Raven finds it hard to believe that what they just left this is her brother's apartment. It didn't look at all what she would picture for a master thief. She expected something on the order of a penthouse, but what she saw was old and run down-the entire building should be condemned. She finally comes back to reality when her brother falls in step close beside her. As she looks around she understands his comment about her attire. Several guys are watching them from the shadows. One even comes very close to Raven checking her out.

"Come on-this way." Red X leads Raven into a nearby alley way.

Raven looks back at the guy that came toward her who seems very familiar as her brother leads her away.

"Now do you believe me? This is the worst part of town."

She follows her brother through winding back allies until they come to a two story brick building.

"The front doors are locked, we'll have to take the fire escape. Just keep quiet, everyone is in bed at this time of night."

Raven follows her brother up the fire escape and through a window that he opens. The rain stopped awhile ago and the clouds have parted allowing dim moonlight to shine in the room-revealing rows and rows of mattresses lining the walls. Each one of them are packed with children.

Red X whispers as he speaks. "Every room in this building is the same. They are all like me-the kids that no one cared about-or wanted."

It is all Raven can do to hold back her tears at the sight of all these kids.

"This is what I do with the things I steal. The suit Robin designed just made that job easier." He pauses as he looks around. "This may not be much, but it is better than what I had growing up and they won't have to become what I did."

Raven can't take the sight anymore-she rushes out of there. Her emotions are too aroused to use her powers yet, so she just runs until she has them back under control enough for her to do so.

Red X follows her out-stopping only to close the window before running after his sister. He catches up with her as she unleashes her soul-self from her body and flies away into the night.

*****

When Raven awakens-she finds that she is back in her brother's apartment.

"Artemis!? What happened back there?

Raven places the pouch of tears in Red X's hands. "Take it for the children."

"Do you have idea what all of this is worth?"

"More than enough to get a better place to stay." More diamond tears fall from Raven's eye as she continues. "Let this curse be good for something."

He pulls Raven into a comforting hug. "It can't be a curse if you're willing to do something good with it."

"Just be careful when you--"

"--This isn't something that I care to pawn off to the highest bidder as Red X."

"But how else can you get rid of it without raising suspicion?'

"I have an idea."

"What?"

"An anonymous donation...we can mail it in with a letter of some kind." He gets to grab a pen and some paper. "We can say it was left by a dead relative or something."

Raven dries her eyes as she calms down and places the fresh tears in the bag with the rest. "Your hand writing is terrible-let me do it."

Red X hands the pen and paper to Raven, and watches her work. "Calligraphy--nice touch."

"I did learn a thing or two couped up in that monastery."

He takes the note from her and reads it. "Not bad, but don't you think that you are asking for trouble with this?"

"The part about the terrible deceased father leaving them behind?"

"Yeah-that's the part."

"Trigon is gone. The other Titans helped me defeat him."

"That is the second best news I have heard all day."

"What is the first?"

"Finding out that my twin sister is free from our father's evil plans."

"I was so scared...when it happened. I tried to go back to Azarath for help, but Trigon destroyed it before I got there...everyone was dead. I'm so sorry that you went through what you did growing up, but I'm glad that you're safe now. And that we have found each other so we don't have to be alone anymore." For the first time Raven hugs her twin brother. "I've missed you so much Apollo."

"I've missed you too Artemis...but like you said earlier, what happens now? If the bird brain finds out you know who is Red X is--"

"--No one is going to take you away from me again--not even Robin. If he wants to turn you in he will have to get through me."

"You're serious about that?"

"More serious than I have ever been."

"Lets hope for everyone's sake that it never comes to that."