Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans or any of the characters.
Setting: Takes place a couple of years in the future when the Teen Titans are all about 19 years-old.
Raven sat meditating in her room, tryingto block out the loud belching contest Beastboy and Cyborg were having. After all these years they were still the same: loud and as annoying as ever. Sighing Raven tucked her waist-length blue hair behind her ear and walked out the door into the living room.
"Do you mind?" She asked her hood now pulled up and shadowing her features. "I'm trying to meditate."
"Awww, c'mon Raven! This is fun!" Beastboy, who had now grown into a tall sleek guy, said.
"Yeah it's fun!" Cyborg chimed in. "Wanna join?"
"No." Raven said in her usual monotone voice. "It's disgusting."
"We have arrived home blorghs and griffvoles!" Starfire announced as she and Robin walked through the front door carrying a ton of shopping bags. Now she had cut her red hair shorter and wore a pink outfit with pink boots. "We have gone shopping for Christmas!"
Beside her Robin put down the ton of bags he had been carrying and said thankfully, "I'm so glad glad that is done and over with! I thought we'd never finish." Now Robin had a blue and black outfit on and his shoulder length hair really did make Starfire and him look like a good couple.
"I'm going out," Raven said, but everyone was to busy talking and belching to pay any attention to her. Without another word she walked out into the snow surrounding Titans Tower and began to walk in no particular direction, so long as she was distancing herself from her annoying roommates.
I doubt they even care that I left. None of them even understand me, let alone like me. After several years Raven could still feel the invisible barrier that blocked her off from the rest of the teen titans. She always felt alone.
"That's right." A voice whispered into her ear and automatically Raven knew that it was Rage, her darker emotion. "They never cared about you. They don't even want you as part of the Teen Titans let alone to live with them. "No! They do care! I have to stop thinking like this!" Do they? If they do, they sure have an awkward way of showing it. "Stop! Leave me alone!" Raven practically screamed the words and kneeled in the snow clasping her head in her hands.
Finally the voice disappeared and Raven just sat huddled in the snow, trying to repress all of her surging emotions. "Azarath Metrione Synthos." Raven repeated to herself bringing her back to her calm state.
With a sigh she stood up and brushed the snow from her dark blue cloak. For a while she continued to walk with no purpose in mind, until she suddenly came across a splattering of blood on the snow in the woods. "What is this?" Raven bent down to take a closer look and instantly the acrid smell of blood reached her nostrils. The blood continued to lead a path somewhere deeper into the forest. "Maybe it was an animal." Raven was about to head home when she came to the conclusion she must check to see if it might be a human in need of medical attention.
With that, she strode deeper and deeper into the forest until the blood broke off at a stream. From where she stood however she could still see blood on the opposite bank and crossed so she could follow the tracks. As the sun was setting she came across a cabin with a curl of smoke rising from the inside.
In an instant she had swung the door open and saw a figure curled up by a makeshift fireplace. She was just about to wake the stranger up, when he suddenly turned. Raven gasped as she saw a boy about her own age with black hair, green eyes, and a pale complexion and a cape of white wrapped around his shoulders. With a look of horror Raven backed away and ran back to Titans Tower, never bothering to look back at the bleeding figure.