Hii! I'm sorry I've been away for a while and wasn't able to update! Hopefully I'll post the next one in the next week as well to make up for the lateness J Please enjoy! Review and let me know what you think :D I hope you've all been week.

Disclaimer: I still do not own Teen Titans or Batman or anything DC

Star sat outside a coffee shop being covered in rain. She held the Gotham Journal reading through the headlines lightly. She had been called earlier concerning a fight that had broken out between Beast and Cyborg. What it concerned she didn't know but she was glad to receive word of Cyborg's return. She had not received a call from Bumblebee so Star guessed all had been safe over the week and a bit Cyborg was in Steel City.

She looked up from her paper for a second to check the shop one more time. She had been doing that frequently to make sure the barista she had her eye on was still working. His schedule was 7am-12pm today and it was 11:58am.

Earlier that morning she was given his name and information, he was someone who owed the Kings quite a bit of money. Apparently he forgot that his debt wasn't paid yet and had kept buying from King suppliers in Gotham without his money. He used loaned money to buy, it was as if he was being supplied freely and now that was over. By the looks of him and his poor paying job, he obviously couldn't afford his high drug life style and low income.

The little jingle of the coffee shop door rang. Star looked up in time to see a twenty-three year old man, who looked triple his age, wander out of his part time job. All the money he got, he spent. Silly man, Star thought to herself, this was the part of her job she didn't care for. She was called because this man was a snake and slithered out of their arms more then four times now. She deduced by the way he shook and walked this dude was on edge and needed his fix for the day. She stood casually and put down the paper she had been reading.

He didn't seem to notice and wandered up the street on his way to his apartment. Her cream coloured coat swayed in the rain and her hair had been hidden under a black bob wig. Her green eyes were shaded with black contacts and were covered by aviators. An alleyway was coming up on their right and Star was readying herself to pounce, when all at once he changed direction. Instead of going straight to his apartment, he veered left onto the street and crossed it into the waters edge of the city.

Confused, Star decided to follow him. The man led her onto the shores of Gotham and onto the bridge into Arkham. She hid as he waited for someone. Less then five minutes later, a rather large frightening red-faced clown walked out to meet him. He carried a gun and a black suitcase. She eyed it carefully, memorizing the different tags and markings.

The morning drizzle had only dampened Raven as walked out of the Knight headquarters. It was stationed in a bat cave 2 kilometres out of the city but was connected to downtown Gotham by a long underground roadway. She had just checked in on her usual duties with Batman, who was knee deep in profiles she didn't recognize. Without question Raven was waved off and she left, huffing in annoyance. She was perfectly capable of taking care of business or helping him with profiles or overlooking shipments or transactions. Raven was a part of the team and continued to be frustrated with her treatment. Just the other day Robin received a mission posted in Jump City right after he came back from a little "vacation", which was in Jump City anyway so he came back for nothing.

She held back an angry sigh as Robin walked past her. Unfortunately her effort was in vain because Robin could sense brewing anger all over her.

"Raven?" Robin called as she stomped away.

Raven stopped and looked through her hood at him, "Yes?"

"What's bothering you? Did Batman say something?" Robin was trying to be comforting; he knew what it was like to not be trusted by the Batman.

"Nothing Robin, its silly, childish and nothing of real concern." Raven said simply turning away again. Insight told Robin that Raven was being excluded from the busy Knight schedule.

"Did you know I'm headed off to Jump city tonight?" He asked making her stay.

"Yes in fact I did know Robin." She said bitterly.

Robin bit his tongue then release a trail of lies, " I have to attend a few doctors appointments and I promise my family I'd be home this week to hang out so there's no way I can go, I was going to tell Bats right now actually." He said pointing to the doorway she had come from.

Raven's eyes narrowed, " So what's the matter?"

"Well seeing as you've left his office like this, I'd say that you don't have a very important task, or any task at all. Perhaps I can lazily brush this off to you?" He winked dramatically. Raven grinned catching onto Robin's proposal.

"I suppose I could help you," She sighed, "On one condition."

Her serious face and tone surprised Robin, "What condition?"

Raven pulled a keychain out of a compartment on her belt and tossed it to Robin, who caught it easily. "Take care of my plants while I'm away?"

Robin grinned and nodded his head. He gestured for her to walk with him as he explained her mission.

Starfire slipped her glove back on after wiping the blood off it. "I hope there's no hard feelings, I really do hate this part of my job." She said pulling the crippling man up to sit on the couch in his apartment.

