Richard

No! I thought to myself as I ran after her. I have waited to long! I am not letting her go again! "Raven!" I screamed when I turned the corner. No one was there. My heart broke again. Soon, I knew, there wouldn't be anything left of it. I slowly fell to my knees for the second time that night. I had let her slip though my fingers again. Tears fell from my eyes. I had been sitting here for an hour when a cop car showed up. I was quickly put in handcuffs and taken to the sheriffs office. Raven must have gotten up the courage to call the cops and I was a fool and stayed there.

"Father..." I said once I knew that he was on the line. "I got arrested..." I said slightly light hearted. I think it was to help make it so that I wouldn't break down. Plus, everyone in the police department knows that I am important. Why the had the balls to arrest me in the first place was beyond me. I heard him sigh softly.

"What for?" He asked. I could hear him getting his coat back on.

I sighed deeply. "Harassment. Sexual Assault, anything that she can think of. I'll explain when you get here..." the panic was starting to settle in. I was guided back to my cell and I sat in the middle of the floor with my legs crossed. I closed my eyes and dived into my mind like Raven had taught me.

Robin sighed deeply. "I'm not doing it right Raven. How do you do this again?"

Raven opened one of her eyes to look sideways at her best friend. "It's simple. Close your eyes and think of a pathway. It can be any color, smooth or rough. It is usually the first thing that comes to your mind when I say 'pathway'. For instance, mine is green with very few rocks on the side, darkness surrounding it. It could be anything really. Once you have your pathway, start walking. " She closed her eye and continued walking down her pathway.

Richard walked down a stone pathway with buildings that he has only ever seen in his mind. There were many doors. He had been metitating almost everyday now and didn't have to think much of the doors. He had been in each of them anyway. What he was looking for ( like he was every day for the past 7 years ) was a blue strand. It has always been there in his mind. Finding it was the hard part. Following it, was even harder. This strand was the link between him and Raven. It was more then just a mental bond that they shared. That is why Richard is able to see it.

"Why are you here?" He heard a voice with a slight echo say around him. He stopped in the middle of his pathway, an orange building to his left and a green one to his right. He saw a raven by an old wooden building a few feet away to the left. "Have you come to find her at last?" it asked.

"I have been looking for her every day since she went missing!" Richard said angrily. The raven was always here. Taunting him.

"She has never been here since. Why are you so insistent that she is here?" The Raven asked.

"I know she is here. I can feel her. I saw her today!" Richard insisted. The ravens head tilted to the side.

"Are you sure about that boy-o?" The raven laughed and flew off. Richard scoffed and kept walking.

HEY!

Richard turned around and frowned. The shout had been coming from the way that he had come.

I'm talking to you!

Richard closed his eyes and looked around for the blue strand. Not finding it, he decided to look again when he got home and not in a jail cell.

Richard opened his eyes to see a drunk man in front of him. "Yes?" He asked slightly annoyed.

"I was talking to you..." He slurred. Richard nodded slightly.

"I was aware. What do you want?" he asked.

"Don't... act all tough boy." The drunk swayed slightly and Richard got up from the middle of the floor and made him sit down.

"You really aren't in the condition to fight me. The best thing for you to do is to rest." He said and walked to the window. He could feel his father walking down the hall. He was angry, but not at him. He knew that Richard would never do anything like what Raven had accused.

"It really was just all protocol Bruce. I am very sorry to have ruined your date this evening..." The chief was saying.

"Its quite alright. I just don't want to have my son spend a night in jail." Bruce said softly.

Richard sighed softly and stepped through the doorway when it was opened. " I am correct to say that everything has been dropped right?" He asked the chief.

"Yes. Yes of course. I am sorry for inconviencing you Richard." He said hurriedly.

"Yes, I understand. Now if you will excuse me, I have something to discus with my father."

Back at Wayne Mannor

Bruce frowned deeply leaning on his desk. "So she was fine until you mentioned your name." He looked up at his son in concern. "You are sure that it is her right? No mistake."

"Father, how many girls of this world to you think look like that?" He asked and pointed to the picture of the Teen Titans in their civilian clothing. "And have her looks be what she was born with. It was her father. She said she was Raven's daughter. If Raven had a kid her age she would have had to have her at the age of 9. I know its her." Richard said softly. "I need to go find her..."

Bruce sighed softly. "Richard. You need to take this slow. We need to back track to when she went missing. Look over everything we have found and go from there. Make sure we didn't miss anything. We didn't even look into the possibility that she could have had a child. She could just look older then what she really is."

Richard angerily stood up. "I don't need to go over the case again. I know it like the back of my hand. I know it like I was there the night it happened! She doesn't have a kid father. I would know! I would have- " Richard stopped and turned away. "Never mind, we will do it your way..."

