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okay...on with it...


A/N: This takes place 2 years in the future. (.i.e.: The characters are two years older than they were. And it takes place about a year and a half after The End.


Disclaimer: (This applies to all following chapters)...I do not own the Teen Titans. They belong to the WB or Cartoon Network or whoever owns them. I DO, however, own April Simmons and this plot.


Chapter 2:

Robin, founder of the Teen Titans, was sifting through the daily mail, seeing if anything interesting had come for him. The eighteen-year-old hero was incredibly bored. Jump City was silent of all crime and the other Titans were still sleeping.

It was noon on a Saturday on a warm day in the beginning of September. Saturday was the day the Titans normally slept in, but today, Robin was up early.

"Today..." Robin said to himself looking through the letters, "I'm going to answer fan mail." Robin stopped looking through the letters and rolled his eyes from behind the black and white domino mask that covered his eyes. "Damn, I forgot...we don't get fan mail. We get every other type of mail..." Robin continued shifting through the mail and ranting to himself. "Junk, junk, more junk, water bill, electric bill, Internet bill, telephone bill, newspaper—I'll read that later...crap, more crap. Wow. We have really hit the jackpot today with this exciting load of mail. BB's magazine, a reply from April, a load of bullsh—WOAH!" Robin stopped excitedly and picked up the letter. "A reply from April!"

Robin opened the the envelope and scanned April's letter. After reading it, he made a loud "whoop!" and grabbed scribbled his own reply. He jumped on his R-Cycle, which was parked in the garage, and sped through the underground passage. He stopped only to punch in a security code and then continued through the passage. He came out in the sunlight in a parking lot next to the city harbor. Robin stuck the letter in the mailbox, and raised the red flag, signaling a letter was in the box, waiting to be sent.

Robin turned and faced the harbor, admiring the beauty of the Titan's Tower and its reflection on the water. The island on which the Tower was built, was bright green with grass, and almost always looked welcoming. Robin sighed, hopped back on his bike, and rode back to the tower.

When Robin had returned, StarFire, the alien Titan from the planet, Tamaran, was sitting at the the breakfast table with a bowl of Rice Krispies sitting in front of her. Robin grabbed the Frosted Flakes, a bowl and a spoon and sat down across from StarFire.

"I guess you have found something most interesting in the mail this morning," StarFire said with a smile.

"How do you know?" Robin said taking a spoonful of StarFire's Rice Krispies and sticking it in his mouth.

'Well..." StarFire said taking a spoonful of Robin's cereal and doing the same. "I do believe that I am quiet sure that the daily post was scattered across the floor."

"Really?" Robin asked innocently.

StarFire laughed and leaned across the table and kissed Robin on the tip of his nose.

Robin placed his pointer finger underneath StarFire's chin and he moved her lips to his.

The kiss between the two Titans had only lasted a few seconds, when, Beast Boy, the Titan who had the ability to morph into any beast at will, walked into the room.

"Am I interrupting something in here?" Beast Boy asked quirking an eyebrow at the sight of the two making out at the breakfast table.

StarFire and Robin separated immediately at the sound of Beast Boy's voice. StarFire blushed pink, and Robin turned a deep shade of scarlet and rubbed the back of his head.

"Uhhhhh...maybe?" he said.

StarFire laughed as she got up from the table and put her cereal bowl in the sink. She passed by Robin, touching his shoulder as she left the room.

"Dude...when are you going to propose to her?" Beast Boy asked sitting down in StarFire's spot after making sure that she was gone.

Robin looked startled. "How did you know I was going to do that?" Robin questioned Beast Boy.

"I saw the receipt for the ring in the garbage last night," Beast Boy replied taking the Frosted Flakes from Robin, who took a spoonful of his own cereal.

"Shit," Robin muttered, "that was gonna be a surprise."

"Don't worry—can you pass the milk?—I haven't told her anything," Beast Boy reassured.

"I'm not worried about you telling anyone...I trust you...it's just that if you saw it, Star might have too," Robin said handing the milk carton to Beast Boy. Robin took a small, black box out of his pocket. He looked over his shoulder towards the doorway.

"Dude...is that the one ring to rule them all?" Beast Boy asked with a chuckle.

Robin nodded and opened the box.

Beast Boy gasped in amazement.

"Yeah, it is," Robin said.

