Disclaimer; don't own the Titans.

Note: goes with "But I Love You More". This fic is F/F meaning Girls Love. Raven/Star

Key:

---+ = a flashback

---+/= end of flashback.

The Raven and the Tamaranian

One

The Summer heat was unbearable for everyone, even I had grown to stop wearing my cloak around the tower. Our air conditioning wasn't much, but it made for a great improvement in contrast to the threatening heatwaves outside.

However, one Titan seemed to be in good element. The orange-skinned Tamaranian was sitting in the dining room, giddily humming an unfamiliar tune (probably a Tamaranian song), and creating something with brightly colored construction paper and beautiful, vibrant, beads.

Things had returned to normal since that rainy night when Kori surprised me by weeping into my shoulder. Little did I know, that wouldn't be the only thing she'd do that would surprise me.

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Three days after, on a similarly rainy night, the girl crept into my room and sat on the edge of my bed.

I had my back turned to her, re-organizing a bookshelf full of dusty tomes. Perhaps she thought I didn't know she was also occupying my room, for the girl remained silent, intently watching my back. The feeling of her eyes glued to me made me a bit uneasy and awkward, but I busied my mind with thoughts of this goes there and that shouldn't be here.

Perhaps the still silence was getting to her, for the girl cleared her throat and I tossed a glance over my shoulder, "Oh, Kori!" I said, pretending that I hadn't known that she was in here, "how long have you been here?"

Maybe she knew, but she smiled sweetly and shrugged. I placed a significantly damaged book on my desk and sat beside her on the bed, "is something wrong?" Of course something's wrong, no one comes in here otherwise.

She nodded, paused, shook her head from side to side, then looked at me uncertainly.

"Which is it?" I smiled soothingly, "I can't read minds......well...I can, but.." Not one for cracking jokes, I cleared my throat, only a bit embarrassed, "er..yeah."

Kori giggled lightly, but her gaze was fixed on her fidgeting hands, "erm...." She started making amusing faces, obviously looking for a good way to word what was on her mind, "how do you....well....how do you know when you're in love with someone? No rather....what it like having someone....like that."

That was the first thing she said that caught me off guard, of all the people to go to for advice on love, she had come to me? More so, she seemed the type to know a lot about love. I silently rolled the question around in my head, I had only ever been in love maybe three times, I thought back to how I had felt around those people, but back then my powers were unstable and I had kept my distance from them, I had kept those emotions sheltered back then.

Was there someone I was in love with now?

Yes, undeniably.

But I wasn't ready to admit to that.

I shrugged, "Its like having a really good friend." I knew that was a stupid way to put it, but I didn't want to analyze something that felt different to other people. "Like having someone you can tell anything to, all your secrets, anything. Someone that would stick through it all with you, your good and bad, ups and downs.....and someone that laughs at your jokes, no matter how bad they are." I smiled at the last part, thinking of BB. I glanced at Kori, who was nodding and listening intently, "I have to admit, you always seemed to be the type that knew everything about such a topic."

The red head shrugged, "I was curious about what you thought." She had said her thank you's and left the room.

An hour later, as I was getting ready for bed, she poked her head into the doorway, "Friend Raven?"

"Hm?"

"Can I sleep with you tonight?"

"Hnuh? What?" I thought my heart stopped as I jerked my whole body around to look the girl square in the eyes, "why?"

She shrugged, her eyes were red, as if she had been crying, "please?"

I silently nodded.

Needless to say, I didn't get any sleep with the one I love cuddled so closely to my body.

Of course, I wasn't ready to admit that.

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I walked down the hallway, thinking back on the night. I remember the next morning, moving carefully so I wouldn't wake up the sleeping girl. I remember amused eyes and a sleepy smile, a soft chuckle escaping those lips as I apologized profusely for waking her. Most of all, I remember how fast my heart raced as I watched her sleeping image. An image that still made my heart race whenever I thought back on it.

I shook my head of the thoughts...the feelings.

They were all unrequited.

But a small part of me, deep down, wished that wasn't the case.