A/N: well I'm back! Yup and this chapter is longer. And every thing… umm I'm not sure if I still have to do the disclaimer thing so I'll just do it again… well I told you guys that I was new at this! Also uhhh thanks for the people who reviewed. I really like getting reviews… its fun! When I read them especially the ones I just read haha I feel all specials :D.

P.S. also uhhhhhh this is after then end of the world thing, the brotherhood of evil, and terra 'forgetting'(haha hint hint, wink wink) about being a titan and everything. Sorry if it wasn't clear. Okey dokey... well i better get on with the story or this is gonna be longer than the story itself! ha! sorry... ok!

Disclaimer: I said it before and I'll say it again… I do not own the teen titans and never will! Ever in my life! EVER!

A New Feather

"The Nightmare" CH. 2

Where we left off…

"Noooooooooooooooo!" Raven panted as she swiftly sat up in her bed as she tried to catch her breath.

Now continue with the story…

Raven hadn't noticed she was tossing and turning in her sleep. A cold sweat covered her face as she closed her eyes and held a hand to her forehead. Her breaths calmed as her hands began to tremble. She opened her eyes and watched her hands quivered in front of her.

She looked up to her door to hear multiple footsteps heading her way. She heard the code being pushed in, and the doors whisked open to reveal a very frightened Robin in a red shirt and black pajama pants with his mask on in a disarranged order. Starfire ran inside the room seconds later and was wearing a white tank top and pink shorts who also seemed equally worried, and Cyborg sharing the same countenance in baggy grey sweat pants, then finally Beast Boy slowly making his way through the door as he yawned and tried to rub the sleepiness from his eyes. Starfire came straight in, turned the light on and joined Robin by Raven's bed.

"We heard you scream, is something wrong?" Said Robin in a worried tone as he tried to fix his mask in the right position. All eyes were staring at Raven and realized Raven was paler than ever, and saw her hands were trembling.

"Friend Raven, please. Please confide in us, tell us what is the matter?" Starfire held Ravens hand and tried to stop the trembling by holding her right hand, then frowned with no success. Then Robins face straightened and he used a serious tone.

"Raven. It was one of those nightmares again, wasn't it?" This caused Raven to stop staring into space, and looked at him, still with her amethyst eyes wide open from shock. There was no need for words. Robin sighed inwardly as he knew what was the right cure-all for this problem.

"You guy's its ok. You can go back to sleep. I'll take care of this." Said Robin as he faced the others, and turned to Raven one last time as the others were shooed from the room.

"Dude… you could've told us that so I wouldn't have gotten out of be-ulghhhhaa- bed in the first place." Yawned Beast Boy as he slowly made his way back out the door to his own room once again. Leaving Cyborg behind to debate whether he should leave or not.

"But Robin…" said Cyborg kind of wearily, as Robin began to push him out of the room.

"Its ok Cyborg. She'll be fine; she just needs some peace and quiet. And some leader to teammate talk." Robin kept pushing Cyborg out of Raven's room.

"But, but………" Cyborg tried to protest but it seems he underestimated Robin's strength.

"Its ok. Go back to sleep. I know you're worried, but it's fine. Its late, and you need your strength for tomorrow. I can handle this." Robin kept on pushing Cyborg out until he was all the way out into the hall.

"Uh… ok." He said as he saw the back of robin's head enter the room, and then see the doors swoosh behind him.

" Ok Raven… so. Tell me, what happened?" Robin took on a serious tone as he finished his sentence.

Raven just turned away from him and closed her eyes to keep those frightening images away from her mind.

"Raven. If you don't tell me, I can't help you." Robin looked sincere, and somewhat frustrated as he kneeled down next to her bed.

"Look Raven. Whether you like it or not, you need help, and I'll be in my room when you-" robin started motioning towards the door but he was cut short by Ravens voice.

"-Robin…" she looked solemnly at him with her wide amethyst eyes. She was dreading every minute of this. Raven wasn't the one to express her feelings with invitations and a party like Starfire, even after they had defeated her father at the end of the world, she was still inconspicuous about it. But Robin was the only one she had actually opened up to, and sometimes Starfire if she is 'having the troubles with the life of a girl', like how Starfire says it, then she would most likely talk with Starfire. But this was different than having a regular conversation with Robin about fighting maneuvers or having the regular 'girl talk' with Starfire this was far more different, And Raven didn't like it one bit. Robin was looking intently at her without trying to scare her off into the deep depths of her mind and think of some excuse to make him leave, so he tried to look sincere towards her.

"… Robin... I'm… sorry." Raven looked down out of contempt. She couldn't stand looking at him now. Robin was flabbergasted by her response. He couldn't understand why or where this had come from. Why is she saying sorry to me? What has she done that makes her need to say sorry to me?

"Sorry? About what?" asked a very inquisitive Robin. This made Raven shift uncomfortably under his questioning gaze. Still… she wouldn't look at him. She couldn't with what she had to say next.

"Its just that… well. I… Every time this happens you and the others make me feel… well, inferior to all of you. Like you have to watch me everyday just to make sure I'm ok. Look I'm not saying that you make me feel inferior, I'm saying that I, myself feel inferior to you and everyone else because I'm this thing you have to deal with every day. Like I'm a child…" Raven muffled the last sentence, but had enough courage to look up at him, which she soon regretted. Robin looked almost disgusted with what she had said, so she turned away again.

Robin on the other hand thought he was going to have a heart attack. What?! How could Raven feel this way? I'm her friend. We're her friends. This doesn't sound like Raven to me. But well… I guess with the others and I sort of babying her, I suppose she sort of got that impression. sigh… god. Raven can be so unpredictable, but I guess this does have to do with those nightmares she's been having. Still… she needs to get it into her head that we are all friends and if this were happening to anybody else we would act the same way as we are now, no difference at all. Robin was still speechless. But first he needed to let her know that they were family and that's how family treats one another.