"Man that is the largest stone I have ever seen."

"That's pretty close to what i thought when i saw it in the display window. Although, there was only the center stone when I first saw it," Robin mused.

"You had this thing custom-made! Jeez, just the diamond itself must've cost a fortune!" Beast Boy exclaimed.

"I couldn't just buy a plain old diamond... it was too boring, too ordinary. I needed a one-of-a-kind diamond for a one-of-a-kind girl," Robin explained.

"Can I see it closer up?" Beast Boy said.

"Sure. Just as long as you don't take it out of the box, and as long as you don't touch it," Robin warned.

"Is there anything I can do with it?" Beast Boy said.

"Yeah. You can look at it," Robin answered handing the small box to Beast Boy.

The twenty-four karat heart-shaped diamond was mounted on a sixteen-karat white gold loop. The diamond was surrounded by red rubies and green emeralds.

"Wow...dude... I know this is rude but I just have to ask. How much did this thing cost?" Beast Boy inquired.

"Didn't you just say you saw the receipt?" Robin asked waving his spoon in the air.

"I said I saw the receipt. I didn't say I really actually looked at the receipt."

"Then how do you know I bought a ri—

"I saw the name and address of the jewelry store at the mall," Beast Boy interrupted.

"But how do you know it was me who—

"Because you are the only one I know here who would actually have a motive to shop there," Beast Boy interrupted again.

Robin shut up and did not ask any more questions.

"So, how much did it cost?" Beast Boy asked again.

Robin did not answer right away. "Seventy-five thousand," Robin said quietly.

Beast Boy fell off of his chair. "Shit! Robin, where'd you get that kind of money?" Beast Boy said climbing back onto the chair.

"After Cyborg and I finished building the tower, we had over three million dollars left. So I put it into an account for later use," Robin explained.

"I figured you had money left over from the tower, but where, my friend..." Beast Boy made a motion to the Tower around them, "...did you get the money to build this baby?"

"After I stopped working for Bruce Wayne..." Robin stopped in mid-sentence noticing the blank look sprawled across Beast Boy's face. "Batman," Robin said.

"Oh. Right," Beast Boy said his cheeks blushing a pinkish color.

"After I stopped working for Batman, I got lots...when I say lots, I mean LOTS...of donations from various groups, companies, factories, et cetera. I bought myself a different suit that was similar to my old one, but with pants—

"You're old suit didn't have pants?" Beast Boy said half laughing.

"I bought myself the R-Cycle..." Robin continued in a stern voice. "Built the Tower, and formed the Titans."

"That's so cool! But you haven't answered my first question," Beast Boy pointed out.

Robin was the one with the blank look this time. "And that was..?"

"When are you going to propose to Star?" Beast Boy repeated handing the ring box back to Robin.

"I really don't know. I haven't really thought about it that much. I have other more important things on the mind."

"What's more important that your Love Life?" Beast Boy asked.

"Finding—

"Oh, come on, Robin. Stop with that cock and bull. He's gone."

Robin sighed. "When the time is right, I'll propose to h—

"Morning guys," Cyborg, the Titan who was half robot, said walking into the room and strolling over to the refrigerator.

Robin slammed the black ring box shut and stuffed it into his pocket.

When the box slammed shut, Cyborg, who's head was inside the fridge, hit his head on the roof of the fridge.."What was that noise?" he asked rubbing his head where he bumped it.

"What sound?" Robin asked innocently.

"The sound of me snorting when you hit your head," Beast Boy suggested with a grin, coming to Robin's defense.

"Very funny..." Cyborg said sarcastically deciding on three egg-and-cheese sandwiches for breakfast.

Robin helped himself to a glass of milk.

Cyborg sat down next to Beast Boy.

"Hey, Cy? Does it make you feel weird that the city has been quiet all week?" Robin said.

"Nope. It gives me more time for video games."

"I'm with the Robot," Beast Boy chimed in.

"It just gives me a weird feeling," Robin continued, stirring his soggy Frosted Flakes in a circle and then watching them float around the bowl.

Beast Boy shrugged.

Robin raised the glass of milk to his mouth—Then it began to glow black.

"Thanks for the milk," Raven, the witch Titan with telekinetic powers said floating into the room. The milk drifted to her hand and she took a sip from underneath her dark blue hood.