After his exchange with the clown at the docks, Starfire felt it necessary to question him. Of course he had resisted a bit, earning a few slaps, a kick, some punches here and there before he spilt what little information he had. This particular low life was very uneducated in the matters he had himself caught up in and Star felt badly for completely kicking his ass. Star removed his bonds and handed him a glass of water from his kitchen. The man was shocked but accepted it anyway.

Star pulled her phone out of her pocket and dialled 9-1-1. After explaining someone had been jumped and giving the address she hung up the phone and turned to face the man.

With a sharp gaze she spoke to him, "If you want to continue playing this game and fixing your addictions you better be more careful about it and pay up when we say so. Next time I won't be the one taking care of this and I guarantee no one who works for us is quite as kind as I am. Do not take advantage of this situation for negative reasons please. Go seek rehabilitation or help of some sorts if you cannot handle someone much worse then myself-Hey!" Star paused to snap the man back into consciousness, he had a mild concussion for sure, " Listen up! You're going to get yourself killed if you continue like this so SMARTEN UP!" She yelled holding his face in her leather fingertips. "Goodbye. Stay conscience, the ambulance has just arrived."

The man's eyes were wide with confusion, disbelief and extreme gratitude. He knew that her mission was to kill him, not give him a second chance. Star walked over to the front doors. As she exited she heard the man gargle the loudest "thank you" he could muster. She smiled and walked away as the paramedics flew in to rescue him.

Star filed down the stairs pulling of the wig and letting her hair flow out of its tight bun. She pulled it up into a ponytail and removed the black contacts. She blinked a few times before putting a different pair of sunshades on and dumping the disguised into a rubbish bin at the entrance of the apartment building. As she made her way down the street back towards the library a familiar figure was walking towards her.

Raven's nose was planted in a book with a musky cover that couldn't be made out. The baggy hoodie had failed to mask her face and the light blue jeans did stand out a bit compared to her usual all black look. Her signature black heal boots made her height only slightly as tall as Star as the walked in front of each other. Starfire smiled and greeted her happily, "Hello Raven!"

Raven jumped and her hood flew off, "Starfire!" She scoffed in reply, trying to fix herself up. "What are you doing here?"

Star giggled and replied, "I am on my way to the library which is public as to attain further knowledge of Arkham."

"Oh." Raven replied solemnly, "I see, take care." She walked around Starfire and was again stopped just like Robin had.

"Wait Raven, would you like to join me? We have not seen each other or conversed in some time and I'm sure you have knowledge of the city I do not considering you work here." Starfire suggested desperately. She had no company recently and no contact with her little green brother as well had any time for any parties so it would be nice to have company and become closer with the gothic girl.

Raven looked torn, "I just came from the library," indicating the overfull book bag on her shoulder.

"Ah yes…" Star said sadly, letting a small frown creep over her usual cheery features. Raven let out a guilty sigh before finding at a Starbucks down the road with her eyes.

"We could get coffee though." She suggested with a sort of shy grin. Star's face exploded into a great smile, "Yes please friend Raven!"

Raven turned and Star followed as they entered the shop. Raven ordered an exotic herbal tea and sat down near the window. Star on the other hand, ordered the most complex coffee the store had ever made. Among many other ingredients they had to go to the burger stop two doors down to collect mustard for her drink.

Raven's eyebrows had spiked to their absolute highest as the redhead took a happy sip of the yellow concoction. Wanting to ask how that delight came about seemed out of the question mostly because Raven feared the answer. They slurped their drinks for a moment, enjoying down time.

After a while Star cleared her throat and asked, "So what did you get from the library?"

At this, Raven blushed and pushed the bag under the table, "Nothing really, just old boring books that no one likes." Starfire tilted her head in confusion and looked down at the bag.

"That is a rather large quantity of fictional and non-fictional calligraphy, are you perhaps going to travel soon?" Star suggested. Raven's mouth dropped slightly while Starfire was speaking.

"Uhm…ya I am actually but I read a lot usually either way. Do you mind if I ask what you mother tongue is? Is it English?" Raven continued still in awe over Star's speech.

Star laughed slightly, "No indeed it is not English. I come from a very far away village called Tamaran. My speech originally was a dialect called Tamarianian after my Amazonian beginnings. When I was 13 I began communicating in English without a translator."

