"The stronger the bond, the harder it is to break it."

Since that awkward moment in the kitchen, Raven spent her time trying to fix up her room a little. However, reanimating and mending pages from a destroyed book requires an enormous amount of concentration. This did allow for things between Raven and Robin to cool off though, as Raven decided to try and avoid Robin as much as possible. She was much too scared to have another confrontation from the boy wonder and that moment in the kitchen only made her even more anxious around him.

She did feel a sense of guilt for hiding this from him and was still pondering on when to actually tell him. Robin's drip feed of emotions clearly indicated that he was spending a lot more time with Starfire in the last few days. This annoyed Raven to a certain degree as she found love to be the most annoying emotion to deal with. Your making me feel lovesick Robin! It was hard but Raven was strong, she wasn't going to let this bond control her. She hated the bond too much to let that happen. Your pointless delusions of love, makes me want to throw up blow blunder!


"People are different; therefore, each bond behaves differently"

The dreaming aspect of Raven's bond with Robin was a lot weaker than their emotional connection. Not only that but it wasn't as active as Raven thought it would be. In fact, the dreams that they did share were never as intense as the time they shared a dream in the classroom.

Raven spent a lot more time in her room now and Robin spent a lot more time with Starfire. This created a rift between the two. This sudden gap of contact between both participants of the bond was very dangerous. It caused side effects that made the other yearn for the other's presence desperately. It was even more dangerous because of the fact that they were basically fighting the bond together, by avoiding each other. This unnatural force over the bond led to an immense amount of emotional strain for the two. Even meditation couldn't really release the emotional stress that was plaguing Raven's mind, but it still helped. Needless to say, this hurt the bond, a lot.

However, there were always those moments when Raven did bump into Robin. Those were the worst for her.

'Raven?' said Robin. There was a sense of delight and pain to the way Robin said Raven's name. These times were always short and quick but they always had an endearing effect on the both of them.

'Robin! Don't mind me, I'm just getting more tea,' I miss you Raven replied. She always tried to make sure there was no room for awkward tension. Not even looking at his face, she ducked out of the conversation and into the living room. Everytime they interacted with each other, they would both feel happy and enticed but then they would feel stressed and nervous. That's life for the two titans but it was bearable nonetheless.


"A bond is a two-way connection that requires both participants to cooperate with one another"

'Titans go!' Robin ordered. A call came for the titans to answer to and they all assembled in the garage together. It appears that Professor Chang has created earthquake generators to destroy certain parts of the city. This would enable his gang to start mining into parts of the city that would allow access to good amounts of natural resources. (A/N: I'm literally just writing out of my ass with this conflict.)

When the Titans arrived to an underground facility, a few kilometres away into a desert; Robin threw a birdarang to Professor Chang's computers (Causing it to explode) and blurted out 'Shake the professor away, keeps the city whole to stay.' Robin pondered if that actually made any sense but resumed to stand cool with his team.

'Are you kidding me! This time I actually tried to be discrete with this plan!' Professor Chang shouted for his men to fight them, while he prepped up an enormously large ray gun to shoot at the titans. Chang was located by a platform that was 100m above the ground floor. '70% downloaded!? This is not a time for you to be as slow as this city's shitty broadband wi-fi connection!' Chang kicked his gigantic super computer and proceeded to transmit the monitor's screen to this goggles, so the titans couldn't see the screen themselves. He put his detonator to his belt and proceeded to try and guard himself from the titans.

'Titans GO!' Robin shouted. Fighting ensued and everyone did their signature moves as per usual.

'Want some of this,' Cyborg prepped up his sonic cannon arm and shot at the back packs of Professor Chang's henchman. This allowed for Beastboy to turn into a T-Rex, while Starfire pushed Beastboy around the area. Simultaneously pummelling Professor Chang's henchman to submission and destroying about two million dollars' worth of equipment. Raven somehow found herself teaming up with Robin to take down Chang himself.

'Don't come any closer or I push this button and see your whole town destroyed Professor Chang held out a detonator to showcase his threatening safety. He smiled slightly, when he saw the two halting to a stop. He then used this moment to shoot his gun at the both of them and proceeded to check the percentage of the downloaded software for the earthquake generators to operate. '90%!' He chuckled slightly. Suddenly Robin dropped a smoke bomb around himself (But was not close enough to effect Chang).

'Raven now!' He shouted.