"That was mine," Robin muttered under his breath as he got up to retrieve another glass from the cabinet. When he got back, Raven had taken his seat. "That was also mine," he grunted.

"You snooze you lose," Raven said with no enthusiasm.

"Yes, except I was up before all of you," Robin said in an undertone taking a seat next to Raven for the meantime.

"Robin, stop being paranoid. So what if the city is quiet. Gives you more time for you, instead of kicking someone else's ass," Cyborg said through a mouthful of egg and English muffins.

"Yeah, but I mean quiet. Not a single robbery. And I didn't see a single pigeon when I went downtown yesterday," Robin said noticing a look from Beast Boy.

"You went to the mall?" Raven asked looking up from a magazine that had floated over to her moments ago.

"Yeah, what of it?"

"You went to the mall," Raven repeated. "Why?"

"Hopefully to get a new outfit," Cyborg teased.

No one but Robin had noticed that Beast Boy was shaking his head slightly and was mouthing "you blew it".

Robin was smarter than Beast Boy took him for and was quick with his answer. "I went to the all because I was tired of being cooped up in here like a chicken," Robin replied.

Beast Boy looked relieved.

Robin's reply was only half true. Indeed, he was tired of being cooped up in the Tower. But he did not go to the mall for that reason.

Being cooped up in the Tower because there is no crime to fight is almost as boring as the time he broke his arm because he crashed his R-Cycle into a tower of the bridge on the east side of the city. He was pursuing a mad-man named Johnny Rancid.

With his broken arm, Robin was cooped up with Nosyarg Kcid, known as Larry by the Titans. Larry was Robin's little clone from dimension "four and nine eighths". Larry ruined everything. He turned the world into a cartoon universe, and the Titans, (with Robin's right arm in a cast), had to change it back to normal. That day was a distaste—

"Robin?" Beast Boy's voice rang through his thoughts.

"What?" Robin asked shaking the thoughts of the past from his head.

"Dude, y'okay? You sorta zoned out on us."

"Oh, sorry. I was thinking about that time I broke my arm after my cycle accident, and how I was left to babysit Larry," Robin said with a chuckle.

The other Titans responded with laughter.

"Man, that little dude was a pain," Beast Boy said still laughing.

Robin pushed his chair back from the table and stood up. He collected his finished bowl and cup, and went around the table collecting Raven's, or his old milk glass, Cyborg's three plates and Beast Boy's cereal bowl. He stuck them in the sink and headed up the stairs.

"Something is different about the spiky-haired punk," Cyborg said when Robin was out of hearing range.

"Yeah. I noticed," Beast Boy said innocently.

"He's more possessive," Raven pointed out.

"Not quite what I was thinking," Cyborg said.

Raven thought a minute.

"More possessive?" said Beast Boy.

"He's not himself. He's more nervous...more cranky. Agitated more often by the smallest things making him more possessive," Raven suggested.

"Almost exactly what I was thinking," Cyborg said.

"Puberty?" Beast Boy cut in.

Cyborg hit him over the head.

"OW!" Beast Boy whined.

"Your welcome," Cyborg said heading over to the television. "Now where is that remote?"


The wonderful song for this chapter:


"We're the best of friends
And we share our secrets
She knows everything that is on my mind
Oh...
Lately something's changed
As I lie awake in my bed
A voice here inside my head
Softly says...

Why don't you kiss her?
Why don't you tell her?
Why don't you let her see the feelings that you hid
Cuz she'll never know
If you never show
The way you feel inside.

Oh, I'm so afraid to make that first move
Just a touch and we
Could cross the line
Every time she's near
I wanna never want her go
Confess to her what my heart knows
Hold her close...

Why don't you kiss her?
Why don't you tell her?
Why don't you let her see the feelings that you hid
Cuz she'll never know
If you never show
The way you feel inside.

What would you say
I wonder would she just turn away
Or would she promise me
That she's here to stay
It hurts me to wait
I keep asking myself...

Why don't you kiss her?
Why don't you tell her?
Why don't you let her see the feelings that you hid
Cuz she'll never know
If you never show
The way you feel inside.

Why don't you kiss her (tell her you love her)
Why don't you tell her (tell her you need her)
Why don't you let her see
The feelings that you hide
Cuz she'll never know
If you never show
The way you feel inside...

Why don't you kiss her?"

-Jesse McCartney "Why Don't You Kiss Her?"