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Raven noticed.

Maybe he wanted her to, or maybe he didn't notice. But she did.

He was always around. Always.

When she meditating on the roof, he was there, just watching.

When she was reading, he was there, just watching.

Does he observe the others like this? She had wondered. No.

Why?

She also noticed him and Starfire. They were different. Distant. Starfire'd come in the room, and Raven, not wanting her powers to break things, left. But, seconds later, Robin would leave to. Not always following her, but sometimes just leaving. They'd sit together on the couch, and not hold hands, not cuddle, or snuggle. Just sit. The team had watched another scary movie, and she flinched over in his lap, Raven felt her powers heating up again, but he didn't even hold her. Then, she would slide out of his lap.

All this happened gradually, so when day, when two came to the rest of the team with an announcement, it wasn't a surprise what they had to say.

Cyborg, Raven, and Beast Boy, had all sat down on the couch waiting to hear the news.

Robin looked at Starfire and she nodded. "Well, I guess there's no special way to say this so I'm just going to say it, Starfire and I decided to break up."

The rest of the team looked indifferent. Raven was nudged by Cyborg and Beast Boy, so she spoke. "And?" She said in her monotonous voice.

"We knew that us getting together was big for you guys. So we didn't want this to change anything." Robin answered.

Raven again was nudged by Cyborg and Beast Boy. "And?" Robin raised an eyebrow. "Why would anything change? You two dating didn't affect the team, why would you two breaking up affect the team?" Robin had no answer.

"Star and I," Raven rolled her eyes at 'Star'. "thought that we should let you know. We were trying to be considerate."

"You guys acted like you're were only two people on the team. How is this considerate?" BB mumbled quietly, but Raven and Cyborg heard and nodded.

"What was that guys?" Robin quipped.

"He said, you guys acted like you're the only people one this team. Since you started dating Starfire, we've been doing the brunt of the work." Cyborg explained.

"You guys aren't serious?" Robin asked, looking incredulous.

"Friend Cyborg, Friend Beast Boy, you are playing one of the jokes right?" Starfire inquired.

"Raven, tell them they're being ridiculous, we have not been acting like that all. We do all our work equally, right Raven?" She didn't answer. "Raven?"

She sighed. She rose to her feet along with Cyborg and BB. "Look, I agree with them. When you guys started dating, all you did was gaze into each others eyes while we chased down the bad guys."

"Raven you're kidding right?" Robin demanded. "You guys are kidding!"

"Robin," Raven said keeping her voice low and level. "I got hurt twice, because of your relationship with Starfire, your wish to protect her put my safety and the safety of the rest of them, in jeopardy."

"Raven you know that was an accident." Robin replied.

"Twice, Robin. Both times all you did was protect her, because you started dating her. You wanted to protect your girlfriend and it was unsafe." Raven moved to start leaving, following Cyborg and Beast Boy. Robin saw her bandaged side from when she was shot a few days earlier. He was silent.


"WHOOPED YOUR BUTT AGAIN!" Beast Boy gloated at Cyborg, not noticing Robin come in the room.

Robin cleared his throat rather loudly, getting their attention. "Guys, look. . . I'm sorry about-"

"Bro, shut up." Beast Boy interrupted. "We're not mad, it was just really annoying. Always having to do everything while you go run off into the sunset with her, it's tiring." Robin opened his mouth to respond, but then closed it seeing the boys return to their game.

He began wondering where Raven was, he hadn't seen her since this morning. Robin decided against asking them if they knew where she was, instead he got up and went looking.

Starting at the roof.

There she was, of course he found her because she wasn't hiding. She didn't care.

"Rae?" Robin called, coming closer to her still form. No answer. "Raven?" He came up beside her, she seemed to be staring intently at something, nothing, everything.

She only acknowledged his presence with the raise of an eyebrow.

"Raven," He sighed, knowing how difficult this would be. "Raven, I'm sorry about letting you get hurt. It's my job as team leader to be impartial and to make sure we're all on point. I let my feelings for Starfire get in the way of that."

"Yeah, okay." She sounded like she always did, "fine".

"Rae, please. Please give me something other than okay?" Robin begged.

She turned to face him, her eyes looking fiery. "What do you want me to say? What do you want me to do? Jump into your arms, and let you carry me off into the land of 'forever'? Is that it? No. You want me to be like her, you want this to be some stupid Hallmark moment. The one where I forgive you for hurting me, for letting me get shot, and then saying that we have to work together as a team, then we live happily ever after?Right? Wrong, Robin. I told I forgave you for going into my mind, not for causing me pain. So much pain." She whispered the last part. "Stupid me, thinking you could save me." She was about to teleport off, but he grabbed her hand and she took him with her.

They were in an open field, deserted, nothing to see except trees for miles. "Raven, I never knew you wanted me to save you."

"What?" It was like a tornado. An empty one. Stirring up nothing but air, knocking over tress, clearing out grass.

"You said you could save yourself." Robin repeated. The air grew stronger, almost knocking Robin over, but he kept his balance.

"I meant that at the time! But, Robin, every girl wants to be saved. Whether she's human or not, she wants to be saved." Raven retorted. "Damn Robin, I was waiting for you to save me and you failed both times. I kept waiting, in this rain, in a never-ending rain and you never saved me. You didn't care."

"NO. Don't say I didn't care, I do. So much, but you never needed me, you never wanted me. What was I supposed to do? Maybe," He exhaled. "Maybe I should just go back to Starfire."

Did he really just say that?

She needed him. She was ready to admit that. He needed to know, before he left, before it was too late, he needed to know.

"I need you Robin. So much. I've fallen in love with you. Give me something! I need something to hold on to! Please! I can't do this! I can't go on every day like I don't love you. Like it doesn't break my heart when hold her, when you hug her, when you kiss her. I wish it was me. All the time. I wanna be with you. I wanna be yours. Robin, please. Damn it, I need to know I'm not in this alone!*" Tears were streaming down her face. She fell to the ground.

There he was. Standing in front of her again.

"Raven, I. . . " He kneeled next to her, taking her up in his arms, rocking her, soothing her. She could feel his heartbeat. "I'm in love with you too."

She stiffened. "You love Starfire."

"You're right." He admitted. "But, I'm in love with you."


Oh my god. Raven was sooo OOC in this. I know, it's horrible. EW. I'm sorry.

No excerpt , but ideas.

- Robin & Raven come out to the team.

- Starfire's reaction.

- Trinity's reaction to Cornelia & Ethan.

- Robin has a choice: Raven or Starfire.

All of these are for the next few chapters, okay.

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