With Raven

Raven paced the small room that she was in. She shared the same bed with her best friend Sky. She had lived with her and her mother ever since they found her a few weeks after living on her own in the city. She had gotten a job at their restaurant just down the street the day she had arrived. Sky had found her sleeping on a bench when she was on a date with her girlfriend and had insisted that she come live with her. They had found out about her past and her aunt pretty quickly after that. It took them a whole month to drop the subject of going to the police. Things had been much better since then.

Sky isn't like most people. Her hair is always cut short and is dyed a strange color. She mostly wears black like Raven, but on special ocations she likes to dress up and come out of her shell. They had a party coming up next week and Sky was planning on dying her hair blue and wearing a very stunning blue dress that matched. Its suppose to be Raven's 15th birthday. Raven didn't know there was going to be a party thrown in her honor. Sky was setting up all the details and with her mothers help, they were going to be hosting it at their apartment.

"Richard Grayson is a very bad man. My father would tell me about their fights that he and my mother had and most of them turned physical. She almost lost me because of one of them. I didn't know what to do so I just ran back to the coffee shop and called the police. He is a very important man in the city..." Raven frowned and ran her hands through her long hair. She turned back to Sky and frowned. "I told him that I would meet him on Sunday so he could tell me about my mother... but... I don't know if I should go... I mean what if he really is who Father told me about. I just... I have a feeling that I should know him, trust him maybe..." Raven threw up her hands in defeat and sat down on the bed next to her.

"Well, from what you have told me about what your father said, he sounds like a bad person. I don't want you getting hurt... but it's your choice... and if you go, then I am going as well. I'm not going to let you die on me. Just don't tell daddy. I really don't want him to freak out on us again." She rolled her eyes and frowned slightly. "You have to go see your Aunt tomorrow." Sky said softly.

Raven nodded slightly and laid so her back was on the bed. She used her arms to spread her hair around her head. "I know..." She whispered. She turned her head to look out the window and sat up quickly. It was the raven that she had seen just before she saw Richard Grayson. "Sky..." She dragged out uncertain of what to do. It was just staring at her with red eyes. "It's that raven I was telling you about..."

Sky got up and went to the window to look out, but once she got into Raven's line of sight, it was gone. "I don't see anything Rae." Sky said slightly confused. She opened the window and quickly shut it, running back to the safety of warmth. She hugged Raven around the waist. "Don't open the window..." She whispered.

"What? Why?!" Raven asked startled.

"Its cold outside..." Sky whispered. Raven sighed and smacked her own forehead.

"Fine, I wont." She said light hearted and laid back down. She frowned and kept looking out the window until she fell asleep.

Victor

"Mr. Stone, you have a phone call from a Mr. Grayson... line 1." Victors secretary said at his front desk. He pushed the button to answer her back.

"Thank you Mrs. Stone." He said softly and picked up the phone to answer his old leader. "Hello Richard." He said softly and leaned back in his chair. "What do I owe the pleasure of this call."

"I found her." Richard asked on his end of the line. Victor pushed the button that closed the draped to his office.

"Just a moment." He said and pushed 648 on his phone. "Cancel whatever I have for today Mrs. Stone."

"Already done Sir." His wife told him softly.

"Go." Victor said softly.

"Yesterday was the anniversary that she went missing. I was depressed and went out for a drive. I saw her raven that she uses to signal. I followed it, but lost it and the next thing I know I see her standing halfway behind a brick wall. It's her Cyborg. I know it is, I felt it. I need you to go back to the tower and get me a few things. There's - "

"Wait hold on a minute. You thought you saw her in the woods a few years ago. We searched for months. We didn't find her. And everything has been taken out of the tower. Its going to be condemned in the next few days. There is nothing there that I can get. Not to mention I am about to go out on a case in Gotham that I can't just drop everything for you. Those times are past. Now I can give you the storage containment where everything is, but you will have to go yourself. I will try and help you when I get back but it's not a guaranty. " Victor frowned slightly, waiting for him to respond.

"I got you the position on the BAU so that you would be able to drop everything and go and look for her when I couldn't. Have you forgotten that?!" He yelled at him.

"And have you forgotten that I'm not completely human Richard?" He countered. "I'm looking into it okay. If there is anything to be found, you will be the first one to know. I will have it sent over to your fathers data bases when it comes in. And the next time you threaten me Robin, will be the last time that I answer to your calls. And just do you know. You aren't the only one that loved her asshole. Goodbye." Victor sighed and put the phone down. There was a knock at his door and his wife came in.

"Are you ready for the case dear?" She asked softly and walked around his desk so she could kiss him.

"As ready as I will ever be..."