?"
"Not the point, but I will be making you one too, anything you do or do not want? I have to make Beast Boy tan to cover his green you on the other hand can be whatever shade you want." Cyborg said
Raven thought about it for a second then shook her head. "I will let you do whatever, trust your judgment."
Cyborg let out a little laugh. "You sure? I could make you a ginger, that would be fun right?."
Raven couldn't hold back a laugh. "Let's keep the red to a minimum, please?"
"But you could have your hair match your eyes when you go all 'demonic' on 'em." The metal Titan continued.