Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans; DC Comics, Warner Bros., and Cartoon Network own them, therefore I am a dedicated fan of the show and comic, which I have now started.
Author's Note: Hello, Nightwing's Gurl2023 here. I am presenting to you a continuation of Forget Me Not. You don't need to read Forget Me Not, but it would help you with the mention of the kids and all the events that went down in that story… Now I'm glad to present to you the next stage of the Teen Titans. If you haven't read Forget Me Not, I ask that you read that before you read this!!!! Thanks for reading!
Prevarication
Summary: The Titans are faced with yet another challenge; is the enemy real? Licentious and Arden, come back to the Titans to help their parents conquer this new enemy. The twist of Fates knife rutted so deep, not only the Teen Titans will be affected.
Chapter 1
Ever since the day of Licentious, Cordial, and Arden's arrival everything had altered, which in turn had Robin and Starfire admit their feelings. There was still enough hot air between BeastBoy and Raven to cause several appliances to explode on occasion. Cyborg was too absorbed in his work to notice how much it affected the others. Cyborg didn't even talk to Bumble Bee after what had gone on when the children had gone home. Everybody was reacting differently to what could go on in the future. Robin and Starfire had gotten closer over the time, they could be spotted several times coming out of the cinemas. Raven and BeastBoy on the other hand had drifted apart, both thinking and worrying about the future. Knowing that they'd be married had made the two even more cautious around the other.
Ever so often, Robin would see BeastBoy come out of his room, to get himself something to eat and sometime he would even come down to play his gamestation. Cyborg would always try to play with the little green dude to try and make him laugh or even complain. But all BeastBoy would do is sigh and put his remote back on the ground and head back up to his room. Raven was just the same except she wouldn't come down at all when BeastBoy was out of his room. She made it clear to avoid him at all costs.
Robin would go out of his way to try and get the two to talk but every time he would try, Raven would either use her dark magic to allow her to get through the wall and leave or she would just ignore BeastBoy until Robin or more likely, Starfire would let them out. When Star would let them out, they would go their own way back to their rooms and wallow in their pity.
Star had become elated that she and Robin had come closer, but she was still scared about Blackfire coming back and wreaking havoc. Some nights Star would wake up in a cold sweat, dreaming about losing Robin and the others; leaving her by herself. She would always rush to Robin's room for reassurance. He would hold her and lead her to the bed and would lie beside her and console her till the morning came. When it did, Starfire would go back to her room and gather her washing stuff and take a shower to rinse all the negativity away.
That morning, was the first of all firsts for Raven and BeastBoy. The both of them had gone down to the kitchen and they would eat in silence. Every so often, Star would watch them glance up and remotely took a quick look at the other and then would return their gaze back down to their food. Star would giggle and that caused the two to look up to her. Starfire would then look to Robin.
Out of nowhere, the signal went berserk. All jumped out of the seats and ran toward the common room, where Cyborg looked down to the monitors that kept search over the entire Jump City, with some miniature screens showing Steel City, Silver City and snaps of Exilic City.
"We got a guy, robbing a…" Cyborg looked up, "a Home Depot." He finished, basically showing the others that he knew who was robbing the place.
"Let's get going. Star can carry the R-cycle over there. Cy, you can drive over to the place if you want to." Robin dragged off, not sure what Raven and BeastBoy were going to do.
"Right, well friends, let's go." Star cut in. The team headed in their directions and all met up at the Home Depot between Jump and Steel City.
"Titans, Go!" Robin declared, springing into action. The doors already burst open, when they entered the building the security system wasn't blaring. They spread out searching down the different aisles in search of the robber. Raven was the one to spot him, and grinned evilly.
"Dr. Light… what a pleasant surprise, are you still afraid of the dark?" Raven closed her eyes and chanted, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos," dark magic starting to emanate around her.
"I'd like to go to jail now." Dr. Light announced before Raven could let out her anger on him.
Robin had stumbled across Raven and Dr. Light, and sighed, lately not a lot of villains had come out to try and cause disaster. Why, Dr. Light. Robin had said mentally to himself as he walked forward and grabbed Dr. Light's arms and swung them behind his back and clasped hand-cuffs around his wrists.
"That was too easy." BeastBoy commented. Robin caught a fleeting look of disappointment cross BeastBoy's face. Slowly, Robin glanced to others and led Dr. Light out of the building to wait for the officials to come and pick him up. Shortly after Dr. Light was escorted to the police quarters, the Titans made their way back to the tower. Star had carried the R-cycle back to the island and let it land on the back tire. Cyborg and BeastBoy had made their way in the T-car. Raven was nowhere to be seen, Robin had surmised that Raven had flown to the Tower right after Dr. Light was captured.
Star had made her way up to Raven's room and knocked lightly on the door.
"Go away, Star." Star could hear Raven speak.
"Friend Raven, what is burdening you so?" Star asked through the metal door.
"Nothing, now please leave."
"Friend Raven you need to talk about this. I can tell that you have something that is weighing you down. Why can't you talk about it?" Starfire was about to turn and leave when Raven opened her door.
"Fine, if I talk about it, will you leave me alone?"
Star nodded her head, and entered the room letting the door close silently behind her.
Author's Note: I'm glad that I'm now going to start a sequel. Licentious and Arden will make an appearance, as well as a new character that didn't appear in Forget Me Not… I want to point something out… I'm making the future a bit further, so Arden and Licentious will be older… Thanks for reading!!!
Ja Ne,
Nightwing's Gurl 2023