Well here is Chapter two. It is coming out a little abstract right now, but I promise it will make sense as we go on. In the next chapter Star will explain the emergency...of course it will have to do with a former villian, some things can't be changed :) which is why Raven made the sacrifices she did.
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"Are you sure this is the place?" Star looked slightly apprehensive at the thought that Robin would be inside such a dark and cold place. The abandon clock tower loomed high above the city they had traveled through the night to reach, and even with the dawn pinking the sky, the shadows never moved from the tower.
"Yes, this is where he is now." Raven paused and wondered if she should warn her friend of the changes in Robin, but decided against all but a small warning. "Remember, he is no longer Robin."
"Yes," Sadly Star looked at Raven, "I remember, but for the sake of our worlds, I hope something still remains."
"We can not change destiny Star, not the outcome. I have discovered that, he will help if only because he is still a hero." Raven replied. "Be wary as we enter, he will be as paranoid as ever, I would hate to be caught in one of his traps."
"I agree completely." Star lowered her voice to a whisper as they entered the building through a window on the third story.
They moved quietly, but without stealth, Raven knew that Robin…no it was Nightwing now, had seen them before they had entered the building. She was only hoping his anger at her would be negated by his joy in seeing Starfire again, as well as the curiosity about what brought them here.
Starfire entered the room at the top of the tower seconds before Raven and if Raven hadn't been paying such close attention to their surroundings she would have ran right into Star's back.
"This is," Star whispered reverently as memories flashed through her mind. "This is so much like before."
"Some things are meant to change so others do not." Was Raven's only response, as she stepped up and beside the hovering alien girl.
"Hello Starfire," A disembodied voice greeted from the shadows.
"Robin?" Star stepped forward, towards the voice, her hand raised with a star bolt cushioned in its grasp to light the way.
"Not anymore," He stepped from the darkness, his costume the same as the one she had seen when she had made that fateful trip to the future. Black with a blue bird across his chest; a black mask still covering his eyes. "I haven't been Robin for a very long time."
He studiously ignored the woman at her right, something both women noticed.
"Hello…" Raven paused for significance; after all she wasn't without her own flair for the dramatic. "Nightwing."
"To what do I owe the honor?" His lip curled slightly hiding his anger and pain behind a carefully placed mask of indifference.
"We have a great need." Starfire replied, "I need my friends once again."
"Some of us are no longer friends Star."
"That does not matter, I need the Titans." She insisted firmly, eyes pleading for him to listen.
"Come in, I'll hear what you have to say, but remember that the Titans are no longer what they once were." Nightwing responded, "And I am no longer a Titan."
"You are still my friend." Starfire whispered gently.
"That remains to be seen." The harshness of his words impacted Star like a physical blow, one that left her gasping for air. Nightwing ignored her reaction and turned to head deeper into his home.
"He is not as he once was." Starfire said to Raven as they followed behind. "He is not my Robin anymore."
"He hasn't been your Robin for so long I doubt he remembers him." Raven answered, wondering if anything else would hurt as badly as Nightwing's coldness. Not that she had expected open arms and smiles, but she hadn't quite expected her heart to feel this much pain.
"Some of us were never who the others thought we were." Nightwing's statement was carefully blank and Raven fought against the unnatural desire to defend her past actions, something she had never had to do with him before, then again fifteen years was a long time.
A shrill beeping interrupted Raven before she could say anything; it was coming from a device at Starfire's waist.
"Excuse me…I must answer or my people will worry." Star replied to the other two, she took a step back and they proceeded ahead of her as she began to murmur greetings into her communicator.
The center of the area was fairly well lit, a control setup reminiscent to the one they had used as Titans; control room, kitchen and a cot all in one room. Raven chose a chair at the table and sat, letting her cloak fall around her and wishing she dared to raise her hood to cover herself from his penetrating gaze.
"So you aren't insane," He spoke offhand, "And you aren't dead."
"You could have found me if you would have looked in the right place, I never moved." She kept her reply carefully apathetic and her body void of emotion.
"I shouldn't have had to look for you." Accusation now lined his voice as he took a chair across from her, his emotion difficult for her to read after all this time.
Only when he crossed her thoughts had she ever felt true guilt for what she had done, but she knew better than anybody that it needed to be done.
"I couldn't change what had to be done," She met his gaze without flinching, "Not even for you."
Robin had never been slow to understand and Nightwing appeared to hold that same characteristic. "You could have told me."
"It would have been irresponsible of me to do so," She gave in and sighed with a shake of her head. "It would have been pointless, it couldn't have been changed."
"You wouldn't have had to be alone." And she suddenly understood he wasn't angry at her for himself, or at least not altogether, he was angry for her; for the loneliness he knew she had suffered; for the battle against insanity, that though she had won he knew she had fought.
"Friends, events are quickly spiraling out of control." She glanced towards Raven, to whom she had explained things to on the flight over. "More children have gone missing."
"You'll have to explain this to me Star," Nightwing turned from Raven and leveled a questioning gaze at the alien girl that looked so much like she had when they first met that he had felt himself pulled back into their former friendship against his will. "What do you mean by missing?"
