As i promised the next chapter is up today! WOOHOO! review plz!!!

It's not that Raven didn't like smiling, or that she hated life or that she preferred being "the dark one." It's just that she's picky. Before she didn't smile because of her future and all of the ending the world crap she had to deal with. That was on her mind twenty four seven, so it really took a lot to get her to smile, but once you did, it just meant she was really, and truly happy. Now that her whole situation with Trigon has ended, it just became a habit for her not to smile. Today, it wasn't that she didn't want to smile; it's just that she didn't want to give him the satisfaction that he had actually got her to have fun.

Rorek had taken Raven out to a poetry reading downtown. Raven was really quite shocked, but pleased none the less. What shocked her more was the fact that he actually went on stage and read a poem. It was the most beautiful thing Raven had ever heard. It was as if he had written each line with his very own soul. After they had gone to a small café down the street. Raven felt like she had never connected with anyone as much as him. He was so sweet and kind, but Raven when never let him know that.

"Well what did you think of the poem?" HE asked her softly.

"It was, it was beautiful,"

"I'm glad you liked it." He said with a grin.

"How did you know where to take me? It was as if you read my mind for the perfect date, I mean, outing." Raven blushed and kicked herself a little. Rorek laughed but his face became serious again.

"You are not the hardest person to read Raven." Raven shivered, she was beginning to like him a little better, but his voice, sounded so much like Malchior's it just made her want to send him to another dimension.

"Well, I find that hard to believe, if I am so easy to read, why doesn't everybody get me? Why don't the people who have been in my life for so long still not really see who I am?" She was referring to one in particular. He voice started to rise.

"I understand," Rorek said calmly.

"Do you?"

Beastboy's face was pressed against the window in the entry way, they had been gone for almost three hours, and Beastboy had not moved from that spot for two.

"BB, you're killing yourself. Why don't you come upstairs, we're gonna watch a movie." Cyborg said it a concerned tone of voice.

"They could be lost, or they might have been warped to another dimension, or he could have kidnapped her and kept her in a prison, or… or worse," Beastboy said with a shaky voice.

"Kill her?" Disbelief in his tone as he walked out of the room.

"Kiss her."

Raven and Rorek were walking back to the tower, he had linked his arm with hers and it made shivers come up and down her spine. They were walking slowly and Raven was a little jumpy. She was having a debate with her own emotions in her mind. First off, there was no way that she was going to let herself feel this way again. Last two times that happened her heart got ripped out and stepped on. She was still recovering from-

"Raven?" Rorek's voice interrupted her thoughts.

"Yes?"

"Did you have a good time tonight?"

She wasn't sure what to say. "Yes, it was fun," she said in an intentionally fake voice. It was silent the rest of the way.

"So, Raven, where did you go last night?" Beastboy's voice was strict in an inconspicuous way. The morning light was peering through the windows. They were the only two in the main room. Raven was folding the blanket on the couch where Rorek was sleeping. They both knew very well that he could have slept soundly in a bed, but there was no way either of them were going to let him anywhere near Terra's room.

"Out with Rorek," she said not even looking up from her folding.

"Oh," there was silence in the room that seemed to last a while, both of their hearts were beating like a humming bird's. "The others will be up soon, do you want some breakfast?" Raven shook her head but followed him to the kitchen none the less. "Are you sure? I could make you some tea or something?"

"No that's okay, I've got it,"

"No really, Raven, I can do it,"

"That's okay I got, it." They both headed for the tea bags,

"Really, Raven, I can-" both of their hands touched as they tried to get a single tea bag. They jumped back five feet out of shock.

"On, the other hand, I don't feel like having tea right now," Raven felt her face grow warm and red. She put up her hood and headed for the table just as the others were walking in with Rorek right behind them. Raven didn't know whether to smile or cry, she was so confused. She just walked right out of the room and everyone looked at Beastboy. He smiled awkwardly then ran out of the room.