A/N: Because in all my searching I couldn't find a concrete answer to how old the Titans were at the end of the series I have set their ages as: Cyborg (Victor Stone)- 18, Starfire (Koriand'r)- 17, Robin (Richard Grayson)- 16, Raven (Raven Roth)- 16, and Beast Boy (Garfield "Gar" Logan)- 15. If anyone can give me good evidence as to what ages the creators said they were I will happily change them. Also because at the time this story takes place Robin will have made the change to Nightwing I will be refering to him as Richard. Likewise many characters will be called by their "real" names throughout.

I of course do not own any of the characters, we know this.

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Raven watched her two teammates lose themselves to passion amid the lights of Tokyo and felt a hot knife twist through her heart. Though it didn't reach her eyes, the hollow smile on her face kept the pain from Robin's sight. She was an expert at controll and now it was more important than ever lest she ruin something so precious to the one most precious to her...

-Five Years Later-

Richard lifted the soothing cup of black coffee to his lips and wondered again at the road life had laid before him. Never would he have guessed when he accidentally formed the Titans all those years ago that would he be this man he is, sitting across the table from his friends at a Gotham coffee shop. After their adventure in Tokyo, his teammates had slowly gone their own ways. A far cry from the bleak future Starfire had seen, they all still remained friends but had outgrown their Titan roles. Cyborg had been the first to leave. About a year after Japan he had gotten a call up to the majors: the Justice League.

You guys! The Martian Manhunter saw the work I did to disable Vandal Savage's doomsday device and they want me to become a member! BOOYAH!

He now spent most of his time on their satellite, up to his electronic elbows in the latest gadgets. Beastboy had left soon after his best friend, first trying out a solo act then joining up with Titans East when Aqualad had left. Last year he had also joined the League and started going by "Changeling".

Duuuuuude stop calling me "Beast Boy" I'm in the League now! I gotta come up with a better name...

Seeing her friends leave one by one, Raven had returned to Azarath and Richard hadn't seen her since.

It's time for all of us to move on Robin, especially me. Besides with Trigon defeated there are new forms of magic I can study on Azarath that were forbidden to me before.

Before he had known, it Richard had found himself alone with Starfire in the Tower and in a budding relationship. At first everything had gone smoothly. They trained a new team of young heroes and eventually handed over the reigns before relocating to Richard's hometown: Gotham. He and Star had gotten an apartment and for two years life was bliss. But then he began to notice a change in his lover from space. Starfire seemed less and less willing to go out on missions, often assuring Richard that he and his old mentor, Batman, had everything under control. She skipped training exercises for cooking classes (originally meant to be couples cooking classes but Richard had put his foot down) and once or twice Richard swore he saw her thumbing through bridal magazines. Stranger still she gave up wearing her uniform altogether and took to dressing in nondescript dresses. Then six months ago everything had come to a screeching halt. The day had started like any other. He had gotten up after a long night helping Batman train his newest protegé, Jason Todd, before joining the pair on patrol. Starfire was in the kitchen preparing something that actually smelled edible. He padded in on bare feet and hugged her from behind.

"Mmmm that looks tasty." His nose was buried in her hair, even all this time later he could still remember how her hair smelled.

"You went out again last night." She whispered shrugging him off. Sensing dangerous territory he pulled out a chair at the kitchen table and sunk into it. Starfire was getting more and more prone to these flares of temper. Last week it had been when he had to cancel their date night because Joker had escaped...again.

"Kori, Bruce needed me. Jason is still in training and Bruce is wearing himself thin trying to protect Gotham on his own and keep up with his League duties. We talked about this." Starfire spun waving a wooden spoon wildly at him.

"No! You did the talking! Speech after speech about duty to Gotham, to Bruce. What happened to not always being heroes?" She signed and muttered to herself in Tamaranean. "I'm tired of this life Richard. We gave so much in years we should have spent being children. I know we did it because it was needed, but now there is no need. The League has unified the heroes and the world has never known such safety. Maybe it's time we start living just as people." Richard ran a hand through his hair. It was getting shaggy.

"If everyone started doing that there would be no League left. We can't be selfish Star, we have gifts and it is our job to protect the people with them. We can't nor will we ever be 'just people', I'm sorry." He saw tears rim her emerald eyes and felt his heart break.