"Look Raven, if it seemed like we were suffocating you or something then you should have told us. We're just worried ok? We don't mean to do it… we just do…" Robin then looked sincere and watched her move her eyes up from his hands to his face.

"You're family to me and the others. Nothing can change that and that's why we act the way we do at certain times. Especially now. I would also like to add that I am sorry also if I did well suffocate you with my worry, but come on raven… you are the strongest person I know. I can't even imagine how much stress you're under right now. If I were in your position, I think I would want out as soon as I've seen the things you've seen." He ended with a smile. He was a bit surprised that she kept her gaze at him. Then Raven noticed that Robin was holding her left hand, and stroking it lightly with his un-gloved hand. Robin noticed this too and flushed a light pink. Robin looked up only to see that Raven was blushing as well, but never letting go of either ones hand. Raven then broke the quite comfortable silence with her voice.

"Well its not really stress…" This statement made robin glance at her curiously.

"It's more like… well. Uh… … it's more like fear. Than stress." Robin really couldn't believe that she would admit this to him. Raven admitting that she was afraid of these nightmares, is like the apocalypse happening... but that did sort of happen with her father, and the end of the world. There has got to be more than this. If she is this afraid, then they must not only be dreams. It has to be more than a dream… like, a vision-

"-Exactly." Raven snapped Robin back into reality.

"Huh?" responded robin hastily. Raven smiled a little at Robins surprised look.

"Uh… sorry, I didn't know it was a private conversation." Raven still smiling from robin's rare astonishment.

"What? Oh. Well um, it was in my mind." Emphasizing 'was' in his sentence, he acknowledged his privacy being pretty much violated, but let it pass.

"So…" Raven looked up at him, "Are you going to tell me what happened in this nightmare of yours, or am I going to have to use our bond to find out?" Raven knew this was coming, but still chuckled from his question that immediately made robin start to chuckle as well.

"I don't know. It's pretty brutal Robin. You sure you can handle it?" questioned Raven as she gazed up at him. Robin just smiled and sat down on the bed on her left.

"Do you really need to ask that question?" robin kept smiling, as Raven began to remember everything thing he had done that she considered braver and somewhat scarier than a stupid dream, like escaping Slade the criminal mastermind when he was forced to be his apprentice, taking on Terra alone when she was apprenticed by Slade, saving herself, Raven from her father and defeating him when there was no hope, and even the brotherhood of evil. Hmmmmm I guess some stupid dream like this doesn't compare to the other heroic things Robin has done. But I also have to include that us friends were always there to help him out when he needed it. He can handle this, for now. If I'm right, which I really hope I'm not, this dream, vision, or whatever the hell it is, is going to be worse than all of them put together. I hope these visions or dreams stop soon, so I can go back to my life… with my friends. Robin's smile faded then widened as she realized he could hear her. She wasn't bothered by this, this just means she doesn't have to explain why she was so afraid. Raven couldn't help but admit her fear; she didn't bother to feel angry about being afraid. Her father was gone. Which meant she could feel emotions and experience them without fearing something exploding. But this type of fear wasn't the same; this was something she was definitely terrified of. Maybe even something more dangerous than Trigon himself. But Raven couldn't concentrate on the future, she needs to keep her mind in the present, and Robin just asked a question, a very good question, which she knew the exact answer for.

"I suppose I didn't have to. If you think you can handle it then here is the terrifying nightmare that made you wake up so early at night-" Raven began her story of her nightmare, not leaving out any details. With all of the bloody details, Raven was grateful to receive Robin's 'ows', and 'oh god… that's gotta hurt', and her favorite 'ughhhh, gross' with a matching disgusted face throughout the whole story. Raven didn't know it was going to be that easy telling Robin her dream, or vision. Then she would've done it sooner.

The sun started to rise, and both Raven and Robin's heads turned towards the sunrise. The colors began to dazzle their eyes. Raven squinted her eyes at first, she wasn't used to the light so early in the morning. She then took a glance at Robin, and could tell he was closing his eyes, just wanting the sun's warmth on his face.

"Thank you Robin. This has helped a lot. I'm kind of tired and I'm pretty sure you are too. So we should go to sleep." Robin turned to her and agreed. He then got up and said his goodbyes for the time being and left Raven to sleep peacefully, only to wake up by the bantering in the kitchen downstairs about 'tofu eggs and real eggs' arguments which lead to loud blasts by Cyborg's sonic cannon and Beast Boys annoying barking.

A/N: so?!?!??! What do you think?? Too long? Well I really had a lot for raven and robin to say so yea. And know it seems weird that robin was thinking a lot but it wasn't in first person, only in 3rd person… it's the only way I can write… I can't write in first person.. IT'S SOOO HARD! Haha yea ok any who… please review also uhh sry for the ending... I had to hurry it up and let raven sleep… then be rudely awakened. Haha whoa! It's like 2:50 AM and I just finished this… haha god im sooooo happie I don't have school tomorrow… I'll begin writing the next chapter tomorrow ok? Good. The next chapter PHOENIX WILL APPEAR!!! Dum dum dum! Hahha lmao. Oh also sorry that raven was sort of OOC its just that she's really freaked out about this dream or vision, and there's like this really strong bond between robin and raven, and they really are like close. I guess they are like friends plus, not friends with benefits… just friends plus. Do ya catch my drift? LOL ok well im sort of tired and a little wired so I better stop talking! See you next chapter!!!!

Amanda out-

(AKA: Misery666 out-)

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