'Azarath Metrion Zinthos!' Raven used her telekinetic powers to motion the smoke into a violent gust towards Chang. This caused him to fly off the platform, shooting his gun into a wall and dropping his detonator.

However, Robin used this moment to throw a device to the detonator that would allow Cyborg to override its commands to not activate the earthquake detonators. The device found itself attached to the detonator and Robin shouted 'Cyborg now!'

'On it,' as Cyborg held out his left hand to show the diagnostics of the detonator, he quickly hacked most of the detonator's command system. Unfortunately, the detonator fell to the floor and found itself activated from the impact. Cyborg was only fast enough to stop all but one of the earthquake detonators.

Suddenly the earth started shaking and it was the generator at the titan's location that was activated. The ground was being torn apart and everyone tried their best to escape. Robin found himself falling off the platform and his grappling hook was shaken off from its attached position.

'Robin!' said Raven. She naturally saw the boy wonder falling and immediately flew to his aid. She couldn't remember what happened after that.


"It is up to the individuals to make the most of their bond, even if the alternative is quite painful"

When Raven woke up, she found herself alone with the boy wonder. It appears that after the mini earthquake, Raven and Robin got separated from the rest of the group. She got up but found herself with a bit of a headache, 'Robin, what happened?'

'You saved me for one but it looks like we've stumbled across an underground mine'

'You think this is what Professor Chang was trying to access?'

'Probably but I don't know anything about this mine, which is the weird thing'

'How are the others doing?'

'Can't reach a signal unfortunately. Looks like we're stuck here, together,' Robin emphasised the "together" part in particular. She seemed surprisingly calm about being with Robin like this until she realised that she was in fact, alone with him.

'W- What do you suggest we do exactly?' What do I do? what do I do? Raven was starting to get a little nervous about her current situation now. She had no idea where she was, it was dark and the ground was suffering from aftershock.

'I'd suggest using your powers to try and excavate our way out but the aftershocks, makes it too dangerous for that. Fortunately, my communicator is still able to send out a high frequency pulse, to record a response time for mapping an environment.' Robin brought out his communicator and saw a general mapping of their location within a 100m radius.

'Sonar, like a submarine, right?' Raven didn't even know her communicator could do that.

'Right, now we should be able to make our way out with this.' He started walking for a bit before turning to say 'You coming?' Raven followed behind, leaving behind the caved in entrance that was behind her. He then gave her a glow stick he kept on his belt and lit his own glow stick in the process. Raven noted the colour of the stick being the same as Starfire's bolt. Bright green, just like Starfire's starbolts.

After a few dozen meters or so, another aftershock happened. Raven was quick to cover both herself and Robin and it only lasted for a few moments. Robin tripped in the process and found himself falling on Raven. This made it really hard for Raven to keep both her balance and concentration for the ceiling to not fall and crush them both. Once everything settled down, Raven blasted the rocks away and they both got back up to continue walking.

'You okay?' Raven asked.

'I'm fine,' Robin replied.

This is going to be a long trip Raven thought.


30 min later


For the majority of the time they spent walking the trail before them, both titans remained silent. Robin was dying to bring up the big elephant in the room but felt that the atmosphere of the moment was too fragile for it to be discussed. Raven however, was rather enjoying her time with the boy wonder. She liked the silent atmosphere that existed between the two. Robin's company seemed to give her a sense of peace that she wasn't able to get from meditation lately.

'I think we're almost there, my communicator seems to be picking up a vast open area that's 500m ahead of us,' Robin said. Robin's statement made Raven feel obliged to continue the conversation now.

'How have you been Robin?' Raven asked the first thing that came to her head. Needless to say, it was a pretty risky question to ask. Robin actually paused a little in response to Raven's question but Raven didn't notice and Robin quickly resumed walking.

'Been good, why do you ask?'

'Just concerned, if you have any injuries you can always ask me to remove the pain for you if you like.'

'Thanks, but aside from a few bruises that don't need healing, I'm good,' Forget I even asked. Obviously, Robin is being a little uncooperative here and Raven can sense the agitation he's feeling through their bond.

'You sure you're okay Robin? If its Starfire your worried about, I'm sure she's doi-'

'It's not that!' Robin yelled that out loud, which in turn caused an echo to occur. Noises could be heard from their position that indicated that parts of the mine were now collapsing as a result. Raven was beginning to be reminded of the incident back in the kitchen now. She was worried where this conversation would lead but she was also worried for Robin's sake as well. A silence started to creep in.