"Then there can be no 'we' Robin. I'm tired of never being put first in your heart. I want a life for us, not just brief moments between missions. There are other people to care for Gotham now; it is not that you can not, it is that you will not give this life up." she said sadly, using the one pet name he allowed. "I'm going back to Tamaran." They had fought long into the day, he trying to convince her to stay and she trying to convince him to give up his life as a hero. Neither could be moved. That night she flew back to Tamaran and Richard wandered the empty appartement alone. After a week of waiting for her to come back he could stand it no longer and had moved back into Wayne Manor. Unwilling to see his first disciple spiral into despair, Batman had contacted Cyborg. Richard's old teammate had shown up at the Manor with his usual cure-all: pizza and video games. Slowly Richard told him the whole story.

"Man that's tough. I'm not going to lie though dude, there was nothing you could have done; you both just wanted different things. I love Star but she should have known you well enough to know that this is a part of you she can't change." Weeks passed and Richard slowly made his way back to normal till here he was six months later, sitting across from his two former teammates wondering at the strange turns his life had taken.

"...and then Tara went all 'girl power' and whooped the guys butt." finished Gar with a laugh. Richard, smiled tuning back into his friend's story. He was glad that things were working out between Gar and Tara "Terra" Markov. "Beast Boy" turned "Changeling" had never given up on his former teammate and not so secret love. After much patience on his part she had finally admitted to remembering who she was and the pair had begun to timidly date though she stayed out of the hero life.

"Oh did I mention that Rae is coming back to Earth? Gotham to be precise." Piped up Victor aka "Cyborg" with a sideways glance at Richard. He had been the only member of the team that Raven had stayed in contact with after returning to Azarath. She sent the occasional letter by something Victor referred to as an "interdimentional telegram". Richard raised a dark eyebrow.

"Yea," Victor continued. "remember Argent? Well her real name is Toni not that that's important but anyway a couple of days ago she contacted me at the League and wanted to get a message to Rae. Apparently she's getting a place here in Gotham and wanted to ask Raven to be her roommate because she's, and I quote: 'the only one in the biz I know that doesn't run on sunshine and pixie dust'. So I passed the message on and looks like our girl is coming home! 'Bout time too if you ask me, right Richard?" The former Boy Wonder gave a noncommittal shrug and changed the subject.

"I've been meaning to ask you Victor, how is it that you and Gar are able to look so," he struggled to find the right word. "average?" He gestured towards Victor's seemingly all flesh appearance and Gar's no longer green skin.

"Oh!" exclaimed Gar. "Didn't we tell ya? It's from the League since so many of us aren't able to pass as 'normal' they've been working on ways to camouflage us in case we have to go undercover. 'Course most of us from the 'freaky division' use it to walk around without being stared at on our days off." Victor held up his wrist to show Richard a slim silver band with etched script.

"Some of the supes with magic got together and came up with these. They're simple glamor spells, no muss no fuss. Never has to be recharged. I'm telling you being in the League is awesome." He poured another ten packets of sugar into his coffee and tried another sip. "You know with about fifteen sugars this stuff isn't so bad!" Richard laughed and shook his head. Victor never did out grow his sweet tooth. "But about Rae coming back to Gotham..." Richard gave his friend a glare.

"I know what you're trying to do and I want you to stop. Right now."

"Come on man you two used to dig each other I could tell! What's the harm?" Richard stood up and tossed his cup into a nearby trashcan before storming away from his two best friends.

"Well you blew that one." muttered Gar slurping his soy latte. "Besides I thought you always wanted Richard and Kori to end up together."

"Dude are you blind as well as stupid? The reason I showed support in Tokyo is because lets face it, that little bird boy needed to lighten up. Starfire was good at getting him to do that, but I never thought it would last." He stared off into the distance. "No, Raven gets him and he gets her being the only one to get even slightly under that four-foot thick emotional armor of hers. They danced around each other when we were a team because she didn't want to let him in and hurt him and he didn't want to push and hurt her. So he went after Star and Rae retreated ever inward. Tragic really." The two friends sighed in unison and stood up to dispose of their drinks.

"I better head out Beast Boy I promised Rae I'd help her move in all the stuff I've been holding onto for her. Hard to believe she's been gone almost four years."

"Dude! I've told you a million times, it's 'Changeling'! I'm not a boy ok I'm a man." Gar struck a silly macho pose. "Let me know if you guys need any help alright?" Victor nodded.

"Will do." he replied patting his friend on the back. "Oh and Gar? 'Boy' or not you'll always be my little grass stain buddy."

Across town a small beam of light appeared on the roof of a apartment complex and a slim woman stepped out. Holding an ancient book to her chest she took a deep breath and flicked a strand of lavender hair from her face.

"Home again jiggaty jig."

A/N: All reviews are welcome, I'm open to constructive imput!