Bumblebee walked into the open living room, Aqualad glanced up at her as she entered, there was hope in his eyes, she shook her head and his eyes fell.

"I can't stay here. There is nothing I can do and I can't just sit around. I'm going to go patrol for a while." He said quietly.

"Friend Aqualad, I would like to join you. If it will not bother you." Said Starfire, her voice held sorrow. It was wrong for the happy Tamaranean to carry such sadness. Aqualad nodded and the two left the tower.

Beast Boy stared out the window at the water still. It seemed he hadn't moved in hours. Bumblebee turned to say something, but there was nothing she could say. She continued to the kitchenette to pour herself some coffee.

"You should have told us."

His voice was dry and almost hoarse. Bumblebee hardened herself and turned to face Beast Boy and again defend decision as leader, but when her eyes fell on his face she lost her resolve.

He was worn and drawn, his eyes were red and silent tears still streamed down his face. Beast Boy was never without a smile, now he looked as if he had never smiled a day in his life.

It was heart breaking.

"We could have helped. It never should have been a secret."

"I'm sorry. I didn't realize how far it had gotten."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if it was one time or one million we should have known, all of us. We are all in this together, we are a family, and for most of us this is the only family we've got. You didn't want to betray his trust, but he didn't trust you or you would have known how bad it was, he didn't trust any of us.

That's fine, you give trust to your friends and you hope that they will be there for you. Family takes trust, you don't have a choice, they take your trust and you know they will be there. We protect each other, as a family.

He should have trusted you, you should have trusted us." his voiced lost all of its anger. Now it just held sadness.

Bumblebee was using all of her self control to keep from falling apart.

"Now we're here, we're all here. But none of us can do anything except watch and wait. It's too late for our help; it's up to Raven to save him, to save them both probably." Came a voice from the hall.

Bumblebee turned to see Robin standing and watching her and Beast Boy.

"Gar, it doesn't mean much, but I wouldn't have told anyone either. Part of being a family is keeping each other's secrets, respecting each other's privacy. I know you don't understand. But even in our home there are secrets that never need to see the light of day."

"Yet we haven't been at the brink of death because of them."

"Haven't we?"

Beast Boy looked at his leader for a few moments, he seemed at first to simply deny the idea, then he seemed to think on it, and a fresh stream of tears fell as he seemed to remember moments when the statement had been true. He turned away from the leaders and went back to his window.

Bumblebee watched after him, she still felt like she would fall apart, still ran through all the moments she should have noticed, still blamed herself. She needed to move past these. She turned to Robin who now stood behind her filling the mug she had pulled out, as well as one for himself and filled another cup with hot water. She looked at the cup with water then up at him.

Without looking at her he answered the unasked question.

"There will be a fresh cup of tea waiting when Raven wakes up. I would have a beer waiting for Roy, but in light of recent events he gets a bottle of water I think." There was a hint of a smile in his voice.

Bumblebee got excited for a moment.

"Are they waking up?"

Robin's shoulder visibly sagged a little.

"No, no there is no change. I peeked in when I woke up but Cyborg wanted time alone so I left them, but they will wake up. And we will be ready to welcome them back."

She watched him carefully. She didn't remember any time she had seen true hope shining in him. It was a sad hope, but it was hope none the less. Somehow that reminded her of what he had said when he entered.

"What did you mean when you said it was up to Raven to save him?"

"I meant what I said."

"I don't understand, Raven is in a coma too, how can she do anything for him."

"Beast Boy was just saying that with family you know they will be there. If I had to guess what happened to Raven, this would be my guess. Roy knew she would be there."

Bumblebee just stared at him as if waiting for more of an explanation. He let out a sigh and continued.

"I think that a part of Roy called out to Raven, that what we saw earlier was her seeing him, really seeing him, and then she went to him. She sent us to protect his physical body and she went to protect him. Basically, I think her soul self is in his mind."

Bumblebee sat quietly processing the information.

"How sure are you?" she finally asked.

"It's what she does." he said with a sad smile.

"How do you know all of this?"

Robin was quiet. He took a deep breath.

"Because I called her into my mind once, I didn't mean to, but she saved me. That's how we got our link. Neither of us understood what was happening, what kind of risk it posed, or what the after effects would be. But in the end we survived to fight another day."

"What kinds of risks and after effects are there?"

"From what we went through, a connection, a deep constant channel open between us. Raven and I have built walls between ourselves so we don't invade each other's thoughts or see things we don't want seen. But we still feel each other there just on the other side. But when she came to me it was an entirely different situation. It wasn't life and death, it was sanity and madness.

With Roy, I have no clue what could happen. But I know that her soul self is, well, her soul. It's not indestructible, and she has mentioned the longer she keeps herself away from her body the weaker she gets. The risks are not small or insignificant."