"I see, I can't say I've heard of Tamaran. You're not from Jump City then?" Raven stated more then asked trying to locate Tamaran on the map on her phone. It was hidden amongst the jungles of the rain forest in South America.

"No I moved there after uh…after that stuff you saw before happened." Star said hesitantly. "Uhm that was the closest city. Myself and a few others who escaped started living on the streets of Jump and we were later picked up by child services who took all of us to an orphanage."

Raven frowned as she remembered the horrifying events that had flashed through her mind when she looked into Star's memories on the rooftop of the Cave. "I'm sorry to hear that." She said sipping her tea sadly. "So you were taken from Tamaran"

"Ah yes… but don't be sorry! The orphanage was full of wonderful people who took amazing care of me and -." Starfire stopped herself. She was telling a lot more then she should be even if Raven already knew she had a brother or brothers.

Raven sensed her confliction and spoke again, "I won't tell anyone anything, and you already know that. But you also don't need to tell me anything you don't want to. Say whatever you want or don't…it doesn't matter."

Star smirked in confusion, but she did understand in a way, "Thank you Raven that was…reassuring to say the least." She drank her mustard drink and continued, "What they say about orphanages are not true, they are very nice people."

Raven scoffed, "I'm an orphan and the ones here are pieces of shit. They wouldn't even take me in. I found my own living off whatever money I could get from my dead family. Their life insurance is the only reason I have money still considering I got everything from all of them. All my family died the same day, the day Arkham was raided."

Star gasped, "I'm so sorry, all your family lived there?" Raven realized Star had no idea of her tie to the Trigon mafia family. To avoid having to explain her heritage and to keep her secrets, secrets, Raven chose to tell the truth as vaguely as she could.

"Ya we all lived in Arkham, I was the only survivor from my family." Raven remarked; it was true.

"Were you able to save anything from the wreckage?" Star asked.

Gotham streets were darkening with the afternoon fading into evening, "Wreckage?" Raven clarified.

"Well Tamaran went through a raid. The tribe not far from ours murdered many, there were few survivors including myself. My parents died during that raid and my brother went missing. My sister, she was part of the raid." Star said sadly, " She died after though, they killed her once they had thought our whole village was dead. The survivors had all hide in the safety of the surrounding vegetation. When they killed her they went on to burn our village down. Little was left; I was able to save a few childhood mementos and picture albums and such. Were you able to save anything?" Raven noticed a brim of unshed tears cross Stars eyes and Starfire slipped a hand into her pocket, most likely holding a one of the mementos she had spoken of.

"I-…" Raven thought for a moment. "I just ran. I didn't think about anything to save until I had already gotten to Gotham."

"What do you wish you saved?" She asked curiously finishing her drink.

Raven thought for a moment, then sighed and finished her tea also, "I suppose I wish I saved the pictures of my family. Some of them at least, I hated my father and his family. My mother though…she was very kind. She was murdered when I was five. She had no family, but we had lived amongst monks in a city in Nepal called Azarath. The monks who had moved with her to Arkham took care of me until my father had them killed. When the massacre happened I suppose I wish I 'd grabbed the photos I had of the monks and my mother and maybe the necklace they gave me. It was a talisman meaning strength and hope. I never wore it but if I had now…I don't think I'd ever take it off." She trailed off sadly. Star reached out and placed her hand over Raven's. Raven looked down at their hands then got wide eyed as she saw the time on her watch.

"Shit!" She yelped jumping up.

"What? What is it?" Star said jumping up with her and looking around.

"I gotta go pack! I'm leaving for a while I got a mission in Jump city. My plane takes off soon and I forgot I had to pack." Raven took Star's hand and picked up her things. Star gathered her things and was dragged out of the store. They found an alleyway that was blocked off and went in.

"Sorry Starfire, gimme your phone." Star took out her phone and handed it to Raven. She began typing things into the phone then handed it back. "If you find out anything that I need to know give me a call or text I don't know how long I'll be gone or how long you'll be here so just keep in touch I guess."

Star nodded and thanked her, "Good luck on you trip, take care I will contact you." She smiled, happy to have her friend's number. They had made progress as friends today and she was very satisfied with that.

"Be safe Star, don't go anything stupid." She smiled, "See you later." Star smiled back and watched as Raven disappeared into a swirl of black, which withered into an orb of light, then to nothing.

Star walked back out onto the street and noted it was getting dark. She decided the library would be saved for another day and instead opted to sleep early tonight.

THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE! I HOPE YOU LIKED IT!

~Jack2495