'What is it than Robin?' It took some courage for Raven to ask this but for the sake of releasing some stress for Robin, she did. She just hoped the conversation wouldn't turn south because of it.

He turned around to face Raven and said 'I … I …' He was being a little hesitant with his response. Raven could feel the confusion and was starting to feel bad about herself again. If he asked right then and there about their bond, Raven would answer back.

'I've been having this annoying bruise on my back for the past two hours and I don't think I can go on like this' One side of Raven wanted to slap the boy blunder's face after hearing that. Another side of Raven was angry over the fact that Robin made her nervous and anxious for no reason. Another side of Raven wanted to collapse on the floor for the release of tension in her mind. Another side of Raven was extremely relieved to hear that.

'You're not dead, Robin! Keep walking boy blunder,' She went on to grab the communicator from Robin's hand and decided that she was going to be leading from now on. Robin smirked a little at that and proceeded to even wrap his arm around Raven's neck for some leg support.

'What do you think you're doing!?' Raven freaked out a little but did not drop Robin.

'If you're not going to heal me, at least help me walk,'

'For 300m you've been walking fine, for another 450m you WILL walk fine' Raven's eyes turned red but that didn't sway Robin away.

'But the pain is so bad Raven, please find it in your heart to heal a broken man,' he's wailing cries of pain were pathetic and cringey but the worst part about it was the fact that it was actually working on Raven.

'You know, there's a sense of irony to your pain Robin.' Robin was smirking through all of this, 'If only Starfire were here to see this.' She would cry buckets for you At that, Robin began to add more weight to his arm, which essentially forced Raven to the ground with Robin on top.

'Ohhhh god the pain! You have to help me Raven please, I can't even stand up because of this' Robin's attitude always seemed more wilful, everytime he was around Raven.

'Alright, alright Robin, I'll heal you, just get off already!' Raven pushed Robin off. 'Raise your shirt a little for me please,' Raven got closer to Robin for a closer inspection of Robin's injuries. Robin looked at her with a mischievous smile (Which Raven ignored) and decided to just take off his whole shirt while he was at it. Raven was not impressed and was slightly irritated at that. Charming 'What the hell are you smirking at?'

'Your reaction' Robin's reply made Raven go red. This satisfied Robin immensely. Raven saw the numerous bruises across Robin's back and punched it. 'Arrrrrrgggghhhhh! What the hell Raven? That actually freakin' hurt you know!'

'I know,' Raven motioned herself closer to Robin's side and began to inspect the bruises. 'Robin, how did this happen? I don't remember this happening with Chang at all. Do you remember how you got these bruises?' How did he walk this far without resting? Robin's smirk died at that. He looked in another direction away from Raven's face.

'Don't worry Raven, the point is you're safe. That's all that matters,' Raven did not know what he meant by that but proceeded to place her hands on his body. It would take at least 5 minutes to heal Robin's wounds. The touching sensation of Robin's back muscles made Raven feel slightly embarrassed but because of Robin's sudden serious demeanour, nothing came of it.

For the rest of the healing process, the two remained in silent. Actually, the healing process was a lot faster than she anticipated. It was amazing how "connected" she felt, when she was healing Robin liked that. She felt like she was being massaged a little bit. She felt ominously happier and also felt a sense of relief washing over her. After she was done, Robin put his shirt back on and Raven handed his communicator back.

'Lead on' she held out her hand to encourage him to lead. Robin nodded and continued on with Raven by her side, every step of the way.

"Intimacy is key for a stronger bond"


A/N: Anyway, thanks for reading and please review.

I could write a little more, just to get both titans back home but I figured I've withheld this chapter long enough. But to anyone who cares to know, yes it was a fair while before I actually uploaded a chapter. Over the past few days, I've been thinking about my magnum opus a lot and discussed the merits of the story, with a few friends.

I even tried writing in a new method/style to see how my writing skills would go and reviews would help with identifying that sort of thing.

Thanks for reading and reviews are ALWAYS appreciated :)

P.S: Sorry for the half assed plot about Chang's earthquake generators. That was a suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuchh a boring scene to write to be honest. I just wanted to get pass that scene as quickly as possible, hence the lack of effort being put into that scene. Despite the fact that was my first action scene too at that.